There exist many YouTube channels that critique a single movie extremely in-depth of multiple hours. I thought, being a writer myself, how great it would be to have something similar to that for books. Are there any channels that do such really in-depth critiques for bad books? Like they go scene by scene, they dissect the themes, where the books went wrong, how it could be improved, etc.?
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I enjoy how Alizee just destroys Colleen hoover books! :D
not a youtube channel but the “if books could kill” podcast, moreso teardowns of nonfiction “self help” airport bestsellers that have bad ideas than pure literary critique though but it’s a ton of fun to listen to
Dominic Noble does this sort of thing very well
If Books Could Kill podcast
James Tullos. His channel is 70% roasting books
I love his channel in general.
Crowcaller has several long, in-depth videos
Love Crow Caller
Lost in Adaptation does Book Reviews/dissections along with his film adaptation videos
Krimson Rogue does some in-depth and long videos.
Krimson Rogu
Same!
Curious, any reason it has to be exclusively about bad books?
I really enjoy Unresolved Textual Tension. They do more of a podcast rather than a video, though.
came here to recommend this! It’s not exclusive to bad books but they do quite a few of them. They do focus a lot of story structure in their discussions which I find really helpful, but most of all I like that it sounds like a discussion that I would like to have with my friends.
I usually watch them on their Youtube channel.
Most people won’t finish a bad book. I mean why waste our time on bad books when there’s so many great ones out there…
They’re not her main thing but Jenny Nicholas has some funny ones. I really like her Trigger Warning review haha
Jenny Nicholson