The Road is the only thing I've read by McCarthy, and that was a good number of years ago. It is bleak and highly atmospheric but also has an emotional heart. I suspect you'll get a lot out of it. Water 7 is where One Piece reached another level for me, and I hope you'll love it. And thank you for including Return to Edan in this massive reading month! Talk to you soon, Jake!
Hope Wind and Truth is everything you are hoping it would be, and then so much more! And oooh very curious to see how you get on with The Road, I keep procrastinating on that one as well lol. Happy reading!
“Wind and Truth” *shocked Pikachu emoji* 😂😂😂 I hope it’s as good if not better than everyone hopes. I haven’t gotten to storm light yet but it’s on my short list for sure. November was crazy slow reading-wise for me but I finished hunger of the gods today and wowwww that last 100 pages or so was so awesome. Looking forward to finding out how Gwynne wraps this thing up this month.
I am one of those who haven't gotten into Stormlight Archive yet (I'm planning to start in January), mostly because I was on a discovery spree for new authors I hadn't read yet in the last two years and I also read less than I would have liked and therefore didn't want to invest in such a huge series that would have hugely limited my ability to read other things. I also am a bit behind with my Goodreads challenge for this year and that usually means that I'll mostly read shorter novellas just to catch up. I am halfway through Anthony Ryan's Seven Swords series (3 books + the prequel still to read), and after that I plan to read through Ngi Vho's Singing Hills Cycle (5 books released so far). I'm also halfways through the first book of Robert Jackson Bennett's Founders Trilogy and I hope to get through that trilogy in December as well. And just in case there should still be month left after that, I also want to continue Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture trilogy (2 books left) and I just bought the Complete Collection of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea novels, so I'll probably start doing that. Sounds a bit insane to me, but I counted the pages and if I succeed in reading 200 pages per day on average, I'll get it done, so it's actually not that bad.
What a great way to end the year. I’ve finished up with Wind and Truth and tbh I think I’m epic fantasied out. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it but I defo need to mix it up a bit so I’ve started Recursion by Blake Crouch, about 25% in and really enjoying it. If you don’t know already I would recommend: people are waking up with other people’s memories… what a cool idea for a book!
Im pretty confident you are going to really enjoy The Road Its my second favorite McCarthy book. Also very confident that Return to Edan is going to blow you away. Outside of Wind and Truth Im reading Murder on the North Pole Express. Its a fun short Christmas book. Ill also re read A Christmas Carol. I read it every year on Christmas eve and its the only book i re read
@@TomOrange I actually ended up putting The Road down for now... I'll come back and try it again, but it just wasn't the right time I think! I can tell it will be amazing if I come in with the right frame of mind
@@TomOrange bleak doesn't bother me at all, that was actually my favorite part! It was just the writing style in general that's throwing me off, at least right now
I'm already a few chapters into Wind and Truth 🙌 that'll last me at least a couple weeks and then I'd like to read Emperor of Thorns and Half a War to finish those trilogies off. Thinking of bumping up my January reads (Gardens of the Moon, The Darkness That Comes Before and Grace of Kings) to start over the christmas break too
Don't be nervous for The Road. It doesn't have that wonderous feeling of being catupulted into a different world like with fantasy and Sci-fi, but the character and themes in the book I feel you will enjoy. Some literary fiction is truly enjoyable. I have only read The Road by Cormack McCarthy, but I hear from reviewers like Wera that he writes some pretty good dude-bro fiction. Even though I understand Romantasy is more popular among bobybuilders of the featherweight class, I think you might like The Road.
@@momo_genX spoiler for next week's update, I DNFd it like 50 pages in 😅😅 it's a "maybe another time" kind of thing I think. I can tell the story/themes will be fantastic, but the writing style is just not working for me at the moment
I'm finishing up I'm not a serial killer by Dan Wells and then moving on to Dungeon Crawler Carl book 7 and Starter Villian by John Scalzi. I haven't read any Sanderson yet but hope to start that journey next year
I made a comment in response to someone else's comment instead of just in comments by mistake. 😆 I mentioned how Warbreaker is my first ever Sanderson novel, which I am currently listening to. I am reading The Dragonbone Chair as well with Dylan on Spaced Out Wizardly Reads on Fable, but he has a booktube, too.
Oh man, McCarthy? I can't wait to get to him and I have some of the same thoughts going into his work! I'll be getting to Wind and Truth in February. I have some other stuff I want to get out of the way first! Other than the Secret Projects, I'm all caught up though so it sucks a bit!
Since I didn’t catch up with Stormlight in time, I’m not going to be reading wind and truth on release date. However, I’m going to try to read a few books in Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist series. And…..depending on how the muses lead….i may finally start reading R Scott Bakker. Hope you all love Stormlight 5, and I eagerly await the updates!!
The Road is good, but try not to hype it up as much as everyone else says and you’ll probably enjoy it too. My December TBR is going to be The Way of Kings, my first time reading it, and I’m completely hooked. I might also read some other stuff like some Conan the Barbarian Stories or something like that.
I’m spending December trying to finish Ass Quest so my wife can stop heckling me for how I abandoned our readalong of that book 2 months ago 😂. I blame reading Of War and Ruin during that timeframe. I’m also reading The Advent of Winter and will see about finishing up Star of The Unborn by the end of the year or not 😅. We will see. I might just pick up Stephen King’s Low Men in Yellow Coats so that way im one step closer from finishing my DT expanded read through I’ve been on for 5 years 😂.
I just started Mistborn and am beginning my Sanderson journey. Very excited. Any suggestions on read order or where i should look for one. Theres so many out there
@@twocylinder6964 that's so exciting!! Wow, enjoy the ride :D i believe I found a good reading order on reddit when I first got into the cosmere. There's some hyper-specific ones out there, but I'd say the biggest things are to read mistborn era 1 before era 2 (obviously), read elantris and warbreaker early on, and hold off on the later stormlight books and Era 2 until you've read most of the other stuff. And don't do Sunlit Man til you're caught up on stormlight. Big one also: don't read mistborn secret history until you've already read bands of Mourning (and before lost metal)
@ yeah i really just got into reading this year when i read the Song of Ice and Fire books. Then I read Asimovs Robot series and need to get to Robot and Empire next. I also read the first Thrawn book Heir to the Empire and recently bought Dark Force Rising. I started reading Neuromancer but i wasnt making quick progress and was having a hard time following it so i decided to stop reading it for now and plan to go back eventually. I just got the Mistborn trilogy for my birthday and was really looking forward to it which also influenced me to stop Neuromancer. Anyway thanks for the tips on the Cosmere! Im a new subscriber and look forward to seeing your upcoming videos.
Tbf The Road is sci-fi technically and like you said it’s pretty short. With anything with a different writing style, if it doesn’t gel I’d say at least try the audio to see if it works better.
I'm in a slump with Dark Age. I'm glad I have the first book from Zodiac Academy, which I would describe as a romance game with many choices on Google Play where the protagonists are a pair of derpy twins, Derp level is 100%. Those girls are getting L after L
The Road is the only thing I've read by McCarthy, and that was a good number of years ago. It is bleak and highly atmospheric but also has an emotional heart. I suspect you'll get a lot out of it. Water 7 is where One Piece reached another level for me, and I hope you'll love it. And thank you for including Return to Edan in this massive reading month! Talk to you soon, Jake!
@@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy I may have been a bit ambitious with this month 😅 but hey, we're gonna do our best!!
It’s an awesome month! I can’t wait to get into Wind and Truth!
@@N.A.Summur yes!!!
You got a GREAT december, its a december for the ages!!!!
@@SethPlato01 it is indeed!! 😁
Hope Wind and Truth is everything you are hoping it would be, and then so much more! And oooh very curious to see how you get on with The Road, I keep procrastinating on that one as well lol. Happy reading!
“Wind and Truth” *shocked Pikachu emoji* 😂😂😂
I hope it’s as good if not better than everyone hopes. I haven’t gotten to storm light yet but it’s on my short list for sure.
November was crazy slow reading-wise for me but I finished hunger of the gods today and wowwww that last 100 pages or so was so awesome. Looking forward to finding out how Gwynne wraps this thing up this month.
@@theclassy4 the end of Hunger was craaaaazy!
Excited about Brandon Sanderson book!! 🎉
@@safinan8008 aw yeah!!!
That's a nice stack. I don't have any plans beyond WaT which should be arriving for me later today.
@@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels mine says arrival "before 10pm" lol so unfortunately probably won't be able to jump in until tomorrow :(
Great video Jake! I just started Wind & Truth, and it’s great so far. I hated The Road, but I hope you like it lol.
@@BookishChas I'm so excited to start it!! And I don't hate the Road but I think I'm gonna put it down for now 😅
I am one of those who haven't gotten into Stormlight Archive yet (I'm planning to start in January), mostly because I was on a discovery spree for new authors I hadn't read yet in the last two years and I also read less than I would have liked and therefore didn't want to invest in such a huge series that would have hugely limited my ability to read other things. I also am a bit behind with my Goodreads challenge for this year and that usually means that I'll mostly read shorter novellas just to catch up. I am halfway through Anthony Ryan's Seven Swords series (3 books + the prequel still to read), and after that I plan to read through Ngi Vho's Singing Hills Cycle (5 books released so far). I'm also halfways through the first book of Robert Jackson Bennett's Founders Trilogy and I hope to get through that trilogy in December as well. And just in case there should still be month left after that, I also want to continue Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture trilogy (2 books left) and I just bought the Complete Collection of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea novels, so I'll probably start doing that. Sounds a bit insane to me, but I counted the pages and if I succeed in reading 200 pages per day on average, I'll get it done, so it's actually not that bad.
@@Eluarelon stormlight will be there! There's no rush :) the rest of those sound great, hope you enjoy everything you have in store!!
What a great way to end the year. I’ve finished up with Wind and Truth and tbh I think I’m epic fantasied out. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it but I defo need to mix it up a bit so I’ve started Recursion by Blake Crouch, about 25% in and really enjoying it. If you don’t know already I would recommend: people are waking up with other people’s memories… what a cool idea for a book!
@@jacrsherb Crouch is definitely on my radar! I haven't read much at all in the thriller space at all, but I hear a lot of good things about his work
Im pretty confident you are going to really enjoy The Road Its my second favorite McCarthy book. Also very confident that Return to Edan is going to blow you away. Outside of Wind and Truth Im reading Murder on the North Pole Express. Its a fun short Christmas book. Ill also re read A Christmas Carol. I read it every year on Christmas eve and its the only book i re read
@@TomOrange I actually ended up putting The Road down for now... I'll come back and try it again, but it just wasn't the right time I think! I can tell it will be amazing if I come in with the right frame of mind
@@NerdLevelRising Its a very bleak book so i totally understand that
@@TomOrange bleak doesn't bother me at all, that was actually my favorite part! It was just the writing style in general that's throwing me off, at least right now
@@NerdLevelRising With how much you like Berserk that makes sense. I actually listened to it on audio so that may have helped.
I'm already a few chapters into Wind and Truth 🙌 that'll last me at least a couple weeks and then I'd like to read Emperor of Thorns and Half a War to finish those trilogies off. Thinking of bumping up my January reads (Gardens of the Moon, The Darkness That Comes Before and Grace of Kings) to start over the christmas break too
@@mrgoodkat8448 malazan, Bakker, and Dandelion Dynasty all at the same time is a bold move but I like it!!
@NerdLevelRising haha yeah I'm getting a bit carried away. I'm counting on the books themselves to keep me sensible 😬
Don't be nervous for The Road. It doesn't have that wonderous feeling of being catupulted into a different world like with fantasy and Sci-fi, but the character and themes in the book I feel you will enjoy. Some literary fiction is truly enjoyable. I have only read The Road by Cormack McCarthy, but I hear from reviewers like Wera that he writes some pretty good dude-bro fiction. Even though I understand Romantasy is more popular among bobybuilders of the featherweight class, I think you might like The Road.
@@momo_genX spoiler for next week's update, I DNFd it like 50 pages in 😅😅 it's a "maybe another time" kind of thing I think. I can tell the story/themes will be fantastic, but the writing style is just not working for me at the moment
I'm finishing up I'm not a serial killer by Dan Wells and then moving on to Dungeon Crawler Carl book 7 and Starter Villian by John Scalzi. I haven't read any Sanderson yet but hope to start that journey next year
@@buffsbookcorner that's awesome! I haven't read any of those you mentioned yet but I've heard great things :) hope you have a blast with them!
I made a comment in response to someone else's comment instead of just in comments by mistake. 😆 I mentioned how Warbreaker is my first ever Sanderson novel, which I am currently listening to. I am reading The Dragonbone Chair as well with Dylan on Spaced Out Wizardly Reads on Fable, but he has a booktube, too.
@@heathergoldsmith hope you enjoy your Sanderson journey! And I'm soooo excited to read Dragonbone chair next year!
Oh man, McCarthy? I can't wait to get to him and I have some of the same thoughts going into his work!
I'll be getting to Wind and Truth in February. I have some other stuff I want to get out of the way first! Other than the Secret Projects, I'm all caught up though so it sucks a bit!
@@christhewritingjester3164 you're gonna love the secret projects!!
@NerdLevelRising no doubt!
Since I didn’t catch up with Stormlight in time, I’m not going to be reading wind and truth on release date. However, I’m going to try to read a few books in Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist series. And…..depending on how the muses lead….i may finally start reading R Scott Bakker.
Hope you all love Stormlight 5, and I eagerly await the updates!!
@@iSamwise I've never heard of that Wolfe series! The only thing I was aware of is BOTNS
@ It’s his Greek myth history series that then folds in Egyptian myth. Idk how it’ll compare to BOTNS but I’m excited to read it!
@iSamwise wow that sounds super cool! Let me know how you like it, may need to add it to the list
@ sounds good! Will do!
The Road is good, but try not to hype it up as much as everyone else says and you’ll probably enjoy it too.
My December TBR is going to be The Way of Kings, my first time reading it, and I’m completely hooked.
I might also read some other stuff like some Conan the Barbarian Stories or something like that.
@@kingzzz6509 hope you adore TWOK!!!
I’m spending December trying to finish Ass Quest so my wife can stop heckling me for how I abandoned our readalong of that book 2 months ago 😂. I blame reading Of War and Ruin during that timeframe. I’m also reading The Advent of Winter and will see about finishing up Star of The Unborn by the end of the year or not 😅. We will see. I might just pick up Stephen King’s Low Men in Yellow Coats so that way im one step closer from finishing my DT expanded read through I’ve been on for 5 years 😂.
@@zkinak2107 I love how much Ass Quest has caught on 😂😂 @Wera lol
@ Royal Ass is my favorite title abridgment lol 😂.
I consider The Road as grimdark, but set in "our world".
@@kcsubotai ooo interesting!
Malazan for December,im gonna own Stormlight 5 only in January.😁
@@noname3609 if anything is a justifiable reason to delay stormlight 5, malazan is one them :D enjoy!
I just started Mistborn and am beginning my Sanderson journey. Very excited. Any suggestions on read order or where i should look for one. Theres so many out there
@@twocylinder6964 that's so exciting!! Wow, enjoy the ride :D i believe I found a good reading order on reddit when I first got into the cosmere. There's some hyper-specific ones out there, but I'd say the biggest things are to read mistborn era 1 before era 2 (obviously), read elantris and warbreaker early on, and hold off on the later stormlight books and Era 2 until you've read most of the other stuff. And don't do Sunlit Man til you're caught up on stormlight. Big one also: don't read mistborn secret history until you've already read bands of Mourning (and before lost metal)
@ yeah i really just got into reading this year when i read the Song of Ice and Fire books. Then I read Asimovs Robot series and need to get to Robot and Empire next. I also read the first Thrawn book Heir to the Empire and recently bought Dark Force Rising. I started reading Neuromancer but i wasnt making quick progress and was having a hard time following it so i decided to stop reading it for now and plan to go back eventually. I just got the Mistborn trilogy for my birthday and was really looking forward to it which also influenced me to stop Neuromancer. Anyway thanks for the tips on the Cosmere! Im a new subscriber and look forward to seeing your upcoming videos.
@twocylinder6964 thanks a ton! Sounds like an awesome start to your reading journey :) I hope it continues to be great!!
I've started in on The Dragonbone Chair, with Warbreaker on audio. That one I my first Sandeson and I am enjoying it, for sure.
Sorry, I accidentally put that comment in the wrong spot.
WaT!! How's it going so far?
@@Chloes_World_of_Books only had time to resd the prologue so far but it was a fantastic chapter!!!
Tbf The Road is sci-fi technically and like you said it’s pretty short. With anything with a different writing style, if it doesn’t gel I’d say at least try the audio to see if it works better.
@@mattpen interesting that it's scifi! Haven't heard that before
Wind and truth? Never heard of it. Must be a new debut novel from a little known indie author. 😝
@@Zivilin I think he's on to something though... he just might do ok in the industry 😂
I'm in a slump with Dark Age. I'm glad I have the first book from Zodiac Academy, which I would describe as a romance game with many choices on Google Play where the protagonists are a pair of derpy twins, Derp level is 100%. Those girls are getting L after L
@@radudumanovschi3387 that's quite the description lolll
I think you’ll like The Road, not love it, just like it
@@NevsBookChannel a rare middle-of- the-road opinion on McCarthy's books! I like that, seems like so many people say you either love or hate his work