Chatting With Nutts Birthday Edition - Episode #66 ft Allen from The Library of Allenxandria

Chatting With Nutts Birthday Edition - Episode #66 ft Allen from The Library of Allenxandria
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Welcome to the 66th episode of Chatting with Nutts! My guest this episode of Chatting With Nutts is one of the most entertaining content creators in the booktube community, Allen from @The Library of Allenxandria! We hope you enjoy this conversation on Chatting with Nutts as we talk about the current topics in fantasy as well as what we are reading and have already read that blew our minds.
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[@laststorm7726]

Always love watching Allen and Jimmy talk.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you!

[@samm8190]

Y’all made my day! So glad to hear you guys chat again. Happy Birthday Jimmy!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@thefantasynuttwork]

🙏

[@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy]

Pedialyte? I put Scotch in my tea, thank you very much. Yes, John Luke Robertson is part of the family from Duck Dynasty -- super nice and articulate fellow (not to mention his excellent taste in epic fantasy)! Thank you for the kind words about my new set up, though I honestly think you set the bar in that department, Jimmy. Thanks for another awesome episode of CWN, you two -- I'm catching the last hour this morning.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Hope there’s no hangover this morning 😄

[@Paul_van_Doleweerd]

I hope you aren't spoiling a good single malt that way...

[@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy]

@@Paul_van_Doleweerd Never fear. It’s just Black Label. The good stuff I drink with nothing else, including ice.

[@JARHuygebaert]

The will of the many is my favorite book of the last ten years😍

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Wow!

[@nancyabbott2660]

Happy Birthday Jimmy…hope it was a good one. Love your channel

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you so much!

[@darinbeiler5800]

Happy belated birthday jimmy! Nice to see the guys back together again. Going to parcel this out over the week and savour every moment. Hope that doesn’t mess with the algorithm too much. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦 🎉🎂

[@darinbeiler5800]

Also after reading all of the Saxon stories and warlord chronicles by Corn-Dog last year, I started Sharpes Tiger today. I hope this pleases Allen greatly

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@darinbeiler5800 I’m sure it does!

[@esmayrosalyne]

Loved this entire chat but OMG THAT ENDING!!! 😱🤩 Hahahah thanks for the quality entertainment again friends, you two are the best!! And happy belated birthday, Jimmy! I hope you had a good one ❤

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you so much!

[@skippen]

I have 2 Simonetti prints in my house. :D

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I need one!

[@demidrek-heyward]

Mr Walker in the ballroom with the shotgun

[@demidrek-heyward]

Xmas came early thank you Mr Nutts & Walker! So sorry about the reoccurrence of the infection sending good vibes !!!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

😂😂😂 and thanks!

[@HenrikBrosveet]

Great as always guys, loved the dark souls discussion. Would love to see you guys talk more about those games. Themes, characters, berserk references or something like that

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Absolutely, those games are some of my favorite things

[@professionalthirdculturekid]

As usual, I love watching Chatting with Nutts with special guest Allen. The rapport between you both is just incredible! Also, Blue Eye Samurai's storytelling is of the finest quality. That show exceeded expectations on almost every category. Its one of those rare stories that lingers in the mind weeks after the first watch.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you! I am excited to watch that show!

[@marcweber8509]

I've heard that I Am Legend is a great examination of loneliness

[@thefantasynuttwork]

It’s so good

[@deanryanmartin]

Happy birthday, Jimmy! More blessings.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you

[@timothyburbage]

Always love watching Jimmy talk and Alan go insane

[@thefantasynuttwork]

We do our best

[@timothyburbage]

@@thefantasynuttwork I also think that Lyra Belacqua from His Dark Materials is a fantastic main character

[@24xenetiaeosnakpilrivera48]

😮

[@agentswarley]

Beartown is one of my favourites :) for me (as a non-sports person) the first 30 pages were difficult to get through, but the rest was awesome. I started the audiobook and was so hooked that I stayed up way into the night listening and then immediately went to the bookstore the next day to continue reading it physically because I could to that quicker. So far I only read the second book, but I did like it! It was also very good and it continues the story from book 1. That said, Beartown does work very well as a standalone, so I’d say it’s more a question of whether you want to continue to read within the story or if you’re good after the first book. I’ll read the third book probably in the beginning of next year. Backman definitely has a very specific style that I quite enjoy, his other books are a bit more sentimental and less heavy, however. Oh, and as always, thank you so much for putting up these chats! They truly brighten up my days :)

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’m excited to try it

[@JsHolgersson]

Yay we share birthdays! Awesome stream you guys! 🎉🥳

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Happy bday!

[@JsHolgersson]

@@thefantasynuttwork And a happy birthday to you Ser Nutts! 🤘

[@s13gaming72]

The Vagrant trilogy is so good! I read all 3 back to back a couple years ago and loved them. The way the first was written with the mute protagonist was awesome. And while different, I greatly enjoyed the rest of the books. That world was just fascinating to me

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Yeah some really neat worldbuilding!

[@annak_reads]

Happy birthday, Jimmy! Just now getting to watch the stream.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you!

[@72mje]

Amazing chatting with Nutts episode! Allen, you got me to read Discworld, Shadows of the Apt series and Sharpe. So here is at least one person who picks up your recommendations. :)

[@thefantasynuttwork]

He’s an influencer!

[@somatraseng]

Jimmy brings out the funniest version of Allen. That's why I watch all Allen appearances on this show.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Allen is one of a kind and a great guy, I’m so lucky he enjoys spending time talking with me

[@rscottwiley3624]

Saw the length of this and thought, “who’s going to watch all that video.” Answer: me. And I enjoyed it all. Hope you had a good birthday, Jimmy. And hope you are doing well in spite of the infection. 🎉

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you so much

[@agentswarley]

Allen speaks right out of my soul with voicing his opining about living respectfully within a community and sticking to the rules. I wish more people were more decent and respectful. More on books: I actually read the vagrant (only book 1) and I really liked the setup. However, I didn’t really connect with the overall world it was set in and gave it three stars, as well. I just came across it one day in a bookstore and thought the cover looked cool, that’s why I picked it up :D

[@thefantasynuttwork]

The cover is so cool! I wanna read book two at some point, I agree it’s the most 3 star book but it’s somehow very remarkable to me

[@samm8190]

Jimmy would you get Liene to do Chatting with Nutts? I feel like her strong opinions on so many things would make for a great conversation!!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Definitely possible!

[@heidi6281]

A fantastic female author is Manda Scott of the Boudica Quartet fame. I only read Dreaming the Eagle and it was such an emotional draining book I need time before I read more of this historical fantasy story.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I need to read that!

[@jersy6406]

The first goodreads review I came across compared it to Robin Hobb, so I need to read that, too.

[@Wouter_K]

Happy birthday!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you!

[@zkinak2107]

I’m gonna try to get to The Poisonwood Bible next year, glad to hear you are enjoying it!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

It’s great

[@FallenAdam]

So, some more on Mitchell. He lived in Hiroshima for eight years, working as an English teacher. He also met his wife there, who said she'd divorce him he he wrote anything really stupid westerners write in their books set in Japan into Thousand Autumns, like a Japanese woman falling in love with a westerner, just because he's exotic. Their son is autistic. Together they translated a book by Naoki Higashida, called The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism. Higashida allegedly learned to communicate using techniques of facilitated communication and rapid prompting method. This is a bit controversial, as some experts on autism have expressed some scepticism about how much someone with limited ability to communicate could actually contribute to the writing process. They also translated the follow-up book, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism.

[@bookswithbanks8943]

For a recommendation of someone from the past coming to the future - It's not a book, but look no further than the great film Encino Man. A rich and thought-provoking exploration of this idea. Pauly Shore's most cerebral work. ... 😂

[@thefantasynuttwork]

🤣🤣🤣

[@onfaerystories]

Oh my God you're talking about Greek plays and I just can't resist (I've fallen in love with Classical lit since last year) and Allen, have you read Clouds by Aristophanes?! I highly recommend Peter Meineck's translation. He's basically making fun of Socrates and his disciples, you'll love it! I've only read Symposium and Gorgias by Plato for now, and it's crazy how I could hate the first and love the second in a heartbeat. But my man is Aristotle, his Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics (to be read in that order for a better overall understanding) absolutely blew me away. I also enjoyed his Poetics and I'm looking forward to reading more by him. 👌

[@onfaerystories]

Allen just confirmed I'm a major nerd, but I married a Greek man so really wanted to know more about his culture and history... and now I've fallen a rabbit hole I never want to come out of. 🤪

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@onfaerystories so far down the rabbit hole you can’t see the entrance or the exit 🤣

[@TheLibraryofAllenxandria]

I love Clouds, I've just never taught it, so I don't get to talk much about it! And YES, I love Aristotle!

[@duffypratt]

Time After Time . HG Wells invented a real Time Machine. It turns out that a doctor friend of his is Jack the Ripper, and he escapes from the police by using the Time Machine to travel to modern day San Francisco. Wells is horrified that he has let such a monster loose on what he is sure will be a Utopia, so he travels to the same time to try to hunt him down. It’s excellent.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’ll read that for sure

[@yelisieimurai]

Happy birthday Jimmy !🎉🎉🎉

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you!

[@Paul_van_Doleweerd]

Tractor pull, biggest veg competition, the south is the home of poverty sports. 😆

[@currangill430]

Happy birthday Jimmy! Hope you had a great birthday!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thanks 🙏

[@currangill430]

@@thefantasynuttworkHope it was a great one! Have a great Turkey Day!

[@Joey48283JosephBailey]

Happy birthday Jimmy!!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you!

[@thatsci-firogue]

Happy birthday, Jimmy! And sorry to hear you're not feeling great. Based on your recent reading reads are you burnt out on Fantasy? I went through something similar this year. Thankfully I'm out of it now.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’m not burnt out no, Mitchell is fantasy and I read a bunch of him lately plus golden compass

[@hopefully504]

I am in both the world that reads Fourth Wing and the world that makes fun of it. Let me tell you a vlog of y’all reading Fourth Wing would be amazing 😂

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’d probably like it haha

[@onfaerystories]

I tried reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and couldn't get past the first few pages, that man annoyed me so much. 💀 I thought you were exaggerating, but no. I however loved the Cicero's works I've read (On Friendship, On Old Age, and Republic & Laws). 👌 The books I've picked up because of Allen: Sharpe's Tiger, The Warlord Chronicles (I have my issues with book #3, but still loved the trilogy - book #2 is my favorite), the Riftwar saga (will read book #3 soon), Augustus, Shogun (will go back to it, but part I already hooked me lol), the Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris (an all-time favorite read!), A Shadow In Summer (loved it, will continue on physically once I buy the quartet), Books on my TBR because of Allen: Boudicca series by Manda Scott he mentioned once (book #1 will be read very soon!), I, Claudius (I'm waiting for the video discussion), the Wickwire Watch series, Empire of Exiles (self-pub is tricky for me, but still!), Stoner (I was not interested until Allen praised it), anything by K. J. Parker or Tchaikovsky (I have Folding Knife and Guns of the Dawn on my Kindle), the Dragon's Path by Abraham (I want to finish LPQ first), the Babel series by Bancroft (I love Alice in Wonderland vibes so I can't wait! Wish my library had it), and many more I just have the hardest time finding for a cheap price or for free because Allen reads ridiculously niche authors 🥴 Ok, back to the video lol

[@thefantasynuttwork]

He does read niche authors 😂

[@TheLibraryofAllenxandria]

You are hereby elected 'strategos' in our army.

[@thatsci-firogue]

I read LPQ, Folding Knife, Ogres and Greatcoats and started Shadows of the Apt, Books of Babel, Discworld City Watch and Black Company because of Allen and only Black Company was sort of a miss.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Influencer!

[@bardsandbooks]

At this point, there should be a new segment… Nutting with Allen!! 😂🤣

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Hahaha

[@danijelb.3384]

Pause, Sir

[@bardsandbooks]

I should mention that this is not an original joke lol, stole it from Jimmy

[@yelisieimurai]

How to find Jimmy on Goodreads?

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Should be under Jimmy nutts

[@mitch8948]

44:20 that’s Star of the Unborn by Werfel

[@mitch8948]

1:28:00 taking the Cormax stance. Before man ever was monuments existed to be defaced by them. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@mitch8948 🔥🔥

[@Jay_Mike]

I’m 33 as well, should we buddy read our wills together?

[@thefantasynuttwork]

🤣

[@billyalarie929]

Can we get a playlist of all the Allen chats?

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I can do that eventually yup

[@billyalarie929]

@@thefantasynuttwork awesome 👏 Btw happy birthday bro I’m sorry I didn’t say that at the outset!!! 🫠

[@Paul_van_Doleweerd]

De Castell is yet another canadian. Jeeze.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

So many maple leafs

[@helgestrm9670]

Jimbo!! 44:50.. Sounds like you need to watch the best movie ever made by the name of Demolition Man!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

You’re right lol

[@TheLibraryofAllenxandria]

Demolition Man is so good

[@heathmotley9675]

Hi Jimmy. Happy Birthday. What was that free book on audible you mentioned?

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thanks! And I think it was The Forever War, unless I mentioned another one.

[@heathmotley9675]

@@thefantasynuttwork Thank you.

[@podrissimo9814]

Jimmy T.T. Nuts. 🤭 Only second to Jimmy D. Z. Nuts

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I like DZ better

[@thatsci-firogue]

I don't think you'd like Greatcoats, Jimmy. Not highbrow and literary enough for you haha

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Lmao

[@thatsci-firogue]

@@thefantasynuttwork all kidding aside, give it a shot. One questionable scene aside, if you like Book One then you're pretty much okay for the rest of the series. If you didn't like Book One, Book Two does improve but not drastically imo or at least from what I remember. It's a good series. Not a Top 10 favourite or anything but I liked it enough to pre-order the books in the sequel series. I really like how De Castell handles First Person retrospective especially later on in the series. When I read it I heard it compared to First Law a lot, ignore that, they really don't have that much in common, if at all.

[@currangill430]

Initial pen names aren't that bad. I don't get Allen's beef. How dare he rant on your birthday 😂

[@thefantasynuttwork]

🤣

[@nancyabbott2660]

Allan. What about Tolkien , JD Salinger etc. it’s always been and who cares? It’s NOT just women. Who cares ..I’ve never given it a thought. It’s the writing and storytelling that matter. To judge a book by initials in an authors name is ridiculous. Mayo they just want to keep their first names private. I think Allen is being ridiculous!

[@billyalarie929]

ALLEN "GAPING ANUSES" WALKER

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Has a nice ring to it