Every re-read that book goes up in my rankings. Might actually be my favourite Dresden book at this point (although Cold Days and Skin Game are in close competition for that).
I just want to thank you for reading the Dresden Files books. I love the series, so much heart in the characters, and I am getting to vicariously experience them again for the first time through your reactions. It is moving, cause they hit me very much the same way I am seeing from your reactions, and I can feel the excitement for them. Enjoy! You have a great ride with lots of emotional highs and lows to come.
OOH!! Roadside Picnic was made in to an incredible film called Stalker back in the 70's. Andrei Tarkovsky directed and its often considered his best film, from director who's already considered one of the greatest directors of the 20th century. It was a trip when I watched it.
Just keep in mind that the movie is absolutely nothing like the book. Both are notable (although I adore the book in particular), but they stand on their own.
Excited for the getting your life together video. I enjoyed this video! Gives me videos to look forward to. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the vlogs 😊 Love that you’re on a sci-fi kick too, it’s a new genre to me, I’m waiting for Annihilation to come in the mail 😍
Roadside Picnic has been on my list for ages, and now it seems like it's time to finally read it. I'm really looking forward to Turn Coat, which is often overlooked because of how it's sandwiched between the outstanding Small Favor and.... Changes. Oh, Changes. Heck, I'm doing it, too, because *Every* Dresden fan is bouncing up and down waiting for you to get to Changes in June, but Turn Coat is excellent on its own merits.
So excited you are reading Nnedi Okorafor! I'm obsessed with her! I wanna re-read Remote Control now so I'm prepared for your thoughts! Hope you love her too! And as for this kind of video, I liked it. Gives me an idea what to expect.
Me FOMOing you into reading The Strange Bird is pay back for you forcing me to read all of Ambergris in June! I'm also very excited for Dead Astronauts, such a good cover. On the topic of tropes done well, I feel like The Will of the Many is kind of teh perfect of example of a book thats fairly tropey but knocking them all out of the park. I do enjoy the videos for the month breakdown, gives me something more specific to look forward too.
Novellas! I'm not that far into video, but I'm happy for that format! Edit: A Letter of an Unknown Woman! I've read it ages ago, and it's still haunting and nauseating. Can't wait for your take!
I had to rearrange somewhat my April and May TBR, as Petrik & Jake Bishop group-pressured me (though in the nicest way possible, after all Petrik is Southeast Asian and Jake Canadian! 😄) into reading «Howling Dark» right away after finishing «Empire of Silence» earlier in April and the Cyberpunk elements of «Howling Dark» made me want to pick up «Idoru» by William Gibson right after, so I have pushed back «The Green Pearl» (Lyonesse Trilogy #2) from April till May. Further on my May TBR List, I have: «The Wise Man’s Fear» by Patrick Rothfuss (Fantasy, sequel to «The Name of the Wind») «Madouc» (Lyonesse Trilogy #3) by Jack Vance ((Pre-)Arthurian Fantasy) «The Dragonbone Chair» (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) by Tad Williams (Epic Fantasy, a key influence for George R. R. Martin's « A Song of Ice and Fire»)
OK. Roadside Picnic is on the plate. Unironically the required read for SF reader. Then I would love to see Merphy to look at the Monday Starts on Saturday by Strugatsky bros... because absurdism :)
Hi Merphy. You've probably heard about movie "Stalker" by andrey tarkovski (or maybe not) commonly regarded as greatest soviet movie and one of the greatest movies in history. This movie is in fact based on the Roadside Picnic (but it's NOT an adaptation, book and movie are very different although script of the movie was written by book authors). So yeah if you will be interested you can go check the movie (it's uploaded on the youtube for free with eng subs). It's a masterpiece.
I happened to get an ARC of The Silverblood Promise - I think you'll like it! It didn't become an instant favourite or anything, but it was a fun ride and if this is what James Logan can do for a debut novel, I'm excited to see where he can go from here!
Have you tried the Dresden Files audiobooks yet? And You should maybe consider reading some of the short stories from the first anthology Side Jobs. Especially Warrior and Day Off take place between Small Favor and Turn Coat and both are great!
Turn Coat is sandwiched between two usual favorites of the series but it has some absolute 10/10 parts to it I’m very interested to see your review. Also you should still read “The Warrior” first, the short story that takes place between Small Favor and Turn Coat, especially if you are a Michael fan. Also also if you wanna torture yourself (in a good way) read just the first paragraph of the book after Turn Coat.
I just wanted to call this out in case Merphy wasn't aware and I happened to look at the reading spreadsheet last week. Ascendance of a Bookworm was originally a Light Novel and the Parts are fully translated in the novel format (the entire series is almost complete). I noticed that it said that Part 2 is a TBR once the manga is finished and translated into English, but that will likely take several years. So even if it's for the Manga channel, it might be worth considering moving to the Light Novel version instead (it's almost majority of the Bookworm community's pref method of reading).
My daughter and I are reading Alcatraz vs the evil librarians. Im guessing you have read this series. We are on book 4 now and she swears that Alcatraz is Wit.
I don't know if you already made a video like this but what books have you read that you thought "This would make for an AWESOME animated movie, mini series or long running series". My vote: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
Dead Astronauts sounds fascinating. Love the cover, too. As if the paint of it is being bent by weird space-time stuff. I've heard a lot about Roadside Picnic. I kind of bounced off the sample I read a few months ago, but the premise is interesting enough, I might try reading the full book sometime, so it's on my list now. It's only fair I offer a few for you, too! Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series if you haven't already read it, and..........hmm.....most of the books on my shelf you've either read already or probably wouldn't be interested in. I'll have to think outside the box. How about bats [Silverwing series] or airships [Airborn trilogy]? Or weird literary meta-fiction [The Thursday Next series]?
There is a manga that is kind of "based on" roadside picnic called otherside picnic, could be fun to try out if you enjoy the first one (or maybe even more if you do not!). Or rather, it is a light novel first, but anyway.
Dead Astronauts feels like an otherworldly experience from start to finish. I loved it, but I also have no idea what happened in it 😂 I recommend reading the strange bird before it! There's much more world building
I think I'm going to start a reread of Dead Astronauts. It's the only Vandermeer I've read that I just don't know what it was I read. It's a weird one, which is saying something considering it's Vandermeer.
i did not like thorn hedge, i kept waiting for it to “get going or get good” and then it ended. I did enjoy wizards guide to baking so some may just be hit or miss
I've only recently discovered your channel (and I love it, FTR) so forgive me if you've covered this but, have you read any of China Mieville's books? You mentioned looking for some fantasy that's outside of the norm and his stuff blends fantasy/sci-fi and it's about as far from the norm as it can be. "Perdido Street Station", "Embassytown" and "Railsea" are all fantastic reads that challenged and delighted me in equal measure.
1:22 damn that reminds me of a friend in middle school abscessed with an english boy that came to our school that couldnt even speak portuguese yet and she was POSITIVE that he was the love of her life so she would right her long long letters with google translate and give it to him and I, one of the few who was good and english and could tal to him, should know if he finally changed his mind. I felt so bad for him but I wanted to help my friend but it got to the point of him just saying for her to stop because he was sick of all the letters and didnt even bother to read them anyone. that he just wanted to be left alone haha poor guy and poor my friend that spend her days crying because of him, even though I didnt even show her how mad he actually was
Book 4 of temeraire is actually where things fell apart for me to the point of me losing interest entirely. I read book 5 in January I think and I still haven't forced myself to read the next one.
Turn Coat is so good!
Every re-read that book goes up in my rankings. Might actually be my favourite Dresden book at this point (although Cold Days and Skin Game are in close competition for that).
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Cold days is my personal favorite, because it is the book that transitions it to the epic scale of the following books.
@@josiahmacfarlane4344 Yeah also there's some wonderful character developments
Looking forward to Turn Coat!
I just want to thank you for reading the Dresden Files books. I love the series, so much heart in the characters, and I am getting to vicariously experience them again for the first time through your reactions. It is moving, cause they hit me very much the same way I am seeing from your reactions, and I can feel the excitement for them. Enjoy! You have a great ride with lots of emotional highs and lows to come.
Roadside picnic is an absolute classic!
Any video you wanna do is ok by me! You are absolutely delightful, and I’m here for all and any of it. I just really enjoy your presence. 😊
I've read Roadside Picnic twice, and bawled my eyes out when I finished reading both times 😭 It's a timeless classic!
More Dresden!! Can’t wait for you to read the next book
OOH!! Roadside Picnic was made in to an incredible film called Stalker back in the 70's. Andrei Tarkovsky directed and its often considered his best film, from director who's already considered one of the greatest directors of the 20th century. It was a trip when I watched it.
Just keep in mind that the movie is absolutely nothing like the book. Both are notable (although I adore the book in particular), but they stand on their own.
Excited for the getting your life together video. I enjoyed this video! Gives me videos to look forward to. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the vlogs 😊 Love that you’re on a sci-fi kick too, it’s a new genre to me, I’m waiting for Annihilation to come in the mail 😍
Really looking forward to Turn coat. My teenagers are reading it too so i get to see their reactions as well as yours. Its awesome!!!
Roadside Picnic has been on my list for ages, and now it seems like it's time to finally read it. I'm really looking forward to Turn Coat, which is often overlooked because of how it's sandwiched between the outstanding Small Favor and.... Changes. Oh, Changes. Heck, I'm doing it, too, because *Every* Dresden fan is bouncing up and down waiting for you to get to Changes in June, but Turn Coat is excellent on its own merits.
Really love this kind of video, do keep going if you're enjoying it! And what an epic reading month!
You should leave the blanket fort for the kiddos haha I build forts like that with my kids and we have movie nights in them 🤍
Love videos like this! Your planning helps me plan my months as well!
I'm sure folks have told you already....but the Dresden audiobooks are next level good! The narrator is fantastic and truly captures Dresden's tone.
So excited you are reading Nnedi Okorafor! I'm obsessed with her! I wanna re-read Remote Control now so I'm prepared for your thoughts! Hope you love her too!
And as for this kind of video, I liked it. Gives me an idea what to expect.
So excited for you to read Roadside Picnic!
Me FOMOing you into reading The Strange Bird is pay back for you forcing me to read all of Ambergris in June! I'm also very excited for Dead Astronauts, such a good cover.
On the topic of tropes done well, I feel like The Will of the Many is kind of teh perfect of example of a book thats fairly tropey but knocking them all out of the park.
I do enjoy the videos for the month breakdown, gives me something more specific to look forward too.
Novellas! I'm not that far into video, but I'm happy for that format!
Edit: A Letter of an Unknown Woman! I've read it ages ago, and it's still haunting and nauseating. Can't wait for your take!
I had to rearrange somewhat my April and May TBR, as Petrik & Jake Bishop group-pressured me (though in the nicest way possible, after all Petrik is Southeast Asian and Jake Canadian! 😄) into reading «Howling Dark» right away after finishing «Empire of Silence» earlier in April and the Cyberpunk elements of «Howling Dark» made me want to pick up «Idoru» by William Gibson right after, so I have pushed back «The Green Pearl» (Lyonesse Trilogy #2) from April till May.
Further on my May TBR List, I have:
«The Wise Man’s Fear» by Patrick Rothfuss (Fantasy, sequel to «The Name of the Wind»)
«Madouc» (Lyonesse Trilogy #3) by Jack Vance ((Pre-)Arthurian Fantasy)
«The Dragonbone Chair» (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1) by Tad Williams (Epic Fantasy, a key influence for George R. R. Martin's « A Song of Ice and Fire»)
I like this type of content a lot.
I read Roadside Picnic a few weeks ago and loved it. Hope you do too!
OK. Roadside Picnic is on the plate. Unironically the required read for SF reader.
Then I would love to see Merphy to look at the Monday Starts on Saturday by Strugatsky bros... because absurdism :)
Roadside picnic is unexpected but awesome to see on the list
The King's General!!!🎉🎉🎉
Letter From an Unknown Woman is excellent! One of my favourite stories, hope you like it!
Awesome, I really like this info in form of video instead of post. 👌
Hi Merphy. You've probably heard about movie "Stalker" by andrey tarkovski (or maybe not) commonly regarded as greatest soviet movie and one of the greatest movies in history. This movie is in fact based on the Roadside Picnic (but it's NOT an adaptation, book and movie are very different although script of the movie was written by book authors). So yeah if you will be interested you can go check the movie (it's uploaded on the youtube for free with eng subs). It's a masterpiece.
I found Thornhedge to be very meh compared to T. Kingfisher's other works🤷♀
Good luck with your reading!!
I happened to get an ARC of The Silverblood Promise - I think you'll like it! It didn't become an instant favourite or anything, but it was a fun ride and if this is what James Logan can do for a debut novel, I'm excited to see where he can go from here!
Have you tried the Dresden Files audiobooks yet? And You should maybe consider reading some of the short stories from the first anthology Side Jobs. Especially Warrior and Day Off take place between Small Favor and Turn Coat and both are great!
Merphy out here messing up my tbr. Roadside Picnic sounds so interesting im going to have to read it now
Turn Coat is sandwiched between two usual favorites of the series but it has some absolute 10/10 parts to it I’m very interested to see your review.
Also you should still read “The Warrior” first, the short story that takes place between Small Favor and Turn Coat, especially if you are a Michael fan.
Also also if you wanna torture yourself (in a good way) read just the first paragraph of the book after Turn Coat.
Read the first paragraph after you finish TC, of course.
I just wanted to call this out in case Merphy wasn't aware and I happened to look at the reading spreadsheet last week.
Ascendance of a Bookworm was originally a Light Novel and the Parts are fully translated in the novel format (the entire series is almost complete).
I noticed that it said that Part 2 is a TBR once the manga is finished and translated into English, but that will likely take several years.
So even if it's for the Manga channel, it might be worth considering moving to the Light Novel version instead (it's almost majority of the Bookworm community's pref method of reading).
Yes The Strange Bird is amazing!!!!
My daughter and I are reading Alcatraz vs the evil librarians. Im guessing you have read this series. We are on book 4 now and she swears that Alcatraz is Wit.
I don't know if you already made a video like this but what books have you read that you thought
"This would make for an AWESOME animated movie, mini series or long running series".
My vote:
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
Dead Astronauts sounds fascinating. Love the cover, too. As if the paint of it is being bent by weird space-time stuff. I've heard a lot about Roadside Picnic. I kind of bounced off the sample I read a few months ago, but the premise is interesting enough, I might try reading the full book sometime, so it's on my list now. It's only fair I offer a few for you, too! Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series if you haven't already read it, and..........hmm.....most of the books on my shelf you've either read already or probably wouldn't be interested in. I'll have to think outside the box. How about bats [Silverwing series] or airships [Airborn trilogy]? Or weird literary meta-fiction [The Thursday Next series]?
Oh I had Thornhedge on my April TBR and didn't get to it. Maybe I'll try to fit it in this month.
I just picked up Binti by Nnedi Okorafor and I am hooked on her writing!
I have a feeling you’d love the silverblood promise. It’s lies of Locke Lakota meets Indiana jones
There is a manga that is kind of "based on" roadside picnic called otherside picnic, could be fun to try out if you enjoy the first one (or maybe even more if you do not!). Or rather, it is a light novel first, but anyway.
You had me at "blanket fort" :D
Your book preferences I’m kinda shocked I haven’t seen you do a Star Wars book review
Dead Astronauts feels like an otherworldly experience from start to finish. I loved it, but I also have no idea what happened in it 😂 I recommend reading the strange bird before it! There's much more world building
I feel the same way about T Kingfisher. I've read 4, with varying degrees of enjoyment, dnfed 2, and am currently reading another.
Make that DNFed 3.
I really think you should read the warrior it's a novella between small favor and turn coat.
I started my journey with the sun eater books.
I think I'm going to start a reread of Dead Astronauts. It's the only Vandermeer I've read that I just don't know what it was I read. It's a weird one, which is saying something considering it's Vandermeer.
I think you should check out the Akata Witch series, it was amazing
i did not like thorn hedge, i kept waiting for it to
“get going or get good” and then it ended.
I did enjoy wizards guide to baking so some may just be hit or miss
I wouldn't describe _Turn Coat_ as "peak Dresden"...
... but only because I know there's even better ahead.
I've only recently discovered your channel (and I love it, FTR) so forgive me if you've covered this but, have you read any of China Mieville's books? You mentioned looking for some fantasy that's outside of the norm and his stuff blends fantasy/sci-fi and it's about as far from the norm as it can be. "Perdido Street Station", "Embassytown" and "Railsea" are all fantastic reads that challenged and delighted me in equal measure.
1:22 damn that reminds me of a friend in middle school abscessed with an english boy that came to our school that couldnt even speak portuguese yet and she was POSITIVE that he was the love of her life so she would right her long long letters with google translate and give it to him and I, one of the few who was good and english and could tal to him, should know if he finally changed his mind. I felt so bad for him but I wanted to help my friend but it got to the point of him just saying for her to stop because he was sick of all the letters and didnt even bother to read them anyone. that he just wanted to be left alone haha poor guy and poor my friend that spend her days crying because of him, even though I didnt even show her how mad he actually was
Book 4 of temeraire is actually where things fell apart for me to the point of me losing interest entirely. I read book 5 in January I think and I still haven't forced myself to read the next one.
Personally The King's General is one of my top 2 du Maurier, so I'm hoping this time next month I won't be watching a roast video about it 😅
The big question, how often have you hidden in the blanket fort to read uninterrupted?
😂 maybe a couple
Any chance you are gonna get back to Aubrey Maturin?
💕💕
A month without Pratchett?
Hhmmm Merphy and her plans...tickle me curious
Thank God this video is only 10 minutes long instead of 30 or more XD
I think Thornhedge was my least favourite T. Kingfisher so far. I liked the writing, as always, but the story didn't grip me...
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Banks - Culture still should be at the sci-fi bandwagon. 👀 So is Commonwealth Saga.
how da kids doin