February 4, 2025 • 33 mins
I make a huge announcement here. Also, I may have accidentally called this episode 46 when in reality, it is episode 47! As you can see, the SAD is in full swing, and my brain is slush. And this along with the certain world events has contributed to a grumpy host and a fairly poor reading month.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to the Weird Reader podcast, an.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Extension of Jason's Weird Reads found on YouTube. Welcome, Hello,
and welcome to Jason's Weird Reads. Weird Reads Episode forty six.
I am Jason White, and today I am going to
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be discussing recent reads and from the Hip style. If
you don't know what from the hip style is. I
completely stole this from one of my favorite podcasts back
in the day. They were called Horror et cetera, and
they used to have from the Hip episodes and basic
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it's just me shooting the shit from the hip and
then I go into my recent reads. But the stuff
that I had discussed beforehand, the mischellaneous stuff. It's usually
life related, but also what relates to the channel and
so and the podcast obviously. So what's happening. What's going
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on in my life? Well, not much, Honestly. I've been
working a lot and I've been really tired. But i've been,
you know, going on the sad thing as a seasonal
effective disorder. I like talking about this because I'm hoping
that some people relate to it. But you know, I've
been feeling really tired lately, but I've been thinking about it,
(01:42):
and I don't think I'm quite as tired as I
was last year, so maybe I'm adjusting a little, which
adjusting to being straight daytime person, which which would be great.
But I you know, with all this in mind, I've
decided that I'm going to uh move ahead with a
(02:04):
couple of different projects. I'm gonna I'm gonna get to
that in a second, and I'm gonna be pulling back,
maybe just a little, from the channel here. As you
may have noticed, it takes me a long time to
make videos and to and whatnot, but it doesn't take
me quite as long to edit podcast episodes. So you're
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probably gonna see a little bit more podcast content, and
I'm gonna do my best to stick to making the
from the hips here.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Also be adding a new podcast and I'm gonna be
talking about that soon. Actually, I guess I could get
into it right now, So I guess this is somewhat
of an announcement coming soon. I can't say when yet.
I don't have a release date when this is gonna
start airing. I already have episode one recorded though, uh,
(02:59):
And I'm going to be doing the brand new podcast
and it's called Short Bites a Stephen King podcast. Now,
this is a podcast where we go through Stephen King
short stories chronologically chronologically, not when the short stories themselves
were released, but chronologically when they were.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Collected and published.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So night Shift is first, for example, that was this
first collection of short stories, and then next up will
be what is it for Past Midnight? Not for Past Midnight,
but different seasons, and then after that we'll be Skeleton Crew.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And so on and so forth.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So it's chronologically from collected release dates. And we're gonna
I'm not gonna be I'm gonna be talking about one
to two short stories per episodes, and we're going I'm
going to have a guest each episode, at least one
guest and maybe two and sometimes three. The first short
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story we're discussing is Jerusalem's Lot from Night Shift, and
there's like three guests on there for that one, and
some of them book tubers will recognize two of them
in fact. And I've brought back an old friend to
help me occasionally. He's the co host of the Darkness
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Dwells podcast back when I was doing that. That's Michael Schutz.
So this should be a lot of fun. I'm looking
forward to it. I have some really cool guests lined up,
especially if you're into listening to Stephen King podcasts. I
haven't really gone after the really big ones yet, like
King Cast people or anything like that, but the people
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I do have coming on are still pretty big and
I'm very excited. So the rest are writers who I've
talked to already on the Weird Reads podcast, and you
might see some new faces too, so that's going to
be fun. We're going to be discussing some short stories,
and one reason why I'm doing this is because I
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honestly I want to become a better writer myself, and
I think studying from one of the masters his short
stories is maybe maybe a good idea, and I just
want to dig into these stories. I love reading Stephen King.
Last year was a huge Stephen King year for me.
I read like, I think it's like twelve to fifteen
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Stephen King titles and that's a lot. And I'm planning
on reading a lot of Stephen King this year too,
So getting into what I have been reading and the
year twenty twenty five, we're here this year is looking
to be a little bit scary in real life, you
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have no idea where the world's going to be even
a month from now. But I guess we're just gonna
truck on until the really bad stuff starts happening. And
I have bad feelings, honestly, that really bad things are
gonna start happening. They already have, but I think it's
just going to get worse and worse we will see.
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And I guess because of these dark thoughts and whatnot,
I was rather grumpy during January, and my reading reflects this.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So let's move on to.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
The book club choice for January of twenty twenty. Sorry,
not January February. It's February the first as I'm recording this,
and the book club choice for February is The Nightmare
Man by J. H.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Marquette.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Now, this book was released, I believe in twenty twenty three,
later on twenty twenty three, and I don't know much
about it. I want to go into this blind, but
I've been wanting to read it, and uh, this one
looks pretty dark and twisted. From the description that I
did kind of glance at mentioned people being cocooned in
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a barn and that they're cocooned with like farm like
stuff like wheat and corn, cornstalks and whatnot. And I
need to I need, I need to check that out.
I need ton't know what's going on in this book.
Uh so, Uh yeah, come to the Jason's Weird Reads
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book club on the Fable app. Links are down there
in the darkness and and come join us and discuss
The Nightmare Man by J. H.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Market.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Uh So, I'm currently reading Pyness by Suzanne Clark. I
read a book that I didn't like too much, and
uh it kind of put me in a slump. It
put me in a slumpy mood. And as I said before,
it was already pretty grumpy because of you know, the
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state of the world and everything, and so I wanted
something that people praise and nobody seems to hate and
something that would kind of stop the uh it would stop,
you know, for me going into a full out, full
out and complete slump. I was really trying to avoid
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the slump, and so I decided to read Parentesy. And
that was a good choice because I think if I
was in a better mood, I would be able to
enjoy this book a lot more. But I'm still enjoying
it a lot. I find Parentesse is a character This
is like a weird story where the main character Parentes
he's won. He he lives in this giant house. And
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when I say it's a giant house, this house is
like planet sized almost. It's it's or at least a
city size. It's huge, and there's levels to it. The
bottom level is often flooded out by the sea, which
will come up into the second level sometimes. And these
halls are like labyrinth labyrinthine, you know, it's like a
giant labyrinth, and a Parentesse he's studying these halls. These
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halls are filled with statues, and so he goes around
and he documents these these statues that he finds and uh,
and that that's pretty much his life. He talks to
one other person within this world.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And he calls him the other.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Now, this is like a fantasy type world, and we
soon start to learn that this may not just be
Parentes's only existence. I'm gonna leave it at that, but
this is a it's kind of a mystery as to
what exactly is going on and where does a Parentes
live exactly. And I'm loving it, honestly. It's it's it's
pulling me out of that slump that slumpy feel, it's
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beautifully written, it's it creates a sense of wonder in
your mind as you go along. But if I'm if
I'm going to be honest here, I think I could
follow Paranesy just documenting all these statues that he finds.
I could have read a whole book about that. And
in fact, I thought maybe that's what the book was about.
I thought it was like some sort of cozy fantasy
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where where there's no real high stakes and the main
character is just exploring. But it's not exactly that. It
is a little bit of that, but you know, I'm
fine with the where way and where it's going. And
next up, I'm also in the middle of night Shift
by Stephen King, reading Jerusalem's Lot a few times because
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of the new podcast Short Bites a Stephen King.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Podcast, and uh.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, so this this one I'm going to be reading
for a while. So I don't know in pre in
next installments of of from the Hips or or recent reads,
I don't know if I can to continue saying yeah,
still reading night Shift, but knowing me, I probably will,
so just be prepared for that. Maybe I'll just add
in the short stories from Nightshift that I've been currently
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reading during that month.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
This month is definitely focused.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
On Jerusalem's Lot, and it's a it's an interesting story,
it's very lovecrafty, and I'm gonna leave it at that.
I'm also in the middle of, and nearing the end
of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, and I
am I am loving this book. How to Sell a
Haunted House was a bit of a low point for
me in Grady's the books of his that I've read,
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which I think now is most of them, Which isn't
to say that it's a bad book. How to Sell
a Haunted House is a good book. It's just I
don't think it's one of his best. But this is
back to what I fell in love with Grady Hendrix.
It's about these girls who get pregnant, and of course
that's a big no no. In the time period we're
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taking place in, they're like fifteen and sixteen. I mean,
it's looked down upon today, but back in like nineteen
sixty nine, nineteen seventy when the story takes place, it
was like severely looked down upon.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And so you get a lot of.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Discrimination against these girls, not only just discrimination, just outright
like hate almost and like the main characters parents drop
her off at this institute for girls that looks after them.
It's like a place of handmaids and nurses where they
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look after them, and then when they have the baby,
they take the baby away and adopt them. And so
you can imagine that these girls they're kind of angry,
they're a little fed.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Up, and they discover witchcraft and this.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The story goes into some pretty twisted areas. Grady Hendrix
is known for being maybe horror light or cozy horror even,
and I highly disagree with that. I think Grady Hendrix
can really pull it out. In almost every book of
his that I read, there's always something that's just like.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh my god, what the hell did I just read?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's nasty, And so I don't understand, and his characters
come off as realistic to me.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Always, So.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I don't I don't understand the coziness of Grady Hendrix.
It's not cozy. I think they're just a little bit
on the slow barn side, if anything, and you kind
of feel good while reading them. Maybe that's where it
comes from. Even when you're reading the nasty stuff, you're
just like I'm reading Grady Hendrix.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I don't know. Maybe that's it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And finally I'm still I'm not still reading. But this
is another thing that I might not talk about too
much in these recent reads, is that I've decided to
start my Journey of the Tower again. I'm going to
be doing it very slowly, though, and I might not
continue it. This isn't an indefinite thing. I know that
because I have a lot of projects in mind. I
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don't want this sort of intruding on that. But I
was thinking of reading The Dark Tower again in a
year's time period. So it's like twenty pages a day
or something like that, and I haven't been really keeping
that up, but I have been keeping it up, like
if I miss a day, then I'll read double the
next day.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
But like I said, I.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Don't want it to intrude. So I'm on the gun
Slinger right now. I'm about ready to finish it, and
I am behind schedule in that read The Dark Tower
in one year situation, So I don't know if I'm
going to continue doing it. But it's been fun and
I'm glad I went back to The gun Slinger because
you're seeing a lot of parallels to where the story
ended in book seven to hear and that's fascinating. So
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many things that are brought up, and it's just like
the wheel turns man, the wheel of God just keeps
turning anyway. So what have I read during January? What
did I read?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
What's this reflective thing where I'm saying I've been grumpy
and well, we're going to get to it. I read
Being followed by Derek Muck. Now, this is the book
I was talking about that kind of put me into
a slump. It's not that it's a bad book. It's
a good book, but just written so simply that the
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characters almost felt like they were created for the sake
of being in a book. The language itself was just
very kind of flat to me, and I really didn't
enjoy my time. I enjoyed the message. The message in
this book is sort of anti Nazi, if not outright
complete anti Nazi, and that's great, honestly, we need a
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lot of that in the world right now. But I
struggled to finish this book. It just did not hit
the spot at all. Maybe if I was just in
a better mood, I would enjoyed it better. And I
think that may be the case, and perhaps all the
Nazi stuff like Nazi and modern day stuff that just
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I don't know, it just it's a little triggering. So
in this story, we have an ex husband and an
ex wife who sort of team up to figure out
what's going on with these neo Nazis who are targeting
the ex wife because she wrote a book that kind
of targets them, and so they're out and out to
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get her. That's that's the main plot. And they are
kind of considering. When they're not considering, they do decide
that they're gonna get back together. And it's just the
characters just feel unbelievable to me. I just you know,
I went to the Good Read site after reading this book,
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and I ended up giving it four stars because I
don't know, maybe my grippiness. It doesn't deserve the star
rating that that I gave it on the fable app,
But I think, you know, it's only fair maybe to
the author, but all the other writer or reviewers there,
including authors like Steve Strutt, gave this glowing reviews. It
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has like eleven reviews or something like that, and it's
average rating is like four point five stars out of
five so I could just be in the minority here.
Maybe I'm just feeling a little, you know, a little
bit of the world weight on my shoulders, and I
just kind of, you know, reflected that into this novel
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because of how you know, awful, I guess maybe everyone's feeling.
So yeah, it didn't work for me much at all.
So yeah, it just wasn't a favorite read, all right.
Next up was The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan.
This was an interesting book, and I'm gonna completely butcher
the synopsis here because I don't remember the terms.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But it's like the Justice of the King.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
He goes around in his name, I can't remember. I
do remember the narrator's voice though, as Helena. She and
him work together and they go around looking for witches
to prosecute because they go against the you know, the
standard religion.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And the justice guy he he kind of has, you know.
I was kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Picturing that movie from the nineteen seventies, witch Finder General,
and I was kind of picturing the witch Finder in
that movie, and maybe he'd be that guy in this role.
But no, he's much more sympathetic. He actually has a
bit of a heart, and he even lets some people
go who perhaps he shouldn't have and whatnot. So it's
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a good it's a good story. I've been craving fantasy lately,
excuse me for I guess about a year now, and
I have read some fantasy books that have scratched that itch.
But this book, The Justice of Kings, kind of scratched
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it a bit. But it wasn't exactly what I was
looking for in a fantasy book. I think I gave
it three zero point seventy five stars on the Fable
app and rounded it up to four stars on good Reads.
It's a good book, and I hope to continue with
the series. I heard that the following books get darker
and even more horrific. There's the Justice of the King here.
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I'm just calling him that because I can't remember as
an actual title. He has this weird magical power where
he can bring back the debt to interview them for
matters of crime and murder, and the way he does
it is and its results are pretty horrific. I mean,
this goes into horror territory, and so it's perfect for me.
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And I heard that the the next couple of books trilogy,
the next couple of books get even more horrific. So
I guess we'll have to wait and see. I hope
I do continue it, and I might do it soon,
just to keep going honestly.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Next up, I.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Read The New God by Jeffrey Thomas. Jeffrey Thomas is
a guy. He's a writer. I've been reading him for
a few years now, probably about five years, not steadily,
but I've read a lot of his short stories, and
a lot of his short stories happen to do with
punk Town. And his latest book that was released I
believe in October of twenty twenty four, is called The
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New God, and it's a punk down novel, punk Town.
If you don't know what that is, it's the whole
world is set in a galaxy maybe where we've gone
out to the stars and we've colonized other planets, and
punk Town exists on one of these colonized planets.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So you.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He's written in this universe a lot, a lot of
short stories, some novels and novellas, and these stories are
wide ranging. They're they're like cyberpunk, but they often have
elements of horror, and this one has elements of horror too.
It has some love crafty and horror in it. I'm
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gonna leave that alone because I'm planning right now tomorrow Sunday,
February the second. The plan is to talk to Jeffrey
Thomas on my channel here, and we're going to be
discussing this book and they're going to be bringing a
guest that I just talked to recently, Ian Rodgers, and
we're going to be grilling about this book and the
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punk Town stories, So stay tuned for that. It was
a fun read, though, and I highly recommend it. It's
it's like it's it's it goes into some crazy, bonkers
territory and I.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Absolutely loved it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I read Children of the Dark by Jonathan Jans. This
is this is like a pretty popular series by Jonathan.
From my understanding, it's Children of the Dark and then
the second books like Night Flyers or something like that.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
But there's also a book.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You can read also has like similar creatures in it
called Savage Savage something or other. I want to say
Savage Season, but that doesn't sound right anyways. Children of
the Dark is coming of age story where we follow
a young man who's like you know, typical young man
fallen in love with one of the main characters that
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he's friends with, and they come across these terrible beasts
that come from nearby caves, and those beasts, those monsters
are the children of the Dark. And this book goes
into some pretty crazy territory as well. It gets quite
gory in parts, and this one is just over over.
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We're all satisfying. I enjoyed this story, and I'm looking
forward to reading the second book and also the Savage
one that I'm clearly unable to remember the title of
right now, but yeah, so yeah, look forward to me
continuing that series later on. I also read Doctor Sleep
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by Stephen King. This one was interesting because I really
enjoyed myself reading this, and yet by the end it's
not I don't think it's going to become a favorite
of mine. By Stephen Kings. There's one reason why I think, honestly,
Rose the Hat, as interesting of a character that she is,
I think we spend way too much time with Rose
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the Hat without learning their history, which is kind of
strange for Stephen King, because that's something he's a master of.
He takes you back, but he doesn't take you back
into Rose the Hat's history or anything like that at all.
We don't really learn anything about her. All we learn
is what she keeps planning to do in order to
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take out well to take out her mission, which is
to find steam, which they get from kids like Danny
from the shining, because they have the shining and the steam,
if I'm remembering correctly, in what they call that is
sort of like the essence of their shining. So when
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you have supernatural kids like Stephen King often enjoys reading about,
then you're going to have, in gleased in Doctor Sleep's case,
you're going to have monsters that feed on their powers.
And it's pretty gruesome how they do this. They don't
just kill the person. They have to torture the person
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in order to cleanse the steam. And it's what makes
that even worse is that they typically hunt down the
children because they have the strongest shining powers. And so
there is a scene where they torture a child to
death and we're unfortunately there to watch it, and it's
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it's hard to read. And that's not the reason why
I would say this is perhaps not my favorite Stephen
King book. I think it's just it's the whole Gang
of Rose the hat. They're like vampires, right, and they're
just uninteresting. I enjoyed my time with Danny a lot more.
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Danny from The Shining is all grown up and and
he's fallen into the same traps as his father's when
we meet him in Doctor Sleep, he's a he's an alcoholic.
He's a homeless almost homeless, if not homeless, alcoholic who
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travels and works where he can. He pretty much jumps
from town to town and until he gets into trouble
because of his drinking problem and the inevitably cannot get
rehired in that area because of something he's done, so
he moves on. He typically works in hospice care as
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a as a cleaner, janitor, custodian, whatever you want to
call it. And he ends up in this one town
where where he decides because mainly because of the people.
He kind of falls in love with the people almost
immediately because they're so good to him, almost immediately, and
he decides to sober up.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And this book takes a span of years. Now, this
is the part of the book that I loved.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
This book was great. If we you know, we didn't
even need to go into Rose the Hat and all that.
I think, if we just stuck with Danny and made
a story about him recovering and you know, making friends
with these townsfolk. I would have been happy. I think
I would have been happy with that and that and
that goes into Elevation, because this Elevation is a story
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kind of like that, where where you know, there is
a big thing that happens in the book. And this
is another book that I read. This is the only
book I gave five stars too in the month of January.
Elevation by Stephen King is often looked down upon by
his constant readers. Maybe not all of them, but I
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remember when this book came out, readers were angry, and
you know, I was kind of confused about that. Why
why are people angry about this book?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And so I.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Never read it. I took their advice that this book
is you know, a writer like Stephen King who writes
a lot of books, they're bound to write something that's awful,
and so I thought maybe this was that book. And
I finally read it this year, and it's not awful.
It's just not what Stephen King used to write. If
you follow Stephen King throughout the years, you know he
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writes in different periods. He writes differently in different periods
of his life. But I think that this book isn't
completely alien to his earlier works. I think if you
look get some of Stephen King's short stories, like The
Reach from Skeleton Crew, you'll find that you know that
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one's a lot darker than Elevation, but it still has
that same sort of sentimental feel to it that Elevation has.
Elevation is about a man who suddenly starts losing weight
without losing mass, so he stays the same size, but
he's losing weight. And as he starts losing weight, he's
starting to lose his sense of gravity too, So it
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kind of goes into a sad direction. But what makes
this book good, I think anyway, is the making of
and fixing relationships to people who live differently than we do.
And I think this one picked me up because it
was more of a positive message, really directed at our
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modern times and how we can be better people. And
you know, it's, honestly, it's not so bad to be
to try to be a better person, you can make
a friend or two along the way, And what's so
terrible about that? Of course, it's a lot more than
just that. There's like themes of letting go, and that
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I really appreciate it because it's.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Hard to let go.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You know, when you're caught up in all these things
of today, your mind starts telling you terrible things and
you immediately believe it, and or you don't, but it's
still disturbing to think about. I'm sure you know what
I'm talking about. This book is like a shining light
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in that darkness, and I.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And the first book I read this month. I think
there's a video on TikTok where I said that another
book was the first book, but it wasn't. It was
a Candice Nola book. It was actually the last book
I read last year. I don't know why I said
it was the first book on TikTok, but you know
how that goes. Anyway, this is the first book I
read this year, and it wasn't. This one I did
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not like. It was The Act Remembers, a Redwood Ripper
story by Marcus Hawk. You know, it's not a terrible
thing to dislike a book by an author you really enjoy.
This is one book of his out of three that
I've read that I didn't like.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
The other two I.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Absolutely adored, So this book just felt really rushed. The
whole thing felt rush. There's absolutely no character development. There's
no characters. I mean, there is characters, but there might
as well not be. There's some interesting kills, which I enjoyed.
I mean, it is a slasher, but even the slashing
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monster in it isn't isn't very interesting to me. And
so I was pretty disappointed in this book, and I
think I gave it two stars.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
But but that doesn't mean you won't like it.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I mean, I think, you know, maybe it's just a prejudice.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's not my prejudice against slashers. Maybe he I don't I.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Don't want to say that. I don't want to say
what I'm thinking because it's putting a judgment on the author.
But what I was thinking is that maybe he thinks
that slashers don't need to be very good.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, that is what I've read, and my grumpy January
has come to an end, and now it's probably going
to be a grumpy February.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I hope that I read some great books that will
keep me excited but and pull me out of this
funk I'm feeling and the worry I feel towards the
state of the world right now.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
But we shall see. The only time will tell.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
But I want to thank you for listening this far.
I always appreciate it when you comment, so people on
the video please feel free to leave a comment deep
down there in the darkness, and.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Keep being safe, keep being kind because kindness matters, and
keep being creative my friends, and actually most importantly, keep
being weird because that's the only way we're going to
survive seeing with our sanity intact. And I'll talk to
you guys again in the next one.
You're listening to the Weird Reader podcast, an.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Extension of Jason's Weird Reads found on YouTube. Welcome, Hello,
and welcome to Jason's Weird Reads. Weird Reads Episode forty six.
I am Jason White, and today I am going to
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be discussing recent reads and from the Hip style. If
you don't know what from the hip style is. I
completely stole this from one of my favorite podcasts back
in the day. They were called Horror et cetera, and
they used to have from the Hip episodes and basic
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it's just me shooting the shit from the hip and
then I go into my recent reads. But the stuff
that I had discussed beforehand, the mischellaneous stuff. It's usually
life related, but also what relates to the channel and
so and the podcast obviously. So what's happening. What's going
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on in my life? Well, not much, Honestly. I've been
working a lot and I've been really tired. But i've been,
you know, going on the sad thing as a seasonal
effective disorder. I like talking about this because I'm hoping
that some people relate to it. But you know, I've
been feeling really tired lately, but I've been thinking about it,
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and I don't think I'm quite as tired as I
was last year, so maybe I'm adjusting a little, which
adjusting to being straight daytime person, which which would be great.
But I you know, with all this in mind, I've
decided that I'm going to uh move ahead with a
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couple of different projects. I'm gonna I'm gonna get to
that in a second, and I'm gonna be pulling back,
maybe just a little, from the channel here. As you
may have noticed, it takes me a long time to
make videos and to and whatnot, but it doesn't take
me quite as long to edit podcast episodes. So you're
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probably gonna see a little bit more podcast content, and
I'm gonna do my best to stick to making the
from the hips here.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Also be adding a new podcast and I'm gonna be
talking about that soon. Actually, I guess I could get
into it right now, So I guess this is somewhat
of an announcement coming soon. I can't say when yet.
I don't have a release date when this is gonna
start airing. I already have episode one recorded though, uh,
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And I'm going to be doing the brand new podcast
and it's called Short Bites a Stephen King podcast. Now,
this is a podcast where we go through Stephen King
short stories chronologically chronologically, not when the short stories themselves
were released, but chronologically when they were.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Collected and published.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So night Shift is first, for example, that was this
first collection of short stories, and then next up will
be what is it for Past Midnight? Not for Past Midnight,
but different seasons, and then after that we'll be Skeleton Crew.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And so on and so forth.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So it's chronologically from collected release dates. And we're gonna
I'm not gonna be I'm gonna be talking about one
to two short stories per episodes, and we're going I'm
going to have a guest each episode, at least one
guest and maybe two and sometimes three. The first short
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story we're discussing is Jerusalem's Lot from Night Shift, and
there's like three guests on there for that one, and
some of them book tubers will recognize two of them
in fact. And I've brought back an old friend to
help me occasionally. He's the co host of the Darkness
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Dwells podcast back when I was doing that. That's Michael Schutz.
So this should be a lot of fun. I'm looking
forward to it. I have some really cool guests lined up,
especially if you're into listening to Stephen King podcasts. I
haven't really gone after the really big ones yet, like
King Cast people or anything like that, but the people
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I do have coming on are still pretty big and
I'm very excited. So the rest are writers who I've
talked to already on the Weird Reads podcast, and you
might see some new faces too, so that's going to
be fun. We're going to be discussing some short stories,
and one reason why I'm doing this is because I
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honestly I want to become a better writer myself, and
I think studying from one of the masters his short
stories is maybe maybe a good idea, and I just
want to dig into these stories. I love reading Stephen King.
Last year was a huge Stephen King year for me.
I read like, I think it's like twelve to fifteen
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Stephen King titles and that's a lot. And I'm planning
on reading a lot of Stephen King this year too,
So getting into what I have been reading and the
year twenty twenty five, we're here this year is looking
to be a little bit scary in real life, you
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have no idea where the world's going to be even
a month from now. But I guess we're just gonna
truck on until the really bad stuff starts happening. And
I have bad feelings, honestly, that really bad things are
gonna start happening. They already have, but I think it's
just going to get worse and worse we will see.
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And I guess because of these dark thoughts and whatnot,
I was rather grumpy during January, and my reading reflects this.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So let's move on to.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
The book club choice for January of twenty twenty. Sorry,
not January February. It's February the first as I'm recording this,
and the book club choice for February is The Nightmare
Man by J. H.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Marquette.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Now, this book was released, I believe in twenty twenty three,
later on twenty twenty three, and I don't know much
about it. I want to go into this blind, but
I've been wanting to read it, and uh, this one
looks pretty dark and twisted. From the description that I
did kind of glance at mentioned people being cocooned in
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a barn and that they're cocooned with like farm like
stuff like wheat and corn, cornstalks and whatnot. And I
need to I need, I need to check that out.
I need ton't know what's going on in this book.
Uh so, Uh yeah, come to the Jason's Weird Reads
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book club on the Fable app. Links are down there
in the darkness and and come join us and discuss
The Nightmare Man by J. H.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Market.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Uh So, I'm currently reading Pyness by Suzanne Clark. I
read a book that I didn't like too much, and
uh it kind of put me in a slump. It
put me in a slumpy mood. And as I said before,
it was already pretty grumpy because of you know, the
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state of the world and everything, and so I wanted
something that people praise and nobody seems to hate and
something that would kind of stop the uh it would stop,
you know, for me going into a full out, full
out and complete slump. I was really trying to avoid
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the slump, and so I decided to read Parentesy. And
that was a good choice because I think if I
was in a better mood, I would be able to
enjoy this book a lot more. But I'm still enjoying
it a lot. I find Parentesse is a character This
is like a weird story where the main character Parentes
he's won. He he lives in this giant house. And
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when I say it's a giant house, this house is
like planet sized almost. It's it's or at least a
city size. It's huge, and there's levels to it. The
bottom level is often flooded out by the sea, which
will come up into the second level sometimes. And these
halls are like labyrinth labyrinthine, you know, it's like a
giant labyrinth, and a Parentesse he's studying these halls. These
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halls are filled with statues, and so he goes around
and he documents these these statues that he finds and uh,
and that that's pretty much his life. He talks to
one other person within this world.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And he calls him the other.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Now, this is like a fantasy type world, and we
soon start to learn that this may not just be
Parentes's only existence. I'm gonna leave it at that, but
this is a it's kind of a mystery as to
what exactly is going on and where does a Parentes
live exactly. And I'm loving it, honestly. It's it's it's
pulling me out of that slump that slumpy feel, it's
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beautifully written, it's it creates a sense of wonder in
your mind as you go along. But if I'm if
I'm going to be honest here, I think I could
follow Paranesy just documenting all these statues that he finds.
I could have read a whole book about that. And
in fact, I thought maybe that's what the book was about.
I thought it was like some sort of cozy fantasy
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where where there's no real high stakes and the main
character is just exploring. But it's not exactly that. It
is a little bit of that, but you know, I'm
fine with the where way and where it's going. And
next up, I'm also in the middle of night Shift
by Stephen King, reading Jerusalem's Lot a few times because
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of the new podcast Short Bites a Stephen King.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Podcast, and uh.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, so this this one I'm going to be reading
for a while. So I don't know in pre in
next installments of of from the Hips or or recent reads,
I don't know if I can to continue saying yeah,
still reading night Shift, but knowing me, I probably will,
so just be prepared for that. Maybe I'll just add
in the short stories from Nightshift that I've been currently
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reading during that month.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
This month is definitely focused.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
On Jerusalem's Lot, and it's a it's an interesting story,
it's very lovecrafty, and I'm gonna leave it at that.
I'm also in the middle of, and nearing the end
of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, and I
am I am loving this book. How to Sell a
Haunted House was a bit of a low point for
me in Grady's the books of his that I've read,
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which I think now is most of them, Which isn't
to say that it's a bad book. How to Sell
a Haunted House is a good book. It's just I
don't think it's one of his best. But this is
back to what I fell in love with Grady Hendrix.
It's about these girls who get pregnant, and of course
that's a big no no. In the time period we're
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taking place in, they're like fifteen and sixteen. I mean,
it's looked down upon today, but back in like nineteen
sixty nine, nineteen seventy when the story takes place, it
was like severely looked down upon.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And so you get a lot of.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Discrimination against these girls, not only just discrimination, just outright
like hate almost and like the main characters parents drop
her off at this institute for girls that looks after them.
It's like a place of handmaids and nurses where they
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look after them, and then when they have the baby,
they take the baby away and adopt them. And so
you can imagine that these girls they're kind of angry,
they're a little fed.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Up, and they discover witchcraft and this.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The story goes into some pretty twisted areas. Grady Hendrix
is known for being maybe horror light or cozy horror even,
and I highly disagree with that. I think Grady Hendrix
can really pull it out. In almost every book of
his that I read, there's always something that's just like.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh my god, what the hell did I just read?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's nasty, And so I don't understand, and his characters
come off as realistic to me.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Always, So.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I don't I don't understand the coziness of Grady Hendrix.
It's not cozy. I think they're just a little bit
on the slow barn side, if anything, and you kind
of feel good while reading them. Maybe that's where it
comes from. Even when you're reading the nasty stuff, you're
just like I'm reading Grady Hendrix.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I don't know. Maybe that's it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And finally I'm still I'm not still reading. But this
is another thing that I might not talk about too
much in these recent reads, is that I've decided to
start my Journey of the Tower again. I'm going to
be doing it very slowly, though, and I might not
continue it. This isn't an indefinite thing. I know that
because I have a lot of projects in mind. I
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don't want this sort of intruding on that. But I
was thinking of reading The Dark Tower again in a
year's time period. So it's like twenty pages a day
or something like that, and I haven't been really keeping
that up, but I have been keeping it up, like
if I miss a day, then I'll read double the
next day.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
But like I said, I.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Don't want it to intrude. So I'm on the gun
Slinger right now. I'm about ready to finish it, and
I am behind schedule in that read The Dark Tower
in one year situation, So I don't know if I'm
going to continue doing it. But it's been fun and
I'm glad I went back to The gun Slinger because
you're seeing a lot of parallels to where the story
ended in book seven to hear and that's fascinating. So
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many things that are brought up, and it's just like
the wheel turns man, the wheel of God just keeps
turning anyway. So what have I read during January? What
did I read?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
What's this reflective thing where I'm saying I've been grumpy
and well, we're going to get to it. I read
Being followed by Derek Muck. Now, this is the book
I was talking about that kind of put me into
a slump. It's not that it's a bad book. It's
a good book, but just written so simply that the
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characters almost felt like they were created for the sake
of being in a book. The language itself was just
very kind of flat to me, and I really didn't
enjoy my time. I enjoyed the message. The message in
this book is sort of anti Nazi, if not outright
complete anti Nazi, and that's great, honestly, we need a
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lot of that in the world right now. But I
struggled to finish this book. It just did not hit
the spot at all. Maybe if I was just in
a better mood, I would enjoyed it better. And I
think that may be the case, and perhaps all the
Nazi stuff like Nazi and modern day stuff that just
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I don't know, it just it's a little triggering. So
in this story, we have an ex husband and an
ex wife who sort of team up to figure out
what's going on with these neo Nazis who are targeting
the ex wife because she wrote a book that kind
of targets them, and so they're out and out to
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get her. That's that's the main plot. And they are
kind of considering. When they're not considering, they do decide
that they're gonna get back together. And it's just the
characters just feel unbelievable to me. I just you know,
I went to the Good Read site after reading this book,
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and I ended up giving it four stars because I
don't know, maybe my grippiness. It doesn't deserve the star
rating that that I gave it on the fable app,
But I think, you know, it's only fair maybe to
the author, but all the other writer or reviewers there,
including authors like Steve Strutt, gave this glowing reviews. It
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has like eleven reviews or something like that, and it's
average rating is like four point five stars out of
five so I could just be in the minority here.
Maybe I'm just feeling a little, you know, a little
bit of the world weight on my shoulders, and I
just kind of, you know, reflected that into this novel
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because of how you know, awful, I guess maybe everyone's feeling.
So yeah, it didn't work for me much at all.
So yeah, it just wasn't a favorite read, all right.
Next up was The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan.
This was an interesting book, and I'm gonna completely butcher
the synopsis here because I don't remember the terms.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But it's like the Justice of the King.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
He goes around in his name, I can't remember. I
do remember the narrator's voice though, as Helena. She and
him work together and they go around looking for witches
to prosecute because they go against the you know, the
standard religion.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And the justice guy he he kind of has, you know.
I was kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Picturing that movie from the nineteen seventies, witch Finder General,
and I was kind of picturing the witch Finder in
that movie, and maybe he'd be that guy in this role.
But no, he's much more sympathetic. He actually has a
bit of a heart, and he even lets some people
go who perhaps he shouldn't have and whatnot. So it's
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a good it's a good story. I've been craving fantasy lately,
excuse me for I guess about a year now, and
I have read some fantasy books that have scratched that itch.
But this book, The Justice of Kings, kind of scratched
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it a bit. But it wasn't exactly what I was
looking for in a fantasy book. I think I gave
it three zero point seventy five stars on the Fable
app and rounded it up to four stars on good Reads.
It's a good book, and I hope to continue with
the series. I heard that the following books get darker
and even more horrific. There's the Justice of the King here.
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I'm just calling him that because I can't remember as
an actual title. He has this weird magical power where
he can bring back the debt to interview them for
matters of crime and murder, and the way he does
it is and its results are pretty horrific. I mean,
this goes into horror territory, and so it's perfect for me.
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And I heard that the the next couple of books trilogy,
the next couple of books get even more horrific. So
I guess we'll have to wait and see. I hope
I do continue it, and I might do it soon,
just to keep going honestly.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Next up, I.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Read The New God by Jeffrey Thomas. Jeffrey Thomas is
a guy. He's a writer. I've been reading him for
a few years now, probably about five years, not steadily,
but I've read a lot of his short stories, and
a lot of his short stories happen to do with
punk Town. And his latest book that was released I
believe in October of twenty twenty four, is called The
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New God, and it's a punk down novel, punk Town.
If you don't know what that is, it's the whole
world is set in a galaxy maybe where we've gone
out to the stars and we've colonized other planets, and
punk Town exists on one of these colonized planets.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So you.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He's written in this universe a lot, a lot of
short stories, some novels and novellas, and these stories are
wide ranging. They're they're like cyberpunk, but they often have
elements of horror, and this one has elements of horror too.
It has some love crafty and horror in it. I'm
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gonna leave that alone because I'm planning right now tomorrow Sunday,
February the second. The plan is to talk to Jeffrey
Thomas on my channel here, and we're going to be
discussing this book and they're going to be bringing a
guest that I just talked to recently, Ian Rodgers, and
we're going to be grilling about this book and the
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punk Town stories, So stay tuned for that. It was
a fun read, though, and I highly recommend it. It's
it's like it's it's it goes into some crazy, bonkers
territory and I.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Absolutely loved it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I read Children of the Dark by Jonathan Jans. This
is this is like a pretty popular series by Jonathan.
From my understanding, it's Children of the Dark and then
the second books like Night Flyers or something like that.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
But there's also a book.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You can read also has like similar creatures in it
called Savage Savage something or other. I want to say
Savage Season, but that doesn't sound right anyways. Children of
the Dark is coming of age story where we follow
a young man who's like you know, typical young man
fallen in love with one of the main characters that
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he's friends with, and they come across these terrible beasts
that come from nearby caves, and those beasts, those monsters
are the children of the Dark. And this book goes
into some pretty crazy territory as well. It gets quite
gory in parts, and this one is just over over.
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We're all satisfying. I enjoyed this story, and I'm looking
forward to reading the second book and also the Savage
one that I'm clearly unable to remember the title of
right now, but yeah, so yeah, look forward to me
continuing that series later on. I also read Doctor Sleep
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by Stephen King. This one was interesting because I really
enjoyed myself reading this, and yet by the end it's
not I don't think it's going to become a favorite
of mine. By Stephen Kings. There's one reason why I think, honestly,
Rose the Hat, as interesting of a character that she is,
I think we spend way too much time with Rose
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the Hat without learning their history, which is kind of
strange for Stephen King, because that's something he's a master of.
He takes you back, but he doesn't take you back
into Rose the Hat's history or anything like that at all.
We don't really learn anything about her. All we learn
is what she keeps planning to do in order to
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take out well to take out her mission, which is
to find steam, which they get from kids like Danny
from the shining, because they have the shining and the steam,
if I'm remembering correctly, in what they call that is
sort of like the essence of their shining. So when
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you have supernatural kids like Stephen King often enjoys reading about,
then you're going to have, in gleased in Doctor Sleep's case,
you're going to have monsters that feed on their powers.
And it's pretty gruesome how they do this. They don't
just kill the person. They have to torture the person
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in order to cleanse the steam. And it's what makes
that even worse is that they typically hunt down the
children because they have the strongest shining powers. And so
there is a scene where they torture a child to
death and we're unfortunately there to watch it, and it's
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it's hard to read. And that's not the reason why
I would say this is perhaps not my favorite Stephen
King book. I think it's just it's the whole Gang
of Rose the hat. They're like vampires, right, and they're
just uninteresting. I enjoyed my time with Danny a lot more.
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Danny from The Shining is all grown up and and
he's fallen into the same traps as his father's when
we meet him in Doctor Sleep, he's a he's an alcoholic.
He's a homeless almost homeless, if not homeless, alcoholic who
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travels and works where he can. He pretty much jumps
from town to town and until he gets into trouble
because of his drinking problem and the inevitably cannot get
rehired in that area because of something he's done, so
he moves on. He typically works in hospice care as
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a as a cleaner, janitor, custodian, whatever you want to
call it. And he ends up in this one town
where where he decides because mainly because of the people.
He kind of falls in love with the people almost
immediately because they're so good to him, almost immediately, and
he decides to sober up.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And this book takes a span of years. Now, this
is the part of the book that I loved.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
This book was great. If we you know, we didn't
even need to go into Rose the Hat and all that.
I think, if we just stuck with Danny and made
a story about him recovering and you know, making friends
with these townsfolk. I would have been happy. I think
I would have been happy with that and that and
that goes into Elevation, because this Elevation is a story
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kind of like that, where where you know, there is
a big thing that happens in the book. And this
is another book that I read. This is the only
book I gave five stars too in the month of January.
Elevation by Stephen King is often looked down upon by
his constant readers. Maybe not all of them, but I
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remember when this book came out, readers were angry, and
you know, I was kind of confused about that. Why
why are people angry about this book?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And so I.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Never read it. I took their advice that this book
is you know, a writer like Stephen King who writes
a lot of books, they're bound to write something that's awful,
and so I thought maybe this was that book. And
I finally read it this year, and it's not awful.
It's just not what Stephen King used to write. If
you follow Stephen King throughout the years, you know he
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writes in different periods. He writes differently in different periods
of his life. But I think that this book isn't
completely alien to his earlier works. I think if you
look get some of Stephen King's short stories, like The
Reach from Skeleton Crew, you'll find that you know that
(28:12):
one's a lot darker than Elevation, but it still has
that same sort of sentimental feel to it that Elevation has.
Elevation is about a man who suddenly starts losing weight
without losing mass, so he stays the same size, but
he's losing weight. And as he starts losing weight, he's
starting to lose his sense of gravity too, So it
(28:36):
kind of goes into a sad direction. But what makes
this book good, I think anyway, is the making of
and fixing relationships to people who live differently than we do.
And I think this one picked me up because it
was more of a positive message, really directed at our
(29:00):
modern times and how we can be better people. And
you know, it's, honestly, it's not so bad to be
to try to be a better person, you can make
a friend or two along the way, And what's so
terrible about that? Of course, it's a lot more than
just that. There's like themes of letting go, and that
(29:20):
I really appreciate it because it's.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Hard to let go.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You know, when you're caught up in all these things
of today, your mind starts telling you terrible things and
you immediately believe it, and or you don't, but it's
still disturbing to think about. I'm sure you know what
I'm talking about. This book is like a shining light
(29:45):
in that darkness, and I.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And the first book I read this month. I think
there's a video on TikTok where I said that another
book was the first book, but it wasn't. It was
a Candice Nola book. It was actually the last book
I read last year. I don't know why I said
it was the first book on TikTok, but you know
how that goes. Anyway, this is the first book I
read this year, and it wasn't. This one I did
(30:10):
not like. It was The Act Remembers, a Redwood Ripper
story by Marcus Hawk. You know, it's not a terrible
thing to dislike a book by an author you really enjoy.
This is one book of his out of three that
I've read that I didn't like.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
The other two I.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Absolutely adored, So this book just felt really rushed. The
whole thing felt rush. There's absolutely no character development. There's
no characters. I mean, there is characters, but there might
as well not be. There's some interesting kills, which I enjoyed.
I mean, it is a slasher, but even the slashing
(30:49):
monster in it isn't isn't very interesting to me. And
so I was pretty disappointed in this book, and I
think I gave it two stars.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
But but that doesn't mean you won't like it.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I mean, I think, you know, maybe it's just a prejudice.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's not my prejudice against slashers. Maybe he I don't I.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Don't want to say that. I don't want to say
what I'm thinking because it's putting a judgment on the author.
But what I was thinking is that maybe he thinks
that slashers don't need to be very good.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, that is what I've read, and my grumpy January
has come to an end, and now it's probably going
to be a grumpy February.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I hope that I read some great books that will
keep me excited but and pull me out of this
funk I'm feeling and the worry I feel towards the
state of the world right now.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
But we shall see. The only time will tell.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
But I want to thank you for listening this far.
I always appreciate it when you comment, so people on
the video please feel free to leave a comment deep
down there in the darkness, and.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Keep being safe, keep being kind because kindness matters, and
keep being creative my friends, and actually most importantly, keep
being weird because that's the only way we're going to
survive seeing with our sanity intact. And I'll talk to
you guys again in the next one.
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