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Liam’s Lyceum
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I am Liam, AKA Hemvar, and I love to read and write and make videos on those topics from time-to-time.
Edward M. Kovel Award-winning booktuber.
“We hang out in smokey basement channels, listen to very loud audio books and console ourselves by feeling intellectually superior to the sell-outs of mainstream booktube, secure in the knowledge that people who have not read The Mirrors Of Tuzun Thune know nothing about literature.”
Edward M. Kovel Award-winning booktuber.
“We hang out in smokey basement channels, listen to very loud audio books and console ourselves by feeling intellectually superior to the sell-outs of mainstream booktube, secure in the knowledge that people who have not read The Mirrors Of Tuzun Thune know nothing about literature.”
Among the Gray Lords by D. J. Butler | Spoiler Free Review
Another great tale of Indrajit and Fix
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The Ladies of Mandrigyn by Barbara Hambly | Spoiler Free Review
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Sun Wolf and Starhawk
The so "honest booktuber tag" I didn't even change the thumbnail
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thanks for the tag @strangementalitypaperYT and shoutout to @RafBlutaxt and @someokiedude9549 for their versions of the tag. I absolutely didn't tag anyone
Graveyard of Demons by Larry Correia | Spoiler Free Review
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The fifth of six books in Saga of the Forgotten Warrior.
Dreams of Steel by Glen Cook | Spoiler Free Review
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The 5th/6th Black Company novel!
Liam's Leapings 96 || 11.08.24
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Many a book to talk about. discord.gg/QV7S4Ha5
Masquerades by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb | Spoiler Free Review
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A fun Forgotten Rralms novel with Alias, Dragonbait, and Olive!
Close Names but Different Authors - Leigh B. x2
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Leigh Brackett and Leigh Bardugo, what about them?
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card | Spoiler Free Review
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Romantasy from the late 90s.
The Barbed Coil by J. V. Jones | Spoiler Free Review
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A standalone portal fantasy
My (our) Intro to TTRPGs and Beyond
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In 2013 when I was in high school, we came across a handy new little book called Star Wars: Edge of the Empire by Fantasy Flight Games and the rest is history.
Death of the Dragon by Ed Greenwood and Troy Denning | Spoiler Free Review
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The final Cormyr saga novel
Another Fine Myth by Robert Aspirin | Spoiler Free Review
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Another Fine Myth by Robert Aspirin | Spoiler Free Review
Elfshadow by Elaine Cunningham | Spoiler Free Review
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Elfshadow by Elaine Cunningham | Spoiler Free Review
Beyond the High Road by Troy Denning | Spoiler Free Review
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Shadow of the Smoking Mountain by Howard Andrew Jones | Spoiler Free Review
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Shadow of the Smoking Mountain by Howard Andrew Jones | Spoiler Free Review
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters | Spoiler Free Review
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One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters | Spoiler Free Review
Cormyr: A Novel by Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb | Spoiler Free Review
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Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker | Spoiler Free Review
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Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker | Spoiler Free Review
Shadows of Sanctuary edited by Robert Aspirin and Lynn Abbey | Spoiler Free Review
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Spear by Nicola Griffith | Spoiler Free Review
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Spear by Nicola Griffith | Spoiler Free Review
The Palace of Love by Jack Vance | Spoiler Free Review
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The Palace of Love by Jack Vance | Spoiler Free Review
Liminality in the Angevin Empire - Art, Ruin and a look at Lit and Lang of the Angevins
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Liminality in the Angevin Empire - Art, Ruin and a look at Lit and Lang of the Angevins
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 😅
They’re giant wasps that eat people and in other people implants eggs which kill them when the babies are born. I’ll hate them.
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.
@@Ghol-a I believe Time Troopers edited by Hank Davis and Christopher Ruocchio from Baen has “All You Zombies” in it. I still need to read that story. I don’t keep up with comics, but good to know!
Good job writing!
@@davebutler238 I’ve been pretty bad at it this year with the present job
@@LiamsLyceum I've struggled too. Just gotta keep getting back on the horse.
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.
Hey! I'm new to this genre, what are some of the key differences between s&s and fantasy? I'm excited to learn 💪
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
@@jonathonholm8737 🙏
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.
@@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels i look forward to reading book 3. Book 2’s review will probably be out around Christmas, I’m so behind😆
@@LiamsLyceum lol I'm in the same boat, right now I'm trying to catch up and post videos of stuff I read in June/July 😂
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.
@@ChrisBrackman can recommend, in fact I just finished Among the Gray Lords by him today
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.
@@WalterWild-uu1td you’re right, I actually recently finished this series. I enjoyed the last 2 the most.
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.
@@WalterWild-uu1td definitely a late stage s&s depending on who you ask but I can second your recommendation for sure!
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
@@judokoga2145 happy to dispel that
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.
@@BookishChas I wish I could read it 😔
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.
@@erkocab I think you’re right, I’d love to see it!
really enjoyed reading and reading Kane and Jack Vance books many times. Its a shame they were never brought to life on the screen
@@erkocab one can dream
Um.....OK, I think I'll hold off on sending you Book II. 😋🤔🧐
@@jerryfiore5818 thanks for the first one, again, ever so kind of you!
I've never read anything by this guy but I follow him on twitter and he is very feisty.
@@UniqueArtsCostcoPicasso that’s one word for it
@@LiamsLyceum yeah I think that some of the dumdums he responds to need people to call them out for their foolishness but otherwise I imagine it's gotta be rather draining to be so openly aggressive all the time.. but it has at least made me curious about his books.
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 .
@@Out_Break_Monkey those are hard to find and almost impossible to find at a cheap price!
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?!
@@user-qm5sz9dj1s are you ok?
@@user-qm5sz9dj1s You forgot how it’s said with an American accent /ˈloʊɡoʊs/, and you forgot that the “g” is really a ɣ of you want to say it like the Greeks.
Not the laundry basket!! 😆
Tell your wife to get a grip lol
@@abigailhall2681 💀 peak aesthetic
Keep it up good lookin!!
@@abigailhall2681 😘
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?
@@SouthwesternScourgeMedia I put an updated link in the description and my discord name is hemvar
@@LiamsLyceum Still said it's invalid, but I did add you 🤘🏻
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.
Elfstones is my favorite of those I've read, it's very different than the imitation of LotR Sword is.
Try Eco's Baudolino. Ha ha, typed it right as you said it.
@@davebutler238 it’s on the list and I actually have a copy so maybe soon
Looking good, man.
@@davebutler238 the hair. I just got a video sent to me today about In the Language of Adam
@@LiamsLyceum Nice. Someone just sharing a link?
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!
@@saintdonoghue 🏰
I can't believe it's been three years already! I remember when you first started the channel! Congrats on 3 years going strong!
@@nikosbookreviews thanks, Mr one-the-first-couple-subscribers
@@LiamsLyceum I mean you were absolutely one of the first couple for me too!
I upvote the video but for some reason it is still 0 like.
@@xaress not sure what’s happening there but it might work now. Thanks!
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.
@@BillSmithBooks it’s deserved for sure
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
@@salty-horse Yes, nice examples! I do think you’re right in the follow ups but not sure I’ll ever get to them.