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"Books don't need to be more than 500 pages."
I had a professor in college who would not give page minimums or limits on paper assignments. He said we should just write until we're finished, whether that takes more words or less. He said he would know if it was the right length. While this was annoying as an assignment (I didn't want to be marked down because of a professor's whims) I think it was actually excellent writing advice. Whatever you write shouldn't be artificially bloated or shortened. It should be exactly the length required to get the concept/story/information across.
TRUE thhooughh! ^-^
Funny thing in high-school I had my English teacher tell a few of my other teachers to start doing that so I wouldn't write the bare minimum. 😅 I told them more words or pages doesn't mean the answer is wrong, as long as I answer correctly is what should matter
Exactly. If you're condensing and shortening the story for shorter page length because people don't like long books, you're knee-capping the story and you're selling your story short.
It doesn't matter objectively if the book is 100 pages or 10,000 pages, if it tells a great story that is interesting to read and the world surrounding the story is awesome, who cares?
Depends on content sometimes stories need more pages to be told sometimes need less, also the text book thing
though that does sound awesome, i have learned that word limits often help realize which parts of my text/essay/paper are actually necessary and which ones are just fluff, or which sections need to be extended
"20000 Leagues Under the Sea. It was okay."
Blink-and-you-miss-it" hot take right there, hoo boy.
Yeah, how can one not adore the 15 pages of Ned Land and Arronax's servant describing the fish that float by? That's peak Literature!
Peak! Literature!
@@matthiasschulz3569 Tom Bombadil
I’m sorry, it reads like a late 19th Century biology textbook/travel guide.
@@TerrificRallyMaestro God*
@@JimBowen1 yes, and unless you know all of the scientific terms half the descriptions don't make sense
In response to watching the adaptation first I have 2 thoughts:
1. It can help readers who are not as visual better visualize what they’re reading if they’ve seen it first
2. I think it can be very helpful when you want to read an older classic to watch an adaptation first because I think it can help to better establish the setting and the story and give overall context
I find it usually works because in most cases the adaptation isn't as good but if you watch the adaptation first you'll then just really love the book for expanding on it and making it better. Whereas if you read the book you'll often be disappointed by the adaptation.
Plus the adaptation is useful for figuring out if you like the premise or not because it's less of a time investment.
This is my plan with Dune. I tried reading it and couldn't get into it, so after the movie I'll give it another shot.
I also watched The Princess Bride a couple dozen times before realizing it was an actual book. It's my absolute favorite movie, and reading afterwards let me see what was different without really ruining either experience.
I am totally #teamaddaptationfirst too, for all the reasons mentioned
@@seanaugust Stardust is the same way. I loved the movie then realised it was a book and loved the book for all those added details.
Also with classics, language and intent with tone can be easier to grasp as well! I watched the importance of being earnest first and then decided I wanted to read it too as a 15 year old, and if I didn’t have faces to picture or a general understanding of plot it would have overwhelmed me. Jane Eyre was the same way.
I'd love to see a book with a cast of characters that slowly die off and get replaced till the final group has no original members.
Asoiaf
Well kind of
I'll add it to my list of prompts.
@@NoOne-qy2yf ASOIAF has too many characters for this type of prompt I think. 4-7 cast would be ideal.
@@NoOne-qy2yf not quite. Most of the characters around at the end are around in some capacity at the beginning. The idea here is more along the lines of one character dying right before (or right after) another is introduced for the first time. So, for example, if Pippin were to have died in the barrow downs, just before they meet Aragorn, and by the end of Return of the King all four hobbits have fallen and someone else (Faramir, maybe) completes the quest.
The Dune Saga does this (besides 1 semi-side character) when you get to the 4th book, God Emperor of Dune.
I feel like a lot of people miss the point of Sanderson's writing.
I don't think he set out to create stories so thematic and complex in narrative structure that it'll take scholars decades to figure out what they mean.
I think he simply wants to create fantasy worlds filled with fun magic systems, unique creatures and interesting cultures that everyone can escape to.
There's a reason why his fans always talk about the fantasy elements and mental health representation in his stories.
This is a straw man, nobody is saying he needs to do any of the things you mentioned. They’re just saying they don’t find them that well made.
Not that they want his work to be a literary masterpiece.
@@YourBlackLocal Hmm, so basically you're saying that what he's offering, in theory, is worthwhile BUT the delivery of those elements is weak?
Well those things are nice but they don't make a story, for me I need to enjoy the prose, enjoy the characters and the dialogue. I've read the first couple of pages of some of Sanderson's books and they just didn't interest me at all. But clearly a lot of people love his work, just because I don't doesn't mean I'm gonna claim he's a bad author.
He likes to write a lot of "Hero's Journey" stories. Even when he has an ensemble of lead characters, he puts more energy into exploring each character's personal motivations, and how that leads to internal growth, rather than making the relationships characters have with each other super nuanced. Make no mistake, he does take care to make those relationships dynamic - it's not like he doesn't put in any effort into that - but it's clear he enjoys working with each character individually, and probably conceived them during the pre-writing stage one at a time. This could lead to his stuff feeling formulaic if "Hero's Journey" stories are all one consumes, but there are plenty of stories out there which don't follow the Hero's journey.
I don't find him bad, but the unabashed praise for him has had me struggling to finish Mistborn for months. I think there's fun stuff, but it's all delivered in a very bland presentation. I think if his works got adapted, that maybe they could be improved in that way.
Here is a hot take i actually prefer falls from grace over redemption arcs. Redemption arcs are rarely ever earned especially in recent years it seems. So seeing someone fall into darkness is in my opinion more interesting of a arc
While I love both, I would like to see more falls from graces especially for main characters
@@metumortis6323 Agreed 100%
I don't think i have ever read a book that had falls from grace trope, so i'm intrigued about reading such a book.
They are so rare which makes it interesting
@@Zivilin The Young Elites by Marie Lu has this.
Pretty much all of Tolkien's work is very slow and meandering. That being said, if tomorrow they discovered another 2000 pages of story for his world hidden in an old trunk somewhere, sign me up. I'm happy to live in Tolkien's world while he weaves stories around me for as long as possible. There's never been a better worldbuilder, period.
That's how I feel. I got excited for every new bit that Christopher Tolkien compiled and edited, and felt a little sad when he announced that The Fall of Gondolin was to be the last. He's just my comfort read lol
Slow and meandering is a very bad description. It misses just about everything of what makes him distinct and focuses on some subjective stuff or concerns. "Slow and meandering" is clearly an extremely plot-focused statement that fits so many writers, however it ignores how Tolkien is exactly different from most writers. In other words, in a good and proper understanding, it doesn't even apply (in a serious sense).
This is just me quickly reacting to a comment so shallow I would hardly have expected it, though I guess I should nowadays.
@@cerevor I love Tolkien's work, I think my comment made that clear. However, his story pacing seems much slower to me than others I've read. My point was that it doesn't matter, because I'm just down to hang out in his world, no matter how slow, because its so immersive.
If you don't like the descriptors I picked, thats fine, but you don't have to be an arrogant pseudo intellectual blow hard about it. We're all really impressed ok, take the rest of the night off.
Thank you for helping me understand why I don't like Tolkein. I have tried reading LOTR a few times and could never finish. I wanted to like them, but just couldn't. They are slow and meandering, not my style. I'm more if a "just give me the story" kind of person lol
Yeah I’d probably half agree with the map one. Like if it said “we’d need to move our army north to bledfgshr land” what’s the use of me going to the map just to say “oh yes bledfghsr land is indeed in the north”. City or town maps on the other hand helps in the visualization of the events in the area.
I actually am the opposite 😂 I don't care for town/city maps. "Oh this house is in the city, oh the other house is also in the city... Oh this street is between the houses!" Unless the topography of the city is important of course (like districts)
I just love to see the geography of the world. So yeah bledfgshr is north, but where do the people live, are there mountains, forests, historical landmarks, etc..
I completely agree with the Sanderson take-but I think a needed counter-statement is that it's impressive in its own right. There are plenty of authors who are more skilled at penning prose, developing characters, or worlds but only put out 1/5-1/10 the volume that Sanderson ever has that you just need to appreciate the sheer professional capability of Sanderson. If the book writing world were anything like how television is, I feel Sanderson would be an absolutely AMAZING producer... and we're all a bit worse off that this reality will never come to pass.
In fact, the only author working today I could say that is both more consistent and more skilled than Sanderson is [g]Oda.
Don't forget he also teaches a writing class, has a weekly podcast, attends cons and spends time with his friends and family.
Criticize the man all you want, he is one of the best selling authors of all time, and is still pumping out books left right and center. Im not the biggest Stephan King fan, but I have mad respect for his work ethic, same with Sanderson. They have earned their success.
On the "reading one genre doesnt make you smarter" and your point about romance books - like you said, romance can explore other themes and really dark themes, and I love that, but in my opinion exploring the concept of love and romance and partnership is absolutely a deep theme in itself. Romantic relationships are present in everyone's lives (even if one isn't in a romantic relationship themselves, they're surrounded by them in society) and often reflect how we function individually, with other individuals, and in society as a whole. Love as a concept is infinitely interesting because it is so hard to singularly define, and can be explored in so many ways. Reading romance books can help readers explore their own relationships, their sexualities, their response to love, and so much more. People look down on romance because it is perceived as light, fluffy, or just sexy, but a theme or genre being near universal and easy to identify with does not make it vapid or empty of intelligent discussion, introspection, and value.
I actually increasingly agree with the original hot take. You're pointing out all these interesting ideas, that I've never seen explored because I haven't read many romance books, and the romance in epic fantasy feels perfunctory. So if I don't read romance I won't really have the opportunity to see these kinds of things.
@@somerandomnoob100 I suppose it depends on why you read. Personally, I read predominantly for entertainment. I rarely read thrillers or horror, because I just don't enjoy those genres. Learning from reading is definitely a plus, but I don't understand why one would only read so they can be smarter. It's down to the individual I guess
@@somerandomnoob100 I think a more accurate take would be “reading one genre doesn’t make you more worldly”. If you only read one genre, you won’t be exposed to as much as if you read a wide variety, but you’re still learning and activating the parts of your brain you wouldn’t otherwise. It makes you smarter, but it doesn’t make you more experienced or as smart as you would be if you read different genres.
Call me a masochist, but I'm still looking for a book in which half of the story is just main characters kicking ass so I have a false sense of certainty they will never be killed and then proceed to utterly butcher them one by one on the other half like it's the ending of Invinsible's first episode.
Read Berserk.
Have you seen "Predator", with Arnold Schwarzenegger?
I would say the Dresden Files is a good series for you if you already haven't read it.
I feel like this is a spoiler for the book since ur looking for alot of characters dying but the witcher series
Read Chainsaw Man
I love maps in books! I can’t even begin to express how excited I was when I bought way of kings and it had a MAP WITH COLORS at the front
Hot take: the romances should have a happy ending is such an American take.
I discovered it for the first time when online and it shocked me? In the romance section on my country it's not uncommon to have books with bad or bittersweet endings, actually the most famous historical romantic story in my country ends with one of the persons being murdered.
And then I moved to China, and there you have a 50/50 on picking a random romance book and it having a happy ending.
So I'm always surprised when I'm discussing books online and it gets to a point where I hear "if it doesn't have a happy ending it's NOT romance!!"
Lol I've read some wonderful romances with no HEA. However, the "women's fiction" genre seems to be where the non-HEA romances go now which I avoid because I know it won't be a happy ending ahead of time. The genre is literally a spoiler for me.
If there is no HEA I don't want to know. If I know, I won't get attached to the characters out of fear of being devastated.
I think maps are good measuring stick on how deep the world building and how epic the story will be on the book
Branden Sanderson- Happy Stephen King
Robert Jordan-Gucci Tolkien
Stephen Eriksson-D&D Joseph Conrad
George RR Martin-Articulate Jabba The Hut
About "reading one genre won't make you smarter"
I don't read with the intention of getting smarter I read for enjoyment and entertainment. Not everything has to be educational all the time
Whenever a town name or landmark is mentioned in a fantasy story I'll always flip back to the map lol
I actually watched the Lord of the Rings movies before reading the books and found it super helpful to orient myself because I would recognize a line from the movie and go 'oh, that's where I am!' I often found the books really disorienting at times because there was so much deleted stuff and having watched the movies first was really useful for me to follow along with the books
So I like to keep track via a reading journal because I can update as I want.
Found out about razors edge because my friend liked the clouds on the cover.
My hot take is from right before you ad. I don't like perfectly beautified book shelves. I love seeing broken spines, super thick B&N classics next to one of my pocket field guides. I don't have enough empty space to worry about filling it. I love my imperfect, $30 black book cases with my very imperfect books. I worked at B&N and when we were returning soft covers, we only returned the front cover that had the barcode inside to prove we didn't sell it and recycle the rest of the book. We got to keep them sometimes and I love having my books with ripped off covers to remember my first job. IMPERFECT BOOKS AND SHELVES 4 LYF!
Unpopular opinion: Most series that have a sequel series about the main characters kids are bad.
Exemple: Cursed Child(Harry Potter) and The Heir&The crown(The selection).
Like why?? I don't care about their kids at all.
I have to say, as someone who loves books and loves TV/movies, and watches youtube vids on both, the "I watch adaptations first" is something you see a lot on people who prefer TV and Movies.
All I know is if I love a book and I see the adaptation after, I'm more likely to be irritated at a bad change done for the adaptation than I am if I see the adaptation first and it inspires me to read the original material.
Also, it doesn't help me read the book faster. Only re-reading does that for me.
Just getting into listening to audiobooks and the first series I’ve finished (since like middle school) is the Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin and that final third book was crazy good. Bittersweet ending too so that’s a bonus for ya.
Reading fantasy without maps should be illegal.
Resurrection/ fake out death trope is literally my least favorite trope. Feels like it just kills all the stakes for me. HOWEVER there are some that do it right (spoiler in coming.) The way Sanderson did it with Jasnah was one I really didn’t mind because it helped grow Shallan, provide more stakes, and tension when she got to the capital but also brought her back in a good way after those has been fully flushed out (another bonus of having a king series with 1000+ words.)
On the map comment. Honestly, same! I like to be able to picture where people are going, how far the distances actually are, how far off course they were taken by any detours, etc. I can't picture that without a map. everything will just be right next to eachother if I try to picture it myself. Like how when we were kids and played outside we would start at "home" near the garage and go "all the way to the ocean" in the garden. That kind of thing. I can't picture it without the map. Everything gets bunched up too close together.
You changed my mind on how I should look at the map in the beginning of a book! While I have looked at them, I should “study them” and track the progress.
I tried Locke Lamora because you hyped it up so much and I think ITS SO GOOD. Locke and Jean’s friendship is just chef’s kiss and their thievery is just so fascinating and always ends differently than I expect.
Criers war. Cover was neat, plot sounded good too
The Biggest L:ie of Locke Lamora is Locke himself. You don't get Five Year Old master pickpockets. It just doesn't happen. Pickpocketing takes skill, practice, coordination and situational awareness. Even if a master started training a kid at age 3 (Good luck with that, BTW) you still wouldn't have a master at age 5. You would fail fairly regularly and then, in that city, you would be totally screwed. Also, the 'friendship' between Locke and Jean is so forced and unbelievable that it is eye-rolling. We don't see it develop, we see them at odds in a flashback, Jean punches Locke (My favorite part of the whole book) and then they make up. Yay. Cut back to the present and they are totally blood brothers. Locke Lamara is like that guy at the D&D table who shows up with his level one thief but has a backstory of running from the crown because he stole the crown jewels already but had to ditch them to escape. Then he stole the false eye from the one eyed god while he was asleep but had to sell it for the money to get his sick father out of jail. Then he stole the golden good from the giant in the cloud palace but he forgot to lock the door and it flew off. He is so close to a Gary Stew its nauseating.
Undulating
A bit late on this, but I always read the book before the movie to the point that if I am unaware a movie is an adaptation and the opening credits say it was adapted I will stop the movie and read the book first.
When you read the book first you are getting the story *exactly* how the author wanted you to picture and experience it. Then when watching the movie you can see what choices were made to adapt the story to film and think about how maybe you would have handled it
When you watch the movie first, you are watching a whole group of people's (director, cinematographer, costumer, set design, composer and so on) interpretation of the story. So now when you go back and see what was left out, all those people's influences are going to taint your experience.
I'll die on this hill.
Comic books/Manga should be embraced for everyone to read (especially for kids)
My thoughts on mass market paperbacks are the same! The only spines I break and pages I dog ear.
The disappearing book at 5 seconds in scared me. :(
*Edit* it reappeared at 2:41 i think.
Lightbringer was in my top 10 Fantasy series, until the last book. I went from recommending the Lightbringer series to everybody, to telling people to avoid it, or read everything but the last book and pretend it has a Rothfuss or Martin issue. Worst ending ever.
I agree with you on covers, I mainly buy used and mostly pulp paperbacks where the blurb and cover are all you can base the decision on, so I have a stack of pulp sci-fi/fantasy novels to read all with kickass retro covers that I bought and will read because they look cool
You NEED the map at the beginning! it grounds my thoughts IDK I'm a visual person
My take: The character who sucks at everything is depressing to read and I am tired of it. I prefer characters who are good at most things but have a couple of really glaring flaws (like Kvothe and his trouble coping with failure) or are an everyman with a mix of things they’re good at and things that are really hard for them (like Harry Potter who is good at flying, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and lives up to his role as a Gryffindor but also sucks at potions, disrespects rules in a way that’s not always helpful, and is generally an oblivious twit when it comes to wizarding world stuff).
I am a big fan of watching the adaption before reading the book nowadays. I've been in a big reading slump for years trying to get my motivation to read more up as it is something I really enjoy doing when I first get into it. Knowing the material is something I care about and that I find the world to be engaging helps me a lot of times and therefore I've chosen books where I already know I love it before getting into it a lot of times. I can understand this not working for everyone, and I was myself absolutely against it before. Now I see it more as a way to further immerse myself and learn more about something that I care about.
ressurection depends on the world and its rules. does a soul exist? does afterlife exist? do undead exist? whats the context behind the death and ressurection? All these are important when that trope us used
I just finished the Cruel Prince (folk of the air trilogy) and it was very very satisfying. I was pleasantly surprised by how it lives up to the hype.
As to characters dying or not having to, ever read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton? If not, you'll love it.
Genre is largely market-driven, categories intended to focus the buyers' impulses. "Like this trope? Here's yer genre." So you're right, reading of ANY kind regardless of genre improves the mind.
I was at a convention for self-published authors and one of the big pieces of advice that was given to new authors was: If you can only afford either a professional cover or professional editing, then you should always choose to buy the cover. After all, you can have the best edited book with no mistakes, but if you have a boring cover, then no one will buy it in the first place.
Hello love the content! as a writer the POV is useful. at 16:00 or so you mention audiobooks VS reading books, as a dyslexic I learned that some people are visual learners, and this reading comes "naturally" I am an auditory learner I remember what was said I can digest a complex storyline. to really digest the same novel takes two or three full readings the first will take me twice as long to read as the audiobook and I will "get only a 1/3 or so of the story. the tools for audio learners are far better than they were in the seventies. Thanks for doing this show
I think Spear Cuts Through The Water has one of the best covers ive seen in recent memory but i didnt think the content delivered to the quality of the cover.
I picked up "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy because the cover looked nice and calm, had no idea back then who she was (or what the Man Booker Prize was). One of my favourite books to this day, beautifully written. I have read more non-fiction from her afterwards, she is an amazingly brave political activist. As you said, we all judge a book by its cover, especially when buying it. Of course, we shouldn't judge its literary value based on the cover, but I have never seen anyone do that anyway.
nothing better than maps at the start of the book!
For high fantasy - especially on the scale of GoT - I need to watch the adaptation first. I won’t care about or remember all these different names, but when I read after watching I can keep their faces in mind and I actually notice the details about their character.
Some people judge a book by its cover, I judge a book by the map inside the cover.
On the adaptation unpopular opinion: I actually got into reading "to kill a mocking bird" via the movie adaptation. I found the book extremely difficult to follow as I need to be able to visualize everything in my head or else i wont register what's happening, so watching the movie first before reading gave me those visuals I needed and made the story make a lot more sense as sometimes hearing things spoken and seeing them visually can be more helpful than just reading the words on the page. this is especially true for books that have an unusual writing styles (ex: ones that use a lot of slang, are trying to mimic a child writing, etc.) in which a lot of things can be lost and confusing to those of us with reading and processing issues.
I only learned today that in english the thingy you do to a book is called a dog ear. Because in german its called a donkey ear... and I kinda think dog ear makes more sense.
I used to be very precious with my books, I would never break a spine (even if the book wouldn’t open more than a few inches), and it felt illegal to write on or dog ear a page. But thanks to you I’m now a very big fan of annotating, dog eating, and other wise “damaging” my books and I have been enjoying it so much more now that I’m now worried about “messing up” my books! Plus I like the idea of going back and re reading these books someday and seeing if I still think the same things. So thank you for convincing me that I am allowed to “mess up” my books ❤️
I don't know if this is unpopular or popular opinion .When ending of show, book, manga etc is bad then it ruins my whole experience, and it sometimes can make me to hate the same thing I once loved. It probably depends of how bad ending was.
Stephen King dragged himself out of a very dark place so some read on as a "good on you sir" sort of thing.
funnily enough, your feelings on Stephen King is pretty much exactly how I feel about Sanderson.
I think watching the movie first is a good idea so I can enjoy the movie at least once.
5:40 Memory Sorrow Thorn trilogy has an immensley satisfying ending
I agree with Corey I don't need something short and sweet it just makes me miss the time I spend in the mind of the charachters
I sort of agree with the map thing in that I don't care about the map yet when I'm reading the very beginning of a story and deciding whether or not to purchase it. The physical location of different countries and cities rarely seems to matter in the first few chapters, but as I continue to read I definitely do appreciate that the map is there and flip back to it once I understand more. The only book I've read where the map was pretty important from the very beginning was Shadow and Bone. Maybe Lord of the Rings too, but I saw the movies first so I just kind of knew a lot already.
"I want people to die" - Merph, 2021
I immediately began hoping for and counting down to Kelsier’s demise the moment he was asserted as a protagonist. Good deaths are only as good as the character and the potential weight of their peril.
I don’t like super long books, but with a last book in a series I want it to be extra long,
Unpopular Opinion:
Roald Dahl’s books are dark….
And I like them that way. 😉
I didn't follow the maps until Malazan.
On the maps one I completely agree that it needs to have maps, I started mistborn without lookout at the map and halfway through I was lost and had to go study the map lol
A couple of hot takes:
Steven King's "The Shinning" is just alright. The beginning and end is really good but the stuff in-between is dragged out and sometimes reads as acholic apologetics.
Game of thrones should have just ended by season one / book one. Perhaps it's because I haven't started book 2 and beyond yet but I feel a particular death of a character in book one was so impactful and thematic it should have ended there.
I actually want more happy endings in books, I might go to hard into the classics/ school reading but I see a lot of sad endings or at least bitter ends. This might be a bias in academics to promote stronger, more critical statements of the world but a few happy endings would be good.
Having been in college relatively recently, there does seem to be a pervasive attitude of "it's only art if it's depressing." I genuinely believe if you kept A Farewell to Arms entirely as it is, but changed it is Catherine and the baby don't die, which would only effect literally the last three pages, it would be thought less of.
I'm 100% more likely to buy a book if it has a map at the front. I literally have a wall full of fantasy map posters in my house, maps are the best!
The majority of Author tube or the authorities of writing and editing are from the West or Countries that treasures reading and the writing industry. Here in the region of Cordillera in the Philippines, it took me about 8 years to write and publish my book. The main reason is the Arts in general like writing, music, painting, sculpture, acting and the like are considered as "hobbies" and not a "real careers". People are focused on what they consider as "real careers" that are "paying jobs" like farming, carpentry, professions, businesses and the like. This is mainly due to the low standard of living or poverty that are prevalent here. It was difficult for me to find editors, beta readers, critic partners, support systems (family and friends who believed on my career choice), time to write (have to hustle in the real world to fulfill basic needs and to exhausted in my free time) and others. I end up skipping some steps and submitted my manuscript this year in a publishing company willing to help me publish as a novice writer. I don't know if this is necessary but it is my reality as a writer.
This is more of a "I don't get it" than unpopular opinion. I take the dust jacket off my hardcover when I read or take a book anywhere. I don't get leaving it on when reading or when taking the book somewhere. 1. The dust jacket could be ripped or damages in other ways and then you have to say goodbye to your pretty cover. 2. It's so cumbersome when reading. It flops all over the place and doesn't stay on very well.
For the Sanderson one, I've tried to get into his work but his writing isn't my preference. He definitely is one of the more consistent writers out there.
...really bloated...
**looks at GRRM describing food**
**looks at RJ's clothing descriptions**
Aye.
Hot take (and ik I'm really late to this lol):
If the book's cover is mostly the authors name and the title is crammed somewhere unimportant I won't read it. I dont care if it's probably better for marketing if you're famous, it's just annoying and it's like the author thinks the fact that they wrote it is more important than the story they wrote
Dog earing my Deluxe editons nope... dog earing my mass market and writing all over it... heck yeah
A little while ago, I read a series with a devastating death- it was emotional for me! It informed the next turn of the plot. Then, the plot turns to RESURRECTION 🙄😑😤 I thought of you! 😅 Gah, please let me grieve!!!
I think a lot of series suffer from trying to solve all the plot threads in the final book. Which sure might make it all wrapped up nice and conclusion but it tends to come off rushed or clumsy. Life doesn't solve everything all at once normally. Now plot threads should slowly be tied up as they go along, in book one, two, three. Each should be tying up minor and major things until the final thread is there to be tied up to finish the tapestry. So one can take one's time with the pacing, the story and make it all come together just right.
Dog earing, annotating, breaking spines is not okay to do for library books and borrowed books. But do what you want for your own books. Though I wouldn't personally do that to my books (because books are dang expensive, I can't bring myself to destroy them), who cares what I think? Just don't do it to books that aren't yours.
I want to see some of your writings in some of your fav books.
If you like dog earing, spine breaking, and annotating - do it to your own books, and only your own books. I don't care what you do to your own books. Just don't damage MY books. That's where my strong feelings are. I will not lend books to people who do those things because I just can't trust them. Too many people have damaged MY books, even after promising they wouldn't.
Also my hot take...I prefer the map to be at the end, which it almost never is, after I've experienced the book. I don't really refer back to it during the book, but afterwards I like to look at it.
I use to be a 100% book reader; had a deep seated aversion to e-reading and audio. However. just recently (defined as the past 4 years) I've become more of an e-reader for its convenience and limited storage space in my den. Yet, I still have a deep seated aversion to audio. Reading for me is personal and listening to someone else's voice takes away the personal for me.
I think if your gonna write a resurrection you have to make a journey to get them back like the amount of effort has to add up you know?
Who is this creature who doesn't like maps? Maps are awesome.
Seriously, I’m a pretty new reader and first time reading the lord of the rings and I’m loving it, i really don’t understand how people find it hard to read… everyone to their own tho, i just don’t understand haha
unpopular opinion: the only good thing about Jane Eyre is that Charlotte Bronte made it immersive from the first two paragraphs, while Emily Bonte in Whutering Heghts was able to say liteally nothing in two chapters. Today that would be scrapped or a short prologue. Charlotte probably didn't have any idea of what a healty relationship was, but Emily should have sticked to poetry
Lol okay no though... I very rarely pick up a fantasy book that is 500 pages or less because I feel the characters or the world building will suffer and I won't both to be awesome.
just wanted to say that realised you remind me a lot of my best friend haha. Specialy in this video, so i guess this is my favourite one now :)
(ps: hard agree on the dog earing and spine breaking stuff)
All the characters trying to be a Christ like fail because they focus on the sacrifices and resarection. But the characters act nothing like christ and don't have his mind set. The closest to getting the mind set right was luffy saying "Tell me you want to live"
I mean, I agree about Sanderson. I don't think he is good, especially with his rushed endings.
Also, Elantris being the worst sinner of this, most of his books become memes of "What else can go wrong?"
I have watched movies before reading the book. And if I enjoyed the movie and then read the book, as the book is usually better, I’ll enjoyed the book a lot. And if it’s a dense story like a classic, It makes it more enjoyable because I’m less confused throughout the reading.
Edit: I’m sorry, but friends to lovers IS boring haha (unless is like childhood friends to lovers those are cute) but enemies to lovers usually are enemies/rivals to FRIENDS to lovers. And that’s the best. becaus enemies to lovers is about respect, about no one else being your equal but your enemy who eventually is also your best friend/companion soul. And come on! That's a great story.
I want my spines broken. I want to see that I’ve read it.
Which authors suit you better than Sanderson? I am new to Fantasy and have only read Sanderson and Robert Jordan basically.
I always read the names of the places on the map before starting a book :D I think it's interesting beforehand.
i dont like audiobooks because i cant really pay attention to a story unless theres a visual element that my eyes can follow. in a physical book i can latch onto the words on the page and easily reread sentences and stuff without having to go into a menu or something. with audiobooks im probs only gunna be able to pay attention for like five minutes before i get distracted. and then with ebooks i just. dont like reading on a screen for long periods of time because my eyes get all goopy
12:15 This describes Hobbit/Lord of the Rings trilogy/Silmarillion: long, meandering, slow, extraneous side plots. Yet, I was happy to hang out in Middle Earth =)
You should do a video where you finish off series that you haven’t finished yet!!
I can't believe that comment on the maps! Who is this person!?!?! Sacrilege!
listening to a book being read isn't reading. I especially hate when people say they read a book but in fact listened to it.
The larger the scale a rating is out of the more precisely you can rate it without ysing decimals so yh out of 100 is good imo
The Sanderson takes are the only ones who piss me off. It's like three snooty people that won't stop putting down a solid author just to be "quirky"