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sometimes i have a really weird dream and i think "this would make a cool story if i just fixed the weird stuff" and this book just sounds like that but without fixing the nonsense at all
I clicked immediately when I saw the cover, as I was one of the college students randomly handed a copy of this on my college campus. It was in my freshman year, and even two years later, there were still copies of this book on the school library's "Take a book leave a book" shelf.
A few years ago, a group of people gave away copies of this book for free at my college campus. I read two pages and decided to use the book for firestarter when going camping.
@@sbu_englishclub the new name sounds like a porn site. I honestly left just before the whole blue checkmark thing a few months ago. Tumblr has been weirdly alive
@@sbu_englishclub I think the news is kinda out since both twitter & Reddit have hit the rocks! It’ll be funny to see if the three possums wearing top hats site will somehow outlive both! (Reddit might survive but twitter probably won’t.)
Ok, so I finally finished the video. It sounds like the genre he’s going for is grim dark? I’ll be honest I’m mostly familiar with *that* in terms of warhammer 40k.
@@sbu_englishclub I think the hard part about grim dark is making the characters interesting & compelling people while also highlighting the horror & tragedy of the inevitable while it slowly warps everyone involved. Especially if it’s from the ground up or otherwise completely new setting.
Exactly. That can be extremely fatiguing for a lot of readers, even people with higher tolerance for negativity. You gotta have the light in the darkness
@@sbu_englishclub especially if the person is otherwise normal. They’re just an ordinary & generally unimportant person with little social power or position who ends up in a significantly bizarre & terrifying situation that they suddenly have to deal with, in a very dystopian setting.
Rich Shapero story: My neighbourhood has several of those "little free library" things, and for the period of about a month, they kept getting repeatedly fully stocked with copies of Wild Animus. Many pan-handlers also were trying to sell them in the neighbourhood, despite their ubiquity. I picked up a copy just because I thought it would be fun to have this weird looking book+music set. But it was sort of shocking to look into the music's credits and find Marc Ribot on guitar-- a guy known for playing on Tom Waits' biggest albums and a ton of avant-garde Jazz. To see him comparatively "slumming it" on this self-published thing was sort of surreal. I hope he was paid well.
I know I'm super late to the video, but where does the quote about breaking every toy in the toybox come from? Thank you for all the great book critiques!
No such thing as too late! Thank you for commenting! Unfortunately, the source of that quote maybe isn't that interesting and I don't really recommend it, but this is the timestamp (33:19): ua-cam.com/video/uuwxDLdXALc/v-deo.htmlsi=5LpXsbiLCPqo4MLQ&t=1998
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sometimes i have a really weird dream and i think "this would make a cool story if i just fixed the weird stuff" and this book just sounds like that but without fixing the nonsense at all
I know “fever dream” is kind of a cliche but if there was ever a book that fit the description…
I clicked immediately when I saw the cover, as I was one of the college students randomly handed a copy of this on my college campus. It was in my freshman year, and even two years later, there were still copies of this book on the school library's "Take a book leave a book" shelf.
WHY DOES HE DO THIS 😭
A few years ago, a group of people gave away copies of this book for free at my college campus. I read two pages and decided to use the book for firestarter when going camping.
Somehow I feel like that’s what Rich Shapero would’ve wanted
I like that you also keep calling it twitter
I can NOT record myself saying “x.com”
@@sbu_englishclub the new name sounds like a porn site. I honestly left just before the whole blue checkmark thing a few months ago. Tumblr has been weirdly alive
I’ve parked on our username on Tumblr but I don’t post much-I’m on it a lot though. Can’t let too many people know Tumblr’s kinda good again
@@sbu_englishclub I think the news is kinda out since both twitter & Reddit have hit the rocks! It’ll be funny to see if the three possums wearing top hats site will somehow outlive both! (Reddit might survive but twitter probably won’t.)
@@sbu_englishclub The only social media platform worse than Twitter is Tumblr is Facebook is TikTok is Instagram is BURN THEM ALL!
I see book-related SBU video, I watch!
Ok, so I finally finished the video. It sounds like the genre he’s going for is grim dark? I’ll be honest I’m mostly familiar with *that* in terms of warhammer 40k.
I think that’s a great way to put it. Rich may not know anything about primarchs but purposefully or otherwise he’s going for a lot of similar vibes
@@sbu_englishclub I think the hard part about grim dark is making the characters interesting & compelling people while also highlighting the horror & tragedy of the inevitable while it slowly warps everyone involved. Especially if it’s from the ground up or otherwise completely new setting.
Exactly. That can be extremely fatiguing for a lot of readers, even people with higher tolerance for negativity. You gotta have the light in the darkness
@@sbu_englishclub especially if the person is otherwise normal. They’re just an ordinary & generally unimportant person with little social power or position who ends up in a significantly bizarre & terrifying situation that they suddenly have to deal with, in a very dystopian setting.
Always look forward to more SBU videos
People like you make them worth it
SBU episodes always make work more entertaining
Rich Shapero story: My neighbourhood has several of those "little free library" things, and for the period of about a month, they kept getting repeatedly fully stocked with copies of Wild Animus. Many pan-handlers also were trying to sell them in the neighbourhood, despite their ubiquity.
I picked up a copy just because I thought it would be fun to have this weird looking book+music set. But it was sort of shocking to look into the music's credits and find Marc Ribot on guitar-- a guy known for playing on Tom Waits' biggest albums and a ton of avant-garde Jazz. To see him comparatively "slumming it" on this self-published thing was sort of surreal. I hope he was paid well.
The panhandlers were trying to SELL them??
@@sbu_englishclub Yes, despite them being given away for free, panhandlers who got them for free were also trying to sell them.
@@NotJonJost never change, rich shapero…
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Thanks for hanging out!
I know I'm super late to the video, but where does the quote about breaking every toy in the toybox come from? Thank you for all the great book critiques!
No such thing as too late! Thank you for commenting! Unfortunately, the source of that quote maybe isn't that interesting and I don't really recommend it, but this is the timestamp (33:19): ua-cam.com/video/uuwxDLdXALc/v-deo.htmlsi=5LpXsbiLCPqo4MLQ&t=1998
@@sbu_englishclub Thank you so much! Now off to see what's going on with that evil furry book...wishing you and the rest of the club the best!