Great talks! In regards to the Jonas part. I believe the soilder was the guy Jonas had to take parts of his body. Sevarian had resurrected him while Jonas was apart of his body. Jonas had left from the mirrors and came back somehow to find the one girl that died. Thats why Sevarian was saying the soilder was two people.

I only noticed on the last rereading that Wolfe's horse/destrier language game is even deeper. Repeatedly and especially in Citadel, he refers to destriers as having "hoofs". Previously I thought that just a mistake in the crappy paperback edition I had, like many other I'd noticed. But the mistake is repeated exactly. Then it hit me - just as Tolkien intentionally used "dwarves" to separate those beings from humans with dwarfism, so Wolfe uses "hoofs" to separate a destrier's clawed extremities from those of present-day horses. But little Severian's "wolfs" is just a child's mistake ... right?

Excellent series of talks. Would love to hear you guys talk about Urth of the New Sun.

I must have missed this detail, but how exactly does Agia know about Thecla?

gotta say book 3 is my favorite

Wow I thought he read for Brandon Sanderson I heard somewhere that Christopher is planning to do something like the cosmere multiple series’s in the same universe is that true because it would be awesome

Susan Ross nearly killed the Bubble Boy!

Did you find Malazan to be hard to follow on audiobook? I have the first five on audio but a ton of people have not recommended listening saying that it’s harder to follow on audio… I figured I should ask an expert.

Mention of both T.A.Barron’s Lost years of Merlin, and one of my favorites Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. So good.

You good, mate?

Great convo! I plan to read many on his list now.

Scot, I just restarted Empire of Silence (kind of on the back-burner for now because I'm also reading Fool's Fate) but whats the reading order for Sun Eater? I hear contradictory things and when and where novellas and Short Stories come into it

Scott have you seen the cover art for Fury of the Gods!!! Out 10/23/24!! The scale is way off though!😀

Gratest youtube video?

I remember this live stream like it was yesterday.

Great, Did any one catch all the names on the list? would be great to have it writen down. if any one does, please post :) Thanks

Happy birthday Scot!

Sorry I missed the live. Happy birthday Scot!!! ❤

Currently listening to the Simon Vance narration of Robinson Crusoe, it's been a pretty good immersive read

Happy birthday! Had to miss the stream for kid stuff but will be listening later

Happy Birthday Scott! Sorry I missed the stream, but planning to listen during work tomorrow :)

I read ‘Hunt for Red October’ and ‘Patriot Games’ last year…hope to make it through all the Jack Ryan books eventually. Enjoy!

This was great, love hearing Christopher's take on things

Tolkien, Catholic, Gene Wolfe, Catholic, Lovecraft, Catholic, Robert E Howard, Catholic, Sapkovsky, Catholic...I sense a pattern here...

My Dude, Mad Ship is good! I'm 250 pages from the end! I don't want to put it down!

Some fantastic women narrators, Josephine Bailey for Boudica : Dreaming the Eagle, Tara Rodrigues for Daughter of the Empire and Ruth Urquhart for Daggerspell!!

An interesting question just popped into my head. Could bòok of the new sun be adapted? Could it be done well? What would that even look like?

Daughter’s War is being released at the end of June, the prequel to the Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman! If you have not read it, get the audio!! He is my new favorite author! I also loved Between the Fires and the Lesser Dead!

It's the best book I've ever read.

Scott just subbed!! Anyone who loves the Bloodsworn is fantastic in my book!

Sorry my battery died 😅 I'll probably be spamming your comments section with McCammon and Hobb takes over the coming weeks and months.

Cahill’s The Bound and the Broken series is very good, although the first written (Of Blood and Fire) is definitely weak. Keep going.

Hey man. Forgot about this so just woke up.

Hey bro Happy New year

The Book of the New Sun is great, but I prefer to read the Book of the Long Sun. I find the main character to be more interesting.

These were great to watch! I actually liked hearing you guys discuss these books more than actually reading them haha

Thank you SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS!!!!!!!!!! These are so great and so helpful!!! Did you do Urth of the New Sun?

Happy you liked Mystery Walk, it's really underrated!

Christopher Ruocchio's heartfelt defence of Tolkien and LotR made him rise even more in my eyes. I whole-heartedly agree. Silmarillion is my #1 book of all time.

Ooof. No malazan.

I feel like you two could really love Janny Wurts' Wars of Light and Shadow. Overall and especially in terms of sophisticated and beautiful prose, thematic depth and worldbuilding, it's in the upper echelon of Fantasy. Janny Wurts deserves a lot more credit and attention.

Hobb is elite. Great list!

The next chat can’t come soon enough!

Awesome top. 😊 Subbed! 😊

You good Scot? Hope all is well

It's a solid list but the marble rye has to be there. It's perfect. Right to the last throw in scene where John Jermaine can't play sax cuz he finally went down on Elaine

I found "Shadow of the Torturer" in my grandfather's library when I was about 13-14 (after Lord of the Rings trilogy and Interview with a Vampire) and I think I missed a lot of things that were over my head, like the idea of an "unreliable narrator". But to think books should be in the third person and not the first? Frankly, I find that totally bizarre. Did you grow up in the Bible Belt?

This was amazing, I am sad that I found this video only now. I really like how Christopher compares Witcher with Arthurian canons, it's exaclty how I see this, based on Sapkowski essays on the Arthurian mythology.