Ryn Farron
Ryn Farron
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Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont
The second Malazan invasion of Korel. It's fantastic.
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Видео

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
Просмотров 79Месяц назад
An autobiography of the life and loves of an 18th century Chinese man.
Death's End by Cixin Liu
Просмотров 32Месяц назад
The third and final book of Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. We go to the end of the universe in this wacky ride. Everything must end, and because of the many mistakes of one person with good intentions, some things end sooner than they have to.
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
Просмотров 61Месяц назад
After the Three-Body Problem comes The Dark Forest in Cixin Lui's epic Sci-fi trilogy "Remembrance of Earth's Past".
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Просмотров 342 месяца назад
An American classic for many reasons. A tragic love stroy with very real and flawed characters.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Просмотров 2002 месяца назад
Not Blade Runner, but the rich fertile soil with which Blade Runner was concepted. The writing felt clunky to me, but I did appreciate the atmosphere set by my mind's familiarity with the world of the Blade Runner films.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Просмотров 602 месяца назад
A man grapples with a sudden and unexpected illness and impending death.
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
Просмотров 962 месяца назад
Feeling like the television show Lost, the Southern Reach trilogy reaches its wacky conclusion... for now???
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Просмотров 1293 месяца назад
Book 2 of the Southern Reach trilogy gets weird.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Просмотров 733 месяца назад
A 1932 classic Sci-Fi dystopia.
Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie -- The First Law: Book 3
Просмотров 563 месяца назад
A fantastic ending to a unique series. Not what I expected, but very satisfying.
Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie -- The First Law: Book 2
Просмотров 424 месяца назад
Book 2, better than the first. Characters are growing, while still being great; story has split into three; and Sand dan Glokta is still up to no good.
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie -- The First Law: Book 1
Просмотров 904 месяца назад
A character driven classic fantasy. I forgot to mention the Shanka, who I originally thought were some sort of hominid/Neanderthal, but turned out to be non-human baddies (orcs) created by the Master Maker (Morgoth). Also, the big bad of the series, I assume, is this guy Khalul or something, called the Prophet, ruling from the shadows in the south. He was originally one of the magi apprentices ...
The Prefect/Aurora Rising by Alastair Reynolds
Просмотров 1594 месяца назад
I reread this wonder detective story/mystery set in the amazing Revelation Space universe.
Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian C. Esslemont
Просмотров 904 месяца назад
This was a big book; I'll never say no to more Malazan stories though.
Night of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont
Просмотров 1045 месяцев назад
Night of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Просмотров 1475 месяцев назад
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
To Die in Italbar by Roger Zelazny
Просмотров 916 месяцев назад
To Die in Italbar by Roger Zelazny
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Просмотров 646 месяцев назад
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Catcher in the Rye
Просмотров 1106 месяцев назад
The Catcher in the Rye
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Просмотров 587 месяцев назад
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Просмотров 2577 месяцев назад
The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Crime and Punishment
Просмотров 2358 месяцев назад
Crime and Punishment
Nier: Replicant File 01
Просмотров 2418 месяцев назад
Nier: Replicant File 01
The First Man by Albert Camus
Просмотров 7928 месяцев назад
The First Man by Albert Camus
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
Просмотров 548 месяцев назад
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
The White Bull by Voltaire
Просмотров 4199 месяцев назад
The White Bull by Voltaire
The Ingénu by Voltaire
Просмотров 459 месяцев назад
The Ingénu by Voltaire
Zadig by Voltaire
Просмотров 619 месяцев назад
Zadig by Voltaire
Micromégas by Voltaire
Просмотров 859 месяцев назад
Micromégas by Voltaire

Комментарии

  • @Flidoodle.
    @Flidoodle. 3 дня назад

    Sigma

  • @cracklingsoda
    @cracklingsoda 15 дней назад

    Skibidi❤

  • @muddycruddymess
    @muddycruddymess 15 дней назад

    Sigma sigma so Skibidi

  • @JakeSignalYT
    @JakeSignalYT 16 дней назад

    It turned out to be an excellent story to fall asleep to. Its just random and monotonous enough to be a sleep aid.

  • @NightTrekker-d1s
    @NightTrekker-d1s 23 дня назад

    This was one of the best books I have ever read. This is top notch Science Fiction.

  • @elainafaust3717
    @elainafaust3717 Месяц назад

    I think I'm going to put this on my reading list. Thanks for this great video. I found this to be a really interesting suggestion in a sea of honestly vapid book discourse. I really appreciate that. I subscribed

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron Месяц назад

      Thank you for the kind words! I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

  • @emmanuelsanchezmeneses9444
    @emmanuelsanchezmeneses9444 Месяц назад

    What a great summary of this book! I just read it and needed this to refresh the plot

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron Месяц назад

      @@emmanuelsanchezmeneses9444 thank you!

  • @resmarted
    @resmarted 2 месяца назад

    do NOT troon out

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 2 месяца назад

      @@resmarted what does that mean?

    • @resmarted
      @resmarted 2 месяца назад

      @@rynfarron I don't need to tell you.

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 2 месяца назад

      @@resmarted I mean, I guess not. I just have never heard that before so I don't know what it means.

  • @ivarsozols4429
    @ivarsozols4429 2 месяца назад

    Are you planning to do a review for Deadhouse gates ? :)

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 2 месяца назад

      @@ivarsozols4429 Ooo that's one of my favourites. When I do my next reread of the Book of the Fallen I'll have to make a video for each book.

    • @ivarsozols4429
      @ivarsozols4429 2 месяца назад

      @@rynfarron I see. I am just beginning my journey for the first time. Tomorrow I am starting Deadhouse and when I finish my tricky books I like someone intelligent talking about them :)

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 2 месяца назад

      @@ivarsozols4429 I hope you enjoy the journey

  • @ivarsozols4429
    @ivarsozols4429 2 месяца назад

    a great channel ! a great review !

  • @PikUpYourPantsPatrol
    @PikUpYourPantsPatrol 2 месяца назад

    My favorite book

  • @PikUpYourPantsPatrol
    @PikUpYourPantsPatrol 2 месяца назад

    I read it and he seems devoid of enthusiasm, no zest for life whatsoever

  • @ayaanpatton2661
    @ayaanpatton2661 3 месяца назад

    strange creature...

  • @Vogerl1337
    @Vogerl1337 3 месяца назад

    Interesting to find someone else feeling "complex" about the ending, as I tend to put it; my first reaction was that we got a "draft" version of the ending; i could swear I saw at least one curious line-break in the later pages... I literally shouted out in confusion at what I feel to be an incredibly anticlimactic "conclusion" to their relationship... I saw a reddit post suggesting Mahit undergoing mycelliumization would've tied a nicer bow on her character... Personally, it felt quite unsatisfying; neither the bow, nor an (imho) "deserved/kitschy" romantic ending... Thanks for your take!

  • @potato-gamer4240
    @potato-gamer4240 3 месяца назад

    Ryn my favourite book acc

  • @Renjin27
    @Renjin27 3 месяца назад

    What a splendid video! I love how you talked all about the key points of interest and straight to the point!!

  • @evaaa8355
    @evaaa8355 3 месяца назад

    Oh I'm so excited to read these books!!!

  • @Mefistophelez
    @Mefistophelez 4 месяца назад

    This one was odd and surprising. I just took it as someone who got caught up in metaphysics, who was drugged and kidnapped. So their mind created this world out of trauma and it became a familiar comfort. But maybe I'm not good at thinking abstractly. 😅 Are you ever going to do traditional format videos that booktubers do? Non-spoiler reviews, monthly reading lists, etc? I need more of you. 😬

  • @Mefistophelez
    @Mefistophelez 4 месяца назад

    Is that a journal you write notes in? 🥺 I want to get into this series, but Im waiting for him to get more momentum in writing the next. He's written short stories, so I'm hoping the wait is short. ❤❤❤

  • @Mefistophelez
    @Mefistophelez 4 месяца назад

    😍

  • @Mefistophelez
    @Mefistophelez 4 месяца назад

    I'm excited to get to this series after reading his Shattered Sea trilogy. He writes great character banter.

  • @Mefistophelez
    @Mefistophelez 4 месяца назад

    You're so pretty 😮

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 4 месяца назад

      @@Mefistophelez 😳

    • @Mefistophelez
      @Mefistophelez 4 месяца назад

      @@rynfarron You look like a young Hayden Christiansen. You should do theater or something. Very striking! Do you have any plans to read older SFF? I should have opened with that, but you're so beautiful. 😂

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 4 месяца назад

      @@Mefistophelez I don't really have any hard plans to read anything, but I do have a long list of books I'd like to read. Is there any older SFF in particular you'd recommend?

    • @Mefistophelez
      @Mefistophelez 4 месяца назад

      @@rynfarron Tad Williams and Glen Cook are a couple authors I adore. 🥰 I can't plan a reading order, myself. Whatever jumps out at me in that moment of picking my next read.

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 4 месяца назад

      @@Mefistophelez I have read a few Glen Cooks novels, and I got halfway through a Tad Williams one that I should probably give a second chance to.

  • @Renjin27
    @Renjin27 5 месяцев назад

    My, my, yet another great book review by Ryn Farron, and I can confidently say it was scrumdiddlyumptious 😋

  • @BooksRebound
    @BooksRebound 5 месяцев назад

    This book is sooooo poorly written but thankfully they do actually get better. By Stonewielder it's actually readable and by Dancers Lament it's actually really damn good.

  • @garypadiham3221
    @garypadiham3221 5 месяцев назад

    Your channel is currently my favourite on youtube.

  • @garypadiham3221
    @garypadiham3221 5 месяцев назад

    Thanks very much for this. I needed help working out what was going on in this novel.

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 5 месяцев назад

      I'm glad it helped!

  • @jeremyfee
    @jeremyfee 5 месяцев назад

    I think Roger Zelazny was great, but I haven't read this one. Interesting. Even though you said it was awful, I'm now inclined to check it out. Peace.

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 5 месяцев назад

      Cool. I'd be interested to hear what you thought of it.

  • @Kai_2053
    @Kai_2053 5 месяцев назад

    This was an interesting video, as I've never seen someone introduced to NieR Replicant in other media that it wasn't Automata (the most popular sequel game) or the actual game. Some things that I disliked on the book is that they completely skipped the prologue with the siblings in 2053, it's such an interesting sequence how after that there's a whole time skip to 3465, you're introduced to the same pair of siblings now living on this village somehow; and this is something that gets stuck on your mind until it's finally answered moments before credits are rolling out. The other one is that Devola and Popola working as overseers on Project Gestalt isn't something to be known until the very end of the story, but I can't give more details as that would spoil more than making a point of out it. Honestly, just like in the game, the later half of the story is where all the good stuff happens, it just feels like everything here was necessary to get introduced to everyone and just it, but the second half does a perfect job on giving each "location" a memorable close that I can't blame the first half on being slow, so I would 100% encourage you to get it if you find it discounted as well.

  • @jeffeffrey5671
    @jeffeffrey5671 5 месяцев назад

    This is one of my absolute favorites of all time, super gripping and environmentally amazing!

  • @joejs7659
    @joejs7659 6 месяцев назад

    Raw stuff, first one I read by him and will properly remain it, liked it a lot though, always love when authors pours much of themself into the work, I also think it being a rough draft made it impact me more, the part where he speaks of his teacher was extremely touching, had some well captured emotion.

  • @luanllluan
    @luanllluan 6 месяцев назад

    Even if bad, it introduced me to this new author! lol For your review, might have been the case of just doing a short story to out the idea down

  • @Greg_Nicklin
    @Greg_Nicklin 6 месяцев назад

    "Just bizarre, wow... it was... somethin' else!" Those words from your review here would make an excellent blurb for the back cover of this book. I like to call this kind of book a "drugstore book." In the 1970s, my little local drugstore had a book rack full of paperbacks like this -- very short, inexpensive, inconsequential science fiction things. As a kid I loved reading them, never mind the fact that they were often nearly unintelligible to my young mind.

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 6 месяцев назад

      "Drugstore books"; I love that!

  • @Greg_Nicklin
    @Greg_Nicklin 6 месяцев назад

    Having read Zarathustra recently, I, too, came away from it with less understanding than I'd hoped (and this, from a person who has actually read other works by Nietzsche before). I was enthusiastic about reading it because of a piece of music that has long been a favorite of mine, Richard Strauss' tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra. My copy of the book now sits on the shelf next to my other Nietzsche volumes, waiting for a future me capable of understanding it.

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 6 месяцев назад

      Thank you for sharing! I'll have to listen to that piece of music.

    • @Greg_Nicklin
      @Greg_Nicklin 6 месяцев назад

      @@rynfarron It lasts about thirty-five minutes, and I guarantee you will already recognize the first ninety seconds of it.

  • @Greg_Nicklin
    @Greg_Nicklin 6 месяцев назад

    I enjoyed your review of this. I'm particularly glad to hear you say "I started to get him," around your halfway point in the book. I, too, get Holden, although I'd probably find it hard to get along with him in real life. Who knows, maybe he'd even think I'm a phony, too. I read this book again recently after many years away from it, and I think it's both very much a product of its time, as well as a book that resonates most with a reader in a very specific -- young -- time in their life.

  • @Renjin27
    @Renjin27 6 месяцев назад

    Splendid recap!

  • @shay5555
    @shay5555 6 месяцев назад

    Great recap! You helped me make sense of that ending.

  • @BooksRebound
    @BooksRebound 6 месяцев назад

    Big fan of this book. Great as an audiobook. I think its really fun and I enjoy the writing a lot. Also I highly recommend reading Vita Nostra. I think youd like it. I have a review

  • @jeffeffrey5671
    @jeffeffrey5671 6 месяцев назад

    When I read this one I really didn't like it, I think mostly because of the superfluous prose, but hearing you describe it I feel like I missed a whole lot. Might try and give it a second shot.

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 6 месяцев назад

      I can definitely see how you think the prose is too much. Maybe I was just in the mood for something a bit flowery.

  • @Tedwardlover
    @Tedwardlover 6 месяцев назад

    I remember reading this in high school and being so annoyed by how much I saw of myself in Holden 😂😅😬

  • @TillRead
    @TillRead 7 месяцев назад

    🎉🎉

  • @TillRead
    @TillRead 7 месяцев назад

    We are our retests

  • @Remyvsp
    @Remyvsp 7 месяцев назад

  • @Droogie8289
    @Droogie8289 7 месяцев назад

    i religiously watch your videos

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 7 месяцев назад

      Thank you, my disciple 🙏

  • @hinnakoto
    @hinnakoto 7 месяцев назад

    Hey man, you gotta spell the author's name right X_X

    • @rynfarron
      @rynfarron 7 месяцев назад

      Aaahhh how did I miss that! Thanks for the heads up!