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  • @merphynapier42
    @merphynapier42  ปีที่แล้ว +27

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  • @SarcasmoRex
    @SarcasmoRex ปีที่แล้ว +423

    Brandon Sanderson would be writing a new book DURING the gladiator fight. That dude writes like he knows the exact date of his death.

    • @meganhuffmanwrites
      @meganhuffmanwrites ปีที่แล้ว +41

      So true. Mannn, the man is non-stop!
      How does he write like he's running out of time? Write day and night like he's running out of time! Every day he fights like he's running out of time, is he running out of time? Awwww, How does he write like tomorrow won't arrive? How does he write like he needs it to survive? How does he write every second he's alive?! 😁

    • @Kolter657
      @Kolter657 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@meganhuffmanwrites th-cam.com/video/RY9KVtuXZCE/w-d-xo.html

    • @blending_in
      @blending_in ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's such an accurate way to describe it 😭

    • @JClover2
      @JClover2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hilarious because it's true 😆

    • @SerenitySong6
      @SerenitySong6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Like he's running out of time?

  • @ridhwankamarulzaman8789
    @ridhwankamarulzaman8789 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    Past Merphy: "I'm not a fan of absurdism".
    Current Merphy: "I need to write these crossover fan fictions" 😂

    • @MugenHeadNinja
      @MugenHeadNinja ปีที่แล้ว +53

      What reading One Piece does to a person.

    • @adoniscreed4031
      @adoniscreed4031 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The power of One Piece and Discworld 😂 and I havent even read Discworld

    • @ImchautzuCHAUTZU
      @ImchautzuCHAUTZU ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ⁠@@adoniscreed4031that sounds like something someone would say about one piece😂
      Time to go read discword !

    • @dylangrenier218
      @dylangrenier218 ปีที่แล้ว

      The power of the books that hold up her laptop

    • @user-wm1yc2gk2w
      @user-wm1yc2gk2w ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please someone write that Marvin crossover tho

  • @livineshkumar335
    @livineshkumar335 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Brandon has a separate team in his company, whose sole work is to check and make sure he keeps the continuity and makes sure he doesn't change any cannon events in the Cosmere.

    • @KoreaWithKids
      @KoreaWithKids ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's mostly Karen's job. She has spreadsheets. And spreadsheets for the spreadsheets.

    • @Pablo360able
      @Pablo360able ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All the great worldbuilders have that. Matt Mercer has Dani Carr.

  • @angrychickengod3831
    @angrychickengod3831 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    If you were to fight GRRM in the circle, he wouldn't cheat. He would just get his incredibly skilled sellsword to fight on his behalf.

    • @taylor_green_9
      @taylor_green_9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And then the incredibly skilled sellsword would not exactly cheat but definitely fight dirty

  • @StannisHarlock
    @StannisHarlock ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Imagine if Rand Al'Thor just popped into the Sword of Truth universe and did nothing but follow Richard around and at every event just tell Richard, "I did it better".

    • @JClover2
      @JClover2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      😂

    • @mechanarwhal7830
      @mechanarwhal7830 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      LOVE this

    • @bookishlybookish
      @bookishlybookish ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bahaha this one wins

    • @snorpenbass4196
      @snorpenbass4196 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And he keeps going until Goodkind starts crying about how bad his prose is.

    • @nroke1684
      @nroke1684 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I mean, that's basically what lews therin does in the wheel of time to rand.

  • @happychaosofthenorth
    @happychaosofthenorth ปีที่แล้ว +38

    13:50 I did that. I grabbed a book based on title alone while knowing literally nothing else. Unfortunately, the book was called November 9 by Colleen Hoover. I picked it because that's my birthday. That book was one of the worst books I ever read. As someone who does not gravitate to the romance genre, and usually avoids it, I had no idea that Colleen was a famous, and famously bad author.

  • @Belemrys
    @Belemrys ปีที่แล้ว +40

    That is basically what Hoid does....shows up in random books and gives out of context stories that we only get it!

  • @alecity4877
    @alecity4877 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    4:13 this is literally what takes up half of my reading time, stopping reading and thinking how the characters would react and interact with others, glad to see I am not the only one.

  • @circleofleaves2676
    @circleofleaves2676 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    We're gonna need 2 things:
    1. a part 2 of bad takes
    2. a whole video on your favourite one - examples of characters just popping into other worlds

    • @lelnel6242
      @lelnel6242 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You mean part 3. I'm pretty sure there a video like this already or something similar to it

    • @christhewritingjester3164
      @christhewritingjester3164 ปีที่แล้ว

      That could be a whole series of shorts.

    • @ultimasurge
      @ultimasurge ปีที่แล้ว +1

      atleast one episode of her putting on her writers cap of these cross overs would be fantastic. I wonder if anyone could recognize her favorite authors influences in HER writing also.

  • @brendhacaldas4396
    @brendhacaldas4396 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    Merphy cracking up is the sweetest thing 😂❤

    • @prajwaleliya9539
      @prajwaleliya9539 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And contagious!

    • @notrixamoris3318
      @notrixamoris3318 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣

    • @TheCronedoggy
      @TheCronedoggy ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love that the joke was a literal knee slapper for her.

    • @billyalarie929
      @billyalarie929 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It will literally turn someone’s bad day around

  • @nathancarter8239
    @nathancarter8239 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Yeah, I understand almost not wanting a series to end, because if the author forces an ending (especially if it's bad) you can really see the undulating quality of the series overall.

  • @berrymand71
    @berrymand71 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I like unfinished series as long as each book feels finished. I don't like waiting for a series to be written if the individual books don't end or have cliffhangers.

  • @IndiaTides
    @IndiaTides ปีที่แล้ว +165

    Minor spoiler for Yumi and the midnight painter - I read undulating in the book and smiled. I think Sanderson specially used to annoy Merphy. I loved it.

    • @tineye5100
      @tineye5100 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Any time I see that word in an ebook i smile and highlight it.

    • @hannahbrennan2131
      @hannahbrennan2131 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Every time I read that word, I read it in Sean Astin's voice.

    • @groofay
      @groofay ปีที่แล้ว +4

      When I read that take, I thought Sanderson's ear in particular would be sore, he uses "undulate" like twice in every one of his books.

    • @wherespookie1
      @wherespookie1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Tress also used undulate like 4-5 times lol

    • @sineadjenks5325
      @sineadjenks5325 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I just finished it today... Omg so many 'undulating's' 😂

  • @kv4648
    @kv4648 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Some of these seem quite mild.
    Here's mine: I like info dumps. I don't think I've seen much support for it so its probably a bad take.
    Viewing large chunks of the world from a comprehensive perspective allows me to immerse myself into it much more deeply. In my opinion it makes up for the fact that we aren't following the main character from birth and don't learn about the world like they do

    • @orbitingpluto3213
      @orbitingpluto3213 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I love info dumps, too. It's great. Give me all of the world building. All of it.

    • @damsaucy
      @damsaucy ปีที่แล้ว +6

      same. i don't really sit down and read for long periods of time, but more so short bursts every day or every few days, so when info is laid out over the course of the whole book, i tend to forget things, but when its in the form of an infodump, i remember it better because that one scene itself is memorable

    • @curranfrank2854
      @curranfrank2854 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yea honestly I often love info dumps, but I think the biggest problem isn't doing them at all but how much you rely on them. A few times in a book or a series, especially in the beginning, isn't that bad, but if you continue to use them as the book goes on, it becomes more questionable.

  • @Colaman112
    @Colaman112 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    9:02 You know, we did have choose your own adventure books in the 90s. Loads of "videogames" exist with those premises as well.

  • @dietsoba
    @dietsoba ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This was really fun!! Tbh my bad take(?) is to be your own audiobook and read everything out loud all the time. It seriously helps you focus on the content line by line but also annoys everyone in the near vicinity

    • @orbitingpluto3213
      @orbitingpluto3213 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is how I finally fished reading Lord of the Rings. Some books are just better spoken.

    • @sarahloomis2034
      @sarahloomis2034 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is me lol

    • @dietsoba
      @dietsoba ปีที่แล้ว

      @@orbitingpluto3213 you’re absolutely right

    • @kosmosvanhartland747
      @kosmosvanhartland747 ปีที่แล้ว

      Honestly, i have found that reading a line out loud that i previously did not understand, does help sometimes,
      But doing it for the entire book, causes my brain to zone out too, to such a point where i have to ask someone to explain what i just read.
      So, it has its advantages and disadvantages... 👍

  • @avsambart
    @avsambart ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lestat coming back from going into the Twilight world: you'll never guess what we're doing over there. And we sparkle.

  • @AgressiveMonkee
    @AgressiveMonkee ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "Broken spines are cool"
    -Merphy Napier, 2023

  • @josephtiseo3303
    @josephtiseo3303 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I could see the crossover books being done like the Canterbury Tales, where the main characters are all on a journey somewhere and to pass time they talk about things that happened to them, and maybe react to thing that happen on the trip as though they are still in their world. Perhaps in the end they all end up at a convention and turn out to have been super fans.
    'I remember when I was young the local witch enticed me to go to school to learn magic. But when I was there I released a horrible monster that kept following me so I ran all over the world to try to find a way to defeat it' --Ged
    'So did you defeat the minion of the dark one?' --Rand
    'Oh, turns out I was running from my shadow' --Ged

  • @rosss2173
    @rosss2173 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I think we need a depress-off between Marvin and Kaladin. Not sure who would win that fight, but everyone would be sad.

  • @tyriquesmith8850
    @tyriquesmith8850 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I am endlessly pleased that Merphy has joined my fight. Her laugh is so contagious. I love this community. ❤

  • @NicolasKiroy-ex9yz
    @NicolasKiroy-ex9yz ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Author's take on that first question about Tolkien taking inspiration from outside:
    YES! One of my favorite things to do is take a real life experience and write it into the intensified circumstances of whatever I'm working on at the moment. It's especially fun when you can take said experience, plug it into say a Fantasy setting, then later down the road use that same inspired event in a different work, perhaps even different genre!
    Many standout childhood memories haunt several of my books, but the way they are packaged is completely different from one to the next. When writers talk about NEEDING to get a scene out, for me that feeling almost always pairs with an event from my life twisted into whichever work it will go into.

  • @samfisher6606
    @samfisher6606 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The spreadsheet thing sort of sounds like something a writer can do themselves in terms of putting every character in a list with their age, birthday, place of birth, major life events, family members, etc. I know Oda goes onto the One Piece wiki because he often forgets things like move names but fans keep track of most of that stuff. I know TV shows have stuff like series bibles which I've always assumed is filled with references to character histories and the like.

    • @Lynn-CA
      @Lynn-CA ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alas, not everyone acknowledges the wonder of the spreadsheet!

    • @LimegreenSnowstorm
      @LimegreenSnowstorm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As she was reading that I was just thinking every writer needs an autistic fan who’s obsessed with their work to keep track of that stuff. I cut out the middle man by being autistic XD _I very much know the joy of the spreadsheet_

  • @timhurlburt4506
    @timhurlburt4506 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Characters showing up in crossovers and spouting off about adventures they had in another unrelated book is basically what happens in every Michael Moorcock novel. It's actually a lot of fun.

  • @veronicaholme803
    @veronicaholme803 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I never noticed how frequently the word “undulating” comes up before I heard about Merphy’s beef with it lol. Now I can’t read a book without seeing it.

    • @zofiabochenska1240
      @zofiabochenska1240 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yep. That's all of of us

    • @blending_in
      @blending_in ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't even know what it means man all I know is that she has beef with it and that's all I need to know anyway 💀

  • @samharris266
    @samharris266 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    For the the crossovers I just had a thought of Worf, Star Trek, jumping into Pride and Prejudice and challenging George Wickham to an honour duel to the death.

  • @xavierkane2532
    @xavierkane2532 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    As a horror author, if I had a chance to get trad published through gladiatorial combat I would definitely cheat! My favorite quote about combat is: if you're not cheating, you're not trying!

  • @deriving_drunk
    @deriving_drunk ปีที่แล้ว +16

    But Merphy, you assume *I’m* not going to cheat in the circle either. I am not above showing up to my death battle with Oda accompanied by my girlfriend wearing a bikini to turn his brain off.

  • @metallsnubben
    @metallsnubben ปีที่แล้ว +5

    20:18 as someone who's horrified of people skipping arcs in One Piece, this is a whole other level of insanity. Absolutely perfect for this video but jesus, that knocked the wind out of me

  • @georgezp7787
    @georgezp7787 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Don't use a book as a mouse pad if it has a glossy cover. The arrow will never go where you want it to go.

  • @grainne5500
    @grainne5500 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Books aren't edible enough". Intense flashbacks to when I was 12 and my best friend tore out the last page of a book I was reading and ate it

  • @tgibridays
    @tgibridays ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I 100% agree with your "bad take". I actually am a bit nervous about Stormlight ending and kind of ruining my feelings towards the first three books. Hopefully it's an unfounded fear... But it's there.

    • @jasminezed7839
      @jasminezed7839 ปีที่แล้ว

      I take it you didn't like ROW?

    • @tgibridays
      @tgibridays ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jasminezed7839 I liked it, but my ranking goes, WoR, TWoK, O, then ROW. It's the only one I've only read once, so I might change my mind when I get back to it next year when I do my reread in preparation for book 5.

    • @jasminezed7839
      @jasminezed7839 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tgibridays Reasonable. Right now I think my ranking would be the same as yours, but with OB and ROW switched. I honestly have no idea what book five is going to do at this point, but I'm excited for it to come out!

  • @emmaelizabeth3373
    @emmaelizabeth3373 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    OMG my comment made it into a Merphy video! My life is complete 😂
    I have actually heard of consistency editors for larger authors, which makes total sense if the author can afford it and I don’t think it’s a “bad” idea at all. (I would also totally be on board with the fan labor of love idea!) I just counted this as a “bad take” because age-related errors tend to bother me WAY MORE than any other type of plot hole, even though they usually don’t affect the story much…

    • @Lynn-CA
      @Lynn-CA ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I will do my best to try and clone myself and then start a business offering my services to authors. It could be a real money maker!

    • @emmaelizabeth3373
      @emmaelizabeth3373 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Lynn-CA We data-obsessed folks would certainly appreciate your services Lynn!

  • @LEOrgill
    @LEOrgill ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I think this video needs a sequel. I had so much fun watching it.

  • @CantankerousDave
    @CantankerousDave ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hearing someone describe a Choose Your Own Adventure book like some strange, mythical tome makes me feel sooooo old.

  • @bdk336
    @bdk336 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I want to read Murphy's fanfictions of this beautiful crossover concept.

  • @shelfofmanygenres
    @shelfofmanygenres ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Regarding reading the end of the book first if I'm getting stressed out by the book I'll peak at the end, the back of the next book in the series or a wiki spoiler page to prepare for it so I can mentally prepare for it and just be in the moment for the reading experience for the rest of the book, because good or bad, I've satisfied that anxiousness from not knowing.

    • @kosmosvanhartland747
      @kosmosvanhartland747 ปีที่แล้ว

      Near same...
      I also Google the plot sometimes when i get anxious.
      And read the last page,
      And a page from somewhere in the middle too for good measure. 😉

  • @thefriesofLockeLamora
    @thefriesofLockeLamora ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The one about Tolkien is true. And Jemisin went to visit volcanoes to do the world building for Broken Earth.

  • @zionthedon7745
    @zionthedon7745 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Step into the circle with Robert Oberst"
    Daniel: "Heh??

  • @colibri224
    @colibri224 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When I was young (like very young), I thought being a serious reader mean you SHOULD ALWAYS read a book in ONE sitting, no matter the length.
    And I always felt like a failure for not reaching this impossible goal.

    • @emmaelizabeth3373
      @emmaelizabeth3373 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Me too!! My mom even mentioned it in some parent conference write-up to my first grade teacher. She was like "bookmark functionality has yet to sink in." 😂

    • @elfchild9
      @elfchild9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@emmaelizabeth3373 "Bookmark functionality has yet to sink in" is my new favorite line. 😆 I think a lot of us were those kids.

  • @TrabensTomes
    @TrabensTomes ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The book hoard as artistic expression really speaks to me as I’m sure it does to others. My partner sometimes talks about being a book collector more than a book reader, but we are definitely getting back into reading this year.

  • @ryancook8532
    @ryancook8532 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Just wanted to say that I found your channel this week based on the algorithm recommending your review on A Silent Voice, and got hooked when watching your Avatar vids! I also haven't read a book in over 4 years so I'm inspired to start the Mistborn series soon...I really don't know how I got here but I'm glad I did!

  • @appolionos
    @appolionos ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I just wanted to say : THANK YOU
    Discovered your channel recently and you totally rekindle my love for reading ! You made me bought 15 books last month (and I already read half of them). So thank you ! Can't wait to read more !

  • @taylorgayhart9497
    @taylorgayhart9497 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I wish more hardcovers were like that too, but specifically I like that it is a glossed paper so you can CLEAN IT!! I just read Happy Place and it’s white and yellow, it got SO STAINED just from touching it that I feel bad selling it.

  • @Unenthusiastivly
    @Unenthusiastivly ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I put my hate reads upside down on my shelf just to spite them 😌

  • @McFlingleson
    @McFlingleson ปีที่แล้ว +2

    23:16 reminds me of a thing I saw at school when I was a kid:
    We had this thing at my elementary school where periodically some older kids (high school or maybe college, I'm not sure) would come to our school and put on a performance for us that would typically have some kind of moral or message to it. One day they came and the performance they put on was just completely unhinged. The plot of it was that some people had a balloon, and they drew a pirate's face on the balloon, which somehow turned the balloon into a living, sentient being. The pirate balloon assessed the world he was new to and decided that his thing was that he wanted books, so the humans, glad he was interested in such things, brought him books and he started fucking eating them! The humans protested fervently against the pirate balloon eating books, but he could not be stopped, until he had eaten so many that he popped, alas, his folly led to his demise.
    The moral of the story was that you, too, should have a hunger for books, but not a literal hunger but rather a figurative hunger that is satiated by reading them and not by eating them.
    I swear I did not make any of this up.

    • @JordanS-ww4eu
      @JordanS-ww4eu หลายเดือนก่อน

      I remember Ronald McDonald would do that for my elementary school

  • @bugsby4663
    @bugsby4663 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your excited passion about writing in books. I love buying a book from past centuries and see someone who is long dead has scribbled in there. It makes me feel connected across time. Mind you, handwriting in the past was so much nicer.

  • @rochoa7408
    @rochoa7408 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oooh I like the crossover idea, I wanna put Marvin and Kaladin together and see who can out-depress the other 😂

  • @Joshuadawg03
    @Joshuadawg03 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Merphy is deadass the best booktuber to ever touch this earth. She made me pick up reading after years of not reading

  • @nathanadler8316
    @nathanadler8316 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Merphy, if you haven't read Jasper Fforde yet, I think you'd love his books. His main character is a Literary Detective, who travels into other stories (eg hiding in the attic of Jane Eyre's manor house, using the book to know when it's safe to move around without bumping into any main characters). His Nursery Crimes are even sillier (The Gingerbread Man as a deranged serial killer is hilarious).

  • @HappyTheNeko
    @HappyTheNeko ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Agreed about annotations. My most prized book is a copy of The Screwtape Letters that my grandpa annotated. It’s literally falling apart at this point so I never use it to read from though.

  • @robertunijat8299
    @robertunijat8299 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Now I really want to see the conversation between Gimli and Carrot!

  • @JoshDoingLinux
    @JoshDoingLinux ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Simple solution to the dust jacket problem. Get a book of similar size that is not pretty and display the dust jacket on that book

  • @MusicBlik
    @MusicBlik ปีที่แล้ว +3

    4:41 Characters sharing out-of-context nonsense: "My girlfriend turned into the moon."

    • @jony4real
      @jony4real ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's rough buddy.

  • @PsilocybeJedi
    @PsilocybeJedi ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wrote a book, well 2 actually, at the age of 14. Fast forward to now, I'm 31 and between working 2 jobs, doing jiujitsu, lifting, hiking and backpacking and reading it's so hard for me to find time to write, my dream is to not have to work any jobs so I can just write full time but that will never happen... in the meantime, I'm almost finished finally with the final draft of the novel i wrote 17 years ago! I feel so elated lol

  • @cfftfffffgggfftotcjy
    @cfftfffffgggfftotcjy ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Having the notes for your kids to read is so heart warming. I bonded so much with my step dad over reading so that just made me think of him love the vid!

  • @RidleyJones
    @RidleyJones ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Funny, I usually don't take any notes or anything on fiction books because it *breaks* the immersion for me. I have to be confronted by the fact that it's words on a page, an artifact, rather than a world I'm in.

  • @Beltion
    @Beltion ปีที่แล้ว +3

    9:21 My congratulations, this has already been invented, it's called video games. I recommend starting with Disco Elysium and Bookwalker.

  • @zuzanaochmanova2652
    @zuzanaochmanova2652 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So, the reason why hardcovers have beautiful cover underneath the dust jacket is because while you are reading it, you read it WITHOUT the dust jacket to not destroy it. Therefore you will enjoy the cover like that, and then when you are done you put the dust jacket on and can display the other cover you are not used to. And if you have accidentally destroyed a little the hardback by reading it, the dust jacket will cover it. 😊 And reading hardback without the dustjacket on is the only right way! 😅 (Please don't fight me on this🙈😅)

    • @nisc2001
      @nisc2001 ปีที่แล้ว

      tell that to the libraries who tape them on, i didn't even know reading without one was an option til highschool when i finally got my own hardcover and it kept slipping through the dust jacket

    • @zuzanaochmanova2652
      @zuzanaochmanova2652 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nisc2001 oh gosh 🙈 what a sin! But, did they at least put this seen through plastic/cover thingy on it? Our libraries in Slovakia put it on every book so it won't get ruined so soon, so in that case I do understand. But yea that is shame :(

    • @nisc2001
      @nisc2001 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zuzanaochmanova2652 yeah, the dust jackets tended to have a plastic covering

  • @jaginaiaelectrizs6341
    @jaginaiaelectrizs6341 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    11:53 - That's completely true. I think a lot of people really don't realize just how much "could have been trimmed down" is an almost entirely subjective opinion, in a majority of case. Loll

  • @velho6298
    @velho6298 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think Oda even googled Luffy's finishing moves from East Blue because he had forgotten and reused them in the new world

  • @radikl_ed
    @radikl_ed ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think you sort of missed the point of the “random” reads comment. They were describing truly random picks, but your response was “yes, if it includes a nautical theme I like, I’ll often consider reading a book!”
    “This book has a theme I like, maybe I should read it” is….. the norm.

  • @ibg_music7525
    @ibg_music7525 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    4:27 Now I want an entire video of ideas on this.😂8:39 John Gwynne would get so many earflicks...

  • @primarybufferpanel9939
    @primarybufferpanel9939 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Honestly I also love the idea of characters in seriea crossing over to another and just telling their story. Fanfiction is ripe for this navelgazingy goodness 👨‍🍳😘

    • @rriggs6547
      @rriggs6547 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can just imagine Egwene being forced into a series with a lot of wokeness in it. She would probably take a woman over her knee and spank her.

    • @primarybufferpanel9939
      @primarybufferpanel9939 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rriggs6547 Hahaha, the absolute shock on the other woman's face! It's be like when Mat bent Tylen?? over his knee.

  • @jag519
    @jag519 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I legit love when I see undulating in book now because of you. Lots of the time I'm keeping count.

  • @virahetman6867
    @virahetman6867 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    15:25 / oooh when I started reading Stormlight - I disappeared from reality for 5 days and I was reading it (note - English is not my first language and Stormlight 1 was among first books I read in eng.) I made tones of notes at first, and around 200 pages a day was my top, but I just had to keep reading it 😁
    I can start several books at once, but depending on the mood I’ll want to read only one of them till the end, then move to the second one.. switching between several stories is not my thing 🤷‍♀️😁

  • @celestegosling6054
    @celestegosling6054 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So on the topic of sometimes choosing random books to read - when I was a teenager I lived in a small-ish town which had a "Teen" section (I think this was before "Young Adult" became a section) in the library. I don't remember how large this section was, maybe a hundred books or so, but I decided that I was going to read through the section in alphabetical order. I found some interesting books that way.
    I didn't end up getting through many, though, because I ended up moving to a different town.

  • @itsnotnoel
    @itsnotnoel ปีที่แล้ว +3

    23:18 Books are basically a lasagna with paper and ink :D

  • @taylorgayhart9497
    @taylorgayhart9497 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I actually just picked up my first Brandon Sanderson book blindly! I’ve always been overwhelmed by all of his series, but I liked the title, so I just bought it! I’m loving it so far, I’m a quarter of the way through and I’ve already recommended it to people!

  • @craiglavine1675
    @craiglavine1675 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I find that long running series are like rivers. The longer, broader, and deeper the story is, the more broken, spreading, and complicated its outlet becomes.

  • @mystory2914
    @mystory2914 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The way you talk about immersing and imparting yourself through notes has changed the way i interact with reading, thank you.

  • @fourcatsandagarden
    @fourcatsandagarden ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't have a book for a mousepad but I do have an old seed magazine that is pretty thick that I use as a base, and then I have some cardboard on top of that ,and a mousepad on top of that - I use it for when I'm playing games and want to kick my feet up and lean back (aka away from the desk), so I have a stable pad on my lap

  • @UnwashedPearl
    @UnwashedPearl ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bad take: listen to your audiobooks one chapter at a time at random. Let me explain, several years ago I had a large capacity MP3 player. I hit random, wanting to listen to a music album randomly. Instead, the player random played everything I had on it. Why not? LOTR was on there in 3 or 6 minute segments plus a couple hundred other audiobooks. So, 3 minutes of LOTR at random followed by a chapter of Neal Stephenson, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Moore, Bart Ehrman, Jasper Fforde, Moan Chomsky, etc. It took me a little over a month to listen to everything at random, prbably 10 hours a day.

  • @thomaskamkar5197
    @thomaskamkar5197 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Im actually completely with you on the take of enjoying unfinished series, though for me, it's also because I find speculating to be a ton of fun. Well crafted worlds can feel so amazingly alive, and a lot of the wonder that brings can fade for me when the curtains close.
    On a bit of a tangent, I think it's also why I love open-endings, and dislike it when stories take pains to wrap things up too neatly.

  • @ramudon2428
    @ramudon2428 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ebooks could easily have a score, a pre-reading shopping and recipe list for certain cued smells and touch experiences, and such immersive optional parts.

  • @EricMcLuen
    @EricMcLuen ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loelve the crossover idea.
    So Elric, Anomander and Geralt walk into a bar.
    Kellenved and Glotka are sitting in a corner comparing canes.

  • @mocaccino123
    @mocaccino123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    About the 9:03 comment, there actually is a physical book that uses that idea of exploring different sequences of chapters and multiple endings: Hopscotch, by Julio Cortázar, and it's amazing!

  • @Jaredpoth
    @Jaredpoth ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For whatever reason I hate any damage to my books. No creases on the spine. Not bent corners or pages. When I finish a book I want to put it back looking exactly like how I picked it up. Idk why. Just like them pristine.

  • @71l2
    @71l2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As a person who enjoys drawing... yes, I totally understand the glitter pen and blank pages -point. I totally would love it.

  • @cindywitte5052
    @cindywitte5052 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the crossover idea. that could get interesting.

  • @B3AST46
    @B3AST46 ปีที่แล้ว

    I also have that self imposed rule of skipping to the last page and reading the last sentence or paragraph. I don't remember when or exactly what book it started with or even why I do this. All I know is that now it is a MUST.

  • @Jkpancakes
    @Jkpancakes ปีที่แล้ว

    Nah the take @4:49 imagine the crows from six of Crows, specifically Kaz, going to the gentleman bastard series and just having a heist-off and how Kaz would just pretend that he wasn't trying to out heist Locke and vice versa😭😭

  • @FrancescaMulvey
    @FrancescaMulvey ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't know whether this has already been said, so apologies if this is so, but Dutch hardbacks and most German hardback novels don't have dust jackets and I love it!

  • @tylerbaker3611
    @tylerbaker3611 ปีที่แล้ว

    So in reference to the take with where they skip other POV I have thought about this for the wheel of time before. I think it would be super interesting if there were different collections for different major POVs. Like the Tale of the Dragon follows only Rands pov, the the rise of the wolf king follows only Perrins, and so on.

  • @anamericanseoul1391
    @anamericanseoul1391 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imagine if Luffy visited the Dragon Ball universe and ate some meat with Goku. They tell each other adventures with their mouths full. No one understands them but they get really excited and dance around while eating. Meanwhile, Zoro gets lost and finds the Dragon Balls.

    • @xdgupa543
      @xdgupa543 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the crossover episode Zoro got lost and ended up fighting vegeta for the whole episode, or something like that

    • @chelrok8764
      @chelrok8764 ปีที่แล้ว

      i think a majority of Wheel of Time Fans would agree with you on this

  • @seaneaston1040
    @seaneaston1040 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think Luffy or the Strawhat pirates in any serious dystopian world would be an amazing crossover.
    One piece x 1984
    Basically if the introduction of a character would result in the engoodening of a story + a whole genre shift I’m down

  • @stevekatieburnett2042
    @stevekatieburnett2042 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Speaking as an old fantasy reading dude, it really should be known how much JRR Tolkien was impacted by his experiences in WWI, in particular being on the Western Front and Battle of the Somme. Realise this and you can see if reflected in his writing.

  • @deathabillypete570
    @deathabillypete570 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was going to put a lengthy comment but then the book fell out at the end and i spat out my coffee. That literally made my morning. 😂

  • @PinkiemachineStudios
    @PinkiemachineStudios ปีที่แล้ว

    13:30 girl, I actually really feel you here. I hate goodbyes, and sometimes, whether it’s just that or I’m nervous that the ending gonna stink, I just don’t finish. Let me live in the happier times at the beginning of the book rather than the emotionally tormenting sad ending where half the characters die and the other half are physically and emotionally scared for the rest of their lives 😭

  • @tyriquesmith8850
    @tyriquesmith8850 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm so excited for these. Let's read some bad takes! 😊

  • @TheMooseandsquirrel
    @TheMooseandsquirrel ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hopscotch is a book I read that can be read linearly or, alternatively gives you other pages you can jump to to read and get more of the story before jumping to another page.

  • @AnEruditeAdventure
    @AnEruditeAdventure ปีที่แล้ว +1

    But imagine just reading LOTR chapters with Frodo. You would feel his despair so much more. I’m going to have to try this sometime. Only reading chapters about Frodo, or with Aragorn, or follow a specific character, and not read everything else that’s going on. 🤔
    -T

  • @armcie5080
    @armcie5080 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you're looking at Victorian era classics, then many of them were serialised in newspapers, ,with the authors being paid by the word. Including unnecessary subplots and tangents was how they made their living!

  • @imaginepageant
    @imaginepageant ปีที่แล้ว

    Crossover I desperately want: The Lunar Chronicles and The Illuminae Files. Tell me Iko and AIDAN wouldn’t make the best AI buddy-cop duo ever.

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I used to do that skipping to the end of a chapter/book thing.
    Then I did it with Sophie's Choice. It ruined me. I never did that again.

  • @alannastephenson2800
    @alannastephenson2800 ปีที่แล้ว

    I 100% agree with the whole not ending series thing!!! I've read so many great series that didn't end well. I also love the feeling of not knowing and carrying that feeling with me forever

  • @bleachelf
    @bleachelf ปีที่แล้ว

    Ha! I have friends who skipped all POV characters except the one they were most attached to. Discussing books with them ended up not being fun at all. 👀

  • @anthonyleecollins9319
    @anthonyleecollins9319 ปีที่แล้ว

    Regarding unfinished series:
    "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." (Mr. Spock)

  • @bekichan91
    @bekichan91 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gonna need a follow up on the edible books take, I think...