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Nice, I'm glad you like the prose. I think Robert Jordan's prose is best for highly visual readers. IDK but people seem to be all over the place on rating it. Also it just has so much content. All the modern fantasy I read feels like fluff if it's a long book

1:13:20 for Mistborn. For me it was a low 3.5/5 for me but books 2 and 3 got successively better for me 4.25 and 4.5 respectively. 😊 It was my favorite TRILOGY until I read Age of Madness 😅

Mat saying he loves fighting/battles in one of the first chapters made me laugh so hard

Damn this is long, but here I am. I started my third, possibly fourth, reread recently

Great review Daniel! Need to read this series!

When the TV show started, I had already read books 1 and 2. And then I made the mistake of watching the first season, which is very bad, and when I started reading the third book, the actors came to mind. The series ruined the saga for me.

Brust is one of the funniest writers in fantasy for sure. Lots of laugh out loud stuff in the Taltos series. Great series.

As a WoT lover, how am I just finding your channel?!! Like and sub!

Me, an animal who watches the spoiler sections without reading the books: 👁️👄👁️

Book 2 hooked me big time, currently reading Mistborn for the first time. Started reading WOT in the 90s, so waited for books. Got frustrated with the slog. The only group in WOT I wasn't overly in love with was the Seafolk, thought they were written as too arrogant and unlikeable. My opinion of Mat changed after he woke up in the WT post healing, he was a very different character from then and become my fav. I loved Mats relationship with Nynaeve, they were far from being friends and yet both would assault the Bore to save the other, while grumbling and bitching about the having to do it. Spoiler There is a scene between Rand and Mat, I think it was outside of Carhien City and Mat was leaving and Mat said to Rand "be careful of Egwene she has left Emonds Field further behind than any of us and regrets it less"

Started it yesterday. I enjoy the writing style. It’s like if Sanderson wrote LOTR

The reason bazil got the name broke tail was because his tail was broke. That broken tail was why he could use the sword. Other dragons used maces and a few other dragons used swords. The mighty purple green dragon was awesome. It's been over 30 years since I read the book. You have a nice channel! If didn't like the 1st book don't torture yourself with the others!

I really enjoyed the series. La lilly la loo!

I did like the sound of this one, sea monsters, cannons etc. Ill avoid the spoiler section for now, as I may still read it one day. Great cover though!

Smell and memory are often connected because they’re situated very close in your brain (the limbic system)! They’re only a few synapses apart :) got reminded bc of your chat abt the two (Fun facts from a med student)

Thanks for the heads-up, Dan. It cannot always be a total feast! Unfortunately...

Karen Travis’ Republic Commando series is some of the best Star Wars novels (I’ve read all of the eu). Great stuff

Library book deals sound awesome!

Congratulations to you and your wife about the upcoming huge event! Reading seems so unimportant in that respect, doesn't it?! Thanks for the update and good luck with juggling time.

Eldritch creatures: I have not read these since I used a horror for this one but i've heard the tainted cup counts, herald by rob j hayes, along the razor's edge from him as well. I'm also reading cage of souls by adrian tchaikovsky atm and it would also count and am really enjoying it.

2024 releases I'm excited about that you might like: - The mercy of gods (James SA Corey) - Mistress of lies (KM Enright) - The silverblood promise (James Logan)

If you find smth else for multi pov, Glokta would def qualify for the disability square. Thr poor guy💀. Godkiller, ascendant, black sun, gallant, kings of paradise, etc. It doesn't have to be a physical disability either but they're easier to realise haha Bards: hm would work for the first binding i've heard. I'm reading dark water daughter for normal mode.

I'll be reading flames of mira for underground. For dreams I've heard the spear cuts through water or the helm.of midnight qualify that interest me. Blood over bright haven migh be one you'd enjoy for dark academia. Not sure of wizard of earthsea would count. Haven't read it but seems pretty classic wizard school? Blade itself should count for multi pov.

I'm super excited for this, I'm on my first readthrough and just finished book 4, and like you I was hooked from Eye of the World!

The Jhereg series rocks. I am a few behind as I have only read the first 12. Need to get caught up. Congrats on the life changes. Be well, stay safe!

Will always be my favourite. Was hooked when I saw the cover in the bookstore when it first came out. I will always picture Lan and Moraine that way. Will not watch the show as it is so far removed from the source material. The "slog" is overhyped. In a 14 book series there are going to some that are stronger than others. Tai'shar Manetheren! Be well, stay safe!

Hi Daniel, not sure if you are aware but there are a couple of VERY short short stories from the wheel of time. (I can't remember all the details but one is basically just a cut chapter from the last book)

Wot meh meh meh meh meh

Bro... Its pronounced "Taltosh" LOL :)

Big day is coming. Congrats! And congrats on the promotion. With the new baby and the longer commute, you might want to consider mixing in audiobooks a bit. The Vlad Taltos series has a great narrator, Bernard Setaro Clark (My favorite audiobook reader). Wheel of Time has Michael Kramer and Kate Reading and they're pretty great. There is also a new one with Rosamund Pike from the show reading. Might be good, I don't know just have to make sure you pick the one you want. Other stand-out audiobooks in my opinion are Abercrombie's First Law Books and Dinnaman's Dungeon Crawler Carls books.

Dan, you can keep him - Austin (great collab guys!)

Great video mate, I think we had similar impressions of Dark Matter, it was good, but overhyped. So excited for you and your wife, a very exciting time! It's been a real pleasure getting to know you in the past few months :) For your commute, I would suggest audiobooks! When I used to have like 1.5-2 hours of commute a day I would devour audio books. I feel called out, and the full collection of unopened wheel of time boxsets is sitting on my shelf to my left taunting me. I was planning on reading WoT as book 10 of my challenge, I'm up to book 7 now, I might bring it up.

So excited for you Daniel! You are going to be an amazing Dad! (And I will be an amazing great Aunt😁. Always love your content!

I agree on Dark Matter - liked it, didn’t LOVE it

So excited for you! Being a dad is the best thing in the world! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you ever want to talk dad stuff or need any advice!

Alia is 🐐 also also Dark Matter is mid but RECURSION IS AMAZING. I recommended it to Richard from 2toRamble and he loved it :)

Congratulations on being a soon to be dad and the promotion ❤

Congrats to you and your wife! Take all the time you need to be present with your family, that is so important! Maybe you can read some of your books outloud to the baby 😊 I misheard MBR as NBR and thought "Not to be read??? First time I've heard of that but sure" 😂 I still count comics/manga towards the # of books I read. Its just a different type of medium, and doesn't mean that it's "less than" books/novels/whatever. I still count novellas, short story collections, etc to my total so why not?

Sounds like May was a good month and June will be so exciting!:) also at the end you mentioned hitting 200 subs and you’re already past 300!🎉

We all love Austin… but it’s so good to see rich talk to someone with some sense.

Why do people always have to mention LotR influence for WoT, yet they don't mention Dune everytime Star Wars comes up?

The GOAT fantasy series

I also disdain Nyneave 😂😂

Greatest of all time? No. Are they good books, though? Well, most of them are.