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Ah dang, sorry you hated it lol. I love Dance a ton. It along with Feast are my 2 favorites. Also I feel confident that Jon Snow is not going to get revived like he did on the show. The opening prologue chapter about the dying warg I think is a direct foreshadow for Jon’s fate. I think Jon is dead, but he’s going to warg his consciousness into his direwolf. His direwolfs name is even Ghost. It’s like all right there lol. I’d be shocked if this isn’t the route GRRM goes.

Feast for crows and Dance with dragons have become my favorite of the series and I like them more with each re-read. They are incredibly rich and dense with lore and world building and Intresting characters. The Boiled Leather combined reading order for 4/5 is awesome to read, but it’s recommended to do it on a re-read. That combined reading order really helped the story fall into place and see this sprawling story u fold chronologically. I also don’t like it when people say that GOT was good until they ran out of source material, because they had 2 full books of source material and decided to barely adapt them at all.

So glad you enjoyed this one! I myself had some criticism about first two books in the series, (still loved them, especially the ending of Deadhouse Gates) but it was book 3 that got me absolutely hooked and now I’m totally sucked in. Good luck with book two, hope you like it. Love your vids by the way. Have a good one

Damn, I wish there were more parts of the series

I am half way into it and its so freaking boring

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PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT SPOILERS. :) I just finished this book and honestly I had to force myself to finish it. I chose this book knowing it was going to be very dark, depressing and make me an emotional wreck. I read A LOT of books and I can say that this has been my very least favorite book ever and wish I can take all the time wasted on it back. The characters were soooo unrealistic. They kept bringing up friends of Jude that I did not remember nor care for at all. The substantial amount of rape and abuse was elaborated on a little TOO much. When they should've focussed on maybe who Jude's biological parents were? They also briefly talked about Anna, Jude's social worker when I feel they could've talked more about her and the supposably great relationship that they had. I apologize for the spoiler but halfway through the book I pretty much knew everyone was going to die. Of course, everyone dies at a young age. Literally, EVERYONE except the person you are meant to dislike from the start.. JB. I was flabbergasted by how high the reviews were on this book. I chose this book because Instagram and other platforms talked so highly of it. It is very sad yes... but I don't believe it was well written at all. The reference of first person from Jude to Harold confused the crap out of me. Maybe I'm illiterate sure but I just never disliked a book so bad. My OCD will not leave books unfinished. Jude was loved so much and he did face a lot of challenges and self hatred but he started to abuse the people he loved. Ugh.. anyways.. just my thought :) if anyone wants a good tear jerker, Read Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Amazing read. Apparently Hanya Yanagihara wrote People in the Trees and that is ALSO about pedophilia. I'm sorry but I just cant..

Owen: I shouldn’t be buying a book a month. Me: *Buys upwards of 25 books a year*

The poster on your door looks cool.

I typically don't like audiobooks myself....I think my mind tends to wander. The only audiobook I've been able to enjoy was boy's life by robert mccammon, narrated by George Newbern. His voice was good for the tone/setting of the story.

It's difficult to ignore these "supermarket" authors. They are all over youtube and social media, when you're searching for book content they are there, more than the classics that have stood the test of time. So it's hard not to hate them for "polluting" everything with their fast food novels.

“Give in to your hate” - Every Sith Lord

13:33 literally me

YESSSSSS. No Country for Old Men is my favorite McCarthy. Although I will say you picking it up and Stoner is very disappointing to Steve Donoghue

Owen I’ve been surprised at the reaction to Wind and Truth and I think from what I’ve heard it surprised Sanderson too. What percent of the criticisms that you’ve seen were……culture war motivated?

I think the answer in my mind is definitively “no”. There are so many glaring issues that you and others have highlighted while the positives are really just due to the fact that it exists in a world we love. Fans cut Sanderson a lot of slack when it comes to cringe YA dialogue and corny moments but this book may be a step too far for lots of us. I think the real question to ask ourselves is would we like this if Sanderson didn’t write it? I think for many the answer would be a resounding no. It is deeply, deeply flawed and it’s only saving grace is that Brandon Sanderson is on the cover and it follows characters we care about in a world we’ve spent a lot of time in.

This review makes me happy that I decided to end my Cosmere journey after Words Of Radiance haha. Books are special to me in many ways, one of the ways being that I have a much harder time forgiving a disappointing book than a disappointing movie or album. The reason being is that movies and albums are generally between 1-3 hours long, I can finish them in an afternoon and still have pretty much my entire day left over so it doesn't hurt so bad when I wasn't blown away by them. Books on the other hand are totally different for me. Going into a book, I generally expect to spend 3 weeks to a month reading it. That means that if that book didn't deliver, I've just wasted basically a month of my life (a month of my favorite hobby, mind you) on something dumb. THAT drives me insane, and it's caused me to become more liberal with my DNFs as well as much more selective with what I decide to read in general. Series like Stormlight Archive where I'd be investing almost half a year of my reading life on just to have it disappoint me in the end? That to me is almost unforgivable and it would be a TOUGH sell to get me to read that author again honestly.

well said

I completely agree with you! I just finished the book and am kind of disappointed because it has a Goodreads Choice Award, and my expectations were high. Speaking of Miles, after abandoning Daphne to help Petra, he lost his 'nice guy' charm for me-just unreliable.

love the annotated idea!

I too only really like the Adolin arc - but that also is completely unnecessery: by the start of the book they have ways to kill spren. They knew that the spren of the Oathgate was being corrupted and will turn against them. Kill the corrupted spren of the oathgate of Azimir and that battle is won, a whole singer army is out of action and Adolin and his troops could have been deployed elsewhere.

Since you like Emily Henry, I would highly recommend you to give Mhairi McFarlane a try. Just Last Night is my favourite book of hers. I can't wait to read her 2025 release, Cover Story, in May :) I'm also looking forward to reading Taylor Jenkins Reid's Atmosphere, which will be coming out in June this year!

I think your instincts are right. Reread the Tetralogy, then read Urth of the New Sun. After that, you can listen to Rereading Wolfe and other podcasts and read books about it.... That is what I did and after three reads, Book of the New Sun is my favorite book.

Great video man! I dont really think I disagree with anything you said in here yet somehow I feel like the book still somehow worked better for me overall. From when I recorded my view I feel like im not as high on it but in general still excited for what comes next.

Fantastic videos keep it up

LMAO funny intro

He uses AI to write his books.

i think there was around at least 100 pages that couldve been removed entirely and we wouldnt have missed anything major. (shallans bits for example...)

Half the book being people running around in the dream world with no impact and exposition dumps was awful. Another massive chunk given to flashbacks of a character with his family? Like how about we move the story forwards instead of backwards please. On top of that the suddenly juvenile YA dialogue was awful. I’m such a big fan of the Cosmere but this has me hesitant to recommend way of kings over mistborn now.

“A lot of plot points that were important in this book were not plot points I thought were important before I did my re-read.” Agreed. Where we differ is even after my re-reads I felt the same.

With the conclusion of Shallan's arc it became evident that you could have cut her entire character from the series and nothing would change. This is sad and bad writing.

Sadly, devastatingly, I personally think this book is only 1.5★ I only liked the Adolin parts :/ My least favorite trope in all of fiction is hallucinatory dreamscape vision quests and thats the majority of this book. James Tullos has an incredible vid about how this book flopped.

Ok I haven’t read WaT yet but I did watch most of your review (when you mentioned Adolin and Kaladin in particular I skipped those parts). I too enjoyed Rhythm of War, my least favorite of the four that I’ve read being Oathbringer. It sounds like there are more people expressing disappointment with WaT than any other SA books. Some of what I’m seeing is that the quippy dialogue is getting extra annoying in particular in this book - like Sanderson is trying to make SA world into Marvel. Others complain that SA now is more YA. And I can see that. I think the darkest book is my favorite of SA and that’s the Way of Kings. I still remember the poor slave in the beginning that was pulled out of the caravan for coughing too much - and the slavers bashed his head and killed him while he was drinking tea. That is a kind of bleak darkness that I did not see happen in the latter books. Yes there is war and killing - but not this sort of coldness and cruelty. Not that I like violence, what I’m saying is that that scene, as well as all of the people dying around Kaladin in the first book, made the situations in the first book dire with high stakes. Will Kaladin get out of his miserable and deadly situation? That suspense was what made the first book so special to me. Okay, I’ll get to WaT someday. I have to get through One Piece Egghead Island arc and Elbaf arc first.

Adolin chapters were my favorite.. overall the book was a bit of a let down in my opinion

I had some issues with the length, felt like it could have been like 300 pahes shorter for thay sweet spot and there was alot of telling instead of showing that bugged me. I didnt care for vharacters narrating big personality developments. Overall though it was a 4 star, i enjoyed it but not god level like some of the previous

The book was decent, but i cant invest in all comsere books and this affects my reading experience going forward. I am not sure how to proceed with his universe, in my country one book is above 20€…i am really lost as what to do. Most likely i will not continue…

Unfettered Owen! I had some minor gripes (mostly on the prose level), but overall I think the book was really great and the character arcs worked for me. I think opinion on this book will improve on reread. There is a fine line Brandon has to walk with the Cosmere stuff. I don’t think there was a lot this time and I don’t think it was distracting. It feels to me like you’re thinking there’s hints at stuff that isn’t actually in other books. This is a difficult conversation to have in depth though. Adolin’s arc really worked for a lot of people in part because it was very grounded and reminiscent of Kaladin’s bridgecrew arc from WoK. He really had that dogged single-mindedness and the doing whatever it takes kind of situation going on.

I'd give it a solid 3.75/5. It was amazing, but some sections dragged on a bit more than they needed to. This didn't need to be a 1300 page book.

Love the enthusiasm! Good list too.

I was constantly thinking about how this book is similar to 1984.

I loved the book

Such a wonderful book indeed! I think it’s a good book when learning about friendship and how to be a good friend

The poster on the door behind you is crooked.

Ive seen this sentiment sooo many times... the whole "you wont know what happening for most of the book". Im reading Gardens of the Moon for the first time, and sure there are some mysteries but the general thrust of the story just isnt that opaque or impenetrable . Im at about the halfway mark and Id summarize in broad strokes as follows: there is an imperialist empire (malazan) where some shady shit went down in the recent past. The firet sword, the chief advisor, other higherups, and most importantly emperor Kellanved were all killed during a power grab by the at that time head of the claws Laseen. There is still some narrative mystery around this and events in the seven cities at the time seem to maybe be important, but ultimately whatever secret shady shit that went down pissed of some powerful peopler (ammanas and cotillion) and the House of the Shadow emerged seeking vengence. These guys have a plan that involves a fishers daughter (Sorry). The backdrop to all this is an in progress colonial invasion of Genabackis where Sorry has infiltrated a Malazan unit (bridgeburners) in her progress to bring vengeance upon empress laseen. As far as the magic lore, there is still a lot to parse out as would be expected there but clearly the magic is related to these Warrens that seem to be God related realms structured roughly in a way that echoes real world Tarot. mages/wizards/sorcerers/etc are able top open these warrens of various nature and form and harness the energy in various ways. And some races are clearly much older and ancient (e.g. Tiste Andii) and seem more adept in these mystical regards. there a lot more details but that seems to be the broad strokes so far.

War and Peace is amazing and makes a strong case to back up Ursula K. Le Guin’s claim that it’s the greatest of all novels. That being said, some people just don’t gel with Tolstoy and I respect that. However, translation is a big factor-do you know which translation you attempted? Last year was extremely fallow for me-I burned out finishing my PhD, moving states, and suffered some personal losses. That being said, my top five were all exceptional and I’ll stand by them :)

I was mixed on it but loved the final few pages

I love a good bromance, might give this a go. Also just finished the Count, loved it apart from some pacing issues too. At least this one is shorter despite having some pacing issues too lol.

I always recommend people to read The Three Musketeers before they read Monte Cristo because you cant help yourself from comparing the two books after.

My advice is that, yes, you must read Urth of the New Sun and you must reread the series as a whole...but maybe not now. Urth is a wholly different book, different feel, but worthwhile as it continues Severian's story to a conclusion. In any case, yes, both are worth your effort but give the original series room to settle first. interesting fact - the first four books were written together then separated into four pieces. the other book, thematically and practically, came later, offering Wolfe himself time for reflection. In the end, these books have sat well with me for decades and after many re-readings. I hope they can for you too.

One day I will read Dumas. Promise. Thanks for the review. :) I think in Europe we just got new movies for Three Musketeers as well last year.