getting your friend to read epic fantasy

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  • @DanielGreeneReviews
    @DanielGreeneReviews  3 года назад +2191

    Normality* Normalcy* idk you pick.

    • @dipinbk8852
      @dipinbk8852 3 года назад +51

      Normalcy is better

    • @UltimateKyuubiFox
      @UltimateKyuubiFox 3 года назад +23

      Dipin Bk *Normalicy

    • @Calebgoblin
      @Calebgoblin 3 года назад +7

      I'll allow it

    • @thejustinwestra
      @thejustinwestra 3 года назад +48

      You combined normalcy and normality together to create normalicy. I’ll forgive it.

    • @jonbaxter2254
      @jonbaxter2254 3 года назад +7

      I think "normalcy" is ok, but pronounced nor-mal-sea

  • @kaskae7240
    @kaskae7240 3 года назад +3015

    The answer to 'what happens if I read the first book and I don't like it?' Should have been 'Keep going, it really gets going in the third book.'

    • @TheLordofMetroids
      @TheLordofMetroids 3 года назад +367

      "Really it doesn't get good till book 6, The author even recommends starting there."
      "can't I just start there than?"
      "NO! you have to feel the pain I felt."

    • @citizensguard3433
      @citizensguard3433 3 года назад +94

      Bryan Wegner NO! You’re not allowed to SKIP!!! Publication order or death!!!!

    • @bmoneybby
      @bmoneybby 3 года назад +45

      I was thinking the same thing!
      "The series really picks up around book 7."

    • @Azrael-me1tm
      @Azrael-me1tm 3 года назад +15

      Stardust Crusaders be like

    • @Azrael-me1tm
      @Azrael-me1tm 3 года назад +7

      @@citizensguard3433 JoJo fans be like

  • @infjelphabasupporter8416
    @infjelphabasupporter8416 3 года назад +3592

    Basically me convincing my dad to read A Game of Thrones.
    It worked.
    Now he's telling me about how much he likes Ned Stark every day. Poor summer dad.

  • @xfel5913
    @xfel5913 3 года назад +2947

    "I have to share this pain"
    Odium: Thanks mate.

    • @milospollonia1121
      @milospollonia1121 3 года назад +139

      YOU CANNOT HAVE MY PAIN!

    • @mistborn1136
      @mistborn1136 3 года назад +11

      Will Rayse come back?

    • @AkshayShekhar
      @AkshayShekhar 3 года назад +12

      "I'm going to save the world."

    • @gavinsmith9871
      @gavinsmith9871 3 года назад +27

      @@mistborn1136 Somehow Rayse returned.

    • @jobobminer8843
      @jobobminer8843 3 года назад +25

      That's what's up with all the fantasy gatekeepers. They're just way ahead of us, holding the pain and keeping it to themselves.

  • @samuelponder
    @samuelponder 3 года назад +1967

    "For the memes, I'll do it!"
    *my man has his priorities sorted out well*

    • @odiums_taint
      @odiums_taint 3 года назад +18

      friend: heheh meme lol (doesn’t get it, but knows he’s supposed to laugh)
      me: you know that’s from the book i tried to get you to read.

    • @bluerectangle5794
      @bluerectangle5794 3 года назад +14

      @@odiums_taint I am terrified of your username.

    • @carsonrush3352
      @carsonrush3352 2 года назад +4

      @@bluerectangle5794, oh my gosh! I had to go back and I entirely agree.

    • @krog2371
      @krog2371 2 года назад +5

      literally how I got someone into jojo

    • @poppypollen4362
      @poppypollen4362 2 года назад +3

      I mean, that's how I got into Jojo.

  • @milospollonia1121
    @milospollonia1121 3 года назад +3274

    Daniel the type of guy to flex on us for having a friend

    • @UltimateKyuubiFox
      @UltimateKyuubiFox 3 года назад +177

      Yeah. Himself.
      .... Shit, that’s still a flex.

    • @nem0men_901
      @nem0men_901 3 года назад +45

      @@UltimateKyuubiFox An even bigger one

    • @ham5097
      @ham5097 3 года назад +29

      @@UltimateKyuubiFox He's like Shallan.

    • @LiftedStarfish
      @LiftedStarfish 3 года назад +9

      @@ham5097 It's wack for me having to learn how ask these characters names are spelled because I listened to the audio book. For some reason, I thought her name was spelled Chalan, despite the sh sound being used. Other names I'm guessing the spelling of are Dalanar, Cadius, Rok, Amaram, Tienn, and Yasna.

    • @milospollonia1121
      @milospollonia1121 3 года назад +10

      @@LiftedStarfish LMAO: Dalinar, Sadeas, Rock, Amaram (good job), Tien and Jasnah

  • @SlayingtheGloom
    @SlayingtheGloom 3 года назад +874

    Me to a family member: "Oh, you're finally reading that book I gave you!"
    Them: *looks at me, then starts uncontrollably sobbing*
    Me: "Oh, you're at that part."

    • @kylegrefe4399
      @kylegrefe4399 3 года назад +103

      *realizing it's a Sanderson Book*: "Which 'that part' are you at?"

    • @AeneasGemini
      @AeneasGemini 3 года назад +44

      @@kylegrefe4399 Yeah, that does not narrow it down

    • @ahdhwjdue8362
      @ahdhwjdue8362 3 года назад +18

      @@AeneasGemini it'll expand it because one day he'll have written most of the books known to man.

    • @namesarefortheweak
      @namesarefortheweak 3 года назад +5

      When I got my friend to watch FMAB. Episode 10 man. Episode 10.

    • @jaydee4697
      @jaydee4697 2 года назад +8

      @@namesarefortheweak You mean they didn't call you at 3am whilst sobbing uncontrollably over Nina and Alexander?

  • @NineSixRane
    @NineSixRane 3 года назад +903

    Step One: Get a friend

  • @aryanagarwal7198
    @aryanagarwal7198 3 года назад +1339

    Daniel's reading one piece due to memes so the ending seems pretty accurate to me

    • @TheLordofMetroids
      @TheLordofMetroids 3 года назад +56

      Holy Crap, did you guys Actually convince him to check out One Piece?

    • @aryanagarwal7198
      @aryanagarwal7198 3 года назад +38

      @@TheLordofMetroids yeah on his 250k Livestream and the award show

    • @TheLordofMetroids
      @TheLordofMetroids 3 года назад +47

      @@aryanagarwal7198 Good lord, LOL. That is going to be a polarizing review. He will either absolutely love it or hate it.

    • @hitandruncommentor
      @hitandruncommentor 3 года назад +23

      Oh no Daniel is going to hate it. Then again all the otaku can look at him with the “first time eh?” Look.

    • @amitojsingh3067
      @amitojsingh3067 3 года назад +23

      @@coleton7048 well one piece is a superior work of fiction than fmab. So why not. ?

  • @vezir382
    @vezir382 3 года назад +366

    "Oh wow. Well, did at least finishing the series leave you feeling complete and fulfilled?"
    ngl was expecting the next line to be "oh, no, the series isn't finished, and we have no idea if it ever will be!"

    • @jaimelannister1797
      @jaimelannister1797 3 года назад +25

      Cries in ASOIAF

    • @joaquingamarra3248
      @joaquingamarra3248 3 года назад +3

      @@jaimelannister1797 2 questions
      1. How the hell do I pronounce that?!?
      2. What does it stand for??

    • @jaimelannister1797
      @jaimelannister1797 3 года назад +14

      @@joaquingamarra3248 it’s an abbreviation for A Song of Ice and Fire aka the superior books game of thrones are based in

    • @Heyitsmehyuppp
      @Heyitsmehyuppp 2 года назад +3

      @@jaimelannister1797 I actually don’t really care for G.R.R.M’s writing style. If that’s your thing that’s your thing, but I wouldn’t go calling anyones writing superior to another’s.

    • @jaimelannister1797
      @jaimelannister1797 2 года назад +2

      @@Heyitsmehyuppp I mean it’s not hard to have better writing than the last couple season of Game of Thrones

  • @STOROSVART
    @STOROSVART 3 года назад +638

    I tricked my friend into reading fantasy. Now he wont stop sending me cosmere memes. Please send help.

    • @maximeteppe7627
      @maximeteppe7627 3 года назад +90

      Tell him he needs to convince someone else to read the series so that he has more people to bear the load of the memes.

    • @prinnywizzard9608
      @prinnywizzard9608 3 года назад +34

      Point him towards r/cremposting.
      If that's where he's finding the memes and sending them on to you, oops ;)

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 3 года назад +11

      Get him into terry pretchett to gosh about that?!

    • @isi__1
      @isi__1 3 года назад +10

      I really don't see an issue here

    • @jankeprins9668
      @jankeprins9668 3 года назад +13

      I don't see any issue either. He could send the memes to me if he wanted to? I'd be glad to be a receiver of memes

  • @allenvikramchochinov5940
    @allenvikramchochinov5940 3 года назад +676

    Experience has taught me that brute force eventually works

    • @milospollonia1121
      @milospollonia1121 3 года назад +56

      That Hardcover Oathbringer makes a good crunch on someone's face.
      Eh, so I've been told...

    • @allenvikramchochinov5940
      @allenvikramchochinov5940 3 года назад +37

      @@milospollonia1121 just sneak earbuds into thier ears while they sleep and hit them with that sweet sweet narration

    • @Jrdn357
      @Jrdn357 3 года назад +5

      @@allenvikramchochinov5940 Ah, yes.... The brute force of THICC. SPICY. JUICY. *MEMES* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @CatholicDragoon
      @CatholicDragoon 3 года назад +12

      Brute force is always an option, it's just a question of how much is required.
      If someone tells you that brute force isn't an answer they applying enough.

    • @Wirrn
      @Wirrn 3 года назад +1

      Ooh noted

  • @UdyKumra
    @UdyKumra 3 года назад +1079

    "Well this is going to be a problem for our relationship because after reading this series I need to talk about it nonstop for months and you not having read it means it's going to be very difficult for me to do so."
    "Oh wow. Well, did at least finishing the series leave you feeling complete and fulfilled?"
    "Oh GOD-NO!"
    Every line of this skit is PERFECT writing. I'd give you an Emmy award just for this lol

    • @katw5592
      @katw5592 3 года назад +19

      Best lines of this entire skit. And so FREAKING ACCURATE

    • @ludivinedevaugelade9286
      @ludivinedevaugelade9286 3 года назад +8

      That is exactly how I felt while finishing the wheel of time + the part about seeing characters l've known for years die.

    • @animalobsessed1
      @animalobsessed1 3 года назад +8

      This actually did ruin a friendship for me. I had a friend that read the same book series I did, and our third friend didn't like those books. Long story short, the third friend stopped hanging out with us, and the relationship never recovered. No joke.
      We read those books during summer vacation, so we had the time to literally spend 10 hours per day discussing these books.

    • @csweezey18
      @csweezey18 3 года назад +5

      This goes for more than just epic fantasy novels... I get this way with video games, TV shows, books, anime, comic books, manga, music... Wait, I think I might have a problem!

    • @saberstrike000
      @saberstrike000 3 года назад +2

      I feel personally attacked by the first line.

  • @UdyKumra
    @UdyKumra 3 года назад +294

    Tossing Stormlight mass markets onto the table is somehow so satisfying lol

  • @milospollonia1121
    @milospollonia1121 3 года назад +442

    These skits are accepted

    • @reagame8700
      @reagame8700 3 года назад +25

      I will sketch those that cannot sketch themselves.

    • @ThatPash
      @ThatPash 3 года назад +6

      @@reagame8700 Somebody named the stromfather please reply "These words are accepted."

    • @thestormfather6559
      @thestormfather6559 3 года назад +19

      ​@@reagame8700 These words are accepted.

    • @dalgron
      @dalgron 3 года назад +2

      Your reply is accepted.

    • @ThatPash
      @ThatPash 3 года назад +4

      @@thestormfather6559 Thanks stormfather

  • @UdyKumra
    @UdyKumra 3 года назад +347

    "It's probably going to end up being more pages than you've read in your entire life." 😂😂😂

    • @travishudson7156
      @travishudson7156 3 года назад +10

      *Laughs in Wheel of Time*

    • @danevans551
      @danevans551 3 года назад +1

      @@travishudson7156 *Laughs in Wandering Inn*

  • @PrincePecky
    @PrincePecky 3 года назад +711

    Somewhere deep in Daniel’s brain:
    Normality + normalcy = “normalicy”

    • @ellismartiskainen7729
      @ellismartiskainen7729 3 года назад +2

      Right

    • @kweitz44
      @kweitz44 3 года назад +2

      HAHA

    • @JB-bq2qj
      @JB-bq2qj 3 года назад +10

      Welp, that didn’t get a heart

    • @PrincePecky
      @PrincePecky 3 года назад +2

      @@JB-bq2qj I know right.... I feel bad I was just playing I didn’t wanna make him upset or anything. Daniel’s the man.

    • @Kirito_2016
      @Kirito_2016 3 года назад +2

      I like it

  • @akap
    @akap 3 года назад +42

    "...well, no, these are just the first three, out of a five-well, planned 10 book, 2 part series with a time skip in between and-hey, wait where are you going?!"

  • @mjdaniel8710
    @mjdaniel8710 3 года назад +131

    "This series has scared me forever" "Then why do you read them?" "Because it's fun"

  • @JLHoskins
    @JLHoskins 3 года назад +28

    Pretty much r/fantasy in a nutshell.
    "I'm new to fantasy, what should I read?"
    "You should read the Wheel of Time, Malazan, ASOIAF, The Witcher, The Cosmere and Tolkien's entire legendarium. Great start to fantasy bro."

  • @lionessoftheseas
    @lionessoftheseas 3 года назад +253

    I wish I could do this with my friends. They just ignore anything that comes out of my mouth to do with fantasy 😅😂

    • @eddfelix1705
      @eddfelix1705 3 года назад +13

      I'd like babbling to them about fantasy but they're just ignoring me but I still do that just because it's entertaining😅🤣😂

    • @odiums_taint
      @odiums_taint 3 года назад +18

      i like to assume that they tune me out simply to mask the insecurities they have stemming from illiteracy. that way, their dead-eyes stare isnt my fault..

    • @kliffalibur3497
      @kliffalibur3497 3 года назад +3

      Story of my whole life bro...

    • @animalobsessed1
      @animalobsessed1 3 года назад +1

      Just keep trying, you'll succeed eventually!

    • @irisbear9421
      @irisbear9421 3 года назад +2

      I like to make obscure references in normal conversation that nobody but me understands. my closest friends will be like "is that from Wheel of time?" and I'm like yes it is and you should read it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @martinaborg9052
    @martinaborg9052 3 года назад +221

    I've tried to explain this to so many people. I'll just send them this from now on.

    • @stevietv420
      @stevietv420 3 года назад

      Same 😂 thank you, Daniel

  • @hansyolo8277
    @hansyolo8277 3 года назад +71

    "Here, read these just under 5000 pages of a book series"
    "Oh wow, that's a long series"
    "No, this isn't even the first half of the series, we're just waiting for them to come out"
    Bando Sando, you mad man

    • @slashshrugg
      @slashshrugg Год назад

      currently reading through the first four (way of kings-rhythm of war) and it's literally 6705 pages in my ebook
      he's a brilliant madman

  • @CatastrophicDisease
    @CatastrophicDisease 3 года назад +139

    The delivery of the friend saying “Memes?” was spot-on comedic acting.

  • @reidblanchard6453
    @reidblanchard6453 3 года назад +87

    I have never successfully convinced any of my friends to read anything, that is why I use your discord

    • @wingracer1614
      @wingracer1614 3 года назад +1

      Same here except I did get Skyward for a friends daughter at Christmas and she's already insisting mom take her to get the sequel. So maybe in a few years we can geek out to Mistborn and Stormlight.

    • @devoringdemonsoulq9086
      @devoringdemonsoulq9086 3 года назад +1

      I feel you

  • @ImusakHctividar
    @ImusakHctividar 3 года назад +268

    "Oh man, I made it 200 pages in! I gotta be reaching some kind of climax."
    "No, that was just the intro."
    "The what now?"
    "Those pages were just meant to introduce setting and characters so the other 800 pages have context."
    "... Fuck."

    • @AK-tr6lo
      @AK-tr6lo 3 года назад +21

      I’m about halfway through Words of Radiance and when asked what the plot is my explanation is something like “I think the apocalypse is coming back” if I try to describe more than that I end up trying to just summarize what is happening in the books which I don’t want to do.

    • @dominikahanusova6797
      @dominikahanusova6797 3 года назад +5

      ou, yes XD that's me XD I'm listening to dune now and I'm at the first 10 hours... out of 30... yeah....

    • @danevans551
      @danevans551 3 года назад +6

      Fellowship of the Ring basically.

    • @Agustin_Leal
      @Agustin_Leal 2 года назад

      Dune basically

    • @soliduszor
      @soliduszor 9 месяцев назад

      Considering this is stormlight
      The first 1 1/2 books are just the set up intro

  • @TonkarzOfSolSystem
    @TonkarzOfSolSystem 2 года назад +22

    The most realistic part for someone who reads epic fantasy is that he's talking to himself.

  • @GuardeGame
    @GuardeGame 3 года назад +98

    Keeping track of all these epic fantasy books are “super easy, barely an inconvenience”

    • @Sweetandsourman
      @Sweetandsourman 3 года назад +16

      I was shocked at how few comments admit that this is an Epic Fantasy Pitch Meeting.

    • @VoidLantadd
      @VoidLantadd 3 года назад +7

      Really reminded me of Pitch Meeting

    • @coldsun1
      @coldsun1 3 года назад +6

      Hahaha Ryan George quotes are great and very applicable to a large amount of subjects

    • @corey4370
      @corey4370 Год назад

      Referencing Ryan is tight!

  • @UltimateKyuubiFox
    @UltimateKyuubiFox 3 года назад +122

    The punchline to this was stellar.

  • @strixytom
    @strixytom Год назад +2

    "Don't get too attached."
    "To the character?"
    "To his head."

  • @mitchsimoes1305
    @mitchsimoes1305 3 года назад +175

    Literally me every single day with every one of my friends. I think us readers have a problem.. 😂

  • @the_prinzy1636
    @the_prinzy1636 3 года назад +62

    I dont feel this with Epic Fantasy. But as someone who has read, and is reading, dozens of 40k novels. I can feel it, in my very soul.

    • @Morfeusm
      @Morfeusm 3 года назад +11

      So you are saying 40K novels aren’t garbage? So I really should stop using them as a toilet paper 🤔
      Joke, calm down please I don’t have this insured...

    • @cristianbrown5316
      @cristianbrown5316 3 года назад +2

      Wasn't he starting the 40k series this year

    • @gurentgc3546
      @gurentgc3546 3 года назад +2

      For the emperor!

    • @AngronTheRadAngel
      @AngronTheRadAngel 3 года назад +3

      You have no soul to feel, once you let The Warp into your life.

    • @Al_N_Infer
      @Al_N_Infer 3 года назад

      Godamn Horus Heresy and it's 50+ books...

  • @maybebianca
    @maybebianca 3 года назад +83

    Skits are the best thing happening to this channel. I laugh at them so hard. For the memes ofc

  • @sakura_girl_21
    @sakura_girl_21 3 года назад +10

    When you have to spend 5 hours to explain what happens in Silmarillion to your friend because she has never read it. 😔

  • @Macapta
    @Macapta 3 года назад +62

    (Finished Fires of Heaven) “wow that took me a while, hopefully the next one will be a bit quicker”
    (Buys Lord of Chaos, one of the thickest books I’ve ever held) “oh..fuck”

    • @packered
      @packered 3 года назад +7

      Fun fact: The Shadow Rising is actually the longest book in the series. Lord of Chaos is very close, but about 1% shorter.

    • @kritikkulkarni110
      @kritikkulkarni110 3 года назад

      Are those the books he had included in the video?

    • @kirkenstiensmonster
      @kirkenstiensmonster 3 года назад +2

      @@kritikkulkarni110 it looked like the top book was Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. And from what he's saying that was three books of the Stormlight Archive.

    • @kritikkulkarni110
      @kritikkulkarni110 3 года назад +2

      @@kirkenstiensmonster Oh okay
      Thank you :)

    • @kormendymatyas8667
      @kormendymatyas8667 3 года назад

      Well you obviously hadnt read stormlight then (each book about 1300 pages)

  • @mr_gl00m32
    @mr_gl00m32 3 года назад +45

    "More pages than you've read in your entire life."
    "Yeah. I don't think I'm going to do that."
    My friends trying to get me into One Piece.

    • @prabhavchaturvedi7314
      @prabhavchaturvedi7314 3 года назад +1

      You should definitely read One Piece and this is why
      You must already know how great it is
      Now, about the lengthiness
      I myself started One Piece in January 2020 and finished in February
      When you read it, it doesn’t seem long
      You keep reading it and in the flow you just finish it someday
      I actually was surprised that I finished it this early
      So give One Piece a go
      You won’t regret it

    • @zombiedemon1762
      @zombiedemon1762 3 года назад

      Me begging myself to read Berserk.

    • @prabhavchaturvedi7314
      @prabhavchaturvedi7314 3 года назад

      @@zombiedemon1762 Aahhh
      Berserk
      So good
      Just be prepared to face the countless hiatuses and the idea that the story may ever be completed
      If ur okay with that
      Then go ahead

    • @zombiedemon1762
      @zombiedemon1762 3 года назад

      @Prabhav Chaturvedi. I plan to but there are soooooooo many pages and chapters. Luckily i know it gets good. Im at the beginning.

    • @prabhavchaturvedi7314
      @prabhavchaturvedi7314 3 года назад +2

      @@zombiedemon1762 well good luck man

  • @aswindonfan3876
    @aswindonfan3876 3 года назад +8

    Me: (Convincing my friend to read fantasy)... And it's like your losing a dear friend that you've known for years.
    Friend: Good Idea!

  • @sparkinstarfall_FD
    @sparkinstarfall_FD 3 года назад +86

    Because of Daniel, I started reading The Wheel Of Time (half-way through the third book at the moment.) yet he still has not read The Chronicles Of Amber, smh.
    P.S. That awkward moment when you instantly fall in love with a series (Wheel of Time) but can't talk about it with anyone because none of your friends read fantasy books and you know that if you go into the community online you will be spoiled..... *sad face*

    • @tobyharrison4702
      @tobyharrison4702 3 года назад +1

      I have not actually read wheel of time is it worth the read? In your opinion?

    • @sparkinstarfall_FD
      @sparkinstarfall_FD 3 года назад +6

      @@tobyharrison4702 ​I would definitely recommend it if you like fantasy. This is the first epic fantasy series that I have read (or begun reading) and it's becoming one of my favorite of all time.

    • @katiewright3309
      @katiewright3309 3 года назад +1

      I just started the series as well because of Daniel and Merphy Napier. I am 5 hours of 28 into the audiobook. I like to listen to it will doing mindless tasks at work.

    • @katiewright3309
      @katiewright3309 3 года назад +3

      If you want to discuss the wheel of time without spoilers for stuff you haven't read I would check out The Wheel Reads podcast. It is a podcast for first time readers since 2 out of the 3 hosts are first time readers. They also have a discord where you are only allowed in certain channels depending on how many of the books you have read which helps with avoiding spoilers for future books. I recently joined and it has been a lot of fun so far.

    • @milicadiy
      @milicadiy 3 года назад

      Well, at least he's read the first COA book.

  • @gallifrey42501
    @gallifrey42501 3 года назад +33

    Now all I have to do to get my friend into a series is tell them about the memes. Good to know

  • @Neo2266.
    @Neo2266. 2 года назад +2

    The reply to
    “At least the ending will make me feel complete” should have been “Lol no the series isn’t finished yet”

  • @eleanorjones8613
    @eleanorjones8613 3 года назад +73

    Daniel do... do you have a camera in my house doing these exact saying and actions to the one person i have been quarentined with while they complain over and over that they are bored

  • @sivemolly
    @sivemolly 3 года назад +12

    I like how both of these people have the same tattoo. They must be really good friends :)

  • @22freedom33
    @22freedom33 3 года назад +15

    Memes really are the reason epic fantasies are passed from generations, heck "Frodo Lives" is oldder than the internet

  • @kiratheelf772
    @kiratheelf772 7 месяцев назад +1

    the One Ring To Rule Them All tattoo on your arm summaries this whole thing so perfectly.
    i am finally reading LOTR for the first time and it is SO GOOD
    but there is no way i could convince my friends to join me :')

  • @aithon358
    @aithon358 3 года назад +4

    My friend (who doesn't read epic fantasy): "So, what's that book you've been reading about?"
    Me: "I don't know, I'm only on page 200"

  • @ashutoshpandey3688
    @ashutoshpandey3688 3 года назад +11

    I actually had tears in my eyes watching this. God it hurts how I'll never meet any of my these characters in real life

  • @tntnuke659
    @tntnuke659 3 года назад +79

    Me realizing Wheel of Time has 14 books: :)
    Me reading 14 books: ;-;
    Me finding audiobooks: :)

    • @Hipnopotamussus
      @Hipnopotamussus 3 года назад +23

      I see we got a Alethi man over here.

    • @katiewright3309
      @katiewright3309 3 года назад

      Me realizing the audiobooks are still really long. Welp time to turn up the play speed.

    • @matthewevans5486
      @matthewevans5486 3 года назад +3

      @@katiewright3309 ... Why? You can listen to an audiobook while doing almost anything so time is almost not even a factor

    • @raffaelsteinmann7296
      @raffaelsteinmann7296 3 года назад

      @@matthewevans5486 Yeah, but I won't go through the pain of listening to an audiobook at 1x speed.

    • @matthewevans5486
      @matthewevans5486 3 года назад

      @@raffaelsteinmann7296 .... To each, his own I guess

  • @arvideriksson
    @arvideriksson 3 года назад +2

    "it will never be as fulfilling as the first time"
    except wheel of time. that gets better at every noticed foreshadowing

  • @CipherDorito
    @CipherDorito 3 года назад +38

    Still waiting for George R R Martin's Winds of winter...alas..in the winds.

  • @UdyKumra
    @UdyKumra 3 года назад +26

    "For the memes I'll do it" you joke but one of my best friends' ex-boyfriend and I got her to read Mistborn with this argument

  • @jlab3703
    @jlab3703 3 года назад +11

    These skits are gold. Hits very close to home every time

  • @samtrott776
    @samtrott776 3 года назад +9

    I got multiple friends “The Way of Kings” for Christmas and Birthdays and for each I wrote an essay on why they should read it. Because come on your average reader isn’t gonna just pick up TWOK and be like “this is the shortest book? Fantastic”. Needless to say they’re all reading it now :)

    • @Newfiecat
      @Newfiecat 3 года назад +4

      You got ALL of them to read it? So jealous!

    • @tobyharrison4702
      @tobyharrison4702 3 года назад +2

      Dang mate, that’s awesome. I need to try that.

    • @zenocanepa172
      @zenocanepa172 3 года назад +3

      Could you share those essays? I'd be interested in reading them all, first to see what makes TWoK worth reading, secondly to see how you varied between essays.

  • @woofergranade2044
    @woofergranade2044 3 года назад +3

    This has been almost exactly the conversation I’ve had every year with my brother about The Wheel of Time.

  • @marynelson2875
    @marynelson2875 2 года назад +1

    You forgot “its been ten years since the last book came out and we’re still waiting on the next one so I hope you enjoy cliffhangers”

    • @iantaylor9664
      @iantaylor9664 2 года назад

      The Cosmere fandom has come to laugh

  • @SomeBody08150
    @SomeBody08150 3 года назад +5

    This acuratly portrays what it's like to get your friends to read epic fantasy and i love it.

  • @AJFatherOfDunwich
    @AJFatherOfDunwich 3 года назад +11

    Isnt it funny how we put ourselves through this shit and yet love it

  • @LisaGrimm-LG
    @LisaGrimm-LG 3 года назад +26

    Literally me several years ago trying to convince my best friend with actual life to read Silmarillion after I read it the first three times in a row within one week.
    Except she didn't do that even for the memes... :(

  • @yogeshmishra7710
    @yogeshmishra7710 3 года назад +13

    "What if i told you there are literally HUNDREDS of named characters to keep track of?"
    *ONE PIECE* : You gotta bump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.

  • @animefreakazoid01
    @animefreakazoid01 3 года назад +7

    Wow word for word, it’s like you’re there when I was trying to get my friends into fantasy reading 😂

  • @LightHalcyon
    @LightHalcyon 3 года назад +14

    This legit is making me want to reread WoT

  • @EuclideanVision
    @EuclideanVision 3 года назад +4

    This encounter is FAR too familiar xD
    Many years of this is how my friend got me to read all of the Wheel of Time, and I've just finished The Well of Ascension, so he's at least sharing the pain reliably!
    And it was worth it xD

  • @Aria161Sheridan
    @Aria161Sheridan 3 года назад +8

    This resonates with me so much. I love these sketches

  • @Robert.Stole.the.Television
    @Robert.Stole.the.Television 3 года назад +5

    Real Ryan George energy here, especially that "oh my god"

  • @tenshiangelina
    @tenshiangelina 2 года назад +1

    That's me any time I try to convince someone to read Chinese fantasy, I'd had never imagined me reading 1-million-word books about flying swords (among many other things)

  • @alejandrovillalobos8713
    @alejandrovillalobos8713 3 года назад +7

    As a Wheel of Time fan, I can say this is me in a nutshell.

  • @lasse1705
    @lasse1705 3 года назад +2

    I'm currently writing a D&D one-shot set on Roshar (Stormlight archive) to get the rest of my D&D group into stormlight

  • @nixian_zwaylus
    @nixian_zwaylus 3 года назад +3

    this video is basically me trying to get other people to read certain fanfics (the ones that are actually better than the og book), except it usually doesn't work.

  • @1230Therapy
    @1230Therapy 2 года назад +1

    I finished Words of Radiance and am on chapter 2 of Oathbringer…this video put me on edge.

  • @chichonete
    @chichonete 3 года назад +21

    Lol I would be the friend
    "For the memes I'll do it!"

  • @coenraadsnyman5229
    @coenraadsnyman5229 3 года назад +9

    "do it for the meme" *sobs in vine*

  • @harrie4667
    @harrie4667 3 года назад +7

    i feel this on a spiritual level

  • @divachhichhia1277
    @divachhichhia1277 3 года назад +1

    You have just given me a way to explain my friends why I keep pushing them to read fantasy series.
    Thou got to share thy pain....

  • @dinoe.t.8079
    @dinoe.t.8079 3 года назад +12

    "For the memes" that's how I started JoJo's

  • @ATTACKTV8
    @ATTACKTV8 3 года назад +2

    Your shorts make my day every time.

  • @josiah9712
    @josiah9712 3 года назад +4

    Me trying to convince my sister to read her first epic fantasy series, the stormlight archive:
    Update: She is almost finished with the first book

  • @blafoon93
    @blafoon93 3 года назад +2

    Somehow the Stormlight Archives completely passed by me but a friend recently told me about it. I havent properly slept in 3 weeks as I read the first 3 books basically all day every day. The 4th book was unavailable for order but I will inevitably have to spent another 1 to 2 weeks deprived of sleep to read it as soon as I have it. Of course I don't just read about 40 hours a week on top of my full time job because of my friend or for the story, it's all for the memes. Can't wait to get in on the reddit action.

  • @dyballocks1296
    @dyballocks1296 3 года назад +6

    This felt like a personal attack towards me 😭

  • @jaxonadrain7171
    @jaxonadrain7171 3 года назад +3

    I recommended Stormlight to someone last night, *why wasn’t this out earlier!!!!*

  • @Nasser851000
    @Nasser851000 3 года назад +12

    1:52 Will this skit be a meme? XD

  • @ericadraven7813
    @ericadraven7813 2 года назад +2

    This is me trying to convince my dad to read Brandon Sanderson…

  • @kristienwhitney-johns5863
    @kristienwhitney-johns5863 3 года назад +4

    "Re reading it shall never be a fufilling as the first time"
    MALAZAN woild like a word;)

  • @georgehouse5421
    @georgehouse5421 2 года назад +1

    I'm wasn't a fantasy guy before watching this video, but now that I know it's for the memes, I must.

  • @alexdimopoulos769
    @alexdimopoulos769 3 года назад +4

    Use this video when your family and friends criticize your taste in reading. They will either understand or you will be left alone for ever. It doesn't matter of course since you will just continue to live another 1000 lives through books

  • @jerryfiore5818
    @jerryfiore5818 3 года назад +1

    Daniel, that looked like the first 3 Tad Williams books of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. :-)

  • @ladymairreads
    @ladymairreads 3 года назад +3

    this is literally me and my friend. she's halfway through the Farseer trilogy and ugh, I need her to hurry up!

  • @ConstantijnII
    @ConstantijnII 3 года назад

    As someone who regularly reads epic fantasy, this felt like personal attack. Why is this so true?
    You were able to capture the essence of epic fantasy only 2 minutes. I am impressed.

  • @LordMichaelRahl
    @LordMichaelRahl 3 года назад +3

    Astoundingly accurate.

  • @ld3451
    @ld3451 3 года назад +2

    I could draw out a diagram from who convinced me to read stormlight to who I've convinced and then who they've all convinced and so on. People always report their successes back up the chain. Feels a little like I'm part of a pyramid scheme.

  • @whateverdude0838
    @whateverdude0838 3 года назад +31

    "first three in a 10 book series"
    Stormlight archive chuckles silently

  • @lindsaymorrison7519
    @lindsaymorrison7519 3 года назад

    Aaaaand this is why I stick to trilogies.
    Except not.
    because I didn't realize how long the Way of King series was going to be.
    Curse yoooou, Sanderson.
    Curse you.
    (But actually thank you! I love you so much thank you for writing so quickly, and just keep at it, you beautiful, perfect monster)

  • @dylanthechillinvillain2488
    @dylanthechillinvillain2488 3 года назад +3

    Bruh I’d love to do that but I don’t have anyone to share it with. Starting Wheel of Time soon.

  • @flohdraws8240
    @flohdraws8240 3 года назад +1

    In Germany we say: geteiltes Leid ist halbes Leid (shared pain is half the pain)

  • @vojtechsimecek1423
    @vojtechsimecek1423 3 года назад +4

    Friend: Wait, it's all for the memes?
    Me: Always has been...

  • @Naija_Ninja
    @Naija_Ninja 2 года назад +1

    I like how the guy that doesn't read fantasy has a lotr tattoo circleling his arm

  • @thespiritphoenix3798
    @thespiritphoenix3798 3 года назад +4

    "For the memes I will do it" mission success!

  • @josiah9712
    @josiah9712 3 года назад +2

    Don’t share the pain, you can’t have my pain!!

  • @taneressel
    @taneressel 3 года назад +4

    If the memes don't convince them, just wait for the show to come out and get them hooked that way ;)

  • @briannaselhorst9200
    @briannaselhorst9200 2 года назад +1

    This is how I started reading Wheel of Time lol my coworker kept telling me I should watch the show and then I read the first book and was gifted the rest of the series. Sometimes listening is a good idea lol

  • @Micktrex
    @Micktrex 3 года назад +3

    You're not exactly selling this to me, Dan, Undisputed King of the Goblins.

  • @Goossensphil369
    @Goossensphil369 3 года назад

    This has to be your best short film so far. Please make more of these. I laughed so hard I had tears by the end.