Thanks for being an awesome host, Mike! Thanks also to Sarah for anchoring this chat in some sort of reality and to Allen for being Allen, which no one else could do. I had a blast!

@farhad_s

2 жыл бұрын

Haha maybe it's my age too, but I agree with you that the best of Tom Cruise was his earlier work - Rain Man, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, before he became the all action hero.

@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy

2 жыл бұрын

@@farhad_s We’ll just put it down to our excellent and discerning taste! 😁

@KakashiHatake-ou7mp

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy Were you standing the whole time?!

@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy

2 жыл бұрын

@@KakashiHatake-ou7mp Yes, indeed! Much less painful than sitting.

@KakashiHatake-ou7mp

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy This video is hours! I know you're a teacher but standing for 3 hours long!!! 🤯

I´m very impressed by Philip. Standing still for over 3 hours in front of the camera. I´m 39, my back would kill me. 😅 Loving this. Thanks to all of you. ❤

You always get the best out of Allen when he’s in these kind of group settings. I freaking love the rants. This was amazing y’all. Please, more of this Mike. What an all star cast to kick the series off with.

I love it when Sarah is being snarky

What a fun chat. I love the juxtaposition between Allen's passionate education rant and his Jade Legacy rant. The idea that reading that book would compare in life importance as to marrying his wife really tickled me.

I re-listen to these over and over while i read. Am i a psychopath? 🤷 Yall make me smile

I really want another Knights episode with all 4 of you again. This one was just too good.

Excellent debut. Looking forward to many more Saturday Night Knights

Allen cracks me up, we need more of his rants!

Came home a bit drunk last night and drifted in and out of consciousness watching this. 😂 A great collection of people with many of my favourite people and strong opinions. Looking forward to a rewatch 👍

I will not stop the Liveship hype train

All my favourites on one screen! Thank you, this was so cool. Allen's rant would be 100% accurate in my country as well. The school system has been rebuilt to bring it closer to the US one, and the troubles are much the same.

Really enjoyed this discussion! Shoutout to Allen for the nuclear truthbombs about the challenges of teaching, testing and grades.

I really enjoyed this discussion. Thank you all for participating so we could reap the benefits.

This is the first time I’ve seen Allen and thank you! He earned a sub on the teaching rant alone. I don’t care if I disagree with every book opinion he has, I’m a viewer now.

The books of Babel rant by Allen was top tier content 😂😂

@calebmauer1751

2 жыл бұрын

He's so right, the ending tied up all the loose ends and explained what the tower was for and how it functioned, while maintaining the same quality, style, and pacing.

I've watched this in parts over the work week- thoroughly entertaining, wonderful guests, great topics, good people! Thanks Mike!

glad to see you, philip and alan together. my 3 favorite booktubers in one spot is awesome. yall are the reason my TBR is like 200 books long

Definitely loved the free form talk you guys had in this video! more videos like this where you guys play off each other would be amazing Mike!

About 1 hour in, this has to be one of the best discussion videos. What a legendary start to a new series of videos, Mike!

Rewatching this gem on today’s morning commute. Need to cut up Allen’s rant clips for gym motivation videos

Haha that story about Sarah's kids arguing with their dad about 6 v 9 Star Wars movies is kind of how am with Godfather. People seriously try to convince me there's a third, I don't know why.

We want more of this, Mike. So much fun. Great discussions.

I feel Allen’s pain regarding teaching. I’m a career military guy and then taught high school for 16 years. I couldn’t take it anymore and quit last September. Best decision I ever made. I do miss the book recommendations I used to get from my students who actually read books. 😀

Nauticak settings. Maybe It was not popular in the US but there is an Italian classic of adventure novels on pirates called Emilio Salgari, a Verne contemporary. His most famous character is Sandokan, a Malaysian pirate fighting evil English imperialists, there is also the Black Corsary, set in the 17th century Caribbean. I grew up with these, before I knew anything about fantasy. They are fast paced, easy to read and full of adventure.

Oooh, this is going to be amazing 😁 I should be cleaning but I think I'm going to take a loooong break for this all star cast! Dandelion Dynasty is amazing by the way, it used to be a hidden gem and then it exploded a couple of months ago haha Just looked up dolphins and their... Tendencies towards humans and I am genuinly frightened of dolphins now. They're terrible! The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne getting so much cr*p makes me sad haha, I LOVED it!

great format, great guests! I look forward to seeing more of this!

Finished watching this discussion and really enjoyed it. Go #SaturdayNightKnights

@mikesbookreviews

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thoroughly enjoyed this. When it was about books, anime, manga, education (wife teaches so I too have heard these rants) or the other side tangents, it was all entertaining. And then some facial expressions thrown in. XD

This was an awesome 3 hours, and thanks for the increase to my TBR pile guys lol.

This was great! Thanks!

I'm bummed I missed the livechat, but this was a totally delightful stream. Thanks for hosting! I busted a gut lol.

@mikesbookreviews

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I didn't know Allen existed before this... But he's pretty dope

Really good discussion thanks guys!

Great stream, y'all! Definitely worth the length!

I love Allen's rants so much 😂

I'm on Team-Allen here; even though I was disappointed with The Fall of Babel (to which I gave 3 stars, whereas I gave each of the other three 5 stars) it is by no means a 1 star book. Bad choices, weak action and twists that failed in execution, but the "magic" of Josiah Bancroft's story is still there.

This was awesome!

We need to see more of this foursome! Such a fun listen!

That was a lot of fun. The 5 dollar a gallon made me smile ironically. Double that in the UK now. Good thing Wales is 33 times smaller than Texas 🤣 Also MORE cats can never be wrong.

lmao @ Allen i feel your frustration

News flash you know who taught me to read when I was a kid my mother. I went to school they sent home homework, it was my mom after school actively helping each step of the way. We were poor and my mom was a roofer first 3 months of pregnancy with my brother. My mom would sleep in a car while I had a place to stay because there was no room for her....where the heck is the parents accountability?

This was epic!

That is so funny :D

This was really fun, great to see the gang together. I tend to prefer group discussions like these tbh.

Attack on Titan is both the most violent Anime I've watched and also the best. My favorite is still Death Note but Attack on Titan is probably better. I still have yet to finish it, so idk. Thanks for the livestream btw. Good to have another podcast to listen to

I got a foreboding feeling even when the first images came out for the first of the new Star Wars movies.

1:38:00 allen’s warwick is pretty great!

Mike I started grail quest I personally loved the first book. Loved warlord too theres 4 grail quest books he wrote another one after the trilogy.

I live for music, my fiancé and family, and these live streams

Love Allen's shirt

I liked Allen''s try at the British accent at 14:00 - it was quite good (I am British)

It's going to be tough to find an anime that Mike can watch. The criteria are that the characters must never-ever laugh or have any facial expressions. This narrows it down to just Mamoru Oshii's stuff. Luckily Ghost in the Shell is a classic for a reason. Anyway this was an excellent use of three hours. Dresden Files continues to lure me in with the siren song of all you fine people praising it.

Knights that say Nee

Sorry I didn't join Live, I was a little caught up in Middle Earth at Sarumans Possession of Perigrin Took and Meriadock Brandybuck.

I didn't enjoy the first book in the gentleman bastard series but I did enjoy books 2 and 3

Allen is absolutely right. Monster is the GOAT of anime.

One positive example of changing the source material somewhat is Hannibal imo. Because there were so many adaptions before it, it was the perfect opportunity for Bryan Fuller to do sth different and I think it's glorious. But if you look at it closely, he understood perfectly what Hannibal is at its core and just put a darkly romantic, operatic, surreal spin on it. I guess where that approach fails is when writers want to change sth and don't really get what it's really about in the first place. E.g. series trying to replicate GoT by putting lots of violence and nudity in there.

Only physical books count, fight me Mike 😆

omg a think allen is great very funny

I just reread Oryx and Crake for college and Sarah's husband is entirely correct to distrust her after getting that recommended, imo :D

I just realized that Lan is an unrealized king, a hero who has a relationship with the hero/mentor and falls in love with another (Nynaeve) I would like someone with a strong education in history, myths,legends, religion, meta physics, and psychology analysis and make parallels with Wheel of Time.

A long one but a good one

1:07:30 agree with allen. most of pl reviews sound like: “oh wow, just wow, and the characters are … just wow”. after Dreams of the Dying my trust was broken

@Replica2901

Жыл бұрын

I just bought the book, is it not good? Because everyone was praising it.

@odiums_taint

Жыл бұрын

@@Replica2901 it’s not the worst book ever written… it was just way over hyped, but with checked expectations it should be an enjoyable read.

nice men in black reference

Agree with Allen on teaching... I graduated in 08 in a rural community.. class of ~120... and I think 4 maybe out of ALL my teachers my *whole* high school gave more than 1/2 a shit. Honestly those 4 prob gave 100+% while the rest gave 8% or less.

I'm not a youtuber...I don't think it's for me. I love watching it instead. I read what I want.

This is the friends group I would want to be a part of but am too intimidated by their great minds.

From the discussion of school. I went to a pretty abysmal school when I went to university you go from being told everything about nothing. Then you go to why haven't you self taught yourself why have you not looked at every argument to discuss this topic it was a big wake up work/learning ethic call.

Will this be every Saturday?

@mikesbookreviews

2 жыл бұрын

Ha, no. But I'm aiming for once a month.

He's wrong about what Progession Fantasy is, right? What he's describing sounds more like LitRPG

I agree with Allen about getting sick of hearing about popular books all the time, but I suspect that's the abnormal opinion since hype leads to more hype. And I would add sometimes l feel like booktube unnaturally hypes some books at times when everyone talks about them, while leaving others out completely, then when you read the book you are expecting something more than you should.

Woww

Wish I was able to watch this live. Following up on the education discussion, it is also a sad state when having an education is seen as a bad thing as you are then an 'elite' which has become a pejorative. But I am not the biggest fan of Toll. There are sone good parts but the overall tone, as well as Dust, are just very depressing. But I also don't care for God Emperor which could not end soon enough.

Why does his voice sound like Howie Mandel?

Poor cat:(

Allen is spittin facts. Season 1 of The Promised Neverland is S tier. Season two…..yeah not worth it. Just read the manga from there.

:D

2:40:55 If a man said what Sarah just said, he’d be canceled immediately. 😂 Obviously, we know what she meant, and that she was not dismissing her husband’s contributions.

1:14:44

I hated Senlin Ascends so I'm definitely not going to read up to book 4

Betamax? Pffft. U-Matic or nothing!

The Dark Tower movie was bad. So so bad.

@mikesbookreviews

2 жыл бұрын

You're being too nice.

I so disagree. A bad ending ruins the story and makes the book a waste of my time