want to know the best thing about
long-running series? they make a pretty
good dent
as a self-defense weapon.
so yes i'm here to talk about those
series. the ones with a lot of books.
a lot of pages. a lot of words. and no
matter how much they intimidate me
i know i am still going to read them and
i'm certain this
is something that you can all relate
with. matter of fact
pause this video right now. go down in
the comments and let me know
one book series that is so, it might not
even have so many books but it's
something that absolutely intimidates
you,
but you intend to read it anyway.
sometime soon. sometime in the future.
just drop it down in the comments down
below because
i want to see the answers, before you go
on to the video so we'll see at the end
of it, if
any of the series on my list are on
yours as well. now please note that for a
series to make this list, it has to be a
series that
one, i have never read any of the books
at all because this
is series that intimidates me but i want
to read anyway. so of course a song of
ice and fire by george rr martin will
not make this list because i've already
read that series. if it's a series that
i've read maybe the first two three four
books in the series, it will not make
this list as well because
i've already started said series so for
example j r ward's black dagger
brotherhood will not make this list.
if you want a separate video of series
that i found absolutely intimidating but
i
read anyway, not that i want to read but
i've already read them and finished them,
drop it down in the comments as well, i
will do a follow-up video for that but
let's get started with the first series
on the list and that
is the realm of the elderlng series by
robin hobb. i know
this is kind of a cheat because
technically this is a universe, a
series--five interconnected series
that make one epic story. the key word
there being
one. epic. story. a story that starts
with fitz journey being apprenticed, you
know, because he's the illegitimate child
of the crown prince, and thus he's
apprentice to become an assassin. so
we start with fitz's story in assassin's
apprentice, and
run all the way through to the end of
his story in assassin's fate. and if we
look beyond the semantics,
and consider realm of the elderling as one
big, ginormous series that has within it,
five several
interconnected series, you will see why
this series is on this list. i mean it is
16 books, spread over five individual
and interconnected series, with a word
count that places it slightly above
four million words. you heard that right
over 4 million words.
in this series. i mean i want to read it,
and i have bought the series but
[pray for me. gbadura fun mi]
next up is will of time by robert jordan.
i mean it has sprawling worlds, sprawling
empires, a sprawling magic system, a
sprawling plot, so does it not make sense
that it's sprawling word count
at over 4 million and 81 000 words.
please note 4 million and 81 000 words.
does it not make sense that that
sprawling word count would have me
taking several steps back
[wow]
and asking the universe if
truly i was born and destined
to be a reader, or if i was destined to
undertake
such a task because 15
books. there are 15
significant books!
[Hmmmm. *laugh* god have mercy upon us. *laughter*]
next up
is discworld. and all i would say is 41.
nope i'm not referring to the number of
times in which i have asked myself
why on earth i've decided to torture
future noria, by making this promise to
myself,
that i want to eventually be all caught
up and finished with the series. no
that is 42. i've asked myself that
question 42 times. no
41 is the number of books in the series.
yes you heard that right. 41.
sir terry pratchett really
really went to town on this series. i
mean 41 books?!!
and sure i found the cannibalistic
luggage
very very funny and very very
fascinating.
i also adored, absolutely adored the
brief glimpse we got
of death who just wants to kill our
protagonist, who refuses to die, and death
is like
dude when are you gonna die? let me kill
you! and the guy is like no i don't want
to die yet,
and death is like let me do my job!
surrender yourself! die! i mean it was
funny and i loved it! i also found it
hilarious the sheer ludicrousness of the
world
that terry pratchett created because the
earth in this universe is
is balanced on the back of two turtles? i
mean what is not to love with that? but
41 books! that is over
5.6 million words in the series!
anybody will be inti--if you are not
intimidated by the thought--like
if you're not already all done and
finished and caught up and read all the
books in
the discworld series and you're just
starting out because i've only read one
book.
remember i said that i have to have read two
three four books for it not to make this
list, i've only read
the first book: the color of magic, and
all i'm thinking is [sigh]
i have 40 more books to go. 40.
more. books. to. go.
[someone please call 911]
next up is the vorkosigan saga created,
masterfully created, by lois mcmaster
bujold. and is anybody surprised that
this series made the list? i mean it has
won
five hugo awards. one of which was for
best
series. so i--i definitely want to see
this--this series that is so well
acclaimed, i just i'm very very
terrified of it. even though it has
practically everything i love.
it features an intricate political
system
in space, and as such blesses us with
all the political maneuvering that my
body craves
and my soul desires. i mean it is space
opera epicness that follows multiple
characters, chief of which is miles
vorkosigan,
who is the son of the prime minister,
born
with brittle bones, is very very short,
and is a hunchback, and
we follow his entire life story. in fact
we start his story from before he was born,
from the meeting of his parents. so this
is
generational bliss. the vorkosigan saga
like has my name on it, but it also has
15--it has 15 books
in the saga! and also multiple short
stories
thrown in for laughs and giggles, like
why does this always happen to me?
why?!
and then there's the dresden files by
jim butcher. now
the first time i encountered jim butcher's
writing, it was in
the codex alera series, which i
absolutely could not stand. i totally and
completely
hated--one day i would do a video to i
don't know,
try and remember the reasons why i had
such a visceral hatred for that story,
but i did. if you love the books and
you're like oh my god noria, how could you
hate
codex alera? it's amazing. i don't care!
take it up with my ex. both of you can
commiserate about it together! but then i
heard
that see, jim butcher had another series that
is
more urban fantasy paranormal, with you
know, fantasy
elements, supernatural creatures, and the
heart
at the heart of it is a detective story.
yo!
growing up, i--your girl was a fan of
detective stories. i was
nosy, and i was a snoop
[don't you wish
that you could be a fly on the wall. a creepy little snitch]
so that was my jam. i read every single one
of them! you know
i was reading agatha christie. i was
reading nancy drew. i was reading hardy
boys. i was reading james hardly chase. i
was reading famous five. i was reading
secret seven.
i was reading adventurous four. so i just
like people discovering mysteries.
sometimes it hits them. sometimes it
comes to come and visit them.
sometimes they're on a holiday and then
boom, they are in the middle of a mystery,
of a murder mystery. so
not only in books, i was also following
those on tv shows. like i was
i read--i watched them all y'all. like law
and other svu?
yep. i watched the csi--all the csi, all
the reiterations of csi. i watched the mentalist.
i of course watch elementary, because
of course i read sherlock holmes. of
course i watched--all the
sherlock holmes movies, the ones in black
and white, the ones in color, i watched
everything.
um including the shows, both sherlock and
elementary. so
your girl lives for detective stories
and
figuring it out, and puzzling things out.
and when it is that i was told that
you know, the detective in this story is
a wizard, i was like
dresden files, come to mama! [sigh]
until someone hit me with the double
whammy that the dresden files
um also has 17 books. [laughing-crying]
there are 17 books in the series
and a word count of over 2.2 million.
2.2 million words! [laugh-cry]
why? why does this keep happening to me?
who did i offend?
tani mo se?? who did i offend?
why?
[why? why? why? why?]
and because i'm on a paranormal
fantasy kick, i decided to look at the
next entry on the list although,
this one is THE paranormal romance, one
of the
longest running paranormal romance in
the game, i'm of course referring to
the anita blake saga by laurell
k hamilton. if you were all like hold up
noria, i thought you were going to talk
about
you know, christine feehan's carpathan
series, the dark
everything. one i--i read this book up to
book 17.
secondly i read those books up to book
17.
is that no punishment enough? ah. i should
do another video about how much i hate
that series.
let's just move on to laurell k hamilton
giving us anita blake. i mean this is a
parallel
universe paranormal romance that
features anita blake whose daytime
job is to reanimate the dead, and kill
vampires, and she's
as she's juggling those two jobs, um
she's also kind of like in love with a
master vampire.
which of --ou can already see is going to
be a pain,
because poor anita.
poor poor anita. like i was all ready to
dive into this series, and i still will
dive into the series, but
when i first heard about it, i was all ready
to dive in, and then someone was like oh
yeah cool you know,
you know you have 27 books to really get
into the character, and get into the
world and i'm like....
 
[wait a damn minute]
i mean sorry, say what?
27 books?!!!!
i'll read it. but why?!!!! next up
is the stormlight archives by brandon
sanderson. now i still
have not read a brandon sanderson book
yet.
i will. i promise. when i was debating
you know what series, what brandon
sanderson series to start, and i'm like
oh,
should i start with mistborn and all of
that? and i'm like yo mistbond has like
six books, that's a lot of books, and then
i was like
i could start with the stormlight archives,
that's only
three books you know. he's still working
on the fourth book.
it should be coming out sometimes this year. but i
was like he's still working on the
fourth book, there're only
three books. [clap] i can be in it and out of it pronto! fast! super fast! like hmmm! bullet!
move! swoop! gboa! gbua! yes that's all the sounds to
explain just how fast i like i'm
envisioned--
finishing, and being all caught up with
you know stormlight archive,
and um then my friend was like yeah it's
it's three books. i'm like of course.
we--we had that conversation. it's three
books. i'm like yo. [sigh]
it's cool because i was like i didn't
want to start with a standalone
brandon sanderson. i wanted to start with a
series to really get the feel of his
writing, and his world's building and
the characters and everything, i'm like
three! we can do this! and then
my friend goes yeah about 1.2 million
words in total,
but just three books. and i just...
[am i a joke to you?]
[sigh]
1.2 million words. three books! for 1.2
million words.
three! for 1.2 million words
[i have nothing nothing to say. nothing to
say about the game at all? nothing nothing]
and then there's the dark tower series
by stephen king.
no, i have never read a stephen king book,
not yet anyway.
yes i intend to have the very first
stephen king book i read, be the dark
tower
series. yes i'm aware that it is a
sprawling
entry into the universe, you know, that
stephen king has created.
no i do not mind that it is a fantasy
western hybrid.
yes i definitely want to meet the
gunslinger.
and yes that movie was traaaaaash.
but the idris elba was finnnnnnnne though.
and um yes. i am still in denial. because
i mean how does
a man go from writing a lot of singular
standalone stories, to writing a series
with not one, not two, not five,
but seven books. seven books?
1.7 million words?!!!
why?!!!! and there's malazan book of the
fallen by steven
erikson. you know those stories that you
have
absolutely zero idea about, but your
friends are like yo
read this noria. and they're like you
will love this noria.
and they're like, this series is your jam
noria.
and they're like sure it's a bit hard to
get into,
but it's eventually worth it at the end
noria. and they tell you all of this but
they
conveniently forget to tell you that
this series has
10 main books. six companion novels.
a prequel trilogy. another
pre-prequel trilogy.
a sequel in the works. and then about
six novellas to give you a deeper
understanding
of the world and the characters. and i
know some people might be like oh you
can just ignore all the companion novels,
and all the sequels, and the prequels, and
the pre-prequels, and the
novellas. just stick to the main story.
but see, that is not how my brain works.
my brain would legit be--not be able to
stop
thinking about the fact that i am
missing out on
having a full enriching experience with
everything, even if it is that the
writing
is not as stellar as steven erikson,
because of course the other books are
not written by steven erikson but,
even if it's not as stellar steven
erikson's writing, i still need to be
able to read them
all in order to get a glimpse of the
world. i mean your girl read all the
shadowhunter books.
including all the novellas. including
the character art book. including the
shadowhunters codex!
so um, i--i have to.
that's how my brain works. so i would
eventually
read it all. because i do intend to read
malazan book of the fallen, but just... [sigh]
to all my friends who put this series in
my mind and implanted it in my thoughts
[i'm not doing this anymore, no! so let me
tell you this,
if you're my homie and you do that, i'm
going to give you a warning,
but if you still do it i'm going to take the pinky!]
and finally there's the last
series
on the list, the guin saga by kaoru
kurimoto,
which is a heroic fantasy novel that
follows the titular character,
guin, who is a mysterious warrior who
has
zero knowledge of who he is, except for
the fact that he thinks
his name is guin, who instinctively
knows how to fight well, and who has the word
aurra in his head, and is trying to
figure out
what it means, and the story starts when
he
rescues these twins from a unit
of soldiers, and he single-handedly
defeats all the soldiers. i mean it is
definitely
a series i've been wanting to get into,
and it's a series that is written
entirely in japanese,
and it's also the longest running series
on this list
at 130 volumes.
yes 130 volumes, and 22
side novels. now as someone who spent
12 years of my life consistently
reading naruto all the way to the end,
because i needed to know how masashi was
going to end that story.
[big mistake. big. huge!]
and who followed
bleach,
consistently for nine years, all the way
to the end,
and had to deal with that catastrophe
of an ending that tite kubo gave us,
i am bracing myself for guin. i'm also
bracing myself for the fact that
so far, only the first five books
have been translated into english, which
means
i have two options. i can either wait for
however
long it will take for them to translate
all the books into english, which might
not happen
in my lifetime, or
i might have to learn how to read
japanese.
konichiwa. but yeah that is the end of
this video. those are
10 long-running series--book series that
absolutely terrify and intimidate me, but
i intend to read anyway.
if you've read any of these series that i
mentioned, and you want to give me
a word of encouragement with regards, go
ahead read it noria. trust me it'll be
worth it, you would enjoy it, blah blah
blah. it's not as intimidating.
it just looks scary when you think about
it, but when you get into it blah blah
blah. just
give me all that words of encouragement
in the comments down below as well.
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