The Bone Shard Daughter and Piranesi Book Reviews 

Highly recommend House of Leaves if you enjoyed the setting of Piranesi.

Same

It's unlike anything I've ever read. Hope you enjoy! I definitely did.

Yes, it was really special. Hope you read it

@Jacqueline Salinas I did get to read it! Finished it within 24 hours, which probably tells you how much I liked it haha

@@lianneeden4873 awesome :)

I seriously would like some kind of 'reading coaching' from Merphy. Her passion really rubs off on me. But I guess that's what the buddy reads are for.

He's also a really kind and gentle person. I think for some reason that gets conflated with stupid these days? Maybe there's just been too many stories with genius jerks and stupid nice people? But I love how Piranesi is obviously a scientist type of person and very smart, while also being so kind. That's my favorite type of character.

I saw the ending differently..staying at the house devoid of human connection is no way to live for too long..it taught him empathy and the ability to find beauty in the real world.

My kind of book. Say no more, no synopsis necessary. I’ll take your word and skip this video until I’ve had a chance to read it :)

Same here! I always recommend picking it up without knowing a thing about it because the vibe it starts with and the vibe it ends with are completely different.

@@abigase135 intrigued! I have it on hold at my library rn

Same! I'm like, I'm sorry, I can't tell you anything, it's just really really good 😅

About 1/3 of the way through it and very invested :)

I second the House of Leaves recommendation but with a warning. While the concepts are very similar (expanding house that's really hard to understand, the sense of impossible vastness Merphy describes, the dramatic irony of knowing things the characters don't) and both are works of genius, the tone is VERY different. House of Leaves is incredibly dark, violent, and horrifying throughout, while Piranesi is like a gentle forest clearing where darkness waits just out of view

I want to read house of leaves but find it intimidating based on everything I’ve heard

@@williamthach7 I first read it in middle school, so I don't think it's a tough read in terms of writing style. If you're talking about subject matter though, then I would trust your gut based on what you've heard and your own tolerance. I will say that it is an incredibly rewarding and thought-provoking book, so I highly recommend you give it a shot. I find new things to love about it every time I go back and give it a reread.

It's funny, I just watched an interview with Susanna Clarke and she name-dropped Borges as an influence. You're picking up on something!

What are you waiting for to read Piranesi. READ IT NOW.

Yeah, I've heard a lot of people love both of these. I really enjoyed both as well, but not necessarily for similar reasons. The Night Circus has one of the most beautiful writing styles I have ever read, and the writing style in Piranesi can't top that for me, though it is still well done. On the flipside, I thought the characters in The Night Circus were very weak, whereas I loved Piranesi's main character and his unusual (and sometimes flawed) way of interpreting things. But yeah, the setting was definitely good in both books.

It’s kind of annoying though how her videos never show up on my subscription list. Each time I want to see her videos I have to specifically search for her channel. It’s especially bizarre how her subscriber count hasn’t really grown as much when at one point she had more subscribers than Daniel.

Yes. He was Clarke's inspiration for the name, and the house in the narrative is not unlike an impossible prison from the sketches.

@@WhtSnwRvn Now I definitely want to read it. What an interesting twist. Love it when authors do that.

You just finished Piranesi dude! Good job 😊

Sort of. Science can only answer questions about which an experimental hypothesis can be formulated. No experiment = no science. The classic example would be philosophical questions of meaning, like "does life have a purpose?" or "does God exist?" about which (despite claims to the contrary) science has to remain silent as there is no good, experimental data to work with. The same also applies to material questions that are not open to investigation within our current capabilities, like "how common is life in the universe?" One day it is conceivable there will be sufficient data to make a good estimation, but at present science has little to say with any degree of certainty because there are so many unknowns and too little we can test at present.

@@TheGreatPower365 Tell that to theoretical physics lol

@@corneliastreet2491 despite the name (purely) theoretical physics is a branch of mathematics. No hypothesis with a testable variable? No science.

My thing is always if it has science in the name, it’s not actually science 😂 Political science? Social science?

Where is this talk happening?