i'm obsessed with this book

[@ManCarryingThing]

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[@benjaminchornyy3549]

Hi, I don't know your email, so: do you know what is the best site to find me'self a free e-book? Keep up with the quality content, btw

[@citizensguard3433]

Ohh mannnnm these avant-garde memes are getting really great! The irony of an unironic book review done with sincerity lacking in all ironic is just so ironic and irreverent. It gets my satirical taste buds in a tizzy!

[@ManCarryingThing]

someone gets it

[@kaymerillo8510]

sometimes I want to like things twice

[@jaiadlakha212]

I love that you put the names of the books you mentioned in the description, alot of book tubers don't do that, and it irks me .

[@YVoiceY]

Can‘t know the name of the books if you don‘t watch the whole video

[@noutsakh.2135]

"I've been gravitating towards crime." - Jake, 2022.

[@StrawberryShortcake2010-dd3qj]

His name's Jake?

[@p0kepengin592]

​@@StrawberryShortcake2010-dd3qjhis name is man

[@GloriaGloom]

Just finished the Expendable Man and wow I'm so glad I learned of both the author and the book from this channel! What an absolute banger of a story. Couldn't put it down. I kept looking for it at various bookstores and not finding it. On my fourth try I walked into a bookstore and there it was, on a turnstile book display, the first book cover I laid eyes on! Glad I could carry out the will of God by purchasing and reading this book.

[@ManCarryingThing]

glad you enjoyed it!

[@benjaminbaki1758]

It's a shame these book review videos don't get as many views as your skits but they are incredibly insightful and keep motivating me in reading books, so thank you and keep making this sort of content along with your skits. You're like my top 3 favorite KZbinr rn man. I wish you the best!

[@donpax8959]

I can't tell if this whole video is a joke or not. He talks and acts here almost the exact same way he does in his other videos, lol

[@Devon.with.an.i]

I thought he was playing a character, but this is just how he is

[@Litera_Trotter]

He gets slightly normal with serious videos

[@donpax8959]

@@Litera_Trotter he simultaneously does an actual book review and makes fun of book reviews. I listen to his interesting book review and laugh at the same time, lol

[@dant5349]

He has loads of book reviews on his channel, check out his playlists, he has a bunch collected that are worth watching

[@rolanddeschain6089]

I love his joke/meme videos. But I am actually here because of the book stuff.

[@somethingwicked11]

I am so glad you loved Wuthering Heights! It’s one of my all time faves.🖤

[@mrhoapro1]

The thing he's carrying is his love for books all along

[@lydiawidell7792]

Going through your bookrec playlist and have added about a dozen recommendations to my immediate TBR, thanks! Wuthering Heights is one of my favourite books for just how intense it is, its so bleak and gets worse until the horrible charachters just burn eachother to the ground. I must read East of Eden just based on the comparison!

[@jenniferarmstrong7722]

Yay, book reviews!! love Hardy!! He isn't for everyone. I'm getting ready to re-read Tess of the d'Urbervilles. One of my favorite books and probably the most depressing!! I look forward to more WOT stuff!

[@DGol2015]

I loved Far From the Madding Crowd. Also read Return of the Native, with some excellent scenes but overall not as good. Hardy's prose is just so good! He's the first author i've read who actually inspires me to use the word "prose."

[@nicklasbrandes9118]

Yeah books! I've been waiting for more book content

[@camelopardalis84]

Oh. Okay. Thumbnail looks as if this isn't going to be a comedy video. But who knows? (You do.)

[@sush.i]

*adds every single book to my tbr*

[@k.enterante]

Jake, if you see this, I’ve got a wildly obscure (but no less awesome for it) book rec for you. I’ve been reading it myself thinking: “Man Carrying Thing would probably love this.” Anyways it’s called Sunflower, by Tex Gresham. Saying anything about it sort of spoils it-it’s one of those special ones. Check it out! 🔥

[@ManCarryingThing]

just put it on my list! thanks!

[@k.enterante]

@@ManCarryingThing You got it! Love it or hate it, I’m pretty sure you’ll find it fascinating either way!

[@kinkinkijkin]

i just re-found your channel after a while, I like the exact video bulk balance you have between satire videos like this one and hyper-serious videos like "my thoughts on the latest controversy", and how you make no indication which video is satirical and which video is serious except by the video lengths. okay going off from the usual genre of comments on your videos, i used to read a lot and appreciate the love for a book that drives a man to make a video about it. before the incident i did this too, though lower production and ive deleted all of them since. healthy mix of being able to watch the same youtuber between book stuff and funny deadpan satire.

[@chinesecabbagefarmer]

You look absolutely stunning sweetheart! You're ready to take on the world, one book at a time!!!!!! Never stop reading and sharing your passion

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Love hearing you talk about books man, you always have a unique perspective. Also, I love Phoenix! You'll be happy to hear I bought Blood Meridian today! Just read The Road as my first Cormac McCarthy book and it's possibly my favorite non fantasy book of all time. Cheers man, hope you're well.

[@ManCarryingThing]

Thanks Jimmy! That's so kind of you to say, and hell yeah, blood meridian! It's insane insane insane, so curious to see what you think

[@antekpatyk9425]

I still have to finish Oathbringer, but I decided that it was a great idea to get War & Peace from my school library, even though school ends in a couple weeks and I will have to give it back.

[@Avzigoyhbasilsikos]

Wuthering heights is one of the first novels I’ve read Has a special place in my heart.

[@OragniStin]

i'm obsessed with this man who carries thing

[@emilyrobbins6315]

In a Lonely Place is one of my favorite books of all time. Thank you for bringing more visibility to this author!

[@FruitLoopsHD]

me watching and liking even though i’m not traditionally into books because i want to support this channel until i am decaying beneath the earth

[@wronggeometry]

Right; so, hello. So cute to see you shout out Katie at booksandthings. I've been watching her for years and only just found you

[@robertisrotten]

Love these Westlake reviews

[@bxp_bass]

Ad integration which gives you feel of cuteness and warm instead of annoyance

[@randomuser4370]

Love this channel, love this type of content. When Nadia walks in... lol! Now I'm curious to know what she said. Also enjoying the channel of you two, btw.

[@ahorrell]

Love your book chats man

[@stephenasmithfanfan5971]

Will you talk about this on the next Man Darrien Things podcast?

[@ManCarryingThing]

that man is a menace

[@ethanwaugh8184]

I definitely reccomend Malazan my man! I'm almost done with the second book and it's seriously awesome.

[@chrisw6164]

I finished Wuthering Heights today, I slayed that demon from my high school days when I had zero interest in it. Everyone in the story is awful. Characters even randomly throw rocks at each other. I have no idea why it’s recommended for school children. Not because it’s offensive (it’s not), but because the ugliness and the hyper-emotionalism in this book is something high schoolers should be steered away from. Maybe that’s the point? The version I read was published by Scholastic, so yeah, it’s aimed at school kids.

[@LeeGray929]

WH is a literary masterpiece but yea not really for kids

[@juand1rection]

I might have an answer for this, though I don’t know if it applies to all Scholastic editions. Bella Swan’s favorite book in Twilight is WH. The copy that I owned, which I then lended to my aunt who’s a huge twilight fan has a very Twilight-esque cover. I didn’t get 3 pages into it as a teenager.

[@suizilla]

Why do we need to shelter "school children"? I think that's condescending. Kids these days are exposed to the realities of life through the news, even if caretakers try to shelter them from them: school shootings, war, environmental collapse. They're more capable of reading fictional ugliness than you think. Literature isn't meant to be a manual on how to live life. Otherwise, why would we read Romeo and Juliet?

[@chrisw6164]

@@suizilla I’m not necessarily talking about sheltering anybody. It just seems like an odd choice for mandatory reading once I thought about it. When I read it in high school, the lesson did not include much about how hyper-emotional all these characters are and that it’s something to avoid in real life. Then again, high school was a long time ago and I could be misremembering.

[@suizilla]

@@chrisw6164 Yeah, but I don't think English teachers necessarily say "Don't kill yourself if you fall in love as a teenager" is the moral when they teach Romeo and Juliet, either. (Just an example.)

[@FijianSouljah1312]

Wow, I forgot how much I actually LOOOVE book reviews 😳 S/o to Poodiepee for that 🙏🏽🔥

[@dant5349]

Temper your expectations with Hardy. He's OK as a novelist but it doesn't reach the same heights as his poetry imo. Trollope is good though. A very funny author who in many ways is a predecessor of Pratchett in the canon of British literature (also read more Pratchett!)

[@sneakyking]

Oh yeah, well I'm obsessed with this channel.

[@LeeGray929]

Ohhh I’ll def check this out

[@theBearJewel]

I am not sure what is happening in this video... but I think I like it.

[@luvBB4lyf]

That's a really cool sponsor!

[@sentinelshoshin4632]

Where you at in the Dark Tower? Finish it yet? Even an update would be great. I've since finished it, and moved on to The Talisman. Kinda hit and miss for me. Some of it I really like, some of it I really don't. Thinking IT or The Stand next after a break from him after The Talisman.

[@phenix4181]

you manage to make me want to read every single book you review

[@demidrek-heyward]

hello Mr Thing, please read Ken Kesey. Oh and Thomas Hardy is very good!!!

[@KentStJohn-vn6bq]

Dorothy B Hugh’s died in Ashland, Oregon. I’m from Oregon! ARGH! This video is just so relevant to me!

[@ADHDlanguages]

Wait WHAT was wuthering heights doing on your bookshelf?

[@MagusMarquillin]

Shitting. It's a rare phenomenon documented only in Wuthering Heights, Catcher in the Rye and the Necronomicon. You can often smell on a book collector if they have one of those.

[@ADHDlanguages]

@@MagusMarquillin hm. I found an old magazine of my dad's with the pages stuck together. Maybe that's what was going on.

[@michaellolel9008]

Casual Man Carrying Thing watcher? Nonono I’m a competitive watcher, I wake up, watch Man Carrying Thing, eat, watch Man Carrying Thing, go to work, Man Carrying Thing, sleep, dream of Man Carrying Thing. I’m going for a platinum rank

[@halogod18]

Can you do a video of all the books you think we should read? like a list of old and new books

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

Hate it when Emily Brontë poops all over my shelves.

[@byronlabonte6320]

In the same boat with fantasy. For whatever reason I just can’t stay motivated with it even when I’m enjoying it. Horror on the other hand I’ve been devouring. If you haven’t checked him out already, give Stephen Graham Jones a try

[@Stineosaur]

I bet you’ve read some Kurt Vonnegut but if not you should check out Kurt Vonnegut, I think you’d really enjoy Kurt Vonnegut

[@superiorgo2368]

"once I graduate from college I'll have more time to read." If only it were true.

[@jeffeliassen]

Nice, your two vids put Wuthering Heights on the list now. Interested in Joyce or Proust?

[@ManCarryingThing]

yep! love joyce, haven't read proust

[@jeffeliassen]

@@ManCarryingThing Nice Joyce is da best. Proust isn't for everybody but I think you'd likey, similar deep internal meta modernist goodness, Swann's Way is unique and beautiful. Love your stuff man shine on

[@mattkean1128]

In a Lonely Place was great. Better than the movie. Wuthering Heights is a favorite. Westlake/Stark always entertains. Speaking of Victorian lit and crime novels, have you read any Wilkie Collins? Moonstone is sometimes dubbed the first detective novel. I have full sets of Trollopes Barsetshire and Palliser novels but haven't gotten to them yet. You should check out Anthony Powell too, his Dance to the Music of Time series

[@KillerOfWhales]

Crime novel on the road from LA to Phoenix? Anything to do with, say, trying to push people off of the Grand Canyon maybe?

[@Imperfecto365]

You should read Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, and maybe his most controversial book, The Satanic Verses. I think you might enjoy those

[@joshuanavarrete4357]

Banger

[@bertybell4781]

Are you ever gonna maybe read The Count of Monte Cristo?

[@battlereadyminis171]

dude, Man Carrying Thing is from phoenix? cool

[@darger3]

You from Phoenix? East Valley Guy here.

[@anthonyt219]

I tend to stay away from romance novels, so i will probably never read wuthering heights. I like gothic fiction but on the pulpy side like ghosts. Murder mystery n stuff

[@iswhat1]

You're from Arizona?...it all makes sense now

[@procurement3681]

1. Which book did you really, really like of these three? Apparently you're obsessed about one of them and it's maybe possibly your favorite book ever. 2. If you have followed that flub through to its logical conclusion you'd have said "shitting on my self" instead of "sitting on my shelf." 3. If anyone needs any sci-fi recommendations Adrian Tchaikovsky's _Children of Time_ was excellent. I'm really digging his sci-fi.

[@samuelcartagena5080]

More book.

[@mohitdhuppad3671]

Kingkiller Chronicles. Read. Please.

[@MichelNJoia]

Gravity's rainbow Review when?

[@ManCarryingThing]

one of these days im sure

[@jojosoni]

ngl, i'm just waiting for him to read one piece just like daniel and murphy

[@deanedongdoorbell]

I'm obsessed with your moustache.

[@ManCarryingThing]

lmao thank you

[@alexanderkostadinov8936]

You have nice cheekbones.

[@deelak2329]

Saying Wurhering heights is better than East of Eden is blasphemy

[@hannesproductions4302]

Reading books? Who do hou think you are...Donald Green?

[@guymanuel4260]

A serious video???

[@bajsbrev4651]

Being form Pheonix, Working at UCLA, being black, that character is EXACTLY like you!!!

[@2tri749]

more like man carrying book

[@Sirrajj]

You look like some Gothic monster in that thumbnail lol

[@JJayFrank]

you would be obsessed with One Piece

[@Devon.with.an.i]

Watch yourself, buddy.

[@ManCarryingThing]

oh ok

[@jobobminer8843]

I started Wuthering Heights and it was so awful I had to stop. It has to be one of the best awful experiences in reading because of how effectively it is written. 10/10 don't read it.

[@darkprinceofdorne]

Daniel Greene is really great at reviewing books

[@justareader____]

@i know that begone freak

[@musicgenius1948]

Yes but he doesn’t review books anymore

[@sechay9328]

@@musicgenius1948 He literally reviewed a book 4 days ago, and another the week before.

[@musicgenius1948]

@@sechay9328 3 this month

[@musicgenius1948]

@@sechay9328 he just doesn’t make that much book content anymore

[@nunyabusiness4983]

Jacob: I adored this book for how much I relate to the main character of this book and how similar our lives are. Also Jacob: So anyway this book is about a black man dealing racial tensions in the 40s.

[@boman987]

“This book. It’s so relevant to me. His family is very well to do, but he understand that his reputation could just be tarnished. Even being the suspect in a murder case.” I appreciate the small looks into your life. You’re so authentic.

[@abdullahelnaas4473]

Joshua had it coming bro

[@darriendane]

I remember writing Wuthering Heights back in the day, glad you enjoyed it 🙏

[@ManCarryingThing]

THT WAS YOU????????

[@OrangeBulldog29]

I can't believe Wuthering Heights has been shitting on your shelf

[@Avzigoyhbasilsikos]

He’s a psychopath

[@dcdcdc556]

"this has been shitting on myself" -Mancarryingthing

[@DCGMatthew1]

The best book I've ever read is probably SuperMega Saves The Troops. I don't think literature can get any better than that.

[@HeronKij]

Agreed. Captivating from beginning to end. And I don't think anyone has ever put together that OBL's middle name is short for Benjamin. Brilliant.

[@_Ciaran_Maher]

1:13 So does that make you The Expendable Man Carrying Thing. Also we read Wuthering Heights in English class, Heathcliff and Catherine were insufferable assholes and they can both kiss my ass. Hated that book, been meaning to revisit it ever since.

[@ManCarryingThing]

lmao i understand that reaction completely

[@travelthroughstories]

Warlock is incredible and it earns its page count! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it if you get to it.

[@OverlyAverageBen]

You have a way of making me want to read books I almost definitely wouldn't enjoy that much 😂

[@Boykahmed]

Thank god for JakeBookTube

[@yoodlerdoodler5826]

I really REALLY enjoy spaghetti

[@OldManPhillips]

Are…are you being genuine?

[@merck__]

I'm about halfway through The Night Circus. It had been on my read list for forever and I am so mad at myself for waiting so long. It is an absolute delight

[@ManCarryingThing]

i should read that

[@thufirck6734]

Heard a lot of good things about that book, and it looked interesting. But I couldn't stand it. A love story where one of the characters is an irredeemable manipulative dickhead is a tough-sell.

[@sahilmeena5219]

Review Warbreaker or I'll make Brando Sando delay Stormlight 5 🔫 (Day 105)

[@ManCarryingThing]

i don't believe you have that power (nice try)

[@DavidDecero]

I was waiting for you to be like, "...then the MC from The Expendable Man started his own KZbin channel about books. Weird for the 1960s, but man, he's so relatable." 😅

[@chrislin6570]

i read story of the eye after your recommendation and now im scarred for life :(

[@ManCarryingThing]

lol im so sorry

[@negil]

Heathcliff the cat is in that book?

[@ezekielyu4294]

I also discovered Westlake this year through Call Me a Cab - was pleasantly surprised, considering the misleading cover. I thought it was a very pure, heartfelt and smart book. Really taut and well-written.

[@ManCarryingThing]

exactly -- want to read the hot rock next

[@alhesiad]

Wow, I didn't know you were black.

[@ayehbusuk]

pls do more book reviews

[@personmcpersonperson2893]

i like your stuff dude

[@astronautis1674]

Greate recommendations! I'm curious, have you read The Spinoza Problem?

[@ManCarryingThing]

I haven't!

[@driftythekid]

Great Video! Just found your channel and been binging it, great stuff, keep it up!

[@Joenah5]

I love never being able to tell if I clicked on a serious or jokey video. If you ever feel an itch for some good urban fantasy, I cannot recommend Worm enough. I'm finally nearing the end (it's long) and it is already my favorite book of all time.

[@AGoldenBoon]

You’re really awesome, your books are awesome, your wife is awesome and your skits are awesome Take care ^_^

[@ManCarryingThing]

Thanks! :) you too