Ranking Every Book I Read in 2023
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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What a powerhouse set of books! And, my complements on pulling that off in one take. I always enjoy your lists. You bring interesting insights to the books in a cogent and concise way that always leaves me feeling informed rather than provoked. It's a rare experience on UA-cam, but I don't get worked up if you disliked a book I love or loved a book I dislike. I'm just walking away with a lot of interesting ideas for what to read next. Thank you!
The cow kept getting closer to listen!
I really like your willingness to find greatness in works with major defects. Not enough people read that way.
John Nathan who was Mishima’s translator on many novels, once described reading a Mishima novel as visiting a museum of the world’s most ornate picture frames.
It’s hilarious how true that is😭😭
I’m not sure I’ve ever commented on a UA-cam video. Just want to say discovering your channel has opened up reading as a whole new experience to me. I have a bookcase half full of stuff to read based on your videos. I’ve discovered some amazing novels watching your reviews. Thank you for the effort you put into this channel for “newer readers” like myself. Hope your 2024 is awesome dude
Hell yeah
Guys will see a comment like the one above and just think, “Hell yeah”
It's true! Bookpilled started me off with Silverberg's The World Inside. I think I've read six of the nine I've picked up since then. It's interesting to hear such enthusastic, detailed reviews of books I've never even heard of before. If I have to hear one more list that mentions Dune ... I'm switching back to reading Ikea instructions.
@@jasonhesseltine3520 Do you have any recommendations for Ikea items or favourite styles of construction? I know they have a lot of great graphic instructions online.
@@thescrewfly As a fella who has read Ikea instructions and Chapterhouse: Dune, I have some wisdom to impart. You can't go wrong with a Billy bookcase. They come in vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry. You can store all your Dune books there and gaze at them lovingly while admiring the cool Swedish asethics of your bookcase, like Absolut on ice and a Bergman film.
i was waiting for the bull to charge 😂
I suspect it's really a steer.
If he did, he would get such a deal.
Me too!
Me 4
I knew the top comment would be about the bull.
Excellent list and setting! I love that you not only bring attention to so many interesting books but also highlight lesser-known or discussed female authors.
Dude, that was not an easy thing to do, but you nailed it. Now I have to spend days dissecting this video and doing research! Good job, and thanks!
The Franz Werfel book is available as ebook in German, yay! I'm Austrian and never heard of this book (I knew the author, though) until you brought it up.
Can't wait to dive into it, I have to push it up on my TBR.
Best back drop of any book tuber hands down. Beautiful background. 1st time to your channel... I hope you have more like this.
I ordered the Werfel in its german form. 1949 print and nicely bound. Definitely difficult to read, because of its sprawling and broad language. But I enjoy it so far, 40 pages in. Cant believe I found your channel. Have binge watched most of your vids in the past two weeks and I‘m really happy and love what you do! Please keep on doing this! Will definitely sub to the Patreon next month! Happy new year, and great video as always! All the best from Germany, Leon!
Art is obviously subjective. I disagree completely with your Bad Brains review. A meandering, pretentious mess. Using the tortured artist trope who seems to need to clean his armpits at McDonald’s a lot. Didn’t care about the character or the story, or the overly ostentatious prose. I heard The Cipher was better. I might give this author a second chance, but I doubt it.
Anything pre 1960 is ‘slow’ probably because life was slower then….
You've had a vintage year there Matt, great to see so many New Wave masterpieces -and some near misses- getting your attention. I received the Werfel by the way, thanks VERY much, enjoying it, expect an email soon. I don't keep a record of what I read when, but I have often felt since starting my channel that I've now discovered so many of the great works of SF that when tackling stuff new to me, I'm just mopping up the dirty corners at times....so this year I'm returning a lot to favourite authors for re-reads. Loved the cattle, personally....🙂
Thanks Steve. Maybe some more mainstream fiction if you've run out of science fiction? Talk to you soon.
The setting. The reviews. The actual live eating animal. The patagonia. *chefs kiss*
Cow edging closer and closer like it had some opinions about Three Body Problem to add
lol
"Star of the Unborn" can be downloaded from a website rhyming with Gibrary Lenesis...
Great review! Glad you went rather quickly instead of bogging down into detailed reasons. For Ian McDonals, try Dervish House (infuriating alphabet) and Brasyl (!). I set about finishing the rest of Clark this years in chronological order. The slow decline was rather sad - a few of the last were almost embarrassingly bad. As for politics, I avoid those who use recent events (anything with Trump, roe v Wade reversal, mega-ambiguousness. One book I had to have a notepad to keep up with the varous new terms and decided it just wasn't worth it. Sorry you don't like Heinlein - he's a big favorite of mine.
Heinlein isn’t my favourite author, however, he did give us Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Stranger in a Strange Land, was a Naval Officer and Aeronautical Engineer…there are some who seem to have a need to magnify his flaws (we ALL have some). My favourites are H.G. Wells, Vernor Vinge, Robert Silverberg, Philip K Dick, and Hemingway. Cheers!
If someone says a Horror book needs to have a "scary monster" for it to be considered a Horror novel, they're obviously not a Horror reader and they are truly missing out. Sometimes the worst (best?) horror is the one you cannot see or clearly define.
A video with Bull but no 💩
I feel I must read The Haunting of Hill House this year.
Some other interesting ones in there.
I’m a huge Jack Vance fan, but I have to agree with your take on The Gray Prince…
I liked the the first two LotRs. Return of the king was a real trudge, as I felt that Tolkien lost interest the middle two thirds. Also, I read the Ragged Astronauts by Bob Saw. Entertaining read.
Honestly don’t get how the gray prince is “right wing” at all but hyper-political people see that crap everywhere these days must be exhausting
Yeah, he associates “idiot, regressive, and fascistic” with right wingers. Imagine living thru the past 2 Democratic presidencies, with their big tech controlled censorship, their media driven collusion hoaxes, their ridiculous impeachments, their intelligent agencies and their illegally obtained fisa warrents, their indictments of their political opponents, etc, and calling right wingers the fascists.
Anyone watching this channel should know his political views and how that sways his rankings. Moon is a Harsh Mistress as the worst book he read all year should cement that. After viewing this ranking of books it's pretty clear I have an extremely different set of tastes than he does and that's fine. To each their own.
Yup, I still find his takes far more interesting than 95% of the booktube/booktok crowd who bray together in unison and praise dreck.
The cow: Why is that guy mooing so much? Let's check it out.
The outdoor nature backgrounds for these talks are a lot of fun. Always enjoy your reviews - it encourages me to try some writers I may have read at one time and I just didn't enjoy and forever avoid any of their other books.. I'm generally in agreement with your reviews; but I have noticed that you generally like your authors to be concise and downgrade their review when you feel they are too "pulpy". I appreciate your honesty and willingness to go against the grain with various authors.
Best book review channel ever
Really excellent flow there Matt . Tremendous memory and at quite a pace impressive stuff mate similar opinions on many of those books . All that and entertaining ! great stuff 🫡
If you're looking for more horror, I can highly recommend Richard Matheson and Robert McCammon. Amazing stuff from both.
Dan Simmons got a couple good ones too
You got me hankering for The Sluts based on your (justifiably vague) review of it, even though I don't usually mess around with subject matter like that. (Aside: I couldn't find The Sluts at a library but I did find another Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm, and read it first, more or less all at once. Also worth checking out; very Lynchian, very Eurotrash.) Only last week did I check the Internet Archive and they do indeed have a scan of The Sluts. Jesus Christ. Also an all-in-one-go book. An excellent internet novel, not just for its examination of how truth can get distorted and lost but also in its explicit depictions of a very niche and extreme gay BDSM subculture. Somehow I didn't get triggered, which I often do while reading about extreme sexuality/sexual abuse, and I commend Cooper for that.
I had the same experience with it. Such an insane novel.
I expected a lot of new trash, pleasantly surprised to find known authors, books, and stories. Kudos for good taste! Vance was always a militarist, a genre of Sci-Fi that grew out of Heinlein (by people who didn't understand his positions). Rendezvous with Rama was the last good book from Clarke, but I always liked the story collection, The Nine Billion Names of God. Alfred B ester was a hoot, wasn't he? Two by Blish? None by Heinlein, Asimov, Zelazny, Philip Jose Farmer et al? LeGuin has better books, too. One book of the Lord of the Rings does not a trilogy make, either
On the Beach was not Sci-Fi, when it was published in 1957. It was the reality my generation was living with, The Bomb, and the itchy fingers poised to set 'em off! For those of you who weren't there, believe me when I say, you cannot begin to comprehend the sense of Doom that pervaded the modern world of the '50s and early '60s. After the Missiles of October stand-down by the USSR, the paranoia began to recede, but it would be well into the '70s, before the feelings began to wear down.
The P,ayers of Null-A is AE van Vogt's better novel (and its follow--up), based on Logic, and Reason. Delaney was always good for hard science Sci-Fi. Ross McDonald is not Sci-Fi, either. Did you inherit a box of old Sci-Fi books from a grandfather? Cordwainer Smith? Take me back to my youth! THREE by Vance? Ubik was incredible, in 1969, dealing with aging (for a public with an average-age under thirty). Androids blew the competition out of the water, the year before.
Congratulations on a nice, reasonably complete list! My list looks somewhat different, picking authors, and their works, rather than single books.
The Best in Science Fiction
01 P H I L I P K D I C K
Eye in the Sky
The Man in the High Castle
The Game-Players of Titan
Now Wait for Last Year
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Unteleported Man
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Ubik
A Scanner Darkly
02 R O B E R T A H E I N L E I N
The Puppet Masters
The Rolling Stones
Tunnel in the Sky
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Glory Road
Farnham's Freehold
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
03 A R T H U R C C L A R K E
Islands in the Sky
Childhood's End
The Nine Billion Names of God
2001: A Space Odyssey (series)
Rendezvous with Rama
Imperial Earth
The Songs of Distant Earth
The Hammer of God
04 F R E D E R I K P O H L
The Space Merchants
The Age of the Pussyfoot
Gateway (series)
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Heechee Rendezvous
The Other End of Time
The Boy Who Would Live Forever
05 R O G E R Z E L A Z N Y
Lord of Light
Nine Princes in Amber (series)
Jack of Shadows
Today We Choose Faces
Doorways in the Sand
Deus Irae (with Philip K Dick)
06 K U R T V O N N E G U T
Player Piano
The Sirens of Titan
Cat's Cradle
Welcome to the Monkey House
Slaughterhouse-Five
Breakfast of Champions
07 R A Y B R A D B U R Y
The Martian Chronicles
The Illustrated Man
Fahrenheit 451
A Medicine for Melancholy
Something Wicked this Way Comes
08 L A R R Y N I V E N
Ringworld (series)
A Gift from Earth
The Patchwork Girl
Flatlander
09 U R S U L A K L E G U I N
The Wizard of Earthsea (series)
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Lathe of Heaven
10 I S A A C A S I M O V
Pebble in the Sky
Foundation (series)
The Gods Themselves
+ 10 Honorable Mentions:
Harry Harrison The Stainless Steel Rat (series)
Make Room! Make Room! (basis for Soylent Green)
West of Eden (series)
Jerry Pournelle The Mote In God's Eye
w/ Larry Niven Lucifer's Hammer
Oath of Fealty
Go Tell the Spartans
Philip Jose Famer Riverworld (series)
A Barnstormer in Oz
Dayworld (series)
Terry Pratchett Discworld (series)
Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
William Gibson Necromancer (series)
All Tomorrow's Parties
Poul Anderson The Psychotechnic League (series)
Tomorrow's Children (series)
Frank Herbert Dune (series)
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series)
James SA Corey Leviathan Wakes (series)
Piers Anthony Macroscope
Grandfathers of the Genre:
M A R Y S H E L L E Y
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)
The Last Man (1826)
J U L E S V E R N E
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869)
The Mysterious Island (1874)
H G W E L L S
The Time Machine (1895)
The Island of Dr Moreau (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897)
War of the Worlds (1898)
The Sleeper Awakes (1910)
K A R E L C A P E K
R. U. R. (1920)
A L F R E D B E S T E R
The Demolished Man (1953)
The Stars My Destination (1956)
M U R R A Y L E I N S T E R
Proxima Centauri (1935)
Conquest of the Stars (1952)
S T A N I S L A W L E M
The Man from Mars (1946)
The Magellanic Cloud (1955)
The Star Diaries (series) (1957)
L S P R A G U E D E C A M P & F L E T C H E R P R A T T
The Incomplete Enchanter (1941)
The Carnellian Cube (1948)
The Castle of Iron (1950)
Wall of Serpents (1960)
Interesting to hear Olaf Stapledon briefly addressed, which I never do. Brian Aldiss loved him in Billion Year Spree, and described his work so tantalizingly I've always been curious.
Love your lists and your method, and your hinting at things in books not totally explained, but tantalizing. A couple of your comments produced a snide look from the bull that was uncalledfor...
1) This guy might be a hard-sell when it comes to comedy but his own brand slays me. Just the glance over his shoulder around the minute-mark caused me to lose it.
2) One thing I think this video shows is that the sci-fi genre boasts without question some of the coolest book covers of any. Many of them were fantastic -- whatever their contents!
Btw. do you read only sci-fi and fantasy or do you also like other genres? I mean, you've read Tolkien so youve probably also read some classic novel authors like Jane Austen or Dickens or Dostoevsky too. I think it would be interesting to see a classic novels rank from you.
Seconding this!
Wow, one take! Impressive summary of many difficult-to-summarize books, several of which I’ll add to my reading list. Suprised to see Ross Macdonald here; he’s much better than Raymond Chandler. Check out The Zebra-Striped Hearse and The Galton Case.
The Moon is a harsh mistress is one of my favorite books. I recommend the audiobook. I agree that Heinlein can be annoying. Heinlein’s characterization of women can be off-putting and has been indicated as a source or representation of hippie culture. The thing that I appreciate most about Heinlein’s work is his adoption of a thought experiment with very interesting follow-through to unusual results. Heinlein in some ways, reminds me of Nabokov for his immersive use of thought experiments as a premise and immersive storytelling.
Jack vance's THE DRAGON MASTERS has stayed with me since childhood. Give it a try.
I don't blame you for not liking The Gray Prince. I can't stand reading books that are progressive. Tell me a good story, don't feed me a narrative and annoy me.
I got completely swamped and lost, trying to read Three Body Problem, so I had to give up. With all the hype about it, I thought the failure must've been mine as opposed to the author's or the story itself.
Moving the book covers around so we can appreciate the cows is peak editing.
In regard to "The Grey Prince" by Jack Vance, it is by far his worst book politically and one of his weakest overall. So while I would not defend it, I'd just say to not write off Vance beyond his well-known works, he does have a second tier that is worth digging into but this is just not it.
You should do outtake videos especially in this one where the cow starts to charge you, and you are running from the cow screaming obscenities, your beany falls off as you run away from the cow. The cow then eats falling beany.
I love cows
Star Maker was boring and infantile. It was a struggle to read it to the end. Not sure if it was worst than the Skylark of Space by Doc Smith.
Your takes on books I did read make me question the point of having my own channel with reviews at some point in the future, because you are speaking my own thoughts.
So thanks, you are ruining my dreams!
But also thanks, you make me add to my pile of shame books I would never consider. Keep them coming.
Also, your care and concern with editing regarding cows is both nice and disturbing. Are they making you do this? Blink twice if yes.
Didn’t even realize it was one take til you said it. HOLY SHIT
I was really hoping that cow was gonna sidle over and lick your ear. Never mind - enjoyed the list, thanks.
I got the crime bug from Jim Thompson's more celebrated novels, i do recommend!
Again, like last year, I have read almost all of these and would have them in a different order. I agree wholeheartedly with the bottom five, and it's hard to argue with Kavan at the top. All good, the only headscratcher is Hodgson. Night Land, while a great feat of imagination, is a seriously flawed novel. Borderlands is, IMO, almost perfect. There's a rhythm to "weird" that not everyone gets. It most likely starts with this book. I have been reading weird fiction for about fifty years, and it's possible I have crawled up my own arse in this area. We are what our decisions make us.
The cows were a nice touch.
I was more impressed from Lem by The Return From Stars, because of its very human dimension of the characters, and I think it speaks a lot about the realities today. Also, Manuscript Found in a Bathtub is phenomenal absurd prose, really up there with Kafka and Eugen Ionescu . Both of them impressed me more than Solaris. His Master's Voice I put down. I re-read now Road Side Picnic because it left me with nothing in highschool. I don't even know if I finished it. I'm a third in, and I must say I like The Doomed City more (for the moment) which is again an astonishing portrayal of some of the realities we live today but which let me down towards the end when it dissolved in some ideological nonsense (typical for the era in which it was written) without reaching the conclusion which I thought is going to reach: THE EXPERIMENT IS MEANT TO FAIL.
I found Negative Space really nihilistic, with really unpleasant characters to the point of really making me angry. If the youth today really has such a perverted, pointless and hollow existence, than I see a future for them as monkeys dancing to the tune of Yuval Harari as the organ grinder. Love the channel.
A little correction on Helliconia Spring. You shouldn't think of the people on Helliconia as colonists. However implausible that may seem nowadays, they are supposed to be humans who just happen to have evolved indepedently from those on Earth. There is an unusual evolutionary history to Helliconia, which emerges particularly in the second book, if I remember correctly.
Hodgson isn’t too enamoured by the Irish. Just sayin’.
The Bladerunner music at the end of this video made me wonder if robot cows dream of electric milkmaids.
Amazing video, great job, and i laughed out loud when you gave Vance a kick when talking about The Word for World is Forest (which was my first Le Guin) :)
Great summaries of the books
You *never* want to hear that a sci-fi novel is more right-wing than Past Master
I finally just read Voyage of the Space Beagle. The different aliens were interesting. Parts of the stories were a slog though. I thought it was strange and dated that there were no women characters at all. Even for the time the novel was written, there were women scientists. Half the crew were supposed to be scientists.
Good stuff here to add to the pile! I find Sheckley uneven, but at his best, very good. I would recommend the Penguin anthology The Robert Sheckley Omnibus and his early collection Untouched by Human Hands. I think his later stuff is not so good.
"One take!!!"
Great list.
Happy New Year from Ireland.
COWOOOOOOOGA!
What is the most red pill book you've read?
oh! I just got Electric Forest and hope to read it soon.
cow
cow
I was so intrigued by your comments on Farewell, Earth's Bliss in an earlier video I just had to read it and wow, it truly stunned me, stuck in my mind for days. Many thanks for leading me to something I was unlikely to encounter otherwise.
Good cowntent
I found star of the unborn on internet archive
"If you like that kind of stuff it's above average"
Does one need to like hard SF or racism for this to be above average?
I meant hard SF.
Holy shit 3BP so low. Poor taste
Do you like any books? Lmao
........cow !
No moorcock in 2023🙁
How amazing would it be if the video ended with the cow scraping the ground before charging into Matt and the camera.
And we would be left thinking the bull must be a Heinlein fan.
@@chriswright9096 nah because then he’d charge after he called Heinlein annoying 30 seconds in lol.
Respect the Cows.
Thanks for your reccomendation of 'Star of the Unborn' I've enjoyed my way through about 1/4 of it so far. It is also one of my luckiest book store finds. A well used paperback copy for $2.99!
Awesome score
How did you manage to find that ;_;; im jealous
@@qpqp2339It was pure luck! My guess is that the shop didn't have/make the time to look it up online. Maybe it came in a big batch near closing time?
Matt i knew from your previous videos you hate heinlein, but dude last place,,, I am dead. You can give him one last chance though, the only heinlein i have read is "Have Space-suit ...will travel", it's ya sci fi , but it's fun and good. But again you don't like fun.
I think one of the problems with reading 60s/70s/80s science fiction and finding some of it slow or boring is comparable to the problems of watching some older 20th century cinema - but amplified because of the different active/passive balance of reading as opposed to watching. As a voracious young SF reader I had a similar problem with the plodding pace and over-explanatory aspects of some "golden age" science fiction (only some of it). As with film, the language and style of science fiction writing was still under development, what were once innovations are now tropes, subgenres were only slowly taking shape. Once the main patterns became largely recognisable, more easily understood and widely imitated, there were inevitably generational writing revolts with the new wave and subsequently cyberpunk to some extent tearing up the blueprints and starting again. Possibly science fiction is now too mainstream for another revolution any time soon (or more likely I won't be able to spot it). All I'm saying really is that, since we can't opt in to a cultural perspective or zeitgeist other than our own, we are locked out of enjoying some older works in the way they were appreciated at the time. Hey there's a cliche for that! Yep, the past really is a foreign country...
Cow ❤
I'm fairly certain Heinlein was reincarnated into that black bessie and he was reminding you of his capacity to annoy while also providing great comic relief.
Is there a particular reason, I‘ve never seen you talking about Alan Dean Foster? I‘d love your opinion on his work.
My fave from Burning Chrome is The Belonging Kind with John Shirley... that creepy horror vibe mixed with tech.noir.. excellent
"The short stories are narrow in their conception" is what you said about I Robot? I mean you have to put down the foundation for the house before you build it lol. Asimov isn't called one of the Fathers' of science fiction for nothing. I read this book two years ago and I think the topics are very interesting and insanely relevant, which is weird considering it was written in 1950. Man is a genius.
Jeepers.... I just read The Funnel of God, your recommendation. I had never read any Bloch before and since I torrented The Best of Robert Bloch, I will read the others. I am a short story aficianado, and I maintain a great many long novels were actually good short stories that an author inflated so as to meet criteria in their contracts. I've heard you, and several others, use the phrase "economy of language" and I think with short stories, it is necessary or the venture is doomed. "The Funnel of God" had me captivated from the get-go. I especially enjoyed the segment of Harvey's life when he left each teacher or group or slice of society behind, bored, disgusted, or unconvinced. Good recommendation.
It sounds like it would be interesting to hear about those high school experiences that Negative Space brought back, if that is something you'd be comfortable talking about.
I like these videos. Even though I consider myself politically centrist, when someone calls a book “too conservative” I’m often drawn to read it because it seems subversive or interesting to me. Just ordered the Vance book.
I found Star of the Unborn in a used shop for a couple of bucks and then another copy fell in my lap that my kid brought home from a neighborhood giveaway. I tried it and found it a little too dense and abstract. I made it maybe a third of the way through and passed it along. Love the cover art.
I also had trouble with Helliconia Spring. I tried twice and just couldn’t get into the world of it. I think I just wasn’t interested in the tribal setting and the bits of sci fi weren’t enough to keep me hooked in.
Having loved the expanse series is the books worth reading. New to science fiction…friend got me in the show. I read wool, after watching silo. So I think I’m started to get hooked to the genre. I want to read the books first now
My dude, I couldn't keep watching after your review of dune messiah, I'll come back and finish this video eventually but in my opinion it lives up to dune, from the rich world to the premises and writting style of Frank Herbert. I think coming into knowing it's a tragedy is helpful but I really like how he explores his premises and I think reading dune you can definitely sense this foreboding on his foreshadowing. Crazy good books!
On your recommendation, I ordered the Downward to Earth and Electric Forest books today. I agree with you on Brian Aldiss Helliconia Spring…was blown away regarding the star systems dynamics and world building. I also just read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I thought it was an enjoyable read with interesting concepts. I realize you seem to have a dislike for Heinlein, but with novels like Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, etc I say cut the man some slack. ( Although I have to admit I have authors who annoy me to no end…ie James Patterson who shits out three garbage novels before breakfast with his ‘co-authors’ who do all the work and get minimum credit….don’t get me started on Clive Cussler either) …I LOVE your videos and respect your opinions. Keep them coming!
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson is excellent imo - I liked it better than Hill House... at least at this point in my reading life.
probably added 70% of this list to my already-longer-than-Santa's-naughtyandnice-list TBR. Thanks a lot man!
Recently got through Overlay and loved it. In a odd way, gave me "screw tape letters" vibes.
Great video. I played the game The Invincible, which I thought was a masterpiece, and I'm looking forward to reading the book and his other works. Glad the game introduced me to Lem.
Good night. Bookpilled, totaal nice channel.
The settings for the videos of late have been fantastic! Where is this, is this on some kinda ranch or a farm? I can't imagine there's wild cattle roaming around the Californian countryside (or at least not near populated areas).
I like House on the Borderlands quite a bit, but imo Hodgson's best thing, one of my favorite horror stories, is The Voice in the Night.
me adding all the books that sound good: oh dear lord we're only like 8 minutes in
also, thank you for moving the books out of the way of the cow. important editing work.
I propose The Turner Diaries, Camp of Saints and Eden Eden Eden for 2024!
We who are about to: "not a crowd pleaser" lol. I feel like you said that just for me. Also dude you need to read The Cipher ASAP
as someone who liked horror but never really read much horror, i took your recommendation of Bad Brains earlier in the year and read it and was blown away. Truly incredible, i immediately read The Cipher also by koja afterwords and really liked it too. I recommend The Haar by David Sodergran for another really good book thats a great twist on horror, really feels like a mix of genres like Bad Brains.
found a lot of great new books thank to you over the past year, really appreciate the channel. also thank you for being one of the few people who shares my opinion of heinlien being an annoying gross loser. cheers.
4:43 the bull grazing so closely and then looking into the camera is hilarious. Wonder what he thinks about I, Robot.
Another A++ for you. Now, speaking of "Ice", I'm hoping you'll get around to the Ice Trilogy one of these days. Great stuff from a contemporary Russian SF master. Thanks!