Hello, everybody, and welcome back to 372 pages we'll never get back.

I'm Connor Lestoka, joined by Mike Nelson, and we're going to be talking bad books yet again today.

Mike, what do you think about our current iteration of this journey we're on together?

I wish there was like I could do a cartoon head shake.

Picture my eyes coming out of my head.

This is bananas. I think I was texting with

you yesterday. This is like insane, like call an ambulance insane. Get to these people's houses.

They need an intervention immediately. They are not right. And this book is the prime evidence.

Yes, I agree.

My thought was, you know, how like, you know, sort of shitty old hippies are like, you know, man, acid actually, you're only using 10% of your brain and it unlocks the full potential of it.

I feel like this is sort of like a book that's like that.

You know, like it's unfiltered.

It's pure, like all the details, all the titles of everybody, all the listing of all

the characters when it goes, when it describes a scene happening is like that.

It has ceased to filter any information and it is just given to you a pure uncut blast

of fantasy novel. It is. If you had to describe it, and I hate even reducing it to this,

but Dwight David Thrash meets Jim Tice, meet shadow moon in the crazy ways.

It's like every book we've ever done, like taken to 11.

I think someone might have emailed almost an identical quote to that.

And I wrote down at some point in time, I took the note, this is like if Dwight David Thrasch wrote the Sumerillion.

And when I was, because it was just listing characters and their ranks and their lineage and stuff.

And then when I did my reread through of my notes, I stopped and looked at that one, and I'm like, that makes, that is an insane thing for me to write.

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