Weekly Update: June 10th, 2024 | The One Where I Explain Why Drinking & Social Mediaing Is Bad
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Mike talks about the week that was and the week that will be for June 10th, 2024.
ℙ𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕠:
The Vanished Birds amzn.to/3QhrgKa
You Like it Darker amzn.to/3UFK8E2
The Demon Awakens amzn.to/451Bftr
One Piece: Sky Island amzn.to/4bFIxFR
ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕝𝕤 𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕖𝕡𝕚𝕤𝕠𝕕𝕖:
@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy
@BrianBell7
@Talking_Story
𝕎𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕄𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘? 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕕𝕠 𝕤𝕠 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕒𝕕𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤:
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0:00 Introduction
1:48 What Am I Reading?
8:19 What Am I Going to Read?
10:46 This Week on the Channel
15:25 Next Week Plans
16:29 TV & Movie Talk
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When you called the book Vanished Turds, I wondered if you flushed it down the toilet.
I would have if it wasn’t digital.
Absolutely love your energy in this update. When friends come back from a recharging vacation, it really shows. Happy you got to put the remodel / channel scam / tornado in the rearview mirror and come back Caribbean style! 100% comes through the video!
Thanks amigo! It was just what I needed.
Look, that slightly unhinged update on Vanished Birds honestly had me cackling. I am sorry it was such a miss for you, but I am looking forward to the discussion! Glad you had such a great vacation, despite the limited reading time. Making memories with the fam is more important!
If you are ever stuck on finding a book trailer to upload, I’d love to see your Dark Tower book trailer get uploaded by itself. It’s my absolute favorite book trailer of yours. Glad that your trip went well! 😄
Kudos to you, Mike, for being able to disagree and for not pretending to like something that you don't like for the sake of being able to sit at the cool kids table. Integrity is one of the reasons I love your channel.
Nice shirt by the way James Patterson is got a new book he's helping finish one of Michael Crichton 's unpublished books Eruption.
I'm reading that now!
@@bethbaskett3How are you enjoying it?
@NocturnalLibrarian I'm enjoying it, the book is very good
@@bethbaskett3 awesome. Thanks so much for letting me know.
Your experience with the first chapter of Vanished Birds mirrors mine with the prologue to Dexter Palmer's The Dream of Perpetual Motion.
I'm currently reading Empire of the Vampire, Ship of Magic, and The Unconsoled.
I just finished reading "Fingers Crossed," which is the rock memoir by Miki Berenyi, who was the frontwoman for an alternative rock band called Lush during the 1990s. It was the best book that I've ever read about music, and that includes the ones I've read by well-respected rock critics like Lester Bangs and Jim DeRogatis. Regarding what it was like being in a band during that period, she did an outstanding job of speaking truth about working with record label executives, management, producers, concert venue staff, radio stations, and others around the music business who, sadly, were really driven much more by making a buck rather than doing what was in the artists' best interests. Additionally, the insight that she offered into how tension manifests itself in the studio when you're working on an album and your band has multiple songwriters really enabled me to gain a lot more respect for what takes not only to achieve success as a band, but to stay motivated to keep working together even when the wheels come off. Miki is able to speak freely about what she and a lot of other rock artists experienced because she doesn't have a horse in the race anymore. If you have any interest in understanding what it's really like being in a rock band, this one is highly recommended, and it's given me newfound respect not just for Lush, but for all of the artists that I like.
Glad you had a fun trip. I plan on taking a cruise. I hear good things about the SS Posiedon. I hear it's an adventure 😅
"In medias res necessitates flashbacks, which strike me as boring and sort of corny. They always make me think of those movies from the forties and fifties where the picture gets all swimmy, the voices get all echoey, and suddenly it's sixteen months ago... but I like to start at square one... I'm an A-to-Z man; serve me the appetizer first and give me dessert if I eat my veggies." -- Stephen King, On Writing
The hype for HoTd season 2 for book readers is off the chart 📈
I finished Stephen King’s It last month (my book of the month), it was an adventure and I finally figured out what the “turtle” was 😅 I was so confused I thought it was typos I refused to look it up but it was driving me crazy, for such a long book I honestly felt like I could have read another thousand pages and still wanted more.
Reading Harry Potter for the first time this month just finishing up Goblet of Fire, I’ve listen to the audio books and of course the movies but my first read of the series. Needed a break from the heavy stuff, looking forward to getting into The Last War Trilogy next.
You look rested and ready to go! Great to see it. You deserved a great break.
I'm listening Determined by Robert Sapolsky and it is amazing.
I'm so happy you got away from the crap and had a wonderful time! It looks like the kids had lots of fun, and that's amazing. Love the shirt 🎉
That shirt looks great on you Mike! I’m so glad you’re enjoying One Piece (I’m waiting for volumes 34 and 35 from my library) I’m currently reading Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø, so far I’m enjoying it but I’m only on chapter 2. After that I’m intending to read Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
The only tv show I’m actively watching is Doctor Who and I’m loving it, I just wish we had more episodes.
Nice shirt, lol. Vacation vibes! Glad you guys had a good time.
Sounds like y'all had a blast on vacation, happy to hear you got some good quality time with the fam🙏
I just finished Skypiea arc in the anime.
Welcome back, sounds like a great time!
Looks like y’all are having a great time
Id be super surprised if you enjoy Come With Me. It does the weird 2nd person POV thing where it's like "You go to the door and open it, you look inside the room". I had to DNF cause I just couldnt do that kind of perspective thing
Welcome back! Love the holiday shirt! Glad you and your family had a fun time. Really cute videos of the kids. Have a great week!
I also dropped the Vanished Birds last week. I really enjoyed the first chapter but it didn’t hold up for me in the following chapters. I usually alternate between SFF and history but I was in the middle of a MLK jr read thru (finished Stride toward Freedom before starting Vanished Birds and now reading Why We Can’t Wait) so maybe I was not in the right mood for some SF. I’m looking forward to the book club video with your book tube pals and maybe I’ll try Vanished Birds again at a later date.
Love that shirt, really suits you.
I'm about 25% into Come With Me. It's solid so far. I'm definitely not bored.
I'm so sad, I was slow to begin with Fire & blood, meaning now I have to speed read it before I even at all begin on the series, so I might be a week or so late, but at least it is weekly episodes so I will be able to catch up. Currently 100 pages in, and at first I was a bit disoriented with the style, but after getting used to it, I actually really really love it!
Cool beautiful shirt bro
I’ve been doing a Stranger Things rewatch myself, although I’m like your son and been quite impatient with it and watched basically season 1 through 3 in under a week and now only have 3 eps left of Season 4
Season 4 finale is an absolute banger. Hope you enjoy it!
Exact same experience with Vanished Birds. If the first chapter was a short story it would be one of my favorites of all time. DNFed after about the 4th chapter.
Hope you like the Malfi book when you get around to it. He'd be a good one to invite on to your channel. I've heard him as a guest on different podcasts, and he's a cool dude. He plays in a rock band and writes cool horror books. I mean, come on.
Still reading shogun part 1 from paperback and kindle
Looks like you had a very relaxing holiday. Your smile says it all 😁
This week on my beach 🏖️ Leviathan Falls / James S A Corey (I should probably look for the short story collection)
This week from the Time Machine 🕰️ The Theatrical Illusion / Pierre Corneille (1636), Jaws / Peter Benchley (1974)
Mock Town really is the Tortuga of One Piece.
I think alcohol and book rants should become a “thing” on your UA-cam channel! 🤔 Glad you and your family had fun cruisin! 🛳️
I've always heard some debate on the right to left thing on Manga. Some people say they should never reverse the images; although, I doubt those individuals are reading it in the original Japanese. Others say if they're translating it and substituting cultural references for something more familiar, why not mirror image the art to read left to right? What is your opinion on that?
In the same way manga remains black and white, reading to their orientation holds up the culture without losing many readers. Translating a manga doesn't sacrifice culture, if anything, it makes it more available. The whole left to right debate is from those who are habitually lazy. It doesn't take long to get used to.
@Gruso57 Thank you for your thoughts. However, I have read several Mangas where they did change a Japanese reference that would not have been understood by a foreign audience, like changing the name of a pop star reference or how Characters mention that the subtle changes in a Japanese character can change a specific word. That would not work with English speakers. Then, there are idioms that are often quite unique to their region of origin. So, these translations are not directly word for word the whole time. I'm not saying these changes are right or wrong, just that they change more things than just the language used. Is that lazy, or does it help non-Japanese understand better? Again, it makes no difference to me, but there are pros and cons to both.
You’ve got to send me the link to that shirt!
Going to start Words of Radiance in a few days probably, and will be starting Eiyuden Chronicle when I finish the companion game.
Hey Mike how do you collect one piece? Each volume separately or did you get a box set?
Some wonderful viewers sent me the box sets.
@@mikesbookreviews would you say all the box sets are worth getting? Or is it only up until a certain point that the series is good?
Please get about half way shi# faced for your book talk on the accursed manuscript. 😁
Love ya channel.
Will there be another sci-fi September this year?
i thought Mike would review Blood of Zeus
Is it the cartoon version from the early 2000's you're watching? Avatar?
HOTD livestreams back again?
Dreamcatcher Into the Multiverse soon?
One Pisu!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Iroh still your favorite character in ATLAB?
100 percent.
@@mikesbookreviews but…but Toff!
Do you really have to ask someone that question?
You have to ask "outside Iroh, wich is your favorite character"?
Then...you nod on agreement when they say "zuko", and shake your head slowly in disagreement when they say anything else.
@@SethPlato01 Nah, Toff is still my favorite… granted I last watched the show 6 years ago so the only thing I remember is that she was my favorite character while I was watching it😂
I didn't want to finish Fallout
Mike, how are you not excited to watch ss2 of rings of power?🤣
Nice to see you back man. Hopefully this week’s reading is a tad more promising than the last. At least you had One Piece to fall back on. I have flipped through some volumes and while I don’t think it’s for me I can see why people enjoy it so much. I completed volumes 13 and 14 of demon slayer this week. I’m sorry to have finished the Pleasure District Arc as that absolutely cracked me up but this next one looks promising.
Other than that, I completed reading Eiji Yoshikawa’s The Heike Story. This was my first book by this author, though I have read several volumes of Vagabond which is based on his novel Musashi. Enjoyed it tremendously and am looking forward to attempting the original version, as well as Eiji’s other books. If you’re looking for something Japanese after reading Shogun, this author may be of interest.
I also began Sailing to Sarantium this week by GGK. Under Heaven was my book of the year last year but I have tried three other books of Kay’s since then and didn’t like them nearly as much as Under Heaven. Now….I’m 50 pages into Sailing to Sarantium and I can say this is going to be a contender for top ten of the year. Finally. I can already sense it. I am very subtly hinting that you should give it a try.
Happy Reading!
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