Lord of the Rings is definitely not level 2 though, alot of people haven't read it because they think the prose is much more complex than other fantasy.
@@user295. yeah I won't lie, it's one reason I haven't read it yet. Kinda wanna work my way towards it, I just ordered the pocket leather bound version of SOIAF. Since I watched the show but I need a better ending than HBO gave us 😂
@@texdoc89 Honestly just try a chapter or 2 of LOTR and you'll see that it's not difficult to read the prose. Unless you're completely stupid you'll be fine. And yeah I've seen that ASOIAF set, it looks amazing! But don't hold your breath for an ending any time soon lol, Brando Sando will probably end up finishing it
Brandon Sanderson has just suddenly become my favourite author of all time. I read Elantris a few years ago, it was pretty good but for some reason I never followed his other books. I rediscovered him just recently when I happened across Yumi and the Nightmare Painter on Amazon. The cover art was _phenomenal_ and it really drew me in. That was in early January. Fast forward 4 weeks and I have now finished all of his secret projects (except Sunlit Man) and am nearly finished with the first trilogy of Mistborn. No other writer has come _close_ to drawing me into a book this well and I’ve read a _lot_ of books. I can’t wait to start Stormlight! Edit 3/20: I finished The Hero of Ages. Last week I finished The Way of Kings and I’ve now almost finished Words of Radiance. I’m still completely hooked it’s so good! I’d have probably finished all of his books by now if I wasn’t in college (damn you higher education!)
As someone who's read Tolkien, Jordan, Abercrombie, and Sanderson, I can say without a doubt that Malazan is my favorite out of all of them. It's insane how good it is.
Then there's me. I never really cared for reading. Then, I decided to try audiobooks last October. Started with a few Star Wars books, then a friend convinced me to give Sanderson a shot in December. Now, after just 2 months, I am close to finishing the entire Cosmere. Just started the Way of Kings. Once I'm done with Stormlight, all I will have left is Sunlit Man and Yumi. Idk what I'm gonna do with myself when I'm done... I feel it's also worth mentioning that in those two months, I've also listened to 3 of the Dune books and the entire Wingfeather Saga. For anyone counting, that's 11 Sanderson novels, 4 novellas, plus 7 novels outside of the cosmere. In just 2 months. For reference, prior to last October when I started getting into audiobooks, I had only read 9 books in their entirety in my entire life. I am 26.
may i recommend a left turn to the Discworld series, by Terry Prachett? It's not high fantasy, but it's so good! And you seem to like the series that come in tomes, so definitely try A Song of Ice and Fire. Worth it, even if it's not done.
Brandon Sanderson was my gateway to high fantasy genre as well. You should check out the GraphicAudio version of Stormlight Archive. You'll thank me later
I’ve done something very similar with my time since Covid and people told me using Audible is cheating. Don’t let people tell you that consuming audiobooks doesn’t count as reading the book. As long as your mind has gained the knowledge of the book's content then mission accomplished. If my intent for reading books was a better vocabulary I’d take a writing class and buy some vocabulary flash cards.
@blakechildress944 yeah, I've never been a reader, and I've always been treated like it's a character flaw. More people need to realize that reading isn't the end all be all when it comes to the acquisition of information. Being an avid reader doesn't automatically make you a better, more successful person than someone who doesn't. The fact is, different people benefit from different mediums. Yes, reading is an inherently good thing, but there are other equally effective ways to learn and retain information. And I just wish more people would accept that.
I jumped from Stage 1 in my childhood to The Way of Kings right away in my adulthood 😂 which I do not regret because this series has quite changed my life. Anyway, love your channel! Keep it up 😃
@@AHorrorFanatic for me 1. Harry potter 2. Percy jackson ( including magnus chase and all the others) 3. Throne of glass 4. Promise of fire 5. Wings of Fire (woooooo) 6. Skulduggery pleasant 7. Air awakens
My gateway to fantasy was Lewis. And I had three extra stages between your 2 and 3. After Tolkien, I became obsessed with his influences and contemporaries! So, I devoured George MacDonald, ER Eddison, William Morris and other VIctorian fantasists, Lord Dunsany, fellow Inklings other than Lewis, James Branch Cabell, Mervyn Peakz etc.! 🥰 After that, I read and collected every title I could that was part of Lin Carter's Ballentine Fantasy series! This was followed by a feminist streak (Le'Engle, LeGuin, Robin McKinley, etc). 😊
I honestly didn't understand he put them at the same level when Brandon is known for his very straightforward prose and structure. And Malazan is considered one of the most complex and hard to understand fantasy series out there. p.s. Don't often see black Turkish dudes. I hope that's not rude, just couldn't help myself mentioning it after I noticed the profile picture.
@@3choblast3r4 Right? I guess if you look at both of them as a Universe/Multiverse it makes sense. Combine all of Sanderson's work to see a complex Cosmere plot, vs Malazan's big main plot and surrounding prequels, interquels, and sequel stories. Plus Malazan has the benefit of having 2 authors, one being an archaeologist, anthropologist, philosopher, fencer, table rpg'er., while Sanderson has himself and his crazy mind. As for the other part🤣🤣I've never gotten a comment on that before! Not like that! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My father is from there, my mother is not, so that's how it happens. You must have saw the name and the face and went like "WHAT IS THIS??!!?!"?🤣🤣 It's fine, no problems here!
Eragon was literally my first fantasy book . And I did not know It was "the first" for so many people. I simply stumbled upon the movie and it got me interested
Christopher Paolini recently published Murtagh 20 years after the Eragon book. It was really well done and enjoyable to fulfill another story from the Inheritance series
Pretty sure my first was the Belgariad series by David Eddings. I recall really liking them and someday I should try rereading them to see if they still hold up.
I mean it wasn’t usually people’s first fantasy book overall, but it was a common gateway book because it was sort of for tweens but kids and older teens also liked it
I've listened to it 2s, both times I forgot more than I remembered. I though stormlight was straight up easy to follow, but Malazan is the only fantasy ive read to be shelved for reread and not continue, purely cuz I remember only a few plot points.
@WayTooUnderated nah thats just an ad hoc collecting of his lore into one, I kinda went in expecting it to be that. Malazan is much more confusing cuz it is an actuall story info dumping on you when you don't even know if what they said was a spell, place or character lol
honestly taste, and kinda same- i think i hadn't read that many adult fantasy books between priory and way of kings, maybe one or two including warbreaker
I skipped stage 1, 2 and 3. I started at stage 4 and 5 (With the wheel of time, The cosmere, Malazan, etc) and kept reading random fantasy series (percy jackson and harry potter, Tolkien universe, etc) after all that. I don't regret starting with ''difficult'' series, it actually made me a better reader and now i can read smaller and easier series a lot faster.
I don’t even remember my ‘gateway’ books- they never got popular enough that I’ve stumbled across them again. It doesn’t help that I’ve always been a big reader, because the amount I read makes it harder to remember specific books and not get any of them tangled.
I plowed through the First Law, the Way of Kings, the Black Company, etc no problem.. On my 3rd Malazan attempt I got to Toll the Hounds before shelving it for 3 years.. Working on my 4th attempt now.. I've made it to Midnight Tides.. maybe I'll get through it if I pace myself 😂😂 Favorite character? Definitely Kruppe
The first fantasy I read since the Hobbit, in fact the first book I read in years , was Eye of the World. I never looked back, what a cracking series to sink my teeth into and rediscover a love of reading through.
I used to love Sanderson until i discovered Erickson. He's my favorite author now. Sanderson's style seems formulaic in retrospect. I'm kind of dreading the next stormlight book because of this.
I’m old so my first fantasy books were old Conan serialized novels, Edgar Rice Burroughs and LOTR, Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane then Moorcock’s Elric. Love Erikson and Abercrombie.
😂 I feel old 😂 I was reading fantasy two decades before your Stage 1 book was published. And when it was published, it wasn't considered adult reading but youth / late primary school-early high school. I don't think we even had the term YA back then
I discovered fantasy four years ago when Gardens of the Moon appeared on my Amazon page. Every other time I just ignored anything fantasy, but this time the Chapter 1 excerpt caught my eye and I started reading the first couple lines, then I read the entire excerpt, then I downloaded the sample which was the prolong and read that as well. I kept reading until I finished the ten books 14 months later. Been reading fantasy ever since. I had no idea fantasy could be written like this and this well. Although more than 90% of fantasy is not for me, I have found some incredible authors and books to keep me reading fantasy for years to come 🙂
@@LionheartSJZ I enjoyed reading the "The Blade Itself" but had to listen to the second half of "Before they were Hanged" and all "Last Argument of Kings" because I had lost interest. The narrator gave what was for me was a 'meh' book a 5 star performance. The prose is better suited for audio than reading in my mind. I definitely enjoyed reading "A Little Hatred", but haven't continued reading any other of his books because I wanted to try books by other authors. One day I will come back and finish The Age of Madness series.
Lmao I guess I’m at the Sanderson stage but missed a few books. Lol I also think you missed Harry Potter. For me it was Harry Potter than the inheritance cycle, than lord of the ring, than Witcher, the wheel of time, a song of ice and fire and other books in that world, Sanderson, and now the Drizz’t series in the forgottean realms of Dungeons and dragons. I’ll probably jump to Robin hobb or joe abecombre next unless I decide to take a break and read some scifi. I’ve been wanting to read the mass effect books and continue on in my Star Wars journey. Also I wouldn’t mind reading more world of Warcraft books. They have some great lore and stories. I would really love to get into the world of league of legends. The arcane show was phenomenal and I’d love to learn more about the lore.
I am older. I started with Tarzan and John Carter of Mars along with the Hobbit. Then, 'Chronicles of Amber' is what really got me hooked on the genre.
Ohmygosh!!! 😂 My grandfather left a complete Edgar Rice Burroughs hard cover collection to my dad when he passed! I grew up reading the Mars and Venus series on repeat. Then I had to read The Hobbit in school, and I LOVED it! I guess Narnia gets a spot in there too. I read that series several times. I've never seen anyone mention Burroughs on BookTube! I loved those books! His imagination just staggered me! (I'm sure I wouldn't be nearly so impressed now, but it was a great starting point for me.)
Holy cow. You just sparked a deep forgotten treasure trove of fantasy books I started to read when I was young. Like 30 or so years ago I read Nine Princes in Amber and basically forgot about the rest. I'm going to have to track those down again. Great pull!
Bruh ikr. I have friends who love fantasy too in like video games, movies or even graphic novels but can’t get them too read anything😂it’s so frustrating knowing how much they are missing out on
I skipped from stage 1 right to stage 5 by being a long term dnd fan and just having started reading the Drizzt Do'urden books and being absolutely obsessed with all the background lore and how it correlates to dnd canon events and everything around it (plus Drizzt ofc, hes great)
I loved fantasy as a kid. I read the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit in 2000/2001 when I was in grade 7, and then got to see Fellowship of the Ring on opening day in the theatre - my mum let us leave early. I don't think I'll ever experience that kind of feeling again, but I'm interested in getting back into it! I've heard good things about The Way of Kings - was drunkenly suggested to me by a dude at the bar who discovered I liked to read 😅
I recently finished the Way of the kings and it was so epic! It was the first time a read anything from Sanderson, I have to say that he really is an amazing fantasy author! Currently reading the next book…
Lmaoo, this is ridiculously accurate. My first book was one of the Terry Brooks shannara series though, Eragon release when I was in high school, I think? 🤔 Was still a fun book even for teen me, though.
Yeah ORP is so fucking amazing. For anyone who loves it, The Author’s POV is another light novel that’s also super fucking amazing, though the start is a bit rough
Stage 8: Exalted Adult, one that reads book of the new sun ... and can keep up with what is going on at least until book 3 and a half. By the end of book 4, no one knows what the fk they just read and everyone realizes they are now forced to reread the book since everything they thought they knew and understood wasn't as they saw it. Also this guy put Brandon Sanderson on lv 5 side by side with Malazan which is widely considered one of the hardest fantasy books out there
I'd say I'm in a combo of stage 3 and 5. Went straight from LOTR, which, by the way, books are definitely much better, straight to way of kings and already really enjoying that book. 😅😅
I was all about those stories about wizards and magic schools, then I got into some more realistic and grim stuff then I discovered progression fantasy. And rn im going full circle and back on magic school stories lol
Highly recommend you move stage 2 to past stage 4 imo hahaha I just found LOTR really difficult considering the older fantasy dialect, it’s just very unique to modern fantasy in most of the writing style but then again that just put it in a league of its own. 🍻🐐
After wheel of time I refuse to touch a chosen one story ever again. Book upon book of snow and braid tugging and I can never remember which forsaken is which.
The way of kings is on ny list. Have you given "The Sword of Truth" series by Terry Goodkind a try? By book 3 I couldn't put it down and now I've read the series 3 times.
Alternate stage 1 Games of thrones was a nice show wonder how the books are like Ooh no end wonder what other book in same genre can sooth my heart Fall in fantasy
@@misantrope6267Maybe I did. Or maybe I am just a racoon in a dumpster who finds a half eaten steak every once and a while. Sometimes it is pretty good though.
I’m honestly at stage random. Whatever I feel at the moment. Sometimes I want complex, sometimes I want classic. Or something in between. I wouldn’t consider myself a newbie or a avid fan tasy reader. It just happens that the book I tend to read mostly are fantasy.
Shit I think I skipped straight to stage 6 by the time I was in high school haha and the Malazan series is the best series ever, I said it and I stand by it lol all 22 books and counting
Nice video - but all the text at the bottom of the screen, about the channel and subscribing and Super Thanks, are covering the subtitles for each stage, so I could hardly understand what this video was saying
Slowly slowly sllllooowly getting through book 2 of Malazan. I listen to audiobooks and this series I keep having to rewind to fully comprehend what is going on. I think this series is the final boss of Fantasy books.
Stage 2 then jumped to 6.... but I would like to read Wheel of Time, and Brandon Sanderson. Currently reading Witcher, then want to read Harry Potter for a second time come fall. I'm recovering from collage burnout and graduation.
I’m about Stage 3.5. I do know all the names in the books, but I can’t say I’ve read all those subgeneres. I do also spend time on the wikis for Cosmere now I’m 75% through all of it 😅
I love several of those books, but what was written at the beginning causes me conflict haha Since only Abercrombie and Erikson are adult fantasy of all the ones you listed. Most were YA or Children's. Which is not a bad thing, but it does make you curious.
It’s called the sages of fantasy lol it’s supposed to represent someone’s journey! It’s not that serious lol, just many people started reading fantasy when they were children (I did :). Additionally, very few people I know consider Stormlight, WoT, Dandelion Dynasty, or many of the genre ones to be considered children’s oe YA 🤔
Y'all gotta try out A Spell for Chameleon the first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, brilliant book and if a series scares you don't worry the first is complete and amazing stand-alone as well
I have tried malazan so many times but always give up after 2-3 books, the most important factor in keeping me hooked to a series is characterisation and i did not connect even remotely to a single malazan character. Hopefully it will change when i try it next time🤞
The last stage goes back to Tolkien when you read the Silmarillion
My favorite book!
Ikr silmarillion is the peak of fiction
I swear Tolkien becomes some kind of religion at that point, and I am daunted
@@Iluvatar196He was a devout catholic using his works to explain the world
I did it all wrong cuz I read fantasy but jumped from Hobbit to Simarillion and never read the LOTR.
I like how Wheel of Time is in Stage 3 and 4, implying that it's so long you'll still be reading it while you're already at the next stage :D
So real 😂
And Malazan is Level 5 & 6 because its more dense and headache causing
WOT is at six too 😂😂
I always take a break and read other books after finishing one 😂
Wot at every level after LOTR imo lmao
The Tolkien covers are so gorgeous! ❤
Lord of the Rings is definitely not level 2 though, alot of people haven't read it because they think the prose is much more complex than other fantasy.
That's the deluxe pocket edition. That's the one i have also
@@alb0zfinestYeah it's a shame that people think that. If they actually tried, they'd see it's not difficult at all
@@user295. yeah I won't lie, it's one reason I haven't read it yet. Kinda wanna work my way towards it, I just ordered the pocket leather bound version of SOIAF. Since I watched the show but I need a better ending than HBO gave us 😂
@@texdoc89 Honestly just try a chapter or 2 of LOTR and you'll see that it's not difficult to read the prose. Unless you're completely stupid you'll be fine. And yeah I've seen that ASOIAF set, it looks amazing! But don't hold your breath for an ending any time soon lol, Brando Sando will probably end up finishing it
Brandon Sanderson has just suddenly become my favourite author of all time. I read Elantris a few years ago, it was pretty good but for some reason I never followed his other books. I rediscovered him just recently when I happened across Yumi and the Nightmare Painter on Amazon. The cover art was _phenomenal_ and it really drew me in. That was in early January. Fast forward 4 weeks and I have now finished all of his secret projects (except Sunlit Man) and am nearly finished with the first trilogy of Mistborn. No other writer has come _close_ to drawing me into a book this well and I’ve read a _lot_ of books.
I can’t wait to start Stormlight!
Edit 3/20: I finished The Hero of Ages. Last week I finished The Way of Kings and I’ve now almost finished Words of Radiance. I’m still completely hooked it’s so good! I’d have probably finished all of his books by now if I wasn’t in college (damn you higher education!)
omggg I'm so excited for you. Stormlight is SO FREAKING GOOD!!
Stormlight has turned me into a avid reader, as someone who hasn't read in ages. Feels like playing a narrative heavy action fantasy game 🤤🤤
Well now you gotta read sp5!
Is Way of Kings a Mature book? Or pg-13
@@CrazyzzzDudezzz yes. Yes yes. Its got slavery graphic murder ptsd and more
As someone who's read Tolkien, Jordan, Abercrombie, and Sanderson, I can say without a doubt that Malazan is my favorite out of all of them. It's insane how good it is.
Same here, bud. 👍
Then there's me. I never really cared for reading. Then, I decided to try audiobooks last October. Started with a few Star Wars books, then a friend convinced me to give Sanderson a shot in December. Now, after just 2 months, I am close to finishing the entire Cosmere. Just started the Way of Kings. Once I'm done with Stormlight, all I will have left is Sunlit Man and Yumi. Idk what I'm gonna do with myself when I'm done...
I feel it's also worth mentioning that in those two months, I've also listened to 3 of the Dune books and the entire Wingfeather Saga. For anyone counting, that's 11 Sanderson novels, 4 novellas, plus 7 novels outside of the cosmere. In just 2 months. For reference, prior to last October when I started getting into audiobooks, I had only read 9 books in their entirety in my entire life. I am 26.
may i recommend a left turn to the Discworld series, by Terry Prachett? It's not high fantasy, but it's so good! And you seem to like the series that come in tomes, so definitely try A Song of Ice and Fire. Worth it, even if it's not done.
@@jenniferpearce1052 I will add it to the list!
Brandon Sanderson was my gateway to high fantasy genre as well. You should check out the GraphicAudio version of Stormlight Archive. You'll thank me later
I’ve done something very similar with my time since Covid and people told me using Audible is cheating. Don’t let people tell you that consuming audiobooks doesn’t count as reading the book. As long as your mind has gained the knowledge of the book's content then mission accomplished. If my intent for reading books was a better vocabulary I’d take a writing class and buy some vocabulary flash cards.
@blakechildress944 yeah, I've never been a reader, and I've always been treated like it's a character flaw. More people need to realize that reading isn't the end all be all when it comes to the acquisition of information. Being an avid reader doesn't automatically make you a better, more successful person than someone who doesn't. The fact is, different people benefit from different mediums. Yes, reading is an inherently good thing, but there are other equally effective ways to learn and retain information. And I just wish more people would accept that.
I jumped from Stage 1 in my childhood to The Way of Kings right away in my adulthood 😂 which I do not regret because this series has quite changed my life.
Anyway, love your channel! Keep it up 😃
lol no wrong way to do it
Me too!!
Same! After years of not reading I went for the name of the wind, and the the way of kings and been sanderson obsessed since
1. Goosebumps
2. Half of Harry Potter
3. Percy Jackson
4. Heroes of Olympus
5. Rest of Harry Potter
6. Mist Born
7. Stormlight Archives
@@AHorrorFanatic for me
1. Harry potter
2. Percy jackson ( including magnus chase and all the others)
3. Throne of glass
4. Promise of fire
5. Wings of Fire (woooooo)
6. Skulduggery pleasant
7. Air awakens
My gateway to fantasy was Lewis.
And I had three extra stages between your 2 and 3. After Tolkien, I became obsessed with his influences and contemporaries! So, I devoured George MacDonald, ER Eddison, William Morris and other VIctorian fantasists, Lord Dunsany, fellow Inklings other than Lewis, James Branch Cabell, Mervyn Peakz etc.! 🥰
After that, I read and collected every title I could that was part of Lin Carter's Ballentine Fantasy series! This was followed by a feminist streak (Le'Engle, LeGuin, Robin McKinley, etc). 😊
Stage 1 for me was Redwall. I loved those books as a kid. So nostalgic
I’m between stages 4 and 5.
I can tell the subgenres, and I’m also reading both Malazan and Stormlight 😊
I honestly didn't understand he put them at the same level when Brandon is known for his very straightforward prose and structure. And Malazan is considered one of the most complex and hard to understand fantasy series out there.
p.s. Don't often see black Turkish dudes. I hope that's not rude, just couldn't help myself mentioning it after I noticed the profile picture.
@@3choblast3r4 Right? I guess if you look at both of them as a Universe/Multiverse it makes sense.
Combine all of Sanderson's work to see a complex Cosmere plot, vs Malazan's big main plot and surrounding prequels, interquels, and sequel stories.
Plus Malazan has the benefit of having 2 authors, one being an archaeologist, anthropologist, philosopher, fencer, table rpg'er., while Sanderson has himself and his crazy mind.
As for the other part🤣🤣I've never gotten a comment on that before! Not like that! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My father is from there, my mother is not, so that's how it happens. You must have saw the name and the face and went like "WHAT IS THIS??!!?!"?🤣🤣
It's fine, no problems here!
Bruh you’re reading malazan that’s an instaskip to stage 6😂
@@benroache1857it’s awesome I went from Harry Potter to First Law to Mistborn to steer right to Mazalan
@@ErikPT👏🤌
Eragon was literally my first fantasy book .
And I did not know It was "the first" for so many people.
I simply stumbled upon the movie and it got me interested
I almost reported you for mentioning the movie 💀😭
Christopher Paolini recently published Murtagh 20 years after the Eragon book. It was really well done and enjoyable to fulfill another story from the Inheritance series
Pretty sure my first was the Belgariad series by David Eddings. I recall really liking them and someday I should try rereading them to see if they still hold up.
I mean it wasn’t usually people’s first fantasy book overall, but it was a common gateway book because it was sort of for tweens but kids and older teens also liked it
Final stage is accepting Brandon Sanderson writes faster than you can catch up.
Malazan is the final boss of Fantasy
I've listened to it 2s, both times I forgot more than I remembered. I though stormlight was straight up easy to follow, but Malazan is the only fantasy ive read to be shelved for reread and not continue, purely cuz I remember only a few plot points.
Nope the Silmarillion is
Book of the new Sun is a rival of malazan too
@WayTooUnderated nah thats just an ad hoc collecting of his lore into one, I kinda went in expecting it to be that. Malazan is much more confusing cuz it is an actuall story info dumping on you when you don't even know if what they said was a spell, place or character lol
I've tried three times to get into it but it's just so not for me,
You really got me with the first two 😂 I busted out laughing
I love not being able to read the captions. Makes for an enjoyable experience!
Get over your dyslexia. Millions have it, so suck it up, buttercup.
lol I’ll never understand how slow in the head shorts creators are putting captions always in the one spot you can’t read them
I just started with priority of the orange tree and then jumped to Brandon Sanderson way of kings😂
I started with The Kyoshi Novels, but my first adult fantasy book was tpotot
honestly taste, and kinda same- i think i hadn't read that many adult fantasy books between priory and way of kings, maybe one or two including warbreaker
I skipped stage 1, 2 and 3. I started at stage 4 and 5 (With the wheel of time, The cosmere, Malazan, etc) and kept reading random fantasy series (percy jackson and harry potter, Tolkien universe, etc) after all that.
I don't regret starting with ''difficult'' series, it actually made me a better reader and now i can read smaller and easier series a lot faster.
Lol.. Harry Potter is the least random series. It's fucking everywhere! Like, even non-readers have read Harry Potter!
I don’t even remember my ‘gateway’ books- they never got popular enough that I’ve stumbled across them again. It doesn’t help that I’ve always been a big reader, because the amount I read makes it harder to remember specific books and not get any of them tangled.
I plowed through the First Law, the Way of Kings, the Black Company, etc no problem.. On my 3rd Malazan attempt I got to Toll the Hounds before shelving it for 3 years.. Working on my 4th attempt now.. I've made it to Midnight Tides.. maybe I'll get through it if I pace myself 😂😂
Favorite character? Definitely Kruppe
OMG i love your malazan gardens of the moon edition!!!!
That list of books is perfect, but it needs some Locke Lamora with it.
We love you Shaz💜 and we love you Bella!!💜✨
So real with Grace of Kings lol. One of my faves but you have to do. Lot of flipping back and forth from the list of characters.
Omg I NEED those LOTR books, they look so cool
The first fantasy I read since the Hobbit, in fact the first book I read in years , was Eye of the World. I never looked back, what a cracking series to sink my teeth into and rediscover a love of reading through.
I used to love Sanderson until i discovered Erickson. He's my favorite author now.
Sanderson's style seems formulaic in retrospect. I'm kind of dreading the next stormlight book because of this.
I’m old so my first fantasy books were old Conan serialized novels, Edgar Rice Burroughs and LOTR, Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane then Moorcock’s Elric. Love Erikson and Abercrombie.
😂 I feel old 😂 I was reading fantasy two decades before your Stage 1 book was published. And when it was published, it wasn't considered adult reading but youth / late primary school-early high school. I don't think we even had the term YA back then
The stage 1 book wasn’t my first book either ;) I was reading for a full decade before it was published. It’s just a representative reel!
Oh yeah this isn’t saying it’s considered an adult book, it’s a fantasy book that millennials would remember reading as kids
I'm at stage 6 and telling anyone and everyone that Malazan is the most incredible thing ever written 😅
Once you go stage 6 you actually exist in all stages simultaneously 😂
@@Bookborn what comes after stage 7? Becoming a character from the book and never breaking character? 😂
Full Heath Ledger mode 🤣
A girl told me she stopped reading fantasy and now prefers historical fiction. Me: immediately recommends 3 fantasy series when she didnt ask.
Stage 7: Now I'm writing my own fantasy books 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ok that is the true stage 7 🤣
Cheer~~~the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.😊
I love how relatable this was. The way I'm entering stage 5 😂 Lore and I are secret lovers who meet up jouously at inopportune times.
I like listening to high fantasy audio books and then get inspired and rewrite my book.. for the 5th time!!
I discovered fantasy four years ago when Gardens of the Moon appeared on my Amazon page. Every other time I just ignored anything fantasy, but this time the Chapter 1 excerpt caught my eye and I started reading the first couple lines, then I read the entire excerpt, then I downloaded the sample which was the prolong and read that as well. I kept reading until I finished the ten books 14 months later. Been reading fantasy ever since. I had no idea fantasy could be written like this and this well.
Although more than 90% of fantasy is not for me, I have found some incredible authors and books to keep me reading fantasy for years to come 🙂
You will love Joe Abercrombie then I guess...
@@LionheartSJZ I enjoyed reading the "The Blade Itself" but had to listen to the second half of "Before they were Hanged" and all "Last Argument of Kings" because I had lost interest. The narrator gave what was for me was a 'meh' book a 5 star performance. The prose is better suited for audio than reading in my mind. I definitely enjoyed reading "A Little Hatred", but haven't continued reading any other of his books because I wanted to try books by other authors. One day I will come back and finish The Age of Madness series.
Alright, fair enough. I guess it's always personal preference. Love the dark humor and gnarlyness of Abercrombie's writing :)@@Canoe64
Lmao I guess I’m at the Sanderson stage but missed a few books. Lol I also think you missed Harry Potter. For me it was Harry Potter than the inheritance cycle, than lord of the ring, than Witcher, the wheel of time, a song of ice and fire and other books in that world, Sanderson, and now the Drizz’t series in the forgottean realms of Dungeons and dragons. I’ll probably jump to Robin hobb or joe abecombre next unless I decide to take a break and read some scifi. I’ve been wanting to read the mass effect books and continue on in my Star Wars journey. Also I wouldn’t mind reading more world of Warcraft books. They have some great lore and stories. I would really love to get into the world of league of legends. The arcane show was phenomenal and I’d love to learn more about the lore.
I skipped straight to Stage 5, never read a book outside of school and fell in love with The way of kings lol
Stage 2 off the bat! 🏁 and then straight to Stage 4!! High Fantasy & Historical! I dig the Miami Vice TV Show BG music! 🌴 🍹🏎 🛥 such a different vibe!
Brandon Sanderson is the best. I think oathbringer is my favorite of the stormlight
I am older. I started with Tarzan and John Carter of Mars along with the Hobbit. Then, 'Chronicles of Amber' is what really got me hooked on the genre.
Book tubers make me sad, it’s like except for Tolkien nothing was written outside of 10 years ago
Ohmygosh!!! 😂 My grandfather left a complete Edgar Rice Burroughs hard cover collection to my dad when he passed! I grew up reading the Mars and Venus series on repeat. Then I had to read The Hobbit in school, and I LOVED it! I guess Narnia gets a spot in there too. I read that series several times. I've never seen anyone mention Burroughs on BookTube! I loved those books! His imagination just staggered me! (I'm sure I wouldn't be nearly so impressed now, but it was a great starting point for me.)
Holy cow. You just sparked a deep forgotten treasure trove of fantasy books I started to read when I was young. Like 30 or so years ago I read Nine Princes in Amber and basically forgot about the rest. I'm going to have to track those down again. Great pull!
@@frozenninja4030 I loved them
@@jessezigg My uncle and I loved Burroughs so I inherited that part of his collection when he died in the mid 80s.
I LOVE BRANDON SANDERSON AND THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE SO MUCH!!!!!!!!
Appreciate the Mr Norrel love
This is pretty on point
I am the guy in the corner of the party sneering at my friends who dont read fantasy books.'' They dont know what they are missing ''.
Bruh ikr. I have friends who love fantasy too in like video games, movies or even graphic novels but can’t get them too read anything😂it’s so frustrating knowing how much they are missing out on
Maybe that’s why they wanted to have fun so left you in the corner
Parties, eww. Stay home and read!
lol for the longest time I thought I hated fantasy until I realized I just don’t like Tolkien clones
So glad someone else remembers Never Die. That book is so underrated
I skipped from stage 1 right to stage 5 by being a long term dnd fan and just having started reading the Drizzt Do'urden books and being absolutely obsessed with all the background lore and how it correlates to dnd canon events and everything around it (plus Drizzt ofc, hes great)
legit correct on every front which is obvs expected.
I loved fantasy as a kid. I read the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit in 2000/2001 when I was in grade 7, and then got to see Fellowship of the Ring on opening day in the theatre - my mum let us leave early. I don't think I'll ever experience that kind of feeling again, but I'm interested in getting back into it! I've heard good things about The Way of Kings - was drunkenly suggested to me by a dude at the bar who discovered I liked to read 😅
Felt this on a visceral level 😂
I recently finished the Way of the kings and it was so epic! It was the first time a read anything from Sanderson, I have to say that he really is an amazing fantasy author! Currently reading the next book…
I definitely went through stage 1, then stage 4, now I'm on stage 2.
finally reading LOTR, and it is so good 🥺
This is half of my journey lmao, except I started with Skulduggery Pleasant
A very great work of fantasy that many western fantasy fans might not be well aware of and which I definitely recommend is "Hoshruba".
Lmaoo, this is ridiculously accurate. My first book was one of the Terry Brooks shannara series though, Eragon release when I was in high school, I think? 🤔 Was still a fun book even for teen me, though.
Step 5 must be all volumes of the Song of Ice and Fire
For those of you who like Fantasy, Terry Goodkind is another option. It's slower paced but still wonderful 😊
One of the worst authors of all time, absolutely.
Great taste!
Yeah ORP is so fucking amazing. For anyone who loves it, The Author’s POV is another light novel that’s also super fucking amazing, though the start is a bit rough
I went straight from Eragon to the Cosmere and now I'm addicted. Lol
Stage 7: a true adult, reading Guy Gavriel Kay
Stage 8: Exalted Adult, one that reads book of the new sun ... and can keep up with what is going on at least until book 3 and a half. By the end of book 4, no one knows what the fk they just read and everyone realizes they are now forced to reread the book since everything they thought they knew and understood wasn't as they saw it.
Also this guy put Brandon Sanderson on lv 5 side by side with Malazan which is widely considered one of the hardest fantasy books out there
@@3choblast3r4 an epic take. Also how i felt upon finishing book of the new sun.
Eragon was soooo good!
I love Eragon. They are very well thought out and intelligent. I think they are amazing books that people rag on to much.
I'd say I'm in a combo of stage 3 and 5. Went straight from LOTR, which, by the way, books are definitely much better, straight to way of kings and already really enjoying that book. 😅😅
I was all about those stories about wizards and magic schools, then I got into some more realistic and grim stuff then I discovered progression fantasy. And rn im going full circle and back on magic school stories lol
AS A WHEEL OF TIME FAN, i feel so called out omg! He just wrote toooooo many different names
Highly recommend you move stage 2 to past stage 4 imo hahaha I just found LOTR really difficult considering the older fantasy dialect, it’s just very unique to modern fantasy in most of the writing style but then again that just put it in a league of its own. 🍻🐐
After wheel of time I refuse to touch a chosen one story ever again. Book upon book of snow and braid tugging and I can never remember which forsaken is which.
The way of kings is on ny list. Have you given "The Sword of Truth" series by Terry Goodkind a try? By book 3 I couldn't put it down and now I've read the series 3 times.
Alternate stage 1
Games of thrones was a nice show wonder how the books are like
Ooh no end wonder what other book in same genre can sooth my heart
Fall in fantasy
This is CRAZY. I've literally read those exact books in that exact order. How, Hillary 😂 I'm mindblown
I literally started with Eragon and now I know all the back lore of the Cosmere, and around the 7th book of TWOT
Well dang. That’s exactly how it happened for me!
The inheritance cycle is iconic
new book Murtagh took me back ❤
@@hmh7847my fave character🤌
I don't know where I am on the stages. I kind of just migrated to reading japanese, korean, and chinese fantasy novels.
You've transcended
@@misantrope6267Maybe I did. Or maybe I am just a racoon in a dumpster who finds a half eaten steak every once and a while. Sometimes it is pretty good though.
I’m honestly at stage random. Whatever I feel at the moment. Sometimes I want complex, sometimes I want classic. Or something in between. I wouldn’t consider myself a newbie or a avid fan tasy reader. It just happens that the book I tend to read mostly are fantasy.
Loved the inkheart trilogy in middle school, then went straight to RA Salvatore freshman year of high school. I still read them
Glad to hear it.
Starting Cosmere tomorrow!
Shit I think I skipped straight to stage 6 by the time I was in high school haha and the Malazan series is the best series ever, I said it and I stand by it lol all 22 books and counting
lol I was in stage 6 in HS but not stages 3-5 yet... Now im in all the stages
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is an amazing first novel. But the pacing takes a minute to get used to for sure.
And, on another mountain completely, stands Gormenghast....
Hey! Have you tried either the gentleman bastards or the will of many? Just finished both and they were great.
I need more book recommendations. 😂
Nice video - but all the text at the bottom of the screen, about the channel and subscribing and Super Thanks, are covering the subtitles for each stage, so I could hardly understand what this video was saying
Out of all these books I've only read Brandon Sanderson. I'll have to check out some of the others.
You got me too good
This is ironically the order I read these books. Spot on lol
Slowly slowly sllllooowly getting through book 2 of Malazan. I listen to audiobooks and this series I keep having to rewind to fully comprehend what is going on. I think this series is the final boss of Fantasy books.
Someday I hope you give Sir Terry Pratchett a chance, as well as Diana Wynne Jones’s Chrestomanci series.
Stage 2 then jumped to 6.... but I would like to read Wheel of Time, and Brandon Sanderson. Currently reading Witcher, then want to read Harry Potter for a second time come fall. I'm recovering from collage burnout and graduation.
Clicked on this short specifically to see if any Sando was in it. I am thrilled to see The Way of Kings. 😂❤
I’m on stage 1 lol I read wings of fire but I needed a another book
You have Way of the Kings twice. I'm reading it at the moment ... it's soooo good
I have the grace of kings and the way of kings, two different books :)
@@Bookborn Still. Way of Kings is Stage 5 and 6. Why not? It's so awesome.
I went from Percy Jackson to SJM books 😅
I’m about Stage 3.5. I do know all the names in the books, but I can’t say I’ve read all those subgeneres. I do also spend time on the wikis for Cosmere now I’m 75% through all of it 😅
Just finished the entire thing and now have to go back and reread stormlight to understand The Lost Metal. It’s never ending lol
I love several of those books, but what was written at the beginning causes me conflict haha Since only Abercrombie and Erikson are adult fantasy of all the ones you listed. Most were YA or Children's. Which is not a bad thing, but it does make you curious.
It’s called the sages of fantasy lol it’s supposed to represent someone’s journey! It’s not that serious lol, just many people started reading fantasy when they were children (I did :). Additionally, very few people I know consider Stormlight, WoT, Dandelion Dynasty, or many of the genre ones to be considered children’s oe YA 🤔
Sanderson the goat!
The Chemical Mage and The Nuclear Druid were an epic duo
Where can I get those LOTR editions?!
Y'all gotta try out A Spell for Chameleon the first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, brilliant book and if a series scares you don't worry the first is complete and amazing stand-alone as well
I have tried malazan so many times but always give up after 2-3 books, the most important factor in keeping me hooked to a series is characterisation and i did not connect even remotely to a single malazan character. Hopefully it will change when i try it next time🤞