Lmfao Twilight strikes again 😂

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!

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.

do protagonists usually die in third person?

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.

I'm the same, when something gets crazy popular. I don't really get into it, I still have not watched squid game.

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

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.

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.

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.

LOL. This book is one of my favorites so far 😅. As far as pacing is concerned, this one stands above the rest(so far).

I don't necessarily have any favorite or least favorite tropes, as long as it's entertaining and well written idc

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)

"The Land of Blood and Nightmares" bro tf 😭

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.

I love the new set up and ur camera looks very clear

This set up looks great!

I’ve sold a dozen of these sets! Easy money!

The kingdom of fire and ice

wow ur little sister has some great recommendations!!! great taste!

First! For the homies!

so productive

too long of a book never gonna read never never

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.

This is for my homie and for first!

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. ☮

That RGB mic is pretty neat. Rosè Goku be slouching.

I liked that authors book Final Girl Support Group a little more

yeah it had some interesting parts but overall I didn’t really care about it

IM FAMOUS!

The house of nightmares and bones 😮❤

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.

Great video! I love that cat🤣😍 This is such a good idea I will definitely have to try it. Thank you so much 😊 🎉

Artemis chilling.

love it

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!!

now u gotta watch the movie

morgan almost got ate by that ostrich

“The Land Of Bones and Nightmares.” I’m writing this.

“The Land Of Bones And Nightmares.”

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.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy(?) is excellent!!

I’ve actually read two different series with a circus. They both were good.

Always an amazing haul when there is Stephen king!

I read Steven king’s portal fantasy book called Fairy Tale. Not bad…. The old man I kept imagining Clint Eastwood. 😂

and I haven’t read this…

very productive