Great America

So good

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This sounds like an epic blend of Norse mythology, intense battles, and raw action! The Hunger of the Gods promises a thrilling mix of Vikings, ancient deities, and fight club-style combat-definitely a must-read for fans of gritty fantasy.

RED RISING HAS NOTHING ON TWOTM, I'LL DEFEND IT WITH. MY. LIFE. 😤

Pilgrim sounds awesome, need to get that one.

immediately added pilgrim to my tbr

So good taste in books and good taste in music.🤘🤘

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Hemingway's most well known novels are absolutely worth the hype, in my opinion. For Whom the Bell Tolls is my personal favorite, but Farewell to Arms is also very, very good. Grapes of Wrath is hands down one of the greatest novels of all time. If you read it and end up liking it, check out the french author Emile Zola. He's the king of naturalism (hardcore realism) in literature. Brutal books, but brilliant, and he's my favorite author of all time. ~If~ you're interested, I'd probably say start with 'Germinal.' It was so influential that it literally helped unionize the coal mines of France lol. Hope you enjoy Hemingway and Steinbeck! I'm sure you will

I miss my wife

Damn, you only got 295 subscribers? Would have thought it to be much higher! Joining the challenge, and will be watching your reviews.

This sounds so eerie and amazing

This was a great video, I'm definitely going to partake in some of these books! And your voice is so calming.

That was soothing and inspiring. You’ve very calmly injected real literary courage into my veins. It’s time to pull the Sound and the Fury off my bookshelf and finally read it through.

I set out this year with a similar goal to try to elevate my reading. Moby Dick is fantastic with a sense of humor that surprised me because I never see anyone mention it.

No Chuck Tingle in the list?

Solid list, enjoy!!!

I’ve made a goal of trying to read the Harvard must read list in the next like 5 years

Some of your list I have read and I will keep my comments to myself as per your request. Enjoy your reads. Enjoy your upcoming move. And if I may suggest, Farley Mowat, Lost in the Barrens. Even though he is Canadian🤷‍♀️😊

Love your videos. Found you on Tiktok but followed you here. Keep up the great work! Edit to add: I’m talking about your book content! 📖

We all love a good blanket while reading! Reading while wearing shorts in a hammock isn't the same as wrapped in a blanket with tea. Let's never forget a cardigan and a glass of Scotch...

Great review! Some added context for the few things you took exception with in Harry's personality; Jim Butcher planned when he was writing storm front for it to be a 20 book series with a big apocalyptic trilogy at the end, so he was able to write Harry's character flaws much more concretely than most authors are willing to, especially because he wanted to lean into the detective noir tropes, knowing that he had time to grow more organically. Can't wait to see your reviews of the rest of them!

Another excellent review, you guys have been raving about this lately. I’m excited to finally check this out. Let’s say early 2025? 👀

Subbed this was hilarious 😂

0:48 I gotta read this book 😂

I hated TWTM

omg so happy for you

VERY HOT TAKE But I think the trilogy as a whole is better the The Will of the Many Red rising was just super enjoyable it’s like a good action movie with memorable characters

Am I just now learning daddy Jeff’s tiktoks are cropped KZbins

I like referencing the maps while reading books, don’t know if I would heavily miss it if a book didn’t have a map though. I would assume a lot of times authors already have maps made themselves, in order to jeep track of things and not mistakenly reference the Hills of Bumblebook in two different geographical locations. And if there is already a map, they might as well have an artist illustrate it and publish it with the book.

thanks jeff, now i want noodles...

i thought you were gonna talk abt Obsequiae since the cover , great band btw

Think you may have inspired me to make some tapes, cheers!

Good point about physical constraints though. I suspect less physical constraints might encourage more mental restraints - but that's a bit of a tangent. Nice vid. Thx

Walkman rocked because you got portable soundtrack facility 👍 But cassettes still suck because distortion, noise, wow, flutter , easily fekked by nearby magnets, big, clunky and rewind time. I believe nostalgia is pain.

Bussin viddy! Only tape is real. Thanks for always giving PIYAKDU a shoutout on your IG Jeff! You, and Fiadh rule!

Always love your vids Jeff! Keep em coming. Always so much to learn!!!

CDs are 12cm

I knew the Dire Straits fact. That album was the first pop record to sell more on CD than any other format, partly because it was recorded completely digitally and the album was longer on CD than Vinyl. As a holdover from the Vinyl mastering days, there were allegedly two different masters sent out on different pressings: one mastered by John Dent and the other by Bob Ludwig. I have a promo copy of the original John Dent pressing, where the front cover is amended to say "Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms: A Full Digital Recording"

The pits and lands in a mass-produced CD-ROM are not like the grooves in a vinyl record. Vinyl grooves are direct physical representations of frequency and amplitude (width and depth, respectively), and are a form of analog recording. The pits and lands of a CD-ROM are uniformly wide and deep, and do not represent physical waveforms, but rather bits of information in a digital audio source. CD-Rs and CD-RWs don't have pits and lands. During burning, the LASER alters the color of a light-sensitive dye. Burning doesn't refer to changing the plastic. Anyone who claims to be able to tell a difference between a CD-ROM and a CD-R/RW, in terms of the medium, and not the specific burn, by sound alone is delusional. There's not room for disagreement. CDs are data. If a CD-R has write errors, it doesn't degrade audio quality, but rather cases skipping, and sometimes seeking problems. There is literally no audio quality difference. You can confirm this yourself by ripping a CD-ROM to a digital file (and verifying that it's 100% accurate before proceeding), burning that file to a CD-R (also verifying the burn accuracy before proceeding), ripping that CD-R to a digital file (again, verifying it's an accurate rip), and then comparing the two files. They should be identical. And I mean, exact same file, down to the bit, the only differences being the created/modified dates, and the name. The reasons one might care if a disc is a CD-ROM or a CD-R are related to players. Very old players can have troubles with discs burned using the "track at once" method (as opposed to "disc-at-once"). Some players, regardless of age, have trouble with CD-Rs burned at higher speed, because as speed increases, relative precision decreases, and things might not quite line up the way the player expects, or can account for. This can be reliably prevented by performing error-checking on the burned disc. If you get reports of errors, it _might_ be a problem for playback. A local band, wanting to crank out 50 copies of their demo might well not take the additional time to verify each disc's data integrity, and are not the most likely to be using a great quality drive, and are not the most likely to be using great quality CD-Rs, and are very likely to be burning them at maximum speed, and not the most likely to deliberately pick "disc-at-once" mode for their burns, all of which combined results in a higher-likelihood of playback problems. In addition, an "audiophile" is more likely to have very old audio playback equipment (for... usually dumb reasons), and as such, a higher-likelihood of having problems with playback, even if the disc is burned flawlessly. It's also worth noting that CD players typically feature error correcting capabilities, which are limited. If a disc does exhibit errors (either in write, or because a disc is scratched, or w/e else may interfere with proper reading), those errors can be accurately corrected on the fly, up to a point. I don't remember the exact limits, but it's less than a thousand bytes (~1KB). If errors are substantial enough, the error-correcting can interpolate that missing data (as opposed to correcting), which may or may not be identical to the data that was originally present. (The idea being that a listener is much more likely to care if their disc fails to play at all, or skips heavily, than if the playback is 100% bit-accurate.) So, in specific cases, when a disc is really, really badly burned, or really beat-up/dirty, but not so much as to be unusable, there is a possibility of degradation of audio quality. This is where the "most people can't tell" part actually comes into play with CDs. However, it should also be noted that in order to tell from sound alone, a person would need to be beyond intimately familiar with that specific rendition of an audio track, and also in possession of demi-superhuman audio differentiation capabilities (well above and beyond that of a child with perfectly undamaged hearing), such that anyone claiming to notice a difference is by far more likely to be fooling themselves. Keep in mind, these people are also the ones that will sometimes claim that de-ionizing a disc improves sound quality, or that shaving a bevel into the edge of the disc improves sound quality. In almost all cases, they can safely be ignored on these matters.

Great quality content, I hope you break through on KZbin, man!

though I am anti-digipak this is an incredible video

I once had these cheap cd-r's that after you burned them. They smelled like celery. 22 years old and still play fine. I will have to check if they still smell. Like how a fresh Maxell cassette is when you unwrap it. Where's that Febreze flavor?!? Digipacks have always been the worst. Good luck ever finding a mint one in a used store.

I love what you've done with your mom's basement.

Jewel cases are much better than digipacks. Digipacks are very fragile, the paper wears easily. Every digipack in my collection that wasn’t in a protective sleeve is scratched and has abrasions, and there is no way to fix it. Jewel cases can be easily replaced, giving you a brand-new looking album.

Something I learnt about CD burning at home is that when the burning software asks what speed you want to burn at, usually 2x - 24x, it's better to burn at slower speeds where the etching is "stronger" and more likely to be playable on older drives with a weaker reading lazer.

Cds forever 2024 still selling and buying them like crazy Better sound quality u own the music and support the artist 💿💿💽📀📀📀👍👍👍streaming is garbage 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮

My band's demo got zero love from labels, but we made our money back from tapes, CDs, and bandcamp digital sales. And this is very genre specific, but if a band is making Heavy/Epic/Speed metal or anything in that sort of niche, the NWOTHM Full Albums youtube channel is a godsend. It pretty much guarantees 10k people will listen to your music, and probably more if your artwork is cool.