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I really want to get into these novels. As I probably can’t physically own them all I might have to invest in a kindle.

Jody Lynn Nye took over writing the series after Asprin passed. I think she's still writing it.

*mentions a race is scary* Hey buddy, that's rac*st. Sounds like something a raisin would say 😅

Glad to hear you’re still writing. I watched the movie, Predestination this past week. It’s based on Heinlein’s story, All You Zombies. I never read it, so I’m going to look it up. It’s a time travel paradox loop story. I re-read Howard’s The Black Stone and The Thing on the Roof. They’re both connected to the new Titan Conan comic storyline.

Good job writing!

How this writer and this book series isn't hugely popular and on best-selling lists is beyond me.

Hey Liam, great video and fantastic list right off the bat. You pay homage to the Sword & Sorcery godfather. His character's synical look on civilization's excesses is still so relevant today. Ana bsolute master of short form.

Overjoyed to see sword and sorcery being rediscovered by a younger crowd! There is so much out there passed Tolkien and Martin. I would include the Chronicles of Amber and the Myth Adventures but they drift a bit into fantsy.

Forgotten realms was my favorite world to fall into when I was younger... I would wait forever for the next R.A. Salvatore book and just consume it in 1 day. I love that Drizzt is still around for people to enjoy 😊

I love putting your channel on when I'm reading thanks for the content man

For what it's worth, I found all of Moorcock's eternal champion books repetitive to the point of being worthless.

The Iliad 😜

Sounds like a decent read. I'll watch out for your videos on the other to see how the series holds up.

that was really interesting, glad you had Butler on, I really like both of your takes on magic and I'll check out his books.

Maybe speaking up and not mumbling would be in order when you decide to take up the lofty task of narrating a video. Mayhaps thou may extract thy lovers member from thine mouth before speaking.

Whats a buddy read? Just spent 2. Days on this book. Yhank you

If you like Vance, you might enjoy his science fiction/crime lord series "The Demon Princes." Five novels revolving around the vengeance war of the hero Kirth Gerson and his campaign to find and kill the five super criminals who conducted a mass raid on his home world and destroyed his people. Each novel concerns Gerson's plots and methods of destroying each of the so-called Demon Princes, each of whom are very different in motivations and methods. Gerson tailors each of his patterns of revenge to hit the villains based on their individual personalities.

I highly recommend "The Black Company" series by Glen Cook which I feel has a good "meld" of Sword and Sorcery...very good world building and an interesting split between the "swordsmen" and the "sorcery users." They aren't always opponents. A very gritty and real feel to the characters...they aren't "Conan's;" very human, even the magic users. You get the feeling this is what a "real" mercenary would be like in a fantasy setting.

Ironic thing about Conan is the first published Conan story was "Phoenix on the Sword" and Conan is already King of Aquilonia. It was published in December, 1932 and was a rewrite of a Kull story.. All the other Conan stories were written after that and were not in chronological order. Unlike the movie with Arnold, Conan is never a slave and the first mention of his life chronologically has him going over the walls of an Aquilonian fortress on the Cimmerian border at the age of 15. Howard only wrote one novel for Conan, the rest were short stories which could sell in the pulp fiction era...more than one story from more than one author in the monthly magazines restricted the length of the stories. Howard only did Conan stories for three and a half years, from Christmas, 1932 to his suicide in mid June of 1936. He did most of his other characters in the 1920's, from westerns to boxers to Solomon Kane in Africa and pre and post Conan characters, Kull of Atlantis and Bran mak Morn , a Pict chief fighting against Romans in northern Britain.

Hey thank you so much I've read books for a long time always fantasy but never any D&D novels, everytime I have googled where to start with forgotten realms it always starts with the ice wind Dale trilogy. I was under the impression that only R.A Salvatore wrote forgotten realms novels

Great job on the tag Liam! I was once given a copy of Darkover by a friend. I ended up unhauling it because I really wasn’t interested. Sounds like it’s a good thing I got rid of it lol.

Good stuff. This is why I watch you channel though. 🤷🏼‍♂️ -T

I want to be like you when I grow up. I wish I was better at articulating things as well. Often when it's just general stuff I don't mind but I don't do videos on half of what I read because I'm like "Wait, I don't know enough to talk about this" although I probably do but I feel like I need to be an expert on it often to actually not just be a wasted few minutes of video. Also I will consider myself tagged, cheers.

Thank you very much for the review

Great answers. I get what you mean about Raf, I'd love to have the knowledge to break down a book the way he can.

I come for the philology!

This series should be brought to life on the screen. it would make a great multipart series.

really enjoyed reading and reading Kane and Jack Vance books many times. Its a shame they were never brought to life on the screen

Um.....OK, I think I'll hold off on sending you Book II. 😋🤔🧐

I've never read anything by this guy but I follow him on twitter and he is very feisty.

Oh snap

Great video! There's a few authors you talk about that I'll have to check out. Really enjoyed reading the same softback you have of Bloodstone over 30 yrs. ago. Then about 10yrs. ago I picked up the 2 hardback books of Kane in pretty much mint condition: The Midnight Sun & Gods in Darkness .

The difference between Linguistics and Philology is this,: in Philology one reads the texts, whereas in Linguistics one potters around like an old fuddyduddy taking word changes and learning them without interesting context. Philology craps all over Linguistics as a study, since one gets to read the greatest literature in the world and examine the words and their meanings.

3:37 "the study of 'lowgows''" Nah, mate, it's the study of "logos." The Greek, which you obviously don't read, has two short"o"s, two omicrons, like the covid strain, so that the word, logos, is pronounced logos and not lowgows, since that would require two f*cking omegas, WOULDN'T IT?!

Not the laundry basket!! 😆

Keep it up good lookin!!

Hey Liam, wanted to get in touch with you but your Discord link is expired. Any way I could get your username or an updated link?

Lots of reading. Good job. -T

I still have the first trilogy of Shannara to start. Does the second book take a different turn from the first? From what I heard the first book is 90% a clone of LotR.

Try Eco's Baudolino. Ha ha, typed it right as you said it.

Looking good, man.

I've never heard the term 'Sword and Planet' used before which is why I've always considered Edgar Rice Burroughs as a forefather of the 'Sword and Sorcery' genre. John Carter is a fabulous example of the type of hero that symbolises the genre and ERB also had his less popular Venus and Pellucidar series (the latter being a 'hollow Earth' setting so not exactly another planet).

Your thoughts on Kristoff tracks. Will be interested to see your thoughts on Lord Foul's Bane when you're done.

"I guess it's safe to say I'm a medievalist." Hee. Yes, just a bit!

I can't believe it's been three years already! I remember when you first started the channel! Congrats on 3 years going strong!

I upvote the video but for some reason it is still 0 like.

Have you read A Wizard of Earthsea from Ursula Le Guin? I really enjoy her take on S&S. ‘69

Great video. Leigh Brackett and her husband Edmund Hamilton did so much to establish space opera as its own distinct sub-genre and I love seeing them get well-deserved recognition.

Did you mention Sprague de Camp or Lin Carter?

I share your opinion of the Grishaverse trilogy (only read the first two, before the last one expired from the library). I understand the follow-up books might be more relevant to our tastes. More confuseable authors: C. L. Polk and C. L. Clark - contemporary authors of fantasy Henry James and M. R. James - contemporary authors of horror