Hello everybody welcome back to my
channel my name is Boston today we are
talking about all of the books that I
really really love but nobody really
cares about. So I got this idea a while
back actually when I first started my
channel I can't remember if I filmed the
video or not I think I did but it was
like one of my first videos and probably
wasn't very good but I did get this
inspiration from Ariel Bisset but
let's just start off with the nonfiction
books. A couple of these are fairly
popular but I don't think they're talked
about a lot on booktube and I just feel
like they're topics that nobody really cares
about except for me. The first
one is So You've Been Publicly Shamed by
Jon Ronson this I read a couple years
ago and it ended up quickly becoming one
of my favorites it talks about several
different instances where cancel
culture has affected people online and
it talks about the lasting effects on
those people and the not so lasting
effects on the Internet.
I haven't read it recently though so it
may not have aged well be forewarned
about that. 2015 this was published in
2015 so it is not dated but it's five
years old so it may not be as relevant
as it could be obviously but I really
like this one I think it's really
interesting to take a look at cancel
culture like this and the lasting
effects and it was really
interesting to me so yeah I really, I
like this one.
Next up is a really just weird weird-ass
book that I love and I'll explain it a
little bit more but that is the China
Study this is by T Colin Campbell and
Thomas M Campell. This is a study, this is
a big, big study it is about 400 pages long
talking about the effects of our diet
and meat and dairy and how that can lead
to cancer in the future and how China
one of the you know places they don't
really- I don't want to say they don't
eat a lot of meat but they have a lot
of like other food in their diet as
compared to Americans we eat
exponentially more meat than China and
it talked about the correlations between
the amount of cancer in China and the
amount of cancer in America and
different countries it was really
interesting I have annotated this to
hell him back and it was
really, really fascinating and it's
really fascinating to think about how
our diet could be linked to some of the
worst diseases in the world and how we
can possibly turn that off the like the
flick of a switch and it's
really fascinating
it is quite dense though, it's a
study, it's a scientific study it was
hard to get through but I've loved every
moment of it. I'm just weird like that
and I accept it. I'm into that stuff. I
don't know I was curious. I read
that back when I was vegan, too. I'm no
longer vegan I am a vegetarian now
but I still think it's pretty relevant
and I think it's one of the most
commonly read nutrition studies but
I think it's just weird that like I
don't know I'm into that stuff.
Whatever but next up I have a book I
read recently and I got it from Book of
the Month and this is The Stranger in
the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the
Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel this
was so good. I went into this with
nothing but curiosity this is about a
man who lived in the woods, practically
unknown, completely off the grid for
27 years. 27 years. And the only human
contact he had in that 27 years was he
passed one hiker in the woods and they
both said hi to each other that is it
that is the only human contact he had in
27 years and he lived at this campsite
that he had made in Maine-
was it Maine or was it Vermont? I think
it was... yes it it was in Maine- so it can
get cold there and he lived in below
freezing temperatures in the winter and
you know you hear this story and you
think that's impossible
but this man did it and he did the
unthinkable and he lived off of this
campsite that was nearby and the people
that would stay there would leave canned
goods behind and he would rob the houses
and he was known as the... I think they
just called him The Hermit but that is
eventually how he was found he was
arrested for thousands of burglaries
over the 27 years and then he tells his
story. I just love this I don't know
what really about it but everybody has
those days where you just kind of want
to just wander off and live in the
forest have no human contact for the
rest of your days and just kind of hang
out and that's what this man did he's
living all of our dreams and you know
some people may do that and think,
yeah but would I really want to, like they
say you know I just want to go live in
the woods, but you know some people,
like I really do be wanting to go live
in the woods and just not talk to
anybody ever again and just bring
a Kindle. As long as I've got Wi-Fi
there
I'm good I got on my Kindle I can read
whatever I want
that's how I want to spend the rest of
my days truly and I wish I could be this
man but alas I cannot. This was just
really interesting it's really short as
well so this is about 170 pages I highly
recommend it you can get it for 10, if
you already have a book of the month
subscription it would be 15, or 10 to
add it on? I can't remember. But it'd be
10 or 15 dollars if you know you want to
get it. Or you can get it from Amazon
I don't know how much it is but it was really
interesting and yeah I don't know I just
have like a weird curiosity about that
stuff like I don't know, I don't know how
to explain it but...
And finally for nonfiction we have
probably the weirdest fucking book I own
and that is Dead Mountain: The Untold
True Story of the Dyatlov Pass
Incident. This I saw on Booksandlala's
channel, I think. I saw I think last
year her best books of the year or
whatever had this in the thumbnail and
I never watched it so maybe you have
heard about this if you watch
her channel. This is a curiosity and a
fascination that I have had since the
age of like 13. When I was like 13 I
watched on Netflix, Devil's Pass I'm not
sure if it's still there because again
this was seven years ago. I was horrified
by it. I was scared out of my mind
it's a mockumentary it's not real it's
kind of a theory, an interesting theory,
but more of just a horror movie and I
loved it for whatever reason it scared
the shit out of me but it was so
fascinating and the Dyatlov pass is a
mountain pass in Russia. The hikers that
went there, there were nine hikers and
these were all experienced hikers they
knew what they were doing they all were
found mysteriously after
days of searching, they were not all
found in the same spot, some were found
in a ravine, some were found just in the
snow in the pass, and they were all
practically unclothed. They were wearing
no jackets, no snow pants, they
weren't wearing shoes at all, they
weren't wearing hats, and this was in
like negative 40 degree weather and they
knew that. They knew that they should be,
if they were leaving their tents that
they should be wearing shoes at least. So
they were wearing next to no clothing
and some of their heads were smashed in
tongues were missing and this was a huge
thing in Russia at the time there were
government conspiracies that
the government murdered them and it was
a cover-up of some sort, there were
theories of monsters and cryptids living
in the pass or in the mountains and that
was probably my theory at the time just
because I love cryptids and it's just so
fascinating and I truly believe in
some of them and I think my my best
theory was a cryptid of some sort and I
found this book I was searching
specifically for a book on Dyatlov's Pass
and I found this and I read it. It was
great that's all I'll say about it. So I
know I've gone on a long time about this
but this is one thing in my life that I
have become so fixated on and just
haven't stopped thinking about for years
this is like my weird thing, like I
just I'm so fascinated by the story by
how these people died and why they would
go out and negative 40 degree weather
with no clothes on and how they got into
this ravine and how their skulls were
smashed and their tongues were missing
and all of these different weird things
and yeah just read the book it's good. If
you're interested in it, which how could
you not be after all that, read the book
cuz it's good. Next up we're gonna go
into three thrillers
that I have and the first one is
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen
King. I know what you're thinking
Boston, why is there a Stephen King book in
here? Everybody knows who Stephen
King is. Stephen King is relevant,
Stephen King is popular. And I would say
to that... have you ever heard of this book?Probably not. Probably not, but this is
one of my favorite Stephen King books I
have a very dear connection to it
because this is one of the first ones
that I read and it was also like the
first book that I read that had my name
in it because Tom Gordon is a Red Sox
player and this girl in the story gets
lost in the woods and all she has is her
Walkman and she just listens to Red Sox
games cuz her favorite player is Tom
Gordon.
And when I was that young reading a
Stephen King book and I saw my name in
it I was like hell yeah I love this book
that's my name, that's me. And I just have
loved this book ever since, it's really
one of Stephen King's most underrated
books cuz I never hear it talked about
it's never talked about but it is so
phenomenal it's super short if you want
to check it out but it is about a girl
who gets lost in the woods and weird
things happen, we'll leave it at that.
Next up I have After the Fire by Will
Hill. This is kind of... this is probably,
I would consider it a historical fiction
book that more or less follows the... I can't
remember the name of it but that
compound in Waco Texas with the cult? You remember the one, that one. And it
follows not necessarily one of the girls
who was in there but in this book it's
like a hypothetical Waco Texas
it's like Waco Texas but we're not
calling it that
and it follows one of the girls in the
cult who lived through the fire
the whole shebang and her relationship
with the other kids and her living in
this cult and what it was like and it
talks a lot about like PTSD and grief
and kind of being in a cult your whole
life and then suddenly getting
introduced to the real world,
the outside world, and I want to
reiterate this is not a nonfiction so
this doesn't actually, this isn't
actually a girl who lived through this
moment in time but it is very similar so
yeah it was really fascinating I
have a very odd fascination with cults
so I just ate this up honestly I really
liked the discussions in here and the- I
don't want to call it action because
like it's based on true events, but it
really kept you on your toes and it was
just so fascinating.And next up in the
thriller category we have If We Were
Villains by M.L. Rio. I know a lot of people have
heard about this but it doesn't nearly
get enough hype on booktube or book
twitter as I would like it to. If you
liked The Secret History which is one of
the- arguably one of the biggest books at
least that I've seen most people have
read it or want to read it at some point
or at least have heard about it and this
is exactly like that except instead of
English like Latin majors
it's Shakespearean play majors. Is that
a thing? You major in being an actor in a
Shakespearean play? I don't know, but
that's what the main characters are and
I promise you if you like The Secret
History, you will love this or if you
thought The Secret History was a little
too much you'll probably like this
one, it's a little bit shorter
it's a lot easier to get through in my
opinion and it's arguably better than
The Secret History so I highly recommend
you check it out but again I have a
weird fascination with cults so you know
I loved it obviously. And finally we have
a book that probably shouldn't be on
here cuz everybody's heard of it but
nobody talks about it and that's the
thing and that is Lifelike by Jay
Kristoff. Y'all need to read
this I'm begging you please
you've heard of Nevernight you've
heard of Illuminae please pick up Lifelike I am on I'm on my knees I'm
begging you. This is a sci-fi novel, this
is about a girl, in the beginning it
starts off with her being a- she programs
this Android gladiator thing and she's
having a gladiator fight, it's badass,
it's amazing, we love it, and it goes on
there's more to it, it's
in the like the second chapter but I
don't want to spoil it, but it gets good there are a lot of
biblical references in here which isn't
necessarily my thing but I am
into it in this series it is so good,
love it. I am NOT a big Bible person but
I grew up going to Sunday school so ya
girl knows the stories and it does take
a little bit of Wikipedia use, if you see
something you're like, that
might have connections, just google it
real quick.
Truly Jay Kristoff
is a genius in this book and the second
book Deviate and I just love this series
so much it's just so underrated and I
know it's by a really popular author but
nobody ever talks about this series and
it's phenomenal
it's so good even if you don't like
biblical references or your
into that I highly recommend you check
it out if you at least know
some of the stories, because you-
it kind of clicks in your
head and you're like, oh I get it I get
it. And  just that
feeling is so nice in a book. I love
that. I love that. I was way too
enthusiastic about that book. I just
I need y'all to read it, it's good it's
really good I promise. You might not like
it. I don't promise you'll like it
but I promise I think it's good. So that
is going to be it for this video, I hope
you guys enjoyed, if you have any
recommendations like any of these books
then I highly suggest you put them down
below in the comments especially if
they're like Dead Mountain because your
girl wants some more conspiracy theory
books please I'm beggin ya. Yeah so thank you so
much for watching and yeah let me know
what you thought down below I might make
more of these in the future
if you like them but yeah thank you so
much for watching and I will see you in
the next one bye bye!
