reading vlog - two post apocalyptic books surprise me!

reading vlog - two post apocalyptic books surprise me!
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I am a huge fan of post apocalyptic books and post apocalyptic fiction in any medium. THere's a lot of super popular ones out there but these two are lesser known in the post apocalytpic genre. One being fantasy and one being sci-fi I think you'll find these interesting.
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Lamentation by Ken Scholes
Thanks to ‪@thelibraryladder‬ and ‪@JosephReadsBooks‬ for the recommendations!
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[@MqttMo]

"Now watch this drive" PERFECTION

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@MqttMo 😂

[@LostinDiscovery]

10/10 'Now watch this drive' mate

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@LostinDiscovery thank you thank you, I worked hard on that one hahahaha

[@thelibraryladder]

I’m so glad you enjoyed Lamentation. I thought it might be right up your alley. Your reference to Chekhov’s gun is apt with respect to the subsequent books in the series, but maybe not how you expect. The world expands exponentially and in surprising directions that actually are foreshadowed very subtly in the first book. I agree with you on Lamentation’s weaknesses, but for a debut work by an author, it’s still very impressive IMO. Fortunately, many of the characters gain more depth and complexity (and make significant mistakes) as the series progresses. Isaak the servo is one of my favorites. Also, the worldbuilding adds some great reveals not typically found in epic fantasy.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I like the sound of that! I felt pretty confident that the following books would be even better, mainly because of the solid foundation this first book setup. I love Isaak! I appreciate you recommending this one to me, let’s chat soon

[@adamk42]

I know I picked that Ken Scholes book up in a bookstore back in the day and have since completely forgotten that it existed but it sounds interesting. Gonna grab both of these even though I haven't finished a book in a couple months. Great vlog Jimmy

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Ayyyy thanks man, hope it goes well!

[@mbearrism]

Have you read On the Beach by Nevil Shute? A bleak post-apocalyptic character study on how people deal with the inevitable. I reread it every couple years even though it’s a heavy read.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@mbearrism no but sounds AMAZING, I’ll order it now

[@mbearrism]

@@thefantasynuttwork I hope you enjoy it, though enjoy might be the wrong word

[@fjuran1]

Excellent video. I had read book one so many years ago. Have had the remainder of the series on my TBR for just as long. I'm glad you reminded me of this series.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@fjuran1 glad to help!

[@chadia25]

Great vlog again!! The perfect jingle during the golf parts.. 👌 I read a few pages of The Long Tomorrow after the last CWN. Very American. 😆 Will read it later this year.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@chadia25 yeah it’s definitely American lol

[@Red21Viper]

I have such a huge fascination for post apocalyptic stories. The idea of few survivors resetting and trying to build a new society is so appealing and grand whatever the story's scope. My favourite such story is the rebooted Battlestar Galactica show. I will definitely check the books you talk about!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@Red21Viper I need to watch BSG

[@Red21Viper]

@@thefantasynuttwork definitely. Its among the settings and stories I love most. Bakker, Tolkien, Martin, Battlestar Galactica, The Dark Tower, the world of the Witcher game and Berserk

[@andrewlavigne44]

@@thefantasynuttwork I'll back this up! One of the best shows of the prestige genre era, GoT before GoT (the show.) Also has a polarizing ending; I would call it mixed, it's mostly just the last 5 episodes that go off rails (out of like a 20 episode final season) but there are a lot of good bits and interesting things. The most important part is they land the character arcs.

[@Gl1tch2263]

My favourite part of this video was when he said “Ken Scholes must have been smoking bowls, and Leigh Brackett can’t hack it”

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@Gl1tch2263 I got bars imo

[@StoryGirl1128]

Love this review! It’s great to see some authors mentioned that most of us aren’t familiar with!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@StoryGirl1128 hoping to expand some tbrs hahah

[@josevitorschmitz4115]

You're amazing, Jimmy. Best reading vlogs in the game

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@josevitorschmitz4115 ayyyy thank you!

[@YouWinILose]

Love the thematic connection 🙂 You might get a lot of joy out of collaborative storytelling games where you can build a sci-fantasy post-apocalypse of your own. Dialect and Icarus are great games for this! Lots of creative energy and great memories.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@YouWinILose I’ll check those out!

[@fantasytale4653]

After I noticed you were reading The Long Tomorrow on Goodreads, I immediately read it and liked it. The unexpectedly good experience of Leigh Brackett’s book first time.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@fantasytale4653 love to hear it!

[@esmayrosalyne]

Post-apocalyptic is one of those subgenres that I always say I love but then never actually make the effort of picking up... gotta change that, I am highly intrigued by these books! Also, it's wild to me that I had never heard of Leigh Brackett before 🤯 Thanks for the fun vlog 🥰

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@esmayrosalyne she’s a legend!

[@iSamwise]

Thanks for covering these two. I haven’t heard of them before. Jimmy, since you’re a fan of the dying earth genre, how many of Jack Vance’s dying earth books have you read and what were your thoughts?

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@iSamwise just his first and really enjoyed it!

[@HenrikBrosveet]

Dying earth, dwemer from Elder Scrolls and Fallout! Sold, I’ll definitively check out Lamentation. Themed videos is a great idea Jimmy.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@HenrikBrosveet love to hear it!

[@patsmythos]

I love the character development, Jimmy. Never took you for a golfer but I should've known you'd have some cool layers to you - you're incredibly well written.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@patsmythos hahahaha do you play?!

[@patsmythos]

@@thefantasynuttwork absolutely not, I’m seriously awful. Nothing has been the same since Topgolf overtook bowling (which I also suck at) But I love that you do!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@patsmythos hahahha

[@VodinMyrthana]

Jimmy, you are still my favourite reviewer on KZbin. Keep it up!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@VodinMyrthana thank you so much! These feel like reviews in many ways to me, but I get to work through my notes on camera instead of waiting till the end 😂

[@adamborst]

Golf B-roll! Loving it! Too bad you missed the birdie putt.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Was a rough day on the links lol

[@TomOrange]

I picked up The Long Tomorrow from this vlog! The way you described it reminded me of Z for Zachariah. Very much could be a YA book but still has plenty of elements for any reader

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@TomOrange always wanted to read that one

[@thefantasythinker]

A trickle down fantasy that the rest of us book tube plebians will eventually get some beneficial investment from? Yeesh, indeed! 🤣Great blog Jimmy!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@thefantasythinker it’ll work!!! I promise!!!

[@angelamccollister]

I have that Ken Scholes series on my shelves for years. I got them as they came out. Just need to read it. Lol

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@angelamccollister so many series to read lol

[@bobbob-cd9yl]

Know you got a stressful month, good luck jimmy! I just started my placement year and the training period has been really tiresome and kinda boring honestly so reading has been non existent. Thx for your content to give me moments to just settle down ❤

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@bobbob-cd9yl I’m glad I can help in anyway and wish you the best!

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Per usual loved the vlog!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@LiteratureScienceAlliance ayyyy thanks!!

[@TheBeeesKnees]

honestly just love how proud you look after hittin that GWB now watch this drive

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@TheBeeesKnees I think it was my peak tbh hahahaha

[@beanieboy128]

Love the video and the I-68 B-roll

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@beanieboy128 some beautiful mountains

[@andrewlavigne44]

I've never heard of these and I'm surprised. They both sound pretty cool and I'll add them to my TBR.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@andrewlavigne44 woooooo that’s what I like to hear!

[@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

Added The Long Tomorrow to my WTR! Love me some classic scifi.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD I think you’ll really like it

[@someokiedude9549]

Well Jimmy, if/when we ever meet, we're gonna have to play a round of golf. Also, great video as always my friend!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@someokiedude9549 I’m pretty rotten

[@someokiedude9549]

@@thefantasynuttwork Perhaps I'll bring my dad in, he can help you out. Lol.

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I think I will like Lamentation, I'm going to keep an eye out for a copy. There is an audiobook for The Long Tomorrow but you technically have to be (legally) blind to get a copy. I am really glad you liked The Long Tomorrow. I was pretty sure you would. I thought it had a tone that would resonate with you. I think you are on to something with the Garden of Eden theory. The boys were making a choice to search for the tree of knowledge and they may have bitten off more than they can chew. Bracket has a quite a few books. She wrote the Eric John Stark series which is Planetary Romance(like John Carter of Mars). I have not read them but even with those she was treading new ground. She was writing about a black guy as the main character in the 1940s!(all of the cover artists ignored that and used white dudes until Paizo re-released the stories around 2009ish). I can highly recommend The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett. It is an even shorter novel and is this perfect blend of atomic age SF(think Fallout-lite before the apocalypse, no laser guns but there is space age tech), detective noir, and a dash of cosmic horror/existential dread. The dialogue is as good you would expect from Brackett and you get a fresh look at what she can do. She actually started off writing detective noir novels in the style of Raymond Chandler. I talk about it in my review of The Big Jump but at one point she was contacted to re-write the script for The Big Sleep(the Raymond Chandler novel was being adapted into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart). That is the screenplay she worked on with Faulkner. The director Howard Hawks asked his secretary to call in "this guy Brackkett" to help them clean up the screenplay. I bet he was shocked when a woman showed up 🤣. Great vlog and you are right about Bilbo being the🐐. Frodo ain't got nothing on him 😎.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@JosephReadsBooks Bilbo forever! I appreciate you recommending TLT and these other Brackett novels. Hope to get more of her works under my belt

[@ericF-17]

I often just have a negative sort of knee-jerk reaction to post apocalyptic fiction, even though I haven't read that much of it. This is because, from my very limited knowledge about the genre/sub-genre, I feel like it's often not done very well and generally don't really like post-apocalyptic earths for a number of reasons. However, in reality I absolutely love the idea of post-apocalyptic secondary world, at least conceptually, to the extent that I may at some point actually try to write a book in this category. It's interesting to hear your thoughts on these books. The Long Tomorrow sounds like an interesting concept and great book despite being a post-apocalyptic earth.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Long tomorrow is definitely more central to the human condition, just happens to be post apocalyptic

[@C.S.Brulevent]

It's quite strange, I just realized I never specifically look for Post Apocalyptic books when I seem to actually enjoy lots of stories (books, games, shows, etc.) with this type of setting. This vlog sparked an interest in those two book, so thanks! I'll probably start with The Long Tomorrow since it's a stand-alone and I don't feel like starting a new series just yet. I've (finally) finished book 1 of the Terra Ignota series --which burned my synapses to a crisp as it's filled to the brim with philosophical, scientific and societal concepts 🥵-- and I'm still not sure how I feel about it (I feel like I loved many parts of it, yet it feels like I'm still trying to grasp what the hell I've been reading, ahah) and if I'll continue with book 2 right this moment ; also I'd like to (finally) start The Sun Eater series! I mean... I should at least read book one before buying all those hardcovers reprints that are incoming, no? haha. Love the Vlogs, they feel like cosy reviews and I'm all for it.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@C.S.Brulevent thank you so much for watching! Terra Ignota is one I’ve had my eye on

[@zeallygreen]

💚

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@zeallygreen ❤️

[@HideAndRead]

You completely sold me on this book. Are you familar with Vampire Hunter D? The series is not about the dystopian elements but it has a lot of the past/present tech/magic, post nuclear society themes you brought up with skyrim. Very entertaining video, thanks for the recommendation.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@HideAndRead I am not but I’m curious of this vampire series!

[@HideAndRead]

@@thefantasynuttwork Two anime movies freely available on youtube, the opening scenes of the first movie does a good job of setting up that lore if I remember correctly.

[@dookieshoe2905]

I looked up Leigh Brackett and it looks like she finished a first draft of Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death. I've never even heard of her, I think I'll check out some of her stuff.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@dookieshoe2905 she’s definitely worth a shot imo

[@playermartin286]

Why even read a book about the apocalypse? Just turn on the news

[@thefantasynuttwork]

You’re right 😭😭😭

[@billyalarie929]

Because so many of them are explicitly about hope.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@billyalarie929 great point tbh

[@GarrickReads]

WE MAKING IT OUT THE COUNTRY CLUB WITH THIS ONE!!!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@GarrickReads NOW WATCH THIS DRIVE

[@Snally38]

Great video! I always enjoy hearing your insights on books, even when I have never heard of either of them. The Long Tomorrow sounds very cool, and I will be adding it to my list- Thanks Jimmy!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@Snally38 my pleasure!

[@andrewhanson405]

100% on Frodo

[@thefantasynuttwork]

Bilbo the GOAT

[@civoreb]

If you want any post apocalyptic books that arent mentioned a lot but still are solid check out Children of Men by PD James, Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt, Wolf and Iron by Gordon R Dickson, and Summer of the Apocalypse by James Van Pelt.

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I definitely will!

[@SuperGainsBrosYT]

Bro when do we just get a full on Cribs episode where Jimmy shows us the rest of his house?

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@SuperGainsBrosYT never 😆

[@readingwithrebeccanicole]

The Long Tomorrow sounds interesting, and I'm disappointed it is not on audio

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@readingwithrebeccanicole yeah one of the negatives of older books becoming obscure which sucks

[@abcdeqwerty123]

Check out "The Failures" by Benjamin Liar

[@thefantasynuttwork]

I’ll check it out

[@Zechree]

I feel like a fake Bethesda fan, how have I never heard that theory about fallout and elder scrolls, I guess I know what video I’m watching next when I finish this one. Take care Jimmy!

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@Zechree there’s some good videos on it on here!

[@demidrek-heyward]

LFG

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@demidrek-heyward hype train choo choo

[@lego7naveltube]

Jimmy, have you ever played The Last of Us? It’s easily the best post apocalyptic story I’ve ever consumed (I still have to read The Road lol), and you might love it. (P.S the game is far superior to the game, so I would recommend playing the game instead of watching the show, if you can.)

[@thefantasynuttwork]

@@lego7naveltube I have and loved it!