I didn't want to tag everyone under the sun for this, but if you are reading this and would like to do the tag - go for it! (just make sure to credit Johanna & Allen!) ps, yep, I accidentally turned my "background blur" off on my camera in this video, so that's why all the books look clear. Maybe that's an ok thing?
Yep, among the esteemed Quilluminati, I actually finished Ordinary Grace last, and thus it is impossible that I could have betrayed anyone . . . ever. Lending out comic books is a dangerous business, especially with the Uncle Lowells (spelling?) of the world waiting to crease them. I have many a damaged comic book as evidence. Thank you for the fun video, Brian -- may you never be betrayed, even by yourself!
I had a feeling you started & finished that book after us! Whew, glad I wasn't misremembering :) Haha, Uncle Lowell. You never know what's going to show up on my channel :) Glad you enjoyed, my friend!
I'm so honored you did the tag and loved your answers! I hosted an ASOIAF reread-along the year before Bookborn read it. While I've loved watching her journey and celebrated her induction to the fandom, I'm sure many of us were a little envious of the massive spotlight she's acquired for it. Haha! By the way, you will always be the Lit-RPG OG in my BookTubeVerse! ❤
Yay! I'm glad you liked it and so appreciate you two creating it! I think the LitRPG genre is nowhere near where it'll be in a few years, so hopefully I can be a great resource to people along the way! You rock, Johanna!!
Those hardcover sun eater books tore my heart out- and it was wild when the paperbacks sold out too. Man this is a savage tag-but also very cool to hear your takes
Absolutely love this tag, and your edition is just as fun as the original ;) Also, I will never get enough of your burning hatred for The Magicians 🤣 And interesting take on Mockingjay, I didn't know there were people who were so disappointed by it. I feel like the later movies were more controversial than the book series ending itself, but idk why I thought that hahah. Thanks for the fun!
Thank you. I know there's a devoted fan base. And I'm super happy whenever people find something they love. Just right now, that one doesn't do it for me. Really appreciate your comment!
I'm not even a comic book guy, but the way you folded that one gave me a visceral reaction 😂 Love the talk on self sabotage, for me personally the book The War of Art has been the most helpful thing for working through that, but it's a constant battle for sure!
Onr good thing about not having many friends. Not many betrayals 😂 And I totally thought overhyped for you would either be Cradle or Wandering Inn... I was leaning towards Cradle though lol
Thank you so much! I've been trying to focus on creative intros lately, so I really appreciate you noticing! I'm glad One For The Road resonated with you today!
I never considered before this moment that I am the booktuber who hyped something second (or… one millionth) and got attention for it ☠️☠️ Anyway thank you for the kind words about my review :)
Daniel Greene never mentioned RPGlit until his end of the year awards show last December where his viewers voted the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” series the best. He admitted he had no idea what that was and promised to investigate. Fast forward to now and he is a reluctant fan at best. Appears he still might be slightly to high-brow for the genre. Maybe Joe Abercrombie will write one and all will go crazy for RPG fantasy!
The genre is only getting started, in terms of mainstream desire. DCC broke through, IMO, in a bigger way than Cradle. People will find the genre addictive. I give no shits about being judged by the "high-brows." I'll talk Book of the New Sun, Malazan, WoT, etc with them anytime :)
right?! their collection of footage truly made this video possible. Meanwhile, I'm listening to an excellent litrpg right now and am interviewing the authors and narrator on weds live.
I was around when Suneater first came out and Mike's Book Reviews was the one who made the first 4 books in hard cover hard to find. People were on Bookoutlet and finding them and I got them at a local 2nd and Charles for $6 each and no one could find them online. I hate giving Daniel Greene props when Mike was first.🎉
I would say Mike was among first ones, I think I was daniel greene and other youtubers saying about sun eater before Mike. Because sadly Mike has tendency to read popular books for clicks
@@Iza56 Don't you mean Daniel Greene has the tendency to read popular books for clicks? Not sure I agree with you about Mike's Book Reviews doing that.
@@momo_genX i don't follow Daniel anymore. I stopped when he was doing lives and only answered paid questions. Mike himself said many times he's reading what people want him to read and that's mean popular, hyped books. I'm starting to drift away from his content because just like with Daniel that 100k really gets into people's head
God I hated Mockingjay. Just made me want to throw it across the room. And that was the first time I remember actively waiting for a book to come out. I'll try my hand at this.....expose more my own guilt than others sadly. 1. Dusted What book did you relish reading that other people blasted through and dusted you buddy reading.........Yeah, I am the duster, 100%. In my defense, I spent three years spending almost four hours in a car every day to get to work (DC traffic is the worst) so I audiobooked a lot. Saved my sanity so perhaps I can be excused? 2. Book Stabbing What is the book that’s been languishing on your TBR for so long because you keep prioritizing other buddy reads before it...........I still have to start Musashi. I love what I have read of Vagabond and I have really liked Eiji Yoshikawa's work. I'll have to grab it when I go home this Christmas. I didn't bring it here to Europe with me. This question makes me antsy. 3. Review overlord Name a time you did not want to review or talk about a book because a) someone reviewed it so well first or b) there are already so many reviews/discussions of the book.......Well, I don't have a channel (maybe I should change that) but there are always books which I don't know what to say because it's so overanalyzed like Animal Farm or Lord of the Flies (such good books by the way). 4. Sold out Name a BookTuber who hyped a book so much that it’s no longer available in certain formats........i don’t think a book tuner has done this to a series I liked. I do remember when Netflix's Witcher came out (don't get me started on that......god awful crap) the first couple books were unavailable for a while. Best thing that came out of that situation was it seemed people were reading the books more. 5. Damaged goods Name a book you lent out and never got back (or got it back damaged).....I don't think this has happened to me thankfully. 6. Stealing the spotlight Name someone who has gotten all the praise or attention for hyping a book you hyped first.........I had a coworker who I was friends with for about six months and then he just started to drive me up the wall. Well, I had recommended a lot of books to him. After this he's skipping around the office talking about these books and acting like he had singlehandedly discovered them, along with a cure for diabetes. So petty on my part to let that get to me. It really annoyed me though. 7. Outlier Name a book that the masses overhyped or underhyped according to your taste.............Samurai's Garden. it's quite short so it wouldn't take a lot of commitment. I would also say books like Under Heaven are underated as far as the Headcount go. I’m also a bit promoter of ancient classics that I think should be taught pre in schools. Overhyped? Well, I tried to read Jade City, it wasn't my thing. Neither was Dandelion Dynasty. Oh! You know what books really confuse me? Phillpa Gregory. What I have read of these books seems to be adult......material disguised as historical fiction which change historical events beyond recognition. 8. Slump Starter Name a book that diminished your desire to read.......Finding a book to read after Under Heaven, I, Claudius, Dune, Lady of the Lake, and The Last Lion were difficult because they were so bloody good. I also had an allergic reaction to an ancient copy of Foundation that I got from my grandmother's basement but I wasn't paying attention so I just thought I wasn't enjoying reading anymore. Then I invested in the Barnes and Noble edition of the Foundation Trilogy and I was cured. 9. I told you so! A book you told people was bad but they read it anyway and didn't like it..........I pride myself on being a relatively good book recommender. I did my duty in to my friend in middle school and told her not to read the original, unabridged Hunchback of Notre Dame. She was a real Disney child who loved the movie. I had already read the book, and while I loved it, I told her it was quite different from the musical and to be prepared. Needless to say, she was devastated. Well, happy reading all!
First off. A BookTube intro that is at the height of creativity for the genre. So many satirical onion peeling back genX and other references. Dork it on up, Brian. I have an idea for the DNF challenge. Let the community vote, maybe twice even, on DNFs. Let them vote, and they will know who DNF'd and what. Then you don't have to spend a whole month reaading potential crap. Uncle Lowel read a comic book like it was a newspaper or magazine. figures. I know you have the clause in the DNF chanllenge to where the ones who reccomended it to you can't say, "I told you so!" (there is a layer in that) One for the road. John works for his son in that his son does the majority of the tech duties. Jacob probably lets him do that because he loves his father and and is proud of all the hard work he does to help potentially create one of the top BookTube channels. Satire!
I guess I’m in the minority that I like Mocking jay when I read it. Not a great book but I like it better than the second. The second book I had a visceral anger to and almost DNF’d it.
Mockingjay- Absolute garbage. Totally agree- just make up your own ending in your head. Making 2 movies of the worst book in the trilogy- why?? My answer would be Something Wicked This Way Comes. For summer reading (a million years ago), I warned my sister not to even bother. I had slogged through it 2 years before and wanted to save her the aggravation. But she bought it, started it, couldn’t get through the first chapter, and then had to go find something else from the list. 😂
I didn't want to tag everyone under the sun for this, but if you are reading this and would like to do the tag - go for it! (just make sure to credit Johanna & Allen!) ps, yep, I accidentally turned my "background blur" off on my camera in this video, so that's why all the books look clear. Maybe that's an ok thing?
That intro was the absolute best!!!!!! 🎉
Thanks so much! I've been working to make them fun right off the bat :)
Yep, among the esteemed Quilluminati, I actually finished Ordinary Grace last, and thus it is impossible that I could have betrayed anyone . . . ever. Lending out comic books is a dangerous business, especially with the Uncle Lowells (spelling?) of the world waiting to crease them. I have many a damaged comic book as evidence. Thank you for the fun video, Brian -- may you never be betrayed, even by yourself!
I had a feeling you started & finished that book after us! Whew, glad I wasn't misremembering :) Haha, Uncle Lowell. You never know what's going to show up on my channel :) Glad you enjoyed, my friend!
I'm so honored you did the tag and loved your answers! I hosted an ASOIAF reread-along the year before Bookborn read it. While I've loved watching her journey and celebrated her induction to the fandom, I'm sure many of us were a little envious of the massive spotlight she's acquired for it. Haha! By the way, you will always be the Lit-RPG OG in my BookTubeVerse! ❤
Yay! I'm glad you liked it and so appreciate you two creating it! I think the LitRPG genre is nowhere near where it'll be in a few years, so hopefully I can be a great resource to people along the way! You rock, Johanna!!
The 24601 countdown made laugh out loud! Love the Les Mis reference.
I'm glad you caught that! :)"
This tag is super fun! Great intro as well and what a powerful one for the road.
Thanks,Tom! I’ve got your Durfee review queued up next! Love 5WA series!
Those hardcover sun eater books tore my heart out- and it was wild when the paperbacks sold out too. Man this is a savage tag-but also very cool to hear your takes
I believe it’s pronounce sa vahge 🤣
I was not expecting a James Gang reference. That’s a deep cut only us aging rockers get. My God, Brian.
As long as you don’t turn your back and walk away.
@@BrianBell7 I see what you did there
I completely agree with your take on hunger games
Nice video! And I really like your one for the road segment in your videos. It make us ans reflect lot on our self and life in general. Keep it up.
Thanks so much! I'm glad the One For The Road is of value.
Absolutely love this tag, and your edition is just as fun as the original ;)
Also, I will never get enough of your burning hatred for The Magicians 🤣 And interesting take on Mockingjay, I didn't know there were people who were so disappointed by it. I feel like the later movies were more controversial than the book series ending itself, but idk why I thought that hahah.
Thanks for the fun!
Glad you enjoyed, Esmay! All the burning Magicians hate can be found in these hills! :)
Really like your transparency (and honesty) about The Wandering Inn!
Thank you. I know there's a devoted fan base. And I'm super happy whenever people find something they love. Just right now, that one doesn't do it for me. Really appreciate your comment!
OMG my heart palpitated when you folded back that comic book cover.
right?!?!? Uncle Lowell....
This was fun! Loved the intro - only you could find a way to put Mel Brooks and Jean Valjean in the same thought lol
my mind is quite random! thanks, josh!
I'm not even a comic book guy, but the way you folded that one gave me a visceral reaction 😂
Love the talk on self sabotage, for me personally the book The War of Art has been the most helpful thing for working through that, but it's a constant battle for sure!
Right?! C'mon Uncle Lowell!
Amazing opening! I do t think I can come up with responses to this 1. I absolutely started Ordinary Grace in the proper month
Thanks! I've been working on the openings more. Glad you like it brother!
Onr good thing about not having many friends. Not many betrayals 😂
And I totally thought overhyped for you would either be Cradle or Wandering Inn... I was leaning towards Cradle though lol
You guessed well!!
@@BrianBell7 indeed! Fun video!
I agree with everything, but not about the Wondering Inn! 😊😊😊
I'm actually glad you like that series! It absolutely has a fandom.
I'm leaving a comment already because you need to know how elated I was seeing the clip of Dom Deluise in History of the World, Part I.
I'm a stand-up philosopher.
@@BrianBell7 Oh, a bullsh*t artist! Did you bullsh*t last week?
Awesome video intro! The Magicians was... not my favorite as well. And the One for the Road is especially good.
Thank you so much! I've been trying to focus on creative intros lately, so I really appreciate you noticing! I'm glad One For The Road resonated with you today!
Congrats on 3K! And awesome answers. I was starting to feel like the only person that didn't like The Magicians.
Why thank you so much!! You are NOT the only person. I dislike it enough for 10,000 people :)
I never considered before this moment that I am the booktuber who hyped something second (or… one millionth) and got attention for it ☠️☠️
Anyway thank you for the kind words about my review :)
Your content rocks! Thanks for checking out the video!!
Daniel Greene never mentioned RPGlit until his end of the year awards show last December where his viewers voted the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” series the best. He admitted he had no idea what that was and promised to investigate. Fast forward to now and he is a reluctant fan at best.
Appears he still might be slightly to high-brow for the genre. Maybe Joe Abercrombie will write one and all will go crazy for RPG fantasy!
The genre is only getting started, in terms of mainstream desire. DCC broke through, IMO, in a bigger way than Cradle. People will find the genre addictive. I give no shits about being judged by the "high-brows." I'll talk Book of the New Sun, Malazan, WoT, etc with them anytime :)
Let's give a shoutout to the historians who were able to preserve that footage!
Don't worry, 99% of the LitRPG in my TBR is due to you!
right?! their collection of footage truly made this video possible. Meanwhile, I'm listening to an excellent litrpg right now and am interviewing the authors and narrator on weds live.
@@BrianBell7 Awesome! I'd love to see more narrators interviewed.
I was around when Suneater first came out and Mike's Book Reviews was the one who made the first 4 books in hard cover hard to find. People were on Bookoutlet and finding them and I got them at a local 2nd and Charles for $6 each and no one could find them online. I hate giving Daniel Greene props when Mike was first.🎉
Yep, Mike's been preaching Sun Eater since they released, for sure!
I would say Mike was among first ones, I think I was daniel greene and other youtubers saying about sun eater before Mike. Because sadly Mike has tendency to read popular books for clicks
@@Iza56 Don't you mean Daniel Greene has the tendency to read popular books for clicks? Not sure I agree with you about Mike's Book Reviews doing that.
@@Iza56 absolutely not true, Mike was reading Sun Eater YEARS before DG. The videos are there, with dates on them?
@@momo_genX i don't follow Daniel anymore. I stopped when he was doing lives and only answered paid questions. Mike himself said many times he's reading what people want him to read and that's mean popular, hyped books. I'm starting to drift away from his content because just like with Daniel that 100k really gets into people's head
God I hated Mockingjay. Just made me want to throw it across the room. And that was the first time I remember actively waiting for a book to come out.
I'll try my hand at this.....expose more my own guilt than others sadly.
1. Dusted What book did you relish reading that other people blasted through and dusted you buddy reading.........Yeah, I am the duster, 100%. In my defense, I spent three years spending almost four hours in a car every day to get to work (DC traffic is the worst) so I audiobooked a lot. Saved my sanity so perhaps I can be excused?
2. Book Stabbing What is the book that’s been languishing on your TBR for so long because you keep prioritizing other buddy reads before it...........I still have to start Musashi. I love what I have read of Vagabond and I have really liked Eiji Yoshikawa's work. I'll have to grab it when I go home this Christmas. I didn't bring it here to Europe with me. This question makes me antsy.
3. Review overlord Name a time you did not want to review or talk about a book because a) someone reviewed it so well first or b) there are already so many reviews/discussions of the book.......Well, I don't have a channel (maybe I should change that) but there are always books which I don't know what to say because it's so overanalyzed like Animal Farm or Lord of the Flies (such good books by the way).
4. Sold out Name a BookTuber who hyped a book so much that it’s no longer available in certain formats........i don’t think a book tuner has done this to a series I liked. I do remember when Netflix's Witcher came out (don't get me started on that......god awful crap) the first couple books were unavailable for a while. Best thing that came out of that situation was it seemed people were reading the books more.
5. Damaged goods Name a book you lent out and never got back (or got it back damaged).....I don't think this has happened to me thankfully.
6. Stealing the spotlight Name someone who has gotten all the praise or attention for hyping a book you hyped first.........I had a coworker who I was friends with for about six months and then he just started to drive me up the wall. Well, I had recommended a lot of books to him. After this he's skipping around the office talking about these books and acting like he had singlehandedly discovered them, along with a cure for diabetes. So petty on my part to let that get to me. It really annoyed me though.
7. Outlier Name a book that the masses overhyped or underhyped according to your taste.............Samurai's Garden. it's quite short so it wouldn't take a lot of commitment. I would also say books like Under Heaven are underated as far as the Headcount go. I’m also a bit promoter of ancient classics that I think should be taught pre in schools. Overhyped? Well, I tried to read Jade City, it wasn't my thing. Neither was Dandelion Dynasty. Oh! You know what books really confuse me? Phillpa Gregory. What I have read of these books seems to be adult......material disguised as historical fiction which change historical events beyond recognition.
8. Slump Starter Name a book that diminished your desire to read.......Finding a book to read after Under Heaven, I, Claudius, Dune, Lady of the Lake, and The Last Lion were difficult because they were so bloody good. I also had an allergic reaction to an ancient copy of Foundation that I got from my grandmother's basement but I wasn't paying attention so I just thought I wasn't enjoying reading anymore. Then I invested in the Barnes and Noble edition of the Foundation Trilogy and I was cured.
9. I told you so! A book you told people was bad but they read it anyway and didn't like it..........I pride myself on being a relatively good book recommender. I did my duty in to my friend in middle school and told her not to read the original, unabridged Hunchback of Notre Dame. She was a real Disney child who loved the movie. I had already read the book, and while I loved it, I told her it was quite different from the musical and to be prepared. Needless to say, she was devastated.
Well, happy reading all!
I love your answers here, Fianna!! Thanks for sharing with the Community!
Today I've learned that Daniel Greene is the ultimate betrayer 😂
lol, I have no idea - but would him to come on the show.
First off. A BookTube intro that is at the height of creativity for the genre. So many satirical onion peeling back genX and other references. Dork it on up, Brian.
I have an idea for the DNF challenge. Let the community vote, maybe twice even, on DNFs. Let them vote, and they will know who DNF'd and what. Then you don't have to spend a whole month reaading potential crap.
Uncle Lowel read a comic book like it was a newspaper or magazine. figures.
I know you have the clause in the DNF chanllenge to where the ones who reccomended it to you can't say, "I told you so!" (there is a layer in that)
One for the road. John works for his son in that his son does the majority of the tech duties. Jacob probably lets him do that because he loves his father and and is proud of all the hard work he does to help potentially create one of the top BookTube channels.
Satire!
glad you caught the references!
And so Javert, you see it's true
This man bears no more guilt than you!
Who am I?
24601!
I'm glad a few people got it :)
I guess I’m in the minority that I like Mocking jay when I read it. Not a great book but I like it better than the second. The second book I had a visceral anger to and almost DNF’d it.
I'm actually glad you liked the book. It's super cool with me when my "misses" are other people's hits.
THE MAGICIANS, terrible, awful, threw up in my mouth right now
YES! This is the way.
For you I think it would be Shogun that got sold out, due to Mike! Then Allen sent you a copy!!
I think Shogun mostly sold out because they stopped making that version for the tv adaptation, but yeah, I did go looking for it!!
Mockingjay- Absolute garbage. Totally agree- just make up your own ending in your head. Making 2 movies of the worst book in the trilogy- why??
My answer would be Something Wicked This Way Comes. For summer reading (a million years ago), I warned my sister not to even bother. I had slogged through it 2 years before and wanted to save her the aggravation. But she bought it, started it, couldn’t get through the first chapter, and then had to go find something else from the list. 😂
Interesting! I've heard better reviews on that book, but maybe I'll take your advice and hold off a hot minute or year before trying it :)