only Dick book I've ever read.

i read this book when i was a tween! i remember nothing but i loved it. is this for adults?

Keep going with your videos! Thanks for reviewing this book.

Great review! Maybe you can review the Netflix adaptation, would be interesting.

I *believe* that Pope Leo XIII was the first 1 EVER 2 B recorded on video (silent of course, but he was clearly THERE). There WAS possible deference on his part @ that point, but GOD’s Will is not something 2 ignore, oppose, or resist, either…

The Gospel itself quotes Jesus as saying “For apart from ME, you can do NOTHING.” That was the COLLECTIVE second person pronoun there, & that statement really presents a completely didactic view, don’t U think???

Well, “church WITHIUT Christ” has been tried in historical reality, REPEATEDLY! In my frank AND considered opinion, that approach *never* works! Dr. William “Billy” Franklin Graham NEVER preached “material prosperity gospel” theology.

14:05 is the idea here you are trying to get across is: it’s wrong to think art/creativity is the only thing that matters in the world to the detriment of everything else? As all those great artists and authors of the past lived miserable lives? Only asking because this has happened to me lol. In my 20s, I always thought as long as I’m pursuing my artistic goals, everything will work out. But now I’m 33 and I can see that my neglect of all the other things in life like relationships and locking down a stable career, is now proving costly as my priorities drift away from that of my former youthful idealism. The loneliness is too heavy the older you get. When you’re young you can shoulder that burden, because you have hope that it won’t be forever. But then you see that it doesn’t change no matter if you are successful or not. You have to address your own character flaws. It’s a heavy trip man…

Reading the book rn, such a good video and such a profound insight on the work itself. You also have a soothing voice, which feels nice to listen to; subscribed x

Oh what a GYP, by the way! Stupudcauthor: give us a guy who gets propped up as a Messianuc figure, which he resoundingly IS…grrr.

*Damn* it when Eastern European politics pours fire extinguisher all over those precious people’s noblest, purest dreams….

Just cannot *WAIT* 4 CHORUS OF A MILLION! Then maybe CHORUS OF A *BILLION* ! Yeah, yeah, that’s it.

There was a lot to unpack in this novel and it was a bit of a slog but it was a really elevated allegory. I was alive at the time of "reunification" and it was quite something to witness from the (then) safety of the USA, proving once again that generations later, history is in our bones. If you want to see a more comedic take on it, see the film, "Good-bye, Lenin."

Sorry this is so pretentious, I do love your choice in music for your short though.

who wouldn't choose Ballard over Brookner?

I didn't know dick referenced LOTR! that's great

mate, I got scared after ubik but I braved a few more - I love the cover with the insectile hovercraft thing on the sf masterworks series list!

Read the first few but struggled to continue. A great premise; but still....

This is the best 17 second video in history of mankind

The fact that Telmarine *humabs* got INTO Natnia & really MESSED IT UP in some ways, made me question the nature of Allan, since that went on 4 SO LONG three. Not unlike the struggles people have with GOD here in this world, I bet.

Yeah! Faith, hope & love abide, but the greatest of these is love

Uninteresting subplots? U know about ol ‘ TOM BOMBADIL? (TOTALLY omitted from all SIX of Peter Jackson’s JRR Tolkien screenplay adaptations)…

I was a little disappointed with the way a few of the characters were left by the way side, Tanahaya kind of just disappears from the book after a certain point and it doesn't really feel like she gets any kind of conclusion. Lillia being another, a lot of questions left to be answered by the end of the book with her, though I have a feeling Tadd might come back to her in future Osten Ard books? I was kind of waiting for Tadd to pull the rug out after the main conflict draws to a close and really wow us with some huge reveal or something, like you say, with nearly 300 pages to go I just kept thinking.. so what now? Pasevalles was interesting in the first few books when he is very much kept in the shadows, unfortunately he never really bounces back as a character. By the end he almost feel like a caricature of a villain. A shame since I really liked Unver and would've liked to have seen contend with somebody truly worthy of him, Pasevalles is not that. Overall though I really enjoyed the book. I actually didn't mind the Hernystiri plot line though.

I read these back in the 80s when I was young. Somehow Donaldson created a pretty compelling story out of such a complex and deeply flawed central character. I'll just note that the second trilogy packs quite an emotional punch. Enjoy your reading!

Oh boy! It is Big Bad Book! Wait a minute…that’s not QUITE right, is it? (Sorry)

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The point you mention at around the 23 min mark is what happens in the final book of the Shadowmarch series as well. I liked the execution better here than in that one.

Very nice discussion. Osten Ard is one of my favourite series, I think I prefer Memory, Sorrow and Thorn but The Last King of Osten Ard was very good too. I agree with some of your critiques, perhaps it was trying to do what ASOIAF does with multi-POV and the really sprawling epic fantasy? Credit to Williams in that Empire of Grass had 16 POVs I think and he concluded the series well, Martin is up to 22 in Feast/Dance I think and it's so hard to wrap up... I liked The Navigator's Children a lot because of the way it resolved things through lore. Is it my favourite of the four books in the series, probably. Thanks for the interesting discussion once again.

BRO! NO SPOILERS!

The LONDON children, in particular, were indeed evacuated to SCOTLAND for the duration of the war. Not easy on anyone, but they really WERE a UNITED Kingdom standing strong against the Axis Powers, Reed.

Solid review, playing some of the older Zelda games at the moment, and enjoyed your thoughts on BotW.

aye buddy i think you're a bit late

Zedla is my favorite game! you should do a reviw of echoes of widom since its new

Really enjoyed ❤

great vid man, keep it up.

Great take and review. Keep it up

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I absolutely agree with you, it is a good book, but the boring monotony of the ‘romance’ is beyond interest. The political contours unfortunately remain in a second sphere.😮

I can tell you for certain that the series gets MUCH easier to read as it goes along. And it's quite an experience. You'll learn quite a lot.

Just ordered the same, and will read if for the nth time - first read it in the '80s. Superlative writing.

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I went through the dark night 2014-2016, with a revisit in 2020. Hard going, and I would not want to go through it again, but glad that I did. I came out of it looking, thinking, and doing different. But hard, hard work. Ego death. A stripping away of vanity. A real shunt onto another path. A far, far better path.

I enjoyed Our Man in Havanna. Best wishes and happy reading!

Yeah, *that* monastic order tends 2 make the TRAPPISTS look like they regularly R celebrating a birthday party or some such. (I have *studied* the Carthusians). Dr. Martin Luther *did* post the 95 Theses publicly when U said that he did. Also, the Holy Roman Church actually found *validity* in some of them (though not the majority).

The “dark night of the soul” is one *tough* phenomenon, which 1 knows all 2 well once 1 actually experienced it. It helps 2 come back on *out* of it, THAT is 4 sure!

One of my favorite books. It flows really well if you jump to Smileys People right after even though The Honorable School Boy is the next book chronologically. TTSP and Smileys People in my opinion is the best espionage story ever told.

Silk is probably a clone of Pas. The clues are: a) he looked like Pas b) the old Calde obtained a frozen embryo c) we saw some smashed embryos when Silk was in the tunnels.

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Interesting interpretation. I definitely thought the ending meant that once you took Choo-Z you would never exit Eldritch's sim world.