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Glad to hear you are slowly getting over the book hangover! I hope you continue to enjoy HP Lovecraft, I have never tried anyting by him before. And I feel you on the whole DNF debacle, I am also foolishly optimistic and it has never paid off lol. Here's to embracing the DNF and prioritising the stuff that brings us joy!

Love your Videos btw.! Came here to complain and stayed for the content. I will definitely have a look into the ash and sand series! 😊

Well my experience on digital copy of a book wasn’t so great being connected to the internet all the time and last year I started going backward to physical books from Amazon and buy it. And get delivered and keep it :).

Just read the first half of the 2nd book and it’s a bummer. There was so much opportunity to continue the story through vaelin only… 2nd book feels like from another author to be honest. Apart from the names, the story and the world it has absolutely nothing to with the first book. Imagine you‘re an ac‘dc fan and they release a new album, it’s called high voltage 2, but it’s country music and every song is featuring a different singer ( from Ariana Grande to Eminem ) That’s the feeling the 2nd book gives.

I happily take the blame, unless the show bombs, then it's all your fault :)

Have you read Tender is the Flesh? That is a food scarcity novel you would probably enjoy.

Too bad about Name of the Wind. I haven't read it yet, but it is well regarded, so I may give it a go at some point. I've never been very successful at journaling. I still keep track of what I read, and I'm using a standard notebook for that. I also have a standard notebook for to do lists, which I only use occasionally.

I read the Power of the Dog this year by Don Winslow and it was amazing. I'll definitely check this one out.

I think the book covers are not that good. They look cheap and generic. If they made it like RJ Barker’s tide’s child/John Gwynne books it would be awesome.

🎧 Much enjoying the return of the weekly updates!

Good for you! I wish I had dnf’ed the Name of the most boring fantasy book I’ve ever read. But I really dislike school settings and I didn't know that was a main part of the book. I kept waiting for him to be on his way out in the world getting famous for various adventures and that just didn't happen. So that's why it didn't land very well with me. I too feel the need of density and complexity in my fantasy reads. The pay off always feels so high for those kind of books. But I also have very low stamina when it comes to them. I read them for forever it seems and I feel so exhilarated, accomplished and oh so burned out afterwards 😅🔥

Good to see your weekly reading update is back. I hope you're doing well. I haven't been able to access the forums lately. I've entered my email address a couple of times to reset the password, but not gotten a reply.

Hahaha, can't say I am surprised about your reaction to Name of the Wind. I know I have read and enjoyed it but I also have to admit that I remember barely anything from it, didn't leave much of an impact lol. Anyway, hope you get over the book hangover asap! As for your question... on the one hand I would like to unplug a bit more, but at the same time I also think social media and my online friendships are hugely beneficial to my mental health since I have no real deep connections in real life (since I lost all of those due to mental health struggles). And with the whole kindle debacle of not owning the books you buy, I think I prefer to just ignore that fact hahah. With audible it's the same, but I know if you use LibroFM you actually get to download the files and they are yours so the audiobook can't be taken away from you. Interesting food for thought to reflect on! Hope you have a great week, Steve ☺

Glad to be a part of the small group on the forum! Highly recommended haha And for your question, I doubt I would ever go back to a dedicated iPod-like device. That being said, although I'm somewhat of a minimalist, I listen to vinyl at home...so it's not all through an app. Also, I listen to most of my digital music on RUclips Music, which is bundled with RUclips Premium. Really enjoy that service and has all the songs that Spotify has, and the no ads on RUclips are great for viewing long-form content I enjoy. Overall, I am all about finding a balance, I don't favor one extreme over the other when it comes to digital media, and I think anyone can use their phone in a way that requires more self-control to not be controlled by algorithms, apps, or just scrolling in general.

The Gotham By Gaslight animated movie was so good, until the last 10 minutes. I hated the twist, but loved the setting....Batman needs better stories in that setting. Still can't believe how horrible that ending was. Check out the movie at least, Steve. It's a hot mess haha

Always good to mix things up whether taking a step back or going in a different direction. Need to reschedule the Titane talk (id completely forgotten tbh) One of these free Fridays should work out well 😀 Looking forward to whatever’s next 😀

Been way too long since I checked in on Page Chewing, loved getting a little update here, Steve! I remain very intimated by Bakker's books, but I am so happy for you that it's become such an all-time fave for you. Also looking forward to more chill and open-invite page chewing episodes, have fun with those. Glad to hear you are doing well!

Steeeeeve!

Completely agree on long books that could have been shorter and be just as good...and probably better! Tchaikovsky seems to have an issue with this in general, great ideas though. Nice to see another one of these chat style videos/podcast again, and also agree with the quality over quantity mindset shift you mentioned.

Hi Steve how do I gain access to the page chewing forum?

How are you Steve? I would love to be on sometime ☺️

Totally with Mike on Minor Arcana! I liked it a lot. I also was disappointed in Autumn Kingdom. Good episode guys

Hey y'all! Thanks so much for this conversation. I'm a PhD student in France specializing in speculative and weird fiction, I work very closely on Cisco's books and am definitely using his book on Weird Fiction as a significant resource. So glad to see how much this matters to him, because it was wonderful for me to find out about this work. Keep it up love your content!

Totally agree with you on Red Light #4. It really stank compared to the rest of the series. The villain monologing was some of the worst I've seen. Really bad ending. Another great episode guys!

This one was a lot of fun Steve!!!

I had not been spoiled on the ending of this book and I’m pretty sure my jaw didn’t leave the floor for 24 hours after I finished it

I finished this series nearly 2 years ago and had multiple re-reads and fine picked all the major conversations and revelations and still have more questions then answers. However I believe everyone underestimates kellhus. Everything in aspect emperor you have to look at why would kellhus want what’s happens to happen. 5D chess. Also in the appendices: under ‘The decapitant’ it tells a short story of after shimeh on the travel back to the empire at mangecca kellhus is seen swapping heads with the decapitants and talking to himself… We learn between the 2 series Iyokus becomes kellhus second teacher; he spends 20 years using the daimos to access the outside. Kellhus knew Ajoklis plan; I believe kellhus knew about Kelmomas all along aswell. Enjoy racking your brains around that ending and hoping Bakker will finally release The No God or this ending will haunt us forever 🤣

Excellent episode guys! I had to stop at your pick of the week Steve because I haven't read it yet and didn't want to know anything, ha. Sacrificers is so good though!

The sequels didnt live up to the first for many reasons but most important to me was the fact that Vaelin became a sub plot character devoid of action. In place of Vaelin we got Frentis and Reva. Almost as if Vaelin fractured and split between the 3. But Vaelin was supposed to be our hero. That's not to say the books weren't captivating but no matter how good we can't help but feel short changed after getting such a fantastic introduction to the series

Interesting discussion about the gods. Bakker never says who determines how you get saved. Also that they also seem to lack freewill. Yatwer and the WLW perhaps, or maybe they just know what is predetermined. I missed the tense change with Sorwheel, will be more observant on reread. Almost done....

I really needed that talk. As English is not my first language, I was doubtful if I missed the point because of my language skills. But after watching you, it seems that is not the case. I mostly did not find it hard to read, language-wise. Nonetheless I felt lost oftentimes.

Here's the list by Mark Lawrence that Michaels book tops: mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2017/08/grimdark-were-nailing-it-down.html

Thanks, I'm going to search out a full on explanatin of the world because listening to the first nnovel it was a little wack, perhaps too abstract.

This is a series that is always fun to listen to. Keep it going please!

Thank you Steve! great video! I really enjoyed everything discussed here.

do you still use the procaster? cause the audio sound's soo nice( I don't read book's no more)( just like the audio of your mic your voice is nice with it) and do you have any post processing done to it?

I won’t lie i seriously was lost the whole book started book two and it’s like a world of difference,I feel better knowing I was not the only one struggling.

I really liked the writing, flowed very well. The last part of the book just fell apart and focused on the sex too much making it very repetitive, not to mention all the missed opportunities with the story itself. If cornered I would say it felt like it ended too soon, like right before act 3. The thing that was in the house at the end should have been resolved instead of treated as a throw away. In the end I didn't really connect with any of the characters, either. I feel like I was supposed to be scared at first with all the teenage death but it was treated so cavalier that it had no real sense of impact on the community, at all. Overall it started bleak, and in the end it was bleak. No real character development, other than Tylers decent. Reading this book I was just waiting for something interesting to happen and in a few instances there was but overall it didn't work for me. I got the sense that the author felt he reached some sort of fever pitch in the middle of the story and then took forever to explain what happened afterward. Then the Villain is revealed at the end and nothing happens with it. I did like the references and the style he chose.

Blue yeti has a more natural voice colour, but the background is more noticeable, but this can be additionally removed via Software or filters.

Boy what a great book

Hail beardsmen!

Come the four bookbeards of the bookpacolypse!

as a teenager i found the book evocative and familiar to the condition of me and my generation, and so I find a strange comfort in it I think it’s the best take on gen z in literature thus far

Thanks for the invite, Steve-- was a great conversation, and feel like we only scratched the surface!

I wish these videos had more traction. I think this is one of the most underrated grim dark series. That being said I will be here for every episode, thank you!

Vague question for Steve. There is a grammatical... inconsistency regarding one of the pov's that I don't think has been mentioned. Have always wondered if this was a issue for not having an editor or what thematic it might serve.

Thanks, everyone! Closing on the evolving meaning of the title was a nice touch and both aspects were explained well. I remember being struck by that on my first read and how it solidified my terror at Janny's disdain for fucking around.

For whatever it's worth, my copies of the editions with the white covers have not held up physically. Stormed Fortress is just a stack of loose sheets wrapped in the covers at this point. The other editions, where the drawings take up far more space, have held up much better despite being reread more often than later volumes like Stormed Fortress.

Janny Wurts inhabiting the mad wizard in the woods trope with some of her prompts. Love it and deeply appreciate her online presence, which she has maintained prior to the internet becoming omnipresent. Here's hoping she reaps the rewards of this long overdue recent revival of interest in her work.

This was nourishing. Huge thanks to Janny Wurts for participating! And thank you to everyone for putting it together. I've been reading this series for decades and am preparing to reread from book one now that book eleven is available. I'm thrilled to see the interest on book tube from newer readers. It's unfortunate that this video hasn't garnered more engagement, as Wurts richly deserves a much wider readership. Thank you!