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Thanks buddy! I can totally understand your thoughts about Carrie - I wonder if I was biased by the adaptation which I loved haha 😆 I know the feeling about supporting indie authors too! I’m thinking of trying one a month and seeing how it goes (indie / self published)

I’ve been wanting to read Cornwell! Thanks for the reminder - have you read the Saxon Stories as well? I’m thinking of which one to start next year. Thanks also for mentioning the idea of Russian Lit! I am actually brand new to it, but would love to explore. Will check out those videos. Really appreciate it! 😊

Thanks so much Chas! Glad to hear it, can't wait to see your Shining review!! :)

So good right?? Have you read any other Buehlman’s works that you’d recommend?

@@Shelf-Esteem Not yet, only read Between Two fires some months ago but will definitely read the Blacktoungue thief.

@@Crochet.Awhile.and.Listen The Shadow Rising!! Love that book ❤️ can’t wait to hear what you think about next months read! 😊

@@DisquietandDragons-lh3zm I have a feeling you’d love Between Two Fires my friend! Wylding Hall sounds right up my alley, I need to check this out! Maybe one for the adaptations list?

@Shelf-Esteem Wylding Hall is told in interview form with multiple povs so it could be really interesting to adapt. It's about a folk band in the 70s who go to Wylding Hall to record an album so music is very important to the story. I just think you want a reason to hang out in the English countryside 🙂

@@DisquietandDragons-lh3zm hahhaha oh my friend you know me too well 🤣

@Shelf-Esteem I knew it 🤣 I hope you find a location in the midlands so I can come and hangout, I can play the triangle or cowbell on the soundtrack!

@@Alicia-606 that’s so great to hear Alicia! 😀 I’ve been hearing about Blacktongue Thief and Between Two Fires for a while now, and recently realized it’s the same author! 😂 So glad you like the indie corner idea - I’ll keep featuring them!

My favorite of the week has been The Hunger of the Gods 🐺

Thanks so much!! And nice to meet a fellow composer / book lover! Do you work in film and tv? Great question about the Spotify and UA-cam playlists - I usually just find a dark fantasy ambience or genre specific ambient music on UA-cam for my reading, but I should really put a playlist of them together (there’s a few good ones I use repeatedly). I’ll add a playlist to the channel this week!

Hahaa! It’s pretty surreal, def grateful to work on such amazing shows (especially after reading the books! 😊❤️)

I was hoping for a series too man! I heard that the original cut was 3 hours long, but they had 6 hours to play with, which would have made a perfect series! I hope a long form version of it gets released someday 🤞🏽 And great point about Midnight Mass - it captures the spirit of what made early King so great! Thats why I feel like Flanagan would be perfect for adapting the dark tower series

Oh that’s amazing! Great to hear some love for newer King, they are two of my favorites too 😊 And haha it is ironic, the criticism of The Institute for sure! Art imitating art comes full circle, I think it’s a great thing actually

I can’t wait to hear what you think of it! I think you’ll really like it - it’s such a great coming of age story 😊

Thanks so much Chas! 😊 Haha you’d really like The Institute I think! Very creative way to tell that story as well (don’t want to give anything away)

Oh totally I prefer practical to CGI (or even a mix) any day of the week! Which one are you most excited about?

Oh totally! I think if they do the running man now, a lot of the predictions of the future would be antiquated, and maybe making those modern (futuristic) whilst maintaining the foundation of the character and the plot will serve it well. And omg I know, the fairy tale adaptation would be hard to watch from that perspective! I wonder if they will change some elements of that for the small screen

Thanks for checking it out Alicia! 😊 I’m so behind on my actual adaptation watching hahaa, but I def want to check these all out eventually!

Hi Nathan! So nice to meet a fellow composer and fantasy reader as well! Great minds read alike (that’s how the saying goes right haha 😆) I’m so excited for fairy tale as well! Have you read You Like It Darker?

@@Shelf-Esteem oh yeah I definitely have! Especially loved Rattlesnakes and Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream (which takes place in the town I’m from, and you can tell King researched it haha)

@@nathantowns2043 oh yeah those were incredible!! Here’s hoping those get adapted soon! I always thought it would be amazing to have an anthology series of Stephen Kings short stories (1 ep per story)

Likewise! Something I kind of wish they did with the new Salem’s lot as well

Me too!! And both the people that are working on those have a great track record too

Oh that’s awesome! So glad you liked Project Hail Mary too! 😊 Which of the 5 you currently have are you most excited about?

@@Shelf-Esteem I can be a bit of a mood reader so at the moment it’s probably between dark matter and shogun. If I had to pick though I’d say dark matter. To be honest I find Shogun a little intimidating - if it was epic fantasy I wouldn’t be at all phased by the page count but it sounds more historical fiction with a dash of fantasy and that makes it just a little bit scary.

Good to know, thanks for the recommendation! I actually see Bradley Thor’s books all the time at library book sales, I’ve never picked one up though yet. I’ll def check it out!

Thanks so much! I'm so glad you're here, and hope the videos help inspire some more reads! I had stopped reading for a while in my 20s, and then started up again and there was no turning back after that haha :)

Oh man, totally!! I forget if you've read any of Blake Crouch's other works? His wayward pines trilogy is incredible, as is Recursion and Upgrade. I'll check out CJ Tudor - I've seen those books around, but didn't know much about them until now. Another Tremblay pick! I really need to read this author haha :) Is The Cabin In The Woods what the film is based on by chance?

@Shelf-Esteem I've only read Dark Matter by him, I'll read more of his books but there's other science fiction I want to read first. Her first 2 books (The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorn) are good but then she really hit her stride and everything since has been great, The Burning Girls is my favourite. Yeah Knock at the Cabin is based on the book, the book goes way darker though. If you get chance definitely read some Paul Tremblay, I think you'd like his books.

Thanks so much buddy! <3 I feel like we could have a whole live stream discussion on Swan Song at this point :P I think you'd like Dark Matter as well as the Wayward Pines trilogy! Both live up to their name, and the mystery element is fantastic. Can't wait to hear what you think of Project Hail Mary!! So SO good. The Shining is really well paced for sure, and as I'm finding out right now, so is Carrie! :)

Overall great list dawg. Some choices bumping up my TBR, others I read that I’m getting a new perspective on

Thanks so much Chance! :) Isn't it fantastic?? The Sun Eater series is among my all time favorites right now. Would you say Howling Dark is your favorite? Mine is a tossup between that and Disquiet Gods - though Howling Dark is even better paced! So glad you liked the video!

Thanks Chas! :) Man Shogun was such a surprise to me too, I thought I'd have to slog through it a bit, but it was riveting from beginning to end - a smooth ride all the way through! Hope you enjoy it man :) Are you going to read Wind and Truth in december?

@@Shelf-Esteem thank you! I’m definitely considering reading Shogun at some point. I will definitely be reading Wind & Truth on release day. 😁

@@BookishChas Wahoo!! Will join you at the starting line! :) Can't wait man, I just want to take off work that week hahah

@@Shelf-Esteem oh I know right? I’m so excited!

Very true! How did you like that short story? I thought it was good, but wish there was more to it (a full length novel exploration of ideas)

@@Shelf-Esteem Yeah it was probably my favorite in Night Shift. It could be cool to see more but I also felt it was fine with what it was. Just show the ravaged town with the vampires still there luring anyone unlucky to pass by

I'm so glad we have so much of the same reading tastes my friend! And so glad we got to connect through this community. I think if you like the books on this list you'll really like both Gwynne and Abercrombie - Abercrombie's humor in the face of the bleakness is so refreshing, and Gwynne nails the classic fantasy vibe whilst still being modern and fresh

@@Shelf-Esteem Oh I am sure I will, just need the time to get to them lol.

OOO I have to re-read the running man! I vaguely remember reading it when I was 15, but don't remember much except for the major plot beats. It was very good though! I really need to read Cloud Atlas! Did you watch the film / what did you think of it? The adaptations that aren't books is actually a fantastic idea, thanks so much for recommending it! I'm putting together an adaptation news for tomorrow, and thinking of including something in the games space. It could be really cool to visit this topic more though!

Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite movies as well as my favorite books. I saw it in the theater and I think the friend I saw with and I talked about it for about 4 hours afterwards. I love how different it is from the book. It's like the written version was the best possible way to tell that story in prose and the film version the best visual expression. And it was the first time I really had an idea of what a chameleon Hugh Grant could be. I had always thought of him as just the rom com guy. Who knew he could be a convincing and terrifying cannibal king? I hope I phrased it right when I was talking adaptations. It wasn't so much that I was thinking of things like video games that get turned into movies (although that adaptation news is interesting, it just didn't occur to me since your channel is a literary one). I was thinking more along the lines of, for example, The Dark Tower comic books coming from the Dark Tower novels, or the book Julia that was published last year which was a retelling of 1984 from the perspective of a different character (same as Daughter of Dr. Moreau retelling Island of Dr. Moreau). If you already got that and I'm overexplaining myself for no reason, I apologize. Whatever you do, it will be awesome. :)

Thanks Alicia! 😊 I remember us talking about Best Served Cold, isn’t it amazing?! One of the best fantasy books I’ve ever read too. I can’t wait to read Hunger - I think you’ll absolutely adore Faithful and The fallen! The characters in that I connect with even more than Bloodsworn (so far at least!)

@@Shelf-Esteem I love Shivers 🥶 I just know I’ll love Gwynne’s other books. I’ll find out early next year!

Oh man this is awesome! Thanks!! I’ve been wanting to get to Ryan Cahill and Mike Shackle - will probably start my journey early next year. Appreciate you chiming in with these!

@@Shelf-Esteem I think you will love them. Mike Shackles books are dark and fast paced, perfect for this time of year. Ryan Cahill's became my favorite modern fantasy series, classic feel but in a modern voice. Thanks for the video, I added some new books to my list. Also, I'll be with you for the "War of Light and Shadow" read along.

@@abcdeqwerty123 So glad to hear that! Man I wish there were more hours in a day (or I could just get paid to read full-time hahah). So happy to hear you're down to readalong with Wars Of Light and Shadow! While I have you, would you prefer to start January, or earlier? I'll ask some of the others who expressed interest as well

@@Shelf-Esteem Definitely not enough hours in a day when work is not reading for fun lol. Personally, I'm okay with January, only because of Wind and Truth in December. Although I still need to read Oathbringer and Rhythm of War before than, as well as Fury of the Gods lol. I will do it whenever others are able to though. I am just afraid I will have a hard time keeping up when I get the Jannys books without audiobooks, because I'm a slow reader when doing physical only and her writing makes me slow down even more.

Thanks so much buddy! I’m so grateful I got to see him too. Glad I went with my gut.

@@jdsantibanez oh man I wish I read enough noir novels to make a list like that! Any ones you’d recommend?

@@Shelf-Esteem Dennis Lehane (His Kenzie & Genaro series) Ghostman by Roger Hobbs, Lawrence Block (His Keller series)

There’s a guy that does that stuff. Channel is Criminolly (guys name is Olly). It’s a good channel.

@@mattpaul5441 hahah oh Dreamcatcher, perhaps I should give it another shot during my re-read of King! Had a similar thing happen to me with Insomnia, and absolutely loved it the second time around

​@Shelf-Esteem one extremely poorly paced stephen king book is the tommyknockers. But it has the best last four pages he has ever written. Good book but a lot of deep breaths along the way

@@jdsantibanez fair point! I loved Recursion even more than Dark Matter, but the mind bending stuff made me have to slow down and really think about what I was reading - not a bad thing by any means! But that’s why I put Dark Matter on here - but Recursion could just as easily go on this list!

Thanks so much Teri! I’m so glad I got to see him too ❤️ will call you guys tomorrow!

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that!

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Thanks man! Def lucky to have him around as long as I did. And hell yeah man, can’t wait to hear what you think of it!

Thanks so much Carlo! Sorry to hear about your Nonna as well - it’s always hard losing our loved ones ❤️ Grandparents are truly amazing, so glad we both had them around as long as we did!

Thanks so much buddy! I really appreciate that. I know the feeling, Stephen Graham Jones’ writing felt similar for me. Was hoping it was a fluke, but maybe his style just isn’t for me. I’ve actually never seen the new Carrie!! I always dismissed it but maybe I should watch 😂

ahh thanks so much for letting me know, and sorry about that! I just fixed it - should work now! Apparently I also know zip about Discord hahaha :)

Omg that's amazing!! How did you enjoy Warbreaker? I have yet to read Last House On Needless Street, but have heard such great things. Thanks so much for the kind message Patty! I so appreciate you! <3

@@Shelf-Esteem I enjoyed Warbreaker. Great story and characters. Almost checked it back in st library as due date was coming up. Glad I got it read. Needless street is a weird one and difficult subject matter but worth all that I think. Just got Nettle and Bone last evening Audio so hope for good narrator🤞

Thanks so much Coreena! I so appreciate that! <3 And I completely agree, it's never easy to lose a loved one, regardless of the circumstance. I actually feel the same way about horror usually! I think I just was in an especially low headspace (and The Deep was so disturbing too haha!) I'm sorry to hear about the struggles with Sun Eater! I felt like the first novel in retrospect pales in comparison to the rest of the series, and the first person voice feels a little less insular if that makes sense, as the world and characters start to expand (especially in the rfirst book he's moving from place to place, so it's a lot more just with his thoughts). I'm LOVING Carrie so far! It's a lot better than I expected, especially for his first published novel, and his genius is already apparent. Thanks so much for watching, and for your always kind and thoughtful insights! I always love reading them :)