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I read this book and had a similar opinion... maybe even a little less enthusiastic than you, I decided not to make a video because of my lack of enthusiasm... I agree the spiritual/philosophical aspects were way too on the nose and didactic to be pleasureable. And they weren't really Buddhist, but more like an eager student's interpretation of Buddhism... which would have been fine, if they were the subtext and not the _text_ text...(Also, for context, I am a Tibetan Buddhist monk...)

A solid review can send a story racing to a TBR, or it can help a reader dodge a bullet. Either way, a solid review is very, very worthwhile. You never disappoint!!!

I thought it was the weakest in the collection. The last protagonist really irritated so bad if just found myself skimming.

I remember Disco! OMG, a blast from the deep, deep past… I’ve not read many detective stories in my time. Donaldson’s “The Man Who…” series pops to mind, though it’s contemporary rather than SF>

A concise & useful review; appreciated.

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This is such a great review! You totally nailed it with the “taking a strange path and ending up on the coolest road” comparison, that is *precisely* the feeling this book gave me! Much love!! I’m subscribing :)

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Interesting story. Sounds like something that I have never read. Would I like it? I don't know. This was a neat review. Thank you :)

haha yes DC is a city (not very big by comparison to other major cities and treated like more than a city but less than a state. think of it like a tiny province) but it does have homes where lots of the politicians live.

Perhaps unsurprisingly I tend more towards “bang, and get it over with,” than your culmination scene! 😅 So cannot help,with the recs you were asking after 😚 PS - your episode audio has dropped in volume recently? I have to add 10dB on my amp otherwise you are whisper quiet compared to other episodes that I watch around you. HTH!?!

This book sounds FUN!!! I haven't read Sci-Fi in a while, I wouldn't have ever found it. Thank you!!!!!!

This was so cool! Making notes for some of these shows haha

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My favorite part of the book is how they needed to get to the city by… tomorrow. Hahahaha and then ALL of the book happens with time skips and everything. It’s like an entire dnd campaign crammed into one long rest!

I hope you like Ludluda! I enjoyed Gogmagog.

So many cool recommendations here!!! I love your $10 Walmart wig - it lets us all see how lovely you will still be 40 years from now!!!! This was such a fun and enjoyable video, I really must back it up and watch it again!!! Wishing you a wonderful holiday!!!!

Blimey, I *do* still remember seeing “Ginger Snaps” when it came out! Also “The Others” and “Dog Soldiers” too! That was way back in my regular movie days, though I’ve fallen off that these days. Can confirm I have experienced a fair few orbits around the sun 😉 Oddly enough I was being introduced to “House of Leaves” via the Rammel Broadcasting channel just prior to watching this episode. He did a *great* episode on BookTube about that book, which I’d never heard of before. My favourite horrors are “Hellraiser”, “Event Horizon” and “Prince of Darkness”.

I would love to see an "if-you-like" video that's all post-apocalyptic! (Be sure to mention yours!) I just watched Fallout and wondered what you think of it?

I’m not a Barker-bud either. But I am here for the tangents as always 😂

Hey, I’ve read this too! I too preferred it to the first, and was delighted when I suddenly recalled that we’d already met Ailo in the first book when she was a small kid.

I wanted to know about Failure Island more than anything. I was glad to have answers. I don’t want to post spoilers.

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🏆 New competition season, let’s gooooooo! I picked up a few of yours from last year. I am always ready for more 🤗

Great book a surprise

yaay on winning a physical copy

I like that you pay attention when you’re reading, whereas I often forget who such-and-such is within the same chapter 😆 I often need a bit of slow pace and extra detail to reinforce who characters are, before they waft away in my head. Quite often I’ll be reading, thinking to myself, “I don’t recall who you are, but hopefully I’ll pick it up again via context.” This probably doesn’t reflect well upon me 🤭

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💣 I too drop f-bombs on the regular, but you did surprise me on this episode while making your point! 😆 I recall struggling with “Annihilation” so this may not be for me 🧐

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Oh, no! I loved _Absolution._ I didn't think of it as a prequel... VanderMeer was never interested in a linear chronology. I put out a review for the original trilogy last month (because I did re-read it immediately before reading the new one), and my review for this is filmed but won't come out until closer to publication date... But, yeah, I really enjoyed it. Including the last section, which was remarkably jarring, yes, but re-contextualized literally everything we had been told since _Annihilation._ My experience talking about this series online has been most people don't enjoy _Authority,_ since it was such a wildly different narrative style than _Annihilation,_ and it was much more of a political or espionage thriller. Since the second section of this book, about 50% of the page count, was in a similar style I anticipate this addition to the series will be polarizing... but that seems to be the very part that kept you hooked! I do agree this wasn't necessary, I was happy with the trilogy, but I am glad VanderMeer went back, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I think what really jumped out for me upon this re-read of the original is that each of the first three books uses a different literary tone or narrative device.... first-person journal entries, close third-person espionage thriller, a mixture of all three persons over multiple POVs that cover multiple competing timelines and geographies... He kept that up with this one, especially with the first and third sections being totally different from anything else down before in the series, and the second section being comparable to _Authority_ yet still had a different tone... The skill to employ all these varying tones and techniques to create a coherent whole was really impressive and immersive to me.

I’m in the latter category of parental unit relationships! Loving the ☎️ side-story even though I strive to avoid ever having to use the infernal contraption. I may not be the best audience for this story 😄 but it was fun to watch your own revelation in real-time there 🙂

I loved this trilogy! I didn't expect to find any kind of review I figured it was too obscure. It's probably weird to be into a romance between a spiderman (lol vrix) but I thought Ketahn and Ivy were such a sweet couple, and I love they aren't all angsty. Thanks for your review.

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oh you can TOTALLY tell when the author is throwing shade at someone, especially a specific generation. Solid review!

I grin every time Boomers, Gen-X and Millenials come up because I have no clue which group is which! 😆 Which one am I? Who knows! 🥹

“I’m on edge all the time.” 😂 Relatable.

your unnecessary laughing make the whole video really annoying to watch.

dragon book !!!

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🌳 and 🐉 crossover side story! 😆

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aaaye love the arc thats so cool!

My goodness! I just saw this. Thank you for meeting this book where it lives. You are an ideal reader for this collection. ❤

Wow! I don't think this has happened before. At about the 60 second mark of this video, you sent this book soaring to my TBR !!!! Well Done!!!!

Ooo, I thoroughly enjoyed “The Luminous Dead” when I read it earlier this year, but it’s often not too popukar. It felt very claustrophobic. I loved the atmosphere. My BotM for September ended up being “Every Star a Grave” by Jay Posey. I’m hoping to read the sequel in October, but I already have too much on my October TBR via Readalongs, carryovers and such. PS - I recently scored a copy of “A Tidy Armageddon” which you tweaked my interest in a while back.

yaay winning an arc

i love the dragon kings of oklahoma cover. he's hot haha