The Dark Souls of Books | Between Two Fires

[@Maartwo]

Thanks algorithm for recommending this video to me. This book seems right up my alley, I'll see if i can get a copy in my country, great video and summary!

[@GhostintheStacks]

Sometimes the algorithm comes through for us 🙌🏽 I hope you’re able to find a copy!

[@MC-dm9gs]

It did for me as well. Thank you.

[@ezstein4914]

Ironically, this book was recommended to me by a friend of mine with famously bad taste in media 🥴. Has since entered my top 10 of all time, what an insanely compelling and beautifully written story. It's hard to make a book that brutal and also make it a pageturner, but wow. Buehlman made it happen.

[@johsmith2481]

Awesome channel, definitely loved this recommendation! You earned a subscriber.

[@CheerfuEntropy]

how i usually explain it is the what if during the plague all of the catholic superstition at the time ...was true.

[@CheerfuEntropy]

or rather, catholisim as understood by layfolk at the time

[@GhostintheStacks]

That’s a good way to describe it too! Catholicism but if true

[@CheerfuEntropy]

@@GhostintheStacks been a fan of beuhlmans a long time. I worked at a renfaire once where he performed at as Christophe the insultor. Hands down one of the best shows ive seen at a faire. Basically a comedy set broken into groups of insults, and your friends all pool money to get you mocked. Length and severity of the bit escalates the more you pay christophe...

[@CheerfuEntropy]

one day a frat guy shows up to fair wearing like ..a childs dragon costume. not adult size he is just crammed in there. He is also obnoxiously drunk and irritating other folks in the crowd. One thing leads to another and the crowd ends up pooling $900 to insult the drunk dragon man. Christophe proceeds to do an hour and a half set. Epic poems about the stank of this dragons ass and the story of how the microscope was invented to find his balls. Incredible stuff. Everyone loved it, especially dragon guy. You can still buy his albums of his work and i can definitely recommend them

[@hylianexpected1171]

I can tell that you're gonna be big someday, man. Subscribed and looking forward to your future content! ❤

[@GhostintheStacks]

Thank you! We’ll see what happens but I’m glad to have you here and I’m excited to make more videos

[@djslikk.]

Great great video super informative but no spoilers, ive been very intrigued by this book for a bit

[@GhostintheStacks]

You should definitely pick it up! Some of the demonic encounters are the scariest things I’ve read

[@CelestialSlug]

Don't get me wrong, House of Leaves took me like a whole year to fully complete. That being said the book is my favorite thing I own

[@GhostintheStacks]

I hear something like that from everyone who’s read it. My gf finished it and absolutely loved it. I might get around to cracking it open one day, maybe once the FOMO reaches high enough levels!

[@Lux_Parallax]

​​@@GhostintheStacksI do not read. At all. Aside from recipes and instruction manuals. The most technical book I've read since I was 13 years old was Coralline - Neil Gaiman House of Leaves, read last year. Pretty easy read. Many ways to read it. Many ways to interpret it. (I mean sure I played and finished dark souls, and needed something before Elden ring released... But yknow.)

[@kadrie_kuzgun]

Thank you for the review 👍 I've listened to the audiobook on Buehlman's channel, and I liked the story. But it reminded me not of DS but of Clive Barker's Jericho, a part about crusaders. And the same vibe with DS universe I found in books of Peter Fehervari in a cycle called Dark Coil, especially in a novel "Requem Infernal". Check it, it's a fantastic reading. The imagery is vivid and sinister just like in Auldrich's cathedral.

[@GhostintheStacks]

I still need to read anything by Clive Barker! The Hell raiser movies are classics (and the reboot/remake wasn’t bad either!) I’ll have to move him up on my TBR list

[@David-jq7uw]

I picked this book up on your recommendation. I'm six chapters in, and I'm really enjoying it. I love that the novel is set within real world history with fantastic elements. It feels like a Solomon Kane or Conan the Cimmerian story. "The Dark Souls of Books" got me to click, but I think you're not wrong. I hope you give House of Leaves a read sometime. I know if feels like work sometimes, but once I got my first taste of the Navidson Record sections I was willing to put in the work to find out what happened next. I thought about House of Leaves for years. I read it when I was twenty years younger, but I still rank it very highly. Nice review. Nice recommendation. Best wishes.

[@GhostintheStacks]

That’s amazing, I’m so glad you picked it up and are enjoying it so far! I was kind of exaggerating when I said I’d never read House of Leaves. I might give it a read this Fall, it feels like a good book to read when the temperature starts to drop!

[@ThumbSipper]

This sounds very interesting actually, love the idea of the setting and I admit a fondness for the "Last of us" dynamic. I'm definitely checking it out 👍

[@ZiggyDerp]

house of leaves really aint that bad, it does take a bit of time to read because of how its formatted but it's not super difficult or anything, just dense at times

[@djslikk.]

Holy shit i need to read this

[@PrimoSchnevi]

i just came here to say that some fantasy novel clearly isnt the dark souls of books. its the Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel. Obviously.

[@revanisalive]

i haven't fully read a book since 2011 what a fucking failure

[@GhostintheStacks]

@@revanisalive it’s never too late to get back into it! I haven’t really read all summer but I’m started to get out of my reading slump. And I had gone a few years without picking up a book before rediscovering my love for reading!

[@revanisalive]

idk how to edit on mobile so: i also enjoy you point out you're not religious but are still fascinated by the art and prose (forgive me if i misinterpret) . I don't necessarily have faith in these religions but the value they have culturally should not be dismissed