I feel you Mike. I put off some chonkers forever. I finally read Pillars of the Earth and Count of Monte Cristo in the same 30 day window, along with a couple shorter books.
I can not thank you enough for recommending The Pillars of the Earth. It was an amazing book. Because of that book i got everything that Ken Follet wrote.😁
@@jaredschmidt8440 thank you for the advise. I plan to read 2 Ken Follet's books a year. Now i am caught up with WOT ( currently at book 9), and others. 😅 The TBR is soooo long...
@@stefanmitrea6270 WOT is amazing. I read it when I was younger. The second read through for me was amazing. I know some folks consider it sloggy but it’s meant to be enjoyed at a slower pace, in my opinion. Hope the Follet books treat you well! I loved them all.
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I am honestly nothing but overjoyed for you that you get to read The Devil so early, hope it's everything you are hoping for! And heeeck yes for the new John Gwynne, he can do no wrong. Happy reading!
No worries, just read what you like. I think burnout happens when you try to force false restrictions on your reading. Keep up the great reviews. Always looking for new suggestions, old or new books. 📚
I didn't even know Fury of the Gods was coming out, and voila! Went to bookstore right now and got it. Mike coming in clutch before my family holiday this coming weekend.
Amazing TBR! I took a break from chunky fantasy books during the summer and plan to hibernate all winter with fantasy including Fury of the Gods and the Age of Madness trilogy!
Ohhh yeah I can’t wait to read Fury of the Gods! Should be arriving tomorrow so I’m trying to be patient! I love Malazan so I know I’ll love Baker. I just read The Ice by Cahill and am also patiently waiting for Of Empires and Dust. I’m also patiently waiting for Wind and Truth and am anticipating Devils by Abercrombie for next year. Gonna be a hectic time for reading and I’m all for it!
Impressive line-up, Mike! The main book in November for me will be Rhythm of War and I'm doing that as a buddy read with John over at Talking Story, then bring on December for Wind and Truth! It's one of those rare things where Booktube will be aglow with collective excitement when the book drops :)
Nice picks Mike! Same here with me on the chonkers. Last year I read First Law trilogy from November to the end of the year.... this year it will be the Greenbone saga!
Man, so pumped for Fury of the Gods. I think you'll love The Devils, Mike! It's definitely not First Law while retaining Abercrombie's style. More entertaining in natire and Best Served Cold mission oriented. I hope you'll like it!
Seems like a really great month ahead of you. Books from three of your favourite authors as well the R. Scott Bakker sequel that you have been excited about all year. Of those books, I am only going to read the Fury of the Gods.
Yeah, Bakker probably filters a lot of people (for many reasons) so you'll have a smaller and smaller number of companions on your journey but those who do stick around will probably really get into it. Meanwhile I'm reading Thomas Covenant, which is even better than I thought it would be.
The first 2 Unbeliever series are great but the 3rd disappointed me. The 3rd series did not have the gravitas or hit anywhere near as hard as the first 2 for me. I have loved bakkers book so far but I can see why some may not like them. I will most likely do a reread of the Prince of Nothing series in the near future
@@mikesbookreviews A lot of it boils down to how much compassion you as a reader have for the protagonist. Life dealt him the shittiest hand imaginable, but he still made some bad choices of his own volition. There's a beauty to this work that contrasts powerfully with the despoiling of that beauty. Without going into any plot details, it's a classic work for a reason. This first trilogy probably won't eat up too much of your time either, the books are modestly sized.
Finished World Without End recently, thought it was great. First half, 30% maybe, feels very similar to Pillars, history is doomed to repeat itself you might say... but it really comes into its own in the second half.
Ken Follet has something new coming out next year based on Stone Henge. I can't wait - I love everything he puts out. Look you learn quite a bit from historical fiction. Follet researches his topics. I have room for 1300 pages!!!🎉🎉 Love your ambitious TBR!!! So fun to talk about books!
I thought Pillars was great when I joined you last year, but over the past year I still think about it all the time and its in my top 10 for sure. I'll be joining for World without end
Both «The Warrior Prophet» and «The Thousandfold Thought» are great (if very, very dark😅) reads and on my Top Ten Reads this year! I am also very excited to get to «The Fury of the Gods» this November, and I am looking forward to hear your thoughts on «The Devils»! 😃 My November TBR: «The Fury of the Gods» (Bloodsworn Saga #3) by John Gwynne (Epic Fantasy inspired by Norse Mythology) «The Steel Tsar» (A Nomad of the Time Streams» Trilogy #3) by Michael Moorcock (Multiverse/Alternative History/Time Travel Steampunk(?)😅) «Dreaming the Eagle» («Boudica» #1) by Manda Scott (Historical Fiction about the Celtic British Queen and her Rebellion against the Romans) «Lord of Light» by Roger Zelazny (Science Fantasy inspired by the Hindu Gods and the Legend of Siddhartha Gautama/the Buddha) «The Wall» (City of Victory Trilogy #3) by Adrian Goldsworthy (Historical Military Fiction set during the building of Hadrian’s Wall) «The Power Broker» by Robert Caro (Political Biography/Investigative Journalism Classic, my Q4 long-read) Cheers Mike! PS: Also excited for «Gladiator II» and to see if Sir Scott even remotely have catched lightning twice! 😄
@@mikesbookreviews Well, to be fair, I work at a Library, so reading during off-time at work is not exactly frowned up! 😅 Plus «The Steel Tsar» and «Lord of Light» are rather short and «The Power Broker» is spread over this month, November & December (over 1/3 in already: Fully deserve its status as a Classic!), so I have scheduled a week or so for each of the three remaining novels! 😅
"The size of the phone book" 🖤😎😅 I can't wait to start Ken Follets Pillars of the earth. Some of my October reads are spilling over into November. I was a bit to ambitious haha. Thanks again for the amazing content! :) -JRoot
I've got about 3 1⁄2 chapters left of warrior prophet I will definitely be diving into Book 3Next month Looking forward to discussing it when you review it.All I'm gonna tell you is War is Brutal and Achamian rocks.
Fine, i'll go and read Pillars! Halfway through first book of Licanius, put it on hold for a re-read of Honor Harrington (at least first couple of books) as brain is too fried from work for new reading.....
So good to hear you schdeuling Bakker more tightly now! Cant wait for these thoughts as the series goes on! I feel like the dropout rate is probably the highest after the first book - as that is kind of an easy measuring-point for most people. Both in terms of brutality and depravity of the world as well as the style of worldbuilding, writing and narration by Bakker. The other spot where some stop after that is only after book 3 for obvious reasons, after that I'm not sure tbh... But these seem to be the filtering points; unlike Malazan for example, Second Apocalypse in the end has the advantage of being shorter as individual books and as a series/sub-series. For my own November, I'm gonna probably carry over Bakker's 'Great Ordeal' from this month and then looking for a replacement for 'Realm of the Elderlings', which I'll finally complete in a couple of days :') Oh, also the next 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' book releases - and that one is an instant buy. Rearranging everything for this series as is has taken up my life haha; unbelievable how unironically incredible this series is. Abd apart from that I'll try and get some Audiobooks done while I'm workijg on my Uni Project - probably some Discworld or later Dune books... Or I'll join in on continuing Kingsbridge, who knows :)
The only book I have scheduled for November is The Song of the First Blade by T.C. Edge. That book will get me to my goal for the year. After that, I'm just not sure. I'll have read 265 books in a 4 year period, and I think I want to take a break to charge up again. So I may or may not ready anything else this after that book. Or I'll see something that changes my mind. We will see.
Big books. Did you say big, big books? I finished Commonwealth saga by Peter Hamilton and also finished The first volume of Void Trilogy ‘The Dreaming Void’ and 50% through on ‘Temporal Void’. I also don’t know how I managed it. But I loved each moment of it. So all good. Need to start on JG.
I have a lot of John to catch up on I have only read Malice. I have a choice to make cause Fury of the Gods comes out in the same day as the new Reacher book. I’m thinking Terminal Man after Andromena Strain and you got me thinking I need to get back on Last Argument of Kings.
For November I have Lolita (as a travel book), Fairy Tale (my 19th and final book in collection from SK, if you know what I mean) and I will finally start ASoIaF with A Game of Thrones (I will read the entire series this winter, waiting for winter…). Can’t wait!
I'm half way through the Aspect Emperor series, and I think I like it a little more than Prince of Nothing. But then again it could be that recency bias thing. Second Apocalypse is my #1 series of all time.
I've got the latest Forgetful Warrior book coming out that I will read next month. Other than that, I do plan on World Without End & Streets of Laredo. Those last 2 are pretty big. So, I hope I can fit it all in.
@@mikesbookreviews Well, I audio'd LD in 6 days. Reckoning Laredo to take about as long. I don't audio often. But, when I do, I get thru a book quickly.
I know you don’t do audio books Mike but that is the ONLY way I can ever get through huge books. It would take me months to get through Shogun, simply because of time, work, kids limitations. Can breeze through the audiobooks though.
I usually can predict what your book of the month will be based on the subject matter and how much I know you're into each subject. Like Ordinary Grace being coming of age and youve said before you love that sub-genre, I expected it would be your favorite for the month. But with these 4, I think any of them could be your book of the month. All 4 couldn't be contenders for book of the year but I'm going to predict that 1 of them my be slightly disappointing. They're all sequels to books you've loved so expectations can't help but be high.
I agree with you - I would have picked THE FURY OF THE GODS between those 3 (Sanderson would be last, lol) It’s pure payoff, Mike. Hope you love it! I requested THE DEVILS but alas. It’s okay, I’ve got it preordered. I’ll just get by vicariously through your highlights and review.
The only Ken Follett book that I’ve read is ‘Jackdaws.’ It isn’t a chonker. Under 500 pages. It’s set during WWII and revolves around a team of inexperienced women, who are trained for a secret infiltration mission. It was gripping, it was gritty, it was unapologetic. I loved it.
I got into Stormlight Archive in February and read WoK and WoR in about a 6 week period and I too just can't reach for a long book. I do plan on reading Ship of Thesus for November and that is only 450 pages.
I’ve got five or so books I need to finish before I can even start Hunger of the Gods, I’m so far behind on this series.😭 I’m looking forward to your thoughts on the Fury of the Gods though!
My November is The Navigators Children by Tad William finishing up his sequel series to Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and then I'll continue Gai-Jin by James Clavell or continue The Bound and the Broken
I got my hands on Fury a little early and reading it now and John just don’t disappoint. And my November is gonna be chunky books reading the Stormlight Archive for the first time starting Words of Radiance after Fury. Do you plan to read book five in December Mike? I’m trying to make it through the series to be ready. 😂
I am that one oddball in the fantasy community who really gets turned off from big bertha books. I think the best thing I know is a book series filled with short-ish books (Like 100,000-ish pages)
Will you be picking up Wind and Truth on release day? And when do you plan to read The Last Kingdom (before or after Sanderson)? I’ve been waiting for the World Without End read along so will see you on Discord for that ❤
Hey Mike... I'm super into religious fantasy and religious horror and it sounds like the Prince of Nothing series would be right up my alley... do you think it's worth busting my TBR for? It would probably replace Count of Monte Cristo for the end of this month lol
So far the only Abercrombie I have read is the shattered sea trilogy and I enjoyed it You could tell it's probably not his best work it feels like reading Some of the forgotten realms fantasy novels Probably the 1st of the year I will start the 1st law trilogy
Do you plan on releasing a review for rain wild chronicles soon? Up until now ive always watched your review before reading the books and now i feel weird cuz i cant for the first time🤣🤣
The Shadow of the Gods was a let down for me...I don't think i'm going to bother with the rest of the series...just have way too much on the TBR. I also started and read the first half of The Last Kingdom and bleh...it was very mid....felt like I was reading a history book, more than a novel. No real character development and dialogue. Alot of telling and not showing. Just meh. So I think I'm done with that series as well since it seems like most of the books are similar. Here's to hoping I can find something that works....going to start "The Girl with all the Gifts" today.
I’m incredibly excited for The Fury of the Gods and can’t wait to discuss it with you, Mike! What a loaded November you’re looking at!
Yeah, it’s going to be a busy month. But this is the business we’ve chosen!
I feel you Mike. I put off some chonkers forever. I finally read Pillars of the Earth and Count of Monte Cristo in the same 30 day window, along with a couple shorter books.
Dang! You maniac.
I can not thank you enough for recommending The Pillars of the Earth. It was an amazing book. Because of that book i got everything that Ken Follet wrote.😁
Follet’s books are grand in scope. I recommend taking a light break between each one. They will all hit you better as they are chonkers.
@@jaredschmidt8440 thank you for the advise. I plan to read 2 Ken Follet's books a year. Now i am caught up with WOT ( currently at book 9), and others. 😅 The TBR is soooo long...
@@stefanmitrea6270 WOT is amazing. I read it when I was younger. The second read through for me was amazing. I know some folks consider it sloggy but it’s meant to be enjoyed at a slower pace, in my opinion. Hope the Follet books treat you well! I loved them all.
Happy to help!
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But Mike posted the new video.
“Dude. You need to sleep. You’re exhausted.”
Yeah, but Mike posted.
“You have a strong argument. Let’s get comfortable.”
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I am honestly nothing but overjoyed for you that you get to read The Devil so early, hope it's everything you are hoping for! And heeeck yes for the new John Gwynne, he can do no wrong. Happy reading!
World Without End was so great, hope it lives up to the hype for you
I have little doubts.
No worries, just read what you like. I think burnout happens when you try to force false restrictions on your reading. Keep up the great reviews. Always looking for new suggestions, old or new books. 📚
I’m all for reading what you want!
I didn't even know Fury of the Gods was coming out, and voila! Went to bookstore right now and got it. Mike coming in clutch before my family holiday this coming weekend.
I like big books and I cannot lie
You other people can't deny.
Who doesn’t?
World Without End is as good as Pillars of the Earth. Probably the highest praise I can give it
Dang. Can’t wait!
Sounds like a great reading month. Can’t wait for Fury of the Gods
Finished The Hunger of The Gods last night and am ready to roll right in Fury.
Great timing!
I was racing Fury's release, and I have two hours of Hunger's audiobook left.
So slightly disappointed to not make release day.
Amazing TBR! I took a break from chunky fantasy books during the summer and plan to hibernate all winter with fantasy including Fury of the Gods and the Age of Madness trilogy!
Damn that’s a stacked lineup 🤯
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Ohhh yeah I can’t wait to read Fury of the Gods! Should be arriving tomorrow so I’m trying to be patient! I love Malazan so I know I’ll love Baker. I just read The Ice by Cahill and am also patiently waiting for Of Empires and Dust. I’m also patiently waiting for Wind and Truth and am anticipating Devils by Abercrombie for next year. Gonna be a hectic time for reading and I’m all for it!
It’s a jam packed end of the year, no doubt.
Impressive line-up, Mike! The main book in November for me will be Rhythm of War and I'm doing that as a buddy read with John over at Talking Story, then bring on December for Wind and Truth! It's one of those rare things where Booktube will be aglow with collective excitement when the book drops :)
This is the Way
I like hearing you read the back covers. You have nice reading voice
Nice picks Mike! Same here with me on the chonkers. Last year I read First Law trilogy from November to the end of the year.... this year it will be the Greenbone saga!
Enjoy! That’s a great series.
Man, so pumped for Fury of the Gods. I think you'll love The Devils, Mike! It's definitely not First Law while retaining Abercrombie's style. More entertaining in natire and Best Served Cold mission oriented. I hope you'll like it!
Will there be a live discussion for Fury of the Gods?
Man I love BSC. Now I’m even more hyped!
Will be doing a group discussion on Philips channel on November.
Hi Mike! Love your reviews! Fellow R Scott Bakker fan here! Take care Mike
Thanks!
Seems like a really great month ahead of you. Books from three of your favourite authors as well the R. Scott Bakker sequel that you have been excited about all year.
Of those books, I am only going to read the Fury of the Gods.
I am looking forward to it, I have a feeling that Fury of the Gods will be awesome.
Matt's Fantasy Book Reviews gave Fury of the Gods a so so review.
We don’t seem to be lockstep in our opinions but I seemed to like book 2 more than most.
Yeah, Bakker probably filters a lot of people (for many reasons) so you'll have a smaller and smaller number of companions on your journey but those who do stick around will probably really get into it.
Meanwhile I'm reading Thomas Covenant, which is even better than I thought it would be.
The first 2 Unbeliever series are great but the 3rd disappointed me. The 3rd series did not have the gravitas or hit anywhere near as hard as the first 2 for me.
I have loved bakkers book so far but I can see why some may not like them. I will most likely do a reread of the Prince of Nothing series in the near future
Thomas seems to be so divisive
@@mikesbookreviews A lot of it boils down to how much compassion you as a reader have for the protagonist. Life dealt him the shittiest hand imaginable, but he still made some bad choices of his own volition. There's a beauty to this work that contrasts powerfully with the despoiling of that beauty. Without going into any plot details, it's a classic work for a reason. This first trilogy probably won't eat up too much of your time either, the books are modestly sized.
Loved the insights on these books!
Glad you liked it!
I have 60 pages left of Fury Of The Gods and it's soooooo good.
Outstanding!
Finished World Without End recently, thought it was great. First half, 30% maybe, feels very similar to Pillars, history is doomed to repeat itself you might say... but it really comes into its own in the second half.
Tis true.
Jeez, what a month! Pillers of the earth is something I’m going to try and start in 2025. Fury of the gods is gonna be a day 1 read for me for sure
Pillars is amazing
Ken Follet has something new coming out next year based on Stone Henge. I can't wait - I love everything he puts out. Look you learn quite a bit from historical fiction. Follet researches his topics. I have room for 1300 pages!!!🎉🎉 Love your ambitious TBR!!! So fun to talk about books!
I'm with you, I learn so much from reading historical fiction.
I thought Pillars was great when I joined you last year, but over the past year I still think about it all the time and its in my top 10 for sure. I'll be joining for World without end
It’s one of those books that sticks with you.
Both «The Warrior Prophet» and «The Thousandfold Thought» are great (if very, very dark😅) reads and on my Top Ten Reads this year! I am also very excited to get to «The Fury of the Gods» this November, and I am looking forward to hear your thoughts on «The Devils»! 😃
My November TBR:
«The Fury of the Gods» (Bloodsworn Saga #3) by John Gwynne (Epic Fantasy inspired by Norse Mythology)
«The Steel Tsar» (A Nomad of the Time Streams» Trilogy #3) by Michael Moorcock (Multiverse/Alternative History/Time Travel Steampunk(?)😅)
«Dreaming the Eagle» («Boudica» #1) by Manda Scott (Historical Fiction about the Celtic British Queen and her Rebellion against the Romans)
«Lord of Light» by Roger Zelazny (Science Fantasy inspired by the Hindu Gods and the Legend of Siddhartha Gautama/the Buddha)
«The Wall» (City of Victory Trilogy #3) by Adrian Goldsworthy (Historical Military Fiction set during the building of Hadrian’s Wall)
«The Power Broker» by Robert Caro (Political Biography/Investigative Journalism Classic, my Q4 long-read)
Cheers Mike!
PS: Also excited for «Gladiator II» and to see if Sir Scott even remotely have catched lightning twice! 😄
That’s a stacked month!
@@mikesbookreviews Well, to be fair, I work at a Library, so reading during off-time at work is not exactly frowned up! 😅 Plus «The Steel Tsar» and «Lord of Light» are rather short and «The Power Broker» is spread over this month, November & December (over 1/3 in already: Fully deserve its status as a Classic!), so I have scheduled a week or so for each of the three remaining novels! 😅
"The size of the phone book" 🖤😎😅
I can't wait to start Ken Follets Pillars of the earth.
Some of my October reads are spilling over into November. I was a bit to ambitious haha.
Thanks again for the amazing content! :)
-JRoot
Pillars is a great pick!
I've got about 3 1⁄2 chapters left of warrior prophet I will definitely be diving into Book 3Next month Looking forward to discussing it when you review it.All I'm gonna tell you is War is Brutal and Achamian rocks.
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Fine, i'll go and read Pillars!
Halfway through first book of Licanius, put it on hold for a re-read of Honor Harrington (at least first couple of books) as brain is too fried from work for new reading.....
Love the videos Mike! Reignited my love for reading! The Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Lui? On your radar?
2025
So good to hear you schdeuling Bakker more tightly now! Cant wait for these thoughts as the series goes on!
I feel like the dropout rate is probably the highest after the first book - as that is kind of an easy measuring-point for most people. Both in terms of brutality and depravity of the world as well as the style of worldbuilding, writing and narration by Bakker.
The other spot where some stop after that is only after book 3 for obvious reasons, after that I'm not sure tbh... But these seem to be the filtering points; unlike Malazan for example, Second Apocalypse in the end has the advantage of being shorter as individual books and as a series/sub-series.
For my own November, I'm gonna probably carry over Bakker's 'Great Ordeal' from this month and then looking for a replacement for 'Realm of the Elderlings', which I'll finally complete in a couple of days :')
Oh, also the next 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' book releases - and that one is an instant buy. Rearranging everything for this series as is has taken up my life haha; unbelievable how unironically incredible this series is.
Abd apart from that I'll try and get some Audiobooks done while I'm workijg on my Uni Project - probably some Discworld or later Dune books... Or I'll join in on continuing Kingsbridge, who knows :)
Shorter, but it takes me weeks to read one of them ha ha
Great reading list!
Thanks! I'm pretty excited about this month's pile.
The only book I have scheduled for November is The Song of the First Blade by T.C. Edge. That book will get me to my goal for the year. After that, I'm just not sure. I'll have read 265 books in a 4 year period, and I think I want to take a break to charge up again. So I may or may not ready anything else this after that book. Or I'll see something that changes my mind. We will see.
Big books. Did you say big, big books? I finished Commonwealth saga by Peter Hamilton and also finished The first volume of Void Trilogy ‘The Dreaming Void’ and 50% through on ‘Temporal Void’. I also don’t know how I managed it. But I loved each moment of it. So all good. Need to start on JG.
That’s a lotta pages 😆
Here’s some feedback for The Warrior Prophet: it’s amazing
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Sounds like a good month. I'm very excited for fury of the gods I fucking love john
He’s awesome
I have a lot of John to catch up on I have only read Malice. I have a choice to make cause Fury of the Gods comes out in the same day as the new Reacher book. I’m thinking Terminal Man after Andromena Strain and you got me thinking I need to get back on Last Argument of Kings.
I'm glad I got you thinking about The Last Argument of Kings! That's a great series!
For November I have Lolita (as a travel book), Fairy Tale (my 19th and final book in collection from SK, if you know what I mean) and I will finally start ASoIaF with A Game of Thrones (I will read the entire series this winter, waiting for winter…). Can’t wait!
Great picks!
I'm half way through the Aspect Emperor series, and I think I like it a little more than Prince of Nothing. But then again it could be that recency bias thing. Second Apocalypse is my #1 series of all time.
Wonderful to hear!
" I like big books and I can't lie" 😊
Facts.
November is my Day of the Dragon spoils… dying to hear your thoughts on Disquiet Gods… will be patient and wait 🤣🤣
It’ll happen eventually
I've got the latest Forgetful Warrior book coming out that I will read next month. Other than that, I do plan on World Without End & Streets of Laredo. Those last 2 are pretty big. So, I hope I can fit it all in.
Laredo is such a month read. Took it out even quicker than Lonesome Dove. So good!
@@mikesbookreviews Well, I audio'd LD in 6 days. Reckoning Laredo to take about as long. I don't audio often. But, when I do, I get thru a book quickly.
I know you don’t do audio books Mike but that is the ONLY way I can ever get through huge books. It would take me months to get through Shogun, simply because of time, work, kids limitations. Can breeze through the audiobooks though.
I get that. I wish I could. I’d get through some of the chonkers way faster.
I usually can predict what your book of the month will be based on the subject matter and how much I know you're into each subject. Like Ordinary Grace being coming of age and youve said before you love that sub-genre, I expected it would be your favorite for the month. But with these 4, I think any of them could be your book of the month. All 4 couldn't be contenders for book of the year but I'm going to predict that 1 of them my be slightly disappointing. They're all sequels to books you've loved so expectations can't help but be high.
I meant all 4 could be Book of the Year contenders.
Definitely won’t be an easy pick.
Like ur TBR pile of books 📚
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Would you consider making a Why You Should Read, or doing a review for The Bloodsworn Saga?
I did one for the first book. But not sure.
I agree with you - I would have picked THE FURY OF THE GODS between those 3 (Sanderson would be last, lol) It’s pure payoff, Mike. Hope you love it!
I requested THE DEVILS but alas. It’s okay, I’ve got it preordered. I’ll just get by vicariously through your highlights and review.
Outstanding. Can’t wait!
The only Ken Follett book that I’ve read is ‘Jackdaws.’ It isn’t a chonker. Under 500 pages. It’s set during WWII and revolves around a team of inexperienced women, who are trained for a secret infiltration mission. It was gripping, it was gritty, it was unapologetic. I loved it.
I didn’t think Ken COULD write a story under 1000 pages ha ha
Sweet Sejenus
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*Mike Voice* Hey whats up CookGerms!
I got into Stormlight Archive in February and read WoK and WoR in about a 6 week period and I too just can't reach for a long book. I do plan on reading Ship of Thesus for November and that is only 450 pages.
Yes, but that book is time consuming! I spent like 10 hours on it and was on page 25 🤣
Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle is a quick read (8-9 hours) vs World Without End (34-37 hours).
That’s like a prologue for Ken 😆
Mike, any plans to read Dead Mans Walk?? First prequal to lonesome Dove
I’ve got five or so books I need to finish before I can even start Hunger of the Gods, I’m so far behind on this series.😭 I’m looking forward to your thoughts on the Fury of the Gods though!
But they’ll always be there when you’re ready!
I’ll probably work on Bloodsworn mostly this month and November, filling in the gaps with some other fantasy, sci-fi or historical fiction.
Good plan
My November is The Navigators Children by Tad William finishing up his sequel series to Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and then I'll continue Gai-Jin by James Clavell or continue The Bound and the Broken
Al reasonable picks
I’ve been reading too many big boys back to back. My November will definitely be much lighter. Like horror short stories lighter.
Always gotta take breaks from those chonkers
I got my hands on Fury a little early and reading it now and John just don’t disappoint. And my November is gonna be chunky books reading the Stormlight Archive for the first time starting Words of Radiance after Fury. Do you plan to read book five in December Mike? I’m trying to make it through the series to be ready. 😂
I will be reading W&T the moment it is in my hand.
I am that one oddball in the fantasy community who really gets turned off from big bertha books. I think the best thing I know is a book series filled with short-ish books (Like 100,000-ish pages)
No, I get it. I can get burned out when I read too many in short periods.
Will you be picking up Wind and Truth on release day? And when do you plan to read The Last Kingdom (before or after Sanderson)?
I’ve been waiting for the World Without End read along so will see you on Discord for that ❤
That’s the plan! Everything stops when I get W&T in my hands.
Mike, are you planning on reading house of leaves? Very curious your thoughts on that one
Not at the moment but I do own it
Hey Mike... I'm super into religious fantasy and religious horror and it sounds like the Prince of Nothing series would be right up my alley... do you think it's worth busting my TBR for? It would probably replace Count of Monte Cristo for the end of this month lol
If you don’t mind a steep learning curve for the world/characters/lore and some pretty disturbing content, for sure.
@@mikesbookreviews Disturbing content is where I live... preciate it Mike
thoughts on the kindle color?
So far the only Abercrombie I have read is the shattered sea trilogy and I enjoyed it You could tell it's probably not his best work it feels like reading Some of the forgotten realms fantasy novels Probably the 1st of the year I will start the 1st law trilogy
Buckle up!
Do you plan on releasing a review for rain wild chronicles soon? Up until now ive always watched your review before reading the books and now i feel weird cuz i cant for the first time🤣🤣
Probably not. The individual reviews didn’t get a ton of interest. I wrapped it all into the Good & the Bad of Realm of the Elderlings video.
Is devil’s start of new story or do I need to read first law?
Nope, it’s totally new
Anyone know if Mike has read any Gene Wolfe yet?
Did you finish Warrior Prophet?
Not yet!
Are we Team Gwynne or Team Abercrombie?
Team Chrichton.
You have to be realistic about these things...
Can anyone confirm if The Devils is the start of a new series or a standalone?
It’s a planned trilogy, I believe.
@@mikesbookreviews thanks Mike!
The Shadow of the Gods was a let down for me...I don't think i'm going to bother with the rest of the series...just have way too much on the TBR. I also started and read the first half of The Last Kingdom and bleh...it was very mid....felt like I was reading a history book, more than a novel. No real character development and dialogue. Alot of telling and not showing. Just meh. So I think I'm done with that series as well since it seems like most of the books are similar. Here's to hoping I can find something that works....going to start "The Girl with all the Gifts" today.
Life’s too short to read books you aren’t liking.
For the moment in November I only have The Panther and Radiant Angel by Nelson DeMille
Enjoy!