You are speaking really well and giving fire content. A top tier booktuber. Congrats Rachel.
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
Aw thanks
@joannatrefethen1197
5 ай бұрын
Almost forty years ago Barlowe published Barlowe's Guide to Extra-Terrestrials, illustrations of various creatures from science fiction literature. Again, it's old, so we're talking Golden Age or Silver Age extra-terrestrials.
@josephiyeke8946
5 ай бұрын
I’m in the middle of Dark Theory right now! Thanks for the Recco!
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
Glad you're enjoying it
@brucecomerford
5 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@dalejones4322
5 ай бұрын
Mal goes to war sounds like something I'll love. Thank you so much. Mickey 7 was a great book and I look forward to this one.
@Buy_YouTube_Views_Gain_Fame301
5 ай бұрын
Your creativity is inspiring. It encourages us all to find joy in the little things.
@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd
5 ай бұрын
in the ant vs dinos book my bet will always be on the ants also just finished deep dive good read and was really surprised the author is a resident of my hometown although he's living and working in europe right now⚛😀
@toweringtbr
5 ай бұрын
I added Mal Goes to War because of your comparison to The Bobiverse. I thought Mickey7 was fine.
@KanyeWestLyricalGenius
5 ай бұрын
I finished my exams! I think I did well (I don't know yet). Anyway, I went to half-priced books today and picked up a HUGE haul of books from several of your lists! I can't wait to read The Exorcist. I've never seen the film. I've also followed your Instagram. Thank you for all the great content!
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
Congratulations on finishing your exam! Book buying sounds like the perfect way to celebrate
@RodneyAllanPoe
5 ай бұрын
"...second book swamp." 😂 Love it.
@DanielSolis
3 ай бұрын
Cretaceous Past is such an odd story. I definitely think I missed most of the metaphor, like Gulliver's Travels having jokes meant for an audience in a particular time and place.
@TheShadesofOrange
3 ай бұрын
So odd!
@literallybooks
5 ай бұрын
So great to see Barlowe mentioned. I believe Discovery made a pseudo documentary based on this book called “Alien Planet”. You might enjoy his “Barlowe’s Inferno” a take on Dante’s “Inferno”where he imagines himself painting portraits of the hell’s residents. Or his classic “guide to extraterrestrials” that he did when he was only 21.
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
Oh cool!
@sgriffin9960
5 ай бұрын
Expedition looks fabulous! I’m putting that on my list!
@MerakiDiaries77
5 ай бұрын
🧛🏻♀️ I’m interested of reading Empired of the Vampire someday! Awesome video !
@candicebarbata5028
5 ай бұрын
Definitely picking up Dark Kingdom…I will look into David Weber’s Out of the Dark series! Thanks!✨
@trakiul5556
5 ай бұрын
ok this is a crazy coincidence to me! i just discovered Wayne Barlowe earlier today by seeing some of his artwork and i immediately fell down a rabbit hole and decided i needed to read Expedition asap. now I'm even more excited lol
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
Oh that is a crazy coincidence
@NevsBookChannel
5 ай бұрын
Here’s a unique suggestion. Have you ever read Phantastes? It inspired CS Lewis
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
No I haven't
@Darrkness
5 ай бұрын
I enjoyed Empire of the Damned. Excited for the final book. 🧛
@davidBTAS
5 ай бұрын
Thank you. Read Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes and just started reading S.A.Barnes second book Ghost Station.
@Tom-B4848
5 ай бұрын
XX is a but if an unusual presentation by Ryan Hughes
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
Oh yes I love that one
@khomo12
5 ай бұрын
To challenge heaven...I have not heard of it before, but I am putting it on my tbr📚 together with expedition. Thank you!👍👍👍🤖🚀🐲
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
I hope you enjoy them
@TheMike28212
5 ай бұрын
I want to give Dr. Welker’s books a try. And I am curious about Empire of the Vampire/Damned. 🧛♂️
@EricBowersTrekkie
5 ай бұрын
My recommendation for something really dark is "Pop. 1280" by Jim Thompson. Have you read it or covered it before?
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
No I haven't
@Maeve_Ever_Books
5 ай бұрын
In the Shadow of Spindrift House by Mira Grant is one of those really unique stories to me. It’s a “horror,” urban fantasy mystery.
@Montie-Adkins
5 ай бұрын
My go to recs this year are two novellas: The God Engines by John Scalzi and A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L. Peck.
@charoi9659
5 ай бұрын
If you want to check out even more Chinese Scifi then Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan might be something you'd like. It's on my TBR for ages now but I wasn't in the mood for it yet (only heard that it's a dense read and has some strong horror elements). Besides Liu Cixin, Hao Jinfang and Han Song he's another big name of chinese Scifi.
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
I appreciate the recs!
@SunscourDavis
5 ай бұрын
Waste Tide is so good..
@rocsimmons8535
5 ай бұрын
Thank you 👍🏽
@TheCarlton777
3 ай бұрын
Supreme by C.Gibson release 7/9/24
@MrBoJangles
5 ай бұрын
Barlowe has two novels: God's Demon and The Heart of Hell
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
Ooo I'll have to see if the library has them
@maxturgeon89
5 ай бұрын
Out of the Dark definitely felt like Independence Day with a twist. And if I remember correctly, they even address this similarity in a tongue-in-cheek way within the novel 😅
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
You're right!
@epiphoney
5 ай бұрын
Started Death's End (Three Body Problem #3). Wow, the Netflix show took a lot of the early chapters from the third book, except the first weird historical chapter.
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
Yeah I'm glad I read all the whole trilogy before starting
@BeforetheBeginning-TOC
2 ай бұрын
Just found your channel - looking forward to watching more!!!
@TheShadesofOrange
2 ай бұрын
Yay!
@halko1802
5 ай бұрын
🧛
@WickedGoodBooks
5 ай бұрын
EOTD!!!!!
@ewandropallottini
5 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤
@briantneary2248
5 ай бұрын
God, she's awesome
@ChristinaJenkins36
4 ай бұрын
🧛♀️
@-lisamchuk
5 ай бұрын
🧛🏾♀️
@alejandrodejongh2793
4 ай бұрын
My review of Dark Theory was not very kind to the book, so try to read Dark Kingdom at your own risk: DARK THEORY Worth to read... but barely. The first 60% of the book is painfully slow. It crawls endlessly, and I put the book aside for a while, trying to summon enought curiosity to read on. There are secondary plots that go nowhere: what happened with the alien race living in the Gargantua forest? If nothing comes from there, why to include those in the plot at all? Extra pages? Does Wick Welker fare from paper weight? Plot hole: comms. This seems to be a semifeudal stage. But there is no reference to comm networks, besides those of the Reticula, and short range radios on Deluvius army. But Deluvius seems to know where to be, what is happening everywhere almost instantaneously. [SPOILER ALERT] ]Neutrini helps him, but there is no way to command a huge army without a complex comunication network. Ask XIX century generals if you think you could. What happened, at last, with the Crib? Did Deluvius smash them or not? He said he did, but then the rektor said he didn't (and the rektor travels by magic, by the way. All characters travel painstakingly slow and this guy simply zaps on Orion, makes his speech, and then zaps back to the Crib. Easy). Why the struggle around the Crib, by the way, to go to nowhere? There was enough background info on Arym to avoid any further (and pointless) mention of the Crib. I've read a LOT of Sci-Fi, from lame to hard. But I never stumbled upon a physics so convoluted, so hard to grasp as the one depicted in this book. It is so far fetched, that it doesn't seem plausible in the least. Take the Expanse series, for example. The physics (and meta) there is quite complex, but it feels plausible. Take Foundation series, or Dune, or Rama, those have complex sciences involved, but they feel plausible. Dark Theory's doesn't. It is too hard to get the premises of the theory to begin with, and the reader feels too excluded from the logic behind the plot. At least I was, and physics used to be one of my passtimes. (SPOILER ALERT) At the end, they return to Helian. Fine, but nobody says what they are going to eat or even drink. "famine would sweep the fiefdom, and all surrounding fiefdoms, ... dying from starvation, thirst or the Poisoning". In fact, even when at the beginning of the book, hunger, thirst and the Poisoning are paramount, later on the matter is completely disregarded. Our heroes (and villains alike) live out of thin air, sucking moisture from a corner of a cell, or not drinking at all, without the lack of water being an issue. If you ever trekked, you'll know that drinking water is the most scarce resource. It's no cheap to carry enough to convey your needs, and it is not easily attainable everywhere, not to mention the sun-scorched terrain they ended on. Perhaps in the following books Wick Welker will elaborate what happens with the almost useless Miree's prosthetic arm. Perhaps characters will develop further (let's hope not thru love and candies, please), but I don't foresee a way to grow for Arym, or Meric, or even Hawera. Perhaps they make an alliance with the Crib, who knows. Bottom line: too many pages, too esoteric physics to grasp, too many meaningless secondary plots.
@AntisocialAuntie
5 ай бұрын
🧛🧡
@craigvancil4410
5 ай бұрын
🧛❤
@JasonsWeirdReads
5 ай бұрын
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@Octobig
5 ай бұрын
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@katharynbaker5592
5 ай бұрын
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@zubaerchaudhari8267
5 ай бұрын
Hello there hey there hey Hello hi
@nstents7781
5 ай бұрын
OK, but how can something be more unique? A thing is either unique or it isn't...
@TheShadesofOrange
5 ай бұрын
It was a follow up to a previous video on the topic so these were more recommendations
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