Book Burning: The Ancient Solitary Reign Part 1 (ft. Shammy)

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[@Toonl97]

17:14 Isn‘t „He asked“ Simple Imperfect Past while „He was asking“ Progressive Imperfect Past is? Wouldn‘t Perfect Past Tense be „He has asked“?

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Here's an explanation I got from Google just now: _"The past perfect tense relates to an action that was completed at a time relative to another timed event. For example, 'By 2000 they had married.' The imperfect tense, refers to an action that continued for some time. An example might be 'I was living there before 2005.' "_ ("Differences Between Past & Imperfect Tense", Pen & the Pad) So *perfect past tense* would be "He had asked". "He asked" would be *simple past tense.* So I did make a mistake as to the specific categorisation of the examples I used, and that appears to be quite common given how many elements there are to verb tense in English. I called "He asked" perfect because, in the context of the scene, I interpreted the action as completed even though the verb was written in simple tense. So technically the "perfect" label doesn't apply even though it's describing a completed action. The nature of the action doesn't change the tense, so that was an error on my part. However, I believe that I was correct in the rule that _perfect_ refers to *completed actions,* while _imperfect_ refers to *incompleted actions.* I believe that it's still correct to call "He was asking" imperfect tense because I had simply omitted mentioning verb aspect because that wasn't the focus of what I was talking about. Any other confusion might be the consequence of me first being exposed to tense and aspect through Latin classes and confusing a couple of rules in Latin grammar with rules in English grammar.

[@Toonl97]

I definitely agree with you on the difference of complete and incomplete actions and the corresponding tense. The part of your video was just a bit confusing for me as I‘m not a native english speaker and my grammar books explain it the way I put it above (I started thinking it had something to do with the different types of english). Thank you very much for your in-depth answer ^-^

[@antediluvianspy1708]

@@Toonl97 Im so sorry English is a language you have to learn. But you seem to have an incredible grasp on it.

[@maxbud8435]

Trying to learn English is like trying to re-grow a penis

[@guidodirado1660]

Shit mate school didn't prepare me for this

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Poor Shammy.

[@popalupa4844]

Whoa, it's you.

[@bigredeyes8063]

Holy hell It's him

[@miles6283]

EmperorTigerstar, commenting on a CCC video, about Shammy. Holy shit this has to be a sign of the apocalypses

[@ShudowWolf]

Funny enough I believe both Shammy and EmperorTigerstar shouted this channel out.

[@swordsmanschagrin]

"Hi Mark, how's your sex life?"God this just came to mind the moment I herd that line

[@2urh]

Swordsmans Chagrin I did nat hit her, it's bullshit. I did not hit her. I naaaat. Oh hai, Mark

[@Ludacris2800]

DON'T TELL ME YOU HAVEN'T HAD IT YET I died.

[@rubywolf5296]

"Part 2 is where things begin to get weird." Bro; we've had Gender politics, Nazi Owls & our Protagonist being asked if he was interested in taking it up the Bum. I'm dying to see what's next!

[@HyperShadic0]

At least it wasn't called "Owlchemy."

[@ontheborderofbored]

grumpychris - Can you hear me groaning? I kind of wish the author used it, just so CCC could tear it apart.

[@phantom99991]

I think the pun would have been better than the word he actually used. And I HATE puns.

[@nou3188]

Fullfeathered owlchemist

[@abeestosruinsageneration3725]

It should have been used. It's a lot less bland than Owlology. Would have given it a bit of charm.

[@TJbrena]

IRL female birds of prey are larger, with the exception of some smaller owls like burrowing owls. So chauvinistic male owls don't make any damn sense.

[@antediluvianspy1708]

I think the author is making fun of the feminist movement.

[@KateeAngel]

In birds also, unlike mammals, the reproductive burden is distributed more equally between males and females

[@dr.c2195]

That does not matter. Females always get preferential treatment. In species where males are stronger females are kept somewhat in check but are still treated with special regard. In species where females are stronger, like spiders and grasshoppers, females outright kill the males while the males line up for it. If men were not smarter and stronger than women than at the best men would commonly be wounded from the abuse of women and at worst women would frequently kill men. We would probably have a society where, for example, married women would common marry another man and then kill their previous man at the wedding.

[@beastmaster0934]

Yeah, that’s why I always assumed societies consisting of sentient birds of prey would be matriarchal.

[@eggwheel1]

@@dr.c2195 thats the most batshit insane thing ive read in a WHILE, i will not lie

[@abitscatterbrained]

Some of those lines sound like they were written by Tommy Wiseau.

[@baldman7738]

Scatterbrain oh hi Marc.

[@doctorsnakeeater1997]

I believe you mean Tommy Wisowl.

[@kinagrill]

It's not true, it's bullshit!

[@jurgenshantz4273]

“Also guardians of ga hoole was bad” Me, tears streaming down my face: “why would you do this cloud?” I think I’m going to go cry some more now

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

I believe my comment what we in academia call: "sick b8"

[@jurgenshantz4273]

CloudCuckooCountry alright there’s no need to be hurtful here. I just wanted to watch a bird talk about how not to write a book. I didn’t want that same bird to destroy my childhood.

[@salinval]

24:56 Such a missed opportunity to make the "an absolute hoot!" pun.

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

I have failed

[@EmnelGaming]

So according to that Wikipedia page this is considered 'catholic fantasy' and was presented to teenagers at church summer camps etc. Which sure explains a lot...

[@jobiz7061]

As a catholic, I can say that this book is the sort of thing we'd burn for Ash Wednesday Ashes

[@NelsonDemifur]

You have no idea how hard i facepalmed at the exchange of "The Urge" when you first said it.

[@ZircronSwift]

21:08 Did Quaver basically say "Anyway, how is your sex life?"

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Yes

[@ujjwalmishra8962]

I read this in Tommy's voice

[@Sorrelhas]

I didn't remember the name of the channel or the subject of the video, so I just searched for "Shammy owl sex", and this was the first result.

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

It’s good to know that this will be my legacy.

[@ItsCamille735]

Wow this English teacher needs to learn show don't tell.

[@joefromplanetmars2267]

Tell never show, showings for the gays

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Big thanks to Shammy for lending his sensuous voice to my dumb video series. Check him out: kzbin.info Decided to try my hand at performance laughter. I think it sounds really cringey. I didn't articulate it well in the video, but my problem with the explicit in-text mention of feminism isn't to do with a personal aversion to the ideology. It's more to do with the similar criticism I made of the inclusion of words such as "progressive", "emancipation", and "chauvinism", all of which feel out-of-place as relatively modern concepts in a setting that focuses on a pre-technology society. That's not to say that in-text examinations of gender and gender politics shouldn't be done, but that it seems a tad silly for a small community of owls to invent feminism before inventing the wheel. Same goes for "The Final Solution" come to think of it. Thanks for watching. Next video should be out in a more timely fashion. (I'm really trying to get these out fast, guys. I'm just the unluckiest KZbinr in the world.)

[@shammytv]

CHANGE THE LINK TO /C/SHAMMYTV OH MY GOD I GIVE YOU MY VOICE AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

KZbin won't let me edit the comment, so sorry, I guess. It was nice knowing you.

[@BPetty1236]

Shammy Respect triple C you little owl.

[@thesilentexo7539]

I liked the laughter; it sounded very tortured, which certainly fits most of what you were laughing at.

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

The very same.

[@Kristina-dl2jv]

Hello! I hope this isn't weirdly out of the blue, but I just wanted to say that I LOVE you channel! After watching a Shammy video where you were plugged I came here and I've watched about a dozen videos at this point 😂 I'm a writing hobbyist and while I haven't read pretty much any of the books you talked about, you really made your reviews and criticisms very engaging to watch. Thank you so much for making these wonderful videos and giving me a deeper insight into the medium!

[@ShudowWolf]

Quick side note: With the sex and urge, a skilled writer can find a way to have it both ways: Have Hunter add in a line like "Wh--yeah I've fucked plenty of Owls" or "No I'm waiting for the perfect owl" blah blah blah and have Quaver clarify he means the urge It leads to a possible laugh and a quick clarification that's intentional. Alternitevly, have him say "Don't tell me you haven't had the urge yet" and we don't have this scene.

[@Mobius1onStandby]

Oh man an owl related topic, better call Shammy because O W L O L G Y ... But seriously great content keep it up my man!

[@Ivanofkoshinkaisokanryu]

wait so am which a video of a bird tell me why a book with owl's suck thats written by a hawk ? wtf

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Strange things go on in the world of birds.

[@Robosapien_]

"Don't tell me you haven't had it yet?" Said Quaver. "No." Said Hunter. "I just look at my little boy funny and wonder, why do all the girls care about you?"

[@kpmh2001]

this reads like my early fanfiction.

[@gregortheoverlander4122]

Holy shit I've read this book. I'm 5:48 in and I just realized it with "Dawn Raptor". God damn, I know I've read it, but I still don't remember anything about it.

[@joelstewart5982]

Wood son of BARKer. Now that's a good pun

[@darkflamemasterdeath2936]

3:40 This might mean: *someone familiar is unwelcome when I want to be alone.* The moon and owl are symbolically similar. The tower represents loneliness. And the "ancient solitary reign" and the ivy that grows on the tower suggest that lots of time is involved. Someone who is alone a lot can see meaning in being undisturbed when unhappy.

[@zetazetaman]

It's back in my feed. I've gotta watch it again.

[@Kingdomheatsox2]

The dialogue makes that characters sound like cardboard cut outs. Alba and Hunter both have the same voice and come off as really *really* flat. And the author is an English teacher! He should have known better.

[@Asparaesque]

Just chalk that up to Shammy really wanting to die.

[@YaBoiGuzma]

Thank you Shammy for introducing me to someone with such a lovely voice.

[@hazyhillsblue]

Animal fables are interesting to read, though this one seems a bit clunky, to say the least. A couple of similar books I've read, 'Tailchaser's Song' by Tad Williams and 'Book of the Dun Cow' by Walter Wangerin, were written better than the one you're reviewing. One reason why is that the authors paid attention to. In 'Tailchaser', Williams created a cat language (called the Higher Singing) and went out of his way to have his characters use this unique vocabulary when addressing each other. Wangerin's 'Dun Cow', which was inspired by the Chanticleer story in Canterbury Tales, is written in a medieval setting with old English often being used, which gives the text some flavor and makes the dialogue more engaging to read, like you're reading an epic poem.

[@Leoofmoon]

First minute and 5 seconds of your channel and I already love your content.

[@AroAceGamer]

I forgot I was subscribed to this channel... Glad to be back. Looking forward to part 2.

[@cursedcontent4207]

I've just watched these two videos three times in a row. I guess I love hearing you rip this book to shreds.

[@Zippsterman]

It's fun to see how the animation style has changed over the years

[@jennabrutananadalewski412]

I've never been more happy to find a channel. I love the intro. My highschool and middle school life was grabbing books from bargain bins because I couldn't get enough of reading literally anything. I read so much utter crap. I wish I still had them all. I love this series. You have a new fan.

[@empatheticfrog2052]

This is an amzing video. I love reviews like this

[@huntergeerts7040]

Holy shit you actually taught me the difference between perfect and imperfect past tense. I’ve looked it up before but nothing was as clear and concise as your explanation, thanks!

[@Anthaghoull]

Two birds making cool stuff... Shammy and Cuckoo... I just love you both to tears

[@NivetFox]

I've been trying to find this video for like 3 years or something. Finally found it!

[@flairthedark6000]

Oh lordy that "Woooooooood!" bit gets me every time, Imma see if it ever gets old, which I doubt it will XD

[@NoriMori1992]

Does the book ever explain what "owlology" actually is?

[@scorpiwater]

being concise is harder than you think. great video

[@viyhexe131]

A new book burning video? I feel like Christmas came early!

[@jeramiahvanelgort3913]

Am here because of Shammy. Wish I found your channel earlier, cause your content is fantastic. Both hilarious and really educational with all the writing advice. You got yourself a subscriber, good sir. Keep up the amazing work!

[@garrettford4523]

Shammy should do some audio books. He's got a great voice and perfect delivery

[@Tiparium_NMF]

OH MY GOD. I need more.

[@MrJamacianBob]

Can't wait for part 2!

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

MrJamacianBob You don't have to wait long. It's having the finishing touches done right now.

[@korynnininm]

I get the feeling this book was written by an 8th grader

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

It was written by an English teacher who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in London and has worked as a Senior Language Consultant for European companies.

[@viyhexe131]

Good to know it's not just the American Education System that has failed spectacularly.

[@VitorOliveira-sk8dz]

Wasn’t it written by an Italian guy ?

[@Realstealfan]

You sir have made me smile. A very rare occurrence especially with the current state of youtube. Subscribed, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

[@EmSwaff2]

I actually bought the book and read it after watching this like 5 times. It truly is one of the most awful and pretentious things I've ever read. But getting the full context of the stupid parts you point out was nice and made me laugh too much thinking about your commentary on it.

[@AllTheRooks]

The amount of snort-chuckles exuded from my nose just from hearing dialogue from this book is indeed, a quite high number

[@ocularorb4021]

Man.... I forgot how much I loved books

[@abeestosruinsageneration3725]

Shammy's voice acting is so good, he actually makes the story sound better than it's actually written. (at least to me)

[@LoLkiller59]

This channel is a hidden gem of youtube, I hope you get more recognition than your current subscriber count :)

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Thank you very much!

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

3:26 Huh. I mean, there’s a point there. ‘Keep your studious, grasping hands off the beautiful things we see in the world. Leave them unstudied.’ It’s a very common theme in romantic literature. It’s an alien perspective to a world where everyone can get fat easily because science keeps unlocking new ways to feed ourselves, but back in the Early Modern period, ‘let me enjoy this for it’s own sake’ was a very powerful sentiment.

[@ionianorion9349]

I came to this channel from Shammy's video,I like it already from the first few seconds

[@NoahTheGoldFox]

Guardians of ga'hoole is one of the best book series in the world! I even believe in the God from ga'hoole, glaux

[@kojikakoifish2862]

Dawn Raptor. I can just FEEL the Wattpad in that name.

[@CptPipebeard]

Hey there, found out about this channel thanks to your boy Shammy Owl. Thanks to these videos, I want to now go back and reread Tim Powers' novel The Anubis Gates.

[@spikematson5007]

This is the scary movie to scream

[@nealpotts6620]

Came here from the Shammy podcast, or whatever it's called, and this is really good. I like to write sometimes and I found the content here rather intriguing.

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Thank you very much. Hope you stick around.

[@tm_ness]

Hell yeah!

[@zesty5717]

as a person who almost EXCLUSIVELY reads talking animal books, I appreciate this

[@camilabertolini5050]

"No bitches?" -Quaver, probably.

[@1998anirudh]

Fuckin el , 23:31 killed me , you murderer thou . Anyhow , it's nice seeing this channel still active .

[@SplatCade]

Pinkie Pie Hey, editor here. I won't lie to you, that was actually a total accident. It just happened while with a friend of mine, and it was so good I HAD to keep it in. Glad you had a laugh!

[@dracolotl1074]

Shammy sent me, and I love this

[@NurseValentineSG]

Aspiring writer here. Time to subscribe to you and watch all your videos because this one is pretty fucking good.

[@thepapistyourmotherwarnedy752]

And I thought Ga’Hoole was lacking in subtlety and I’m someone who enjoys the series for nostalgia

[@DownWithPlankers101]

Lol. I fricking loved the Guardian's of Ga'Hoole series as a little kid. Can't remember jack all about it tho. 😅

[@rorystockley5969]

Whooo Shammy.

[@jimaspergers6743]

never thought i'd see someone review a book about the owl holocaust

[@artemiswyrm4249]

Sent by B-Mask. Rock on, man.

[@TytoT-pj9lz]

With all due respect, what about Guardians of Ga'hoole did you not like? I admit that the writing style is hard to follow, but the overall story is something interesting. At least in my opinion.

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

I'm extremely sensitive to writing style, I'll admit, so a poorly conceived or executed writing style can severely hurt the experience of a novel for me. Admittedly, I didn't continue reading after book 1, so I'm fully willing to accept that it might get better in the subsequent books.

[@TytoT-pj9lz]

CloudCuckooCountry That's only fair. The writing style, I regret to say, doesn't change that much in the rest of the books. It's the lore and characters that save the series for me. P.S. Thanks for not biting my head off for asking a question like a lot of people would do in your position!

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Characters are generally of middling priority to me in books. Lore is usually always low priority, unless it's somehow central to the experience. No worries. Thanks for asking.

[@TytoT-pj9lz]

CloudCuckooCountry No, thank you for having a civilized discussion! You're a good guy, don't forget that.

[@TytoT-pj9lz]

CloudCuckooCountry Okay, I'm sorry if I'm bothering you or anything, but do you know what would be a great video idea? A Book Burning of the first Guardians of Ga'hoole book. You could discuss how to make the dialogue and narration more natural. This will be my last comment, just wanted to share a thought.

[@beargrill42]

You have a very distinct laugh

[@DeathAlchemist]

I didn't expect you to freak out laughing, your laughter is infectious. I like how how you actually showed stick figure things go on as Shammy narrated (great job). BTW based on the rest of the novel, do you think the feminism was meant to be genuine or a parody of feminism?

[@Barakon]

Shouldn’t the females be more predominant in owl society because they’re usually larger & probably stronger? kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3rKkGmDmLdqnbM To quote the Wikipedia article on owls “Sexual dimorphism Sexual dimorphism is a physical difference between males and females of a species. Female owls are typically larger than the males.[10] The degree of size dimorphism varies across multiple populations and species, and is measured through various traits, such as wing span and body mass.”

[@Barakon]

shouldn’t owlology be otosology (owl in Greek + the “study of” suffix)? Since anthropology is human in Greek + the “study of” suffix.

[@milos1967]

8:48 I like how he calls out "still" for being a modern colloquial term but not "I've got to hand it to you"

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Oops

[@milos1967]

CloudCuckooCountry Still, I've got to hand it to you, pretty great video

[@vali_bg5234]

"It's terrible, still better than Twilight." Oh, ok. I was scared that something surpassed stale superspeed vampire abs.

[@lanterns_glow]

9:54 I feel like the owls could have had something like Strigs for males and Strixes/Strix for females. Easily justified with them being birds! Or Cocks/Roosters and Hens, play into the dynamics. Would've been better.

[@NoriMori1992]

6:17 Er… What Birdsong video? I can't find such a video on your channel 🙁

[@TheNomnomnommer]

HEY, gaurdians of ga'hoole was OK at least!

[@someguy4405]

You know, there's this book called "Intermedial Theater" which in my opinion contains the best first sentence of all time. I'm going to quote it in full. Not a word of this is made up. Enjoy. The becomings- and comings-to-be-other, together, and through intermedial theater, force-multiplied by it's indeterminate structural propensities for affective emergences that exeed the artistic designs of the theatric-media processes themselves, stimulate cascades of feedback-loops givings-way to feedforward-flows going elsewhere wonderously achieving transversality over the rainbow of compossibility.

[@someguy4405]

I want to know what Bryan Reynolds was smoking.

[@kyletowers9662]

See ya'll in 4 months for for part 2😉😉😉

[@pyrix]

I hope you have more books to burn ;o

[@John-rb8gb]

Owls talking to eachother about getting or not getting raunchy owl sex, gives me life

[@hyenasloan8443]

I almost want to write an owl xenofiction out of spite of this book

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

There's always room for more good xenofiction, for sure

[@TheInsomniaddict]

10/10 would let a cartoon parrot describe better writing methods to me again.

[@catherinecao4810]

If Quaver is younger, shouldn’t Hunter know about the “Urge” before his little brother?

[@the_hedonist3575]

3:35 Someone literally made a poem about 16 different ways to look at a fucking snowman. That's nothing.

[@DreadDrago]

Hello I have been sent from Shammy and I come in peace(maybe)

[@NoriMori1992]

6:11 Where is this "Birdsong video"? I can't find it.

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

It’s no longer available due to it containing catastrophic errors. It’s also not up to the standards that I hold for this channel nowadays, so I have no desire to remake it or make it available again

[@Slaggedfire]

1:30 Then what was wood named after...

[@nou3188]

Owl owl the owl owl who is an owl owl that enjoys conversing with other owl owls

[@Nonsensical_Mecha]

Guardians of Ga’Hoole: was crap but I loved it....and it didn’t interject politics into my young teen brain.

[@nicolasdoe6846]

Guardians of Ga'hoole was high art in comparison to this story

[@Voidling_System]

I want to see Shammy narrate more... Fanfiction.

[@snardigan2026]

21:06 STAHP

[@zipp4910]

How the hell did I get here? But either way good vid.

[@THAB3AST]

SHAMMY!!!!!!!

[@NoriMori1992]

8:47 How modern is it? And why shouldn't it be there? If it's because of when it takes place, I don't think this is on a level where it bears mentioning. It's not like they said "Sup, bro?" If it's just because they're owls, then I'm confused as to why that matters.

[@moooshroomdragonking1335]

wait why is it that the one time there are actual birds you dont use birds