5th Wave bad

[@fineapple3435]

If the 5th wave is so good, why isn’t there a 6th wave .

[@betheone4837]

Because Alien ship went Boom Boom.

[@mohammadshabih5293]

5th wave bad, 6th wave good

[@rebelinfarnape4030]

Checkmate libtards

[@ShibuNub3305]

*5th wave 2

[@dyefield2712]

5th wave 2: Alien Boogaloo

[@katie750]

Am i gonna watch a 1h 40 min video about a book series I've never read? Yup. Ly

[@christiangay793]

Well, better than seeing a crappy movie based on it that's probably equally long.

[@Gingeinator]

Isn't that what everyone is here for?

[@Rivenlore99]

Haha me too. I’m definitely gonna watch the whole thing

[@MorroTheGhostNinja]

I bought the first book because it looked interesting and never read it

[@ashleighcalvert8937]

Ah yes I love fixating on how perfect a woman’s body is and “hating” her for it...........you can’t catch me gay thoughts

[@noahhamilton9004]

Oh yes we can!

[@dusksnothere2690]

Yes we can

[@ridhosamudro2199]

We can

[@kayhaych05]

Yes we can!

[@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214]

We have!

[@ippo4502]

>Sex scene >Character remembers her dad holding her Oh...oh man. Somehow this just doesn't feel right. Also from now on, every romance written in first person will be referred by me as thirst-person view.

[@heroofthewinds7765]

That is the best pun I've ever heard

[@bettyunicorn6132]

So fucking wrong. Feel like

[@pretendtheresaname9213]

I'm glad I found this comment, that made me wanna die

[@cataclysmicmystics]

Freud? Freud.

[@ippo4502]

@@heroofthewinds7765 I came back to this video because of a friend and I didn't even know my comment got THIS much attention lmao. Made my day!

[@silvercyclops8255]

When the book first switched to Ben’s POV I didn’t even realize it was supposed to be a different character, I was sitting there like 👁👄👁 “wow Cassie’s going through it”

[@isaacwhy1178]

yes, i was so confused when the POV changes started happening. i was so lost and then i realized the POVs were switching like 3/4 of the way through

[@theflickchick9850]

The constant POV changes were what turned me off of the Heroes Of Olympus series. At least, Rick Riordan had the decency to tell us the changes were coming.

[@smokeandmirrors2356]

@@theflickchick9850 I agree, it was just too much. Like seven characters all having their own povs in the series plus Reyna and Nico who were shoehorned into the final book? That was way too much. (Don't get me wrong I love Reyna and Nico's but awful decision to suddenly shove them in)

[@alexlasers1358]

Flame is my name I stopped reading around the “house of hades” or was the mark of Athena the last book I read hmmm. Well was the end of the series any good or is Riordan still writing more Percy Jackson book? I mainly stopped reading though because I was tired of waiting for every new book to come out, don’t get me wrong the POV changes did get annoying but not the main reason I stopped reading

[@minaDesuDesu]

@cheese and crackers I'm out of the loop with recent books, as I much rather prefer to watch reviews of books rather than actually reading them. Since my tbr list is long enough as it is. Anyways, then how is the POV executed in the more contemporary books? Cause as far as I know switching POV hasn't been a problem to me. But I take that they are written in 3rd person limited... or in the first person? and I learned a new word today "vehemently"

[@MrSilvUr]

There's a lot happening on this channel. James is a man of many hats.

[@matcauthon9669]

He may rival Ian McCallum of Forgotten Weapons

[@duncanm4061]

Don’t you mean HAT-pening?

[@drdabsmore945]

@Mat Cauthon Ian does have a mighty fine hat collection......

[@Alresu]

He takes a real hats on approach to this video.

[@Debicus]

Bad YA novels? On my bookshelf? It's more likely than you think!

[@notribadsvault]

Bad YA novels? On this website? On this channel? Localized entirely within this video?!

[@themagicmrjon3107]

Uhhhh yup

[@notribadsvault]

TheMagicMrJon Should I read it?

[@maxthepaladin2147]

@@notribadsvault No

[@ziril3972]

It has words and that's good enough for me!

[@dragonetafireball]

Nothing is more romantic than thinking about dead family and “daddy lifting you” during “passionate hugging”

[@cthulhutheendless1587]

Honestly this feels WAY too similar to a Hunger Games fanfiction I wrote when I was 11 about me and my neighbors killing each other. Lots of cheesy, flowery prose. Lots of inconsistent characters and shoddy facts. And this pervading sense that the writer thinks he’s much, MUCH smarter than he is.

[@Rivenlore99]

Jack Timothy Haha, has your writing improved? Also is it nice your eleven year old writing feels like this cause then you could’ve improved from that?

[@cthulhutheendless1587]

Riven Lore -Yeah, it’s improved a lot! I actually just finished a writing session. I think it’s pretty encouraging to read (or hear about, as in this case) a lot of less than stellar books so you can learn from their mistakes but also think “if they can do it, and actually get paid for this, I can too.”

[@coldstuff9784]

gotta love the self-burn there xD

[@ryantobefunny9587]

Nice hats. This book caused my friend group to fall apart. We had fictional character day during a school spirit week, my friends choose to all be 5th wave characters for some reason. There weren’t enough major characters for all of us, so it was like a whole thing of “whose the most important in the friend group”. We never recovered. Really dumb, but this book always holds a place in my memory because of that experience.

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

It sounds like you were on the verge of fracturing already. I hope you have better friends now.

[@ryantobefunny9587]

Follow up, this was years ago. I’m all good now :)

[@pretendtheresaname9213]

I hope you were all, like, 9

[@damgonzalez0]

I relate so much, I had such a shitty group, stupid things like that ended up showing you who everyone was *actually* friends with, and who they didn't really care as much We stayed together most of high school, in a permanent state of civil war and resentment deep down between each other. Dunno why we didn't just make other friends

[@edwardnotthevampire]

Bruh

[@amandad6604]

i think les miserables took less time to get to the point than this series

[@noodlepoodle3582]

That’s because it had a point

[@sofianavarro8064]

@Raymond Tremblay I read the second book in one day and my brain could not process all the confusing shit that went down. Mind you, I had done this with many other books before and never had a problem, but with that one my brain literally went, "wtf was that?! Like...what? Bitch I'm shutting down, this is too much!" That's how bad the book was, it overwhelmed me to the extent of turning me into a couch potato for half an hour.

[@Katyayay]

Video title: reviewing The 5th Wave Actual video: James showing off his sick hat collection

[@FirstnameLastname-wx9oo]

I dont even read that many books anymore but I love hearing this kid just eviscerate shitty books for some reason. Please keep the videos an hour or more bc i listen to these while im at work and it cracks me up

[@Rivenlore99]

Firstname Lastname Love your comment :)

[@willr563]

At first I thought James made this video just to flex all of his hats on us, but then he changed to the invisible hat and I became convinced.

[@freshpasta9463]

Haven't watched the video yet, but since I'm German here's the obligatory It's *schlecht* not schlect

[@Vienna3080]

German Grammar Nazis are great because adding Nazi makes it funnier

[@hyrri5495]

At this point the bad German is part of the brand

[@wilhelminawyatt2634]

thank you. i immediately felt triggered by bad orthography

[@quinncurcio4977]

I’m not even German, I barley speak German at all and I even knew that :)

[@Necr0Phi1]

was also my first thought xD

[@ashanni4931]

Noooooo In the rooom where his family died?! lmao im screaming

[@Megafreakx3]

reminds me of a bad Smut fanfiction I once read...I quit reading it after that happen

[@ashanni4931]

It reminds me of the court of thorns and roses where the mc gives her guy a blowie on the battlefield lol

[@kierasherrod329]

i laughed the entire way through😭😭😭 i cant get past the tears in his mouth part like what???😭

[@Juli6SS]

I tried to read this book years ago. I really enjoyed first 30+ pages, when all previous waves were described. But then when the actual story started, the main character annoyed me to death and the beginning of her cheesy love story made me want to kill someone. So I DNFed it. No regrets.

[@JackedThor-so]

That was me with the Maze Runner. Half of the first chapter and I yeeted that thing back to the school library. It was soooooo bad and boring and poorly done and I hated it.

[@curryfishheadenjoyer]

Noah Ariss same I read the maze runner when I was like 12 and I gave up within the first chapter

[@artemisedison328]

@@curryfishheadenjoyer it's nice to see other people had the same response to maze runner, I always found it odd how everyone else my age loved the story

[@akashitapalaniswami5798]

THat was me!!! I hated the love story and i just left it. Later, i continued cuz i didnt have anything else to read during my bus ride..... the second and third werent that bad, but it wasn't that engaging either.

[@Mayte-AC]

@Noah Ariss I really liked the first book but the second and the third were so bad. I can’t remember anything that happened.

[@dashofsparkle7627]

Aliens: We want to protect the environment against evil humans by destroying them! Also Aliens: Causes tsunamis on all the coastlines by striking submerged faultlines, destroying animal habitats and washing unfathomable amounts of chemicals and debris into the oceans.

[@user-yg6ki7ou2y]

Also, how the fuck did the aliens got all that crazy technology without destroying their own environment ? You don't create tsunami-inducing technology by living in peace with nature

[@firstnamelastname7244]

average voluntary human extinction advocate

[@rc1982]

POLITICIANS/CELEBRITIES: We want to protect the environment against evil humans by destroying them! ALSO POLITICIANS/CELEBRITIES: You should pay more taxes in order to pay for my private jets.

[@voctur]

The 3rd wave was enough to get the job done. These aliens like to overcomplicate things

[@ryn7377]

cassies supposed to be the main character and i forgot she existed halfway through the video 😭

[@krisdoesart9643]

I read the first book when I was 10 or 11 and even as a stupid kid who liked pretty much everything I read, I still had a problem with how long they spent on Ben in the first book. It hyped up Cassie's story to this big dramatic scene where her dad's getting shot and her little brother's in the control of the aliens… and then it spends literally over 20% of the book talking about this random guy who I don't even care about or know. By the time it finally cuts back to Cassie again, we already know that Sammy's (somewhat) okay and that everybody's an alien, so her POV isn't even that interesting or suspenseful anymore.

[@Cityweaver]

Understanding suspense at 10 when some adults don't get it in their 30s... Man, the number of series I've watched this guy review where he starts it by saying the prologue or beginning undercut the only tension in the story...

[@krisdoesart9643]

Oh, there is one really cringy sex scene though… *let's read it.*

[@Plasticplas1]

I legit didn't know they had sex when I read it. I read it like 3 times and never caught on.

[@feeeshmeister4311]

Sema Me neither. The things that go over your head in 6th grade.

[@nunyabusiness776]

we should realy have readwithcindy read that sex scene. like somehow she will make it dirty asf

[@Rivenlore99]

nunya business Haha very true

[@lunab541]

They manage turn a relationship between two people of similar age into something inappropriate. 10/10

[@BoisegangGaming]

Gotta love hollywood atheism. "Something bad happened and the world sucks and that's why I hate god!" Did it ever occur to these writers that across all of human history there have been worse things and worse times and faith was still a thing? Or that there have been "better" times and that nonbelief was still a thing?

[@felipevasconcelos6736]

Also, the opposite would still be a gross generalization, but at least it would be kind of true. People turn to religion in the face of adversity, not away from it.

[@9forMortalMen]

Some people turn away, some don’t. But the idea that bad events kill God is ludicrous, as people were MORE faithful in the past when things were harder and life more uncertain.

[@PipeGuy64Bit]

Also you can't be an atheist if you "hate" god. Atheists don't believe god exists. I wish there was an actual atheist director in Hollywood but seemingly everyone believes in god in the entertainment industry.

[@sciencefantastic]

Yeah apparently some don’t know that faith and hope tend to be intertwined.

[@kertchu]

Apparently “Hollywood atheism” is the straw man professor from gods not dead

[@aidanostering9919]

there are so many peices of media that do the plot points in this book better. Child Soldiers? Ender's Game. An alien invasion that never happened? Neir: Automata. I could go on and on about it

[@ionga]

Please do not remind me of Nier: Automata, I've just barely managed to recover from the existential dread that thing caused me, don't make me go back into the abyss. . . . . . . Nope, too late, now I'm depressed.

[@PowerSkiff12]

What do you mean it didn’t happen they’re we’re corpses in that ship.

[@thecosmic8248]

@@PowerSkiff12 Humans were dead WAAAAAAAAAAY before the aliens came by.

[@feliciaf8]

*nier

[@Volthoom]

@@thecosmic8248 Still, if i recall correctly, aliens were pretty real. They just also died long before the game started. Then again i might just be remembering things wrong, been a minute since i've played it.

[@finlockhart4572]

Your book reviews have been getting consistently better, structurally and script-wise and editing-wise. Your early ones are really good as well but it's really nice to see how far you've come.

[@phoebecarey7414]

the fedora really threw me

[@nataliereads.mp4]

"thats just men writing women i guess" say that king!! girls hating girls for no reason is stupid and overdone. get a new conflict.

[@Rivenlore99]

natalie . exe Exactly. I hate when all the girls hate each other for now reason

[@Gabrong]

@@Rivenlore99 i am a man, but from what i've learned from all of my previous relationships and from my wife, you are right. girls always have reasons to hate each others.

[@alexlasers1358]

Gábor Orosz the reasons just sometimes seem dumb to us menfolk, jk but to be honest I’ve seen women like argue over stuff I’d consider trivial before. I mean men sometimes do too but I see it more often with women

[@georgiawriting7864]

Gábor Orosz internal misogyny. result of the patriarchy turning women against each other because we are convinced from birth that two women cannot happily coexist.

[@garlonschuman1014]

Georgia writing omg, you actually believe what you wrote? Because what you said was a bunch of bullshit from my viewpoint. Their is NO conspiracy to target women, nobody would gain anything from it. Your just salty for no reason

[@cchelsea.y1]

Every time I looked up from the comments the hat changed and I just assumed I was imagining things for a good 5 minutes.

[@Olivia-uq4ls]

”that’s fine, that’s fine, that’s fine... *that’s not fine, but I don’t feel like complaining about it”* me when I first read this series

[@laytonjenner6987]

When I read these books I read any and all internal monologues in the voice of satsuki kiryuin from Kill La Kill. Makes the book, and actually any book, infinitely more readable.

[@noodlepoodle3582]

This comment alone makes me want to see Kill La Kill more than any other good reason it’s been recommended to me.

[@starsymcdoodle6965]

Imagine having audiobooks where inner monologues or narration is done by VAs. That'd be dope

[@juno7424]

@@starsymcdoodle6965 im listening to the Dune audiobook and there’s echoing and humming machine sounds in the background and the narrators lowkey sound like VAs, I love it.

[@obamakiske]

funny enough i read dialogue in the voice of ryuko matoi and i just improvise a lot of the story as it goes along and it’s really funny

[@humblehive6502]

If the environmental message had to be done it could’ve been done in a cool way, like the entire planet is just a zoo for these aliens who’ve watched them for thousands of years and they want it to have the diverse life or the “Others” got bored of the humans and wanted to see something else in an existential horror kind of way

[@henriquesousa8819]

Can I take that awesome idea?

[@humblehive6502]

@@henriquesousa8819 i haven’t patented it, sure

[@avantika_singh]

@@henriquesousa8819 If your write something about it, be sure to share it here because even I am hooked on it. All the best.

[@oliviaharris1245]

this boy's brain literally fried bc i see a christmas hat at the end of june, and other hats.

[@morgothainur9389]

Actually the idea of an alien invasion without them never really appearing sounds kind of interesting. The game Nier Automata kind of did that and I wanted to know more; a unique story could come out of that.

[@Gear3k]

I was thinking something similar. What better way to show how overwhelmingly advanced an alien race is than to reveal that the entire devastating "invasion" is caused by nothing more than a single rogue A.I. drone? In a different kind of story, this could probably work really well.

[@aisir3725]

Fully automated gay space luxury invasion

[@literallyglados]

@@aisir3725 luxury goes before gay btw, it sounds better as fully automated luxury gay space [communism/invasion]

[@dennislessing643]

I remember this series! It helped me get through middle school (I had to deal with a lot of crap during that time) and it was one of the few ways I could escape. Reading about Cassie surviving through all the waves made me feel like I could get through school. Looking back these books yeah, they're kinda bad but they're so bad it's good for me. I'll miss this series.

[@samuelbarber6177]

I would’ve used the three perspectives to inform different sections of the story. So, Cassie is showing what it’s like on the ground, for your average joe, Sammy is in the military training centre and Ben on the front lines. So we get these different characters’ stories showing us the aspects of the world and of course there’s going to be crossover between the stories throughout.

[@loneywood3883]

*sees the Berserk poster behind you* "I see... a fellow man of culture."

[@FlyingDoveExScopress]

A fellow man of the behelit

[@ultimatekunochi6577]

Thank you for mentioning that. That just made my day

[@collinb2767]

For the first half of Ben's section, I thought it was still Cassie and was very, very confused. I finally realized it was him after it mentioned he was a guy.

[@fynnsternis6432]

Me, doing a puzzle while listening to the video being very calm: James: "There was a very cringy sex scene" Me: concerned.jpeg James: "Let's read it :)" Me: w h a t

[@sh1niii]

Off Topic but this is such a 2020 comment

[@fynnsternis6432]

@@sh1niii god it is 👁️👄👁️ yikes. Whyd you have to remind me

[@sh1niii]

@@fynnsternis6432 sorry man, couldnt help myself

[@gofornicatethyself]

I actually remember really liking this series when I was younger, so I was excited to read it again recently... but then I got to the part where Evan kisses her, she tells him to STOP and he STILL keeps kissing her and it’s supposed to be oh so romantic. Also the fact that she openly admits to the reader (in her thoughts basically) that she doesn’t mind being undressed by a handsome man in her sleep and would be much more put of if he was an ugly basement dwelling creep, which.... that is just such a bad message to put out there oh my god.

[@gofornicatethyself]

I just read that section again and there are SO many more creepy things than I remembered

[@VerrouSuo]

I had a choice reading list for a unit on book/film adaptations in high school and just so happened to choose this because I thought the premise was decent and it was the only other book on the list that I hadn’t read (other options included Jurassic Park and the like). For the final project of the unit, we had to do a 10+ minute presentation on which we thought was better: the book or the movie. I asked to argue that both were literal garbage, and my teacher asked if it was really that bad. “It’s far worse,” I replied.

[@jojol.2630]

She’s comparing Evan picking her up to her being a child with her dad. Yikes ™

[@almostclintnewton8478]

Irrelevant, I know, but he's low key glowing up 👀

[@pipsqeak7104]

@bob jones he said it was irrelevant. He knows. You didn't need to say that.

[@alexsnewhandle]

I've been saying this since he changed how he did his hair! And there's nothing low-key about it

[@almostclintnewton8478]

@bob jones because it's been on my mind for a while now and apparently 28 other people have been thinking the same ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@carolinehoak]

Yep. Looks like he’s hitting puberty v2 cause his head looks different and his shoulders look longer.

[@loaf8506]

I just started this vid but i am enamored with the idea of causing earthquakes by throwing giant tungsten rods into fault lines. Thats so cool

[@Plasticplas1]

All the characters ignore that Sammy is definitely going to be a sociopath. All that experienced so directly at such a plastic age.

[@Rivenlore99]

Sema Poor kid

[@haechanat236ridinmv4]

Sammy was super annoying in the third book, his chapters were always him thinking about killing the others, so yeah, that kid wasn’t going to be mentally stable

[@aileencrain6558]

This kind of trauma could cause sociopathy, but would be as likely to just give him a mess of anxiety, PTSD and possibly DID. He might be a bit old to get DID tho.

[@MsSwthrt102]

@@aileencrain6558 If he's 5, and the personality doesn't fully develop until the age of 7, there is a still a possibility of DID devolping.

[@tally9542]

Sex scene made me scream and gag and shout incredulous profanities... I don't know why I didn't just skip it, ever second was torture.

[@Rivenlore99]

Lil' Miss Dropbear Ah yeah I didnt like that either. Sex scenes in general I try to avoid but....

[@alexantone5532]

When I read it I didn’t even notice the scene, I was just confused on how ringer got pregnant

[@katie750]

The only thing i remember from the movie (trailer) is that they seemed to be hinting at romantic tension between Chloe Grace Moretz and the old dude and that was enough to turn me off from the entire franchise

[@melaustin3305]

That whole typo thing bothered me for reasons I can't even get into, so I actually went to Amazon to take a look inside the third book to see what the author was trying to say and...I don't actually think it's a typo. It's just poor sentence structure. When her father was ten, he went on a school trip to the planetarium..blah, blah, blah...years later he would take his daughter. It isn't actually the case that he rode a big yellow bus to the planetarium when SHE was ten. It was just worded confusingly #wherehavealltheeditorsgone

[@sh1niii]

The editors are dead and JK Rowling's "i didnt need an editor lol" killed them

[@DrPhil-om8hb]

I think I read the first book but I literally have no clue it was very forgettable to me

[@pipsqeak7104]

I thought I read the whole series but I only read the first book lol :0

[@wllyfht]

@@pipsqeak7104 me too, no wonder I left feeling like there wasn't a proper ending

[@pipsqeak7104]

@@wllyfht hahaha I guess I am not the only one.

[@prcervi]

who the hell was the editor on this series? why did they never stop and question this being so tonally inconsistent? was there even an editor??

[@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874]

Deliberate non-continuity editing?

[@michhudson6485]

The editor was playing 5d chess

[@Surikoazimaet]

"Eh, it will print money. So do whatever.."

[@JackedThor-so]

The 5th Wave: I'm not mad, just disappointed

[@sophiereads]

This series and The darkest minds just sort of merged in my brain and I literally cannot distinguish between the characters and plot anymore... looking back I don’t understand why teenage me liked this 😂

[@janellelives5158]

I liked the concept of the darkest minds but actually reading it was unenjoyable.

[@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874]

James should do a review of The Darkest Minds next.

[@iamveryconfusedabout]

I always like your videos, but apparently they're much better when I've actually read the book also I really like the hat thing it's such a great gag

[@gracemaryallen2384]

I liked the first book and I distantly remember the second. By the time I got to the third book though middle school me was like 👁👄👁

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

Now you need to review the OG dystopian YA sci-fi series: The Tripods.

[@hackergaming6372]

Great book

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

@@hackergaming6372 It's a series, not a single book.

[@pipsqeak7104]

Oh i love those books. Three books where they all feel like a part of something greater, but have such great plots they all feel significant all on there own.

[@pipsqeak7104]

Also, did anyone read the prequel book? I have mixed feeling about that one and would like to hear others opinions on it.

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

@@pipsqeak7104 I had no idea there was a prequel. I read original book in the series in 1979 as part of my grade 5 curriculum, then hunted down the rest of the series and read them both the next weekend.

[@vampirevore]

i liked this book series quite a bit, it was so uniquely bad (in terms of the quality of its writing) that it gave me hope that *anyone* could get published :')

[@Rivenlore99]

M That’s why I like bad books too, because otherwise I feel hopeless at how my writing isn’t that good and my dreams of being an author will never come to fruition because I can never make my dreams come to full life

[@robertgronewold3326]

What's strange is how bad these books where, when Rick Yancy is an accomplished author. He wrote crime fiction and he has another YA series called the Monstrumologist which is utterly nerve wracking and terrifying at times. It's like he wrote these books off the top of his head and just went with it.

[@Vmar98]

Something that keeps bothering me is why the virus was the 3rd wave and not earlier. Why release a virus after destroying al the infrastructure that would make a virus easier to spread? Especially since during all the chaos of the other waves, there would be a huge panic where people would care less about contaminating each other and more about surviving the current threat

[@SallySueSaywhatagain]

Good point. Why take out the airplanes and international travel BEFORE releasing the deadly virus?

[@yagamikuuno]

Me on my way to watch James rip apart the book that got me into reading 🏃🏽‍♀️

[@Dunmerdog]

After watching so much Isaac Arthur, I can’t take any kind of alien invasion narrative seriously when it isn’t settled by either a combination of game theory and interstellar litigation or the absolute destruction of life on earth via relativistic kinetic kill missiles. By the way, James, would you ever consider doing an in depth discussion of Book of the New Sun, or even just Shadow - they’re such dense books that I’d be really interested to hear your take on.

[@Megafreakx3]

I just want to point out that the trailer to the movie also gives away the plot twist.

[@tyrusmaxwell4675]

31:35 When you set your conscription to "scraping the barrel" in HOI4

[@Razzy_III]

“There is this one really cringy sex scene. Let’s read it.” Me, 5 seconds later: “Yah can we like, not?”

[@samuelbarber6177]

Well, the idea of an Alien invasion that focuses entirely on the human aspect, to the point where we rarely meet any aliens at all, can be done well. In fact, it was done well. In fact, it was done for the very first Alien invasion story ever. I’m talking about The War of the Worlds.

[@mistaman580]

I always thought the concept of this story was awesome. It would've been great to see a competent story to come from it.

[@Volthoom]

I won't lie, the first phrase of the first book kinda fits this series pretty well from the looks of it. Aliens are, in fact, dumb. Edit: Oh. There were no aliens and it was just a big dumb drone. Honestly...yeah that's pretty smart and i now see the parallels to Nier:Automata that others have made in the comments. Like shit, that actually ties up a lot of villain-stupidity neatly and it *can* be a solid twist. If done right. In a good book.

[@floramew]

The incredulity of you saying "I looked it up, Wright Patt is a real base" and "for those of you whio don't know, Dayton is a city in Ohio" is hilarious to ne bc I lived in the Dayton area for 10y, my dad was stationed at WPAFB for a while and continues to work there as a civilian since he retired... and I'm still kinda like "yeah are we sure those are real places?" Also I'd bet 50 bucks that the author didn't describe the base as being a small town unto itself, given the rest of the story (so far). It's super mundane for the most part.

[@RDeathmark]

"My tears in his mouth" AHAHAHAHAH

[@olgimskaya]

man i used to love these books when i was younger so i’m really enjoying seeing all the plot holes 👁👁

[@haechanat236ridinmv4]

Me too, I loved them but now I know that if I reread them I’d probably hate them 😂

[@robertgronewold3326]

After the Monstrumologist series, it's amazing how much Rick Yancy dropped the ball with this trilogy.

[@noodlepoodle3582]

The 5th Wave is like the Mortal Instruments to me: all my friends loved it and told me to read it and I desperately tried to like it but was ultimately underwhelmed.

[@krisdoesart9643]

What are your thoughts on The Giver (on its own or the quartet)? I personally enjoyed the book on its own but wasn't a huge fan of the other novels. I'd love to see a video on the series and know what you thought of them

[@shtuffs]

Giver by itself was good but the books after it sucked so much ass

[@stephaniewilliams6756]

Love these longer videos, you have a great way of clearly explaining plots not many youtubers do. Keep up the good work :)

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

30:48 ALSO, she thinks about her dad right now??? While theyre making out??? Thats a big turn off, especially since he's dead and she saw him die - wouldn't that be, dunno, *traumatic* or something??? This whoole scene seems really weird and unhealthy

[@DinoRicky]

7:07 actually in war of the worlds (novel) it takes place in Victoria England in the late 19th early 20th century and the aliens died from their vulnerability to microorganisms Also the fighting machine don’t look like spiders but like “a milk stool on a stool with 3 legs” and they also have black smoke which’s like mustard gas but you can’t use gas mask *✨The More You Know✨*

[@MrPoshyJoshy]

The bit where she uploaded memories in the last book and you talking about how you wish they handled it made me think a bit of the TV show, Dollhouse. If you want to see something a little like that. They aren’t aliens, but people who have personalities and people uploaded into ‘blank slates’/dolls, for different missions/events/ect, and one of them ends up recalling past personalities/their own.

[@furtado704]

I'm gonna go save my brother, in two to three work weeks! Sounds like a video game tbh.

[@PanzerIVAE]

I remember watching the movie for this in theaters with my family and even though I have yet to watch the video I think James really hit it on the mark with "Great ideas, Absolute dog crap execution"

[@GOAToatoat]

*In Jerry Seinfeld* What is the deal with the second book always being bad? I mean, why not just throw it out if it is going to be the worst one?

[@dovelyy]

seeing the like counter tick to 4900 was so satisfying

[@akrybion]

Es heißt schlecht, nicht schlect!

[@Kamakiri711]

About the plane crashing. There was this TV show, don´t remember the name, where all electricity stops abruptly. And all the planes just tumble out of the sky, like instantly they fall down. Looked pretty stupid...

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

actual ohioan here, wright-patt is one of the largest airbases in the country it hosts nuclear weapons, but they'll never say that out loud they also have a kickass museum that i highly recommend if you're ever in the area

[@flameloude]

He just wanted to show off his hat collection, didn't he? I'm totally not jealous. Especially not that sonic one.

[@薄紫色]

would've been 100x better if the big reveal was just the "it's all ohio?" "always has been" meme

[@BBanzaj]

12:00 some planes are desinged to only be useful with computers running, like F-16 is designed to be aerodynamicly unstable, and the only thing keeping it in the air are the computers

[@Minority119]

Every time I see chess being used as shorthand for the antagonist being smart I'm reminded of that star trek episode where Spock and Kirk are using game allegories for plans and strategies, Kirk defeats the episode antagonist through lies and diversion, and then tells Spock about poker

[@willmorbyers923]

I was honestly just so mad that they didn't cast Ringer asian. HOW HARD IS IT??

[@justanotherpersonwhooverth8262]

Why do I love analyses of things I will never read or watch?

[@iLive2hearmuzic]

13 year old me was so invested in the Cassie x Evan relationship lol

[@laynecinder661]

Whoa, Tullos with no brim! Nice camera quality, too.

[@LannasMissingLink]

Im reading Dune at the moment and the dramatic irony in that is great! I see what you mean by that it has to be done right. I felt so tense watching the characters near further towards their downfall and not being able to help them

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

51:25 so basically Stephanie Meyer's "the Host" lmao. it is a cool concept ngl Edit: ohh so this IS basically the host but... edgier? (1:04:09)

[@T0xXx1k]

Hi I'm here to tell anyone passing by that the host solely exists because it's the leftover original ending to twilight. The love triangle being that 2 members of it inhabit 1 body was how twilight ended until they wanted her to make her trilogy into 4 books and wrote new moon & she had to rewrite the end to make sense thus having the left over book which is now the host ok bai! ~🧡 🦇

[@ps1hagridoufofcharacter]

@@T0xXx1k what how????

[@littlearies3862]

My literal thought

[@T0xXx1k]

@@ps1hagridoufofcharacter basically there was going to be a thing where Jacobs consciousness would live in Edwards head (or maybe the other way around it's been so long I forget) and then Bella would get to be with both of them forever in that way. The publishers wanted 4 books instead of 3 after writing new moon she decided maybe the ending needed to be retooled. Then having the original book 'left-over' she retooled it into a pod person kinda love triangle / story and in hopes of broadening her horizons as an author outside of twilight books. I think you know the rest. But she talked about it in interviews back in the before for. It's very weird all of it. ~🧡 🦇

[@Plasticplas1]

The 5th wave books have really attention grabbing covers. They look good on the shelf. Well mine did till my dog ate the corner of it.

[@majitobravom]

I'm happy that I found this channel. James does a great job at criticizing a book without being arrogant... Plus he is funny. I'm sold. He got a new subscriber. Lol

[@lrae9519]

Normally I read or multitask to longer videos but that hat game makes it impossible I need to see them all!

[@RDeathmark]

You should do Armada by Ernest Cline next, it would be a great way to follow this up.

[@judey_moony]

I’m concerned for how many hats he has-

[@hopscotch1049]

The first time I read the book, I was so confused by what in the world was going on that I stopped reading it. It was absolutely structured so weirdly that I had no clue what was happening When I decided to actually read the entire series, I took the time to try and understand and that worked better. Still wish it was structured a bit better, even though it was interesting

[@papercalypso5988]

I thought I was the only one who thought the 5th wave was stupid. Teenage me disliked it so much I tore up the pages and used them as a prop for photo backgrounds :D

[@livstibal3852]

Thank you, this is an amazing review. I thought I was stupid when j was younger because these godamn books are confusing af. I understand about half of what I read and I didn't know who's pov it was or when it was happening.. it's a disaster.