It was a pleasure listening to you discuss this novel, even at the half-way point. That you seem to be having a blast delights me, as that was my hope for all readers coming into the Malazan world. I hope your enjoyment continues. Cheers, SE

I hope that you enjoy the rest of the series. This was a lot of fun to listen to. Thanks for the great discussion.

@CannataJeff

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out the video! Big fan of your channel and your discussions of writing and Malazan.

In good jest: "it wasn't that hard to follow" *proceeds to be confused and wrong about much of the plot so far* - :D - Thank you for doing this read through! Instant subscribe.

Literally started cheering in my car when Jeff plugged this on The Filmcast. Malazan is peerless in the genre. Enjoy the journey!

Jeff casts 'Channel Resurrect'! It's highly effective!

This is so sick, knew this KZread subscription would pay off eventually

@petermanuel5043

Жыл бұрын

Don't you love it when small long term investments grow exponentially over time. 🚀

Great chat! Glad to hear you're enjoying it. Looking forward to future eps! (Also LOVE the Bone Clocks recommendation, that book rules.)

Just heard about this on The Filmcast. Immediately ordered the first book and can’t wait to get started.

It took me months of holding off to even start this book. But here I am, 5 months later, already read all ten. It's all amazing and the most rewarding books I have ever read in my life.

I had to do a double take if I was seeing this correctly. Welcome back!

Stopped at spoiler warning and bought the book. I will read the book…. I will read the book…

I'm a year late, but your bookclub on Malazan has finally given me the final push to start this series. I'm having a blast! Jeff, you're 2 for 2 on book recommendations! I started Stormlight because of your review of Way of Kings! It's my favorite series at the moment :)

Thanks for the recommendation Jeff. Been listening via Audible (the internet has ruined my ability to read) and can recommend the audiobook. One bloke doing all the voices blows mind and his Kruppe voice always makes me smile. Unlike my wife who has to put up with my poor imitation. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

I finally got back into Dungeon Run after a 3ish year break (still on the pre-pandemic episode 37) and scrolled to Jeff's KZread page to see if I missed any uploads, literally yesterday. I was disappointed to see no updates in years only to wake up this morning and get pleasantly surprised by this. Love you, Jeff!

hey Jeff so nice to see you uploading on youtube :) i love hearing your take on books, your enthusiasm has always been so infectious and refreshing

Finally picking these up on your recommendation, absolutely loved the first half and watching you two discuss. Can’t wait to (try to) catch up!

Love it. The books have so much depth to them it's always fascinating hearing different perspectives of the narrative. Great video. I look forward to hearing the rest of your thoughts on the series.

Woohoo! Jeff! Book club! And thanks for the recommendations at the end 😀

Going to have to read this book and check this book club out! Very cool to see you uploading to this channel again! Would love some more NLB Minis, those were always a treat. You’re still the raddest man on the web!

Just finished gardens a few days ago and I'm also absolutely LOVING it! Cant wait to hear the rest of yalls discussions

Thanks Jeff and Lana for putting me onto this series. Loving it so far, and really enjoying doing it as part of this little book club. What a great idea!

Just found out about this channel while I'm in the middle of my first reread of the series. I will be an avid watcher of these videos. Thanks for doing this.

@CannataJeff

6 ай бұрын

So glad you found us! Welcome. Lots of great folks around these parts. :)

Great job guys! The last book I read was The Martian. This has got me back to reading! I had never heard of the Malazan series and it's been great. Looking forward to the future episodes!

This has been in my kindle and audible for a bit. I finished Book One: Pale and listened to the spoiler free bit of the conversation. Then dove into book 2 and read that all of Friday evening. Looking forward to reading along with y’all.

Love that you both are doing this! I’ve been looking for an incentive to read this series for a long time. Listening to you both discuss and walkthrough it at the same pace will make it so much more enjoyable. I know I’m behind, so apologies if you’re already doing this, but maybe going through each “book” by laying out each point of view characters entire plot for that “book” may help focus things a bit. I know you guys are just doing this for fun so I understand if that may require more work and note taking than you’re interested in. I’ll be watching either way!

I took a break before Toll of the Hounds. I forgot soo much! I remember being confused so often, even trying to remember how the later events connect to what you two are describing is boiling my brain. It's great you two are keeping up with everything, perhaps I read too quickly :/. Such a wild series, I'll have to join in, maybe early for some of my faves. Thanks for the recommendations and rekindling my need to finish these books.

Malazan is my absolute favorite fantasy series of all time, by a fairly wide margin, and is in fact probably my favorite story I've ever experienced. Very much looking forward to more!!

Thanks for helping me get back into reading, Jeff and Lana! I’m a slow reader but can’t wait to watch all of your recaps

Paused the Filmcast to check this out! Jeff, I am delighted that you brought up book readin on your movie podcast. I've also been waffling over a fantasy series to read that will fill the Song of Ice and Fire shaped whole in my heart.

At the ground floor of the next viral booktuber! Thank you two!🎉

Love that you two are taking your time to do this. I love reading and always wanted to be a part of a reading group but nobody my age (50) likes to read much. There mostly gamers. I too am a gamer but I also love reading and this fills the gap for my need to talk about the books I read! Great pic, even if it wasn’t - I feel my bucket being filled by your discussion- thank you.

Thanks very interesting video and great listen, just half way through first book

I paused at the spoilers and started reading and now I'm back. Let's go!

I read this book years ago and I remember liking it but not much else, I am going to reread it before part 2

Thanks for doing this

15 years after TRS's seminal Cat's Cradle review, we finally have Jeff talking about books again and I love it.

Can't wait to watch you guys experience this series. Enjoy it!

This was quite an interesting discussion. Looking forward to more. 2N1Team.

what a treat to find you guys, we are in this together now! x

Jeff Canata?? I used to watch you and Alex and Dan YEARS ago. I didn't remember the name of the podcast until you happened to say 'rad' at one point in this episode. It is great to see you're still into cool nerdy things. Malazan is probably my favourite series of all time and your discussion here was a joy to watch. Great stuff. Can't wait to watch more.

This was so much fun to listen to, I think you both are great. Personally I enjoyed book 1 way way more than book 2 but I seem to be in the minority with that. 😂 Gardens is truly a gem though, all the things you guys pointed out, I was just in love with the world and the locations and the magic and mystery and gods, everything is just so cool. Thanks for the video!

YEAAAAHHH!!!! BOOKS!!!!!!

Can’t wait to see your reactions as this goes on. It only gets more fun from here….I pronounce it Kr-up-pa btw.

Movies, TV, video games, tabletop games, and now BOOKS?! What doesn’t this man do!?!

✨

Bought the book because I knew this book club was coming. I have read two pages. It’s tough to get started in the reading process. Hoping to ACTUALLY be able read it soon.

@bobbob-cd9yl

Жыл бұрын

As always the general guide is that it's like a jigsaw puzzle in world building the peices do not make sense to start but as they converge a picture starts to form. Regarding help there are 3 levels, firstly the malazan wiki has chapter summaries that are non spoilery, the malazan reddit is SUPER nice and will help you with any questions and finally there was a playlist by "Scifi and fantasy read along" that covered gardens of the moon and they deconstructed EACH chapter to great detail

I'm glad to see so many people enjoying Gardens. The complexity thing is overblown way out of proportion. Yes, he jumps from place to place to place without any preamble, but i assure before long you'll know exactly where Itko Kan is, what Kanese are like, you'll know Malaz City like the back of your hand. He set himself on a misson to mess with our preconecptions abiut fnatasy what puts a lot if people off i think, especially when they have no idea what an adjunct us, what is a Warren, whi the hell is Topper and so on. Any why,ngreat show, cant wait for u guys to get further in. Cheers.

Jeff! I don't know if you remember this, but I recommended this series to you at PAX Seattle probably about 10 years ago. I just started the video and I'm really excited to hear what you think!

@CannataJeff

Жыл бұрын

Finally got around to taking your recommendation!

This is one of those books I've bought but never got around to reading.

@ladrac198

Жыл бұрын

It's so worth it! This is by far my favorite fantasy series of all time!

I don't remember seeing you in video, you both are gorgeous?! , I knew the Spice-man was a looker but I'm surprised about you two... Oh and I'm starting the Malazan on audible, hope they stick.

first time viewer. you 2 were a delight! subded and looking to read malazan with ya'll. Lana shared her reading back ground, but what about you Jeff? what are some of your favorites?

@CannataJeff

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for stopping by and for the sub! I think you’ll love these books. As for me, some of my favorite authors: Neal Stephenson, David Foster Wallace, Isaac Asimov, David Mitchell, GRRM

Pretty sure there's way, WAY more than 600 named characters, considering there's 453(!) named PoVs alone, and lots of characters obviously don't get a PoV. But great vid, really enjoyable to hear your perspectives

I only know this book series from the black metal band Caladan Brood.

A couple of comments. The audiobook pronounces Kruppe as “Crup-a”. And I envisioned the moon as like a big asteroid. Like the size of a giant German medieval castle. So glad this is happening

@slidenaway

Жыл бұрын

Audiobook is wrong lol, Erikson says it like cup. But hey, Erikson ALSO says pronounce everything however you want so 🤷

Moons spawn is not a moon that’s close for the record. 😂❤

I don't really have or make time to read. I'm too busy gaming or watching TV...or working. I don't have a problem reading but the act of doing so puts me to sleep in general. I would probably do the audiobooks on the way to and from work. I should be finished with the series in about 4 years. (sarcasm)

Hi there! I am a recent Malazan convert, having read the main 10 series for the first AND second times last year 😃😃 Really great intro to you two, and to Gardens of the Moon! Awesome to see you both having so much fun, you’re in for a wild ride and I’m excited to be along for it! Couple small corrections (I’m ignoring pronunciation, this list could have been longer lol) - Crone is a great Raven, not a crow. And Sorry is being possessed by Cotillion specifically, and the wax witch Rigga is… involved. Won’t say more 😊

As for a good read down the road, Evan Winter "The Rage of Dragons"

Did you catch this video on how to get into Malazan? kzread.info/dash/bejne/eGeZtraIqNesm7Q.html Matt’s a fairly new booktuber but I love his channel and reviews and his Malazan breakdown is very thorough.

Are you guys the same DLC that covers Video Games? I heard about you through Into The Aether when Brendan was on your show! If you’re not the same, sorry… but If you are the same, why the separation of books vs video games? Gotta stick to that “Brand-Centric” Marketing. 😊 Would love to see this on the regular podcasting channels. Anyways… keep up the good work and thanks for posting!

Did Jeff dye his hair grey? Last Time I say him he was hosting a KZread show with an upcoming big Hollywood director and a sexy blonde! He looks like Marc Maron now! Is this what having children does to you?

@CannataJeff

Жыл бұрын

Yes. That’s what having children does to you. It’s not pretty.

@billyalarie929

Жыл бұрын

wait, so what's Marc's excuse, then? that dude DEFINITELY doesn't have any kids.

@2nd3rd1st

Жыл бұрын

@@billyalarie929 Strongly hope so!

@2nd3rd1st

Жыл бұрын

@@CannataJeff Maybe you feel that way now, but when you need help in 40 years with fighting your rampaging ChatGPT-1000 controlled Tesla-Carebot you'll be glad to have them in insta-beam reach.

@HankDrew

Жыл бұрын

​@@billyalarie929coke addiction 😂

Apparently I haven’t seen Jeff in a while. He’s as grey as I am.

@CannataJeff

Жыл бұрын

Happens to the best of us

Is anyone going to point out the action seens in this book kind of suck? Tolkien was never very good at writing battles, but i remember all of his battle seens better than any in this book. And i finished it yesterday.

it would be "hip" if you'd read this two decades ago when it first came out like some of us did.

@CannataJeff

Жыл бұрын

You win! You’re cooler than me! One thing I always try to do is make room at the cool table, even if folks are late to the party.

Years without posting a video. I thought this channel was dead. Really wasted opportunity btw not to synergize your name recognition with your other outlets with steady youtube content. One might go far as to say lazy even. Heck, you could even pay an editor to just strip the best moments of your weekly shows into a "weekly roundup" of your opinions on games and movies.

@rhoorn

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he’s doing just fine without worrying about “synergizing” or whatever you call it.