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Didn’t expect such a glowing recommendation to read the entire Twilight series, but I guess I should start reading it.

I love your meme videos, but I hope you never stop doing this kind of content. I really appreciate the brevity and honesty of your books recommendations.

I love that The Road is basically about how no matter what state the world is in, love and being nice always make things better.

What's a books

god I love how many booktubers there r each with their own taste, I'll never run out of books to read thx to u guys

Hey man you're genuinely really good at reviewing these books good job keep it up and keep holding that thing

I read The Road when I was 15 in one sitting, the year it came out. The last couple of paragraphs, after all of the terror and death, still sit with me as some of the most transcendent images and feelings I’ve been blessed with. “… where all the things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

I love how even your serious videos are not taken too seriously.

You might be the first person I’ve heard describe The Road as “a happy book,” Jake, but I love your reason, which I find convincing enough to resolve to quote you the next time I’m recommending it to someone. Great to hear your thoughts on these stories!

i just read the road. absolutely amazing book, cant wait to read blood meridan next. i like cormac’s incredibly idiosyncratic writing style. a lot. such a desolate yet moving story

It's been Skit Carrying Thing for a while and although i got used to it, I'm glad Man is back!

I love how when you display your past video of 'A Little Life' it is half watched which is representative of the fact you were hooked for the first half of the book. Brilliant Metaphor. Bravo Man Who Carry Thing.

Personally, I prefer your book videos. I love your funny vids too but these videos remind me to appreciate the art! Thanks for helping me get back into reading again!

*The Road in thumbnail* 11/10

I started reading the Dark Tower series in part because of your videos on them. I just finished Wizard and Glass, moving on to Eyes of the Dragon next. King has a way of writing that is so offensive and crass that it heightens the tension and makes the rare moments of beauty and catharsis stand out. I love it.

I'm amazed that your balancing both styles of content on the channel and somehow keeping it cohesive. I'm not a big reader but your reviews are pulling me in ❤️

Always keen to hear what you’ve been reading and enjoying Jake! I get excited when I see you’ve put out new book related videos

love your longer videos- they’re always really interesting (even as someone who doesn’t read very often) keep up the good work

When I started The Road, I was thrown off by the lack of punctuation in dialogue. But as I read, it somehow made the book better and more intense for me.

I love seeing the longer form videos from you. It’s engaging

I started reading the stormlight archive, in part because of your channel. I had heard things about this series before hand, but you talking about it encouraged me to pick it up!

Super happy to see a book review video! Your short form vids are great but hearing your opinions on titles is really a treat.

I was feeling a bit sad before reading The Road, and felt great afterward. It was like a new appreciation for my life. Thanks for the Video Jake!

Always love it when I see a book video from you. In fact you just motivated me to stop wasting time and to pick up my book again. Currently reading a classic, 1984

Nice to see another book related vid!

The sick twisted form is the thing you’re carrying. As in the Thing (1982) A horrible shapeshifting alien Thanks for the videos!

Getting into books, this channel is perfect. I love your comedy and I appreciate the good recs

I need more for these cuz you're only one I take recommendations from and for the past year I've read mostly books I've heard from you.

First booktuber I've followed/known about. I've always struggled with finding books/getting recommendations and this is a god send

found you becasue of the short skits, but im really enjoying your book talks. cant wait to see more of these. best wishes!

You've helped reignite my love for reading, these videos are great

you have this certain passion with which you speak that makes me want to stay, even if it doesn't really interest me all that much

I've mostly considered myself a "non-reader" but I read "The Road" for a college class and really liked it. granted my 19-20 year old classmates and I weren't ready to fully process the book as we spent the first two classes debating about what caused the apocalypse (I insisted it was a volcano). Over the course of the book though you could feel our class discussions get more insightful and mature.

love when these drop, they’re really fantastic, man.

Yeah The Road was relentlessly bleak, but weirdly optimistic. Father and son carrying the fire and keeping hope alive...very poignant. Also, I read The Mad and The Bad after your rec...pretty cool! Didn't stick with me like The Road, but still a fun story

I hope you keep talking about books! I just found your channel and I love your book discussion!

The Road is such an odd case with me On a reread I now genuinely love the book for its odd prose and great tone, but man was the taste originally soured when I was in school; everyone was assigned one of five books and i ended up with this one. Problem is, it was a class section on dystopias, and even now I wonder "did she mix up post-apoc and dystopia or am I missing something?"

Five Decembers is my favorite read over the last five years or so. Absolutely loved it

I studied the road in school and it's stayed with me ever since. The way he describes the desolate environment the book is set in and the constant danger they face, while still managing to weave such a beautiful relationship throughout is haunting. Great review!

I read Five Decembers because of this vid! I got it for my birthday and read about 20 pages before putting it down for lack of time. I picked it back up the day after Christmas and read the remaining 400 pages. It is absolutely incredible. I love the style and could hear the dialogue in an old-timey radio voice and would love to see this come to a radio performance series. Absolutely stunning work! Thanks for getting me into it!

I'm still trying to catch up on Sanderson so I don't have much time for recommendations. But I always enjoy your vids and it motivates me to read more

It continues to be so difficult for me to get back into reading when I used to do it so often, but I’ll check out some of these recommendations! Thank you, funny meme man

The Road is a must read. Not so much disturbing as bleak.

My favorite recent book has been One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I ended up buying five of his other books immediately after finishing. I fell in love with the Latin American magical realism genre reading Jorge Borges, but I admit to being a little too slow to understand all of Borges' stories by myself. Gabriel Marquez was so easy to be absorbed in by comparison.

I read The Sound and The Fury based off one of your other video recommendations. So glad I did. What a great book.

It's always a pleasant surprise when you drop some bookish content. 👏

I love when you make videos about books

I read The Road in high school, but as with pretty much every book in high school (except for, somehow, Great Expectations?) I did not enjoy my experience because of its attachment to homework and school, but also because I hadn't yet reached a level of emotional and mental maturity to really dissect what's happening in the book. I'd love to go back. Anyways, I know your channel really popped off because of your short skits (which is also how I found it) but I really do appreciate your videos on books because, while I don't get to read as much as I'd like, I love to get recommendations because I do keep an eye out for the next book I'm going to read.

Thank you for the warning for "A Little Life"! I've seen this book a lot and I've been smart enough not to pick it up because I know that it could make my mental health issues worse (because the only context I see it in are the videos of people crying because of this book... I don't even know what it's about) but I have never seen anyone put this kind of warning in their content about the book. Maybe sadness can be a good thing, but despair and hopelessness aren't... So thank you again for caring about those who are not very well when it comes to mental health!

I loved your reviews :) I've been wanting to expand the books I've been reading outside of my young adult, fantasy, etc stuff since I've kinda grown tired of it. These all seem so interesting!

I read Butcher's Crossing, Valdez is Coming, and Stoner all because of your recommendations. I loved them all, hope the book content keeps rolling.

I got back into reading through classic scifi a little while ago (recently having read dune, 2001, foundation, and currently reading ringworld), and I’m glad youtube is recommending me book videos now so I can find new books to check out and expand my horizons!! Your recommendation really made me want to read The Road so I plan on getting that next. Thanks! :)

I love your meme videos and also love these book videos too! I'm gonna check out Five Decembers when I can. Thanks!

I gave my Dad my copy of The Road to read. Such a moving piece of fiction. I think it wasn't exactly disturbing, but the depth of detail in the description was so vivid it slapped me in the face like I was there.

Okay, Five Decembers sounds fantastic. On my Wish List at once, although it sounds like A Little Life needs to drop off that list. McCarthy's a favorite of mine. Definitely get more people to read his work, and that of Westlake and Leonard, too. Have you yet discovered the Pendergast or other novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child? They collaborate seamlessly on elevated, intelligent thrillers, and each writes the same kind of thing on their own. In addition, Douglas Preston's The Monster of Florence and The Lost City of the Monkey God are superb nonfiction books.

Love these vids, good stuff. Recently read Blood Meridian - instant top fav, Road soon

First time viewer. I see you have some Wheel of Time. For me the series peaked at book 4 where we had a lot of Perrin chapters. I made it through book 7 and tapped out I couldn't handle it anymore. I read someone call it the skirt smoothing chronicles, I couldn't agree more.

your channel is probably the one with the best evolution over time that i’ve ever seen

Awesome! I’m reading the road right now and honestly, as someone who doesn’t read a ton, I’d love some recommends. I love the way he writes so much, I’d love to know other writers with even a semi similar style.

Enjoy these videos a lot, please keep doing them! Right now I’m reading Gravity’s Rainbow

Just finished ‘Five Decembers’ which I read solely due to your recommendation! Really enjoyed it :) Thank you!

Damn this channel has everything; love yer content mate...

I bought and read Butcher's Crossing based off one of your earlier videos and it's become one of my favourite books. Don't think I would have ever tried it or even known it existed without your video, so thank you!

After watching this video I read Five Decembers and it has probably become one of my top favorite books of all time. The story is extremely engaging, the character work is solid and it left me with a large variety of emotions. Thank you for the fantastic recommendation and I can’t stress enough for other readers to pick this book up as well!

halfway through butcher's crossing and really enjoying it - the road up next! appreciate the recommendations!

I came to your channel for short funny haha videos, i stayed for the books please don't stop that, it's great

i followed you for the funny skits, but you also talk about books! what a nice surprise

A BOOK VIDEO, MY FAITH HAS BEEN REWARDED

I got a book recommendation. I read tochman’s Eli Eli as required reading and it was amazing. I love it. It’s a polish report about slums in philippines and photography and partly about slum tourism, but the theme of photography is most prevalent. It might be tough to find an english translation, but if you do, please check it out. I’m not too into reading but this left such an impression on me

I read butchers crossing because of your recommendation in your favorite books video since I had just re read blood meridian and was looking for things in a similar western vein... Absolutely loved it. Just wanted to say thanks for pointing that one out.

big fan of Cormac McCarthy. No Country For Old Men is one of my favorite books and the movie is my favorite movie. i absolutely loved The Road, it made me cry multiple times and its a book i recommend constantly. it’s beautifully depressing and the relationship between the father and son is so well written. glad you enjoyed it!

I already had The Road on my tbr so that's awesome to hear. Concerning Five Decembers, I just put it on my TBR and I'm excited to eventually read it.

Agree completely with your review of The Road. Very moving depiction of father's love for his son. Great book

The Discomfort of Evening is one of my favourite disturbing books. It's a picture of a young girl's life as she deals with the fallout of severe trauma when left untreated and unrecognised by her highly religious (and equally suffering) family. Very bleak. Very moving, and an accurate portrayal of trauma.

I signed up to skillshare with your link, and the courses look so interesting! I'm excited to learn :)

I just finished reading Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir. Definitely recommend! Also, read The Road in high school. It was a good read but a little more intense than I usually prefer

I love the book videos! Your vids on Dune inspired me to make my own video essay on Dune : )

Your recommendation of ELDoctorow a few videos back has got me hooked. I've already read 4 of his books, and I think I'm going to read everything he ever published. I also got Butcher's Crossing on your recommendation, and adored it (its now on loan to my best friend, she's enjoying it too) And I even got Blood Meridian, you finally pushed me to order a copy of it after years of putting it off Other than that what I read recently was the Earthsea quartet (pretty much flawless, in my opinion) and Foe by Iain Reid, who has now solidified himself as an instant-purchase author for me, i've already preordered his third novel.

More of these videos!

I got a used donald e westlake book recently because I liked the cover, and now im even more excited for it

Thanks for recommending Five Decembers, just finished it. Fantastic work.

I read Butcher's Crossing based on your recommendation and thoroughly enjoyed it, will check out Five Decembers next.

so I scoped The Hot Rcok from one of yer skit videos and checked it out and really enjoyed it from how absurd it was with the cast of goofy heist men. Their escalating efforts to retrieve the stone and the increasing desperation of the man paying for them really starts getting grimy at the end, like drowning rats. Good stuff

Oh a video that more then 30 secs, omg he is feeding us good today

Congrats for 200k subscribers, Man!

Thx for Skillshare. Also thanks for Butcher’s Crossing recommendation. I ordered it a few weeks back and it’s now on my reading list. Really excited for that, the whole idea of transcendentalism as a romantic yet unrealistic aspiration is something that I’ve wanted to write about for a while. To me that’s even what the Adam and Eve story is about, in a way. There’s this tragic quality about humanity isolating itself from the rest of the natural world and being unable to fully integrate itself into it again. Thanks again for the inspiration (Also loved your thoughts on Faulkner)!

I recently finished reading Five Decembers and I can't say I've read something quite like it before. The book is vivid and intense, but is also quite often melancholy and heartbreaking. It took me a few weeks to get through the beginning, but as soon as the plot picked up the pace I couldn't put the book down. Thanks for the recommendation!

As you command, funny man in my phone. Also, congrats on 200k (almost)

Loooovely video, really want to check out some of these

This is without a doubt your craziest parody video yet, keep it up man

i love this channel

Perfect kind of videos

I read through “The Expendable Man” when you recommended it and damn was it good. It’s not usually my type of genre, but the prose and internal monologue of the lead gave it this smart wit that didn’t feel too show-boaty. Really great recommendation, thank you Man

The road and enders game are what got me into reading as a teen. Always happy to see someone read it for the first time :)

Had not heard of Five Decembers but you have me very interested in it.

I agree - don’t read The Road during a bad time in your life. I read it during one of the best summers of my life and it is probably my favorite novel. Your description of it is exactly on point

I just wanted to let you know that I read both The Expendable Man and Butcher's Crossing because of your recommendations in previous videos. Both really good, so thank you! I also have Black Wings Has My Angel, another one you liked, ordered at the library. Thanks for all these videos.

Love seeing the booktube stuff

I read Five Decembers based on your recommendation and I really liked the book! Thank you!