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I'm most interested in Lord Dunsany, and also Goodbye Mr.Chips. Like you, I saw it many years ago, and it was uplifting, but I'll let you read it for me. 😇

Great picks. I don't think I've ever actually seen that style of cover for Wheel of Time before. Will be interested to hear your take on King of Elfland's Daughter!

At age 18 i read Crime and Punishment... I was working at a boat dock and pumping fuel into boats that stopped before going out on the Lake. I would have 5 minutes to 10 minutes in between boats and sometimes 30 minutes of down time. Perfect job for reading 4 hours per day when working 8 to 10 hour shifts. I was on a Russian history reading kick and added Crime and Punishment to my backpack. I have 1 copy of it now. I will read a 2nd time soon.

Judging by your shelves, is it correct to assume this a reread for WOT?

Always so happy when I come across another booktuber who reads Matthew Reilly, usually people haven't heard of him. I really need to re-read the Jack West Jr series, I've read the first four and then never carried on, and I want to start again from the beginning. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series!

Added The King of Elfland's Daughter and Seven Ancient Wonders to my List. 👍

Truly excellent TBR!

Looking most forward to your Amber Spyglass experience, and of course Lord Dunsany, which I won't DNF, I promise!

Hi Nev, I'll be heading out to the bookfair at Castle Hill over the weekend. if you're aiming to go, we can try a meet up

Revenge of the vampire is worth lots of money!

As a child growing up in the UK, Enid Blyton's books, and especially The Famous Five were a must-read in our household. At a recent visit to a local thrift store, here in Canada I found a 1970's paperback of Five Go Down To The Sea (Book 12) with the same cover we once had. Nostalgia kicked in, and it had to come home! I haven't read Billy's biography, but we have watched all his "world tour" videos where the series follows Billy travelling around the country meeting people and inserting segments from his comedy shows. He even did one about you fine blokes down under. Congratulations on the 1000+ subscribers. Thoroughly deserved , and your channel is a great "hang-out"!

I've only read two of those books so far, but I do have Warlock and Billy in my rather lengthy TBR. I enjoyed all the books in His Dark Materials, without really having a favourite. I did enjoy Mostly Harmless but thought it was an anti-climax. Just as well the Douglas Adams Estate commissioned Eoin Colfer to write ...And Another Thing, which is the sixth book in the trilogy. It is very much in the style of Douglas Adams and a very enjoyable read.

6:40 The soulless with the knife should answer the question. 7:00 Tom has the bad habit of regicide 9:25 She is the wizard in the book 13:59 Toman Head was in the Prophecy in the Blood beginning Volume 2

With Egwene's dream and the prophecy in blood it was quite strongly implied that Selene is Lanfear. I personally can not stand the TV series.

Nev, congratulations on 1,000 subscribers! You should be quite proud of yourself! :) I love Robin Hobb. I just finished "Assassin's Apprentice" and I think I have found my favorite fantasy author. :)

Congratulations on 1000 subs! Well deserved indeed. Liveship is an all time favourite for me so I’m very intrigued to see how you get on. I never read Mostly Harmless! Whenever I get to rereading the series I will check it out for sure.

Congratulations on 1000 subscribers! 🎉 I alternate reading dense and fun books too.

Thanks Nev, good overview. Glad you liked The Subtle Knife! I really want to start with Liveship Traders as well. (Almost finished reading Words of Radiance.)

I rank REVENGE OF THE VAMPIRE as my number 1 in 2024.

Great review. I currently found at the thrift stores, 2010 and 3001 as hardback, so am looking out for the other two, (paperback or hardcover) and then read the whole series. Have you read the Rama books? The first was written by Arthur C Clarke, and the three following books in collaboration with Gentry Lee. I think the trilogy of books were better than the first. Certainly there was more scope to expand on the original idea! A thoroughly enjoyable read and worth adding to the tbr.

Just picked up a lovely 1958 copy of I, Robot. Looking forward to reading it. Best wishes and happy reading to you.

Great finds! Wish I went book shopping when I was in Sydney last year. I cannot find that Ellison anywhere here in the UK.

Looking forward to your series review

Thanks for sharing. I’ve been toying with an upgrade due to needing more storage space and was curious as to the other features with video quality since I record,edit and upload all from my phone.

Definitely an improvement. Don't get me wrong, there was nothing wrong before but this iPhone 16 is just noticeably better both in video and audio quality.

Serious step towards professionalism, there, Nev!

I had them new back in the 80's then drifted away as life took over. Have gone back in the past few years to pick up some of the newer ones. Nice to see them again.

I collect these myself, read them when I was younger. Now it’s more a case of owning them for the artwork and nostalgia- put simply they’re really nice things to have. Just got Ian’s latest, someday I hope to attempt them again without cheating. (It took me over 20 attempts to get through Citadel of Chaos).

Yet another series I need to read. For some reason I always had the impression the books after 2001 weren't worth it, so I'm glad to hear they are.

Have only read the 2001 book. You inspire me to finally read these books, that have been sitting on my shelf for many years now. Thanks

I ecourage you to read the Pandemia Saga by Dave Duncan

I did not know about the 3rd book for a long time. I read the first two books, then find out about 3001 the last odyssey and read it... Later find out about the 2061 but never read it because felt a bit of frustration at the time.. I will try to find a copy but they are hard to find in my small country (translated)

Have you played the Infocom text adventure of Hitchhiker's? Would love to see a video of your thoughts on that bonkers game. I like your channel; keep up the good work:)

This is act 1. The “first 200 pages of Anathem” if you will. It puts the characters on the stage and sets them in motion. The full story is…wonderful.

I read the Sword of Shannara after reading The Elfstones of Shannara - which was my first foray into Fantasy, then read the Lord of the Rings. Slowly and surely I am building up my Tolkien library. In my teens, I read the belgariad series. What a joy to read. At local thrift stores, I was able to pick up the books on Polgara and Belgarath, so will be reading those after a re-read of the first 5. I am so grateful for thrift stores and book fairs, as who can afford to build a library at today's prices? Thanks to those places, I picked up the full Wheel of Time series, with most being in the old style covers and a half dozen hardcovers. I love the artwork of Darrell K Sweet. He was also the original artist for L E Modesitt Jr "The Magic of Recluce" series. A great fantasy series that practically no-one has picked up on. The overall arc of the books covers about 1,500 years with a variety of characters and a fantastic magic system. I read that series starting with the first published book, then followed the series chronologically rather than published, as he does jump around with the timeline. In my opinion, he handles technology changes over the years better than Terry Brooks does in his later Shannara books. But in regards to the prequel series of Shannara, as to how the world became the four lands is absolutely brilliant and a joy to read.

Brooks.,Eddings,and Wiess and Hickman and Tolkien...since reading their series I've struggled to find others I enjoy as much.. Reading magician atm and getting bogged down in it.

Hi! Good day! I wrote a novel, titled: Archangel world at war. I watched your informative videos and it's my pleasure that someday you will consider to review my book on one of your vlogs. It was not edited yet, nevertheless I published it to major EReading apps like Amazon and Kobo. Thank you in advance. Hopefully I can send you a physical copy in the final format of my book in the future. God bless.

Love Legend! I’m currently on white wolf in Drenai

I agree with your assessment of the big three! I’ve read this and ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ and was lukewarm on both. 1984 is my favourite book of all time.

I’d be interested to see your thoughts going forward in the series, especially regarding the preachiness. Do you intend to continue?

I started with Feist's Serpentwar Saga so I hated Pug, because he was a demigod superhero. But I managed to get through his adventures.

Bradbury could certainly swerve into ‘literary’ territory that could diminish the storytelling impetus, but remember he broke out of the pulps and published largely in slick magazines like The Saturday Evening Post (as I recall), so his titles had a broader appeal than the sf world. Appreciate your thoughts on these three books - you are missing the real progenitor tho, Zamyatin’s We, from the 1920s, that these authors found inspiration from.

Congratulations on the 1000 subscribers! You did well to read three dystopian novels close together. Maybe you should reverse the star system if they are dystopian! The morse disappointing the higher the dystopian score?! Not read any Ray Bradbury.

By the way, congrats on the 1K subs!

When you said 'You don't have to keep reading if you don't want to' I initially heard 'You don't have to keep breathing if you don't want to'.... Right! Great short review. Moving this one up on my TBR. I am looking for lighter reads in between my Stormlight agenda...

Thanks Nev, haven't read this one and... am not going to. Although short books are always appreciated. Especially classics...