I'm pretty sure none of this is real | Guess the Book 11

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[00:00:00]How well do you know your books? If I simply told you that Anakin Skywalker hates this one, would you know I'm talking about Doom by Frank Herbert?

[00:00:07]>> Or what if I told you that kids love this one? Would you know I'm talking about the Warrior series? Great clue.

[00:00:15]>> And lastly, if I told you that this one is very similar to a popular bestselling parody, just minus the zombies, would you know I'm talking about Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice? Welcome back to Guess the Books, where we give you clues, redacted covers, reviews, excerpts, and the like, and you tried to guess the books before us. I'm here with Noah. Say hi, Noah.

[00:00:35]>> Noah, I am Hello. I am Noah.

[00:00:38]>> And I'm Levi, and we're going to get into uh guessing books.

[00:00:42]>> Yeah, let's do it.

[00:00:47]>> All right, we are guessing the book.

[00:00:48]Five clues. Before we get into it, just to let you guys all know, we have a theme concurrent running through our books. Uh, so all my books are tied together by a specific theme throughout all of the different clues, excerpts, reviews, covers that we give. So keep that in mind as you guess. We'll go into it. Clue number one. Clue number one.

[00:01:06]I'm pretty sure they aren't real.

[00:01:08]>> You're pretty sure what aren't real?

[00:01:12]>> You're they >> you're reading uh you're reading a fictional book and you're like, I don't think any of this happened.

[00:01:19]>> This doesn't seem like >> historical fiction. This doesn't seem like historical fact to me. Lincoln never fought vampires.

[00:01:25]>> Well, that actually that one actually is true.

[00:01:27]>> Okay.

[00:01:28]>> Yeah, >> I guess I guess next clue.

[00:01:30]>> Next clue. Clue number two says there are monsters and insects and a flood.

[00:01:37]Oh, okay. Insects like lo loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc loc locust monsters like Leviathan. The flood like >> like uh I was finding a biblical theme but the flood I'm not sure.

[00:01:49]>> Can't think of one. Yeah.

[00:01:51]>> Okay. Monsters, insects in a flood, but you're pretty sure they aren't real.

[00:01:57]>> Pretty certain.

[00:01:59]>> H Okay. Well, if it's not real, this I feel like you're doing another um the Purple Crown Kid.

[00:02:08]>> Herald and Purple Crown.

[00:02:10]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:10]>> I got to think here.

[00:02:12]>> They aren't real. So this uh maybe it's like a dreams or imagination or like a oh maybe it's like a bridge to terabithia cuz it's you're never sure >> if any of it's real. You know it's kind of like Narnia where they go to another world.

[00:02:29]>> I'm pretty sure that's really sad. I'm pretty sure that's a really sad book.

[00:02:33]>> Is that what your clues might not be real but it's real sad.

[00:02:37]>> Yeah, exactly. Yep.

[00:02:39]>> Clue three. Clue number three in which someone does something.

[00:02:46]That might be a face of him knowing what it is. That might be a face of him going, "Wow, what a dumb clue."

[00:02:50]>> What a I'm in a I'm in a bad clue giving contest for my opponent.

[00:02:55]>> You're stealing the best line I've ever said.

[00:02:58]>> I can't. You said that on a video where I've gotten the most compliments for my clues.

[00:03:02]>> People did like your clues. Yeah. I'm in a uh giving bad clues competition and you're my opponent >> in which someone does something. I'm so glad that should have been your first clue. Then I would have known that would have narrowed it down so much.

[00:03:15]>> Yeah, >> cuz there's so many books in which that doesn't happen.

[00:03:18]>> Right.

[00:03:18]>> Right.

[00:03:19]>> Once you know what it is, that'll make a lot of sense.

[00:03:21]>> So this is probably like the chapter names or something when I think of in which chapters.

[00:03:28]>> I have no knowledge of this beyond these five clues. So Winnie the Pooh has chapter titles like that. A mills. Um but there's no monsters. There's insects. There's the bees. Oh, I guess there's healumps.

[00:03:45]There is a flood. There is a flood in it. That's interesting.

[00:03:51]>> That's interesting.

[00:03:52]>> Could be anything.

[00:03:54]>> Clue number four. Could be used as a simple personality test.

[00:03:58]>> Yeah. Yeah. Cuz Winnie the Pooh has been used in that way.

[00:04:02]>> Eeyore, you know, if you're Eeyore, you're you're down on yourself.

[00:04:06]>> You're a little bit, >> what's the word I'm looking for? Gloomy.

[00:04:10]>> You know, if you're >> if you're tiger, you're high energy. If you're rabbit, you're kind of type A, control freak, >> paranoid a little bit.

[00:04:17]>> Mhm. Yeah.

[00:04:17]>> You don't like people having their butts stuck in your doorway.

[00:04:20]>> Yeah. You love carrots.

[00:04:22]>> Mhm. Clue number five. Published in 1926, this book was inspired by the author's son's toys.

[00:04:29]>> Oh, maybe it's not one of the pill.

[00:04:30]>> Yeah, that one. I thought bit of a few misdirects in the first four clues.

[00:04:34]>> What do you mean you're pretty sure they aren't real?

[00:04:38]>> I'm saying within the context of the of the story.

[00:04:41]>> You don't >> There's a theory that potentially he's like Christopher Robin has some sort of like um wizard power.

[00:04:49]>> I'm guessing Winnie the Poo, by the way.

[00:04:50]I'm willing that it is Winnie the Poo.

[00:04:52]>> Oh, it's actually not Winnie the Pooh.

[00:04:53]Imagine uh it is Winnie the Pooh. Um yay. Okay.

[00:04:58]What's this theory?

[00:04:59]>> The the theory, and it's more of a joke probably, which is why I'm saying I'm pretty sure they aren't real, but the the idea is that he's playing with the stuffed animals. That's what everybody says. All all the games and all the adventures that happened. It's just Chris Robin, his imagination with the stuffed animals. But there's a side theory that he actually like gave sentient life to all these animals. And either A through his connection to them they come alive or B the 100 Acre Wood is like this magical place maybe like a Narnia type world that they can exist within. Um I mean >> I'm pretty sure that they are imagination but >> I'm pretty sure they're real. I saw the documentary with Ian McGregor.

[00:05:37]>> Yeah.

[00:05:37]>> Which was showing what happened to Christopher Robin when he grew up and had a family.

[00:05:41]>> I never seen it.

[00:05:42]>> Yeah. So what's it called? It's based on a true story. Uh, Christopher Robin, I'm pretty sure.

[00:05:48]>> Nice. Yeah, it's inspired.

[00:05:55]>> Clue one, a noble knight versus an unseen enchantress.

[00:06:01]>> An unseen enchantress.

[00:06:04]>> Yes, >> a noble knight. Uh, wow. There's a lot of books with knights.

[00:06:10]Noble knights. I'm going to say my first guess that I'm writing down on my imaginary dry erase board is Grenle's Bane aka Beaolf. Next clue.

[00:06:22]>> I like that.

[00:06:22]>> Yeah. Thank you.

[00:06:24]>> Clue two. The author in this book claims that it's a translation. Coincidentally, the book the version I read was a translation.

[00:06:32]>> I see.

[00:06:33]>> Yeah.

[00:06:33]>> So, he's claiming that it's something maybe that actually happened. He's translating it from a different language like Elvish. Yeah. into his native language which is maybe like Spanish and then that was translated from Spanish into English and that's what you read.

[00:06:46]>> Yeah, >> something like that.

[00:06:47]>> Something like that.

[00:06:48]>> Um, Elvish.

[00:06:52]>> Yeah.

[00:06:52]>> Oh, so you're Okay, I see.

[00:06:54]>> I mean unseen enchantress.

[00:06:59]>> Um, I'm thinking I'm thinking um well, okay, I'm thinking Tre of the Emerald Sea.

[00:07:06]There's like an enchantress witch in the in that book. Um, but there's not really like a noble knight character. Tres is kind of like the driving the plot forward character. Um, I mean, and she's not a knight is what I'm I'm trying what what I'm trying to get at. She's a teacup collector, but and while Brandon Sanderson would claim that he's sort of like translating it from like the world that he's created, um, the cosmir, he wrote that wrote in English. And I don't also think you've read that book. That was a lot of words to say that I don't have a good guess. Clue number three.

[00:07:41]>> Clue number three. The author and his work are referenced in the book.

[00:07:49]>> Wow.

[00:07:50]>> Yeah.

[00:07:52]>> An unseen enchantress >> that I feel like is the biggest driver for this for what's happening here. claims to be a translation.

[00:08:06]Is it Is it like the King Arthur story, but I don't know that that has a specific author?

[00:08:14]I guess I'll just take the fourth clue.

[00:08:16]Feels like a loss.

[00:08:18]>> This epic takes us across central Spain.

[00:08:22]>> That makes me think it's Don Kyote Cervantes.

[00:08:26]But I don't know if there's an unseen chantress because I actually haven't read Don Coyote.

[00:08:32]You're going to admit that on live television.

[00:08:34]>> I might have to be kicked off this channel.

[00:08:36]>> I'll take the clue five.

[00:08:38]>> Clue five. Our hero comes to blow with a building.

[00:08:42]>> Yeah.

[00:08:44]Don Kyote. That's my guess. Those are good clues.

[00:08:49]>> Uh, you are correct. Don Kyote.

[00:08:52]>> Cervantes.

[00:08:53]>> Yes. Bye.

[00:08:54]>> Never read it.

[00:08:55]>> Yeah. in the book in like the first book because it's really a collection of books about Don Kyote.

[00:09:01]>> Okay.

[00:09:02]>> But the first one, volume one, there's a priest character that's one of uh Don Kyot's friends.

[00:09:07]>> Okay.

[00:09:07]>> And they're cleaning out Don Kyot's library because they're thinking if they can get rid of all these books, he'll stop pretending to be Knight. You know, maybe there's something in there.

[00:09:17]>> Uh and and so the priest is going through the books and he finds one by Servantes and he says, "Oh, this is by a friend of mine." And then he said something like it's not he's not actually a very good author though.

[00:09:28]That's funny.

[00:09:34]Three redacted covers beginning with this one.

[00:09:41]H. This makes me think of Little Women because you've got four women there and but they're big. Look at that. They're >> like in in relation to the umbrella.

[00:09:53]>> Yeah. Unless it's a very small umbrella, but also they just take up a lot of real estate on this book.

[00:10:00]Um, also I don't feel like they're H. It's hard. One of them has like a haircut that doesn't feel like that's the style.

[00:10:10]I wish I remembered what they look like in the books. Are they all predents?

[00:10:16]I'm gonna think it's Little Women, but I want the author.

[00:10:21]>> Author is Louisa May Alcott.

[00:10:24]>> I'm gonna go Little Women. That's out on a limb. It is Little Women.

[00:10:29]>> Nice. Okay. Yeah, it's it's hard to know um which of the covers you find are like legit covers or >> fan >> not not even necessarily fan covers, but like oh this is some sort of like weird edition from somewhere that I mean I guess is technically in print and is a real edition. But >> what if you accidentally like pick up the Italian version of a book or something?

[00:10:51]>> Yeah, I mean yeah anyways. Okay, that was number one. Uh number two, >> collectible classics complete and unabbridged.

[00:10:59]>> He knows it instantly. He thinks he knows it instantly.

[00:11:02]>> Um, clearly it's uh Rapunzel.

[00:11:06]No. Um, part of me wants to guess that it's also Little Women. Um, and that what you're doing is is trying to trick me. You're going to have all of these books are going to be Little Women. Um, >> including the first one which was Winnie the Pooh.

[00:11:21]>> Yeah. Collectible classics. Yeah. That one was actually secretly Little Women.

[00:11:25]>> It was behind the picture that I had in the slideshow. It was >> Little Women.

[00:11:29]>> Yeah.

[00:11:31]Can I have the author for this one?

[00:11:34]>> I don't think this will help you, but you can have it. LM Montgomery.

[00:11:40]>> That's the Is that not the Is that not the author of Gone with the Wind?

[00:11:47]>> Uh, no, I don't think so. No, I would say no for sure because >> um this isn't Gone with the Wind and I'm pretty sure she only wrote one book.

[00:11:58]>> She did. So, >> what what's her name? Who am I thinking of?

[00:12:00]>> We'll have the editor throw it up on the screen.

[00:12:03]>> Margaret Mitchell.

[00:12:05]>> Don't know where Montgomery came from.

[00:12:08]>> L Well, we do have two M's there, but L and Montgomery. I feel like I've seen that somewhere.

[00:12:14]>> It's possible.

[00:12:14]>> Okay. But I've I know this book clearly.

[00:12:17]>> It's probably classic.

[00:12:23]>> Yeah. The fact that it says collectible classics, that that definitely helps.

[00:12:26]Complete and unabbridged. Yeah, >> Ellen Montgomery. I feel like I should know that name.

[00:12:31]>> I think basically every other cover that I found of this would like instantly give it away based on the girl on the cover. So like this is one of the most abstract versions of this of her.

[00:12:47]So, um, that makes me think it's Anna Karinina because that's she's one of the most recognizable I don't know, female literary female characters.

[00:12:59]Other literary female characters. Maybe it's been made into a movie a lot.

[00:13:04]>> Um, I don't know about a lot. Maybe it has, but it definitely has been.

[00:13:14]All the other ones would be just too recognizable.

[00:13:18]>> Yeah.

[00:13:22]>> Is it a female's name? Can I ask that?

[00:13:24]>> It is.

[00:13:25]>> It is a female's name.

[00:13:26]>> Yep.

[00:13:26]>> Okay. Let's go through the list here.

[00:13:28]We've got Emma, Jane Ear, uh, Anna Corinina. Um, we got three. You three of six. You have three left.

[00:13:39]There's only three more books that are that are named >> titled after a woman's name.

[00:13:43]>> That would be great. Olivia the Pig.

[00:13:46]>> Okay. Two left.

[00:13:47]>> That would give it that would be too obvious. This is more abstract because she's not a pig.

[00:13:50]>> Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they they uh anthropomorphized >> the pig.

[00:13:57]>> Need a poo.

[00:13:58]>> It sounds Christian woman. I'm trying to think if I can figure out your clue this this early on.

[00:14:03]>> Oh, the theme.

[00:14:04]>> The theme. Yeah.

[00:14:05]>> I don't think you can. I I don't think I've given enough hints at it.

[00:14:10]Dang it. I know I'm going to hate it when you reveal it, but go ahead.

[00:14:13]>> I don't think you'll be that mad.

[00:14:16]>> Oh, wow.

[00:14:19]I was so close.

[00:14:20]>> You are.

[00:14:22]>> That's not She's a red head. Is that supposed to be >> That's like reddish hair. That's red red headish hair. It's more like strawberry blonde, maybe. I but when I what what I said was all the other covers like it's literally her with like the like the straw hat, two red braids.

[00:14:37]>> Ellen Montgomery obviously and of Green Gables. I knew I recognized that name.

[00:14:42]>> Yeah, >> that's unfortunate. And do you know what's sad? I've read this. I've read it before.

[00:14:47]>> Yeah. But you probably haven't read this cover.

[00:14:50]>> No.

[00:14:51]>> Yeah.

[00:14:51]>> But cover number three.

[00:14:55]Okay. You have a lot big ocean theme.

[00:14:59]The Odyssey, The Old Man and the Sea, Moby Dick. Um, so we've got Ann of Green Gables.

[00:15:10]It's just wild to me that you're thinking of the theme as you're going through because I never think of the theme until the very end and then I see all the books and then I go, "Oh, this might be it."

[00:15:20]>> I think you think that the theme will help you guess what the book is.

[00:15:23]>> Right. Right. It's interesting. So far, I think it's books that kids read. You know, it's like first novels. You might read Winnie the Poo first. You might read Little Women or Ann of Green Gables first.

[00:15:39]>> Yeah.

[00:15:40]>> Which would mean that none of the books I've guessed here would make any sense.

[00:15:44]Um, all right. Give me the author.

[00:15:49]>> I'm going to guess The Odyssey.

[00:15:52]>> That is a great guess. Odyssey by Homer.

[00:15:54]>> I was right on. That was the first one I said, wasn't it?

[00:15:56]>> It was. Yeah. Yeah. Water. This is another one where most of the covers uh would also give it away pretty simply.

[00:16:02]It has the Voyage of the Dawn Treader problem where the certain kind of ship >> Voyage of the Dawn Treader. That would have been another good one.

[00:16:10]>> Yeah.

[00:16:10]>> A certain type of >> a certain type of ship on the cover.

[00:16:13]>> You just kind of know what it is. So, those are my three covers.

[00:16:21]>> All right. Cover number one for you.

[00:16:25]Yeah, that's Napoleon.

[00:16:28]But that looks like a teepee.

[00:16:30]>> Yeah. So maybe it says conquest of >> Napoleon and Wyoming.

[00:16:34]>> Yeah.

[00:16:35]>> Yeah, that'd be a great book.

[00:16:37]>> Um, >> alternative history.

[00:16:39]>> This could be Dance with Wolves, but I don't know that the cover really looks like that. Um, it's a guy on a horse.

[00:16:46]There's like a wagon in the background, but that I'm probably I feel like I feel like I should know.

[00:16:58]Is it Is it like Lonesome Dove or one of those?

[00:17:03]>> What's your guess? Is that I'll take the author? I don't think I have anything you need. Oh, yeah. It's Lonesome Dove.

[00:17:10]>> Larry McMerry.

[00:17:13]>> It's so funny. Either the author is a dead giveaway.

[00:17:16]>> Yeah.

[00:17:17]>> Or it doesn't help us. Yeah.

[00:17:19]>> In the case with Ellen Montgomery, if I had remembered who she was, it would have been a dead giveaway.

[00:17:23]>> Yeah.

[00:17:24]>> Um, but because I didn't, it was no help at all. So, >> yes. Lonesome Dove.

[00:17:30]>> Yeah.

[00:17:32]>> Is correct.

[00:17:32]>> I need to read it.

[00:17:35]>> You haven't read it? Says a man who hasn't read it.

[00:17:37]>> Yeah.

[00:17:39]>> Uh, yeah. I um I have it. And I think I have the second book as well.

[00:17:43]>> I almost did this one for reviews.

[00:17:46]>> Yeah. Yeah, all the reviews mention like they literally say cuz I was looking at the bad reviews and all the good ones and no matter which one it's always like people say this is the best western book.

[00:17:59]>> Yeah.

[00:18:00]>> Um and I was like that's just a dead giveaway cuz that's literally what everybody says.

[00:18:03]>> Yeah. So if you see that in a review, you're like, is this talking about most >> I bet the people who were who gave five star reviews were saying this is the best western people say that this is the best western book and it is. And then the five star review the the one stars were saying people say this is the best western book and it's not even it's not even a good book at all.

[00:18:19]>> They say it's terrible and it makes me not want to read western. This is the best. Yeah, >> some of them.

[00:18:23]>> Yeah.

[00:18:24]>> All right, moving on to the next cover.

[00:18:26]>> There's people who say that it's one of the best books of all time like up there with Christophen.

[00:18:32]>> Yeah, I need to read it.

[00:18:36]Ah, I do know this. This is I think this is the sorcerer's apprentice.

[00:18:47]>> That's your final guess?

[00:18:49]>> The the Griffin thing makes me think of that. This the city. Uh I I don't know. Riding the Pegasus, that is a little bit suspicious. Um, but I I think there's some sort of like maybe they read Griffins. I don't know.

[00:19:04]Um, I guess I'll take the author softelling Sorcerers Apprentice.

[00:19:10]Oh, yeah. It's not Ricky Jordan.

[00:19:12]>> Mhm.

[00:19:16]>> So, this is Is this just the first Percy Jackson book? It's one of the Percy Jackson books.

[00:19:21]>> I've only read the first one.

[00:19:23]>> Might be one of the Percy Jackson books.

[00:19:25]There's a lot of Rick Roordan books.

[00:19:29]Uh, Projection, Lightning Thief, Sea of Monsters.

[00:19:36]I don't know. I literally don't know any other ones. So, I'm just going to give up on this one cuz I now that I know who it is, there's no good there's no good guess outside of just saying random words.

[00:19:45]>> Wow.

[00:19:45]>> So, >> I'm shocked you don't know the other titles of the Percy Jackson books >> that you never read.

[00:19:50]>> Yeah, >> that's wild.

[00:19:51]>> That is crazy.

[00:19:52]>> Um, I did read them, so I would have known right away.

[00:19:54]>> Hero of the Ages or something. The Titans Curse.

[00:19:57]>> Is that book three?

[00:19:58]>> That is book three. Yes.

[00:20:00]>> Okay.

[00:20:01]>> Yes. Three. It's a good cover. Pretty sure.

[00:20:06]>> Final book.

[00:20:08]>> Yeah.

[00:20:11]It's a girl on a white horse. It's kind of like a dappled gray. Um there's a moon, golden hair.

[00:20:23]Boy. Oh boy.

[00:20:26]All I'm thinking of was like Black Beauty. Um or >> Oh, yeah. That would work for a white horse. That makes sense.

[00:20:31]>> Yeah.

[00:20:31]>> Yeah.

[00:20:32]>> Maybe they like, you know, color flipped it or something.

[00:20:36]>> Black Black Beauty. Color Swipe.

[00:20:39]>> Yeah.

[00:20:40]>> Yeah.

[00:20:42]>> Oh man, I'm so I'm so dumb. Oh, wait.

[00:20:45]Let me try to think of your theme. What was your first book?

[00:20:50]>> Don Kyote.

[00:20:52]>> Don Kyote.

[00:20:54]and Titan's Curse and Lonesome Dove. Don Kyote, Titans Curse, Lonesome Dove.

[00:21:03]Wow.

[00:21:06]All based on Greek myths.

[00:21:11]>> All take place in Spain. All originally written in Spanish.

[00:21:14]>> That's I know that one's true, but I don't know that's true for this one. I guess I'll take the author.

[00:21:22]Okay. CS Lewis.

[00:21:25]Then it has to be the horse and his boy, I guess.

[00:21:29]>> But you said that was a girl.

[00:21:30]>> I I mean it looks like a girl.

[00:21:34]>> Uh horse and the boy.

[00:21:35]>> Horse and boy. Yeah, >> that's your final.

[00:21:38]>> Okay. Well, I might give that to you, but technically it is iloas.

[00:21:46]>> I have no idea. It's uh the Italian the horse and his boy.

[00:21:49]>> Oh, Italian.

[00:21:50]>> Mhm. the Italian translation of the horse and his boy.

[00:21:55]>> Okay. Wow. That I don't know if that um aligns with the theme.

[00:22:03]I think you misplaced knowing what the theme is. No, I have no idea what the theme is.

[00:22:10]>> Uh nice. Okay. I like that cover.

[00:22:13]>> Yeah. Well, you got it. You did a good job. She knew the author.

[00:22:17]>> Yeah.

[00:22:22]Excerpt number one. The land was bordered on the left by wild, low growing brambles, on the right by a high, neatly manicured hedge. The men's cloaks The men's long cloaks flapped around their ankles as they marched.

[00:22:37]>> I feel like I read this recently.

[00:22:42]It's possible.

[00:22:45]It is a book you can read.

[00:22:48]So, so far we got a couple of the ingredients needed.

[00:22:53]>> Well, I'll say this. I'm thinking of things like, you know, Eye of the World.

[00:22:58]I haven't read it, but they're marching in that one. Um, the cloaks flapped around their ankles as they marched.

[00:23:04]That suggests maybe they're wearing, you know, longer cloaks. Um, so it kind of gives that adventure kind of Lord of the Rings fellowship wearing cloaks sort of thing.

[00:23:17]>> Yeah.

[00:23:18]>> Also could be um Alice in Wonderland because of the neatly manicured hedges. Go ahead. Next >> excerpt number two. You come back after weeks weeks and you think it's all going to be all right if you just say sorry.

[00:23:33]>> What have you cooked up this time? I I think I'll say that if the people who know the second clue, they'll know from.

[00:23:42]>> Okay. So, >> people like people like me, >> but if they they guessed on the first one, they know from the second clue for sure.

[00:23:50]>> I don't know. The first one maybe doesn't help. It's just kind of setting the tone a little bit. Second clue for like the real people who really know.

[00:23:58]They'll they'll get it.

[00:23:59]>> Weeks. Weeks. So, somebody leaves for weeks. Don Kyotic leaves for weeks and then comes back and it's his family's upset.

[00:24:08]>> Wouldn't be the first time that we've used the same book in the same video.

[00:24:11]>> True. Give me the next one.

[00:24:13]>> Excerpt number three.

[00:24:16]If it is not love that will save you this time, said blank. You must believe that you have magic that I do not or else a weapon weapon more powerful than mine.

[00:24:25]I wonder if it's like a Harry Potter cuz the robes the cloaks could be something like that. It's talking about magic here. I could see love saved Harry last time. Oh, Ron says Ron comes back after weeks and says sorry. So that could be Hermione. I'm going to go with Deathly Hollows.

[00:24:47]>> Final guess.

[00:24:47]>> Final guess. Deathly Hollows.

[00:24:50]>> Yeah, true. Great cover.

[00:24:53]>> Oh, I get it. Your theme is seventh books in a series.

[00:24:58]You didn't know it, but Ann of Green Gables is actually the seventh book.

[00:25:01]>> Well, yeah. And canonically, even though it was the first book published, Winnie the Pooh is the seventh book. Yeah. So, I guess I'm giving it away right away.

[00:25:09]There you go. I I think if you are a big Potterhead, uh that second one because I think that's such a pivotal scene in the story where Ron >> Right. Right. Right.

[00:25:19]>> Hermione, Ron, Harry, they're all yelling at each other.

[00:25:20]>> What's that first scene from?

[00:25:22]>> That's the first page of the book. Snape and um one of the other death eaters um show up to a meeting with Voldemort >> and I think I think when it says the men's um the men's long cloak slapped around their I think it's literally just two guys they're talking about.

[00:25:36]>> So a little bit of a distraction clue to make you think like it was an army or something or a group but you got it either way.

[00:25:46]>> It was good.

[00:25:52]All right, here's your first excerpt.

[00:25:54]>> All right, I'm ready.

[00:25:56]>> It was nice, though. When we got out of the dining room, there were about 3 in of snow on the ground, and it was still coming down like a madman. It looked pretty as heck, and we all started throwing snowballs and horsing around all over the place.

[00:26:11]>> It's uh the the the way it's written is very interesting.

[00:26:16]Yeah, this is definitely a random passage. I did make sure that it included one phrase that I thought might help.

[00:26:23]>> Um, >> I'm going to guess it is catcher in the rye, >> but I'll take the next clue.

[00:26:31]>> Excerpt number two.

[00:26:33]>> In the first place, I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do. Some of the good ones do in a a very slight way, but not in a way that's fun to watch. And if any actor is really good, you can always tell he knows he's good and that spoils it. You take Sir Lawrence Olivier for example. I saw him in Hamlet. I think I'm still going to stick with Catcher in the Ride. I think the the things that give it away I think I think he'd say something like horsing around the the term pretty as hell feels feels kind of like in that contrary sort of like negative language for something positive that I think um Holden Cfield would use. Now, I maybe I'm way off. Um, but then this the second excerpt, you know, I hate actors. It's just such a definitive statement that just is it's so broad. I'm going to still stick with Catcher in the Eye.

[00:27:24]>> All right, last excerpt. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me and all that David Copperfield kind of crap. Isn't that the beginning of um Catcher in the Ry? Am I wildly off base?

[00:27:44]>> Wildly. You are wildly off base. No, you are correct. Catcher in the Ry.

[00:27:49]>> Nice. I like that. That's I think that's honestly a testament to his writing even though I didn't like the book. I read the book when I was early 20s maybe. Uh, so maybe I was beyond the age when you should read it to get like the most um or or for it to relate to you the most, you know, I suppose.

[00:28:08]>> Um, and uh and I just was maybe beyond that era of like everything is terrible, I hate life, yada yada, >> but his writing is does stand out, I think.

[00:28:20]>> Yeah.

[00:28:20]>> And and I think that was just a proof of this like every excerpt and probably any almost any excerpt you could pull from the book would read in a similar way.

[00:28:27]>> Yeah. I had one for the beginning, but then it felt too innocuous and I thought, "Oh, let me try to find one that has horse and a wrath." Cuz he says that a lot throughout the book.

[00:28:34]>> That's that was really Yeah.

[00:28:36]>> And uh >> it was such a key.

[00:28:37]>> And so then I I was looking and this was the only one I found that really felt like it was maybe innocuous enough.

[00:28:44]>> Yeah. You still got it right off that.

[00:28:46]>> Yeah.

[00:28:46]>> Um and then I included the actor one because I just thought that was a valid point.

[00:28:50]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:28:52]Uh yeah, that's good stuff.

[00:28:54]>> Very nice. Moving on to reviews.

[00:29:01]Okay, these are reviews from Goodreads.

[00:29:04]I have three that are redacted on stars and any pertinent pertinent information uh for all the same book. So, we'll start with the first one. This is from Cameron. Cameron says, "A truly fascinating vision of the fading of the American consciousness."

[00:29:18]>> I like this, Cameron. I like how succinct you are.

[00:29:21]>> Yeah, >> since I know you're watching.

[00:29:22]>> Yeah.

[00:29:24]Um, American Consciousness.

[00:29:31]I have never read American Gods, but I wonder if >> Neil Gaiman >> I if I might be thinking of something completely different, but I thought there was something in that book about how like the gods because there's like actually it's like it is a mythical book or something. There are actual gods. are actual beings that are gods of America or something like that and they draw their power from American consciousness or something akin to that. Yeah.

[00:30:03]>> And so that their power is fading that means American consciousness is fading or something like that. I might be thinking of something completely different because I'm not sure if that was related to the gods and American gods or if something else maybe I'm thinking of Percy Jackson is kind of like that with its gods.

[00:30:22]So if if American consciousness or the fading of American consciousness is supposed to be a good enough clue that I could draw out the book from that, then it makes me think it's something like American Gods could also be um let's see what's a what's a book really focused on America. I feel like you have always you always have these great American novels. East of Eden.

[00:30:47]>> Yeah.

[00:30:48]>> Grapes of Wrath. Mhm.

[00:30:50]>> Anything else by John Steinbeck?

[00:30:52]>> Yeah.

[00:30:53]>> Um in S California.

[00:30:55]>> Uh Tequila Mockingbird. This could just be a collection of um Okconor short stories.

[00:31:02]>> Uh I feel like she does a great job of >> Flannry Okconor.

[00:31:05]>> Yeah.

[00:31:06]>> Oh, did I say Okconor?

[00:31:08]>> Yeah.

[00:31:08]>> Yeah. You mix the names together. Yeah.

[00:31:09]That's >> that's how you really reference authors.

[00:31:13]>> That's right.

[00:31:14]>> So, uh Giant Beck Book.

[00:31:18]>> I like that. or a heartbeat.

[00:31:22]>> Yeah.

[00:31:22]>> Yeah. Um, next. Oh, and I'm gonna guess that it's uh four stars.

[00:31:27]>> Five.

[00:31:28]>> Five.

[00:31:29]>> Cameron, >> if you like it that much, you got to say a little bit more.

[00:31:32]>> Uh, next review. Natasha says, "I hate this book. It has horrible cadence, makes no sense, and my daughter loves it." Arg.

[00:31:42]>> So, we've got a little bit of irony there. 2011. So, >> okay, Natasha, if you have a daughter, you're she must be in your picture here because that you otherwise you're too young.

[00:31:57]>> I don't even mean that as a compliment.

[00:31:58]It's just a fact.

[00:31:59]>> This is in 2011, so you know.

[00:32:02]>> Yeah, but her daughter's read this book.

[00:32:04]So, if it's not a child's book, >> Yeah.

[00:32:06]>> or a children's book, which it could be, it could be a children's book. Is it like Charlie the Choo Choo?

[00:32:16]>> Stephen King.

[00:32:17]>> Yeah. Or something like that.

[00:32:18]>> Barl Evans to be specific.

[00:32:20]>> Right.

[00:32:22]>> Well, I'm going to guess this is one star.

[00:32:26]>> That is correct.

[00:32:27]>> Nice. Dialed in.

[00:32:28]>> Give me that third.

[00:32:30]>> Third one says, "This is from Karen."

[00:32:32]Karen says, "Talk to my close friend Neil Degrasse Tyson and he was not happy with this book. Apparently, the moon does not sleep or care if you live or die. I would give this read one star, but Neil said that due to the physical laws of the universe, I can neither give nor receive stars.

[00:32:48]24 2024. Is this is this Good Night Moon? In which case, the first the first review is really reading into it.

[00:32:58]Cameron, I take back what I said about your review. It is succinct, but it's bad. Actually, it's pretty funny. Um, I'm going to guess this is Good Night Moon.

[00:33:10]>> Star review on this one. Do you care?

[00:33:12]>> Uh, one.

[00:33:14]>> One star review. Correct. Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown.

[00:33:19]You've been children's booked once once again.

[00:33:22]>> How does it feel?

[00:33:24]>> Well, it makes sense now that uh that what was Natasha?

[00:33:30]>> Yeah.

[00:33:30]>> That you're you hated this book.

[00:33:32]>> Her daughter loved it. cuz you're probably your daughter makes you read it every single night or did back in 2011.

[00:33:37]Now it's 2026 and and you miss that. You miss when she would crawl onto your lap and beg you to read Good Night Moon to her before she went to bed.

[00:33:46]>> Do you regret this review? Her daughter could be in college now.

[00:33:49]>> You know, >> 15 years later, >> if she was three, >> 15 years later, she she could be in college.

[00:33:54]>> Your daughter is off to college >> and you're praying, man. I really wish >> you you just >> I had time again to read Good Night Moon to my daughter >> when when she left back in September.

[00:34:05]>> Yeah.

[00:34:06]>> You just you found yourself on the couch. You didn't want to watch TV. You looked over at the bookshelf and there it was >> and it's torn. It's got like uh bent pages and all this stuff in it. You couldn't help. You picked it up. Yeah.

[00:34:20]>> And you leaf through it and suddenly that that annoying horrible cadence >> wasn't there. was replaced by a beautiful memory that that played more smoothly, more rhythmically.

[00:34:36]>> Yeah.

[00:34:36]>> Than the most beautiful song, the most elegant poem.

[00:34:41]>> It's touching.

[00:34:45]Delete this.

[00:34:52]All right. I've got one review here by William. And William says, "I was assigned to read this book in my eighth grade English class. It is safe to say I have never had the pure unadulterated loathing I have for this book for any other piece of media." Wow.

[00:35:07]>> The plot is so benal it reads like a toothpaste commercial. And it is drier and duller than old cheese. The main character, Joey, is a blank, a talking blank. I'm an animal lover, and I have never cheered for an animal's death until I read this book. Joey is such a dull, whiny, unnecessary perspective to tell this book from. At about one quarter in, I openly wish for Joey to die on the battlefield. The one saving grace of the book is that it is about World War I, an interesting topic.

[00:35:38]However, all interest is immediately squandered by the fact that the narrator is a talking blank.

[00:35:44]>> Overall, this book should be treated as an example to all authors intending to write stories about talking animals. a bad example.

[00:35:53]>> Thank you, William.

[00:35:54]>> I think I know what it is >> right off the bat.

[00:35:57]>> Yeah, I I think I'm going to guess that it's a onestar review. Better not be anything else.

[00:36:05]>> It is a one-star review.

[00:36:07]>> Um I I am thinking of this based on the movie I think that was made off of this that I didn't see, but I think my parents saw it. Um and I think they I don't remember if they liked it or not.

[00:36:17]2018. That's probably about the time that the movie came out, maybe. Um, and so I was assigned to read this book in my eighth grade English class, which makes me think, oh, I'm writing a review in 2018, unless that's the Oh, that's not that's not the picture of himself. That's the picture of Rudy Giuliani, I'm pretty sure. Um, former mayor of New York. Is that true?

[00:36:40]>> Yeah. And this is his uh burner account.

[00:36:41]>> This is his burner account. Yeah.

[00:36:42]William Basin.

[00:36:43]>> Yeah. He's just really very bad at making a uh >> Yeah, he saw the movie. The movie came out and it reminded him of the book that he read in eighth grade.

[00:36:49]>> I like the idea that politicians make burner cuts, but they still put their face on it cuz they're so used to doing that.

[00:36:55]>> Well, they have so much ego, too. It's like, I'm not going to let somebody else's face, you know, a different name.

[00:36:59]That's fine. Yeah. I'm going to say Warhorse. I think that's what it's called. It's It's something like that.

[00:37:03]>> Warhorse by Michael Morpico. Morpo.

[00:37:06]>> Very nice.

[00:37:07]>> Michael Moro.

[00:37:08]>> Moruro.

[00:37:10]Sorry, Michael Morpico. I can't pronounce your last name. Yeah, it's hard.

[00:37:15]>> More go.

[00:37:22]>> All right, so my books are Don Kyote by Cvantes, Lonesome Dove by McMurdy, The Titan's Curse by Jordan, The Horse and His Boy by Lewis, Warhorse by and Catcher in the Ride by Salinger. Uh, I think it all has something to do with horses. And maybe it's even further than that. is horses on the cover. Uh because or maybe it's not even horses, maybe it's equin because uh the cover of the Titan's curse has a equis on it which is not a horse but it is a Pegasus or it is the Pegasus rather. Um so per per chance it is a ecoinbased you know either the cover or just relating to uh character in the book.

[00:38:09]Yeah, it's horselike creatures on cover.

[00:38:12]>> That's my theme.

[00:38:13]>> That's right.

[00:38:13]>> I like that. Very nice. Uh, my books are Winnie the Pooh by Milm, uh, Little Wind by Alcott, Ann of Green Gables by Montgomery, The Odyssey by Homer, Goodn Night Moon by Brown, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by Rowling.

[00:38:35]What is the what is the common thread?

[00:38:39]>> Yeah. Um, this was super clever of you and it feels like there's probably there's something deep like I should be looking into the fact that, you know, you have children maybe playing or being depicted playing or having toys um going on. And then maybe I I think, oh, the Odyssey, you know, you have Tyicus. Maybe there's something about his toys that I forgot about.

[00:39:05]>> But no, >> you're just doing a little green glass door here. And it's all >> It's possible. It's possible. It's possible.

[00:39:12]>> I'm guessing that each of these titles has at least one word with double letters. So you got Winnie the Pooh.

[00:39:20]Winnie, two N's. Poo, two O's. Little Women, two T's and Little. Ann of Green Gables. Ann has two N's. Green has two E's. Good Night Moon, two O's in both.

[00:39:31]The Odyssey has two S's right next to each other. Harry Potter could have been any of them, but you chose hollows because it has two L's.

[00:39:39]>> Am I correct?

[00:39:40]>> You are correct. Nested double letters.

[00:39:42]So, I didn't want them to be double letters on the end of a word, such as Red Wall.

[00:39:46]>> I wanted to be on the inside of a word, such as Good Night, Moon.

[00:39:50]>> Very good. Very cool.

[00:39:52]>> Have you read all these books?

[00:39:54]>> Uh, I have. Uh, no.

[00:39:56]>> You haven't read Anna Spring Gables, >> correct? or Winnie the Pooh or Good Night Moon or Harry Potter and Deathly Hollows or The Odyssey.

[00:40:04]>> See, but I'm a big Little Women fan.

[00:40:07]>> Right.

[00:40:07]>> I call Little Little Women.

[00:40:09]>> Little Women.

[00:40:10]>> Yeah.

[00:40:10]>> Yeah.

[00:40:10]>> It's in a bridge version.

[00:40:13]>> I read most of these books. Yeah. Except for Warhorse and Lonesome Dove. So, >> those are also the three that I haven't read either. And then the other one that I haven't read is Don Coyote. And the only one that I have read is Little Women.

[00:40:31]>> All right. Um, >> great. Thanks for watching.

[00:40:36]>> We hope you enjoyed.

[00:40:37]>> How many did you guys get?

[00:40:38]>> Let us know in the comments below.

[00:40:40]>> We try to reply, but a lot of times we miss a lot of comments, but comment anyways cuz it's fun for you guys. I don't know if you know but we are actively running out of books that we have read or that the other person has read or that the other person knows even which are books that you would know you know we want we don't want to be pulling books out of the >> you know out of obscurity right we're we're referencing Star Wars books and you're not a Star Wars fans there's no chance you're going to get these but all of these right you've probably heard of they're in the mainstream or were at one point. If you've read books, if you've been to a bookstore, you have a chance of knowing these books.

[00:41:20]>> Yeah.

[00:41:22]>> We're running out of those.

[00:41:24]>> Yeah. So, we're going to either have to change games or start really getting good at acting like we've never heard these books before >> or just start doing books that we have no idea what what kind of what books they are.

[00:41:35]>> Yeah.

[00:41:35]>> Which we're doing. We've already kind of done a little bit.

[00:41:37]>> If we uh if we read a um Sparks Notes summary of a book each day, >> Yeah. We can probably get double the amount of books we've read.

[00:41:47]>> I like that.

[00:41:48]>> By the end of the month.

[00:41:49]>> Yeah. If you're if you're going off if if reading is only how you would read in college, we could read a ton of books.

[00:41:56]>> Okay. So, if that doesn't count, then I do have to take off catching the ride.

[00:41:59]So, >> very nice.

[00:42:02]>> Which is a barely a 100 word or 100 page book.

[00:42:06]>> Yeah. It's very short. It's a very quick >> an embarrassing one to Spark Note.

[00:42:09]>> Yeah. Spark Note is longer than the book itself. Yeah. Heat.

[00:42:29]Heat.