 Hello everybody he here happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and everybody If you're not in the United States happy, whatever you celebrate if there's nothing going on today, then don't celebrate anything Okay, you do you all right first? I want to give a shout out to Landon my buddy Landon He is a amazing dude great guy I'm going to link him down in the doobly-doo in case I forget to put a link up here But if I remember then it's up there if not Just click down in the doobly-doo. He did a in fact I'll link to the his specific video Five books that he's thankful for I got the thinking and yet he mentions me in there This is not a shameless plug. I just want you guys to for real go check his stuff out He does some videos on me. Also. He does an Edward Lauren theorist, which is weird As far as I'm concerned, but hey, he does it of his own accord, but I am inspired by Landon today. So I am going to do his Top five books that I'm thankful for I'm gonna start right off and get it right out of the way because we all know it's coming There's a Stephen King book here it is the Lord's Claiborne is the very first Novel I read by Stephen King when I was a I don't know. I don't know really how old I was when I used to flip through The cycle of the werewolf, but that was the first book. I actually looked at that kind of made me realize that Stephen King existed and then I saw Pet cemetery when I was nine and then I finally stole this one out of a mailbox My our own mailbox, but it was my mother's Subscription to the Stephen King library. This has just came out in 1993 I hope that's right. I think that's right. My childhood is kind of a blur But I think it was 93 and I grabbed this one out and I read it over the course of two days 13 year old with 13 year old attention span and I read this in two days two or three days some like that But I know I blew right through it and then I snuck it into my mom's collection as if you know Nothing ever happened, but this is I'm thankful for this book because it introduced me to Stephen King And if you've been watching the channel at all then you know how much of a Stephen King that I am Next most of the rest of these have to do with my own writing. If you don't know I am a writer You can look me up on Amazon, whatever or you down there in the doobly-doo There's always links to my books It'll say buy a book and it'll take me take you not me take you to the my Amazon page The very first one is the book. I read just before I wrote my debut novel under this name Bay's End, that's the girl next door by Jack Ketchum this book destroyed me and it gave me a Appreciation for books that do not end well Now I'd been a Stephen King fan for the longest time and Some of his books are sad, but nothing was ever quite as sad as this not even pet cemetery this book is just that there are points of Pet cemetery that make you feel hopeful. There are points. I there there's no hope in this book whatsoever in fact my friend Tracy Over on Twitter just got through Tracy Robinson. She just got got through reading it and wrote a terrific review for it next up, I'm going to talk about After Dark by Hiriki Minakami and tomorrow's video is going to be Seemed along this line also as far as authors like Hiriki Minakami But this book specifically the absolute worst piece of advice I ever got I was working with a publisher and the editor told me that people don't read certain types of books anymore They don't read omniscient books. They don't read the only books. They care about is first-person thrillers literally that's That's all that they said and that that that that's that's what they said That's all people cared about. Um, I got Caught up with this publisher and I started to believe everything that was being fed to me And the best thing I ever did was read this book, which I have to thank my friend Gregor Zane For pointing me in this direction because if I had not read this book Then the Bayes End series would not have went to the places that it went to I would never have considered those things possibilities We would have gotten a lot more You would have gotten a lot more books like Life After Dane or Hope for the Wicked and some people might Think that that would have been great and maybe you would have been happy with it But I wouldn't have been happy with it. I am not I have never wanted to be a thriller writer I have played a thriller writer In several several points in my life. I have been a thriller writer, but that's not what I want to do anymore so This book opened up the possibilities again because it's a relatively new book at least relatively new Transation and he's a popular author and that's all he does this stuff like this That's why I point people to this book when they're when they want to Read her to keep it economy, but they don't know where to start because it's short and it's it's a perfect example Sample of his work and again Gregor. Thank you. Thank you so much Next up we have I'm gonna leave one for last I Was gonna do it next but I think I want to leave that for the last One for the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kessie I read I've read this book three times every single point in time in my life that I've read it It's meant something completely different to me the first time I read it. It was a It was letting me know that I was okay for being different It was okay to maybe not be all there all the time the next time I read it was right after Well not right after I mean heroin Any drug addiction and recovery lasts, you know your entire life once your brain is chemically altered And it wants that stuff and it's just like, you know, whether beef nicotine caffeine heroin cocaine any of that stuff Um, I don't know probably about a year all this all this time right here is but is blurry right around 2001 I had just met my wife And she's to thank for me getting off the junk but I just met shell and I'd finally Gotten away from the drugs and the people who were enabling the drug use and making it very easy to get a hold of product I got away from those people and I picked this book up again and it it was a it really showed me that Life is even if you're stuck in a place and this is the chief metaphor of the book if you're stuck in a place that does not mean that You will be there forever and you can move on out of that place and grow because I already grown grown once You know realizing that I could be weird and then I grew again realizing that I didn't have to be this at it and then I read it again and It was about the time right after I wrote Bayes and and published that and it was well received and I realized that sometimes The people in your life that you trust and that you respect are not the best people for you Sometimes they are well a lot of times they're just there for themselves and That's what this story showed me also as far as a nurse ratchet character was Sorry, I'm getting a little emotional as far as the nurse ratchet character She was a person in a position of power that was supposed to be helping these people But she's the villain and to this day. I call this one of the best horror novels. I've ever read I don't put it on any of the lists because I know so many people Disagree with that But I believe that horror is every in every genre horror is conflict Horror is meeting a group of people or characters or whatever and not wanting anything bad to happen to them And then something bad happens to them or there is the threat of something bad happening to them Anyways, let's move on before I start crying another thing is landing your video made me sob up when you were talking about me dude and Yeah, I mean feelings mutual, but I Appreciate you I do So let's get into the next one so we can go and wrap this up so I can get out of the shed It's cold out here y'all It is going on toward night. This is the fourth video. I've shot that we are going to jump into you by Carolina Kepnes This book came around and it's it's this book as much as it is the circumstances around this book I fell in love with this book right off the bat. I am a Big supporter of books where the bad guy is the main character Because we're not nobody is a hundred percent bad. Nobody is a hundred percent evil Going back to the whole drug addiction thing You know you look at people a different way after you've been the bad guy and to this day I'm still a bad guy in certain circles, you know If you run around certain circles of the horror community, I'm the villain Because I hold my peers to a certain standard and when they don't want to be held to a certain standard They get their feelings hurt but with this book I read this book and I Read this with it was a recommendation by a person that I probably shouldn't have been friends with at the time But I will always Always appreciate them turning me on to this book because I probably would I know I wouldn't have read it because it was being marketed As a suspense thriller. No a romantic thriller romantic suspense. That's it romantic suspense It was being marketed as that and I just don't care for that boy. This change This change that I still don't think this is a romantic thriller or suspense. Sorry Romantic suspense. I still don't think that the relationship in here I don't think there's anything romantic about it if I'm wrong sue me But the relationships in this book it really it really touches on some key aspects of Again, sometimes the best people in our lives are the worst people for us at The time sometimes the worst people that the people who we perceive as the worst are The best people for us at the time it goes both ways and that's the thought I'm gonna leave you on today So these are the five books that I am most thankful for That changed my life Landon once again. Thank you so much for your video dude I really do appreciate it, but until next time I have been a you have been you it's been a list of sorts I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye