 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Top 5 Friday. Today I'm going to be talking about five of my favorite scenes in all of literature. Today's topic was a suggestion from my buddy Blue. Thanks for the suggestion. We're just going to go ahead and jump right into it. I'm not sure how long this video will be. I want to go into details but also beware of spoilers. I will give you just enough time. I will hold up the book and give you enough time to click away in case you have not read the book or spoilers would completely ruin the experience for you. The first one is The Weight of This World by David Joy. I'm going to let you guys click away if you need to. I will try to remember to do time stamps. That way you guys can just jump to the very next thing. But anyway, so there's a scene in here where the two main characters show up at a drug dealer's, well at his home to, I think it's to either sell or to buy drugs. And there's a scene where the guy thinks the gun isn't loaded. And so he puts it to the side of his head and pulls the trigger and blows his brains out. I am not doing this scene anywhere near enough justice just by telling you that. The scene caused in me an actual jump scare when I read it. I couldn't believe it had just happened. I was like this gotta be a dream. This can't be happening kind of thing. And then slowly it started to bleed in that this actually happened. The reason why it's on this list is because it comes out of nowhere but I should have seen it. And I have been thinking about it at least a couple times a week since I finished reading the book months ago. In fact, I was just joking around on Twitter the other day when people were talking about jump scares in movies. I said my favorite jump scare is in The Weight of This World by David Joy and then said was that a movie? No, it's a book but it's got a hell of a jump scare in it. So that's number five. Another thing is I'll probably do another one of these videos. It was very hard to limit myself to just five. So if you guys like this video and you want to see more of my favorite scenes of all time, just let me down there on the doobly-doo. Up next we have After Dark by Haruki Mirakami. You guys have a chance to click away if you need to. Again the time signatures will be down there. But this one it's literally the opening scene. I'm going to go in here and I'm going to see eyes mark the shape of the city. Through the eyes of a high flying night bird we take in the scene from mid-air. In our broad sweep the city looks like a single gigantic creature or more like a single collective entity created by many intertwining organisms. Countless arteries stretch to the ends of its elusive body circulating a continuous supply of fresh blood cells sending out new data and collecting the old sending out new consumables and collecting the old sending out new contradictions and collecting the old. To the rhythm of its pulsing all parts of the body flicker and flare up and squirm. Midnight is approaching and while the peak of activity has passed the basal metabolism basal metabolism that maintains life continues undiminished producing the basal continuo of the city's moan a monotonous sound that neither rises nor falls but is pregnant with foreboding. All of that opening section just the way this book opens period is amazing. The visuals that Mitokami is able to bring out to evoke in your mind is amazing and this book will forever hold one of my favorite opening sections. Not to mention I see very clearly all the stuff with the sister that's in the room where we're basically a camera that's in the room with her. All that stuff is very vivid in my mind and it's one of those things where I will it's another one of those things as an author that I will continue to try to latch on to what makes that scene work because it's a narrative omniscient a godlike POV that is very hard to pull off especially in this day and age since we've gotten past the age of Victorian literature but so that's number four. Next up we have The Changeling by Victor Laval I'll give you guys a chance to click away or to click to the next book. In The Changeling there's a scene where our main character goes out this island to I believe try to save his wife and child or maybe it's just a child at this point it's been a while since I read it. What I do remember very specifically about this is there's a scene where again spoilers there's a huge spoiler here there's this huge troll-like monster that just starts throwing trees at people. The scene is very clear in my in my mind in fact the the troll the monster the the giant whatever the heck it was was very clear and Laval made it believable that this kind of creature could actually exist in our timeframe given the not the excuses but given the reasoning that it was there and I appreciated that but that scene alone the the tossing of the trees was just majestic as fuck. I just pictured this you know creature and in the scene I'm talking about you don't even see the monster himself he's behind the hill and just the trees are coming over the hill while this guy's trying to get away on a boat it's a fantastic fantastic scene. All right at number two we are talking about Eleanor by Jason Gurley. The entirety of this book is very clear in my head but there's a sp- a speen there's a scene especially where the landscape it's the scene with the dinosaurs when the when the meteors start coming down this book is an extended allegory or metaphor for depression postpartum depression but I don't think it's postpartum in this it's just the death of a child uh well I I know there's two two completely different things the death of a child and a depression that happens right after pregnancy the babies left them and they feel like their world is crumbling um they have no life is worthless kind of deal I know there's two completely different things but I think there was a sense of postpartum depression also that is brought up and then on top of that to lose one of the kids but the uh and the book opens that way if you're worried about spoilers again there's gonna be spoilers throughout so um but with this one there's a scene especially where you're in the mother's world and you have this this landscape that's almost like prehistoric kind of deal and you got these these huge roaming dinosaurs monsters whatever and they're the meteors are coming down and raining you know death and tragedy all over the place and the scene sticks with me so well the first off Gurley does a terrific job throughout the whole book making impossible things feel possible uh the way he he writes the illusions to depression and sadness and all that and personifies all these things is fantastic but that one scene with the uh anytime people ask me about you know my favorite scenes it's one of the scenes that pops up the clearest to me is that scene and if they haven't read the book I usually don't talk about it too much because it's a huge spoiler um when you do get in there and try to read the book but uh yeah it's fantastic fantastic scene and if you have this is a very underrated book you hear very little about it these days um I highly recommend everybody go out and try this one um I I gave it a shout out in my video uh like I think it was top five books um the underrated books maybe that was it I don't know and finally at number five I could do not number one sorry I could do an entire list based on Stephen King stuff so if you guys want to see that one my top five favorite Stephen King scenes let me know down there in the doobly do but uh he's not on this list because I could do him just by himself just like last time everybody's like you should do the top five Stephen King stories after last week when I did top five short stories I've done top five Stephen King short stories so um it video is already up on the channel with this one I have not done uh my top five favorite Stephen King scenes so if you guys want to see that like next week let me know um but yeah night film is number one I talk about this incessantly uh I I can't get over it it's one of the most powerful scenes I have ever read uh again giving you a chance to click away uh your your time is now but the scene on the bridge there's I don't want to go into it too much detail but it's around the part where the book starts to get disorienting and it becomes crazy there's a scene where she's where he's Scott is trapped in a box um at one point in time I still have to I have to reread it so it's still kind of muddy in my brain with what happens first but I think it's right after Scott ends up investigating the studios on Stanislav Kordova's uh property he ends up out on this bridge and there's a thing on the bridge I I don't think I've ever seen a creature or character that I had no visual representation for no movie to think of no actor to think of that I've seen it so clearly now did I see it the same way that Marisha Pessil did when she wrote the book maybe maybe not but it seems so perfectly defined that and the scene with the box it's probably tied here but the scene that sticks with me the most um and I know that that doesn't mean tied that means you know this this is the more important one but it's just that scene on the bridge it is so wonderfully epically done the writing is on the simpler side but that scene evokes terror dread um curiosity because I want to get closer and there's nothing else in the book about that about that scene it's just there I was like something that Scott has stumbled upon and it just completely unnerves him and if you ever read this and you read the scene you know exactly what I'm talking about most people I talk to about I go yeah that's that that's a hell of a scene just like when uh um we're talking about most disturbing scenes I think I've already done this video but in Joe Hill's heart shaped box there's a very simple scene of a dude just sitting in a hallway um and it's one of the scariest things I've ever read so if you're if you're a an author uh that wants to write big moments or you know meaningful scenes take take to heart the fact that most of the time the stuff is it's just happy accidents um when we do things that well because I think after a certain time you can polish something you can polish something too much and you can wear down the edges and it is less dramatic and less meaningful if that makes sense but uh so this is my top five favorite scenes maybe not top five but it's five big ones I could at least do it at least another two episodes I could do a top 15 kind of deal but I would love to hear from you guys uh do me a favor if you're going to spoil books uh instead of just giving vague stuff say spoiler for and every single book that you're going to spoil at the very top of your comment maybe in all caps but uh yeah do that I definitely want to hear from you guys but make sure I also don't want to spoil a whole bunch of books for people so uh and this one's a little more important because these scenes I feel are important to these books but uh yeah leave all your comments down there in the doobly-doo let me know whether or not you like the video that kind of thing but until next time I have been you 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