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A Good Review Vidcast to watch: The Hungry Reader
12 years ago
I don't normally like podcast/vidcast/online review things that aren't 
podcastigation ahem SHOW SHOW SHOW GO LISTEN TO SHOW, but that's only because so many of them are sooo bad. However, a good pal has just started one called The Hungry Reader ( http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHungryReader ) that is NOT bad. In fact, I'd say it's rather good. It doesn't hurt that it's NOT about video games. It is, in fact, about books, which are rectangular things that you wouldn't know anything about because they don't go beepbeepbeepbeep*. What I like is that his focus is on young adult books, the ones that I -- and likely you -- remember from afternoons spent in the library as a kid or perhaps you remember seeing them when the teacher gave you that order form printed on the weird thin paper from Scholastic. But you guys probably all know that I DESPISE nostalgia for its own sake (unless I'm the one doing it, because I'm a hypocrite), but The Hungry Reader is also pretty knowledgeable about his topic and has some interesting facts to relate about the books. His first video is a look at The Wizard of Oz, which is well worth a look. I want more people to know about this, so that you can all go there and tell him to review THE CELERY STALKS AT MIDNIGHT.
Or, actually, he's got a bunch of interesting books lined up as possibilities for his next review. You can vote for one of them if they strike your fancy more.
I should also point out that this guy can track down literally ANY half-remembered children's book that you can dredge up. Like, say you remember reading a book where these brontosaurs are all scared of the tyrannosaurs. but one day, this time traveling tour group arrives and, while most of the group is looking at ancient plants, this one guy pulls out a portable TV set and starts watching a baseball game. And this one brontosaur watches over his shoulder and assumes that the people are gathering sticks and and balls to defend themselves from a tyrannosaur attack. So then he gets all the other brontosaurs to start using sticks and rocks to fight off predators. Not much to go on, really. But he figured out that the book was DANGER IN DINOSAUR VALLEY.
He was also able to correctly identify another of my favorite old books which I could not remember the name of as "The Gilded Cat" when all i had to go on was: "It's about a girl who somehow comes into possession of a mummified kitten which I think she steals from a museum or something. This kitten is connected to the soul of an ancient egyptian prince, who appears to her in the form of a ba-bird. The museum curator is the reincarnation of the prince's evil uncle who had him killed, so this girl teams up with this older, neer-do-well rebel kid to defeat the uncle."
One of these days I'll ask him to find the book that has been plaguing me for years of which all I know is IT HAS MONSTERS IN IT.
* Stupid Youtube is failing me so I can't link to that bit with Mr Coriander being a dick in The Never Ending Story :C
podcastigation ahem SHOW SHOW SHOW GO LISTEN TO SHOW, but that's only because so many of them are sooo bad. However, a good pal has just started one called The Hungry Reader ( http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHungryReader ) that is NOT bad. In fact, I'd say it's rather good. It doesn't hurt that it's NOT about video games. It is, in fact, about books, which are rectangular things that you wouldn't know anything about because they don't go beepbeepbeepbeep*. What I like is that his focus is on young adult books, the ones that I -- and likely you -- remember from afternoons spent in the library as a kid or perhaps you remember seeing them when the teacher gave you that order form printed on the weird thin paper from Scholastic. But you guys probably all know that I DESPISE nostalgia for its own sake (unless I'm the one doing it, because I'm a hypocrite), but The Hungry Reader is also pretty knowledgeable about his topic and has some interesting facts to relate about the books. His first video is a look at The Wizard of Oz, which is well worth a look. I want more people to know about this, so that you can all go there and tell him to review THE CELERY STALKS AT MIDNIGHT.Or, actually, he's got a bunch of interesting books lined up as possibilities for his next review. You can vote for one of them if they strike your fancy more.
I should also point out that this guy can track down literally ANY half-remembered children's book that you can dredge up. Like, say you remember reading a book where these brontosaurs are all scared of the tyrannosaurs. but one day, this time traveling tour group arrives and, while most of the group is looking at ancient plants, this one guy pulls out a portable TV set and starts watching a baseball game. And this one brontosaur watches over his shoulder and assumes that the people are gathering sticks and and balls to defend themselves from a tyrannosaur attack. So then he gets all the other brontosaurs to start using sticks and rocks to fight off predators. Not much to go on, really. But he figured out that the book was DANGER IN DINOSAUR VALLEY.
He was also able to correctly identify another of my favorite old books which I could not remember the name of as "The Gilded Cat" when all i had to go on was: "It's about a girl who somehow comes into possession of a mummified kitten which I think she steals from a museum or something. This kitten is connected to the soul of an ancient egyptian prince, who appears to her in the form of a ba-bird. The museum curator is the reincarnation of the prince's evil uncle who had him killed, so this girl teams up with this older, neer-do-well rebel kid to defeat the uncle."
One of these days I'll ask him to find the book that has been plaguing me for years of which all I know is IT HAS MONSTERS IN IT.
* Stupid Youtube is failing me so I can't link to that bit with Mr Coriander being a dick in The Never Ending Story :C
While were on the subject I remember some old (70's-80's) hardcover children's book. Some kind of weird genesis like story with wacky colored creatures (green, yellow, pink) with lots of feet that locomoted like wheels. All I remember.
That genesis story sounds pretty tripped out!
So yeah this sounds right up my alley.
...and he just did one about coloring books. -___-;