13 BookTubers give their *spiciest* Takes! 

HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!! It’s The Fantasy NUTTwork not NETwork!!!!! Austin should be fired from the podcast!!! (That has nothing to do with my earlier statement. It’s just something that should happen.)

Brian is basically giving advice on how to prevent murder 🤣🤣🤣

I’m with Richard. You want your kids to read?? Well then grab a book and READ and let your kids see you reading.

we just spoiling wheel of time now or what

Hey I know that guy! Thanks for having me, this was a lot of fun to be apart of! Seeing everyone else give concise single hot takes while also promoting their channel and saying thanks was a trip 😅 It took me forever to cut this down to just 60 seconds. Loved everyone's takes!

I love the booktube community. There are so many great creators, and it's awesome how they work with each other. Facts from BLEED!

Fun video, and leave it to Durfee to steal the show! 😂 I actually agree with most of these, except Ed Gwynne is a monster lol

My mother has the spiciest take, she thinks that reading SFF books makes people weird 😂

This is incredible. Also, couldn’t agree more with Jimmy’s take on adaptations. I wish companies would stop adapting fantasy at this point. Not til they can prove it will be done well, at least.

Thanks for inviting me! Great to participate. Btw, I'm not sure about this, I think I just got massively spoiled in Wheel of Time here. Hopefully not, I immediately fast-forwarded before the clip ended!

Austin really missed the hot take of inserting Golden Son into the public education system as a required read because it's apparently the best book ever written.

Hahahah I am dying with these! 🤣 thank you so much for including me!

Loved this video so much, thanks for having me! Great takes here, and yeah for sure it's the parents! Oh my gosh @givreads, I've been on your same page forever! Spiderman 2 (Raimi) drove me nuts cause you took away the whole reason we come to the movie!

Yooo that spoiler was actually insane

Thanks for having all those great booktubers on one video. There's a few I never heard about but really enjoyed their contribution here.

I agree with 1/2 of the Brothers Gwynne-if you own the book, dog eat those books up! I love dog earring my own books. Do I do that to library books-NO! But those are mine. I paid for them. No one else(besides my kids) will see. So does it really matter, no!

6:33 I can’t with you, Austin 💀🤣 Thanks for having me in the video guys! This was fun to watch 🥰

Regarding the hot take of parents being responsible for children not reading: My Mom & Dad had 11 children. My mother didn't work (someone had to stay home to raise ELEVEN children, LOL), and my father at times worked up to 4 jobs. And yet my mother was always reading to her children, reading herself, bringing us to the library (we went every other Saturday since I could remember). At Christmas we were often gifted with books, and they were some of my favorite gifts (literally - I remember the amazing Christmas "Santa" brought me a new bike, but otherwise, I remember the books I received as gifts). We had no money, yet my mother and father would find a way to buy us a subscription to Cricket, a phenomenal children's literary magazine, and my mother also bought subscriptions for me and my brother to a comic book of our choice (mine, of course, was Spider-Man). My father was never a big reader, but he supported my mother and he supported his children. Kids learn from their parents, and when one or both parents read to their children from day one, love reading themselves, and encourage their children to find new worlds and adventures at the library and at book store, children will most likely become avid readers themselves.

Another hit boys loving the content 🔥

This was fun! ❤

Shelf Centered was readind LORD OF LIGHT! Finally someone reading Zelazny

It’s true about parents who don’t read but expect their kids to read. I grew up in a household full of books and my mum was a writer as well so that helped a lot. But I don’t want to blame it all on parents who don’t read. It’s also about the kid’s social circle. My good friends in school were all into reading (and surprisingly their parents were not actually avid readers) and that actually made me even more eager to read and share books with them. Same goes with kids who are into sports because all of their mates are. But I agree that the love for reading usually starts at home.

3:20 I make a special point to read physical books around my kids instead of on my kindle just so they know I read. They're still pretty small, but they love reading now and I'm hoping it keeps going :)

Damn, just got The Wheel of Time spoiled, thanks I guess

This was a blast!

Brian just using his chance to Market his books, lol.

Freaking love this lol

Love that you ended with Brian!😂😂😂

Goated video !

I was waiting for Mike Travels Nowhere to show up Great video mateys

Brian, I must agree! I've done it and I regret it every time.

Richard just voiced my exact thoughts 😂

This was a great video.

When a friend checks out a book i take a picture of them holding it as a record of who has it. Helps keep me from forgetting. For example I haven't forgotten that my old friend Steven, who now lives five states away, still has my copy of Catch 22. Im sure hes done reading it, its been almost 10 years.

Thank you Petrik! I feel somewhat better about not being able to enjoy reading lotr!

Richard, your 100% right!

Richard’s take was the one take to rule them all

Everyone hates on The Name of the Wind but I feel like I loved it because I love playing string instruments and having a bard main character was great. I could relate to Kvothe’s attachment to his lute and love of music

I agree with pretty much every hot take!

I used to disagree with Brian Lee Durfree, I gave books out all the time. But you have enough books disappear into the ether and you realise the only people you should let borrow books are people that literally live with you, or someone super close and trustworthy like a close relative. I care less about spine snapping etc than Brian though, its the total lose of a good book I care more about, like my Mum may snap spines like she's a Mortal Kombat character doing a fatality, but at least she gives the books back and I respect that.

My hot take !!! Booktubers lying to much about popular books,and they are scared to criticize

I 100% agree with Brian. I had a first edition of the first Harry Potter book. Before first edition became money, I let a friend barrow it for a week. I came back 6 months later after her dog destroyed it.

It’s about time for dark age review

uneven page edges are a hellish experience

Jimmy's take about adaptations, then citing Game of Thrones...as a fan of Avatar: the Last Airbender, I can only look at him across the nooses and say, "first time?"

This was such a fun video to put together! I was mostly okay with these except for dog-earing...jusy no 😂

Did the wheel of time just get spoiled for me!?!?!?

Hello rumblers, just wanted to ask if you would do any “judging our viewers first lines” in any near future, I would love to participate. Greetings from 🇲🇽 thank you for your great content!

Envisioning a roast between ICE and Erickson mc'd by AP.

I like to read.

Brian Lee Durfee !

My hot take : it's ok to read a translated version. For years, I read fantasy in English. But because anything is possible in fantasy, I questioned myself. Did I understand correctly what was happening? Those flying pigs with leasers eyes aiming at baby chickens? Is that what the author wrote, or am I missing something that completely changed the meaning? Reading in another language will improve your skills in that language, but it will also mess up your own language. Not just the vocabulary but also your grammar. You have to find a balance in the number of books you read in each language. Sometimes, the translation is an improvement. Robert Jordan is known for referring to women's breasts when describing them (the women, not the breasts). I'm now reading a new translation in French of The Wheel Of Time, and they skimmed on the boobs stuff. If I had read the original version, I might have DNF it because of that. I like translations because sometimes I feel lazy. I love your channel! Keep up the great work!

Would’ve loved Daniel Greene on this episode!!! ♥️♥️

Pretty heavy WOT spoiler about halfway through this video with no warning. Pretty savage.

Did that one dude just compare Red Rising to The Count of Monte Cristo??

Ending strong with BLD there!!! 😂

Would’ve liked to see Mike on here, but the video was great nonetheless

Not me checking everyday for dragon reborn content

My hot take is that booktubers need to read more indie-books. (and not just because I'm on the cusp of self-publishing ;) The real exciting stuff is happening in the indie-sphere, and the trad published stuff is like watered down beer. P.S. great video!

Mass market paperbacks are not the same as paperback or hardcover. It’s not about the quality of books but the size of font and paper quality, it’s just very very difficult to read anything in font size 5..

i love you fellas so much but you gotta do something about the massive WoT spoiler that GivReads drops 6 mins into the video with no warning. Not cool

Brian Lee Durfees take is based honestly 😂

I would say none of these are spicy but logically understandings that people who make a living from reading books have come to. Like people should read period. As in if they take a whole year to read one book then don't poop all over them for it. If they want to read trash then ask them how fun was that trashy book was and then laugh. Leave ego at the door because it will prevent you from finding books that you might enjoy. Please don't read books just for cred, that's just weird in the grand scheme of things. Let your kid read what they find cool. Ultimately there's no such thing as rules or guidelines to reading books because if everyone remembers how they came across books growing up as kids, it was pure curiosity that ruled over everything.

Counterpoint to BLD: so few of my irl friends and family enjoy reading that I don't care if they trash or fail to return one of my books - I'm just happy they want to share in my hobby and I'll do everything in my power to encourage that. If a particular book is precious to me, like a special edition or childhood favourite, then I might hesitate to lend that out but that's a small minority of my collection.

Here’s my hot take (that no one asked for): throw away the dust jacket.

Hard agree with Petrik. It's obviously influential, but there are other books to read today. LOTR is not in my top10 fantasy series, that's it, I said it. Don't kill me

Sorry Richard, my children have seen me reading since they were little and they dont like to read.

I loved this video, but as someone working their way through wheel of time right now I’m super disappointed to have something spoiled for me.

Bookborn: invalidates her own take by acknowledge that different formats are good for different things. Petrik: Blasphemy! The Fantasy Nutwork: Correct opinion. Richard: Correct opinion. Brothers Gwynne: Will: correct opinion Ed: To the dungeon! Fun Fantasy: In spot cases yes but in the majority of cases absolutely not. GivReads: hmmm I need to think about this one. Austin (take 2): Yes, but could become toxic quickly Tori Morrow: YES!!! 100% plus finish the dang series. Shelf Centered: Correct it creates a horrible reading experience and they can't be gilded. SwanShawn: Confusing take, score incomplete. Viking: Blasphemy again!!! Durfee: Perfect Take

Petrik and Library of Viking need a walk of shame for that take.

Yes that weird page edging is the worst!

I could not agree more with the deckled edges. I hate them…on an Anakin level of hate

What is Richard and Austin's channel's name?

*me watching this vide nervous because I couldn't remember what nonsense came out of my mouth

My hard take i prefer Ebooks format

On Tori Morrows point I thinks she's having a classic case of listening to much to the hype and getting to many expectations. I did the same thing with Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zayn every single person was universally praising it as one of the greatest books in Star Wars history and for me it was just ok it was well wrote and very fun but not as amazing as the hype made it out to be I much prefer Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn. It's what I'm avoiding with Iron Gold because I've seen several different opinions I stopped after about 2 for each side and told myself I'll read it and formulate my own opinion so far through around 100 pages of it I'm seeing where some gripes are coming from tbh especially with Darrow I don't like what 10 years has done to my messy but heroic badass.

Oh man what an awesome wish for authors to be more open about books and other authors they didn’t like and why-I’m so missing that in my life!

I really enjoyed Name of the Wind, but even I feel that it is a bit overrated. It was a fun story, beautifully written, and Kvothe got himself into one huge bumble after another, but by no means is this the "most important book of the decade "... so yea, I think the hype is killing the experience for some folks.

My hot take is that Malazan is underrated and Wheel of time is overrated

My spiciest take: First person POV fantasy is an extremely limited perspective for the genre.

No, give me my happy endings always and forever! I want everyone for skip happily through a field if flowers into the sunset at the end of the book

That's blasphemy petrik. It's law u have to read the greatest story ever!!!

I'm with Jimmy nutts, makes me sad when you get a poor adaptation it becomes part of that author legacy and taints the franchise

Add a spoiler warning for WoT please

Wildly disagree Swanshawn. Even the examples he brought up are literally original stories, snow piercer is a very original concept. The similarities he's bringing are just interesting reachs, not what the story is.

All of a sudden I'm gonna watch a lot more Petrik Leo. I honestly didn't love the Lord Of The Rings. I read The Hobbit first, and it was way better then LOTR.

Late to the game… my hot take, Mistborn is overrated and so is Brandon Sanderson.

Srsly i can't take name of the wind slander anymore...every second video someone need to trash it😢 .. (Wheel of time is 3/10 at best) 🎉

Name of the Wind doesn't even have a proper story. It shouldn't have to be a hot take not to like it. The prose is way over rated too.

Name of the Wind was awful. The "great writing" was just a bunch of adverbs.

Brian's take is wrong

My hottest take: Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun is a poor series. I would rate it at 2/5 stars. It's weak, meandering, nonsensical with an inconsistent main character and the story doesn't go anywhere. I spent years hearing about how awesome it was and it just wasn't. A few interesting ideas in there but only that.

That last guy gives me "I love trump" vibes

My hottest take is nuclear, I think the magic system in LoTR and the how powerful people like Gandalf are is really overrated. Like it always feels like those no real consequences. Idk I respect it and think it’s great for what it’s inspired but I just can’t get on with it.

There is an Arabian saying that one who gives his books to others is a fool and one who returns the books is a bigger fool. @brianleedurfee is on point here.