Hi Zak! I'm just reaching out to see if you'd be interested in a future collaboration. If so, my email is on my home page and I can give you the deets. If not, keep up the good vids!
@zakskiver2 күн бұрын
Definitely! I’ll email you!
@DAGDRUM532 күн бұрын
Agree 100%. One trope I can get behind is when a character has been dead the whole story, and it is not the narrator. I have one title in mind but already ruined the ending.
@zakskiver2 күн бұрын
Yeah, it’s a bad trope. I never been a fan of a trope bringing back a character. It’s lazy writing, I feel.
@DAGDRUM532 күн бұрын
@@zakskiver Resurrection is as lazy as 'it was all a dream' in fiction. What I was talking about is characters who've been dead throughout the story but the reader has been successfully misdirected that they were alive. They stay dead. (BOOK TITLE SPOILER WHERE THAT'S DONE VERY WELL: Thomas Tryon's The Other <book & movie>)
@zakskiver2 күн бұрын
@@DAGDRUM53 oh yes! That too! Sometimes that trope is fun, but most of the time it’s not executed well.
@DAGDRUM532 күн бұрын
@@zakskiver Agree, but I admire clever writers who can pull it off, they are scarce. Before Mickey Spillane sent Vengeance Is Mine to his publisher he bet the guy a grand he could write an entire novel, leave out the last word and the whole story would be without context. The publisher accepted. Spillane said his phone rang at three in the morning with his publisher hollering "What's that last word?" and Mickey said, "Where's my thousand bucks?" (He told Johnny Carson that; it may be Spillane was sailing under the Mark Twain adage 'never let the truth get in the way of a good story.')
@MadailinBurnhope4 күн бұрын
do protagonists usually die in third person?
@zakskiver4 күн бұрын
Yes, but in first person usually not.
@DAGDRUM538 күн бұрын
I agree with every word, Zak, about thrillers, sci-fi, and Brandon Sanderson's goody-goody characters. The book Dune had me rooting for the bad guys; there's a sequence where the good guys plot for a chapter and the bad guys scheme for one, repeat two or three times. I'm putting together a small dissertation on what I've termed Unfinished Epic Syndrome, my own personal schadenfreude. The symptoms are straightforward, anger then denial culminating in delusion. There are actually youtubers who believe George RR Martin has finished Winds of Winter and is 'within days of being done with' Dream of Spring so he can release them simultaneously (something publishing companies and movie studios NEVER do). How they can ignore the fact he's got at least a hundred million reasons to never type another word socked away in the Caymans and Switzerland? If he's got in crypto however he may be banging the keys again soon.
@zakskiver8 күн бұрын
Yeah, I just annoyed with some of Sanderson’s books and I just don’t have much interest in it. Yeah, I don’t think George finished any of his works at all. I have no faith.
@Elricsedric9 күн бұрын
I'm the same, when something gets crazy popular. I don't really get into it, I still have not watched squid game.
@zakskiver8 күн бұрын
I’ve always been like that because I’ve been burned so many times before. I’m really tired of booktube blowing up books and the hype isn’t even worth it.
@raynahailey9 күн бұрын
I definitely think there’s a lot of movies/shows that are better than the book!! like lowkey Harry Potter lol I love those movies or twilight purely because they are so entertaining. Bridgerton is another good example
@zakskiver8 күн бұрын
I agree, it’s been a thing for a while and I don’t see a problem with people enjoying the movies over the books. Sometimes that’s just how it works. Lol.
@leopercara34779 күн бұрын
Maybe you could check out R.R. Virdi, since everybody is saying he's plagiarizing Rothfuss. And his second book is called The Doors of Midnight, and I don't know if that's a diss at Rothfuss' fans. I hope it is.
@zakskiver9 күн бұрын
I heard about that and I have no interest in reading it lol
@leopercara34779 күн бұрын
@@zakskiver It's understandable. (Single tear).
@Aaron.Seabolt9 күн бұрын
First boi! Also let’s be honest, if it wasn’t for LOTR doing well as a movie trilogy a lot of people wouldn’t know about the books or The Hobbit.
@leopercara34779 күн бұрын
Dude, it sold 100 million copies before the movies.
@nyxian_grid10 күн бұрын
I just finished reading this one. Kind of same opinion as you - I don't like most of these books. But I guess like a friend told me, I am THE sunk cost fallacy.
@zakskiver10 күн бұрын
I just struggle with this series a lot. It feels like a rinse and repeat of the characters all acting the same. It’s rough.
@nyxian_grid10 күн бұрын
@@zakskiver yeah, same. I don't see what the fuss is about (though I guess I'm still trying to find out)! I am also listening to these on audio since it goes by a little faster, but the narrators don't really make them sound distinct either 😅😅
@zakskiver9 күн бұрын
@@nyxian_grid funny you say that because I'm also listening to them on audio too! I feel the same, after a while I just zone out and I have no idea what chapter I'm on. it's so much to understand and I'm on the last book now and I really just don't see the hype behind these books. I also share that same opinion about the starlight series too. lol
@christianbenitez494913 күн бұрын
LOL. This book is one of my favorites so far 😅. As far as pacing is concerned, this one stands above the rest(so far).
@zakskiver13 күн бұрын
After finishing the other ones, yeah. I can agree with you on that.🤣😅
@raynahailey16 күн бұрын
I don't necessarily have any favorite or least favorite tropes, as long as it's entertaining and well written idc
@zakskiver16 күн бұрын
I feel that, but I also am a sucker for certain tropes too.
@PulpMortem16 күн бұрын
I agree with the Chosen One trope IF they have agency. Chosen One's usually have some sort of prophecy or fate or something propping them up which can remove all stakes for the CO. When I love the CO trope is when whatever propping them up proves unreliable (false prophecy, protagonist ISN'T the CO, ect)
@zakskiver16 күн бұрын
I completely agree with you. I am so 50/50 with the chosen one trope, but it’s usually done so well that I enjoy it towards the end of the book or series.
@Nadia-sh8tp17 күн бұрын
"The Land of Blood and Nightmares" bro tf 😭
@DAGDRUM5318 күн бұрын
Yourself being a booktube professional have doubtless heard or read the word romantasy before, Zak. I only became cognizant of it recently. After my initial derisive bark of laughter, I thought it was clever. I guess that's what 50 Shades of Grey is. About 2012 every woman I worked with was reading it, that means I was forced to read it. Twilight was on a vague periphery I'd never cross into but 50SOG sold in the same amounts as Wheel of Time & ASOIAF and read a lot faster than Outlander. No comment on content but numbers like that get everybody's attention; without them I'd have never read DaVinci Code or Harry Potter.
@zakskiver18 күн бұрын
Oh yeah, I have heard of romantasy and I read fourth wing earlier this year and it wasn’t that good.😅 So, most of these books will probably come off the list once I read more romance novels and learn more of what I actually like. I think horror has become more of my favorite genres to read and I’m slowly getting a fantasy burn out, sadly.
@DAGDRUM5318 күн бұрын
Know what you mean.👍
@zakskiver18 күн бұрын
Yeah, just reading WoT and Stormlight this year has really drained me and I won’t be doing anything like this again lol.
@raynahailey19 күн бұрын
I love the new set up and ur camera looks very clear
@zakskiver19 күн бұрын
Thanks, I took a long time to really think about how to approach this bad boy. I’m happy with it, how do you like sleeping beauty playing in the background?🤣
@Aaron.Seabolt19 күн бұрын
This set up looks great!
@zakskiver19 күн бұрын
Thanks, I prefer this look more than any of the ones before.
@Aaron.Seabolt19 күн бұрын
@@zakskiver I think it’s very nice and even professional looking. Only thing you need is a fancy brown chair that rich guys use and you need a tobacco pipe. Don’t ask me why, it’s just needed.
@zakskiver19 күн бұрын
@@Aaron.Seabolt that would be dope! Maybe when I get a new place I can just do that.🤣
@General_reader20 күн бұрын
I’ve sold a dozen of these sets! Easy money!
@zakskiver20 күн бұрын
I can honestly see why. It’s a great book and I’d like to read the rest of them
@jayhamilton186621 күн бұрын
The kingdom of fire and ice
@raynahailey21 күн бұрын
wow ur little sister has some great recommendations!!! great taste!
@zakskiver21 күн бұрын
Oh yeah, she sure does🤣
@Aaron.Seabolt23 күн бұрын
First! For the homies!
@zakskiver23 күн бұрын
FOR THE TEAM!
@raynahailey26 күн бұрын
so productive
@zakskiver26 күн бұрын
I try to be😎
@raynahailey26 күн бұрын
too long of a book never gonna read never never
@zakskiver26 күн бұрын
Probably wouldn’t like it🤣
@DAGDRUM5326 күн бұрын
Sanderson had fun in Jordan's sandbox. Jordan's procrastinating, infuriating cast swam eternally like ducks in a circle until Sanderson furnished them with rudders. With Brando Sando at the helm characters like Nynaeve started acting like they were 30 instead of 14. The only ones who acted realistically from book one to eleven are few and far between: Thom, Lan, Loial and Mat, but Mat only after that chokepoint in Tel'aran-rhiod got his mind right. The Aes Sedai felt their power threatened when the Ashaman (i.e. a shaman) were able to channel again. No matter what the circumstances those with power are reluctant to share it or surrender it. There may be real life parallels in that maybe.
@zakskiver26 күн бұрын
I thought knife of dreams was where Jordan was actually writing alot of these characters like adults and it was enjoyable. I think Sanderson really added more with the characters, but I’m just so ready to conclude this series🤣😅
@DAGDRUM5326 күн бұрын
@@zakskiver Jordan should've allowed his cast to act logically long before Knife of Dreams (what does that even mean?) You toughed out the poorly-titled Crown of Swords, Path of Daggers, Winter's Heart and Crossroads of Twilight. I bailed after Path, I commend your hanging till the bitter end. I thought Sando would be like candy compared to Jordan's 'it's time to take your medicine.' After both Sando and Harriet signed my paperback copy of Gathering Storm I felt obliged to read at least a few pages of it, fewer than originally envisioned though. (This was in a book signing line, I didn't corner them like a Trekkie or, in their case, a Wheelie getting out a cab and demand samples of their handwriting.) Joking aside, I love the WOT plot/world/heroes/villains and just wish the author followed his original plan, a trilogy that would've made the Lews Therin prologue in TEOTW as poignant as it was intended.
@zakskiver26 күн бұрын
Yeah, that rough was rough, but now I’m in the end game. I think what Brandon has done to finish it out was great and is respectful. It doesn’t feel like he wrote it and more just put the endless amounts of notes Jordan had already wrote out. I will say, this should’ve been a much shorter series. I think 5-6 books this series would’ve been flawless.
@DAGDRUM5326 күн бұрын
@@zakskiver I've mentioned before the less-than-philanthropic publisher's first question to Sanderson upon him saying he could wrap up the series in two books, though the second one would be longer. "Could it be made into three books?" We all know the answer to that question. Surprising that last title wasn't The Memory of Cha-Ching!
@zakskiver26 күн бұрын
That’s very true and it’s funny now that publishers don’t want fantasy books longer that a trilogy nowadays 🤣
@Aaron.Seabolt28 күн бұрын
This is for my homie and for first!
@zakskiver28 күн бұрын
This is for the homies *pours water on the ground*
@DAGDRUM5329 күн бұрын
I was concerned you intended to quit broadcasting altogether and relieved you're not. Writers writing is noble, natural, in tune with the universe; I need to be banging keys myself. ☮
@zakskiver29 күн бұрын
Oh no, I don’t want to quit at all. Lol. I enjoy doing this and I just need to do a change up on my channel is all.
@Aaron.SeaboltАй бұрын
That RGB mic is pretty neat. Rosè Goku be slouching.
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Yeah, his stand broke, sadly
@raynahaileyАй бұрын
I liked that authors book Final Girl Support Group a little more
@zakskiverАй бұрын
I usually give the author three tries before I don’t read anymore of their stuff. So, maybe I’ll try that one next.
@raynahaileyАй бұрын
yeah it had some interesting parts but overall I didn’t really care about it
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Yeah, it wasn’t for me dog.
@raynahaileyАй бұрын
IM FAMOUS!
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Yes, indeed you are lol.
@annna9457Ай бұрын
The house of nightmares and bones 😮❤
@stephenbrown668Ай бұрын
Have it on my tbr, so we'll see how it goes for me. The title makes me think it'd be like a cross of Desperate Housewives and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
@zakskiverАй бұрын
That’s honestly such a great description for the book. It fits it very well, but sadly it just wasn’t for me.
@anelija3172Ай бұрын
Great video! I love that cat🤣😍 This is such a good idea I will definitely have to try it. Thank you so much 😊 🎉
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Hey, no problem! Yeah, Artemis likes to be in the video as much as possible.🤣. The video was a load of fun to make, plan on doing more in the future!
@anelija3172Ай бұрын
@@zakskiver Glad to hear that. Just do what makes you happy! Take care and say hi to Artemis (btw great name. It’s so cute) 🤣😆😊
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Yeah, I was in a Greek god phase when I saw her and that’s just how it happened. Lol. She’s interesting
@anelija3172Ай бұрын
@@zakskiver Hahahahahahahahahaha. Love that. Made me laugh 😂
@zakskiverАй бұрын
I should just make a video of just her🤣
@Aaron.SeaboltАй бұрын
Artemis chilling.
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Always just chilling
@raynahaileyАй бұрын
love it
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Thanks, I’m glad. Did it just for you lol
@LibrariesandLattesАй бұрын
I loved this book too! It got me back into reading several years ago, I couldn’t put it down either. That ending 😳👏 Glad you had a great time with this one!!
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Yeah, the ending blew my mind. I didn’t expect that to happen at all, but it was such a fun read and very much enjoyed it. I’ve been reading so many books out of my comfort zone and it’s been enjoyable.
@raynahaileyАй бұрын
now u gotta watch the movie
@zakskiverАй бұрын
lol, I will be adding it to my list.
@raynahaileyАй бұрын
morgan almost got ate by that ostrich
@zakskiverАй бұрын
Yes she did.🤣 it was so funny
@RUSSIANPEPPER12Ай бұрын
“The Land Of Bones and Nightmares.” I’m writing this.
@RUSSIANPEPPER12Ай бұрын
“The Land Of Bones And Nightmares.”
@DAGDRUM53Ай бұрын
Started reading Stephen King's Fairy Tale the day it came out (God bless my library) and laid waste to its 600+ pages in three days. The storyline occurs pre-DT so the author's prose couldn't logically develop delirium tremens, and the tale rock and rolls. Those evil librarians also called to let me know The Institute, by Mr King as well, was available. There's one hail to the Chief early on (but it wasn't like I'd spent any of my own money) but, have mercy, King delivered. I read all 576 pages in 72 hours! Even though I'm no King fan, I'll be honest, I don't see any writers who've been around since the 70s still making me turn pages that fast. Unwilling to wait for next day air I drove over a hundred miles to buy Robert Galbraith's latest 1000 pager The Running Grave, and didn't rue the $30. Granted, Running Grave took longer to read but I couldn't believe the level of suspense Joanne maintained for hundreds of consecutive pages once a lady PI shaves her head and goes undercover in a murderous religious cult. I marvel at the solidly strong storytelling ability King/Rowling have at the rate he and she grind 'em out. Both of them have more money than George R.R. Martin but that just may be his problem. No Country For Old Men, good movie, better book although I can't fathom how an author so punctuation-challenged won a Pulitzer.
@zakskiverАй бұрын
lol, wow! I honestly loved reading this and I agree with your point with king that he has still been releasing books with such a high tier level it’s impressive! I have read Robert Galbraith, but I will have to check out his work in the future!
@DAGDRUM53Ай бұрын
@@zakskiver When you opened your first Galbraith book were you surprised to see JK Rowling's picture, or did you already know she is Galbraith too? Joanne's mysteries are a 180 degree change of voice. The Running Grave is 7th in a series; library had the first six but I still bought and read it first.
@zakskiverАй бұрын
So, I found out a few years ago that she wrote under a pen name, but didn’t know what the name was until today lol
@user-kk5jt2po5oАй бұрын
The Road by Cormac McCarthy(?) is excellent!!
@zakskiverАй бұрын
I think I’m going to try and read that book later this year.
@PulpMortemАй бұрын
@@zakskiver It's a depressing read, but a good one - worth it for Mcarthy's prose alone.
@zakskiverАй бұрын
I’d love to read it this year and I’m hoping I can get to that.
@AmyJackson-_-85Ай бұрын
I’ve actually read two different series with a circus. They both were good.
@zakskiverАй бұрын
What were the two books?
@onceuponabookishstephАй бұрын
Always an amazing haul when there is Stephen king!
@zakskiverАй бұрын
That’s a fact lol. Still need his newest book.
@AmyJackson-_-85Ай бұрын
I read Steven king’s portal fantasy book called Fairy Tale. Not bad…. The old man I kept imagining Clint Eastwood. 😂
@zakskiverАй бұрын
That’s funny, I did too!🤣 I liked the first half of that book tbh.