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I recently finished reading “Babel” and it was a great novel! R.F. Kuang is amazing and I also loved her book “Yellowface”!

I’m about to read The Midnight Feast and I’m hearing great things about it. I wonder if you are going to post a review on “The Familiar” by Leigh Bardugo? I’m reading it now and it’s very good!

One thing I should clarify - I think I oversold the ending a bit. I wouldn't call it a great ending, but it was satisfying and a solid conclusion in my opinion.

I just started reading and voila! Found this review... ❤

My book club just read this book, it’s such a great read

I loved the book, so let down by movie,

This man incorrect .: I respect his opinion and not coming from hateful way lol but red rising is fun hell of read and it’s probably the worst book in the series

I just finished reading this book and I have to admit you're right about a lot of things. The worldbuilding is amazing the dragons are top notch the plot is very interesting and it's written very well. I also appreciated that we got necessary background information about the world through those scenes in which she walked across to the academy. The building and set up also looks really cool. But as I guessed from the Dutch description of the book it's almost more leaning to romantasy than fantasy. It's absolutely no surprise if you think about the fact that Rebecca Yarros only wrote romantic stories. But this book could have done without the romance being as equally important as the staying alive and finding out about what the "government" is hiding. They could have easily started with them slowly trusting each other since they are stuck with each other anyway. Also I knew from those descriptions that Xaden's secrets and Violet immidiatly telling him what she feels would become the relationship issue at the end. We get his pov at the end and know how much he cares but god this romantic relationship was so predictable. Don't get me wrong I alsways loved a good romantic subplot. But those tropes 😅🙄 This was a perfect example of hot best friend and hot enemy but oh who would she chose 😂🙄 But still it's a good book, great story, amazing dragons, great plot twist at literally the very last page. I hope the second book is just as good.

3.5 stars? This book was just absolutely terrible. 1 star. Who stores radioactive chemicals in glass cannisters, that could wipe out all of mankind, inside of a lava tube, in a volcano, in an active zone? To me, that was the most ridiculous part of the book. And there was never any logical explanation to that. I know the government doesn't always make the right decision, but this is just too dumb to be part of a plausible storyline. This was written for the very low IQ. This would be good writing if it was done by ten-year-olds (slightly below average ten-year-olds). And the ending was one of the most anticlimactic endings I have ever read. The entire story literally resolved itself in one paragraph. It went from a 100mph to 0 in an instant. I had to check the page number and then re-read the paragraph just to make sure I didn't miss something crucial. It was almost like they just said: fuck it, let's just put this to rest and pretend it never happened. I wish I could.

But how else will you get middle-aged women who want to relive their younger days to read it? Thanks for warning me away.

I read the shining book this winter it was good to me Stanley Kubrick shouldn't had changed certain things from the book in his version of the shining

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I've seen SO much hype about this book and only the occasional muttering about some of the things you mentioned. I've been on the fence, but I think I'll do my already ginormous TBR a favor and not add this one. Thanks for sharing!

I read this book last year and I also gave it a three. You described it perfectly.😂😂 I did not waste my time with reading the sequel.

Haha this is the best book ever. No one ever talks about how darkly funny parts of it are! Cormac was always right about our species being an enormous letdown.

That’s about how I thought you’d feel about it. I didn’t think you’d much care for the romance or sex scene . But I just can’t get over the world building . I love it so much. The threshing , the bonding, the magic , trying to figure out who is shifty at the school … ugh now I wanna read it again 😂

Sounds like you didn’t read

Something I’ve wondered about for a couple years: What if Sherri authorized someone to train an LLM on all of Crichton’s written work, specifically, then have a pure sci-fi author like Andy Weir come in to give direction for each chapter to accomplish the larger narrative arc? This would allow even the smaller concepts that Crichton may have just written briefly about to become full on books. Is it really “him”? No, but understanding that an LLM is literally designed to algorithmically generate words means that it technically is the truest approximation we can get to Michael Crichton’s writing.

As a huge Crichton fan, I’m just super excited to see this unfinished manuscript come to life.

I'm also a big Crichton fan, and I was very curious when they announced this because I wasn't sure how much of it would be Crichton and how much of it Patterson ( His work I've never read before this). While reading, it became clear that this was a Patterson novel more so than a Crichton one. It has many of the Crichton elements (the one thing I disagreed with about your review is that I do think it starts with an obscure event with the trees dying), it has the same cast of characters that a Crichton book would have, and the way it has a countdown is similar to what his previous books have done. It feels like a Crichton adventure. However, it does not have his voice. Patterson's voice isn't bad; it is quick and easy to read. I actually finished this book in one sitting. (The Following Contains Hints of Spoilers, SO If anyone watching this video wants to go in blind, maybe don't continue) However, there were some things that I didn't care for. I remember twice, instead of describing the character's look, he basically said, "He looks like this actor." Which feels a bit lazy, to be honest. There were also some moments in the book where I couldn't tell what group members were in on the contents of the military base. I could have sworn there was one character, the billionaire guy (I forget his name), who was not let in on it, but they started talking about the canisters right in front of him without trying to hide what they were talking about. I also felt like there were some moments where they were setting up some characters that didn't really pay off in the end. There was the old man in the hospital, which added an air of mystery, but that didn't last long because then the military showed up immediately afterward to explain to Mac what was going on. And then they brought back the woman from the opening with the trees, which was barely an inconvenience to anything the main characters did. Although she said she wasn't leaving the island, I don't think we ever saw her again after that. I was also kinda shocked by two characters that were killed, and other than trying to go for the shock factor, I'm not sure why they were killed off. Again, they went off to investigate something that I felt would play into the bigger picture, but in the end, it just seemed like they were sent off to die so the story could juggle fewer characters. But these are all more nitpicks than anything. Overall, I enjoyed the adventure, having read it in one sitting. And if they decide to make a movie, I'll be there to watch it.

Red rising is a amazing book. You gloss over why darrow became a gold. Him becoming a gold is alot of chapters ans is extremely important. Come on man be serious. I can't take this review serious. This has next to nothing similar to hunger games. Except young people kill each other. You didnt really absorb what you read. Or you prefer less complex novels. Maybe Twilight or harry Potter. Something simpler.

Great review as always! Your 3.5 score is higher than I expected given your verbal review. I feel like I'd only read this book after finishing every other Crichton book, if at all. I've never read Crichton because I've always struggled with feeling anxious about wasting my time on a bad book. It's a truly ironic and absurd gift that I got from my education. Brandon Sanderson won me over because someone told me he thinks like I do. After reading several of his books, I consider their claim a great compliment. However, I'm still hesitant to read more in case I encounter a bad one. This strange phobia makes me prefer known boring activities (literally sitting and doing nothing at all) over the risk of reading a bad book. Your reviews are one of the few things that make me think, "Maybe me read more book now", but not this book. In my defense, I read primary scientific research on a daily basis. Also, there was a subtle high-pitched squeal in the audio. It might be due to electrical interference or a sensitive mic. I've not heard it in any of your other videos. Just thought I'd let you know.

It's getting an Animated adaptation next year.

Actually it does not start with the action. It starts with the scene with the quirky dying of the banyon trees in the garden. The press conference isn’t held until halfway through the book.

Hi! Eric, an old friend here. One of the finest things about Crichton is the blending of science and humanity and presenting them in a techno-thriller style. However, I am only familiar with two of his novels, Andromeda Strain and Congo. So I think Eruption has the same style and it definitely will be my upcoming read. I would like to know what you think about Congo if you have read it. Happy reading, always.

Attack a book and the attacker gets another book in return.❤

I have read The Noise and Zoo by Patterson and Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Crichton. While I enjoyed all of those books, I also appreciated the authors' different approaches to writing. I think a Crichton/Patterson mashup would be too weird for me.😅

Also, I overall didn't like Finn, but I did like a line that Finn has. So he's been arrested by the police because they think he's someone else, and the crazy police officers start torturing Finn to get the "truth" out of him. When the craziness of one of the police officers starts making itself manifest, Finn asks, "Are you okay?" It's such a funny question coming from the guy being tortured. I laughed out loud.

Random notes on a couple of these: In Danny Coughlin's dream story, I really wish he didn't make the crazy police detective religious. King does this all the time with his villains. Sometimes this makes sense, but in this case, he already had the villainous elements in place. It's like he put it in there out of habit. The villain would have been more logically consistent without it.

I put the fifth step first because I'm learning English now. Thanks for your share.bro .

Freedom of speach is important because you dont know how much easy to make people blind by totalitarianism religions

Very cool way to review short stories in a book. Enjoyed your review, as always

With a little "reading between the lines" I learned that you'll have to read the book multiple times in order to retain the information alot better. (Which I'm cool with it) How many times? That varies on the readers capacity to remember the information. Timeless book. 👍

Another excellent book is her first published novel, We the Living.

Perfect beard length. Nailed it

Fight Club is a very sickening and dark book. Their self destruction is so violent and stupid, their thoughts are so dark and disturbing, it is so hard to push through the reading. i dont understand why nobody says the self beat up and gory messes up their head? Why are people trying to act cool by saying Fight Club is a cool/genius/etc (majority only had watched the movie but not read the book). it is not cool. it is stupid as hell. i feel like i am wasting my time trying to run through the book as fast as possible to save my sanity. i suspect the writer Chuck Palahniuk may have a mental illness to have conjured so much violence, bloody mess, self destruction and such sad lives. Only a person with a very dark mind can think of such and to write a bloody book of it! i would not suggest this book/movie for anyone with depression. Too much insanity and bloody gory in destroying their stupid sad lives, nonstop like a vertigo to make me want to vomit! To the book reviewers and people who watched the movie and say Fight Club is cool, i suspect they are the type that got bullied often and imagined themselves fighting someone. LOL!😂

I saw the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. So then I read the book. Now I’m glad that I saw the movie, but only because it introduced me to read the book.

Good discussion. Looking forward to documentary.

After three or four failed attempts to get through the book I finally conquered it and left the experience with a kind of ho-hum attitude towards it. I've read a few Ayn Rand books beforehand, both fiction and non-fiction so I was familiar with her "style" of writing and her philosophy. I actually quite enjoyed The Fountainhead, although, like Atlas Shrugged, is far too long and would have benefited greatly with a serious editing. Whereas The Fountainhead had a more concise story and kept its characters to a few, Atlas Shrugged is just weighed down by too many plotlines and far too many characters. It all feels like an author's ego run wild and she just should have focused on the primary themes. Most of those secondary characters come and go and add very little to the story, oftentimes bringing it to a dead stop just as it was getting interesting. It's ironic that the story should focus on a railroad because it derails frequently over the thousand plus pages. What initially attracted me to it were the two ideas: "the immovable movers" and "I will stop the motors of the world." But the story just meanders along, then you come to the long speech by John Galt. I thought this was going to be where I would cone to an insurmountable obstacle. Howard Roark in The Fountainhead also gives a very long winded speech during his trial as he justifies his actions. But I found this passage to be among the best and breezed through it quite quickly. Without spoiling the ending, I found it underwhelming and it reads like a scene from an action movie, feeling totally out of place with the rest of the story. Ayn Rand cannot write dialogue. It's laughably wooden and feels like you're being lectured to rather than hearing natural conversation between two characters. This is also the weakest aspect of The Fountsinhead. I highly recommend watching the film version starring Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper. Director King Vidor was forbidden to tinker with the dialogue as Rand kept a close eye on the production and made sure it was a faithful adaptation. It's laughably serious and very heavyhanded in how it delivers its "message". I don't subscribe to her values and sees the virtue of selfishness, but the themes of individuality is one I gravitated towards and discarded the rest. I cannot imagine reading this again. Once was more than enough.

Great exchanges!

Just a note that Cityboy should be one word.

Good interview

Thank you! I loved this book as he shares his concept of mortality, suffering through chemotherapy and radiation. Very inspiring.

Thanks for having me!

Great reviewer🎉

as a dictator i think this book will beneficial to me as well.. thank you for your review

Thanks for another thoughtful analysis. (That is a great line!)

Thank you..❤

I just finished it and honestly I assumed going in that a book this long would at least have some nuance. It misses the mark hard as an example of the political philosophy presented as every capitalist is a perfect chad who is always the most correct, smartest, most talented person in the room. John Galt basically says “I’m right and everyone who disagrees with me secretly knows they are wrong and hate everything.” Disco Elysium is a very pro-communist piece of media but even it spends a good chunk of time critiquing its own ideology.

When I saw the Netflix documentary Hack your Health I thought this was some sham research, but when I read the book, yes, I got convinced of Giulia's research. Ayurveda too discusses about the 3 doshas - wind, acidity and mucous. My acidity vanished once I started the habit of drinking no water 15 min before and after any meal and consuming half a bottle 30 min later. All the best to Giulia Enders