I can't believe Tor doesn't get you Sanderson, you're the one who got me to read him and since then I have bought everything he has ever written and gotten my wife hooked too!
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This is a random ass request but it just popped in my head. Also you don’t have to do this, it’s your channel I’ll keep watching regardless. But I think it would be cool if you did a top 10 video of your favorite movies that aren’t based off of books. I think that would be cool. Anyway, love the channel.
You know, I grew up knowing a blind man named Lee, who was my dad’s best friend. He took me to a house he owned, small two bedroom. But it was wall to wall, ceiling to floor, his books. He was blinded during the war and this collection was his before he was injured. I remember visiting him and hearing his books. They were records back then. He was a reader and he didn’t let his eyesight slow him down. I agree that listening is reading.
A Canticle for Liebowitz is tied for my favorite book ever. Definitely one of those where I read it at the right time in my life. Glad you've been enjoying it but I get what you're saying, parts 1 and 3 are the parts that have always stuck with me the most.
Seeing Jurassic Park in the theater with my dad (who I just lost last year) when I was 11 is a great memory! That movie's magic is timeless. I really need to read the novel. Thanks Mike!
Love the reviews mike. Look forward to them every week. Agree with you on blood song definitely let down. If you ever get time check out karl edward wagner kane series. Start out with darkness weaves excellent fantasy. Wagner also wrote horror novels right up your alley. Have a great weekend
There is some speculation on the interwebs that Canticle for Leibowitz was an inspiration for the Babylon 5 episode Deconstruction of Falling Stars. It's somewhere on my TBR, which gets longer every time I watch your videos. LOL. I am currently reading (listening to really) To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams. Soooo good. His description of that battle on the frozen lake at the Stone of Farewell has me riveted.
I'm reading a short story collection called "The Very Best of Tad Williams". You don't need three guesses to figure out who wrote that one. The first story in it is straight out of that movie Dragonheart with the knight and dragon scamming people, it's pretty fun stuff. If you want to check out what Tad Williams is like outside of Osten Ard, this collection gives a pretty wide range of settings.
Wow can’t believe Abercrombie ARCs are that early. Mega jealous, enjoy! I’ve been rereading A Feast for Crows and mixing in stories from Skeleton Crew by King
Hey Mike, your 9 yr old is braver than I am. This Gen X’er is still traumatised by The Land Before Time! I’ve just read Yumi and the Nightmare Painter and that had me a little weepy at the end too.
Actually picked up The Hollow Places because I wanted to read at least one spooky book along with you this year, and about 100 pages in and enjoying it so far. I've never read The Willows (though I plan to now), so I may be missing something if she is going for a take on that, but it's pretty good. I think you'll enjoy the way she does slice of life before the weird shit kicks in.
Finally someone who agrees with me about The Passage. First third? Brilliant. Last two-thirds? Meh….? Thanks Mike. Looking forward to your review of Canticle. One of my favorites. Take care!
I like your Weekly Update back on Friday! I just started GGK’s Sailing to Sarantium and wow! I think you should read Lions of Al-Rassan ASAP, then Song of Arbonne & then The Sarantine Mosaic. You will not be disappointed!
I’m on a bit of a Grady Hendrix bender atm, I just started Horrorstor. I did enjoy The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, thank you for introducing me to a new favorite author! 😊
I finished Hollow Places yesterday. It's good. Very unsettling, but also somewhat light hearted, like Hendrix. I'm 1/5th into Dungeon Crawler Carl, and this needs to be on your radar Mike. It is so much fun
Hi Mike. For spooky season, you should have a look at Roger Zelazny A Night in Lonesone October. A short read broken up into 31 chapters/days of October. It's a great read with Gothic vibes. I've seen some read alongs in October do one chapter a day to finish on October 31st.
I don’t usually theme my reads, but I decided to try it this October. One i finish Dune (I’m about 2/3 through it), i plan on reading Fevre Dream by GRRM, Hollow Places, and Salem’s Lot. Super excited for some themed reads this fall
Mike have you ever heard of Earth Abides by George R Stuart? It’s my favourite post apocalyptic story of all time, and one of my favourite books. I think you might enjoy it quite a bit, it’s different from the „we’re all fcked and everything is horrible“ type of apocalypse. It’s more about rebuilding society. Put it on your long list!
Almost done with Iron Gold, definitely more my speed. I really enjoyed the original trilogy but I like where Iron Gold is taking me more. I'm a big fan of the bittersweet.
Am almost done with the fiat lux section of Canticle. Benjamin threw me but am really curious how it will end. But overall am liking it and can check a other classic off my list.
So I remember awhile ago you mentioned maybe starting the Horus heresy? Are you still thinking about doing that? I think you’d really like it it’s sci fi grimdark i imagine it as gears of war in outer space
I've finished The Passage series. You have to treat that whole first part (super awesome by the way) as a super long prologue. It should have been a prequal novella or something like that. If you can recover from that completly jarring transition, and treat what happens after as the actual start of the series, it's a decent post apocalypic series moving forward. imo.
I loved The Passage when I read it years ago. I re-read it and then finished the trilogy this year. I was sooo disappointed. I groaned and rolled my eyes through most of the third book. It kicked off a reading slump that I'm finally getting out of with John Gwynne and Pierce Brown.
@@puzzlingread Hmm, I have to admit that there I also did not like a particular part about the ending. I really wish I had someone to complain to about it, becuase it kinda pissed me off. However, I did enjoy the series (the change of pace in the first book didn't bother me), and I enjoyed the writing. So not a good/great series, but decent.
Think about T. Kingfisher.... Yes, The Hollow Places is only 300+ pages, but I had to go fact check you on that because I was certain it was under 200 pages. That's not a bad thing, I guess I was so in love with it that it went by quickly. I read Fury of the Gods. I was so tense reading the battle scenes that I had to consciously loosen my muscles every so often before continuing. I also...did not grow out of dinosaurs.
Regarding the BALCO PED stuff, it was Victor Conte who ran the operation, Patrick Arnold who designed the Cream and the Clear, and Greg Anderson who was the trainer who gave it to the players. I do remember reading all about it in "Game of Shadows" by Mark Fanadu-Wada and Lance Williams, and found that book to be okay, but nothing earth shattering. If someone wanted to read something nonfiction about sports that was really fascinating, dynamic, and engaging (in addition to my beloved "Moneyball"), I'd recommend "The Sports Gene" by David Epstein instead. That book was awesome. :)
I've continued a bit on God Emperor of Dune, and every chapter so far, though I understand that others would disagree, I absolutely adore every word. And that's weird, because I hate slow paced books, but this is something else. However, I paused my reading of it to watch anime for the first time, and I went for Berserk (1997), because I have heard so (too) much positive about it. I found the first few episodes to be quite boring. But I just finished episode 10, and WOW! Now I'm fully invested, that's for certain.
I think if your favorite stuff in Black House is the DT stuff you should start the Gwendy series. I think they’re pretty good and knowing you, you can knock out book one in a day. And the third book is very very DT adjacent. Side note, when King and Straub were talking about writing the second book it was actually Straub who brought up tying it to the DT and King was obviously happy to do so.
@@mikesbookreviews I understand the mixed reviews. They are very simple books and the middle one is good but obviously no King involvement. But I loved the first and the third does very interesting DT things. Definitely not say they are must reads. But I just loved the DT through lines and I don’t really think it’s a spoiler since it happens very early in the first book but ……. one of your favorite villains makes cameos through out. 🐦⬛
But to be fair I was one of the people raving about Black House. I felt exactly the same as you about Talisman, #diericharddie!, but I really liked BH. And you were Luke warm, but the positive is the Gwendy Books are all readable in a day or two.
It stinks when you don’t like a popular book, but hopefully your next fantasy book will be better. I finished my re-read of both Prince Caspian and The Two Towers. I can’t believe I waited so long to re-read Narnia. I really enjoyed The Two Towers, but I did not care for Frodo’s part until he met Faramir. Anyway, I’ve been most excited to read The Return of the King because I don’t remember much about it. I started it, and have read three chapters so far, and I’m so excited for The Battle of Pelennor Fields. I’ve also been waiting for the Paths of the Dead, because I did not remember the story surrounding it, and it was super cool. I’m going to be continuing with The Return of the King slowly so that I can really enjoy the ending. I should be working on The Stone of Farewell too unless I change my mind.
I'm watching From on Amazon and liking it very much. Hoping Amazon will show season 3 because I don't want to subscribe to MGM+. This show is so scary 😨
Mike….just curious, I am the need of some decent bookcases that don’t sag in the middle. Yours look to be holding up well with a lot of books on them. Are they store bought or are they custom made?
Random question. Are there any books you know of where the main hero character slowly and discreetly begins to become the villain in such a way that you as the reader are on his/her side the entire time, rooting for them through the transition and barely even noticing at what point he went from hero to villain and you as the reader are thinking wait we are the bad guy now but at the same time are also on the villains side wanting to watch the world burn right alongside him? I thought it would be a cool idea and started thinking of how to write such a book and then realized it would be almost impossible to pull off in a truly satisfying way
Boys never grow out of dinosaurs 🦖 💪 People forget what a big deal that movie was, I was 10 when it hit the cinema and it was like Jaws but with dinosaurs 👌
You keep saying you miss awesome science fiction, so please do yourself a favor and try Outpost, book #1 in best selling author W. Michael Gear's Donovan series. Trust me, you will not only thank me, but gobble up the next 6 books.
Mike- If Name of the wind and Blood song have a Mary Sue protagonist, Empire of silence/Suneater has Hadrian, the biggest Mary Sue of all. How do you like him?😄
Heathens 😆 I grew up on audiobooks, it’s actually how I learned to read. The local library had this spinning rack with cassette tapes with the audiobook on it and the book itself so you could read along. After all, didn’t stories start when we humans were telling each other stories around the campfire? 🔥 Happy Reading! 📖
My take on this is always. Ok? You don't think it's reading. Have a nice day. I literally don't see how it makes the slightest difference to my life or theirs
@@mikesbookreviews it’s so crazy to me that people wouldn’t consider it reading. I mean, yes, technically it’s not the literal definition of reading. But I have listened to the Ready Player One audiobook over ten times, and there’s not a person on this planet that can convince me I haven’t “read the book”.
I was disappointed with Blood Song also....I mean it was good, it was fine...but it wasn't nearly as good as the hype. Canticle was big miss for me. I'm halfway through Blackwater currently...it's slow going...not really what I was hoping for. It's well written, but.... And can't wait for Devil's...hopefully that one lands.
Just a heads up for Philip Fracassi fans, his novel (my favorite of his) Ch!ld Alone with $trangers is on sale for Kindle $1.99. I'm kicking off spooky season this week myself, finishing Mary by Nat Cassidy and last night read Rattlesnakes (from You Like It Darker). King still has that charm!
