I fully blame schools for killing people's interest in reading for fun. They force you to analyse it until it's not fun anymore, then tell you that your interpretation of the story is wrong so you feel stupid for even trying to identify with the themes. Teachers even yell at kids for reading ahead! Smh how exactly is that supposed to inspire good reading habits??
How about when they'd force you in middle school to read an entire book in a week, every week, and write a goddamn summary of every chapter?????? And so you'd scramble to pick a book in the library, and god help you if you accidentally picked a boring one, and then you couldn't even speed read it bc you had to write the main points of each chapter and ughhhhh. This is coming from someone who has read books in a day before. School destroyed my love of learning
It depended on the teacher for me honestly. The times when the teacher chose a couple of students to read and act as a character while reading was fun. As someone with ADHD, I especially need something that will keep me interested when I'm given a task that requires me to read a whole book.
@@raisyrosye7656 It is not totally as bad as I made it sound... because although I shut down before I can get near anything remotely academic, I looove to get into fandoms and research the lore of stuff that I watch, and that's almost studying, isn't it? Haha. And like you, fanfic has been my main source of literature since I first started using the internet. I'd have to say it's fanfic that taught me how to write, even.
Totally agree with you on The Rainbow Fish! I admittedly didn't think of the whole "they only like him because he's giving away something valuable", but I hated the book because the fish just STRAIGHT UP MUTILATES himself to get the others to like him! those other fish were literally asking him to rip out parts of his body and yet he was treated like the bad guy for refusing! I get the intended message behind it, but I think it was very poorly thought out.
The correct outcome for that book is the fish gives all his scales away then nobody cares for him any more because they were only in it for what they could get from him.
Surprised he didn’t talk about a bad case of stripes, that book SCARRED me for life. There’s just something so horrifying about being forced in 3rd grade to read about some girl turning into a literal bedroom
I know. I remember I had run away from my 2nd grade classroom because my teacher told me that I had to be in a different class after reading only 11 pages of the book while crying I couldn’t stop crying. It has been 6 years and this book stills scares me till this day. Edit: I just feel like the author should’ve been a avant-garde artist instead honestly. :P
I genuinely feel bad for people who don’t find reading fun because since I’ve always had maladaptive day dreaming it made it like I was seeing a movie in my head
Not only is Dr. Seuss the goat, but many of his books where literally designed to take real world problems and simplify them so a baby could understand. Take the Butter Battle book, its whole story and designed was hinting at the Cold War and how just trying to one up someone else may lead to others getting hurt. Dr. Seuss can solve world hunger by teaching it to little kids.
The best children's book with a lesson is The Giving Tree. I remember reading it as a kid and being confused, it was really the first melancholic experience I've ever had. It teaches kids that yeah, it's nice to share, but don't give everything away. It starts with an apple, but if left unchecked, it ends with your life.
One of the most underrated Children Books of all time that I have read every time I entered the library is “Big Nate”. Honestly some of the funniest shit I’ve ever read were from those books and they even got a “Consistent Storyline” with some of the most interesting and enjoyable stories and characters ever. 10/10 go read.
2:30 Of Mice and Men. I remember having a writing assignment in which I had to write an alternate ending for the book. I went with what if Lennie didn't get killed and got away never to be seen again since he realized just enough that he really messed up that he can't go back ever, and George just never caught up to him. Cut to years later in another town and George is now an owner of a farm and one to the animals he specializes in is rabbits. Lennie is passing through town as a vagabond, barely recognizable. They pass each other on the street, but for a second they thought recognized each other, turn around and realize it was who they thought they were, looking each other in the eye. Fin. Yeah, rewriting a classic is quite the task and rarely is going to be better than the original.
I did something similar, but lennie turned into a zombie and infected everyone on the farm. (I wanted to make the ending just a little bit different than what happened.)
God childhood books were a vibe. I literally hoarded Geronimo Stilton and Thea Stilton books, gave it away to my little cousin and he loves them! There was this never ending series of Rainbow Magic too and I remember searching my school library every week to search for the next part. Goosebumps, Glitter Girls, even Ripley's believe it or not. At this point reading these again will restore my happiness 😭😭
@@limelikeicedtea5883 it's not based I just hate these view farming comment traps, it's worse than when youtubers ask for comments about a random subject even tho they will never actually check them.
7:51 also not only is the message of the rainbow fish bad, but aren't scales literally part of a fish's body? Like, even just removing scales of fish are considered animal cruelty but it just adds to my point, not only are they just friends with rainbow fish for his scales, the rainbow fish is basically killing himself just to make his friends happy.
Childhood was a different beast entirely. You weren't judged by your looks, intellect, athletic abilities or wealth. You were only judged by whether or not you owned the huge Guinness Book of World Records from that year. That was what separated the fetuses from men.
I think the one time I enjoyed an assigned book (so far, at least) was The Outsiders. I remember that (especially on the day we saw the movie) almost everyone in our grade was simping for someone lol. Also read Animal Farm!
As an artist reading books is probably one of the best ways to tell how imaginative your art is and then based on the genre you can you figure out what your "Visual Library" is lacking and then add to it. 10/10 if your an artist read books of various genres and settings
in the rainbow fish, I'm pretty sure all the other fish are psychopaths. they're literally asking to for rainbow to rip his skin off and give it to them. rainbow is the only sane fish in that ocean. if he gave away his scales, he would be dead because the scales are like the skin of a fish.
One of the must funniest vids from you in a while. The rainbow fish and dr suess segments had me guffawing (Also, dr suess's "There's a Wocket in my Pocket" flows and sounds EXACTLY like that one Migos song, its insane)
This video reminded me of this one book I HATED when I was little called "A Bad Case of Stripes" The whole plot was that some girl didnt wanna eat lima beans around others because it was embarrassing or somethin, so as punishment, the universe not only gives her stripes on her whole body, but also turns her into her ROOM. LIKE HER WHOLE ROOM WAS HER, BED WAS HER MOUTH OR SOME SHIT, IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME. She also turned into a gumball machine if I remembered correctly?? We read it in like second grade so they mustve WANTED us to freak the fuck out
Y’all remember this book that was about a girl that had many sicknesses like the girl turned into colours, a house, and flags. This book legit scared me this was an audio book that my teacher played in kindergarten I got so scared
Honestly, the Animorphs series is surprisingly good, with likeable characters, a good concept, one of the most intimidating threats in literature history, and to top it off, really good worldbuilding and LORE. Edit: Actually, the Yeerks are the overarching threat of the series. The kids who can turn into animals are the protagonists. (warning, summary of Yeerks below) The Yeerks are a race of grey, sluglike aliens that, despite their frankly hilarious forms, are one of the most dangerous species in the galaxy, infamous for conquering planets and adding them into their growing empire. Now, you might be thinking, "how?". Well, it's simple. They CONTROL THE BODIES OF THEIR UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS. Okay, the way it works is that they enter your body through the ear, make their way up to the brain, and then flatten themselves against it, squeezing into every last crevice. This gives them full access to their bodies and memories, leaving the victim trapped in their own mind, forced to watch helplessly as the Yeerks impersonate them perfectly, using their own memories as examples. Anyone can secretly be Yeerk-infested, and as a result, the invasion is happening without anyone knowing. This is why they are so dangerous.
You forgot the part where since the kids regenerate wounds, the author basically brutalized the kids. They get there arms and legs ripped off its fucking intense.
I remember absolutely loving the Geronimo Stilton books, from the spin-offs and the kingdom of Fantasy, those were my stepping stones into my love for reading. I remember going to the mall and begging my mom every time to go to the bookstore to get a new Geronimo Stilton book, shit was damn good back then and now that I gave it away to a local library, I hope kids could also get the Geronimo Stilton experience I had as a kid.
Omg when u said kingdom of fantasy it brought back so many memories, especially from that one giant ass book I used to flex called the phoenix of flames or smt
@@hyperdonalpha shiiit, the phoenix of destiny? Yeah, I had that too, and it being a massive flex is definitely right. Shit looked like the paper was made of gold on the outside, and could've fooled me. I remember it being my most prized possession I ever had as a kid
Can’t believe you mentioned Bone comic series. In middle school, I used to read them during lunch in the library. My favorite comic series to this day as a 26 year-old. I bought the entire series a couple years ago. Always lend it out to others or recommend it! :)
Man, not reading Animorphs makes you missed a lot of interesting moral debates and of course child soldiers committing war crimes too. The book that you showed that have the girl morph into a bat had the Animorphs using chemical warfare, and it is a pretty tame one in their war crimes list. 39 clues is a good one too, the mystery really hook you in, while you can also learn some cool history facts along the way
I read a couple of them many many years ago, and I don’t remember anything. Other than the fact that they can turn into animals and one very detailed scene of someone flying as a Peragin falcon
Animorphs is probably the book series that gets fucked over hardest by just having consistently weird AF book covers. Jesus those were nightmare fuel as a child.
Percy Jackson, The Boxcar Children, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Dork Diaries were the series I read as a kid. Love them. I recently read the whole Percy Jackson series cuz I never finished it and it was great.
Both Percy Jackson series are incredible except for Blood of Olympus, I was so obsessed with them as a kid I self-diagnosed as having ADHD and being a demigod just because I had green eyes and couldn't sit still lmao
Just finished trials of Apollo (comes after the Heroes Of Olympus, and Heroes of Olympus comes after the original series) and a nigga like me almost shed a tear a few times
Bro, Roald Dahl was sooo good. The Witches, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The BFG, etc. I think my favorite story may have been The Magic Finger. High key terrifying, but really cool at the same time.
Roald Dahl is an AMAZING author for kids and adults, and he had a fascinating life. If you haven’t read his autobiographies you’re missing out. He was in a car accident when he was a kid and almost got his nose entirely cut off.
Recently got back to reading novels with Stephen King, but MAN all these stories are so good, I remember REALLY liking Boosebumps as a kid and that sparked the interest of horror in me. I also collected the Dork Diaries books as well. Man there was so many bangers along with the underrated gem that is BABYMOUSE
I LOVE the 1973 version of Charlotte's Web. Charlotte's death makes me cry everytime. Honestly, the childhood book series I remember most fondly is Geronimo Stilton. I read almost every book I could find in my local library, and I even owned a few. I definitely need to get back into the series, it's really cool.
Books I remember fondly are Chika Chika Boom Boom, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Geronimo Stilton, Big Nate, Dear Dumb Diary, the interactive Goosebumps books, and another one whose name I forgot but it frightened me in a good way. It was about a boy who sailed away from his problematic home & arrived at an island full of monsters that look like they're made of suits. He gets along with them at first until things become creepier, and ends up sailing back home. It had a film which I also liked.
@@spaghetto9836 I know which book you're talking about! It's called Where The Wild Things Are. Also, I'm a fan of Big Nate too. Haven't read any of the books in quite some time, so I'll need to catch up on that as well.
I like the Animorphs series. (Though the Megamorphs and Alternamorphs book sets not so much). I don't like how they make the characters cliche, has stereotypes, as well as unoriginal puns, but the series was surprisingly deep and dark at some points. It goes over topics of genocide, self-sacrifice, torture, brief existentialism, nature vs. nurture, societal conformity, herd mentality, death, mercy killing, abandonment, executions, depression, and the horrors of war. It has some deep points and I wish that they didn't make a very bad tv series of it as well as make it look like some sort of cheap, corny series with cringy book covers that kind of downplays what the book is really about. I think that if they did a little bit of a better job on writing the books (make them longer as well as keep better consistency.) and not rush the process just to reach their book deadline, it could've been way better...
Honestly I’m so lucky that I read long ass series like Warriors and Harry Potter as a kid, because even though they suck looking back, reading them made me realize that not all books are boring garbage that you have to overanalyze to “enjoy”. Series like Mistborn are so fun to read and have genuinely amazing stories but because of how boring school is nobody actually wants to try books out
@antjbiotics Wouldn't say it sucks, but it's not mind blowing either, and some stuff aged a little poorly, like... Cho Chang's name. Also, Harry Potter is just basically Groosham Grange meeets The Worst Witch. Not that it's a bad thing, I love Harry Potter. But yeah, the books weren't what I would call works of art.
@antjbiotics I mean, I guess in terms of actual writing it’s just mid, but the fact that JK Rowling is such a fucked up person on top of the fact that HP isn’t an amazing or even a very good series makes me like it way less
I would like to shout out a few of my childhood favorites that I never see any discussion of. First, the Puppy in my Pocket picture books, based off the toys and they came with them. They were about a bunch puppies just doing stuff like celebrating holidays or having a fashion show. Also Skippy John Jones, I actually dressed as Skip John Jones for Halloween one year and still have part of the costume about a decade later. Another one is Dear Dumb Diary, which was pretty similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but I actually liked it more, mostly because I read it first.
I think some teachers forced many of us to dislike reading because they can be highly biased and say that your interpretations of the story are wrong, even if it's just your personal opinion, and they don't agree with you. For me, I started loving reading again once I bought and read my own books and had a child to read to.
I remember reading action novels like Percy Jackson or Artemis Fowl. I remember reading this one book called Maximum Ride, where a bunch of bird kids flew around looking for their deadbeat dad.
I swear, Dr. Suess was making bars in his books. But the sad thing is, he was a horrible person. I also saw someone rap There's a Wocket in my Pocket over the beat of Walk it like I talk it. And it was FIRE!
@@nightly145 basically he was cheating on his dying wife who fell ill with cancer then when she died he married the woman he was cheating with 💀 and other stuff
As a fiction novel writer, I understand the problem with reading books lol. Books aren’t the greatest source of entertainment when you just want to turn your brain off. However, I would recommend some fictional books for when you want to ignore the real world for a little bit. Xenofiction is the best for that, in my opinion, like Warriors or Watership Down.
Lol I've found that "bookworms" or people like me who actually enjoy reading actually can turn our brain of pretty easily and almost instantly when we start reading shutting off the world and immersing myself in a book is easier than movies and comics sometimes.
Unless Ive got something on my mind that I don’t want to think about, yeah. I don’t actually imagine what happens very much either, it’s strings of words that make sense.
It's what you train yourself to enjoy early on. If your parents encouraged you to read early on in life, and you genuinely enjoy it, you'll associate reading with good times, and would therefore do it more often. However, if all of your entertainment is visual, trying to imagine and entertain yourself without visuals, like comic books and movies, would be tasking, as you've never done it before a lot. That's why I detest that the first thing parents do to try to pacify or entertain their kids is to put a tablet in front of them. You're training them to half their attention span from the get-go.
A big children’s author up here in Canada is Robert Munsch, who I just found out was born in Pittsburgh. But his books were my childhood. We read them all the time in elementary school Also I demand a full version of the Red fish, Blue fish rap
I have never read a single Animorph book. I did however pick up pretty much every one I ever saw and flipped through it real fast to watch the kid transform into whatever animal
My favorite books used to be the Miss Nelson books! The ones where that teacher notices her class misbehaving, and she decides to disguise herself as Hugh Neutron’s aunt (actually a witch) to punish her class like it’s a military school. Those books were awesome!
I read that book in 3rd grade..idk why but it was so scary i couldnt show up to math class for like a week because the teacher looked like the one in the book LMAO
I remember in elementary school where we would fight over the dork diaries books and those rainbow magic fairy books. I wish I could go back to those times, I got so much enjoyment from reading those books.
I was obsessed with those rainbow magic fairies when I was like 7-8 years old. Even made a fairy OC called the “internet fairy” or something and made lore for it. Can’t remember the details but man you unlocked a whole gigabyte of memories by mentioning that
This guy isn’t just comedic, he recalled memories that were from your long a-while-ago childhood, bringing nostalgia that couldn’t been brought out due to how long ago it was because our current world has not been a very good place lately.
Honestly I've noticed with a lot of people that being forced to read books you're not interested in for hours a day every day for years as a kid can really make people not want to read books as an adult.
I never thought I'd become that person. I never understood 'I don't like to read' mentality. College changed that for me. I don't dislike books in general but the passion for them was killed. I owned a lot of books before college but while in college I packed most of them away and didn't read recreationally. The only books I read now are online romance novels. I think at one point the sound of page turning triggered me. I now have an unhealthy hatred for glossy paged books. Why are most textbooks made that way especially when we sit under terrible florescent lights.
The rainbow fish lowkey traumatized me after I thought about to hard cuz….scales don’t just come out…descaling a fish is a serious chore…so the rainbow fish was forcefully removing its scales just cuz no one like them If they didn’t….
Only cool thing about getting old is watching content that looks back at things we grew up on and our perspectives of it now lol… ahhh lol so funny lol thank you.
I spent all of my childhood reading the warrior cats books. My mom was always confused that I kept getting them bc she kept saying "surely they're done, surely there isn't MORE of those wierd cat books" They're literally still making them, there's over a hundred now I think
the 1st saga of 6 books was rlly great, I didn't even liked reading back then but I enjoyed it a lot. After I read the 7th one I was pretty disappointed and felt they just milked a finished story, never read the 8th one+. But shit dude over 100....WHY DO PPL STILL BUY EM
Me and my family were so broke in the process of moving, i screen recorded this video form start to end. we had no wifi, and especially no cellular data..i had this stored in imovie for soooo long. each time i watched you made me laugh. good luck on your journey
I fully blame schools for killing people's interest in reading for fun. They force you to analyse it until it's not fun anymore, then tell you that your interpretation of the story is wrong so you feel stupid for even trying to identify with the themes. Teachers even yell at kids for reading ahead! Smh how exactly is that supposed to inspire good reading habits??
Precisely, my book obsession was because of fanfiction!
How about when they'd force you in middle school to read an entire book in a week, every week, and write a goddamn summary of every chapter?????? And so you'd scramble to pick a book in the library, and god help you if you accidentally picked a boring one, and then you couldn't even speed read it bc you had to write the main points of each chapter and ughhhhh. This is coming from someone who has read books in a day before. School destroyed my love of learning
@@maynot I'm so sorry...reading for your pleasure is so much fun but being forced to do something will make us hate it!
It depended on the teacher for me honestly. The times when the teacher chose a couple of students to read and act as a character while reading was fun. As someone with ADHD, I especially need something that will keep me interested when I'm given a task that requires me to read a whole book.
@@raisyrosye7656 It is not totally as bad as I made it sound... because although I shut down before I can get near anything remotely academic, I looove to get into fandoms and research the lore of stuff that I watch, and that's almost studying, isn't it? Haha. And like you, fanfic has been my main source of literature since I first started using the internet. I'd have to say it's fanfic that taught me how to write, even.
"I hope your kids look like you" is both an amazing and terrible insult at the same time
@JHONNY bruh why are you posting links on this comment?
Its all about the way you say it
That’s a crazy ass insult
I make vidz like Degenerocity 🦵🦵
Dude I heard that shit and instantly added this video to favorites lmfao. That’s one of the greatest insults I’ve ever heard
Dr.Seuss was ahead of his time with the "go ask your dad" line
Crazy cause he hated kids and cheated on his wife when she had cancer
@@Just_niaxx He didn’t hate kids. He was a bad husband though
@@Birdyboyshe was afraid of them
Totally agree with you on The Rainbow Fish! I admittedly didn't think of the whole "they only like him because he's giving away something valuable", but I hated the book because the fish just STRAIGHT UP MUTILATES himself to get the others to like him! those other fish were literally asking him to rip out parts of his body and yet he was treated like the bad guy for refusing! I get the intended message behind it, but I think it was very poorly thought out.
I just made a comment about a way the story could have gone without falling into fish mutilation lmao
“They’re basically asking for a dollar.”
They’re asking a fish for his scales. That’s like going up to someone and asking “can I have your skin?”
In a human sense, it's as if tallness and maybe leanness could be distributed and all the short fatties hate the people getting laid.
Yes.
The correct outcome for that book is the fish gives all his scales away then nobody cares for him any more because they were only in it for what they could get from him.
Can I have your skin
Can I have your skin
The Dr. Seuss rap at the end literally had me bouncing it sounded so good.
Fr
I wanted to vibe but it’s almost 1 am so sadly I can’t 😔 it was amazing tho
Man I was literally rocking to the beat 🔥🔥🔥
i was mad hype that was fire
Surprised he didn’t talk about a bad case of stripes, that book SCARRED me for life. There’s just something so horrifying about being forced in 3rd grade to read about some girl turning into a literal bedroom
I know. I remember I had run away from my 2nd grade classroom because my teacher told me that I had to be in a different class after reading only 11 pages of the book while crying I couldn’t stop crying.
It has been 6 years and this book stills scares me till this day.
Edit: I just feel like the author should’ve been a avant-garde artist instead honestly. :P
YES THAT SCARED ME SO BAD TT
It always made me feel scared and digusted she was ugly in the first place she even uglier as fungus
WE READ IT IN 1ST AND I WAS TRAUMATIZED FOR LIFE. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REAL DISEASE-
Bro the book cover was what scarred me
I genuinely feel bad for people who don’t find reading fun because since I’ve always had maladaptive day dreaming it made it like I was seeing a movie in my head
Same here.
I use to get that but I don’t anymore
Same lol. Reading is always fun for me and I get so absorbed into it
Not only is Dr. Seuss the goat, but many of his books where literally designed to take real world problems and simplify them so a baby could understand.
Take the Butter Battle book, its whole story and designed was hinting at the Cold War and how just trying to one up someone else may lead to others getting hurt. Dr. Seuss can solve world hunger by teaching it to little kids.
He didn’t like kids and cheated with her wife that had cancer and committed sucide so I’m traumatized
@@Santi-mz9ll he did. bestie would have been the goat if he really had morals
@@lucy-zl4rz shit traumatized me
Edward Gorey is better
im pretty sure he said some things about african americans in his books but........
The best children's book with a lesson is The Giving Tree. I remember reading it as a kid and being confused, it was really the first melancholic experience I've ever had. It teaches kids that yeah, it's nice to share, but don't give everything away. It starts with an apple, but if left unchecked, it ends with your life.
Agreed
frr
damn straight!
better than the fish one
personally, i read it as how much parents are willing to give up for their kids
One of the most underrated Children Books of all time that I have read every time I entered the library is “Big Nate”. Honestly some of the funniest shit I’ve ever read were from those books and they even got a “Consistent Storyline” with some of the most interesting and enjoyable stories and characters ever. 10/10 go read.
YOOOO i know this is late but you just brought back some good memories of Big Nate, Actually forgot about that book for a while.
Another underrated children book is "Where The Wild Things Are"
@@theepicbladertvbeytuber6314 that book isn’t underated, everyone knows what it is
Completely agree! I loved those as a kid and still reread the ones I have on occasion.
10:49 “pixar presents:finding negro”is crazy
2:30 Of Mice and Men. I remember having a writing assignment in which I had to write an alternate ending for the book. I went with what if Lennie didn't get killed and got away never to be seen again since he realized just enough that he really messed up that he can't go back ever, and George just never caught up to him. Cut to years later in another town and George is now an owner of a farm and one to the animals he specializes in is rabbits. Lennie is passing through town as a vagabond, barely recognizable. They pass each other on the street, but for a second they thought recognized each other, turn around and realize it was who they thought they were, looking each other in the eye.
Fin.
Yeah, rewriting a classic is quite the task and rarely is going to be better than the original.
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh it was good
Really wondered if that wz really meant to b learned In middle schoo
Bruh imagine pouring your heart out on a story only to get a 76 or a c+
I did something similar, but lennie turned into a zombie and infected everyone on the farm. (I wanted to make the ending just a little bit different than what happened.)
@@bobbyjoeno7779 I daresay that you succeed. Went straight to a "The Walking Dead" crossover.
The rap you did at the end is literally the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life even my mom laughed at it.
@Ruben Terrine yes
Bruh my mom would look at me weird 🦧
@@lovffle lol
he didn’t make that
@@rtkiaa yea but he said it ina funny way
*6:04* I can't with *oh my God*😂
Oh my Goooood… It’s some crazy spider pig!
Judy Moody was my favorite book series as a kid. I hardly see anyone on the internet talk about it. Those books were so underrated.
I've only ever seen the movie
Gentlemen can we all agree Dee's Big Nuts was the greatest literary intellectual experience of any of our lives?
Yes👊😔
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Yes it’s a classic 👍
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I’m guessing everyone just discovered this guy but he is just such a hidden gem never fails to make me laugh keep up the good work
We been watching the goat 😎
@@ChumleyYT facts
@@ChumleyYT yes broo
Man, I remember I randomly got recommended the child support video back when he had like 20k subs and now he has over 400k
Edit: Make that 500k
@@ratking9577 we proud of him
God childhood books were a vibe. I literally hoarded Geronimo Stilton and Thea Stilton books, gave it away to my little cousin and he loves them! There was this never ending series of Rainbow Magic too and I remember searching my school library every week to search for the next part. Goosebumps, Glitter Girls, even Ripley's believe it or not. At this point reading these again will restore my happiness 😭😭
I LOVED Geranimo Stilton. Even though my ADHD couldn't stand reading so much lmao
Word bruh Dr Seuss was the goat of childhood books fr
"I hope your kids look like you" is the best insult I have ever heard.
@JHONNY FINALLY, something I don't give a shit about.
@@toxic_tomb1238 Based
@@limelikeicedtea5883 it's not based I just hate these view farming comment traps, it's worse than when youtubers ask for comments about a random subject even tho they will never actually check them.
@@toxic_tomb1238 yeah, screw the bots
10:42 this actually made me laugh hard
7:51 also not only is the message of the rainbow fish bad, but aren't scales literally part of a fish's body? Like, even just removing scales of fish are considered animal cruelty but it just adds to my point, not only are they just friends with rainbow fish for his scales, the rainbow fish is basically killing himself just to make his friends happy.
10:42 bro this is actual fire I’m not even lying to you guys
10:36 the one fish two fish rap you are looking for
Thank you
Damn it slaps🔥🔥🔥😎😎😎
Thanks
Childhood was a different beast entirely. You weren't judged by your looks, intellect, athletic abilities or wealth. You were only judged by whether or not you owned the huge Guinness Book of World Records from that year. That was what separated the fetuses from men.
whaddya MEAN you weren't judged by your athletic abilities, the fastest runner got all the hoes
Nah my childhood "friends" used to beat the shit out of each other and be narcisistic as hell
Whoever had the most cash to go to the Scholastic Book Fair was the king of school.
@Asmodeus Guy scholatic exist on Canada?
@Asmodeus Guy even in India.
I think the one time I enjoyed an assigned book (so far, at least) was The Outsiders. I remember that (especially on the day we saw the movie) almost everyone in our grade was simping for someone lol.
Also read Animal Farm!
Me too I enjoyed the story at English class (same to of mice and men)
Fr I loved the book and the movie so much
The outsiders is a classic book and movie another good movie is the lord of the flies!
This year I read of mice and men and the outsiders in class both good books your grade crazy for cherry?
@@chenbros some were, yeah
As an artist reading books is probably one of the best ways to tell how imaginative your art is and then based on the genre you can you figure out what your "Visual Library" is lacking and then add to it. 10/10 if your an artist read books of various genres and settings
11:05 WHY ARE THEY SAD AND GLAD AND BAD? IDK GO ASK YOUR DAD!!!
11:09 SOME AND THIN AND SOME ARE FAT! THE FAT ONE, HAS A YELLOW HAT!
in the rainbow fish, I'm pretty sure all the other fish are psychopaths. they're literally asking to for rainbow to rip his skin off and give it to them. rainbow is the only sane fish in that ocean. if he gave away his scales, he would be dead because the scales are like the skin of a fish.
that’s how I imagined it
Your profile makes me have nightmares
the octopus too, but he is going insane and then he tries to kill it
It’s crazy that you say all this then degen compares it to holding a dollar
8:30 I ALMOST CHOKED ON MY SODA💀💀💀
One of the must funniest vids from you in a while. The rainbow fish and dr suess segments had me guffawing
(Also, dr suess's "There's a Wocket in my Pocket" flows and sounds EXACTLY like that one Migos song, its insane)
This video reminded me of this one book I HATED when I was little called "A Bad Case of Stripes"
The whole plot was that some girl didnt wanna eat lima beans around others because it was embarrassing or somethin, so as punishment, the universe not only gives her stripes on her whole body, but also turns her into her ROOM. LIKE HER WHOLE ROOM WAS HER, BED WAS HER MOUTH OR SOME SHIT, IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME. She also turned into a gumball machine if I remembered correctly?? We read it in like second grade so they mustve WANTED us to freak the fuck out
That shit was scary
I'm probably the one of the few ppl who actually enjoys this book as a kid since the visuals didn't really scared me, I thought that was cool as a kid
Woah she straight up turned into Benson from Regular Show? Did her parents turn into a Bluejay and Raccoon?
I liked this one. Maybe it was because it was a video and Sean Astin was reading it for me, but I remember enjoying that book in 2nd grade.
Lowkey one of the scariest books I’ve ever read. Some of the pictures were unsettling
Y’all remember this book that was about a girl that had many sicknesses like the girl turned into colours, a house, and flags. This book legit scared me this was an audio book that my teacher played in kindergarten I got so scared
I think your talking about "a bad case of stripes" book.
@@anaheehee2784 oh thank you that book scared me literally
oh a bad case of stripes? that book is creepy af
oh god
that one scared the hell out of me
That book was one of my favorites :D
Looool two laughs three laughs idc how many laughs there are this is dopeeeeee 10:43
The charlottes web section was so funny I fell out of bed😂😂😂😂
Honestly, the Animorphs series is surprisingly good, with likeable characters, a good concept, one of the most intimidating threats in literature history, and to top it off, really good worldbuilding and LORE.
Edit: Actually, the Yeerks are the overarching threat of the series. The kids who can turn into animals are the protagonists. (warning, summary of Yeerks below)
The Yeerks are a race of grey, sluglike aliens that, despite their frankly hilarious forms, are one of the most dangerous species in the galaxy, infamous for conquering planets and adding them into their growing empire. Now, you might be thinking, "how?". Well, it's simple. They CONTROL THE BODIES OF THEIR UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS. Okay, the way it works is that they enter your body through the ear, make their way up to the brain, and then flatten themselves against it, squeezing into every last crevice. This gives them full access to their bodies and memories, leaving the victim trapped in their own mind, forced to watch helplessly as the Yeerks impersonate them perfectly, using their own memories as examples. Anyone can secretly be Yeerk-infested, and as a result, the invasion is happening without anyone knowing. This is why they are so dangerous.
You forgot the part where since the kids regenerate wounds, the author basically brutalized the kids. They get there arms and legs ripped off its fucking intense.
@@dannylucio6629 Oh yeah. Child stabbing. Can't forget the child stabbing.
@@dannylucio6629 ah yes, the ants.
Literally got dismembered in someone’s backyard.
Frikken dark.
THE COVERS WHERE SO GOD DAMN WEIRD
@@RosemaryRosella226 oh yeah, they picked ants from a different colony right and got jumped because of it. Shoulda had your colors checked man.
I remember absolutely loving the Geronimo Stilton books, from the spin-offs and the kingdom of Fantasy, those were my stepping stones into my love for reading. I remember going to the mall and begging my mom every time to go to the bookstore to get a new Geronimo Stilton book, shit was damn good back then and now that I gave it away to a local library, I hope kids could also get the Geronimo Stilton experience I had as a kid.
I remember reading those books all the time, I'm pretty sure there was a show as well
Omg when u said kingdom of fantasy it brought back so many memories, especially from that one giant ass book I used to flex called the phoenix of flames or smt
Bro I also rmb how it was low-key the first time I actually had a crush and that it on the blue girl 💀
@@hyperdonalpha shiiit, the phoenix of destiny? Yeah, I had that too, and it being a massive flex is definitely right. Shit looked like the paper was made of gold on the outside, and could've fooled me. I remember it being my most prized possession I ever had as a kid
The world building in the geronimo Stilton goes hard
10:35-11:16 I’ve been laughing at this for 15 minutes
Can’t believe you mentioned Bone comic series. In middle school, I used to read them during lunch in the library. My favorite comic series to this day as a 26 year-old. I bought the entire series a couple years ago. Always lend it out to others or recommend it! :)
Man, not reading Animorphs makes you missed a lot of interesting moral debates and of course child soldiers committing war crimes too. The book that you showed that have the girl morph into a bat had the Animorphs using chemical warfare, and it is a pretty tame one in their war crimes list.
39 clues is a good one too, the mystery really hook you in, while you can also learn some cool history facts along the way
I read a couple of them many many years ago, and I don’t remember anything. Other than the fact that they can turn into animals and one very detailed scene of someone flying as a Peragin falcon
my favorite part is when the animorphs used a bunch of handicapped children as meatshields
Animorphs is probably the book series that gets fucked over hardest by just having consistently weird AF book covers. Jesus those were nightmare fuel as a child.
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jelly and bean the cats
Percy Jackson, The Boxcar Children, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Dork Diaries were the series I read as a kid. Love them. I recently read the whole Percy Jackson series cuz I never finished it and it was great.
Both Percy Jackson series are incredible except for Blood of Olympus, I was so obsessed with them as a kid I self-diagnosed as having ADHD and being a demigod just because I had green eyes and couldn't sit still lmao
@@mortem4342 YES I LOVED PERCY JACKSON IN 5TH GRADE and blood of olympus could have had a better ending smh, like it was robbed of like 300 pages
Just finished trials of Apollo (comes after the Heroes Of Olympus, and Heroes of Olympus comes after the original series) and a nigga like me almost shed a tear a few times
@@mortem4342 i thought i had adhd, lol, turns out i DID?
@@vahineheart Sometimes I still wonder if I do lol, 80% sure I don't but wouldn't be surprised either.
6:22 Glad I’m not the only one lol
YOoOOooooO
Don't blame the reader blame the book
She Be Bad Tho
An underrated children book is "Where The Wild Things Are"
10:29 - just in case u need to rewind to hear that showstopping rap
I like the part where he raps
Same
I like the part where he
I like the part
Why you here
Dude was doing victory dance at 2:35
"Think about the rabbits, George." Is the hardest hitting line in anything ever
He can never fail to make me laugh and he’s talking about BOOKS
@JHONNY your dad still finally isn’t here
@@ItsEds7 Just violated this man damn💀
I make vidz like Degenerocity 🦵🦵
Literally 😂
tae tae is gae gae
11:14 ill have you know im watching this on my samsung fridge
Don’t forget the absolute comedy gold mine that was The Monster at the End of this Book, featuring Grover.
That dr. Seuss book spits Bars🥶🔥🔥🗣️
the Percy Jackson books were peak literature to me as a kid, the only book that had me like "who wrote this I need more"
On god, Luke’s backstory and Arc was pretty bussin
I FUCKIN LOVED THE FIRST BOOK I have only read the first book but oh my god the movie sucked ass
@@simpleman8883 no it wasn't?? He just had daddy issues like the rest of them mid af. Nico being a homosexual was honestly more interesting.
@@bruhvibes5941 Wait what? When did that happen?
@@schneejacques3502 In the sequel series when the Roman side of mythology came into play and you got characters like Jason, Leo, Hazel, Frank, etc
Can't believe you never mentioned Roald Dahl, I always preferred to read his books over any Seuss work
Bro, Roald Dahl was sooo good. The Witches, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The BFG, etc. I think my favorite story may have been The Magic Finger. High key terrifying, but really cool at the same time.
@@joyc.e.7511 ikr? I can't really remember The Magic Finger but my favorite was Danny, the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl is an AMAZING author for kids and adults, and he had a fascinating life. If you haven’t read his autobiographies you’re missing out. He was in a car accident when he was a kid and almost got his nose entirely cut off.
The typical Chocolate Factory Fan vs Glass Elevator Enjoyer
Yea, even thou Jack and Annie and Thea Stilton's books were my favorites, he's the goat when it comes to children's books.
Recently got back to reading novels with Stephen King, but MAN all these stories are so good, I remember REALLY liking Boosebumps as a kid and that sparked the interest of horror in me. I also collected the Dork Diaries books as well. Man there was so many bangers along with the underrated gem that is BABYMOUSE
The rainbow fish book and dr suess books are so nostalgic
I LOVE the 1973 version of Charlotte's Web. Charlotte's death makes me cry everytime.
Honestly, the childhood book series I remember most fondly is Geronimo Stilton. I read almost every book I could find in my local library, and I even owned a few. I definitely need to get back into the series, it's really cool.
Books I remember fondly are Chika Chika Boom Boom, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Geronimo Stilton, Big Nate, Dear Dumb Diary, the interactive Goosebumps books, and another one whose name I forgot but it frightened me in a good way.
It was about a boy who sailed away from his problematic home & arrived at an island full of monsters that look like they're made of suits. He gets along with them at first until things become creepier, and ends up sailing back home. It had a film which I also liked.
@@spaghetto9836 I know which book you're talking about! It's called Where The Wild Things Are.
Also, I'm a fan of Big Nate too. Haven't read any of the books in quite some time, so I'll need to catch up on that as well.
@@phoenixkd2006 Omg that's it, tysm 🥺! Now I can look it up lol.
I like the Animorphs series. (Though the Megamorphs and Alternamorphs book sets not so much). I don't like how they make the characters cliche, has stereotypes, as well as unoriginal puns, but the series was surprisingly deep and dark at some points. It goes over topics of genocide, self-sacrifice, torture, brief existentialism, nature vs. nurture, societal conformity, herd mentality, death, mercy killing, abandonment, executions, depression, and the horrors of war. It has some deep points and I wish that they didn't make a very bad tv series of it as well as make it look like some sort of cheap, corny series with cringy book covers that kind of downplays what the book is really about. I think that if they did a little bit of a better job on writing the books (make them longer as well as keep better consistency.) and not rush the process just to reach their book deadline, it could've been way better...
6:13
I spilled my water all over my laptop lmao
Porky gets the spider pregnant
"Take me back" I feel you man I miss those old days, same with the TV shows
Box car children And goosebumps was fire! ( The Bluford high series was one of my favorites in highschool)
9:08 when he said he couldn’t read he rlly meant it 💀
Honestly I’m so lucky that I read long ass series like Warriors and Harry Potter as a kid, because even though they suck looking back, reading them made me realize that not all books are boring garbage that you have to overanalyze to “enjoy”. Series like Mistborn are so fun to read and have genuinely amazing stories but because of how boring school is nobody actually wants to try books out
man I hate harry potter that shit is so fucking boring
Warriors is quite nostalgic for me, too. It's how I learned the word "apprentice"
I Read im the legend and this book is awesome, a trully high quality drama
@antjbiotics Wouldn't say it sucks, but it's not mind blowing either, and some stuff aged a little poorly, like... Cho Chang's name. Also, Harry Potter is just basically Groosham Grange meeets The Worst Witch. Not that it's a bad thing, I love Harry Potter. But yeah, the books weren't what I would call works of art.
@antjbiotics I mean, I guess in terms of actual writing it’s just mid, but the fact that JK Rowling is such a fucked up person on top of the fact that HP isn’t an amazing or even a very good series makes me like it way less
Chicka chicka boom boom is literally so fire
I would like to shout out a few of my childhood favorites that I never see any discussion of. First, the Puppy in my Pocket picture books, based off the toys and they came with them. They were about a bunch puppies just doing stuff like celebrating holidays or having a fashion show. Also Skippy John Jones, I actually dressed as Skip John Jones for Halloween one year and still have part of the costume about a decade later. Another one is Dear Dumb Diary, which was pretty similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but I actually liked it more, mostly because I read it first.
11:00 your average carti fan...
I think some teachers forced many of us to dislike reading because they can be highly biased and say that your interpretations of the story are wrong, even if it's just your personal opinion, and they don't agree with you. For me, I started loving reading again once I bought and read my own books and had a child to read to.
Dr.Seuss has that good good music man, like bro I can go back to my Dr.Seuss books and rap the WHOLE time while reading it.👍
my computer started to heat up when you started spitting those BARS like Dr Seuss fr a hood classic
I remember reading action novels like Percy Jackson or Artemis Fowl. I remember reading this one book called Maximum Ride, where a bunch of bird kids flew around looking for their deadbeat dad.
yooo maximum ride. legit sucked ass but i loved it in elementary school
Bro pjo rocks I also read Daniel x
I swear, Dr. Suess was making bars in his books. But the sad thing is, he was a horrible person. I also saw someone rap There's a Wocket in my Pocket over the beat of Walk it like I talk it. And it was FIRE!
Who cares about his personality
@@EmperorDxD you're right. But it's still sad
@@lydiabogan Wait, what happened with Dr. Suess? I heard he was bad but never knew what happened.
@@nightly145 basically he was cheating on his dying wife who fell ill with cancer then when she died he married the woman he was cheating with 💀 and other stuff
@@tonystonem9614 …wow
Bone is one of my favorite comic series, I haven't read it in years
Him sneaking the I don’t know meme into his videos always got a chuckle out of me
I love how this man can turn anything into a rap song
"But nobody goes to see him cause you know, he's a dirty ass pig."
That made me laugh way harder than it should have 😂🤣
As soon he said "you know what were great books though?" a webtoon ad came up😃
9:26 BROOOOOOO MINE DID TO IT WAS HORRIBLE BUT WHO CARES I WAS SICK FOR LIKE 2 WEEKS THO
6:43 unlocked a fucking memory
As a fiction novel writer, I understand the problem with reading books lol. Books aren’t the greatest source of entertainment when you just want to turn your brain off. However, I would recommend some fictional books for when you want to ignore the real world for a little bit. Xenofiction is the best for that, in my opinion, like Warriors or Watership Down.
Lol I've found that "bookworms" or people like me who actually enjoy reading actually can turn our brain of pretty easily and almost instantly when we start reading shutting off the world and immersing myself in a book is easier than movies and comics sometimes.
Unless Ive got something on my mind that I don’t want to think about, yeah. I don’t actually imagine what happens very much either, it’s strings of words that make sense.
It's what you train yourself to enjoy early on. If your parents encouraged you to read early on in life, and you genuinely enjoy it, you'll associate reading with good times, and would therefore do it more often. However, if all of your entertainment is visual, trying to imagine and entertain yourself without visuals, like comic books and movies, would be tasking, as you've never done it before a lot.
That's why I detest that the first thing parents do to try to pacify or entertain their kids is to put a tablet in front of them. You're training them to half their attention span from the get-go.
Bro Warriors was my shit as a kid
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A big children’s author up here in Canada is Robert Munsch, who I just found out was born in Pittsburgh. But his books were my childhood. We read them all the time in elementary school
Also I demand a full version of the Red fish, Blue fish rap
I have never read a single Animorph book. I did however pick up pretty much every one I ever saw and flipped through it real fast to watch the kid transform into whatever animal
I swear EVERY single video this man has made has made me laugh.
fr bruh
8:56 man used the ERB version of Dr.Seuss while talking about childhood books. thats some nostalgia overload
Man Robert Munch and Dr. Seuss were the backbone of my childhood
My favorite books used to be the Miss Nelson books! The ones where that teacher notices her class misbehaving, and she decides to disguise herself as Hugh Neutron’s aunt (actually a witch) to punish her class like it’s a military school. Those books were awesome!
I read that book in 3rd grade..idk why but it was so scary i couldnt show up to math class for like a week because the teacher looked like the one in the book LMAO
@@superlolbrothers6559 I loved those!
I remember in elementary school where we would fight over the dork diaries books and those rainbow magic fairy books. I wish I could go back to those times, I got so much enjoyment from reading those books.
Broo the magic rainbow fairy books slapped tho
I was obsessed with those rainbow magic fairies when I was like 7-8 years old. Even made a fairy OC called the “internet fairy” or something and made lore for it. Can’t remember the details but man you unlocked a whole gigabyte of memories by mentioning that
This guy isn’t just comedic, he recalled memories that were from your long a-while-ago childhood, bringing nostalgia that couldn’t been brought out due to how long ago it was because our current world has not been a very good place lately.
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Is literally the definition of childhood books 3:05 btw
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"I hope your kids look like you" is an insult that strikes at multiple generations
8:10 sharing is Karen
Honestly I've noticed with a lot of people that being forced to read books you're not interested in for hours a day every day for years as a kid can really make people not want to read books as an adult.
I never thought I'd become that person. I never understood 'I don't like to read' mentality. College changed that for me. I don't dislike books in general but the passion for them was killed. I owned a lot of books before college but while in college I packed most of them away and didn't read recreationally. The only books I read now are online romance novels. I think at one point the sound of page turning triggered me. I now have an unhealthy hatred for glossy paged books. Why are most textbooks made that way especially when we sit under terrible florescent lights.
The rainbow fish lowkey traumatized me after I thought about to hard cuz….scales don’t just come out…descaling a fish is a serious chore…so the rainbow fish was forcefully removing its scales just cuz no one like them If they didn’t….
8:57 using that ERB clip made me instantly sub I love you
10:24 had me dying with that line and EDP shot 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
guys i dont think thats biggie
Biggie smalls 445.
Have y'all seen Jeff Kinney? He's been going WILD on twitter, childhood GOAT
10:40 the rap battle of the black man
Only cool thing about getting old is watching content that looks back at things we grew up on and our perspectives of it now lol… ahhh lol so funny lol thank you.
Not lizzo😭✋ 11:10
Ur ugly
I spent all of my childhood reading the warrior cats books. My mom was always confused that I kept getting them bc she kept saying "surely they're done, surely there isn't MORE of those wierd cat books"
They're literally still making them, there's over a hundred now I think
the 1st saga of 6 books was rlly great, I didn't even liked reading back then but I enjoyed it a lot. After I read the 7th one I was pretty disappointed and felt they just milked a finished story, never read the 8th one+. But shit dude over 100....WHY DO PPL STILL BUY EM
It’s crazy how the author is still writing those
@@peppermintspice5873 Authors, there's multiple people writing under the name Erin Hunter
@@deen7530 ok that definitely makes more sense
Some say that lenny is in heaven, petting the rabbits.
Me and my family were so broke in the process of moving, i screen recorded this video form start to end. we had no wifi, and especially no cellular data..i had this stored in imovie for soooo long. each time i watched you made me laugh. good luck on your journey