The Dandelion Dynasty By Ken Liu | The Masterpiece Which is Hard to Recommend | Spoiler Free
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- This series was an absolute ride. Here, I will talk about what makes it amazing, but also how each book is quite different from each other, making it hard to be sure who will like it. For almost anyone I think of I can think of some things I could see them disliking, and many things I could see them loving. Ultimately though, it is one of the best series I have ever read.
I put the dramatic reading at the end because it was too long.
I will try and get back to making more videos, in a bit of a slump.
Here is my Grace of Kings review: • Grace of Kings By Ken ...
Also here are the 4 spoilery live shows
Book 1: • The Grace of Kings SPO...
Book 2: • Wall of Storms by Ken ...
Book 3: • Veiled Throne Spoiler ...
Book 4: • Speaking Bones by Ken ...
Also if you watch my top 10 list of 2022 you will notice Speaking Bones very far into that video because it is completely brilliant.
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The Grace of Kings might be my favorite book of all time. I love Ken Liu's short stories, and I think that his skillset with short stories lends itself well to his structure for the first book of this series. The Grace of Kings, being told in Omniscient Third Person, has the qualities of an oral story turned paper. The way that he nests stories within one another, even having his characters tell their own stories is one of my favorite aspects of his novels. They all do this. The first 100 pages of The Veiled Throne were some of my favorite parts of this epic tale. I feel like Ken is constantly using his characters to push the idea that stories can be incredibly personal and people-forming, but cannot be owned or trapped. Stories, much like the Gods they tell us about, are always changing and acting on their own inspirations.
Excellent review Jake. Best representation of the pros and cons of each book and who might like which I've seen. I really can't wait to do a reread
Gracias. It should be a very very interesting series to reread
Awesome non spoiler series review-this is indeed highest priority for me this year!!
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What a great series review! Hearing the Three Swords story again brought me great joy. I don't think I will ever read another series like this and the best way to describe the ending is fulfilling. It just made sense for the story. Thanks for hosting the readalong! I had a great experience going through this series and seeing your thoughts on it as you went through it too. Cheers Jake!
Thanks for joining the read along, because if it wasn't for you basically nobody else would have actually read it on schedule with me!
Great review Jake. Time well tell but Dandelion might the top series for me
not a bad choice at all if that's what you go with
I'm watching a bit of reviews about this series, because people seem passionate about it. Which interests me.
Not a single soul gives a freaking synopsis about the books, Noone talks about what's in it.
Kinda tough as a series review because book 1 almost feels like a stand alone, and then books 2-4 are what the series is actually about, so if I give a synopsis for book 1 that isn't really what it is about, and the synopsis for books 2-4 kinda spoilers book 1, but if I were to try.
Book 1 is basically the retelling of the fall of the Qin dynasty in a fantasy world, and is very sweeping and is about like....multiple civil wars. The rest of about the formation of a modern society from the result of this, and how that happens, the costs of that happening
Oh ya, and there are cool air ship battles
Definitely convinced to give this a shot seems insanely interesting
Good to hear! Hope you enjoy it!
Fantastic review, this is the video I will be pointing people to whenever I feel the urge to shove Dandelion in their faces again, lol. If I hadn't already read the series, then I would've jumped straight in after hearing you talk about it here.
It's actually quite interesting that I loved this one as much as I did, because the cooking competition, engineering and distanced writing style (especially in GoK) really shouldn't work for me... but it just did! Ken Liu is such a masterful storyteller and I loved the way he wove everything together in the end, already eager to reread it!
Thanks a lot! That means a lot.
So many risks are taken in this series, Ken Liu absolutely "does the most interesting thing" which likely made it harder to sell, and definitely makes it harder to pitch, but also contributes to it being one of the most incredible stories I have ever read
@@jakebishop7822 Couldn't have said it any better! Love it when taking risks pays off so well, Ken Liu is just a pure genius and I love him for telling the story he wanted to tell, regardless of marketability!!
One of my favorite displays of gods playing an actual role in a series. Ever. Tazu is so interesting, and the one god that does that one thing the other ones don't do was shocking, I still need to finish speaking bones to see what they do in thr end.
RAFO!
@@jakebishop7822 once I finish the first book of the powdermage book, I'm gonna grt back to it, and probably finish it in two days, as I can read 400/500 pages a day
Everything. You. Said. Fantastic review. This is right behind LOTR as a favorite series for me. I’m an applied physicist and I run with engineering nerds so it’s a fairly easy book for me to rec to them but outside that group, you’re right, it’s tricky.
But so rewarding when people love it.
Ahhh, it's so good.
Grace of kings was on my top 10 reads of last year. Such a great book
And I think Wall of Storms is like....clearly better. Such a good series
Nearly finished with Grace of Kings and its probably falling in my top 5 books of all time. Sooooo hyped for this series
LETS GO!
Who wouldn't like wall of storms? It's a perfect book, honestly the best second book in a series I've read, just behind words of radiance
I think grace of kings was incredible, I didn't think of it like a history book like I did with fire and blood which I couldn't do.
It is weird to me as well, but they exist! Really it is just different enough for GoK, that if someone is particularly into the really sweeping style, I could see it.
The 250 page cooking competition, I was initially like man what is this, but by the end I was in tears, which was unreal to me haha
I ended up really liking it
I was going to read Wall of Storms, and then my semester started. It is still #1 on my TBR though.
I will be waiting
I look forward to continuing, I was hoping to alternate between Dandelion Dynasty and Memory Sorrow and Thorn but I'm just not feeling it right now so Dandelion Dynasty (and RotE) it is!
Do the most interesting thing!
As someone who’s read all four books I agree that it’s hard for me to recommend this series to anyone that doesn’t have a lot of free time on their hands
But also like.....it's so good, so I want people to read it.
@@jakebishop7822 I think that the best example of this is when Ken Liu spends a whole chapter describing in prose the difference in lives between the great cruben and the tiny shrimp. It was so beautiful and fascinating but hard to explain to somebody that can’t grasp Ken Liu’s metaphors.
@@jakebishop7822 it’s by far my favorite series I’ve ever read and Ken Liu has a form of writing that seems so simple yet is so wonderful to get lost in
Imo MASTERPIECE
Incredible series. Hits different
Legendary cooking competition lol
It was low key, pretty fantastic
I picked up this series because I saw Alex gush about it shortly after seeing him gush about Robin Hobb, so I was like, "Well, this seems to be a man with good taste, fuck it, I'll buy it." I still haven't gotten to it though.
I'm doing a Red Rising first read readalong, and I jumped on the Realm of the Elderlings readalong for a re-read since everyone is talking about it in the spoiler chats, and I'm planning to read Lord of the Rings for the first time after I finish Royal Assassin, hopefully will finish it tomorrow. I'm also scheduled to read Sarantine Mosaic in a buddy read with Madison and Scot starting April 15 I think. So I've been sucked into the readalong trap this year.
We got you, but hey these read alongs are quality, so whatever
Comparing Dandelion worldbuilding w/ Middle Earth. Baba seething somewhere
😂
Cope baba
prayge
prayge indeed