 Alright, so over the years I've gotten plenty of recommendations from you guys and I've also, you know, gone out searching for my own books to read at some points and I've come across, you know, tons that I'm just not interested in for one or another and so I figured, you know what, I'll just make this video. It's like books I'll never read and I don't mean ones that I'm not interested in when I say this. I mean stuff that I'm not interested in and I'm like actively avoiding it for one reason or another. You know, some of these I just feel like they've been overdone and there's not anything new I can say about it. Some of them, the plot or whatever just sounds really stupid and I don't feel like spending time on it and others are for like more specific reasons. Anyways, I don't think I need to explain the title too much so let's just go over this list. This is the introduction song. It's not very good but it's not too long. So the first book I'll never read is Trigger Warning by J.A. Johnstone and this one, it was kind of big when it first came out because people saw it and thought it was hilarious and then Jenny Nicholson and Crimson Rogue both did videos on it and I don't think there's anything new I can really add. Like, I know I said for years that I would never do Onision's books and then I wound up doing them but the reason I wasn't going to do them is because other people had already talked about them ad nauseam and I don't think I didn't think I had anything else to add and the only reason I eventually went around to reading them was because I felt I finally found a way to approach it. You know, a different way to approach it and whether I succeeded in that or not is up to the audience to decide but with Trigger Warning I don't think there's anything new I can really do there and it sounds like a dumb book that I wouldn't enjoy and the sequel baiting at the end doesn't seem to have panned out so if that, if they ever make sequels I might just go through the series why not but I don't think that'll happen. Next up Tower of Dawn and Assassin's Blade. These are two books in the Throne of Glass series which I already did a whole long in-depth go over of that series which is like almost three hours long in total but I skipped over Tower of Dawn which was book six in the series because you don't actually need to read that one like it takes place simultaneously with book five it's just with a different group of characters who are off doing their own thing and it might be an amazing story but you don't really need to know about it in order to read the rest of it and I kind of just wanted to be done with it as soon as I could so I skipped over that one and I'm never going back because those books are long and miserable. And Assassin's Blade is a prequel it's actually a couple of short stories about Alon's time as an assassin and again might be better and this one you actually kind of do have to read in order to get the full story but I'm not particularly interested in getting the full story at this point and the fact that you have to read a spin-off in order to understand the main series is kind of shitty anyways so yeah just there's no more value that can be gleaned from these hawk. Now this is the book that is like the sequel to Maximum Ride. You know a while ago I did a video on the entire Maximum Ride series and how it finally ended at Maximum Ride forever and there's people in the comments like a year later saying oh actually they're making a new one it focuses on Max and Fang's daughter and one I don't think that's really part of the same series at that point that feels more like a sequel or a spin-off because it's focusing on different characters and two it's the same thing I don't think there's anything of value that can be added for me at this point. Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. Now this one this one's gonna get me some hate I can already tell but the thing is I love the Lord of the Rings movies and as a result I have tried to read the books many times I think five or six times I've started Fellowship of the Ring and I have never made it past Tom Bombadil. Like I'm not trying to hate on Tolkien or the series too much here because I think it's foundational for epic fantasy and without Lord of the Rings a lot of books that I do love would never have existed in the first place so I'm forever grateful to it for that but by this point I've read so much like post-modern stuff or modern stuff maybe I don't know exactly what the term would be for that but you know fantasy that has changed and evolved and has worked a little better with modern society as opposed to this old stuff which is still good but we've kind of seen that story before at least I've seen it before a bunch of times and so going through Tolkien's really really crappy prose which okay crappy is kind of mean it's just it's not my cup of tea and he constantly goes off on tangents and kind of it feels almost like he wrote the story just as an excuse to show everybody Middle Earth really and I mean that's fine I totally get that like he created this whole world wanted to show it off and again it's foundational to the fantasy genre so I'm grateful to him for that but it's just it's hard to get into when it feels like the story and characters are almost kind of secondary and the constant tangents just I don't know I didn't like it and the Hobbit pretty much the same thing I tried reading it and that one's aimed more at kids so it has more of a fairy tale feel and I just wasn't into it so yeah I'm probably never reading those 50 Shades of Grey and the Mister now this one 50 Shades of Grey has been done to death like there's nothing new I can add here we've made fun of it we've analyzed it in a serious manner we've pointed out all its flaws we've pointed out the few things it does well it's like I can't add anything else here and the Mister has not been overdone nearly as much but I'm I'm just not interested in it you know and it's heyday or when I say heyday I mean 50 Shades is heyday it's it's long past you know EL James is probably going to continue to write and I'm probably just going to continue to shrug my shoulders out and say meh who cares and her books are just kind of porn anyways you know after a certain point like sure you can make fun of it but after a certain point talking about it in such a serious manner just feels asinine any memoirs written by celebrities now I have a broad definition of celebrities here because I'm including like traditional like movie stars actors singers that sort of thing but I'm also including the newer internet celebrities like youtubers Vine stars that sort of thing because they also like to write memoirs and the thing is that they're pointless it would be pointless for me to read those you know it's just people who are ultra wealthy and famous and beautiful usually are pretending to be relatable to the rest of us plebeians and they usually don't have anything of value to say they sometimes have lived kind of interesting lives but usually not and so like when they write fiction being up their own asses can lead to some hilarious results but when they try writing just hey here's the story of my life while still being up their own ass and trying to paint themselves in the best light possible it's just not fun to read so no the handmaid's tale now I'm also including its recently released sequel in here and the thing is about this I don't think I disagree with the overall message in fact I agree pretty strongly like Margaret Atwood was basically saying this is how the religious right thinks of women and yeah I agree and I think it's horrible and I don't want that world to exist and that's well that's kind of it you know it's preaching to the choir I already get it and because it's an old school dystopian story odds are that the characters and storyline aren't going to be that interesting either so there's nothing really new there for me to get into and I just I don't know I don't think it would be healthy for me to spend too much time having my beliefs validated by outside people like that creates sort of an echo chamber effect and yeah I don't know I just I'm not interested in the book and the other stuff is secondary interview with the vampire or any of its many sequels now I saw the movie for this and I hated it it was stupid and dumb and I'm not going to judge the book based on the movie but the thing is from what I've seen it follows the book pretty closely and well okay I'm not interested in that and the story is just kind of like rich dude is sad rich dude becomes vampire rich vampire dude stays sad for a couple hundred years and then he talks to Christian Slater and Christian Slater writes down his life story and alright you know it's just there's not that much there that interests me obviously it's the journey not the destination and some of the stuff that occurs partway through the story is a little bit more interesting but I just didn't like how it never really led to anything and I know that the later sequels go off the fucking rails like I've heard plenty about them and just whoa and rice what were you thinking but they sound like they go a little too off the rails for me so I'm not interested and from what I've heard and rice was really bad about not letting her editors properly edit her books so they went to print with like spelling errors and plot holes and stuff like that so yeah that probably just just no I'm not interested anything by James Patterson now I've talked a little bit shit about him in the past which I mean he seems like a nice enough guy from what I've seen but his writing is crap you know the pros is crap it's just like chapter one there was a man chapter two the man went to work chapter three on his way to work a car blew up chapter four he is now a spy like it's really bad and I'm not a fan of it and even though sometimes the actual storylines themselves sound good on paper at least like he writes thrillers and mysteries and stuff which are fun once in a while but I just I definitely outgrown any interest I had in him and that that includes his excuse me that includes his young adult stuff as well like people have told me to pick up Daniel X or something or which and wizard is another example and I read the first book of both the series many years ago but I even as a kid I thought they weren't very good so I don't think my opinion would change much now you know maybe at some point in the future I will read them just to roast them but I can't see myself enjoying them and last up we have the Dresden files this one has been suggested to me about 12 million times and I've always refused because I just don't like urban fantasy yet it's it's a personal reason a very kind of a peg one really but I just I just don't like urban fantasy that much you know the story of okay there's this magical guy living in our world and he has to keep the magic world hidden at all costs and pretty much every plot line is just him trying to keep the magic world hidden because if the two worlds mix then that would be bad for some reason you know there's barely ever any urban fantasy where like the masquerade of vampires and wizards and stuff has broken down and they have assimilated into regular human society and so he regular human society gets to see how magic works and integrate that into their everyday lives you know that would be cool but pretty much no urban fantasy I've ever read has done that and Dresden files just sounds dumb and I don't like it if you're a fan of Dresden files then you know more power to you I'm I'm sure they're fun books that I'm sure there's stuff to enjoy about them I've heard Jim Butcher is a really nice guy but I just I just don't want to read him. 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