This video is sponsored by Squarespace. Okay, so today we are going to be doing another
version of a video that we did a while ago, uh where he got... (A long time ago) where
he guessed facts about some of my favorite books. I'll have it linked up... he'll have
it linked up there and down in the description. This time this video is going to be a spin-off
of that. I recently mentioned in a video that i got a really bad description for The Ocean
At The End of The Lane. Somebody said that it was a whimsical story about a boy meeting
a girl, they go on an adventure...(Like Winnie The Pooh)... Nope. And uh it's not that. It's
a dark fantasy. It has dark themes. It was nothing like what it was described. A commenter
said something that made me realize this needs to be a whole video. So... let's do it. I
have a bunch of books that i either he's read or i've talked about enough that he knows
the premise very very well and then i, along with a couple of my friends (shout out to
Michael and Michaela) have helped me come up with really bad descriptions for these
books. There are 10 answers... this is gonna be fun! Okay there are 10 answers. I have
two dummy books so there's 12 books here. Right. Here are the questions. Mix... Oh,
and he gets two lifelines. Last time he refused to use them. Will not be using them! if you
use it... I wil,l i will just crash and burn before i use a lifeline... If you use lifeline
you only get a half point for the book. You could get 100 points because each book is
worth 10 points. I don't know why i've just decided that. Pick one. Well i'm gonna get
an A++ like i did last time. You didn't get an A++ last time. We'll go to the footage...
"I had to spell out to you that one of these dummy books was not a dummy book, i had to
tell you twice that the sticky was wrong in this one... it's just because i wasn't paying
attention, and i had to remind you that there were two Sanderson books twice when you put
the sticky on here the first time. I said there are two Sanderson books. You want to
wait on that? You're like, no!" I'm free... you pick, i read. Oh oh okay. "A demented
child nearly gets everyone killed." Peter Pan. How, how do you just know that? Why would
you just know that? Because i've heard you talk about it so much and i've heard people
talk about it so much. Peter Pan's just... a really this is going to be annoying
I'm going to be really irritated by this. Let's knock them down. It's going to be a
two-minute video. Does it really matter like, who, like... if they're all random right?
Yeah. "Rags to riches about a girl who meets the love of her life at a ball." See, now
i can't... "rags to riches about a girl who meets the love of her life at a ball." That
would be Mistborn. Why would you know that? Why would you know that? I've read it! And
that... that's a very accurate description but... No it's not! That's what happens. That's
what happens. Rags to riches. Oh, i'm good at this. "A sweet story about a boy delivering
antique jewelry." "A sweet story about a boy delivering antique jewelry." Well delivering
it... i'm gonna go with that for now. Hold on, let me make sure. I'm not gonna confirm
or deny any more after this because i want you to deliberate more. I honestly don't know
what the promise of this book is, because i've not read it. You've watched the movies.
I've watched the movie years ago... Everyone knows what the premise of... They go through
a magic portal and that's it. That's all i know. And it takes place during World War
II.
Go ahead. "A bunch of children ruin a nice ladies, a nice old lady's winter." Nice old
ladies winter. Um... i guess Bear Town for now. A bunch of children ruin a nice old lady's
winter. Yeah i'm gonna go for that for now. Okay. "Orphans go on on adventures and find
their place among friends." Orphans go on adventures. Orphans? And find their place
among friends. Oh. Lies of Locke Lamora. We'll see. Orphans should have tipped me off right
away. All right. I want to read it! "People sit around in a room and eat pizza and share
their stories." Ha! Sit around in a room, eat pizza... uh, Way of Kings.
There is a lot of pizza in Way of Kings. I was kidding. That was a joke. I know! I can
make jokes.
People sit around in a room and eat pizza and share their stories. Not Rage of Dragons.
Oh! Anxious People. I figured that one would be easy for you. Yeah. When i actually thought
about it...
"A man finds a group of friends and travels to an impossible world." A man finds a group
of friends and travels to an impossible world. A man finds a group of friends. Oh, i guess,
technically that because he goes to the underworld. We'll leave that there for now. Um... yeah.
Okay. I get, i get a chance after all this is done just to kind of lock in everything
right? Yeah. That's, that's how it's gonna go. "A romance where a student falls in love
at school." All right. My Dark Vanessa. Have not read it, but i know about it. Oh. This
is kind of having trouble... Hey! Don't knock everything down. You're ruining the whole
video. When I put the sticky on... Everybody's mad at you right now. Oh, geeze. There we
go. "A girl leaves her home town..." Don't get too hasty. Salt shaker to the rescue.
"A girl leaves her hometown to try to convince and update an uptight scholar to educate her."
Um... girl leaves her hometown i'm trying to get an uptight scholar to educate her.
Oh i guess that's Rebecca. Yeah. Okay. Last one. "A woman honors her husband's late wife
and solves a fun mystery." A woman honors her husband's late wife... Oh my gosh! That's
Rebecca. I figured that one would be easy. Honors her husband's late wife and solves
a "fun" mystery. It's supposed to be a bad description. That is awesome. Oh my gosh.
Mistborn is having a conniption. Yeah! Never mind! Sorry, so honors her husband's late
wife. Yeah that's Rebecca. Um, so now we have: "A girl leaves her hometown and try and convince
to try to convince an uptight scholar to educate her." Uptight. Uptight. Uh, oh! Way of Kings!
That would be... can i mention the character that that's referencing? Nah. Okay, well that's
Way of Kings because, that's... Okay. So let me review. I'm mad at you! Because i'm so
good. That's very annoying. All right, so rags to riches is about a girl who meets the
love of her life at a ball. Mistborn. Uh that's kind of spoilery, hey? A little bit, but not
much. A romance where a student falls in love with school. My Dark Vanessa. A bunch of children
ruined a nice old lady's winter. Now i haven't read that, i know what it's about and that
doesn't sound like what it's about. Winter and they ruin things... um that's a dummy
book. Orphans go on adventures and find... yep, that's right. That's right. Demented
child gets everyone killed. A sweet story about a boy delivering antique jewelry. Man
his group of friends going possible... yeah. People sit around... yep. Locked in. 100%
A++ No issues. Do you want to use a lifeline? What? See, now you doing that sort of stuff
is going to start to make me question even though i know I'm right. Is there any of them
that you are unsure about that you want to ask someone? Uh... this one...
I think i'm good. I think i'm good. Locking it in. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You got 90 out of
100. Oh! That's really good. No that's correct. What?!? Okay, hold on. Hold on. Now that you've
told me that, i'm gonna go back through and we're gonna figure this out. We're gonna figure
this out, okay? So just everybody hold on! Just stop everything! We're gonna figure it
out!
Oh, i guess maybe... Oh the queen! Oh, okay. Okay, see? See? Once... because i'm remembering
a little bit of the story... uh and to be fair, you haven't talked about that hardly
at all. Yeah, but i just thought it was a really well-known story. Yeah, i don't...
i don't remember a lot about it. The only thing i remember is like, turkish delights
and then going through the thing. So that is the accurate one! So, are you done now?
Okay, so now i'm done. Oh and that makes sense because she's the one that caused the winter...
right? And all that? 95! You only get half points because you already locked it in. That's
still an "A" Still an "A" I'm actually irritated that Harry Potter didn't trip you up more.
There are several books here... Man finds a group of friends and travels to an impossible
world. Yep. Well the key wording there is "man." I actually thought this one might trip
you up too. A story about a boy delivering antique jewelry. He does go on a hunt for
some antique jewelry at some point in... Delivering antique jewelry. Going to Mordor. Orphans
going on adventures and finding their place among friends. I thought that would get you
to Harry Potter too. "Orphans." Plural. Harry's the only orphan! I know! I intentionally wrote
it so that it's wrong for Harry Potter, but i still thought it would get you. Yeah. And
then this one might have tripped you up for Harry Potter too. A romance where a student
falls in love at school. No! No! I intentionally tried to make a lot of them look like this
particular dummy book and none of them got you there. Yeah! Because, what have we learned
today? This is a continuation of a video that i've already proven my extensive knowledge
of... You're too good of a listener. That's kind of annoying. Yeah, and some of these
books i have read and some of them i just know the premise of because you just won't
shut up about them! That was nice. Yeah. That WAS nice. So which of these bad descriptions
was your favorite? Um let me see here... i think it was... oh Rebecca! Really? Yeah.
Rebecca. That one was mine! Ah nice! Because i just, i love how it's worded. A woman's,
a woman honors her late husband, or her husband's late wife and solves a fun mystery. That...
so okay. To me, that embodies the whole like, The Ocean At The End of The Lane thing. Right?
Like it was essentially the same thing. Like, "This is fun!" and it's like, no. This is
a dark subject. And that's the same thing you did the same thing and that was perfect.
That was my goal. That was the perfect embodiment of this whole video. So my favorite was: a
demented child nearly gets everyone killed. Oh yeah. Yep. That's my second favorite. That's
the opposite. It takes a light-hearted, fun, whimsical story and like, hones in on the
dark elements. Yes, so now that you mentioned it and i hadn't looked, this is a very close
second. This is a very close second to... to that because that's hilarious. Well, once
again... A++ 100%... 95% I mean, technically you didn't even give me hints, you just said...YOU
LOCKED IT IN!! Well, that's neither here nor there. And then I told you 90%... Pull the
tape. Pull the tape.
I think i'm good. I think i'm good. Locking it in. Okay. Yeah. They know! They just watched
it! Anyway, the question that i would like to ask you in the comments is which of these
was your favorite bad description and how would you poorly describe your favorite book?
I think it'll be fun for us to try to guess each other's poorly described favorite book
in the comments. So please poorly describe your favorite book and let's try to guess
each other's answers. That, this actually seems like a fun game to play. I want to play.
What we just... you just did... Well yeah, i know, but like, i want to play again. Let's
do it again. Okay. I want a part two of this! This was really fun! And now an ad from Squarespace.
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