probably not necessary tbh, having read some of the suggested books as well as the big fantasy series her recommendations are based on, I can't say that there's really a strong link between reading one and liking the other. For instance, I respect The Outsiders but I feel like there is no reason that you would like that based on the fact that you like Stormlight lol
I've been reading through Discworld in publication order. I'm on the sixteenth book now, Soul Music, and at this point I can genuinely say that Terry Pratchett is my favorite author.
For Sanderson fans, I would recommend Attack on Titan. I've only seen the show, but I imagine the Manga would apply. I got Sanderson vibes early on, specifically in the particular cadence of set-up/reveal. It turned out not to be quite the same thing, but by then I was hooked. It also has a "flying but not flying" mobility system that reminds me of Mistborn and Stormlight. AoT also has great world building and politics that Sanderson fans should feel right at home in
For Song of Ice & Fire recommendations, I’d add the Expanse series from James S.A. Corey. The world building is amazing, the characters are fun to be around, the sci-fi tech is just believable enough that you could see them appearing in the real world at some point, and (I know this is going to sound harsh, so apologizes in advance) the last book in the series is coming out this year, barring any delays, so you can start now and be able to go thru the main series without delay.
I’ve read all of both series, and I love both, but I don’t understand everyone regularly comparing the two. The only thing they share is perspective character chapters, which isn’t that unique.
@@Kujakuseki01 Eh, heavy emphasis on faction politicking, the unseen approaching threat, one of the authors was George’s assistant… I can see why it’s brought up
@@Kujakuseki01 I think the simularities are, when great powers collide, life becomes cheap and people are killed for no good reason. People don't die heroic deaths or for a great cause, they simply die. It's a very Nihilistic view of the world and universe. The opposite of high fantasy. (Or Star Wars)
The 3rd book of Asoiaf (storm of swords) is the best book in the series "so far" , one of the best fantasy books ever I might add :) totally worth a read
@@jaimelannister1797 Oh no we will surely get TWOW, A Dream of Spring will never be released though (at least not by Martin), all fans have already accepted that.
Discworld fans: You should read Discworld! Normies: Yes, I heard but what is about? Discworld fans: You should read Discworld! Normies: You already said, but it's more than 40 books! Can you give me some details? Discworld fans: Do you mad? You want me to be an IGN Wheel of Time video! Because if you don't stop I begin, but you have to listen me 5 bloody hours about deatailing how excellent (mayherestinpeace) Sir Terry Pratchett was!
This was a really neat premise that helps with "what to read next" after completing a series. It's especially helpful when looking for a change of pace, since fantasy is my favorite genre. It's always good to change things up a bit. Thanks for the help.
I discovered your channel through your OP reviews and it actually got me back into reading. Jurassic Park was amazing and I guess I need to check these series out
I recently picked up Rebecca per your recommendation and it's easily one of my new favorites!! Definitely do more of these because we all need more of your recommendations :)
Hey Murph, excellent recommendations! Gentlemen Bastards is also my absolute favorite fantasy series ever, I love the flowery sarcastic prose and the baroque swashbuckling setting. Your recommendations for similar genre books are spot on - especially happy to see Alexandre Dumas among them. So, I wanted to return the favor and give you a couple of recs similar to these ones. First, more Dumas books - check out "The Three Musketeers" and "The Man in the Iron Mask". Both books are chivalric romance adventure/thrillers set during the baroque period in France, both have the same swashbuckling vibes as Lamora. Other works might also interest you - like the "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Rudolf Erich Raspe, and "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand. All of the mentioned follow the same style of protagonist - a flashy, larger than life, bombastic individuals with a lot of heart and even more charisma. :) If you don't know some of these, give them a go, I swear you will not regret it (especially the Dumas works, he's a master).
Seeing “A Song of Ice & Fire” in a Merphy notification makes me smile for half a second and then get sad. Dune and Percy Jackson fans must feel the same 😂😂😭 Edit: Hard agree with Jurassic Park.
Nah. Game of Thrones was a great adaptation of an incomplete series that went *really* bad when it tried to go beyond the books and, in the process, turned some people off to the prospect of future books. Dune and Percy Jackson are complete series that have some film adaptations that are just plain bad, and all the adaptations have ever been is bad (and not of the complete series), so fans of the books can love the books and pretend the movies don’t exist.
@@logicisuseful I think…the original comment is probably referring to Merphy not finishing reading certain book series. Not that she won’t ever, but she hasn’t finished ASOIAF or Percy Jackson yet.
I stumbled upon your channel a few months ago and subscribed, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your review/recommendation videos. I’ve discovered a lot of books through your videos! Thank you so much!
Lovecraft is a better recommendation than you could have guessed! There are a lot of directly lovecraft-inspired cosmic horror elements going on in the background that aren't very evident early in the series.
I love that you recommended Lovecraft for ASOIAF series even though you've only made it through the first two books, because book 4 introduces Euron Greyjoy, a true Lovecraftian eldritch-inspired antagonist who just might post the biggest threat to the entire world thus far.
Always enjoy your videos. If you like The Gentleman Bastards (which I most definitely do) you must check out Sebastien de Castell's Greatcoat quartet. It has been described as The Three Musketeers meets A Song of Ice and Fire, but I think that the humour is more akin to that of Locke Lamora. Very accessible and very good.
This is a great video. I haven’t read all the books you gave as a comparison but, the ones that I have I definitely agree! Although I never would have thought of making the comparison. I really enjoyed this video and I have some books to add to my TBR!
Really nicde video, I like that you recomended books from different genres and periods. Tess is one of my favorites novels. If you like really emotional stories with deep characters I highly recommend "David Copperfield" and "Anna Karenina".
Why?? GRRM is never going to finish this series. I have already tortured myself by reading it more than 3 times to get to know more..... But one should not read unfinished series 😑
@@mishranidhi8352 curiosity. Never read it. Never watched the show. I'm not expecting him to actually finish. As far as endings go. I'm not too worried. Either someone else will finish it, it will go unfinished, and/or I'll make up an ending that I feel fits and treat it as head canon. I agree one shouldn't start a series without an ending as a rule. There are always exceptions though. As it happens I have 1 book out of a massive planned series. I hope people go into it knowing it's just the beginning. My book 2 is roughly 50% done too!
Popped a couple on my TBR 😁 Really need to get the Gentlemen Bastard series. I have just, finally, finished my latest re-read of WoT, so that gives me a 14 book space in my TBR hahaha!!
It's funny, because when it comes to Sanderson, I'm the opposite of Merphy. I'm in it for the worlds he creates, but I could give or take his characters. I only keep reading to see where he's going with the Cosmere.
I was brainstorming something like this and thought of a few recommendations for if you hate Jane Eyre or Stargirl. So let me know if anyone wants to hear them :)
Definitely some interesting recs that I wouldn’t have ever compared with these books. The darkness of the troop didn’t bother me. I love dark and gross horror. I just didn’t think the execution was the best.
Death Note is one of my all time favorites and I re-read it almost every year :) the second half isnt my favorite, but the first part of the story more than makes up for it!
I took your recommendation on Dark Matter - I just finished it that book was AWESOME! great recommendation thank you. And I wouldn’t have read it if it wasn’t for your video!!! Woohoo
I really love Death Note I'm so glad you also liked it. 😁 🍎 And I really want to read Lies of Lock Lamora and Jurassic Park soon. Also really curious about Song of Ice and Fire and the Discworld. And all the other ones too 😝
If ya'll love A Song of Ice and Fire I'd reccomend to you Ken Follet, mostly the Kingsbridge series! But anything from Ken, I guarantee it will hit the spots you want!
For an additional recommendations: Haven’t gotten to Gentlemen Bastards yet, so can’t add anything. ASOIAF: Berserk by Kentaro Miura, an unfinished grimdark fantasy in manga form. Sanderson: Worm by Wildbow
I have said this a lot but I seriously can not wait for a supper in depth conversation about The Count of Monte Cristo. I'm currently thinking about rereading it myself and even annotating it. The story has meant a lot to me and I would love to hear someone other than me gush about it.😊 There so much there to talk about. Please do a reread?!!
Oh awesome! More recommendations based on the lies of lock lamora! Love that book! (And also, please tell me where you got that cat with the knife tshirt) 😅
For another manga that I think people who liked asoiaf might enjoy, I'd recommend Berserk. The stories are very different from each other, Berserk focuses a lot more on fighting than political intrigue and a much smaller main cast of characters, but they do give me kinda similar vibes especially with how violent they can be, and they also share some themes (the futility of revenge for example). Unfortunately though, Berserk's author Kentaro Miura died very recently, and we do not yet know if the story's ever going to be continued. The current last chapter makes for a beautiful open ending tho, at least in my opinion
Loved Berserk, but any Berserk recommendation needs like a hundred content warnings. It is graphic! Also, I’d say Griffith’s stories cover the “political intrigue” angle pretty well.
An information I think you'd appreciate :) Beserk ist officially going to continue!!! by the author of Holyland (people say he and miura were close friends... so that might be the reason why)
Btw...if you liked the troop, maybe you'd like to check the Korean Netflix series 'kingdom'. It's the only zombie series I like, it's smart, topical in the covid era, and it's short (I think less than 20 episodes)
The Dark Matter recommendation reminds me of the Netflix series Dark, a German time travel series, and The OA, which is about different dimensions as well. Do highly recommend both, unfortunately The OA got cancelled after the second season.
Love, love, love Locke and Co. despite my giving the the subsequent books fairly low ratings. But to put my OTHER fav book (The Troop) in the same arena? Crazy!
hp lovecraft is a given for people that like ASOIAF. Also if you think ASOIAF is too dark, you can read the dunk and egg novelas that are lighter in tone and talk about previous events to the main series.
Your Lies of Locke Lamora recommendations make me think you would enjoy The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. I know you read and enjoyed Jurassic Park - this is one of Crichton's less-well-known books but it's great.
Anybody who enjoy Song of Ice and Fire or other less hard magic systems. Very recomend Neal Gaiman's Sandman, it's a defenetly adult contant, and as a comic or the needlessly intelectual calls "graphic novel", it's a very visual fantasy series. However a story about stories...
People, just a warning if you pick HP lovecraft, he was very racist. I didn’t knew when I began reading his stories but slowly something felt off and then I found out that, yes, he was just that racist and I just couldn’t stand his writing anymore. So be careful and remember that it’s ok if you can’t stand to read these stories. You don’t owe anyone to read him just because he’s famous. (Also the few storie that I read, weren’t blowing my mind. There are betters books out there I think.)
Merphy can you try reading trash of the counts family it’s a story with a huge found family that would die for each other and I think you wound like it
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"But if you're a Sanderson fan, you'll be fine" That really cracked me up
Congrats on 300K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know books, but I do know sweaters, and every time I see that sweater, I think “...gosh darn it, that is a great sweater!”
You ought to give reading a try.
Oh, I used to read a lot, but over time, interests and circumstances change and vary. I’ll start picking up books again, someday.
* softly cries* please Merph, stop adding books to my "to read" list...
That's the whole point of this channel though lol
probably not necessary tbh, having read some of the suggested books as well as the big fantasy series her recommendations are based on, I can't say that there's really a strong link between reading one and liking the other. For instance, I respect The Outsiders but I feel like there is no reason that you would like that based on the fact that you like Stormlight lol
I've been reading through Discworld in publication order. I'm on the sixteenth book now, Soul Music, and at this point I can genuinely say that Terry Pratchett is my favorite author.
For Sanderson fans, I would recommend Attack on Titan. I've only seen the show, but I imagine the Manga would apply. I got Sanderson vibes early on, specifically in the particular cadence of set-up/reveal. It turned out not to be quite the same thing, but by then I was hooked. It also has a "flying but not flying" mobility system that reminds me of Mistborn and Stormlight.
AoT also has great world building and politics that Sanderson fans should feel right at home in
The ending was so mediocre though, of the manga. So many plot holes, inconsistencies, awful pacing and character arcs wasted.
It got really immature Main character and is so annoying..if u love politics then code geass is the right choice
@@sagnikgiri3803 Bruh..then you must have watched only the first season...
For Song of Ice & Fire recommendations, I’d add the Expanse series from James S.A. Corey. The world building is amazing, the characters are fun to be around, the sci-fi tech is just believable enough that you could see them appearing in the real world at some point, and (I know this is going to sound harsh, so apologizes in advance) the last book in the series is coming out this year, barring any delays, so you can start now and be able to go thru the main series without delay.
I’ve read all of both series, and I love both, but I don’t understand everyone regularly comparing the two. The only thing they share is perspective character chapters, which isn’t that unique.
@@Kujakuseki01 Eh, heavy emphasis on faction politicking, the unseen approaching threat, one of the authors was George’s assistant… I can see why it’s brought up
Strongly agree. These are my first and third favorite series
Agreed!
@@Kujakuseki01 I think the simularities are, when great powers collide, life becomes cheap and people are killed for no good reason. People don't die heroic deaths or for a great cause, they simply die. It's a very Nihilistic view of the world and universe. The opposite of high fantasy. (Or Star Wars)
Congratulations on 300K!!! 🎉🎉🎉
The 3rd book of Asoiaf (storm of swords) is the best book in the series "so far" , one of the best fantasy books ever I might add :) totally worth a read
Absolutely!
Considering TWOW is also a culmination of 2 books it might top ASOS but who knows.
@@pretendtheresaname9213 if we ever get it
@@jaimelannister1797 Oh no we will surely get TWOW, A Dream of Spring will never be released though (at least not by Martin), all fans have already accepted that.
@@pretendtheresaname9213 don’t speak for all fans please, I still have hope
Not sure if you’ve read Discworld, but if you haven’t you should.
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I like Rincewind books
She said she read two books of discworld till now in the sanderson section though
The Count of Monte Cristo is so fantastic! It’s got to be my favorite non-fantasy book of all time
I love how diverse the genres of the recommendation list comes from. Thanks, Merphy! 🥰🤓😍
This was a really neat premise that helps with "what to read next" after completing a series. It's especially helpful when looking for a change of pace, since fantasy is my favorite genre. It's always good to change things up a bit. Thanks for the help.
Another undulating congratulations for reaching 300k ma'am
After hoping for a Light Yagami appearance in the Smart Protagonists vids, it was a nice surprise to see Death Note pop up here.
Congrats on 300k!! Undulating!!
Death Note is worth a read for best boy L alone. One of my favorite characters in any media.
I like both L and light equally.
Just finished reading Death Note yesterday. It was amazing! I completely agree that L is best boi.
SUSHMIT BANERJEE then you’re likely a sociopath. You aren’t supposed to like L. Stop admiring irredeemably evil villains.
@@Kujakuseki01 I like him as a villain.
Yeah but the ending isn’t good, and the ending can make or break a story
I discovered your channel through your OP reviews and it actually got me back into reading. Jurassic Park was amazing and I guess I need to check these series out
Congratulations on hitting 300k Merphy. Oh the way I'd love a copy of Harlem Shuffle but it's not in my country yet.
I recently picked up Rebecca per your recommendation and it's easily one of my new favorites!! Definitely do more of these because we all need more of your recommendations :)
Congratulations!!! on 300K subscribers...
Hey Murph, excellent recommendations! Gentlemen Bastards is also my absolute favorite fantasy series ever, I love the flowery sarcastic prose and the baroque swashbuckling setting. Your recommendations for similar genre books are spot on - especially happy to see Alexandre Dumas among them.
So, I wanted to return the favor and give you a couple of recs similar to these ones. First, more Dumas books - check out "The Three Musketeers" and "The Man in the Iron Mask". Both books are chivalric romance adventure/thrillers set during the baroque period in France, both have the same swashbuckling vibes as Lamora.
Other works might also interest you - like the "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Rudolf Erich Raspe, and "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand.
All of the mentioned follow the same style of protagonist - a flashy, larger than life, bombastic individuals with a lot of heart and even more charisma. :)
If you don't know some of these, give them a go, I swear you will not regret it (especially the Dumas works, he's a master).
Really like these longer videos.
Seeing “A Song of Ice & Fire” in a Merphy notification makes me smile for half a second and then get sad. Dune and Percy Jackson fans must feel the same 😂😂😭
Edit: Hard agree with Jurassic Park.
Nacos? nachos.
Nah. Game of Thrones was a great adaptation of an incomplete series that went *really* bad when it tried to go beyond the books and, in the process, turned some people off to the prospect of future books. Dune and Percy Jackson are complete series that have some film adaptations that are just plain bad, and all the adaptations have ever been is bad (and not of the complete series), so fans of the books can love the books and pretend the movies don’t exist.
@@logicisuseful I think…the original comment is probably referring to Merphy not finishing reading certain book series. Not that she won’t ever, but she hasn’t finished ASOIAF or Percy Jackson yet.
@@logicisuseful It was good/ok for 4 seasons and then it just sucked.
I stumbled upon your channel a few months ago and subscribed, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your review/recommendation videos. I’ve discovered a lot of books through your videos! Thank you so much!
the sanderson recs were super enlightening for me! Thanks for the suggestions Murph!
Lovecraft is a better recommendation than you could have guessed! There are a lot of directly lovecraft-inspired cosmic horror elements going on in the background that aren't very evident early in the series.
I saw AGOT in the thumbnail and got excited 😔
Your videos are just amazing I can’t even describe
Thank you, gorgeous! ❤
I LOVE your sweater by the way 😍❤🔥
I adored Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Great story and amazing writing .
@6:55 I never knew that!! What a cool trivia fact! 😃😃👍👍
Congratulations on 300K 🥂
I love that you recommended Lovecraft for ASOIAF series even though you've only made it through the first two books, because book 4 introduces Euron Greyjoy, a true Lovecraftian eldritch-inspired antagonist who just might post the biggest threat to the entire world thus far.
Always enjoy your videos. If you like The Gentleman Bastards (which I most definitely do) you must check out Sebastien de Castell's Greatcoat quartet. It has been described as The Three Musketeers meets A Song of Ice and Fire, but I think that the humour is more akin to that of Locke Lamora. Very accessible and very good.
This is a great video. I haven’t read all the books you gave as a comparison but, the ones that I have I definitely agree! Although I never would have thought of making the comparison. I really enjoyed this video and I have some books to add to my TBR!
I’ve heard such good things about The Troop!!
Definitely gonna pick up the Troop now. Thanks!
I don't know why I haven't still read the count of Monte Cristo. Like I want to read it so bad but I don't know why am I not reading it 😭😭😭
Do it! I was forced to read it back in high school and still ended up absolutely loving it
@@lucasbertsche3710 I'll read it soon!!
Really nicde video, I like that you recomended books from different genres and periods. Tess is one of my favorites novels. If you like really emotional stories with deep characters I highly recommend "David Copperfield" and "Anna Karenina".
Just started on A Song of Ice and Fire. On book 2. So far pretty good.
Why?? GRRM is never going to finish this series. I have already tortured myself by reading it more than 3 times to get to know more..... But one should not read unfinished series 😑
@@mishranidhi8352 Cause unfinished stories are still worth reading. Rather have GRRM never finish it, than giving us a shitty ending
@@sturdyblastoff9300 true
@@mishranidhi8352 curiosity. Never read it. Never watched the show. I'm not expecting him to actually finish.
As far as endings go. I'm not too worried. Either someone else will finish it, it will go unfinished, and/or I'll make up an ending that I feel fits and treat it as head canon.
I agree one shouldn't start a series without an ending as a rule. There are always exceptions though. As it happens I have 1 book out of a massive planned series. I hope people go into it knowing it's just the beginning. My book 2 is roughly 50% done too!
@@wesleybrown9018 they are actually really good😅
Popped a couple on my TBR 😁 Really need to get the Gentlemen Bastard series. I have just, finally, finished my latest re-read of WoT, so that gives me a 14 book space in my TBR hahaha!!
It's funny, because when it comes to Sanderson, I'm the opposite of Merphy. I'm in it for the worlds he creates, but I could give or take his characters. I only keep reading to see where he's going with the Cosmere.
A Song of Ice and Fire: All Quiet on the Western Front... About the uselessness of death when great powers war.
You should do a video about books to read if you like One Piece. It would be a nice way to bridge the One Piece audience with your book audience.
Great Video! I think "If you hated (...), Try These books instead" would be very interesting.
I was brainstorming something like this and thought of a few recommendations for if you hate Jane Eyre or Stargirl. So let me know if anyone wants to hear them :)
Definitely some interesting recs that I wouldn’t have ever compared with these books. The darkness of the troop didn’t bother me. I love dark and gross horror. I just didn’t think the execution was the best.
As it happens, I love the song of fire and Ice... And I just bought anxious people and ove ☺️☺️ looks like I'm in for some good reading days 😊
Ah and here I was , thinking about the fact that I haven't added anything new to my tbr this week
Big fan. Almost always agree. Will never understand the fascination with "The Lies of Locke Lamora". And that's okay.
Oh this is such a great concept!! More of these videos would be amazing.
Congratulations on 300k subscribers!!!!
Outsiders was a good read. Read it in high school like 15 years ago lol
AHHHH you stopped before Storm of Swords?! 😱
This was fun! I say do even more! Looking forward to part 2.
Death Note is one of my all time favorites and I re-read it almost every year :) the second half isnt my favorite, but the first part of the story more than makes up for it!
I took your recommendation on Dark Matter - I just finished it that book was AWESOME! great recommendation thank you. And I wouldn’t have read it if it wasn’t for your video!!! Woohoo
I really love Death Note I'm so glad you also liked it. 😁 🍎
And I really want to read Lies of Lock Lamora and Jurassic Park soon.
Also really curious about Song of Ice and Fire and the Discworld.
And all the other ones too 😝
If ya'll love A Song of Ice and Fire I'd reccomend to you Ken Follet, mostly the Kingsbridge series! But anything from Ken, I guarantee it will hit the spots you want!
2:36 Oh! I've been reading that right now. I didn't know it was from Book of the Month, must be the reason why reviews in good reads are few and new.
For an additional recommendations:
Haven’t gotten to Gentlemen Bastards yet, so can’t add anything.
ASOIAF: Berserk by Kentaro Miura, an unfinished grimdark fantasy in manga form.
Sanderson: Worm by Wildbow
Congratulations on 300k !!!
Dark Matter sounds like something right up my alley!!!!
I have said this a lot but I seriously can not wait for a supper in depth conversation about The Count of Monte Cristo. I'm currently thinking about rereading it myself and even annotating it. The story has meant a lot to me and I would love to hear someone other than me gush about it.😊 There so much there to talk about. Please do a reread?!!
I have read about 80% of what was mentioned in this video and honestly I could not agree more
Bonus points for the audiobook narrator of Gentlemen Bastards also having a recording of Treasure Island
omg congrats on 300K, i love ur videos
Wooooow I did not expect to see death note in here really good recommendation !!
Oh awesome! More recommendations based on the lies of lock lamora! Love that book! (And also, please tell me where you got that cat with the knife tshirt) 😅
I love how it says Brando Sando
I like your "ugly " sweater.
Have you read The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks? The first book is called Black Prism. It has a color magic system and it is such a great series.
I love Tess 🥰 I miss your classic reviews
Would you check out The Dunk and Egg Saga? It’s a prequel/spinoff of Asoiaf and a lot more light hearted. Anyways love your videos ✨
Do a part 3!!!
Aight, this was a good video idea - nice work
Please read A Storm of Swords and then park A song of Ice and Fire if you wish to.
For another manga that I think people who liked asoiaf might enjoy, I'd recommend Berserk. The stories are very different from each other, Berserk focuses a lot more on fighting than political intrigue and a much smaller main cast of characters, but they do give me kinda similar vibes especially with how violent they can be, and they also share some themes (the futility of revenge for example).
Unfortunately though, Berserk's author Kentaro Miura died very recently, and we do not yet know if the story's ever going to be continued. The current last chapter makes for a beautiful open ending tho, at least in my opinion
Loved Berserk, but any Berserk recommendation needs like a hundred content warnings. It is graphic!
Also, I’d say Griffith’s stories cover the “political intrigue” angle pretty well.
How about you take one of her recommendations and read an actual book?
An information I think you'd appreciate :)
Beserk ist officially going to continue!!! by the author of Holyland (people say he and miura were close friends... so that might be the reason why)
@@Kujakuseki01 girly what lmao
@@viinaart that's what I thought as well 🙄
This a great video and i for sure would love to see more
My tbr is ready to burst, Murphy this is all your fault 😭😭 thanks! :D
For Game of Thrones, only series that came close to me was Acacia trilogy by Anthony Durham
Btw...if you liked the troop, maybe you'd like to check the Korean Netflix series 'kingdom'. It's the only zombie series I like, it's smart, topical in the covid era, and it's short (I think less than 20 episodes)
I recently finished the troop, it was a good read. It also isn't too long.
The Dark Matter recommendation reminds me of the Netflix series Dark, a German time travel series, and The OA, which is about different dimensions as well. Do highly recommend both, unfortunately The OA got cancelled after the second season.
Love, love, love Locke and Co. despite my giving the the subsequent books fairly low ratings. But to put my OTHER fav book (The Troop) in the same arena? Crazy!
Can't wait for part 2!
hp lovecraft is a given for people that like ASOIAF. Also if you think ASOIAF is too dark, you can read the dunk and egg novelas that are lighter in tone and talk about previous events to the main series.
Trust me..just continue with ASOIAF and finish A Storm of Swords..and then you can decide..whether to drop it or not..
Your Lies of Locke Lamora recommendations make me think you would enjoy The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. I know you read and enjoyed Jurassic Park - this is one of Crichton's less-well-known books but it's great.
I hope this will work vise versa.
(I do not see any reason why it shouldn't, but ya know, anything can happen)
make this into a video series!
For death note you also needed to know their face to use the death notebook on them
Anybody who enjoy Song of Ice and Fire or other less hard magic systems. Very recomend Neal Gaiman's Sandman, it's a defenetly adult contant, and as a comic or the needlessly intelectual calls "graphic novel", it's a very visual fantasy series. However a story about stories...
Every time i click on fantasy booktuber videos, i feel my dusty copy of locke lamora staring intensely on my back😂
People, just a warning if you pick HP lovecraft, he was very racist. I didn’t knew when I began reading his stories but slowly something felt off and then I found out that, yes, he was just that racist and I just couldn’t stand his writing anymore. So be careful and remember that it’s ok if you can’t stand to read these stories. You don’t owe anyone to read him just because he’s famous. (Also the few storie that I read, weren’t blowing my mind. There are betters books out there I think.)
Hmmm….since I haven’t read the GB series I’m now worried because of your recommendation of The Troop 😳
Gentlemen Bastard doesn't have anywhere near the body horror she was describing there. Fret not good friend.😁
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just here to say The Outsiders is MY favorite book of all time.
Love craft is a huge inspiration to GRRM
.... You didn't get to storm of swords?
Merphy can you try reading trash of the counts family it’s a story with a huge found family that would die for each other and I think you wound like it