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I really didn't like Left Hand of Darkness

I finished the left hand of darkness in January and enjoyed it. But i need to re-read it again since i didn't get as much out of it as i would have if i read it physically, which is my mistake since i got the audio drama by mistake. 😅 I don't think the audio drama was made with first time readers in mind, since it cut out a lot of the prose that wasn't dialogue. Think it was intended for people already familiar with le guin's work and wanted to re-read in a different format (the performance of the cast was good).

I'm so happy for you and your wife! Please tell her I think she looks stunning, and that I'm going to hope for an easy and quick delivery and the little one and mom come out of it healthy <3

great vid! Thanks 👌

Congratulations to you and your wife on the new arrival! As for the books, they sound interesting. Evidently I'm often drawn to obscure titles without even realizing they're obscure. Oh well. 🤷‍♂️. Have a good one!

Lately I’ve been getting in to C. l. Moore and Henry Kuttner . Moore was one of the first female writers in Sci Fi , she and her husband collaborated on many stories and novels together and wrote under many pseudonyms such as lewis Padget . Oddly enough I don’t believe I’ve read any Silverberg .

I may have some criticisms about your critiques. I hope that you have found them mild and not too offensive. Anyway, your outlook or comments on books I consider every bit as valid as mine. BTW, I don't know if it's correct as well, but I've always heard Carl Jung pronounced Carl 'Yoong', especially when Dr. Jordan B. Peterson talks about him and his philosophy.

Devout Christain here: I'll probably never read Behold the Man because it would make my skin crawl, but to each their own. Need to try Silverberg again. Bounced off the World Inside hard, but know that I shouldn't ignore him. Any recommendations for a starting point? Best of luck to you and yours as the date nears! Look forward to the next video.

Cities in Flight by James Blish,Ringworld and Footfall by Niven and Pournelle. Asimov's Foundation is TOPS,IMHO.

About the time travel plot to visit Jesus, there's a whole twelve! Series of books by J.J. Benitez called "Troy's horse" (dating from the 80's I think) widely know in the spanish side of SF literature. Haven't get to it yet so I can't say if it's any good. I'll get there eventually tho. 😅

The Last Starship from Earth by John Boyd mines the same territory as Behold the Man, and is wonderfully witty to boot. I have a soft spot for Michael Moorcock because he rejected a story of mine for New Worlds in the early 70s, but did it with a very kind note urging that I continue writing. I kept the note for years! (And the story was published later elsewhere, so no harm, no foul ...)

Don't feel too bad, I'm not reaching my reading goal either. Life just got in the way for me this year. We've always got next year...

Prioritization of family over the channel?: unacceptable. I hope Isaac/Ursula/Mom and Book Jack will always be happy and healthy. Comments: You have a talent for triggering the shut-ins. Bookpilled: Last auction I tuned in: people were bidding 72dollars for 10dollar books. I'll stick with Heroine Bob. Love the channel.

All three sound interesting. I’ve heard a lot of good things about silverberg so will check him out. Hope he’s still around.⚛❤

If your opinions aren’t offending people, you’re not trying hard enough. 😉 Glad to see some more obscure titles reviewed. Seems like everyone is reading the same books. Nothing can make the holidays more fun than a newborn. Get plenty of sleep before the big day. 😂 Looking forward to new reviews in a new year. It helps me cope with anxiety about the near future. Thanks and have a happy holiday season. 😺✌️

Congratulations on your upcoming baby! "The Mask of Time" pretty much mirrors those who want to believe in UFOs visiting earth? Ray Bradbury had a short story about a guy chasing Jesus to different worlds. Every time he arrived on a different world, Jesus had already be crucified there. "The Overman Culture", sounds like morally superior wokies to me.

I've read 5 Silverberg novels this year, been really loving his work. Haven't read the Mask of Time yet but I'll be seeking it out. Cheers!

Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut.

Never read Dracula the reason being people whose opinion I respect have said it’s absolutely TERRIBLE. didn’t read I Am Legend either but saw the film with will Smith which was pretty good. DNF the changeling but may go back to it . Be well.⚛❤

your vulnerable honesty in your reviews earned my trust. great picks. thank you for adding to my reading list.

Surprised that there was no mention of iain m banks.

Excellent list.

I’m so curious how your 4 million word challenge is going. Update? 😺✌️

I agree. Vonnegut is a saint, but he shouldn’t be taught in high school. Reading Vonnegut in my 20s was great. I’ve reason almost everything he wrote now. Tried reading Timequake, but he got lazy in his old age and just kinda sketched out ideas and gestured in that direction-even says so at one point. My favorite novels of his are Sirens of Titan and Galapagos. Cat’s Cradle is definitely his most philosophically mature.

Ender was awesome. Read THE VANG: THE MILITARY FORM. Makes a xenomorph outbreak look like a puppy petting convention

I love Ender's Game! It's to bad the author turned out to be a wacko right-winger.

You said nucular and...bye

I was so happy to see the Left Hand of Darkness is your favourite. I'm 78 years old now. But when I was 21, I lived on Camp Pendleton and I went to base library and started reading scienc fiction books. I just started at the beginning of the shelf and kept going. I will never forget whe I started reading the Left Hand of Darkness. I won't duplicate what you've already said so well, but for me at that moment, it was as if I had gone from black and white to color. I'm going to go back and read it again. Because you brought up some aspects that I think I missed even though I've read it a couple of times. I get frustrated at times because so many people who include her book focus on the fact that the people morph their gender as needed. One of the things that she did and was one of the first was to build awhole world In order to explore the ideas that she wanted to look at and that she wanted us to look at.

always liked pkd but havent gotten 2 scanner yet. androids and ubik are my faves so far pkd ranked vid?

Hi. You're hot. And super interesting. :D

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Nice list. Personally I'd include The Moon is A Harsh Mistress, The Martian, Fahrenheit 451, and probably the entire Foundation series (if that's allowed). Honorable mention, pretty much anything by HG Wells.

Sorry for the random comment. Hello there. You are someone I look up to in terms of books. I admire your taste and find myself connecting to what you say. I hear you and subconsciously nod a lot. I was thinking about reading "The Shadow of the Torturer" and wondered if you had a take on the book/series. Thanks friend. Wishing you health.

I agree with your comparative view of Dracula vs Frankenstein, the later is a true classic that is worth rereading and analyzing in new ways.

I have been a science fiction fan since I learned to read anything more challenging than "Dick and Jane" - over 60 years ago. I agree with many of your choices, though I realize that all these sorts of lists are very personal, and nobody should expect to concur exactly. May I suggest almost any novel in the Vokosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold? The lead character is Miles Vorkosigan, who happens to be a physically-handicapped interstellar spy and adventurer. Clever and engaging plotting and prose style, a delightful hero figure with a complex personality, and a well-designed and imaginative universe combine to make this a must-reread in my library!

You forgot EON by Greg bear ! 😠

I enjoyed Dracula, the movies make Dracula seem cartoonish where the book brought him to life

Agreed. Dracula is hard boring. I was in the same boat. Should've DNF'd but I soldiered on and finished in a fit of hate.

I loved Dracula, but perhaps that's because I'm old, and read it decades before you were born! 😉

Wouldn't be surprised if this guy was a correctional facility guard.

I feel like like you could do without 25 chapters from Dracula

I’m not continuing. The original Dracula novel doesn’t bring much to the table besides introducing Dracula? 😂😂😂

I know it is old but The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price is a thoroughly enjoyable adaptation of I Am Legend.

I would have scored Dracula a 12/10

Abraham....ah.....now it makes sense as to why Christianity was blasphemed by attaching vampires to a Christian European hero.

That quote “quiet desperation” refers to most of us that live our lives privately wishing things were totally different, a different job, a different wife. If we only had enough money, if we were only better looking- we are never content with how we are and what we have, flaws and all. I don’t think that applies (at all) to the protagonist of I Am Legend.

Sorry, I could not finish your video because the shallowness of your critique of Dracula betrays a certain shallowness of thought, and I would hate it for it to be the case, since I tend to enjoy your output. Nothing I write will change your mind, so Dracula is definitely not for you. But the glib attitude, the snarky asides towards one of my favorite horror books, tell me that you may be a far less careful reader and that I might have misjudged you. I've told you that I tend not to agree with Bookpilled recommendations; however, even when he doesn't like a book or author I do, his critiques are valuable, they add something to the conversation. You trashed Dracula and probably thought you were very smart by saying that this book adds nothing and is just an old, classic waste of time. You could not get past its epistolary style, and the slow way it describes its world in a universe without films, TV, or internet. The shallowness of your comments is appalling because it reflects a sad ignorance of an entire literary world that will not appeal to anyone who believes books should be transliterations of video games. Taste is all, of course. Yours is valid, but terribly unsuited to the subject matter you have chosen. Perhaps you should stick to schlock and books written after 1970. Or maybe this is a one-off on your part and you'll get better.

enjoyed dracula but it was the first book i read getting back to reading as a teenager. of the classic creature features ive read -frankenstein, dracula, dr jekyll & mr hyde- frankenstein is my favorite for the reasons you mentioned

Ohhhhhhh....I knew it was going to be Dracula. A lot of recent reviews I have watched have not been positive for old Bram. I tell ya it's these kids nowadays. With their fancy Ipads and the world wide web. I read it in '92 in a few days before the movie came out, but I remember enjoying it. There was a blacklist script for I am Legend in the early 2000s that had Bruce Willis attached to it. The opening scene would have been him falling asleep in the cemetery, waking up, checking his watch, and then realizing he didn't wind it. He lost track of time and has to rush home before sundown. Sounded like a great scene. I think they had a George Wendt type cast as his neighbor Ben.

Your critiques seems to assume that Dracula existed, in widespread lore, before Bram's book came out. I didn't find "Dracula" nearly as draggy, and prissy, as "Frankenstein". When I read "Dracula", I was quite impressed by the nuances of the scenes, the creepy Count crawling outside of the windows of his guests. The turning of his assistant, whose name escapes me. Oh! Renfield.