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Mike is joined by Merphy to talk about nothing.
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@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS Год назад

I still and forever am just gonna use the s#!!ty camera on my phone. You pros, you

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Never change, my friend. We love you just as you are.

@MokurenDojo Год назад

Production Value?! I don’t need no stinkin’ Production Value!😅😅

@billyalarie929 Год назад

HOLD UP Okay you just inspired me to make a goddang channel, I have been wanting to interact with you cool cats for a long time anyway, THIS IS MY CHANCE!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!

@barriescobie940 9 месяцев назад

@B.Lee.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS "we will edit that out" ❤

@andreamiller3578 Год назад

The book reviews are how I found you guys. Maybe I'm an outlier, but that's how I find new books and enjoy what others think about those books.

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Yeah, they used to be almost all I did.

@channelnamepending8329 Год назад

Same

@Wingedmagician Год назад

Dude! This is like a book tube celeb to me

@crelgen1588 Год назад

OMG WORLDS COLLIDE

@christopherjoynt2446 Год назад

You both read WoT around the same time as me, and you were both instrumental in me enjoying the series so much. Lit a fire for me to read fantasy/sci-fi for the last few years.

@simonedwards9450 11 месяцев назад

I was the same. These two made the experience even greater

@readbykyle3082 Год назад

This was an excellent discussion haha you guys are both very laid back and curious, makes for great conversation

@stevegibbs-cu4pm Год назад

Mike and Merphy are great. And seem very genuine. I stopped with book tubers when they seemed bought and paid for. For instance when the wheel of time adaptation came out and a certain RU-vidr couldn’t say anything but good about it. So I left their channel. What I appreciate about Mike is he is honest. He tried to love it. But eventually came to terms with what the adaptation really was. He will always have my respect even if I don’t agree with him. Love you both!

@deniseanne12 Год назад

I was just thinking this would be the "collab" I would want to see on Booktube - didn't realize it already happened! So happy to see this!

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Hope you enjoy it!

@MattBramer Год назад

oh Mike and Merphy, this was so good! Thank you both for talking so long and talking so much. We love your content and are so thankful for you both!

@dustintyson354 Год назад

This was awesome. You two are the first channels I discovered and got me back into reading. You both have given me some great recommendations. Keep up the good work 😊

@eavanodonoghue Год назад

Thanks for this! What a really enjoyable and genuine conversation. The two of you just seem like cool people to hang out with.

@JARHuygebaert Год назад

Another fantastic livestream, Mike! Can't express how much I love your channel, I have been watching every video since 2020 :) You made my TBR a "bit" longer

@rhubahb Год назад

Yea! This stream made my weekend! Two of my top 5 RU-vidrs! AND Phillip in chat? Holy crap! 🙂

@TheGreatestHeroEver Год назад

Amazing collab! Thanks for making this guys!

@WhytheBookWins Год назад

This is such a great conversation!

@seanmurphy1198 Год назад

Enjoyed the replay of the stream. Merphy was a really engaging and charismatic guest.

@stevegibbs-cu4pm Год назад

Don’t quit Mike! Please!

@D-Wells0203 10 месяцев назад

I’m quite late to this video but loved hearing you chat w Merphy. Keep up the great work Mike! Love the channel!

@1stCMcook Год назад

Mike, I think you’re worrying too much about the numbers. I feel it’s more important to have a strong community of real followers rather than “large” community spread thin. I enjoy your content and just realized I haven’t subscribed yet, I just fixed that. Bless you and make the type of content you enjoy and are proud of.

@hhoi8225 Год назад

He's always been numbers-focused, he enjoys having and analyzing those metrics. 🤪

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

I work in analytics. Sorry these things bother some of you. Of course I was going to ask someone who has had as much success on RU-vid as Merphy about these things.

@socialbianca Год назад

I like the sips of coffee in the videos. It makes it feel more like a real conversation.

@clementmatheny7985 Год назад

This is awesome, you too are my favorite Booktubers

@Tralala001 Год назад

Reviews are my favorite types of videos. It's like a book club to me, seeing if I feel the same about a book as someone else.

@Gruso57 Год назад

Mike, you have really good communication skills. Your interviews are always top notch

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Thanks!

@iwannawatchDavid Год назад

Gutted I didn't catch this live! Congratz Mike on getting Merph on, I enjoy both your channels. 100% prefer the long form stuff. @MerphyNapier I love your jumpers don't listen to the clothes haters!

@tylerblack301 Год назад

This was awesome! Thanks for entertaining me while I did yard work!

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@joronah8650 Год назад

BookTubers are my fave content creators and you two are my faves!!

@socialbianca Год назад

Mike, your kindle/oasis video (the first one) was how I found your channel.

@samm8190 Год назад

Merphy gives off such mom vibes. I love it.

@adoniscreed4031 Год назад

I probably don't notice the mum vibes as much as we're always the same age but Merphy really is super wholesome 🤣

@TheDarkchum1 Год назад

Oh you guys got me so jealous with all the books you are reading that I’m now reading more than ever before in my life at 43. I’ve read 7k pages since November! Thanks booktubers!

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Better late than never!

@astinus4 Год назад

Wheel of Time is my favourite fantasy series of all time, but avoided re-reading it for years (spot read specific favourite scenes only), because of the “life is short, too many other things to read” mindset. However I began a full reread in the last year following the release of the tv show, and am thoroughly enjoying it. It’s such a long series that there are so many great things that I’d just forgotten, and it was fascinating retracing the journey of the characters knowing where they would end up at the finale

@timmeyer9191 Год назад

Such a great discussion. Sorry I wasn't there live with you. I had an idea once to become a voice actor. I thought about moving to Houston to try to get on at ADV when they were doing all those anime dubs.

@kikoxchavo7765 Год назад

Subscribed, looking forward to seeing more videos from you Mike!!

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Welcome!

@britneynicolewrites Год назад

This is awesome!

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

I enjoyed it!

@noahmcclellan4372 Год назад

This was awesome.

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@stephentheshywarrior2759 Год назад

Such a great stream.❤

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Appreciate it!

@thejosh2099 Год назад

WHAAAAAT This is so cool!

@AGrassy29 Год назад

“Why do you add a K” 😂🤣🤣🔥 loved this chat from you both. Two GOATS!

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@pillarmusic1641 Год назад

Awesome! Love how you have such different opinions, made a great chat 1:53:37

@ShadowBook Год назад

This was a great conversation, but Mike - it's disheartening when you harp too much on channel growth. Your subs aren't going down, and you have nearly 90k people who enjoy your content. Don't get in the habit of linking your happiness to sub numbers, because you'll end up chasing down fads and getting viewers who don't like the stuff you actually enjoy reading, then it won't be fun for YOU anymore. Keep up the great work, Mike!

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Well like I said I work in finance and it’s impossible for me not to study data trends and think you’re doing something wrong. I never once say I’m unhappy doing this. I wouldn’t do it if I was unhappy. I’m just goal oriented and a data nerd. Thanks for watching.

@Necessary_Chemical Год назад

Two of my favourite booktubers

@EverythingToEverybody Год назад

Spring and summer reading maybe why. I want to try newer stuff then for vacation or camping. So will get ideas staring in late March to April.

@JoePogi2 Год назад

2 of my favorites.

@walkingwriter4325 Год назад

You mentioned not liking some nautical books at around 28:38. You may enjoy the non-fiction book "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Journey" by Alfred Lansing first published in 1959. I read it in February after hearing about it on another channel and loved it! About Ernest Shackleton's 1915 voyage to the Antarctic and all that went wrong. A fast read, and I couldn't wait to get back to the book every time I put it down. His ship was named Endurance, but it's an amazing story of human endurance as well.

@JamesI88 Год назад

Endurance is amazing

@joceanna3461 Год назад

Loved it!

@koleary1798 Год назад

Nice discussion Mike and Merphy.

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Thanks!

@ducky36F Год назад

Funny you bring up that the two of you have differing opinions on books, You are the two channels I watched if you both have reviews on a book for the differt perspectives 😂 Worked well for me I've found books I love from both your channels.

@catherinemckeown2746 Год назад

I loved Janny Wurtz Empire Trilogy when I was younger. They are companion books to Raymond E Feist Midkemia books.

@sleepyyoshi Год назад

This one was a lot of fun.

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Thanks for hangin'!

@marcweber8509 Год назад

I also don't usually read YA anymore. One middle grade trilogy I read when I got back into fantasy that was really, really good was Bartimäus by Jonathan Stroud. He took a risk with a antihero main character that had an incredible arc. It's really funny, sometimes in a twisted way. I think it could be something to read with your kid when you want to go shade darker and morally grey than Harry Potter. Would like to reread that one sometime. Another that's on my list that I'm really excited for is Abhorsen by Garth nix.

@listenwithprecious 10 месяцев назад

Fun video 😍

@Crochet.Awhile.and.Listen Год назад

I have been watching Mike for a couple years now I think. I found Merph first, it was her and Daniel Greens talking about levels of fantasy books. I was hooked and found a lot of others like minded.

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

It's a pretty big rabbit hole.

@jparish1987 Год назад

Loved this talk. When you brought up YA and middle grade I thought of Here There Be Dragons, there's a fantastic twist at the end of the book. Murphy DNF'd the book before getting there. I know she's a Peter Pan fan and the second book has a cool tie in.

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

I've yet to try it but I've heard good things.

@campk2732 Год назад

2:10:17 Now that's a cliffhanger, well played

@israaahmed7168 Год назад

Preach!!!! I’m really interested in his thoughts for One Piece because I want to start reading it as well but it’s too long and intimidating 😅😅😅

@TheJoker-bz3ms 8 месяцев назад

Mike really does have the voice for storytelling.

@socialbianca Год назад

I looooooooove video essays

@adriancojocaru7096 Год назад

My 2 cents on the topic or reviews: reading a book is a time investment. Not everybody has the time to read many books so we do rely on reviews to help us choose. If all reviews are positive, then the viewers will stop watching them all together because they already know what you'll say (that it's nice, you should read it, etc). That's why "top 10 books" work so well, because they show you some type of "real" reading suggestions. Now I don't support "hate" videos - but there is space there for giving negative reviews without being dismissive or offensive.

@parsnipmaster1874 Год назад

To help make sense of the Cowboy Bebop name its Bebop as in the style of Jazz. Jazz is a big motif throughout the whole show and I do think you'd really like it Mike its even pretty short at only 26 episodes and a movie

@socialbianca Год назад

My favorites are the book reviews.

@jellevanbreugel325 Год назад

Reason that Mike gets more aggresive comments is that Merphy has better hair than Mike....

@jamesalexander958 11 месяцев назад

Everyone loves Sanderson. I'm struggling to get into it. I'm two books into the mistborn trilogy, and I don't know if I can pick up the next book. It feels like work because I don't get into that book hipnoses where you forget you're reading. I picked up Abercrombie now, am two books in and can't wait for the next one.

@Yesica1993 10 месяцев назад

Mistborn didn't do it for me either. (I was also distracted at that time due to Real Life stuff, so I may be willing to give it another shot at some point.) The Way of Kings did have that immersive/movie-like feel to it. But that's as far as I've gotten in the series. I had no idea when I first read it that it was going to be so long. I'm going to have to wait until it's done. I'm not taking the chance on getting attached to a long series and then have it never be finished for whatever reason!

@DingDong-fq2mo 9 месяцев назад

Surprised that Merphy's viewership is 80% male. Thanks both, I enjoyed your conversation.

@MrBoJangles 9 месяцев назад

Well she is very attractive. That will always bring the men

@31LaschG Год назад

If you like stories about vikings try Brian Wood’s Northlanders series published by Vertigo!

@Jesse-ut3xr 8 месяцев назад

THANK YOU MERPHY! I totally agree about Cradle, it's just not for me. I've read the first ten, and still can't see the hype.

@jessemunoz6150 10 месяцев назад

Murakami’s 1Q84 is extraordinary

@jackiesliterarycorner Год назад

Love both your channels and your reviews especially. You should check out Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud for your kids Mike. The positive comments surprise me and I'm surprised by what videos do well. Sadly, I obsess over the negative comments, but I've only gotten a handful of them. The most recent said I have nothing to say and like a lot of people I supposedly like attention. I'm not motivated enough to write a book, but I wanted to. I still want to sometimes. I think writing fanfiction threw me off, because I didn't have to create world or characters. It made me lazy.

@FTUD734 Год назад

Mike, U R not the only RU-vidr who has noticed a recent negative change in the algorithm. I have seen multiple creators with videos on the subject. RU-vid changed something. Wish I could remember who had the best vid explaining it. Try a search?

@TheDarkchum1 Год назад

People will complain about EVRYTHING. You can’t win.

@Dunybrook Год назад

Fantastic live stream. I'm so glad people are still doing this kind of thing in the age of TikTok. I'd never heard of Janny Wurts before but evidently she's teamed up with the legendary Raymond E. Feist to write a trilogy. Probably my favorite fantasy writers these days who doesn't seem to get the attention she deserves is on RU-vid is N.K. Jemisin.

@Williamtolduso Год назад

2 of my favorite booktubers 😍

@noeditbookreviews Год назад

Hello everybody.

@MystiqWisdom Год назад

Damn, I'm surprised to hear that Merphy didn't like the Green Bone novels. They're pretty much universally praised by booktube.

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

I was surprised, too

@tysmith1742 Год назад

You might dig Jujutsu Kaisen or Naruto. 2 Manga series I read and enjoyed a lot . Might be your style

@InBetweenSound 7 месяцев назад

Any spoilers in this vid before I jump in?

@newturn77 Год назад

Hi Mike I think why Onepiece/ manga fans can be a bit intense is because it has a higher demographic of younger audiences which may contribute to audience’s who are unable to understand and accept difference in opinions and perspectives.

@berserker8884 Год назад

I get your reasoning, but I don't think that is it specifically. If you were part of the fandom since early 2010s, you would understand that OP was a huge underdog in the west for the LONGEST time. Those of us who enjoyed it usually had it as one of our favorite stories, but it was always lumped together with other Shounen in a pejorative way. So the fandom has always been abnormally passionate and intense for those reasons. It has only been the last 5 years that the series has completely exploded in the west! And because it is one of the best fantasy stories ever written, people still get very frustrated and feel like it gets overlooked, just because it is a manga and because it has "silly" art style.

@0Arman0 Год назад

Would love to see you collaborate with Conor Reads! :) Small booktuber who is doing wheel of time right now!

@goldenspiral6008 Год назад

I'm sure Cowboy Bebop would be for you Mike. If you ever do it, the anime is the way to go though, since the manga is adapted from the anime in that specific case. I totally get why you wouldn't want to read One Piece though. It's a great series, but I agree it might not be for you. Shingeki no Kyojin, Fullmetal Alchemist and Claymore are definitely the way to go for you to check out shonen manga, so I'm glad those are in your radar.

@chasehowells8803 Год назад

Cant quit on your 100 000 man

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

I don't plan to. The algorithm is just frustrating.

@chasehowells8803 Год назад

@@mikesbookreviews haha thought not. you're a machine man, love the effort and quality you put into your videos!

@Parlom101 Год назад

I’m sorry if this is brought you but I’m 15 mins in, Mike have you read anything by Junji Ito?

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

Uzumaki

@tiananesbitt7156 Год назад

This is amusing! I introduce Movie Reactors! 🤸‍♀️

@philippburnett6045 Год назад

Shame my question doesn’t get answered but oh well

@BubbaStaines Год назад

"Mike will LOVE that book, because I hate it!"

@rayallen0 Год назад

I actually think their have been a lot of fantastic American comics in the last few years. The Dreaming: Waking Hours by G. Willow Wilson Donny Cates Thor run Future State: The Next Batman by John Ridley Haha by W. Maxwell Prince I Breathed a Body by Zac Thompson I just think the culture wars surrounding comics has kind of overshadowed the good stuff.

@mikesbookreviews Год назад

I was talking about the legacy characters. Justice League, Avengers, X-Men, Spider-Man, etc.

@rayallen0 Год назад

@@mikesbookreviews That's very fair. Especially Marvel (outside of the current Moon Knight run)

@yogitapandya368 Год назад

Can we get one piece reviews please 🥺🥺🥺

@austinmoore1113 Год назад

I don’t think you’d like Murakami, Mike.

@carlosbranca8080 Год назад

Merphy is not liking Hyperion?? Heresy!!!

@monkeyboy275bobo8 Год назад

Cant watch the stream right now but did she manage to talk him into one piece? 😅

@Morfeusm Год назад

Actually they end the video with that so 😜

@davidhumphries9323 Год назад

I was glad I read Malazan, but it wasn't my favorite. I'm enjoying Wheel of Time much better

@JamesI88 Год назад

Wheel of time🍻

@cathsaigh2197 Год назад

52:40 You don't need to be good at games to stream them. Being able to interact with chat and be entertaining at it is a different matter. If you're at like the top 0,01% of a big multiplayer game skill-wise you can get by with just that and mostly ignore chat.

@ArtSnob101 Год назад

Read / watch some one punch man guys. Sooo good!!!

@juanmorales9738 Год назад

Don’t take it personally, Mike. I dislike Shorts no matter whose face shows up.

@sarugard9115 10 месяцев назад

i agree with merphy on Fitz i gave up on half of a Assassins aprentice boring characters, difficul to read through prose, zero action, not very interesting set up

@LFNZE 9 месяцев назад

1:53:00 trueeeee, i hate flashbacks in my books. I mean, i don't hate them like insanely, one or 2 flashbacks are fine, but if there's a flashback almost in the entirety of the book? o hell nah. That's why i didn't gave The way of kings by Sanderson a 10/10 because the flashbacks annoyed me, even tho one or 2 were good. But i don't want to see them....

@TheDarkchum1 Год назад

It was horror that brought me to discover mikes channel and booktube. The RU-vid algorithm is soul sucking awful.

@kikoxchavo7765 Год назад

mike you should read hunter x hunter, merphy read it and she liked it as much as one piece...I think.

@turtleanton6539 4 месяца назад

Yeeeah😊

@Morfeusm Год назад

I actually like your shorts #minority

@niclaslindman Год назад

Try read som Graphic Literature Fantasy are some grat books like MONSTRESS BOOK 1 AND 2 are Great Fantasy 👍

@socialbianca Год назад

I mean this in the nicest way, I don't notice y'alls clothes 🤷‍♀️

@AbnerG787 Год назад

Brandon Sanderson is hellbent into live action series and live action movies, so we will NEVER see an animated Cosmere novel. I agree when we see spren on a live action people are gonna laugh their asses of and it will fail, sorry I love the cosmere but we have to be realistic here. The Cosmere movie/series franchise will never make it with only the core Brandon Sanderson fans.