Chatting With Nutts WEDNESDAY NIGHT EDITION - Episode #45 ft Allen from The Library of Allenxandria

Chatting With Nutts WEDNESDAY NIGHT EDITION - Episode #45 ft Allen from The Library of Allenxandria
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Welcome to the 45th 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.
Yes this is the one where we talk about Allen's car accident.
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[@TheLibraryofAllenxandria]

Such a blast and got to feel some normalcy for a few hours! Thanks for having me on yet again

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Anytime my friend!

[@Dylan13Collins]

I think you both would be surprised at the amount of people who truly relate to the conversation you guys had about anxiety, not understanding how to bond or communicate with people over silly things, or any of the other heavy topics you talked about. It's part of why I love watching both of you! You guys understand what that's like and you help us all feel unserstood!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@Dylan13Collins ❤️❤️

[@derrisreaditbefore]

Allen, please remember to tell Christina we love her, and her cameo appearances are a wee Angelic light beaming in on us. 😘 I mean, we love you too, but Christina is much prettier.

[@Paromita_M]

My favourite guest on these episodes. So good to see Allen again. Wishing him a complete recovery. This was a great episode as usual.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thanks for watching 😀

[@thebrothersgwynne]

Good to see you fellas. Rest up easy, Allen! The Dundy awards are supreme. Ed and Will

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Hope you both are doing well!

[@MrHehj]

What a great bonus and soundtrack to my last couple of days of work before the break! Great to see Allen looking well.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Enjoy your break!

[@TysonPJ]

YES! a real podcast, available on podcast apps.

[@danijelb.3384]

Glad to see Allen is doing good. Great show as always.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Appreciate it!

[@jacknixon2812]

reasonably new to this Booktube thing, just started my TBR by getting to chapter 4 of the Shining and ordering Stormfront by Jim Butcher

[@agentswarley]

I loved this chat so much! Thanks for sharing it with us :) I wish you both all the best and peace over the holiday season.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Happy holidays!

[@chadia25]

A livestream with Allen and Jimmy to days in a row... it must be Christmas. 🥰 I love you both. This was perfect, yet again. Thanks Jimmy. 😚

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Happy holidays my friend!!!

[@chadia25]

@@thefantasynuttwork same for you and your family. ❤

[@artbyandia]

I didn't care for the Old Man and the Sea and I am currently enjoying Moby Dick!!! Allen is so right! I never thought I would enjoy it but so far it's so funny 😆

[@thefantasynuttwork]

That’s good to hear! I think I may be good on reading anymore Hemingway 🤪

[@veszeljko7645]

Very brave of yall to have this on without cuts, beautiful stuff. This was a fantastic episode and the fact that it broke viewer records speaks for itself :) Happy holidays Jimmy, try to enjoy yourself 😳

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thanks my friend, happy holidays and a new year to you 360noscopezlolz

[@marcweber8509]

Jimmy, the purple background looks dope!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thanks 🙏

[@HenrikBrosveet]

Glad to see you guys back together. And yes, you guys should start a podcast 🙂

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Appreciate it!!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

And maaaaaaybe 🧐

[@HenrikBrosveet]

@@thefantasynuttwork intriguing 🤔

[@esmayrosalyne]

I saved this episode for the final day of the year, so that I was certain I would end my year on a high note... and you guys did NOT let me down. What a lovely episode once again, you two are just an iconic duo at this point. Thanks for all the hours of entertainment (and free therapy!), you guys are the best 🥰

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’m so thankful you take the time to watch

[@collinwilliamson607]

Absolutely great episode and I am so thankful both you guys can be real in your conversations. You guys have a great friendship and shows! Y’all are the best. Love the book talk but love how relatable the conversations got.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you so much

[@mindysaroya7489]

There is nothing wrong with you Allen or Jimmy. You 2 are just genuine authentic human being trying to deal with a world of psychotic / unstable individuals. There just are far more of them than there of you so it would make you feel like you are the odd ball.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I appreciate it!

[@Knightshade1965]

So glad to see that Allen is doing better. Each time you have him I laugh a lot.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

He’s truly one of a kind

[@dylansbooknook3544]

I didn't know Jimmy was a therapist! In all seriousness, though, I really appreciate the transparency and openness of this conversation. Jimmy, I want to thank you for facilitating these conversations. Yes, we get lots of laughs - but we get far more than that too - especially when you give room for your guests to explore themselves. Hearing Allen speak about relationships was especially powerful. I, too, struggle with 'small talk' - because I didn't watch that sports game and I didn't watch that movie or show or etc. Further, establishing and maintaining deep and meaningful relationships is inordinately challenging - relationships are real work and unfortunately it's often emotionally taxing - and guilt-inducing. You know you should reach out to that person, it's been a while - but they haven't reached out either yet; and then you forget and then you remember and you think, "Maybe it's been too long...I should've reached out a long time ago." - when you know, in reality, that they've been going through the same thing because the inertia of everyday life creates just enough friction that you just don't do it - and then you experience an entire melange of emotions that make it all the more difficult. Thank you both for sharing your time with us!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I am so glad you enjoy these and always a plus when it hits home. Happy holidays to you

[@Jay_Mike]

2:17:50 I go back and listen to y’all’s conversations quite often, and I’ve never heard somebody describe all the variables of liking or not liking a book like that before. Great stuff gentlemen!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thank you !!

[@bashandel]

I got a good chuckle out of "I'm 10k Jimmy."

[@thefantasynuttwork]

😎

[@swayzic8743]

This was awesome!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thanks!

[@bardsandbooks]

Nutting with Allen… I haven’t laughed so hard in forever… 😂

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Me either hahaha

[@readingreignbro5680]

Trying to type into live chat on a live that happened a week ago more than once is humbling. Lol. Allen's disparaging of the classics had mw triggered lmbo. Thanks for the shout out on Alastair Reynolds. Hope you get to it I really think you'll enjoy it or at the least be glad that you'd tried his work. I'm gonna try to broaden my Sci fi reading this year, been sooo focused on catching up on fantasy, I forgot how awesome classic sci-fi is.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’m excited to give Pushing Ice a go soon!

[@jacknixon2812]

best inaccessible book I ever read was A Clockwork Orange. Whole thing was written in this made up slang, and of course the content was just horrifying, but also thought provoking. Just the journey that the protag goes on,really good but hard to read,on like two levels

[@nancywolf1467]

I’m so sad I missed this. I agree with so many things Allen says. I got back into reading with TNOTW, I didn’t love RoD, I give 5⭐️ for multiple reasons! ETC! I feel like I might be undiagnosed … am I on the spectrum? This is the only way you’ll get me to turn on 3 hours of anything. Perfection! Twainy 🎄🤗♥️

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Im so glad you liked it!

[@nancywolf1467]

@@thefantasynuttwork you 2 need a schedule so I stop missing these LOL House of Suns is also a good Reynolds book if you don’t want to jump into a series like Revelation Space.

[@luvBB4lyf]

Wow this episode got way too relatable 😂 loved every second of it. This is why a podcast will you two will be a hit! Also looking forward to a livestream with Kelsey and Christina! No lie, was just thinking about how Kelsey's Korner should really be a thing because it's so much fun to have her on your videos 😂 and yes to the year end manga video! But completely understand if the return is not worth the work Great ep as always and happy holidays!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Appreciate the kind words!

[@jacknixon2812]

Brave New World was depressing as hell

[@bryancraig6584]

ask brian maclain if he woold do an interview

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’ll try haha

[@KarelOrlong]

Late to the party, but I had to comment on the thing Allan said about Memories of Ice. If I had to guess what he was talking about, I would say he was probably talking about the timing of Itkovian's choice? If so, I think about it like this : He did what he believed to be the right thing. It's easy to say that he could have waited a couple of hours, and done it after the big fight, but the truth is that would have been immoral. The Imass weren't there because they wanted to fight. They were only there because after thousands of years, they finally had a chance for the ritual to end. They had zero stake in the fight whatsoever. Asking them to fight first would make Itkovian's choice transactional, entirely ruining the intended purpose of his gift. If you see somebody in pain, and you can help them somehow, but you're on your way to the store to buy a Coke, you don't go get the Coke first, you help them first, and worry about your thing later...

[@thefantasynuttwork]

He’s talking about Toc joining the cannibals lol

[@KarelOrlong]

@@thefantasynuttwork lol, oh, that's even easier to explain. He was feeling more than just a little out of his depth with all the high powered individuals running around with him. He was a trained Claw, so he probably figured he could use that training to blend in with the enemy army, and gather some intel while essentially being given safe passage to where he could rejoin Dujek's army. He was wrong, but with his skillet I believe any Claw except maybe Topper would have made the same choice.

[@blablade56675]

Great chat

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Thanks!

[@coleton7048]

This was a really good Allen therapy session. A lot of big breakthroughs this episode. Okay, I'm going to make a prediction right now, and that is that Vagabond will be the first manga you straight up DNF (I'm not sure if you've actually DNFd any before) but man it's so bad IMO. You will probably think the first couple volumes or so are okay like I did, so you'll keep reading it, but also like me I predict you will quickly realize after a few more volumes that it's mid and lame AF. It's just fight scenes, that aren't even drawn that well, that last entire volumes and have no depth or storytelling weight behind them whatsoever. It's just cardboard characters fighting each other for entire volumes with the only dialogue being variations of "Wow! He's so strong!" "I must defeat him!" "How can he be this strong?!" "I will defeat him with my superior strength and skill!" Etc. Etc. And LITERALLY multiple pages at a time where the only dialogue is grunting.... Just grunting and it's written out where you have to see and read every damn grunt that these people make. I swear there is probably an entire volume in Vagaond where the only things characters say are "Argh!" "Ahh!" " and crap like that while they are fighting. And it's not even cool fights because they're literally just using wooden swords and freaking sticks and crap!!! Ugh, I really hated it and it put me in a massive manga slump at the time. I wish I could convince you not to read it and save you hours of your life. When you're like 6 or 7 volumes in and realizing how bad it is and are feeling the same way, I want you to remember me and what I have wrote here today. I tried to save you.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Guess I’ll find out 😂

[@TheLibraryofAllenxandria]

Still sounds better than Ulysses, Coleton 😛

[@coleton7048]

@@thefantasynuttwork Hahaha Sorry. I'm just still so salty about it.

[@coleton7048]

@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria Honestly yeah, at least Vagabond has pictures. 🤣

[@trill_nathan]

I thought Prince of Fools was extremely average, didn't continue passed the 1st book. I love the Prince of Thorns series though.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

yeah i found PoF to be meh

[@thatsci-firogue]

What's funny is that because of hype I'm seeing more booktubers admitting to having fomo meanwhile I've developed jomo (joy of missing out) lol

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Hahaha

[@marcweber8509]

00:33:11 Denna pissed me off so much! My girlfriend history might have played into it but omg was I annoyed...

[@shutdownseti2493]

I will not stand for Allen's slander against Ulysses (the single greatest novel in the English language). And Ulysses isn't great because it's "challenging" (it isn't), Ulysses is great because it's so FUN. You can't read the following dialogue and not love it: -Who made those allegations? says Alf. -I, says Joe. I'm the alligator. EDIT: Definitely read Gravity's Rainbow, too. It's also not nearly as "challenging" as it's made out to be. Gravity's Rainbow is a psychedelic trip through a surrealist WWII. If you're not in love with it after the first 10 pages and Pirate Prentice's banana breakfast, I'll eat my own hat. So beautiful and funny in the same turn. And Ulysses, when you see what Joyce does with language, you'll be astounded. A chapter written that reincapsulates the entire English language and parodies classic writers as it progresses and eventually turns into (at the time) contemporary Irish slang, or a chapter written to follow musical motifs and structured through songs played by one of the characters, or the chapter that's structured entirely like a hallucinatory play-it's just phenomenal. Joyce redfined what it means to write a novel, not because he was pretentious, but because he simply loved the possibility of form and language. But also, before you read Ulysses, you should read The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, because much of Ulysses is informed by Portrait. Ulysses is almost a sequel. You should also read Dubliners, Joyce's most "conventional" work. Finnegans Wake is the Joyce that you probably won't get through. That one is nigh impossible to decipher (and I love it but can't defend it the way I defend Ulysses). EDIT 2: Sorry for the super long comment, this is my plea for Jimmy to get into modernist and post-modernist literature. Check out DeLillo, Gass, Gaddis! Read it all! EDIT 3: I also find it funny the Allen hates Ulysses if he loves a great command of language, Shakespeare, and the epics. The novel is so intrinsically indebted to both Hamlet and The Odyssey, and Joyce's entire style is the exploration of language.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’ll definitely be trying it out so no worries! All you’ve listed here sounds interesting and I’ll take your advice!

[@TheLibraryofAllenxandria]

@@thefantasynuttwork JImmy, I'm just gonna let you know that there is not one fun thing about Ulysses. Sorry, shutdownseti. :P

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria I’m so conflicted now 🤣

[@shutdownseti2493]

@@TheLibraryofAllenxandria Boooo! I love you Allen but boooooo!

[@Paul_van_Doleweerd]

I enjoyed Parker's siege trilogy. 😐

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I think many people did haha

[@johanjoseph4802]

Just Incredible listening to your blabbers and rants 🤌. It just striked me that...Allen would have been a great addition with the Tad Williams Chat too. 🤌

[@thefantasynuttwork]

He definitely would have been!