There's always another mountain

I'm always behind on you guys lol. I think i agree with Richard a lot and some with Austin. I rated the book 7.46. The line that hooked me because of the crazy visual context is about his father being hanged. Darrow says " I just watched and thought it a shame that he died dancing but without his dancing shoe" I agree with Richard on Darrows rage needed a drawback. Darrow is constantly reward for his rage taking over. The siege on olympus is the prime example of this. He takes down all the proctors with less equipment and walks away with a few cuts.... Seems too easy to me... I think he should have suffered some small loss or defeat here but it was a straight up win with no concessions. Pacing was too fast. I agree with austin that this a good example of a well paced fast paced book, however, some of my other problems with the book would have been solved if it was slowed down. For instance i agree with Richard that most of the side characters are forgettable/not that great. This i believe would have been fixed with a slightly slower pace and exploring these characters more. Another 100 pages of character development would have been nice. There was another example where he time skips in the book by like a month then in that same time skip chapter says "oh yeah, earlier we did this thing that was important.." (I'm obviously paraphasing) i just didnt like that. If it was that noteworthy let me read it. I agree with both Austin that sanderson and brown are similar in terms mid-caliber of prose but i agree with Richard that it can be improved upon. Austin, i believe John Gwyene is way better with efficiency of words; there is absolutely no fat to his books and the prose and dialogue is way better in my opinion. I'm interested in your review of faithful and the fallen series. Either way great review still love y'all reviews

Smh if you don't like it read the damn book. Jeez I didn't see people review bomb Harry Potter and all the movies were nothing like the book. So many holes in it but they still made eight of those horrible movies

Richard has come so far

Red rising is an ode to sci fi and fantasy pop culture. Everything about it is a famous trope, some even combined. Peirce just writes so well, it stands alone.

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I think i prefer episodic book series were every book has a conclusion. An example of this is the false prince series by Jennifer A. Nelson it is one of my all time favorites.

How about animation?

I've heard many people not particularly love the first Malazan book so I'm not surprised your guys didn't either, but in all honesty after having read it early in the year I legitimately don't understand why people don't like it and always say you just have to push through to the 3rd book for it to get good I absolutely loved it from the jump, just for starters Malazan might be the most epic in scope fantasy ever written.

I'm goin to delete you tube

Comics & Animanga shoulda been included among the mediums imo🙏

I loved this book. That sucks yall didn’t but taste is subjective. I’ll have to continue my hunt to find booktubers with similar likes so their recommendations ring true for me.

5 min only tell how much you hate the book im out...

"Avatar is just a kids show!" Zhao, Yue, earth queen: Hold my bear...

Rock's stew

I feel like most people who dislike the Lord of the Rings novels had a misplaced expectation of a typical modern storytelling experience, which is very linear, and all tangents need to tie in to the main story. That wasn't what Tolkien was going for in Lord of the Rings. He was trying to create a uniquely English mythology. Think of epic stories like Beowulf, King Arthur, The Odyssey, The Iliad. Those were also full of songs and long journeys, not all of which were directly related to the main story. Tolkien very heavily emulates these styles in his own way. Modern novels have a setting that serves the needs of the story. Tolkien created a mythological world and the story of Lord of the Rings just happens to take place in it.

41:00 i forget where i read it but Odium's (Rayse) ultimate goal was to become the singular god of cosmere by destroying but not absorbing other shards since the latter will mess with his original intent. He is god's divine hatred and doesn't want to change and why he's got a track record of killing shards like ambition, devotion & dominion.

I think an important part that needs to be remembered of thing feeling like they were made better "back in the day" is survivorship bias which we are all guilty of, it's human nature to look at something that's survived a long time and say "well things must have just been made better then" forgetting the potentially millions of other ones that didn't survive, like the amount of authors that were probably considered great authors in their day that have been completely lost to time would be staggering let alone the ones that weren't every good authors.

I am proud to be in that 13%.

The Barbie movie isn’t anti men- it’s anti patriarchy

Just finished Era 1, amazing read that I wasn't really ready to end. Just started reading again and this really got that going. Going to continue with Sanderson for now and move onto either Era 2 or Way of Kings!

Yes!!! So excited you guys got to this one. Suneater is incredible. The next one is awesome also.

"No it's a 14 book slog" from Austin was DEVIOUS hahahahahah

Darrow learned that people are just products of their environment..thats where the empathy comes from. Tactis was raised in an environment where rape an betrayal were normal...darrow was teaching him to be better

Loved this video! I just discovered the sisters and then you do a video with them. Awesome energy 😊

So I need help i just finished Dune Messiah and want another series that follows a complex, intelligent leader. Any help?

really enjoyed this episode! glad you got them on the pod!

I’m pretty sure I’ll never read Fourth Wing but I enjoyed this nonetheless

Only 13K views...that's criminal

Sound of music is a weird one, because a lot of that is diagetic, is actually happening.

thank you for calling out Audible.

28:27 I think this question was asked to Sanderson in a stream (I mean they asked him what character in the Cosmere but you understand) and if I remember correctly he says that Jack Black could do a great Breeze.

I'd love it if you could do a video recommending philosophy books.

That was a fantastic ad 😂I’ve never wanted to skip an ad less

This is the second video I’ve seen and I knew Wheel of Time was the other book 33:40

I was waiting to finish this the two hour review got this to the top of my tbr over Wind and Truth I’m only like a quarter into, I had to finish this first and I wasn’t disappointed

This was a lot of fun. Great guests!

Crossover I didn’t know I wanted or needed and I couldn’t be happier.

I feel like this is an entirely politically motivated list that ignores the actual most annoying hits, except for the brief Benson mention

I think a much better example of constraints in a movie working for the movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They couldn't afford horses and used the coconuts and it is now an iconic joke

Okay, I watched and enjoyed the video with my wife. I'll leave you a couple of suggestions for the next books: 1-- When you read book 4, just take into account that books 4 and 5 were meant to be one book, but because of the paper shortage that came from the pandemic, Ruocchio was forced to split the books in two. While both books are excellent, in my opinion, book 4 hits differently knowing that. 2-- Of the novelas, none are a must-read. But I would highly suggest reading the excellent The Dregs of Empire: A Tale of the Sun Eater in between books 5 and 6. The Lesser Devil is ok, and Queen Amid Ashes is quite good, but both can be read after you are out of books to read. Thanks so much for the amazing content!!!

Been waiting for this collab

For me, i personally saw in Barbie that the theme was that if its only women or only men in charge, thats a bad thing. That you need to have space for both to have a good society.

1:49:00 the only book that I’ve ever read that gets lumped in with this sort of “trauma porn” type of book that I will praise is A Little Life. The prose of that book is absolutely beautiful, but it also shows the story of someone who hasn’t been able to get over their trauma after years of trying, which I think is a pretty realistic story to convey. I don’t think that book is unrealistic in the amount of trauma that a character has had. Sometimes one form of trauma can lead to other forms of trauma.

In terms of musicals, coming from someone who's obsessed with musicals, Lin-Manuel Miranda's storytelling through his musicals are immaculate! In The Heights is one of my favourites!

Not one mention of the loyalty of sevro I’m appalled

If you’re attempting to be as objective as possible, rating Howling Dark as a 4 is unrealistically low.

32:10 this is how traumatized Rich is by Name of the Wind. Name dropping the Chandrian is a sigma move!!

Do we really need to find a message or answers to our problems in every piece of media we consume? We analyze the shit out of everything. Don't get me wrong, I do think that some creators are pushing an agenda, but if we are looking for answers to world problems by watching Barbie, then we are in deep trouble? Be well, stay safe.

Thank you for another wonderful episode and too keep introducing us to so many new BookTubers <3