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Started to have a look at your previous video's now... great Scorpius shirt you're wearing there! FarScape is possibly my favourite show of all-time! Of the Man-Kzin Wars I only ever read the Best Of collection which had at least one Dean Ing story in it as well... possibly some more, don't remember too well. Do love the universe Larry Niven has build there, so might hunt down Cathouse myself. If you like cats in stories btw, I can recommend Robert Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer"... which has a prominent cat in it that holds his owner responsible for the weather outside and is accusatory towards his owner if it rains or snows outside. Fun story and there's a Japanese film based on that novel... not sure if it's still on Netflix but it is worth checking out.

With all the sniffing and the door handle behind you I feel like I'm sitting in a bathroom with you at a party while you zoot out about a space alien book you once saw 15 years ago. The Kung Fu and the Hang Ten are gold. And you found more obscure occult detective. YOU'RE KILLING ME! I would totally cover the new york 2025 book on EEBS. I feel like it would be so much fun to hangout in person but if we went to the bookstore together we'd have some issues cause we like pretty much the exact same thing. ha! You can of course have all the kids books though.

Love 'The Book Graveyard' shirt! Yes, 'To Your Scattered Bodies Go', excited to have you on the channel. A Malzberg for less than $1 is a great deal, since his passing his books have become a bit more expensive and harder to find. The Ace L. Ron Hubbard is awesome. Hard to be a God by the Strugatsky's for $1.50 is insane, that is a very collectible book. That book store has some really good deals for paperbacks.

Happy belated birthday, looks like you have a lot of cool reads to look forward to! I have read "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip Jose Farmer and I think you and Ira are going to enjoy that one. Also read the Hyperion series which I think is great. But most of the titles you've shown I haven't heard of, that time travel series to the medieval times of an alien named "Scorpio" sounds great... there were also some other titles in there that looked interesting and that I've marked on GoodReads to perhaps start looking for some time when I'm out of ideas what to read next!

First, do not stop this video and go to literally books right now. This video is full of incredible books (also Virgil’s voice is way less soothing in person and his channel is completely devoid of color changing medieval aliens so how nice can he really be?). Second the Scorpio series (who let them name it that?) looks crazy and fun. To Your Scattered Bodies Go is a fantastic book. If the blurb for K9 Corps The Last Resort isn’t, “Dog and Dino in an epic battle to determine who will be man’s best friend?” then someone should be fired (even 30+ years later). And Operation Hang Ten has my interest. 🏄 So many weird and wonderful books. Such an awesome haul. Happy birthday!

Hey Brian, I just recently found your TH-cam channel. I love your content, you are doing a great job 👏🤝 I hope all is well for you 🎉

Happy Birthday! Omg I have that Scorpio book! I haven’t read it yet, but for whatever reason I had to have it 😂 I’ll be waiting to hear what you think. Disc golf slashing sounds like a good time.

Great haul bro! Definitely a nice package from Mr.Pulp himself. I'd be down to check out that 👽 book. Happy Belated Birthday 🎂!! 👽👾 👽👾👽 #UnidentifiedFlyingBook

Plenty there to keep you out of mischief! Best wishes and happy reading.

What a haul! And happy belated birthday, Brian!!

Only POSERS dont know about The Book Graveyard brahbrah.

Happy birthday!

I love the scenario where you meet new friends from wearing my shirt. That's a really cool way to look at it. Yes, why didn't Jake send me that package?? Also, I see he sent you some of the books I sent him for Christmas hahaha. Those Viking Ciphers look amazing. I'll have to pause now and finish watching later.

Very cool haul. I've been meaning to ask you about those Creeper books from Dollar Tree, but I kept forgetting.

Here is the thing about your channel… I know that I’ll probably never read most of the books you read and show on here, but I just can’t help but watch because the books you show are just so darn interesting!! I might just have to use some of my local store credit and get a few obscure sci-fi novels. That’s how I feel after your videos 😂 Oh yeah I have three of those creepers! I read Mirror Mirror and it was pretty good!!!

Remember, Bryan; if your embarrassingly large book haul lasts for longer than an hour, please seek medical attention. Btw, Moorcock's The Jewel in the Skull is a killer post-apocalyptic/sword-and-sorcery novel. The rest of the series is kinda meh...

Happy Birthday! Also the return of GHS??.......we may have to EEBS it..

Happy belated birthday! … Man … so many cool books, judging by the covers alone. I had to watch your video twice, once just for the feeling, and again to make some notes. The VIKING CYPHER books, STAR COMMANDOS and POLAR CITY BLUES were especially interesting. And I’ve never heard of that HELL book before and I will definitely hunt it down, thanks for showing!!! By the way, you can call me Michael, mostly because that’s my name 😂. … And great find with that Scorpio book. I can image how you felt after you finally found it. I have something similar with a movie I watched as a teenager that nobody seems to know about. I’m usually quite knowledgeable in terms of movies, but this movie doesn’t seem to exist. Probably my personal Mandela effect story … Anyway, great video, and they can’t be long enough. A good book haul video beats Netflix every time!

Your long hair is gone! You started catching on your looks are distracting us from the books Great haul video man! Nice to see that Vampire Beat book, I picked it up read as well after seeing Paperback Mania’s review on it🔥 Lotta these other books I don’t read since I’m horror only, but the covers are all great, gotta love the old artwork. My friend has read a series I think called Martian Tales by Edgar Rice Burrough. Those might interest you so should check them out it if you haven’t had the chance yet💯

Great list! Glad you put those classic sci-fi books where you felt they belonged. Still trying to get over L’amour saying Poe would have been great if he hadn’t wrote all that dreary stuff. 😆 God’s Abide was just so dumb.

The best part of this video, though there are many, is the decision to NOT spoil Frankenturkey 2. 😆😂 Love it.

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Bester is not for everyone, I love his writing style, if you watch old videos of him he writes just like he talks, lol. I haven't read Snow Crash yet but probably this year, not sure I'm a huge fan of Stephenson yet, but we'll see. FYI, I'm going to judge you for putting Will Wight and Hawk above Bester 🤣.

Fun list. I now know about Deathlands because of you. I just recently got Dragonsbane, and recently learnt she did some sequels. Do you think the sequels are needed as a part of the whole? Or could just read the first?

Good show! Lol! I thought Southern Book Clubs Guide was wild! And I Am Legend is truly a masterpiece. Animorphs vs Why Im Afraid of Bees had me laughing. Thanks for sharing.

Ah man, I get the feeling I'm not going to like Things Have Gotten Worse...I'm happy The Heirloom came in so high -- and I gotta read a Tananarive Due novel!

Next video, how to read 109 books in one year. I need tips.

Dragonsbane is one of those books that I always hear about and think "Ooh, I need to read that!" But then forget about it a minute later. And Horror Land being so high on the list makes me happy. Suck it, Sanderson!

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Ah I love Paperback Mania! I got into watching Leone’s videos many months ago and fell in love with all the vintage horror books he covered. He is responsible for adding way too much to my TBR list😂 You are guilty as well now, as I will definitely add all of these to my list. I love more weird horror stories as well, just read a book called Dead Bait which has 19 stories basically on fish/water horror Published in 2009 but felt like reading something from the 1980’s and 1990’s when Stephen King’s Night Shift collection was popular. They were all weird, gorey, creepy, everything I could ask for

FrankenTurkey strikes again!!

What an accomplishment to make this list and video! I've thought about doing it in the past but it's just so much work 😓 - especially reading 100+ (190 in my case) books in the year. Sundial by Catriona Ward was one of my least favorites of 2024. I didn't like it at all and probably won't pick up another book by her. Evil Dead 2 and Dead Alive are such great movies! I love Peter Jackson's horror comedies, with Dead Alive being one of my all time fav. movies. I'm assuming you've seen Bad Taste as well? 😂 Love seeing all the variety of books. I'm very much the same, though mostly a consumer of all things horror, it's nice to switch things up and read fantasy, classics, westerns once in a while, etc. I plan on reading The Blade Itself (finally) soon, I'm hoping I like it, lol. Cheers!

I can’t believe Frankenturkey 2 beat Joe Abercrombie! The fact that you have another of his in the top 10 makes up for it 😂 great video. I can’t imagine how long it would have taken me to make this list.

Great video! There are so many on this I've never read!

Thanks for the shout out!

hahaha reading The God's Abide right now! I like the mythology stuff, but yeah, the poetic exaltation of sex goes on and on!

Very well done video. I did watch all the way till the end. I enjoyed the "Sports Car" guest appearance. Appreciate you putting in all 108 book covers. I have fond memories as a kid reading Animorphs. Unfortunately I felt the same way about Louis L'amours writing style. It just didn't grasp me. My only hot take is that I'm a big fan of Snow Crash. The Cradle series is on my list for this year. Side Note: my girlfriend thinks you look like Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds. She's also a big fan of the book mug.

YES! So glad you did this. ert. Did you just say do a couple lines?! haha I can accept Hawk above Assignment but only because it was your Hawk introduction and I know that feeling of awe. This was awesome. Though I did feel like I just watched an hour long video about Goosebumps. Ha! 4/5

HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE „SNOW CRASH“????!!! It’s probably one of my favorite scifi novels. I mean, the name of the hero protagonist is Hero Protagonist, and while inventing some of the most used cyberpunk ideas on the go, it also features one of the most mind blowing conspiracy theories I‘ve ever read … language as a virus. My whole world view changed completely after reading this book. … I read ROGUE MOON recently and it’s VERY interesting but also one of the greatest shams in the history of the written word. I bought the book because the blurb promised a plot like the trashy movie MOONTRAP, with an evil alien structure on the moon that kills everyone. And it’s not about that. Not at all. The last 20 pages maybe, and even those are underwhelming. But on the other hand, it’s an interesting read about human archetypes, our struggles with life and death and stuff like that. But … I honestly thought I am the only one who knows Mel Odom or thinks he is a great writer! I always wanted to read the old Shadowrun novels, and after decades, I was able to buy almost all of them, and for the first one, I picked one by Mel Odom. And it was the absolute perfect entry point for me. It had an Arnold Schwarzenegger type street samurai, the Barbarian twins and tons of other stuff that felt like it was taken right from the best 80s and 90s scifi action movies. I immediately devoured the other Shadowrun books written by him as well, and they are on the same level. I can’t wait to read another one of his books, Lethal Interface, which seems to be Cyberpunk detective noir story … which might become my new favorite book! I’ll definitely will hunt down his Rogue Angel books (thanks for the tip), although the covers are pretty boring. Anyway … MEL ODOM!!! 😂

Cool list. This video was a real walk down memory lane with all the “Goosebumps” books you listed.

Yes for The Reformatory!

A fiesty 4.5 for Downriver. I can dig it, Sounds fun. High pitched critics be damned.

Oh man, I LOVED the "Night in Terror Tower" episode as a kid. I've not had great luck re-reading Goosebumps as an adult so far

You got badass taste in books! I'll definitely look forward to your ranking video!

Bryan tells backstory of Through the Ice. I'm about ready to cry a tear for the heartfelt moment. Bryan one second later, this book sucks, it was written terrible, it's total garbage. I'm was happy to hear you liked the Assignment Series. He is CIA. Ranking videos from worst to best is a terrible idea?! I'm looking forward to your video. I really hope a kids books isn't number one. 4/5.

I love the cover for Happy Bunny! Thanks for putting it on my radar.

I haven’t read a Sanderson book yet (because I‘m not the biggest fantasy fan and very picky with my fantasy reads), and I also haven’t read a LeGuin book yet. Mostly because of the gender themes. I don’t want to go too much into details here, because I think social media is not the best way to „discuss“ such things, but I want my books to be the perfect escapism, and the gender debate is one of the things I like to escape from 😉 With that in mind, I should look out for some Executioner books with a healthy dose of vigilantism 🤣 Have you ever read the Parker books from Richard Stark/Donald Westlake? I like them a lot, and it’s kinda cool to be in the head of a bad guy from time to time.

Haven't read Left Hand of Darkness yet, it's on my list. I loved her novel The Lathe of Heaven!

The Utah National Parks are incredible!

I always thought the cover of A Night in Terror Tower was better than the story. That guy gave me the creeps for a good while. I know exactly what the axe is used for! Also, I'm currently reading The Well of Ascension right now and agree it is sort of moving slow at the beginning but not bad. I'm reading it to my kids and they are enthralled, so that is something.