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No Jack Vance?!?!? 😮

hey i am a new writter would you review my book ?

"nightfall" is, indeed, amazing, and i've just learned how the word "indeed," can't be included in a youtube comment without making the commenter sound incredibly pompous ... and NOW i've got the overwhelming compulsion to end the sentence with it. oh, and commas.

I appreciate how honest you are about yourself, even the parts of your life that you’re not proud of. This is what made me sub.

damn you have some basic bad taste

It's a good book.

Hyperion shouldn't even be discussed unless you're talking about the entire series. It easily rivals the Dune series

Ted Chang. One thing said so often of SF writers, that will never be said of Chang is that he is "prolific." Chang doesn't write until he has something worth writing, and he takes the time to write it well. This is writing for well read adults, who won't be disappointed when they compare it to the level of prose found in other genres.

I feel like I can’t read some of the classics due to them being so damn dry.

The Radio Time Capsule By Ethan Zhang a novel that challenges the boundaries of time and space，the book is a must-read.

You should read ben bova exiles trilogy. Three generations of a generational colony ship

Hyperions first chapter... I totally agree with what you said there, actually, the first time I started reading Hyperion, I stopped in the first chapter, and didn't read it until more than a year later. When I fought through this mountain of unexplained stuff, I reached the first story and that is still one of the best scifi stories I ever read. Most of the stories in Hyperion are either outstanding or great, even the worst story is still good, just not as good as the other ones.

Service Model is a great book. Your frustration ...with robot feelings or not is supposed to be frustrating. The Farm is more like the Matrix.....hmmm and The future is much further out than 5 to 50 years ....deterioration takes much more time than you have considered...nevertheless it is a great book and you are doing a great job ...i have followed you on and off a long time.

Saga of the exiles by Julian May followed by Intervention and the Galactic Milieu trilogy

The Car Tribe Universe is expanding. Unique read

Where do you get all of these books. Im trying to start a ebay store and cant find a place to buy books in bulk

M John Harrisons ...."Light" is worth a read imo

"Reminded me a lot of American Psycho with Christian Bale," is a an absolutely wild throwaway mention of a truly great novel.

Great trick for sprucing up the Penguin Classics. For the problem of stickers, we use a 50/50 mix of rubbing alcohol and distilled water to soften up particularly old and dry stickers, then after removing the stickers, use lighter fluid to remove the remaining stickiness. Lighter fluid is also good for removing sharpie/felt tip markings on glossy book covers.

Children of the Lens is the LAST book in the Lensman series which consists of Triplanetary, Galactic Patrol, First Lensman, Grey Lensman, and Children of the Lens. A Stand alone in the same universe, is Master of the Vortex. This is pre-transistor Grand Space Opera by a real scientist with outstanding character development, great writing, superb aliens, and Universe spanning vision. "Doc" Smith's other great series is the 4-book Skylark series. My favorite book by "Doc" Smith, however is the stand alone " The Galaxy Primes" which is about space and psionics. These are absolutely THE BEST Classic SF.

Violet is adorable. 🥰

Really enjoyed this video. Subscribed!

Thank you for your List! Subscribed :) Best Wishes for your Family

Thank you for the video as always!! I was wondering - how do you pick the books that you say you "knew nothing about" going into them? Random book picker? Are they gifts? Love the content as always :)

"I wouldn't say it's brilliant...but it's something." = Hemmingway in a nutshell.

Congrats on the happy event. That’s quite a library you’ve got there. So glad you liked Blood Music. It’s the main book that turned me on to Greg Bear. Many of his books are great but have to warn you some of them are absolute duds. Also he wrote fantasy as a sideline to his hard sci-fi and I didn’t bother with that at all. One more thing: HNY!⚛️❤

Stars My Destination. Alfred Bester. The unfilmable book!

Clarke is overrated, as is Kerouac. You might appreciate The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber..and The Cool War by Frederick Pohl. Always take a book with you to hospitals, especially for starting off the newborns.

Great eclectic list. Love your candid quick takes. Congrats on the special guest.

you might want to try an alien heat for your next moorcock. now i want to read blood music and wyndham again i think bradbury is cheesy too. might have to try dandelion. congrats

Congratulations on your beautiful baby! I'm glad you also liked Blood Music and A Maze of Death. Those are two great books I enjoyed this year. I don't think Vonnegut lost any poignancy as he got older. Slapstick is my least favourite book of his (although it was still a 7/10) but Deadeye Dick, Bluebeard, and Galapagos were all 5 stars for me. I hope you like them!

i look forward to violet's scathing rebuttal of all your choices in her response video

good work. I hope to see more of you. I enjoy your personality and presentations.

BTW, the oligarchy is here and has been since Reagan and Clinton pushed them forward

I used to hate eating liver until somebody cooked it for me correctly. It's good when done right, perhaps your wife would like it then.

Congrats on the birth of your daughter!

20:42. Violet!! Congratulations. Health and Happiness to the new Power Trio.

Thumbs up for Violet

If you want real, bargain basement, nitty-gritty, very depressive reading....."Crime and Punishment". I read that during a very rough spell in life, out of Active Duty and looking for a good job.

I've never read "In Cold Blood", but I've seen the movie. My Dad read the book and said that the movie was amazingly very close to the book.

We're pretty much in sync with our criticisms. Perhaps with the exception of "Dracula". I by no means think it was a great book, I'm just comparing it to "Frankenstein", which I found very close to unreadable. I totally agree with Ernest Hemmingway. Good stories, but very hard to get yourself started in.

Props for the segue: "Some Of Your Blood" then introduces Violet. Congratulations.

Dandelion Wine! Great book, beautiful prose. Really enjoyed it, one of my favorites.

Congratulations!!🎉🎉

congratulations to you, your wife and family!!

Nice to see non-cookie-cutter rankings, although I notice your cohost doesn’t disagree with you (yet. 😂) Those days will come. Looks like she has your ears. May she listen to your wise counsel. Enjoy the new year and hopefully get some sleep soon. 😺✌️

Hey I’m reading the Manticore right now. Just finished part 1: Why I Went to Zurich. I also loved Day of the Triffids as well. Congratulations on your growing family!

Robertson Davies. Read him in the 1990s when our boys were born. I'll have to revisit.

What a beautiful special guest! Thabks for this video and looking forward to hearing how being a parent changes your views on books (or not) and be careful they grow up in a blink! 😊

Excellent countdown, we read a few of the same books this year. Congrats on your adorable special guest.