BookTubers Talking Books w/ JOHANNA + MIKE | Side Quest
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- In this episode of Side Quests, Jordan chats with two of his favorite BookTubers, JOHANNA from @Johanna_reads and MIKE from @mikesbookreviews.
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I'm always curious when people say "I want more women watching my channel" or "Fantasy is made better by having women reading it," if they have an actual thought out reason behind it.
I pose let's go with the opposite. Do we need more men reading YA and Romance, which are overwhelmingly female consumed? Would those genres be made better for having men read them? Would the average female reader of those genres be happy if men came in and influenced thoae genres to make them "better?" Would YA or Romance focused channels be made better if men watched them?
This isn't to say anything negative about women reading fantasy or watching epic fantasy focused stuff, it's to pose the question of why do people feel the desire to change things that arguably don't need to be changed.
Pretty much the Women in the NBA bill burr skit...
I actually happen to agree with this. Thanks for your thoughts, man. Cheers!
I think they just mean they want more diverse groups to read the genre they love? Why does it have to stay the same? Why not introduce people to things outside their comfort zone? Mike said Manga and Historical Fiction have been some of the best reads of his career.
I have just started on “The Dragonbone Chair” (Memory, Sorrow & Thorn #1) by Tad Williams (BIG inspiration for GRRM’s “A Song of Ice & Fire”!), “The Darkness That Comes Before” (Prince of Nothing/Second Apocalypse #1) by R. Scott Bakker and «A Brightness Long Ago» by Guy Gavriel Kay! (Totally unintentional, but yeah I do see the irony in reading “The Darkness That Comes Before” and “A Brightness Long Ago” in the same month! Canadian Ying & Yang, eh! 😄) Cheers!
Hey dude. You’ve got a great list going there. To be honest, I’ve read ZERO Guy Gavriel Kay. I guess I need to get on that. Yeah, there’s something about living in rural Canada that seems to make for good fantasy writing. Maybe it’s the cold and the boredom, lol! 😂 Thanks for watching.
Hahaha the "Joanna maybe you can tell me what's wrong with me" got a rare damn good laugh out of Mike 😂😂 at 1:00:35
Lololol.
Daniel Abraham: Age of Ash is a remarkable book with one of the scariest antagonists I've ever read as a spirit of the city which has been inhabiting the bodies of the rulers for centuries. It's sequel is good but features different characters.
Sounds right up my alley. Thanks for watching!
I think The Green Mile is my favorite King. And I’ve read all the big ones
I've seen the film but still haven't read the story. It's a short story, right? Thanks for watching!
@@iWizard Nope, it's a novel, around 500 pages. I did it on audio and it was awesome. Shawshank is a short story
I also wanna be someone who likes Malazan but I'm not! But I have a completely different problem: I understood what was going on but there were so many things (that other people apparently love) that reminded me too much of his influences and completely took me out of the story, and I felt distant from the characters like they were on the couch and Erikson was the psychonalasit and I was just peering into them not living through them. And on a more petty note the worldbuilding felt like my own rpg world from college and I just couldn't take it seriously 😂
Yes, I very much felt like Erikson was God and the tiny little mortals were his chess pieces.
iWizard you should check out the cartoon book Wizard of id. Nearly your name sake!
Were those in the funny papers? I think I remember Wizard of Id. Lol, as for my channel, I use the name iWizard to connote both sci-fi ("i") and fantasy ("wizard"). Though if I'm copying Asimov, it should probably be "I, Wizard." Cheers!
@@iWizardhas it was! I used to read it when I was a kid!
Having ads every three minutes really destroys the viewing experience
Oh, jeez. I honestly didn't know there were ads every three minutes. Let me see if I can fix that.
I really enjoyed the conversation but your use of “like” so darn often became a distraction and became like a mental drinking game I couldn’t unfocus on.
Thanks for watching! Yes, that’s something about myself I need to fix. It happens most often when I’m tired. I’ll try to do better next time. :)