I think Atrioc should make a Goodreads account. People who read in his chat could follow his Goodreads to see what he has read in the past, what he is currently reading, and what he plans to read.

@jakethunderbird8735

8 ай бұрын

I agree 100%. I’d follow it in a heartbeat

I think books are incredible, and it's sad so many people dismiss them. If you find a good book, it's so much more engaging because you imagine the world in your terms.

@Aritcheyy

8 ай бұрын

As someone with Aphantasia(Can't picture things in your mind) books are kinda meh.

@bhume7535

8 ай бұрын

@@Aritcheyy Well you're quite literally built different. Go watch a video of a cow rotating since you can't do it yourself.

@pepperbreath35

8 ай бұрын

Also should remove stigma around young adult even kids book, whatever to get you to read. Also ebook and library are a good resource, if you dont like it just change books especially library cause its little commitment since you dont keep buying new books

@godlyvex5543

8 ай бұрын

@@Aritcheyy Aphantasia is a perfectly respectable reason to not like books, in the same way blindness is a good reason not to like paintings, and deafness is a good reason not to like music. This isn't to rib on you in any way, I'm just saying you are an edge case, not the intended audience.

@joshywoods

8 ай бұрын

I'm sad high school made me hate reading. I used to love it.

Bro the quality and frequency of these videos is actually insane whoever’s managing this keep it up

@groffit1787

8 ай бұрын

It’s nice to be able to expect a few vids a a day that I’ll always want to watch

August 2022 I decided to start reading every day before bed and try to read more instead of going on my phone. So far in 2023 I have read 22 books of varying lengths (including the entire Harry Potter series in 25 days. Could not put those down they were so damn good), have an easier time falling asleep, and frequently find myself reading a chapter when I need a break from school/studying. Please start reading more (and more physical books to get away from screens)!

@yesnt7356

8 ай бұрын

It’s hard to find new books to read :/ So I just read on my phone cause it’s easier

@oscar4212

8 ай бұрын

@@yesnt7356if you like fiction and numbers going up I recommend Cradle and Dungeon Crawler Carl (especially the audio book) :)

@fuadlabib703

8 ай бұрын

I wanna read but I think my reading speed is too slow I'll take one and half an hour of reading but it'll be just like 20 pages or something so I don't make progress and just quit

@H0uxdubxston

8 ай бұрын

​@fuadlabib703 try listening to audiobooks. You can change the playback speed and you'll plow through books with how much more time you can spend listening while doing mundane tasks

@fuadlabib703

8 ай бұрын

@@H0uxdubxston unironically I've been watching KZread in 1.75X speed for 3 months now lol

I use a kindle, and it gives a prediction of time until you finish the chapter/book. You can also change the font size, light, etc. and it can show a percentage of the way through the book. I have one of the paperwhite kindles, and the "screen" doesn't actually emit photons, so it's easier on the eyes.

I love reading in bed with a kindle, I had to stop recently. I had the habit of reading from 10pm until 4am because I can’t help but finish a book in a sitting

I used to recommend Red Rising for getting back into reading, but now I recommend the "Green Bone Saga" trilogy: "Jade City", "Jade War"", and "Jade Legacy" by Fonda Lee. It's mindblowing.

I got into reading because of Big A! I've never been a reader, and some time ago I was in a really bad spot. Atrioc recommended The Algebra of Happiness on stream, I felt like it would be a good book for me and started with that one. What a piece of shit that book was lmao (the beginning was good tho). Since then I've read 6 books in a couple of months and I'm currently on the second book of the Red Rising saga. It really is a great source of entertainment, it also made me go to a book club when visiting a different city and now it's something I can bond over with friends. All thanks to the Glarketer himself!

@thomasrocke

8 ай бұрын

What problems did you have with the Algebra of Happiness? I'm also struggling a bit and was thinking of picking it up

@mickyor1107

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasrocke tldr: it's only helpful with money-related topics and it derails after the first part The book is divided into three sections, the first and strongest one is about success, it has interesting career and money management advice. I found this to be by far the best part of the book, and it's pretty good for kind of waking you up to go and find economic success. Also it's the only part of the book with anything related to algebra but that's whatever lmao The other two sections (I believe they were Love and Health) are filled with stories from the author's life that mostly go nowhere and contain very shallow advice. Some parts are particularly infuriating to read because it feels like the author is no longer trying to help the reader. When I saw Atrioc recommend the book, he said it contained proven methods to achieve a happier life and that was the reason I read the book. BUT THERE'S ALMOST NONE OF THAT lmao. It has sources to studies related to many things mentioned in the book, but it might as well be just a list of the sources because there's almost no insight about them. Something that I also realized is that I'm not the target demographic at all. Maybe the book could be way more effective/helpful if you're American, a parent (or want to be a parent) and not poor. But it's also a quick and easy read, I finished it in a couple of days and I'm a very slow reader. If you're curious and find it for cheap I'd say go ahead

The first Atrioc book club clip got me back into reading - his summary of Red Rising was so interesting I finished it in a week, and now I increased my collection quite a lot with other books as well as reading some that I didn't finish before. I began Morning Star (Red Rising III) a couple days ago and I bursted into tears a few chapters in, I had to stop reading for a while to clear my eyes and nose, I really hope Atrioc continues with the Red Rising series, I'm interested to know what he thinks. Also, physical books are goated, if I had a kindle I'd read there as well, but a few I couldn't get in physical I read them on my phone (Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is so goddamn good).

@alcabone1126

8 ай бұрын

The first three books are great but specifically book 5 & 6 are fantastic. You can tell Pierce Brown really improved his writing by the time he wrote them

@aldooportotejerina6108

8 ай бұрын

@@alcabone1126 that sounds sick af actually, I'm interested in getting to them and seeing that improvement

@revalor8149

8 ай бұрын

I read the first three a while ago, and I heard the next three were excellent, so I started rereading the books. For some reason, I couldn't get into it this time -- I found Darrow very unlikeable as a character, too melodramatic for my tastes. Pretty sure I quit while rereading Golden Son, in the very first page. I know the other books introduces many other POV characters, but I'm not sure if I can handle reading more of Darrow. My question is, does he get better after the first trilogy, or is he much the same/

In all seriousness, the author that got me into reading was Kurt Vonnegut and from his book collection the three best in my opinion are cats, cradle, sirens of titans, and my personal favorite breakfast of champions

Shoutouts to xd_Wiinter who said "The Way Of Kings" at 0:26. You're a real one.

This is a certified Brandon “Atrioc” “Glizzy Hands” “Dr.Carbonation” “The Wiggler” “Coffee Cow” “Ewing” Ewing classic

@vital1614

8 ай бұрын

don’t forget “Big A”

@Tinii

8 ай бұрын

Also "Mark"

@seanma250

8 ай бұрын

i thought we got past this

As someone who’s recently pulled them self back into reading more through a kindle, the feeling of progress is the hardest bit about it (love the lit screen and being able to lie on my side in the dark or whatever like a degenerate). The percentage of the way through the book marker was enough for me, but I’ve now started a trilogy that is all grouped under one “book” in kindle, and it does feel infinite.

I hope we can actually do a type of book club thing wuth that new book. I think itd be cool to have discussions like that

@Atrioc @Big A Clips I understand what you mean by subtitles, but it definitely does help me with reading comprehension. My first ACT score on reading I got like a 26. Between the time of that test and the next one, I didn’t do any reading whatsoever and I didn’t even get tutoring. I only watched a shit ton of anime. The next ACT test, I got a 30. And the next one after that (again, no reading or tutoring between), I got a 33. My English section score (Grammar and shit) also improved between the tests. Science and math remained stagnant pretty much, only improved by 1 or 2 points throughout all of the tests. Subtitles definitely can count as reading for pleasure because they actually helped me with reading comprehension. I am more than happy to defend my case, and I bet others can relate to me.

I remember when I was at uni, I started to develop really bad anxiety. I started reading books around that time, and I was able to escape reality for a bit whenever I did. Books are great, and I still have a few series that I follow closely from that time.

I straight up have an addiction to reading webnovels online, when it's at its worst I read like 7-8 hours a day and its getting to the point where it's disturbing my daily life. Please help me.

I listened to red rising on an audiobook and absolutely LOVED IT, it did have a point where I thought it kinda fell off but I just needed to struggle through it for another chapter and I'd be at the best parts of it

I go through periods of reading a lot and then stopping reading for a month or two. I recently finished A Game of Thrones in like 1 week and then just stagnated and haven’t picked up the sequel. Maybe tonight I’ll start reading again

A Series of Unfortunate Events is my favorite too!!! Man I love Lemony Snicket!

3:10 Thats why by default, kindle shows the (estimated) minutes remaining in the chapter or book

I can’t explain how much I love audiobooks. I love reading physical books and I have my whole life, but I actually enjoy audiobooks MORE. Most of my favorite series have been experienced as audiobooks, and I’ve even listened to school books while driving to school so that English class book reading assignments took up a minimal amount of my day (and yes I was still able to discuss the contents of the book, in fact, better than everyone else because I listened to the chapter the morning of the discussion while driving there)

@RandomPuddles

7 ай бұрын

Also the talented narrators can make the book better than I would’ve thought it was otherwise

Have you read Jose Saramago’s “The Double”? It’s a bout a body double in the same city. There was a movie adaptation with Jake Gyllenhal called “Enemy”. Great read

I wish reading would get more popular. You don't even have to read some intellectual book, just read something fantasy or even a comic book. I've read 41 books so far this year.

Red rising is incredible, my buddy got me into it right before Dark Age and I've had 7 more ppl start it since

@DV-nv5tn

8 ай бұрын

Agreed. I listened to the red rising audiobooks and I always recommend it to friends.

@aldooportotejerina6108

8 ай бұрын

I read Golden Son almost right after Red Rising, and now I began Morning Star (I'm about 100 pages in). Each book made me progressively cry harder, and I can't stop recommending the series I also impulsively got Iron Gold and Dark Age since I found them on a bookstore (I hardly found Red Rising in the first place) and I know I'll want to read them when I'm done with Morning Star lol

@H0uxdubxston

8 ай бұрын

Make sure to head over to r/redrising if you want a community to discuss with. If you enjoy fantasy, give cradle by Will Wight a try

Red rising is a fucking AMAZING series, and it always reminds me of another that I've read before called "The Mark of the Thief" by Jennifer Nielsen. It's another fantasy trilogy about this guy who works as a slave in the mines of Rome or something, and he finds a talisman or pendant that belongs to Julius Caesar. It might just be me looking back on fond memories, but that trilogy was an amazing addition to my repertoire

Honestly love the output on this channel and the use of terraria music. Thanks aedish for the edit. ❤

Big A is a Howler! Lets fcuking go!!!!

For me to focus on reading, I used brown or green noise. Small empty spaces are really good for reading tho, that’s where I always loved to read in private spaces

I’m reading Pale Fire and it’s pretty awesome. It is weirdly the second book I’ve read recently that concerns both a piece of fictional writing and the culture of a fictional African/Middle Eastern country, the other being If On A Winter’s Night, A Traveller by Italo Calvino.

I hard agree that books on stuff like kindles feel like there isnt any feel for the book's mass in terms of progress and grandeur. The percentages or whatever doesnt really give me the feel of accomplishment that is approaching the last few pages of a book in my hands. I dont know if they could improve on that for digital right now. I can imagine us going 2 ways either they can straight beam info into your brain to learn in a flash or have virtual books feel like they have mass when you open one in future FDVR.

Red Rising is so freaking good!! I didn't know they continued past the trilogy either so I can't wait to keep reading more

yeah man ive been reading the new kendrick album, highly reccomend

I've made it a habit to read for the last 2-3 hours before I go to bed every night for the past 3.5 years. Before that I hadn't read a book in like 10 years. Once you can force it into your habits, it becomes a lot easier.

currently mowing through mother of learning, 4 hours a day almost, its very funny how easily you melt away hours in a book that really grabs you

@imaboisir7227

8 ай бұрын

OMG MOTHER OF LEARNING IS SO GOOD. I read it over the summer because I kept seeing it as #1 on royal road and once I picked it up I couldn't stop. I think I was reading for like 6+ hours everyday and it still took some weeks

The hardest thing for me with reading is finding good books that appeal to my interest. As dystopian as it sounds I’m so used to having my movies, music, KZread videos all tailored and algorithmically recommended to me that trying to actually find a book that I find interesting and keep me engaged is very hard

another fire clip big a

He might have started rocking back amd forth because of the book he was reading... I'm thinking of ending things messed me up, man. Highly recommend.

Red rising is so goated, thanks for the recommendation big A

The terrarria music goes hard🤌

I think the thing with the kindle that bothers you might be something along the lines of preferring a physical progress bar rather than a digital one. No irony intended, the physical progress bar of the pages turning has more weight to it than the digital one does in my opinion

I love books and a due to life circumstances owning as many books as I have is not physically possible. Kindle allows for buying books for cheap and having a LOT of them without needing the room. Also I have the kindle with the E Ink. The absence of the backlight saves my eyesight

Hearing Big A recommend Red Rising gives me life

Big A should read The Perks of being a Wallflower. Very easy short book, about the highschool life written to a pen pal. Very emotional

oh shit a red rising rec, by far my favorite scifi book

Big A recommending Red Rising! One of my favorite series!

At this point Big A has his own website for everything

A series of unfortunate events was in my highschool curiculum and I found it was pretty good but all my life I've been wondering if it's actually incredibly good but getting forced to read something for school just makes you not like it by default.

Reading for pleasure in 16 minutes a day? Then we're out here reading yaoi manga and webtoons for almost full days on end. It's such a time wasting trap that I sometimes feel afraid of opening a reading app because my self control just crumbles at the sight of a manga update.

i dont like kindles either, but i have one, and i use it when i go camping or travelling, because its smaller and lighter, but yeah prefer paper books

I like buying an audiobook and the kindle version of the book an just read it while listening to the audiobook

Terraria music In the backround is so valid

When he said "the guy who wrote Capital" i thought he meant like....Karl Marx

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa

I actually just started reading consistently a few days ago, I can already see many differences in my perspective and positive effects on my day to day life. Reading is awesome, finally ready to admit it 😂

Dang Atrioc is like the third person in 8 years to tell me to read Red Rising. Maybe I should check it out.

Terraria music in the background has me feeling some type of way

Honestly, i can barely read a paragraph without having to start over at least 3 times and i still have to process what i read after that whole time. Because of my adhd i have the attention span of a dog, and combining that with black and white text just not being stimulating enough makes for a horrible combo. I read two 800+ page books only because i was super interested, anything else theres no shot

Another absolute banger of a video from our favourite streamer “Brandon” Atrioc Ewing!!

Kindles are great man helps with reading at work, reading on the go, you can read at night/without light, you can have many books on them at once. I understand that the tactile feel of books is superior but kindles are so convenient

I wanna see an Atrioc vid where he just talks about Red Rising

Hello youtube commenters. Can you guys please give me a recommendation of fiction book that is not all tragedy. The last 3 books that i read was 1984 then Animal Farm and then L'assomoir. All of those 3 books have depressing ending and kinda gave me fear of reading fiction so much so that i didnt read another book for almost a year now lol

@TheIllegalGuy

8 ай бұрын

Hello KZread commenter, I'm primary a sci-fi & fantasy reader and my favourite book of is The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. It's set in fantasy Venice and is a thieves revenge story. So there is a tragedy (it's the main driving factor) but it's an overall phenomenal read. If your really adverse to any form of tragedy then The Martian by Andy Weir is a great read it's a sci-fi novel based in the near future, it's about a botanists being stranded on Mars and doing everything he can to survive until NASA's next planned trip to the red planet. It likes to get into the science of how things work and what he has to figure out to survive. It had a very good film adaptation I would recommend reading it even if you've seen the film. Finally if either of the previous two recommendations didn't tickle your fancy I would ask why not? is it something I said? if you don't trust those why would you trust my final recommendation? On a serious note I would suggest any of Terry Pratchett's discworld books, his an incredible author that just has a way with words that not many others do, his unique style and incredibly clever selections allow for just a very fun read, you can't go wrong with "Going Postal" It's about a talented criminal being sentenced to death only for him to be instead saved by the patrician and hired to revive the cities postal system. It's set in a fantasy London/New York and is incredibly comical. Going postal is also part of a series within the discworld so there are follow up books if you enjoy it.

Some mf in chat really said " hungry caterpillar goated" 😂

Red Rising is so dope

Imigine knuwing haw tu rid UMEGALIL

As an English major, I wish I had the time to read for pleasure instead of class. It makes me so sick of what I love lol

My pleasure reading per day is probably 10 hours+. I can't stop reading fanfiction. Help!

I have a degree in English lit (and taught it for a decade). Audio books are books. I have a degree in English lit. Ebooks are books. I have a degree in English lit I use a Boox and a phone app (libby) not a kindle, but kindle is still a book. E-ink doesn't work the same way as a (computer or phone) screen, to be fair.

@dragontears

8 ай бұрын

e-books and audio books are especially important if you are in a rural area and your local library is hooked up to a larger regional library consortium. You might not have free or cheap access to a large number of books regularly on your own, but with a library card, you can get digital access to a significant SIGNIFICANT number of books you'd never be able to touch without having a big bank account (books are NOT cheap).

@dragontears

8 ай бұрын

Some cities will also offer digital only cards to people even if they do not live in those cities. It's really worth looking into if you feel like you can't afford books - which again, no shame books are fking expensive. It's not a cheap hobby. Get a library card and a StoryGraph account and you'll be cooking with gas.

BRANKO MILANOVIC MENTIONED RAAAAAHHHHHHHH

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Fuck yes Red Rising. Red Rising has consumed my fucking life. I read Light Bringer in three days after release. I did nothing but eat, sleep, and read that book. The only discord I’m active in is full of fellow Pierce Brown fanatics. It’s a problem I have.

im not spending the time reading unless its a really good fiction story or if the non-fiction content is actually gonna help me in my day to day life

i love the terraria music in these please keep doing it, do boss music

tbh im still wondering if atrioc’s read vonnegut before

I love Red Rising

reading slows down my osrs xp

I think audiobooks are fine but I also know someone who only listens to them and can’t spell the words semester or hoodie

atrioc needs to listen to like a g6

I read my favorite book (Hyperion by Dan Simmons) in one sitting and wanted more

Big A would like Jacob Geller, because he also likes books

Kindle is actually GOATED and all your reasons for not liking it are wrong. Literally just being a boomer. You get a prediction of time before you finish the book/chapter and % of how much you have read. It doesnt fuck with your eyes like most other screens do. Has really great note taking and highlighting features. Built in dictionary lookup(this is actually so useful if you are dumb like me). And its one thing that can hold like literally every book you have and you can take it anywhere. Also for my adhd ass, being able to go between a bunch of books without having to worry about bookmarking and actually physically changing books is nice. All that being said I do read physical books sometimes because the experience does just have a different feel to it, like it feels more 'real' for lack of a better term, which kindle will never be able to replicate. Before i started using kindle i would read like a book every couple months but now I read like a book a week.

Don't Tell Me You're Afraid For anyone who’s watching this vid now, check out this book, it’s amazing, so beautiful and it will catch your heart, it’s also very depressing but oh my god I promise anyone who reads that they will love it

Ive been ploughing my way through War and Peace for the last month, on my 30 min cycle to work and back. Love it. Mostly, i love the fact that i can tell people im reading war and peace

Real book readers know that Diary of a Wimpy Kid is goated

I used to LOVE reading, but as school forced me to read more and more as “work”, it became LABELLED as work in my mind. I didn’t wanna read ANY book because it felt like a damn chore, so past late middle school I stopped reading multiple books a week.

dude i cannot find the paradigm book anywhere please help

@reettherevengeofthefallen7069

7 ай бұрын

dude same it sounded sooooo interesting

@noelpans

7 ай бұрын

@@reettherevengeofthefallen7069 I believe it ended up being paradime by Alan Glynn!

Get kindle paper white. No blue light

I still 'read' a lot, but 90% of it is audiobooks now as I already have eyestrain in my every day life. Some magic is lost compared to actually reading, hearing books read in a certain voice completely changes the feel. Especially if it's a novel series and half way through the narrator changes and you get completely thrown off.

2:29 probably closer to elitists As they should be

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3:40 What?? Kindle’s are E-ink/ E-paper displays. They _look_ like paper, not an LCD screen

Atrioc realizing just saying no was rude and going back was very sweet. But damn it made me laugh when he just "No." 😂

KZread app: - Uploaded 59 minutes ago - 6,204 views - 1.7 million likes What.

I think there's somewhat of a fundamental misunderstanding in the whole "have you read a book if you listened to the audiobook" debate. because of *course* you haven't read it. But that doesn't mean you're less of an authority on it than someone who has read it. You've consumed the book through another medium, and that is still valid and you know as much about it as someone who has read it, but you certainly haven't read it. It's like saying you've listened to a radio broadcast because you've read the transcript. Like no, you haven't. You know what was said, but you didn't listen to it.

I think books are mostly boring as hell, I rarely find a book I enjoy, most of them I just rather return them. I recently rediscovers a book which I could never get my hands on as a kid, which is warriors by Erin hunter. Best book in a long time on book 9 and still find myself smiley and getting emotional. Rip bluestar 😢

SEVERANCE MENTION WE STAN!!!

RED RISING HYPEEE

I drive 14 hours a day. audiobooks are a godsend

Lmao, the ACLU is really working hard and always amaze me

Unfortunately this title isn’t showing up on the big a book club page, but Invisible Woman by Caroline Perez in phenomenal. I can’t recommend it enough for someone interested in data and gender discrimination.