Yay, new Marcello video! Love this, dude. I love how you're diversifying your channel a bit. Still doing what you love, but in different ways than just strictly 90's kids books. * Hmmm... what would be a good book for you... perhaps Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes?! I think it's got your vibe: a guy is fed up with his jerk of a boss (now ex-boss, because the protagonist is fired and all credit for his work is stolen by his ex-boss) that he decides the world would be better off without the boss in it. So, he stages a murder... and fails. He is instantly kidnapped and taken to the McMaster's Conservatory for Homocide, and taught how to effectively murder his employer without a trace. Oh... and all his professors are also trying to murder him. So...Will he succeed? Will he fail? The ending is fantastic. I laughed so much at how absurd the whole thing was. It also has a touch of epistleary love in progress reports and notations, a map, and EVEN PICTURES!!! Very well done and executed. This will be in a series, but the second one hasn't been finished yet. I believe it will be called "Murder Your Spouse".
Just discovered your channel and immediately subscribed! Thank you for these insights. Any greatest plot twists of all time book recs? May be some overlap with your mystery books video but just curious
yes I am having a bit of a hard time figuring out how I want to categorize things, but greatest twists is a solid list idea that I will almost certainly follow through on
Noticed from one of your previous recommendations videos your affinity for Agatha Christie. You may already know this but, just in case: "Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone" is an homage to Christie's play "The Mousetrap" and "Everyone on This Train is a Suspect" is an homage to "Murder on the Orient Express", also by Christie. :)
Just found your channel. I doubt I will watch much of the juvenile/YA videos, but I enjoyed your descriptions of mysteries and thrillers. Have you read Lawrence Block’s Hit Man? The protagonist, John Keller, is a hit man based in NYC. It’s very episodic with each chapter being Keller carrying out a hit, with some story arc across the book. It’s fun being in Keller’s head, and the “mystery” in each chapter is figuring out who ordered the hit while Keller figures out how to pull it off. If you like it, there are five or six books in the series.
Yes, it's an interesting audience split I've found myself with, isn't it. I have not read Hit Man, but it sounds very cool and unique, and also has not been recommended, so I thank you, and will procure it at my next opportunity.
@@bernard.tomasevic these are basically the books that didn't make the cut for that video, as well as a few books I've read since then. If I made that list today Janice Hallett would be on it for sure
Yay, new Marcello video! Love this, dude. I love how you're diversifying your channel a bit. Still doing what you love, but in different ways than just strictly 90's kids books.
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Hmmm... what would be a good book for you... perhaps Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes?! I think it's got your vibe: a guy is fed up with his jerk of a boss (now ex-boss, because the protagonist is fired and all credit for his work is stolen by his ex-boss) that he decides the world would be better off without the boss in it. So, he stages a murder... and fails. He is instantly kidnapped and taken to the McMaster's Conservatory for Homocide, and taught how to effectively murder his employer without a trace. Oh... and all his professors are also trying to murder him. So...Will he succeed? Will he fail? The ending is fantastic. I laughed so much at how absurd the whole thing was. It also has a touch of epistleary love in progress reports and notations, a map, and EVEN PICTURES!!! Very well done and executed. This will be in a series, but the second one hasn't been finished yet. I believe it will be called "Murder Your Spouse".
@@AmataRayne2492 this has actually been on my list for a minute, but your review has prompted me to actually read it, thank you
Just discovered your channel and immediately subscribed! Thank you for these insights. Any greatest plot twists of all time book recs? May be some overlap with your mystery books video but just curious
yes I am having a bit of a hard time figuring out how I want to categorize things, but greatest twists is a solid list idea that I will almost certainly follow through on
Noticed from one of your previous recommendations videos your affinity for Agatha Christie. You may already know this but, just in case: "Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone" is an homage to Christie's play "The Mousetrap" and "Everyone on This Train is a Suspect" is an homage to "Murder on the Orient Express", also by Christie. :)
@@sarahumphries6047 I figured out the second part, but did not know about Mousetrap. Also I just started Still Life and am enjoying it
Just found your channel and enjoyed your recommendations and presentation. Count me in as a new subscriber!
@@susan3037 hello and welcome 🙂
Just found your channel. I doubt I will watch much of the juvenile/YA videos, but I enjoyed your descriptions of mysteries and thrillers.
Have you read Lawrence Block’s Hit Man? The protagonist, John Keller, is a hit man based in NYC. It’s very episodic with each chapter being Keller carrying out a hit, with some story arc across the book. It’s fun being in Keller’s head, and the “mystery” in each chapter is figuring out who ordered the hit while Keller figures out how to pull it off. If you like it, there are five or six books in the series.
Yes, it's an interesting audience split I've found myself with, isn't it.
I have not read Hit Man, but it sounds very cool and unique, and also has not been recommended, so I thank you, and will procure it at my next opportunity.
Let's go! New Marcello vid!
How do these books compare to your previous personal favorites from the list made six months ago?
@@bernard.tomasevic these are basically the books that didn't make the cut for that video, as well as a few books I've read since then. If I made that list today Janice Hallett would be on it for sure