My Favorite Series
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2019
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Don't worry guys! Mistborn is still one of my favorite series too! I'd probably rank it as number 6 at the moment but it could easily be swapped out to be on the list too 😃
Ha, I was literally about to post how sad I was that MISTBORN had been deposed.
Of course you could always just say - due to Mistborn and Stormlight taking place in the same star cluster - that when you say Stormlight you actually mean Cosmere ;-) :-P
That just means you need to reread it soon, right? :D
I’ve just read Mistborn for the first time it enters my top 5 as it leaves yours :)
I cannot stand Brandon Sanderson and dislike his books. I honestly can't wrap my head around his popularity beyond that he slingshoted it off the back of a better author.
I’m straight trippin over how small those lord of the rings books are💀💀💀
My dad bought me the books but it was like this one large book with all the stories and now seeing how small the books are, I have mixed emotions😳😂
How small must the letters be?
@@mitchierainbow7353 it's a smaller version....so all the writing is smaller but still has the same content as the normal book....
They are quite cute, but my eyes probably can't take that font size.
I have those editions
When you watch Merphy regularly and already know what series are going to be there and especially what's on the number 1 spot 😎😏
She did surprised me by putting HP all the way down at 5. I thought would be #3.
Yesss!!
My top five
1. The King killer Chronicles
2. Harry Potter
3. The Stormlight Archive’s
4. Mistborn
5. Game of Thrones
Some other good ones are Six of Crows and Beyond the Shadows.
Yeah man cool, for me gentlemen bastarfs ar3 is my ducking favoritr
I adore that you read your husband bedtime stories 💕
i want a wife like that
Bench pressing the Stormlight Archive will legitimately build muscle. 😉
John Flemings I thought I was the only one who couldn’t stop making thick book jokes about that series.
@@Bushwhacker-so4yk .........yep, more paper than a manga.🌳🌳🌳
@@Hadrian1616 the average manga volume is only 200 pages tho
I didn't know that. Easy readers or super fine print? Or am I thinking of a light novel?
@@Hadrian1616 I don't know what you're thinking of. The average manga volume consists of about 10 chapters at 20 pages a chapter tho, they're typically much smaller than the average novel.
RE: Strong platonic relationships
I've been reading a lot lately about how a lot of classic literature/epic poetry (even the occasional nonfiction historical account/biography) is lost on modern audiences because we no longer have strong, passionate, platonic relationships; in the modern era, passion and devotion is for romance only.
It's so sad 😔
@@merphynapier42 Apparently, one of the main sources of confusion that it causes is that modern people will read older works and come away interpreting strong friendships as gay romances instead, even in works where such a thing would not be present just because of the culture and time period the work came from.
I wish I had an article or essay I could refer you to on the topic, but it's just been something I've seen mentioned as a brief aside in articles about other things.
@@nachofilament294 Nothing makes me more frustrated when someone accuses Sam and Frodo or Merry and Pippin as gay....the beauty of their friendships is lost on most.
I literally love nothing more than a pure, strong, better-half, would-do-anything-for-the-other-person platonic relationship
"I'm a sucker for strong platonic friendships". Me too! In books, movies, TV and especially real life. Awsome video, always so enjoyable and informative.
"Merry and Pippin, even thought they are brothers"
Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took aren't brothers
Drizzt1990 I thought I heard her wrong! The books do go into the Brandybucks and the Tooks for long enough to make the distinction clear.
They are actually first cousins. Merphy is right though, they have a great friendship.
Are you sad there’s no Salvatore on the list Drizzt?
*screams in Tolkienite*
Came here for this! My immediate reaction was "what!? They're cousins damnit!"
I need to reread The Lord of the Rings soon too! I only just yesterday realised how much time has passed since I first (and last) read it.
However, if I remember correctly, Merry and Pippin are actually not brothers but cousins 🙂
I basically missed everything after the brothers comment because I was sitting here like, but they aren't brothers... Ones a a Took and ones a Brandbuck... Also omg does knowing that make me a nerd and if it does do I care?!
It's great that you keep updating your lists! Whenever I find a new booktuber, I always go and search for this type of videos (as well as book tags and year-end videos). It's an easy way to get a general idea of their taste and whether their recommendations will be helpful for you without having to watch 6 years of monthly wrap ups.
The story about you reading to your husband makes me smile. I read to my girlfriend for hours at a time for weeks and, while she still enjoys that, she has picked up many of my suggestions because it rekindled a love of a reading in her.
Stormlight Archives has to be my favorite series I've started this year! I'll hopefully start & finish Oathbringer by the end of the year 😊
Mistborn has fallen, from the list but also literally in the background
Still an incredible series!
@@merphynapier42 That, Stormlight Archives, Gentleman Bastards and Lunar Chronicles are all ones I hope to start soon on your recommendations. Hope they're as good as you say 😄
FAV SERIES
3: A Series of Unfortunate Events
2: Harry Potter
1: The Hunger Games
I haven't read the Harry potter series (though I watched the movies), and I've read most of the series of unfortunate events books (and seen the netflix series and the movies) and I've read all three of the hunger games books. And I enjoyed all! So yeah, positive opinions here too!
I thought I was the only one who loved A Series Of Unfortunate Events.
Harry potter is one of them in my top 10
My TOP5:
* Harry Potter
* Twilight
* The hunger games
* The Lunar Chronicles
* The Red Queen series
Honorable mentions - The Selection, The Mortal instruments, Cat Warriors.
It’s warrior cats. Sorry I just fricking love those books the plots are always so interesting and the world building is amazing and the characters are so easy to fall in love with I could go on about y warriors is amazing
I love, love, love, LOTR, probably my favorite series. Legolas and Gimli is one of my favorite friendships ever. And I love Tom Bombadil in Fellowship.
Finally!!!! Some love for Tom Bombadill!!!!
I'm late here but I'm rereading Lord of the rings currently and just started Return of the King. Tom Bombadil definitely deserves some love and i love Sam's character as well.
I recently picked up a copy of Lies of Lock Lamora because of you! I need to read it soon!
Oh I hope you love it!
Reading it rn
Fine! I’ll move Lies of Locke Lamora up on my TBR lol
Same feeling lol
You won't regret it!!
It's one of the best novels of all-time, ez
Its told in a really specific way, and if you like the way it's told, you'll love it. It also handles worldbuilding in some parts, really uniquely that other people don't do.
The only reason i started reading The Stormlight Archive is you and now i am hooked to it. So thank you so much and keep on pouring out the great content.
I never dressed as Hermoine Granger..... but the Harry Potter series is the reason why I became the book worm I am today!
LOL, I was just seeing your old "My favorite series" video
This is my absolute FAVORITE type of video! I always get such great recommendations, and I’m so excited to see what your favorites are! Also, I just started Peter Pan, and I’m loving it!!!
Me: Has been trying to save money for an Italy trip.
After the video
Me: Someone find me my card I need to buy some more books.
😂😂😂
Life of Jaya why visit Italy when you can visit Roshar, Luthadel etc.
Good call
Yeah I wouldn't go to Italy right now...
Hello I am from the future and you are not going to Italy lololol
i love how many people would discourage you from reading good books because of the writing style but your videos encourage me to try out books other people have said they can't into even if the story and characters are amazing
The Merph at it again with great books to add to my to do list!
I love watching videos like this. It's always different from RUclipsr to RUclipsr, their taste gives you huge hints of their personality, and you get a lot of good book recommendations! It's like a triple win!
I'm currently buddyreading Lies of Locke Lamora with a friend and we are enjoying it so much! Thanks for recommending it! We are only 3 chapters in but it's very good so far! I love the banter and the character, and the world Scott Lynch built feels very real. We love that the characters are so smart and when we are already hooked. Thank you!
Omg, I’d love a buddy read of stormlight archive!😍
taras pupu I would honestly become a patron just for this one series 😅😅
My top 5:
1. Wheel of Time 👑
2. Harry Potter
3. ASOIAF
4. Stormlight Archive (still on book 2)
5. Memories of Idhún
I really need to read Bear Town. Sounds interesting. And I'm living for your Harry Potter vids! I hope you do vids for Lord of the Rings too but no pressure. You make amazing content and I never miss a video! Keep up the fantastic work Merphy!
i went through a very tough summer and i ended up reading mistborn series and lies of locke lamora based off your recommendations and they were amazing. some of the brightest spots in that dark time was reading those books. thank u so much for the amazing recommendations and great content!
Started reading Lies of Locke Lamora because of you and I love it so far!!! Thank you! Fantasy has never been a genre I'd pick up to read, so I was hesitant, but it's so good.
I'm re reading LOTR in December too! Can wait to revisit middle Earth again!
I have procrastinated on the Simarillion for 15 years, but your video has inspired me to set that book as 2020 goal. Thanks for sharing!
Yes! I just bought the same set of LotR you have so I can re-read them with you! The set have was my dad's from the 60s, and I just don't think they'll survive another re-read lol. I'm also going to read The Book Thief with you, and I'm so excited! It'll be a Merphy month for me!!
Great taste 😘 thank you so much for your videos. Love from Portugal 🇵🇹
Been watching your videos for a few months now and was very intrigued about the Gentlemen Bastards series. Just bought the first three and started reading a bit, but wanted to come back here to refresh what I was getting myself into😂 Im very excited though!
You've finally convinced me to try Gentleman Bastards series. I've read and heard so many reviews and ummed and ahhhed over picking it up, put I think I'll be taking the plunge!
Ended up buying the Gentleman Bastard's box set due to you and Daniel recommending and gushing about it so much. Best book purchase of mine in the past 5 years.
My Top Five Favorite Book Series
1) *Commonwealth* *Saga* (full series, incl: *Void* *Trilogy* & *Chronicles* *of* *the* *Fallers* ) -- Peter F Hamilton
2) *Lord* *of* *the* *Rings* (including *The* *Hobbit* and *The* *Silmarillion* ) -- JRR Tolkien
3) *The* *Wheel* *of* *Time* -- Robert Jordan
4) *The* *Riftwar* *Cycle* (including each and every sub-series) -- Raymond E Feist
5) *A* *Song* *of* *Ice* *and* *Fire* -- George RR Martin
Love your channel...and that is a fantastic sweater, awesome color.
00:39 "I hope that will forever be true". I loved that comment. My sentiments exactly with my reading list, and life to be honest! I'm open to learning and evolving and changing my mind always.
Can’t wait for you to reread Stormlight! My favorite series of all time!
Great choices! I loved The lies of Locke...... waiting on Amazon to deliver the 2nd! Excited AF.
Love this channel by the way. Keep it up! Love from me in the UK xxx
Just finished book 2 of gentlemen bastard series because of you and I'm loving it can't wait to read book 3 :)
I would really enjoy a video on your note taking process for longer series. I’m trying to get into one myself and feel a video from an avid reader would benefit all of us readers who are intimidated by the larger series.
RUclips randomly recommended one of your videos (tropes you hate) and then I found this one and it's so cool to see someone else who loves the Gentleman Bastard series so much! I've recommended it to so many people!
Just got the Gentlema Bastard series and am about to get into it. very excited!
Haha even though I knew what most of these would be based on having watched so many of your videos, this was great!
My favorite series at the moment are, in no particular order:
The Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden
Penryn and the End of Days by Susan Ee
The Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh
The Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo
Honorary mentions: First two books of the Themis Files series by Sylvain Neuvel and the Hunger Games trilogy for the nostalgia and it getting me into reading.
I decided to try The Lies of Locke Lamora because of you, and I really enjoyed it! I’ve never read anything like that before! (I’m new to fantasy - was mainly a mystery esp. James Patterson reader, then decided to try new genres)
I have read the Bear Town and The gentlemen bastard series because of your recommendation and I loved it so muchhh!!! They are currently in my top 5 favorite series too, but Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter have a special place in my heart too❤️❤️ Get well soon!!!
Just read Beartown due to your recommendation. I’m SO glad I did, it’s now one of my all time favorites. I lived in a small town in Sweden (not a hockey town, admittedly), and the culture and people are SPOT on. Ours was hunting and fishing, and the ENTIRE town was drawn like flies to the culture that it created. Definitely less centralized than a sports team which is an us vs you competitive culture but it really hit home nonetheless.
Thank you again 😊
AGREED! I love the gentleman bastard series! Started reading it because of you and I was not dissapointed. Jean and Locke's friendship is absolutely amazing!!!
I finally read The Gentleman Bastards thanks to you AND GODS IT WAS INCREDIBLE! I just loved everything about this world and I loved the storytelling! Thank you again for making me discover that serie
I really need to read Bear Town! I loved A Man Called Ove so I’m hoping to get to more of his books in the future.
Currently reading Words of Radiance. Gosh I love this series...❤️
That is literally how I read harry potter as a kid, my mom and sister read them too me and somewhere is the 4th i couldn't wait and picked it up!
OKAY I SWEAR I was just wondering when you'd upload an updated favourite series video!!!!!! this was creepy and awesome 😂😂💙💙
Mind reader Mary.
@@Hadrian1616 haha tell me about it!
What's creepy and awesome is that filmmakers, RUclips channels, and video game makers seem to read my mind a lot.
Read/start reading a book? A T.V show or movie adaptation gets announced shortly after. (Happened to me with The Lightning Thief and "Looking for Alaska").
Watch a movie? A sequel or a remake gets announced shortly after (happened to me with the Matrix trilogy and Lady and the Tramp).
Play a video game? A sequel or movie adaptation gets announced shortly after (happened to me with multiple video games!).
Popular RUclips videos also get uploaded a lot after I recently finish reading a book/watching a video/playing a game.
Love the narrator for Gentlemen Bastards. The series that revitalised my book-love after ASOIAF. Can't wait for book 4 this fall!!!
Fun video, as always!
I LOVE The Gentleman Bastard Sequence! The characters and the bonds! ❤️
Merphy, I've read and loved Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. The others are on my TBR list. I also like the series by Terry Brooks ( Shannara and Landover) David Eddings (Belgariad and Malloreon) and Alan Dean Foster ( Spellsinger)
I read GB for the first time a few years ago and reread the first one a lot over the last few years and all three once this year. I am so exited about finally seeing that book 4 is develloping and hope that it gets published in 2020. I‘m sure it will blow our minds. Can‘t wait to get my hands on a copy.
I can't wait for it either!
Hey. I wanted to start reading series because I've only read the Harry Potter so thank you for making these videos as it has really good recommendations as I tend to like most books that you liked
I love love love the Gentleman Bastard series. My husband and I proselytize those books all the time; I think we've given away over a dozen copies to our friends/family... You should check out Lynch's short stories, too. "In the Stacks" is super neat and "The Fall and Rise of the House of Malkuril" is hilarious; I saw Lynch read part of it and he did the voices and it was brilliant. "Tea for master??" is now an oft-repeated phrase in our home.
Wow that leather lotr set looks amazing. I want it.
Mine:
1: The Hunger Games
2: Warrior Cats
3: A Series of Unfortunate Events
4: Harry Potter Series
5: I only have four main book series I have gotten into. For the past 13 years of my life I only focused my life on my digital art but your videos have changed my mind. I really want to get into reading and writing as well as digital art.
warrior cats will always be sooo good
@@emmaglas962 ikr??
I love the hunger games as well😍
Yaaass, I can’t wait for Gentlemen Bastards’ book 4 😍
It’s easily one of my favorite series
What a fun video! I definitely am interested in your top 3! Not sure why I keep putting off The Lord of the Rings! I just need to dive in!
I picked up the Lies of Locke Lamora and Lord of the rings because of you so I’m excited to dive into them!!
I hope you love them
I just finished reading The Lies of Locke Lamora last night at 3 am (very much because of you talking about Locke and Jean's friendship and boy, I wasn't disappointed) and I am still shaken from the emotional depth that book held. I literally couldn't start reading Book 2 because I was still hung up on so much that happened in the first book but I'm quite convinced that once I get to reading Book 2 I'll love it just as much!
Thanks so much for the recommendation!
I love this list and all your videos. I guess being at least a generation older I don’t see the difficulty in reading Tolkien. My husband read me the trilogy while we were dating. Definitely one of the ways I knew he was The One. When I was a teacher The Hobbit was always the first book I read out loud to the students. One of my best moments came when a young woman approached me at a convenience store. She said, “You are the lady that read me The Hobbit. I read The Lord of the Rings a few years ago.” I had been a student teacher for her 4th grade class, so was only there for one quarter of the year. And this was several years before the movies came out.
I would like to point out that Merry and Pippin are cousins, not brothers. Though it is probably safe to say the Fellowship considered themselves a brotherhood.
EmpressNoriko Thank you about Merry and Pippin. I knew I was not wrong about those two, especially since Gandalf makes it such a big deal that Merry is a Brandybuck and Pip is a Took. The Hobbit is a better book, I’m afraid.
I can't believe I forgot about Sanderson's Stormlight Archive books. I loved the first two books so I checked the Goodreads website and it confirmed that I had really and truly forgotten about the third book. My local library has all three books available so I'm off to grab them now so I'll have something great to read while waiting for some new releases. Monday's also the Remembrance Day holiday and everything is closed so its a great chance to get some extra reading done.
After reading Tolkien in my own language (Norwegian) in the early 80's, I only found Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy that was also translated. So my English teacher eventually loaned me other fantasy books he owned. Tolkien's Silmarillion and Michael Moorcock's Elric series. After that I tried to buy anything I found in English from my local bookstore, and then I ordered a lot more from their advertisements in the back of the books!
I have bought a lot of books over the years, and I really love how this market has seemed to streamline itself into what I now think I love...
Did you ever read authors like Jo Clayton and Sheri S Tepper? They wrote series/trilogies/whatever that were so original, I still keep going back to them! Patricia McKillip's stories are also so unique among today's novels.
Can you have a read through 70's and 80's fantasy/SF literature and let us all know how those feel to you these many years after they were written? I'm a man, and I've so many times been impressed both by how those female writers thought differently to the (male) standard, and by how much they still resonated with me!
Literary archeology, go for it, girl! ;-)
I love your videos so much!💖💖💖
Yay for Beartown. A forever favorite.
Just found your channel through your Harry Potter reviews (I need to watch them all ;) ). I found the fact that you took the time to made videos only on the incoherences very interesting and you wore once a Ravenclaw sweater (you made me feel proud of my house ❤).
I've not read most of these books. I have heard of Lies of Locke Lamora, started LOTR twice, but didn't commit (I know, what a shame), and I've been reading for the second time the HP series (I've started the 7th recently) in English (the british version, love learning new expressions and Hagrid's scottish accent!) instead of in French, my native language.
I'm amazed by what's popular from one country to another. Here in Québec, a fantasy series called Les chevaliers d'émeraude have been a big hit for years and I was obsessed with it and I know someday I'll reread them for the third (or fourth?) times (nostalgia, when you hold us ❤). 5 have already been translated out of 12: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knights_of_Emerald
They don't take too much time to read and the story is really engaging and original (in my opinion, but I haven't read many fantasy series, so... ^^")
You know how you said that you used to dress up as Hermione? My brother and I did that too but instead I was Harry Potter (I'm a girl) and he was Hermione lmao 😂😂
I recently finished The Way of Kings and absolutely loved it cannot wait to read the rest of them. The gentleman Bastard is on my TBR looking forward to it, i only like the back and forward style if it is done well and from what you have said it sounds like it is. I wish i had more time to read and more money to buy books.
I absolutely love the stormlight archive
When you get to this every year, it just reminds me that I still haven't started your top two series. Someday...
Have you ever heard of Bernard Cornwell??? He is my all time fav! As always keep on the nice work, Merphy! A shout from Brazil! Best of luck!
I struggled to get into the writing of Locke Lamora, so I appreciate you mentioning that you also initially struggled with the unique style. I think I'll have to give the series another try.
My top 5 for this year:
1. The Witcher series
2. The Magicians trilogy
3. Beartown/Us against them
4. Mistborn
5. Foundryside
Haven't heard about the last one u mentioned . Is it high fantasy ?
@@Gloria-ke1md Foundryside is high fantasy. The second book in the series is coming out in February. I'm really looking forward to it.
What’s the magicians about?
@@beta910 it's basically Harry Potter +Narnia, but with depressed adults.
New subscriber here! Been loving your stuff, Merphy. I just bought The Lies of Locke Lamora on your recommendation! Really looking forward to reading.
Bear Town reminds me of one of the only Sarah Dessen novels I've ever read, Just Listen. I really loved that one, so Bear Town and the sequel are going onto my list for sure!
I started reading The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter in Brazilian Portuguese, but found them MUCH more enjoyable in English. One series I recommend is the Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. Another are the two recent Shelock Holmes novels which were commissioned by the SH Estate. Hope you keep getting better
Just found your channel. So if the platonic friendships where one would die for their friends is high on your list of loves, I highly recommend the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Yes, it's middle grade fiction, but I am in my late 30s and fell in LOVE with it. My daughter had begged me to read it for years and I finally gave in this year...and read it twice. Now both my younger boys and I all have it as our fav, along with my daughter.
I just finished republic of thieves and loved it, can’t wait for book 4... sometime. If you like desert fantasy you should try The Twelve Kings of Sharakhai which is the first book of the Song of the Shattered Sands, it’s amazing
I love the audiobook narrator for The Gentlemen Bastards as well!
You've got a great bookshelf! 😃
Like platonic friendships? Give Michael J Sullivan's Theft of Swords a try. Hadrian and Royce steal the show.
“He had never seen a movie or watched a book Harry Potter related” lmao just caught that. Didn’t even notice it the first time I saw this video
Just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora since you’ve been recommending it since forever, and I definitely am continuing with the series. Awesome rec.
What I will say though is, the time-jumping didn’t jar me nearly as much as how much profanity was in the book. Yes, it can be (and was) well-placed and effective to the story at times, but it also felt gratuitous more often than not. And maybe that is me just being a sensitive don’t-say-the-f-word-around-me person, but I would have liked to have known beforehand the level of profanity in this book - it is a lot.
Still got through it, still loved it, the story and characters were //well// worth it, but that’s the main “caution” tag I’d put on it that I hadn’t seen anywhere else.
Do read the silo trilogy by Hugh Howey too. I’ve just started reading book three ‘Dust’. I love it so much.
I’m 100% a movie/ tv person, But I still really enjoy this channel and find your opinions very engaging. My favourite series is dear authors as many of the themes that are discussed can be found in film too. Thanks for opening the world of books to me :D
I clicked here to hear someone else gush about The Gentlemen Bastards! I am listening to the second one (I also like the narrator) but had to stop for school. The first one blew my mind! I can normally guess how stories end and this one kept me on my toes and I was so shocked by some of the twists. And watching Locke grow as a person was so gratifying! I also loved the friendships so much!
The way of kings is also sitting on my bedside waiting for the semester to end :-) looking forward to that even more now.
Your description of Stormlight seems to be right up my alley. I'm currently reading the Mistborn series but I think I will read Stormlight afterwards. I've read the Hobbit and liked it so I do want to read The Lord of The Rings.
I hope you love it!
I just bought Book 1 of The Gentleman Bastards upon your recommendation! My sister got to it first though, and is loving it, but it’ll take her quite a while to get through it.
Thank you!