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Loved how you ranked the books as you were reviewing them!!
@esmayrosalyneКүн бұрын
What a fun concept, I loved the tension of seeing who'd end up in the top 3!! Heck yes for Wistful, that is such a gem! And I definitely need to check out Jurassic Park, it's honestly a crime that I haven't read that book yet lol. Hope you find many more amazing reads in the 2nd half of the year. Also, mad respect on juggling all of those current reads hahaha, we live for chaosss!! 🤣🤩
@BiblioTheoryКүн бұрын
@@esmayrosalyne TBR chaos is how I live 🤣 I seriously almost started something else today 😬
@ithrahmunchswallow4682 күн бұрын
😂
@jcmberne2 күн бұрын
Wow! Great list of books, a lot of books I love are on that list (Renia and Mushroom Blues especially, along with all the Dresden books). Thank you so much, Aaron!
@stephentheshywarrior27592 күн бұрын
I'm gonna read Jurassic park in August. Very excited to see the difference between the film and the book. So far only read 5 books this year, so have a lot of catching up to do. Ha ha. Currently reading Molls like it Hot by Darren Dash(a crime noir self pub by my fav author) and Firestarter by Stephen King.😁
@BiblioTheory2 күн бұрын
@@stephentheshywarrior2759 Darren Dash...I need to look him up! I hope you enjoy your Jurassic Park journey 🦖
@monstersandmachines2 күн бұрын
The books are mixed bags for me. All the dino horror and action scenes are really good in both books, but it's the padding in between that loses me. Characters (usually Malcolm) randomly going off on long-winded tangents that only vaguely relate to the situation at hand. It gets worse in the second book with Lavigne. God, Lavigne is insufferable in The Lost World. But then you add a guy like Thorne who's just kinda blunt and brings everyone back down to reality. I like Thorne. The first book doesn't really have anybody to keep Malcolm in check when he starts running his mouth, so you end up just wanting it to get to Grant and the kids or Muldoon and Genarro hunting the rex. Finding out that Malcolm in the books is just a self-insert of Crichton himself doesn't help, because now it feels like he's just huffing his own farts. There's things I really like and dislike about the books, I can't say I prefer them over the movies, but then I also can't say I prefer movies either. I like the movies and books equally, flaws and all. I just don't think the books are the "holy grail" everyone makes them out to be.
@thatdavidhopkins2 күн бұрын
I'm totally okay with Scott Palmer knocking my book off the hill. :) Scott is such an amazing author. I predict an amazing career ahead of him.
@BiblioTheory2 күн бұрын
@@thatdavidhopkins did you know that Bren Caius... 🤣
@thatdavidhopkins2 күн бұрын
@@BiblioTheory War of the Hounds! Prepare for an extra dose of Bren Caius lore!
@AnEriksenWife2 күн бұрын
9:10 THEFT OF FIRE! WOOOOOO!!!! Hope everyone checks it out, it's truly excellent and just a ton of fun :)
@mikemollman18692 күн бұрын
Love the King of the Hill ranking. Wistful ascending and Jurassic Park are fantastic. I don't read nearly as much as you, but my two best books of the year are Heirs to a Flawed Creation by EL Montague and The Sunset Sovereign by Laura Huie.
@BiblioTheory2 күн бұрын
@@mikemollman1869 no way! I know both of those authors on the interwebs 😂 I've been wanting to read The Sunset Sovereign for awhile now. It's sitting all pretty on my shelf!
@MacScarfield3 күн бұрын
My Top 3 so far this year: 1) «A Brightness Long Ago» by Guy Gavriel Kay (Fantasy inspired by the Mercenary Wars of Renaissance Italy) 2)«Imperium» by Robert Harris (Historical Fiction, book #1 in Cicero Trilogy about the Eponymous Roman Statesman) 3)«Når landet mørknar» (Approximately «When The Land Darkens») by Tore Kvæven (Historical Fiction set during the 13th Century end of the Norse Settlement of Greenland, think of it as a Norse John Steinbeck novel, winner of the Brage Prize for Best Norwegian Novel in 2018) My August TBR: «The Green Angel Tower part 1 & 2» (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3) by Tad Williams (Epic Fantasy) «Leviathan Falls» (The Expanse, #9) by James S.A. Corey (Space opera) «The Thousandfold Thought» (The Prince of Nothing #3) by R. Scott Bakker (Grimdark/Dark Epic Fantasy) Fun fact: I am a direct descendant of William Sinclair (My great-x16-grandfather) who built Rosslyn Chapel! 😃Let’s just say I do not agree with Mr. Brown’s suggestion of a “divine ancestry” of me too! 😅😄
@BiblioTheory2 күн бұрын
@@MacScarfield wow! I haven't heard of any of your top 3 at all. They sound really interesting though!
@BiblioTheory2 күн бұрын
@@MacScarfield just added A Brightness Long Ago to my TBR!
@focusrelax88383 күн бұрын
Nice shelf! Do you read hands on with the books you have on your shelf? (Stormlight, Sun eater) or you have alternative books to read from?
@paulkarle36973 күн бұрын
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
@stevenstewart7825 күн бұрын
That last one is undertaken at your own risk😂😂
@Werido2225 күн бұрын
What does floppies mean?
@BiblioTheory4 күн бұрын
Floppiness, just poking fun at people who prefer paperback books that are floppy versus stiff.
@Werido2224 күн бұрын
@@BiblioTheory ohhhh ok
@paulkarle36976 күн бұрын
I only go on Goodreads to give Christopher's books 5 stars without comment
@liviajelliot7 күн бұрын
Best cover ever!! That's such a terrific find, and I was smiling the whole video. Thank you for sharing this!
@BiblioTheory7 күн бұрын
@@liviajelliot 🤣 thank you 🦾🙌
@currangill4308 күн бұрын
I think I know Quinn from ASOIAF if I remember correctly
@calumlott9 күн бұрын
Lol, that savage burn at the start hahaha
@JamesLiv179 күн бұрын
They're all over Instagram too. As a new author getting ready to debut... They're literally harassing me with their "services".
@Dnolz0310 күн бұрын
Sparked my interest in the dragon ball z styled book. I also plan on reading Enders Game soon!
@Calvinioli10 күн бұрын
When I was 8 or 9 I wrote three books. They were called the lost keys. I wrote them out, bound them with some string and added a paper cover. They were heavily influenced by Harry Potter and had this dungeon crawler thing going on. I never finished the third book, left it on a nice cliffhanger that will never be resolved.
@mrgauth11 күн бұрын
No comparison. One is blue and one is gold. Come on.
@AuthorJohnADouglas11 күн бұрын
You’re braver than I am. Bro, I’d die of cringe if anyone saw what I wrote in my teens
@esmayrosalyne11 күн бұрын
Now your upcoming novel better live up to this quality okay, young Aaron set the bar high! 🤣 This was so wholesome!!
@BiblioTheory11 күн бұрын
Thank you 🙏🥹👶
@joshuawalkerauthor12 күн бұрын
This is brilliant. You’ve immortalised yourself!
@BiblioTheory11 күн бұрын
🦾🤖👌
@Susan-ve4vp12 күн бұрын
Awweee. My baby!
@Susan-ve4vp12 күн бұрын
So funny!!!😂😂
@timwolffauthor13 күн бұрын
Immediately adding to my TBR
@MaxFidler13 күн бұрын
Is weird that before you opened it, I said “Light” lol
@BiblioTheory12 күн бұрын
It's fate 🤣
@nikolajbauer42813 күн бұрын
Hey, how is Ryan doing?
@christhewritingjester316413 күн бұрын
You were the MacGyver of time travel, my guy! Flour, leaves, and a coconut? 🤯 Isn't it funny how we have some ideas that seem to be timeless in our little minds until they take their final form? I'm sure 8 year old Aaron would be psyched by what you've accomplished.
@captnsquashypant8214 күн бұрын
Say one thing for Joe Abercrombie. Say he knows how to write a Joke.
@Fardawg14 күн бұрын
This is the first video I've seen by any of you and I am NOT impressed... You couldn't be bothered to do a re-read before doing a "vs?" Maybe hold off till you can be bothered to do so.
@jimmccleery939414 күн бұрын
This was epic thanks guys so awesome!!!
@BiblioTheory14 күн бұрын
Thank you so much Jim 🦾
@MattonBooks15 күн бұрын
Awesome idea Aaron. ❤️ I love these book battles, and this one felt like two super heavyweights facing off in a fair fight (unlike Joe vs GRRM 😜). Two of my favourite books ever, neck & neck. Love it. 😀
@BiblioTheory15 күн бұрын
@@MattonBooks thanks for tuning in man 🙏 I'm thinking about what should be sent into the ring next 🤔
@MattonBooks10 күн бұрын
@@BiblioTheory I could imagine some that’re very clearly comparable, like The Stand vs Swan Song, or maybe Lies of Locke Lamorra vs Name of the Wind. 🤔
@jvlamata15 күн бұрын
First Law is better that Game of Thrones, also WoT, LoTR and any other FINISHED fanatsy series are better than ASOIAF.
@MattonBooks15 күн бұрын
I feel a little sorry for Joe. Not that I think your a scoring was wrong, but comparing his work to GRRM’s just doesn’t seem like a fair fight. 😬
@Red21Viper15 күн бұрын
Not even close in my opinion. The Blade Itself is good but A Game of Thrones is an all times classic. The same goes for the series overall in my book. The most astonishing series debut is The Darkness That Comes Before in my opinion with Game of Thrones a close second
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Loved how you ranked the books as you were reviewing them!!
What a fun concept, I loved the tension of seeing who'd end up in the top 3!! Heck yes for Wistful, that is such a gem! And I definitely need to check out Jurassic Park, it's honestly a crime that I haven't read that book yet lol. Hope you find many more amazing reads in the 2nd half of the year. Also, mad respect on juggling all of those current reads hahaha, we live for chaosss!! 🤣🤩
@@esmayrosalyne TBR chaos is how I live 🤣 I seriously almost started something else today 😬
😂
Wow! Great list of books, a lot of books I love are on that list (Renia and Mushroom Blues especially, along with all the Dresden books). Thank you so much, Aaron!
I'm gonna read Jurassic park in August. Very excited to see the difference between the film and the book. So far only read 5 books this year, so have a lot of catching up to do. Ha ha. Currently reading Molls like it Hot by Darren Dash(a crime noir self pub by my fav author) and Firestarter by Stephen King.😁
@@stephentheshywarrior2759 Darren Dash...I need to look him up! I hope you enjoy your Jurassic Park journey 🦖
The books are mixed bags for me. All the dino horror and action scenes are really good in both books, but it's the padding in between that loses me. Characters (usually Malcolm) randomly going off on long-winded tangents that only vaguely relate to the situation at hand. It gets worse in the second book with Lavigne. God, Lavigne is insufferable in The Lost World. But then you add a guy like Thorne who's just kinda blunt and brings everyone back down to reality. I like Thorne. The first book doesn't really have anybody to keep Malcolm in check when he starts running his mouth, so you end up just wanting it to get to Grant and the kids or Muldoon and Genarro hunting the rex. Finding out that Malcolm in the books is just a self-insert of Crichton himself doesn't help, because now it feels like he's just huffing his own farts. There's things I really like and dislike about the books, I can't say I prefer them over the movies, but then I also can't say I prefer movies either. I like the movies and books equally, flaws and all. I just don't think the books are the "holy grail" everyone makes them out to be.
I'm totally okay with Scott Palmer knocking my book off the hill. :) Scott is such an amazing author. I predict an amazing career ahead of him.
@@thatdavidhopkins did you know that Bren Caius... 🤣
@@BiblioTheory War of the Hounds! Prepare for an extra dose of Bren Caius lore!
9:10 THEFT OF FIRE! WOOOOOO!!!! Hope everyone checks it out, it's truly excellent and just a ton of fun :)
Love the King of the Hill ranking. Wistful ascending and Jurassic Park are fantastic. I don't read nearly as much as you, but my two best books of the year are Heirs to a Flawed Creation by EL Montague and The Sunset Sovereign by Laura Huie.
@@mikemollman1869 no way! I know both of those authors on the interwebs 😂 I've been wanting to read The Sunset Sovereign for awhile now. It's sitting all pretty on my shelf!
My Top 3 so far this year: 1) «A Brightness Long Ago» by Guy Gavriel Kay (Fantasy inspired by the Mercenary Wars of Renaissance Italy) 2)«Imperium» by Robert Harris (Historical Fiction, book #1 in Cicero Trilogy about the Eponymous Roman Statesman) 3)«Når landet mørknar» (Approximately «When The Land Darkens») by Tore Kvæven (Historical Fiction set during the 13th Century end of the Norse Settlement of Greenland, think of it as a Norse John Steinbeck novel, winner of the Brage Prize for Best Norwegian Novel in 2018) My August TBR: «The Green Angel Tower part 1 & 2» (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3) by Tad Williams (Epic Fantasy) «Leviathan Falls» (The Expanse, #9) by James S.A. Corey (Space opera) «The Thousandfold Thought» (The Prince of Nothing #3) by R. Scott Bakker (Grimdark/Dark Epic Fantasy) Fun fact: I am a direct descendant of William Sinclair (My great-x16-grandfather) who built Rosslyn Chapel! 😃Let’s just say I do not agree with Mr. Brown’s suggestion of a “divine ancestry” of me too! 😅😄
@@MacScarfield wow! I haven't heard of any of your top 3 at all. They sound really interesting though!
@@MacScarfield just added A Brightness Long Ago to my TBR!
Nice shelf! Do you read hands on with the books you have on your shelf? (Stormlight, Sun eater) or you have alternative books to read from?
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
That last one is undertaken at your own risk😂😂
What does floppies mean?
Floppiness, just poking fun at people who prefer paperback books that are floppy versus stiff.
@@BiblioTheory ohhhh ok
I only go on Goodreads to give Christopher's books 5 stars without comment
Best cover ever!! That's such a terrific find, and I was smiling the whole video. Thank you for sharing this!
@@liviajelliot 🤣 thank you 🦾🙌
I think I know Quinn from ASOIAF if I remember correctly
Lol, that savage burn at the start hahaha
They're all over Instagram too. As a new author getting ready to debut... They're literally harassing me with their "services".
Sparked my interest in the dragon ball z styled book. I also plan on reading Enders Game soon!
When I was 8 or 9 I wrote three books. They were called the lost keys. I wrote them out, bound them with some string and added a paper cover. They were heavily influenced by Harry Potter and had this dungeon crawler thing going on. I never finished the third book, left it on a nice cliffhanger that will never be resolved.
No comparison. One is blue and one is gold. Come on.
You’re braver than I am. Bro, I’d die of cringe if anyone saw what I wrote in my teens
Now your upcoming novel better live up to this quality okay, young Aaron set the bar high! 🤣 This was so wholesome!!
Thank you 🙏🥹👶
This is brilliant. You’ve immortalised yourself!
🦾🤖👌
Awweee. My baby!
So funny!!!😂😂
Immediately adding to my TBR
Is weird that before you opened it, I said “Light” lol
It's fate 🤣
Hey, how is Ryan doing?
You were the MacGyver of time travel, my guy! Flour, leaves, and a coconut? 🤯 Isn't it funny how we have some ideas that seem to be timeless in our little minds until they take their final form? I'm sure 8 year old Aaron would be psyched by what you've accomplished.
Say one thing for Joe Abercrombie. Say he knows how to write a Joke.
This is the first video I've seen by any of you and I am NOT impressed... You couldn't be bothered to do a re-read before doing a "vs?" Maybe hold off till you can be bothered to do so.
This was epic thanks guys so awesome!!!
Thank you so much Jim 🦾
Awesome idea Aaron. ❤️ I love these book battles, and this one felt like two super heavyweights facing off in a fair fight (unlike Joe vs GRRM 😜). Two of my favourite books ever, neck & neck. Love it. 😀
@@MattonBooks thanks for tuning in man 🙏 I'm thinking about what should be sent into the ring next 🤔
@@BiblioTheory I could imagine some that’re very clearly comparable, like The Stand vs Swan Song, or maybe Lies of Locke Lamorra vs Name of the Wind. 🤔
First Law is better that Game of Thrones, also WoT, LoTR and any other FINISHED fanatsy series are better than ASOIAF.
I feel a little sorry for Joe. Not that I think your a scoring was wrong, but comparing his work to GRRM’s just doesn’t seem like a fair fight. 😬
Not even close in my opinion. The Blade Itself is good but A Game of Thrones is an all times classic. The same goes for the series overall in my book. The most astonishing series debut is The Darkness That Comes Before in my opinion with Game of Thrones a close second