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sucks this has no audio. i would have loved to hear another english-speaker’s insight on this book. :(

please go play the games. This isnt the Clementine from those games. She purposely changed everything about clem to focus on romance with her. Tillie is selfish.

I just finished reading this book and I really needed to talk to someone about it. Thanks for the video

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I'm doing work around this book. i'm using it to do things it wasn't intended to be used for. but really, really cool things.

I subbed. I look forward to more book reviews. I read three Keegan’s around when she was on the Booker - I was blown away by her stuff. I did not like each story equally but they were all very good. Thank you. I like your breakdown of those particular lines - so insightful.

I finished it today and was scratching my head by the end. I’m glad you liked it - I did too although I did struggle at the end.

I've owned Ninefox Gambit for five years and for whatever reason have never actually read it. Your enthusiasm for it has made me itch to pick it up in the next month or so. Thanks for the recommendation!

where did you buy your book?

Thanks for this

I first read Perfume as a teen in the mid 90s because I'd read that it was Kurt Cobain's favorite book (I'm nothing if not a Basic Bee) and I didn't like it. I read it again about ten years later and absolutely loved it. I think that change was in large part due to what you said about the book being kind of goofy while taking itself seriously. Earnestness is so uncool in literature these days that it's refreshing to see it done. You should definitely take more time to just enjoy yourself. The best thing about making these videos for nobody is we're always around to not watch.

thank you for the review!

I've read Dhalgren a couple of times and loved it. My enthusiasm for it has made me wary of picking up any more Delany because I can't imagine him writing more than one book at that level. It's a silly hangup and not a good reason to have missed out on most of his work. You've convinced me to pick up one of his other titles in the near future! Thanks, 🐝

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I really liked Cujo as well. I feel like King's "second tier" stuff from the 80's is generally really good. Much better than the more premier titles like The Stand or It. I would take Cujo or Christine or The Tommyknockers any day over the bigger more famous books.

Happy belated birthday, Bee! I struggled so hard not to type "bee-lated", but here I am doing it anyway. This is some fine writing. I read the text along with your reading and came away with some recontextualized thinking about Samuel Delany and a bunch of other latter day genre defying authors we generally box up as postmodern or litfic or whatever the pejorative du jour might be. Once again, great video!

Danse Macabre is... not my favorite. It's been a long time since I read it, but your commentary here brings back a lot of the feelings I had at the time. I felt like the kind of downhome conversational style of the book was just masking lazy thinking. It's such a compulsively readable style that has absolutely no substance, so i ended up being mad at the book after finishing it. I wondered if I was going to watch this and decide I'd have to revisit this book, but nah. Once was enough. Great video, though!

I feel much the same about Roadwork. Though I don't remember it super well (perhaps because it's utterly forgettable), I do think King extracted the good parts of this story and later reworked them into better stories. Dolan's Cadillac from Nightmares & Dreamscapes had a lot of the good revenge elements that he half-assed in Roadwork.

I'm a Bee?! What a relief! I have to confess I've been watching these videos for some time and just pretending that I'm not watching them. Anyway, Leech is a high priority on my TBR now after this review. I know you talked about the end, but if a book is that good, it can't really be spoiled by a synopsis, imho. Great video! You're welcome for (not) watching!

I freaking loved your review!! I just received this book as a gift and was told that it was very much like reading Lovecraft. I just wanted to see a review first before I started reading it. Yours was really good and helpful. Peace!!

You're welcome for not watching. All three 🐝s had such interesting insights for thos book. I confess I haven't read it yet because I'm not a Bee and don't get the book club updates, but there was such good discussion around it that I plan to pick this up soon. Jellyfish!

"I agree that this is a super fun one. I hadn't considered your point about the narrative voice before. I'd always just thought of SGJ as having an almost breathless style of writing, but you're spot-on, it's a little different in this story from most of his other work. I think structurally, Night of the Mannequins is absolutely a first stab (hehe) at what he would ultimately do with My Heart Is a Chainsaw, but the overall style reminds me quite a bit of his short story I Was a Teenage Space Jockey, if you've read that one. Great video!", is what I would have said if I had watched this, but I'm not a Bee, so I didn't.

Of course I didn't watch the video because I'm not a Bee, but I would imagine you discussed how SGJ uses a formal pattern in all his works ("formula" would be the pejorative) and yet it's always effective. I wholeheartedly agree with this hypothetical point in the video I didn't watch. And since I didn't, I don't have any reason to comment on the Lurker Bee over your shoulder. Is this the start of a Bee Hive?

Thanks for review

you should play the games !! seasons 1 and 4 are really good

this copy of the book, that i am holding in this video, sold at the job i have selling books today. mark.

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thx for this. i'm a king fan & own a bulk of his work, but the bachmann books are a different animal i've yet to tuck into. after a no-buzz watch i feel justified. your lighting *is* always nice btw

I just finished the book. I found it really hard to follow who the characters were and what was going on. Was a real chore to get through at times. There were some interesting parts but overall I agree it seemed like a draft and not a finished story. Solid review

Thank you!

It feels wrong to comment because of the nature of this channel. But considering you don’t intend to extend this beyond a personal project, I wanted to say your consistency is admirable (this being a social media platform). Not that my opinion matters. ok that’s it I’ll refrain from commenting now!

Annoyingly quiet. Nice shot though

what do you mean if you say "how capitalism is engaged in disabling folks" in the context of disability?

another nobody here

thanks for your review

hey Bee 🐝, i finally got the book, i had ordered it from the only local bookshop near where i live, ( shout out to the BookLoft, in Solvang, & the Sweet💜s on staff 😺) but before i could go pick up the book, my cat needed immediate medical help, & so while my cat was at the vets i called the bookshop to cancel my order & explained that i had to cut all expenses until my vet bill was paid, so a couple days later, a kind soul who worked at the bookshop, by the name of Echo, called to tell me that they had covered the expense & i could come pick up my book anytime, for free! wow, that melted my heart. so now i'm sitting here in California, Yogi the cat sitting on my lap, with Werners book at hand, thank you for sharing the buzz, ~C 🙏💜🕯️🌱🐾👣🌿🌎🕊️🔔

y do u post if no body watches these videos

Loved your look

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True, bummer about TI

I think some of this is spot on and if you were to look at the venn diagram between the book, you're perspective and mine; it may be that we don't get to decide what sustainability means when it's already happening and we should allow that so we don't get in our own way? I hope im not reading too much into it but I like the vignette style as a means to reflect. I don't think this was meant to be read in one sitting. imo

"I primarily read ... bullshit." You read bullshit in the least bullshitty way possible.

when i was 9-11 and reading these, my religious grandparents would routinely come over (they lived next door) and... go thru our belongings. i'd hidden animorphs & like dirk gently and my grandmother dragged them out to the dining room table and showed my grandfather the extent of my foray into the satanic arts. they ripped them up and i owed the library like a million dollars, from my perspective then. i was so ashamed (yes i had a crush on the librarian. well, all of them)

I'm at pg. 70 now and so far the content has been gripping. But I love the difference of attitude of Tutti and the narrator's mother towards the narrator. One is attentive to him and the other one is as distant as any gen-x. As far as I'm concerned the novella has been a queer one to me. The narrator is extremely sensitive and you can almost feel how quickly he catches off detail of everything he notices, plus I love the way how he is tuned in with his surroundings. Especially the scene where he describes the faint shadow of leaves formed on his grandma's white quilt due to the Little sunlight coming through the Shoji screens on the window. Thanks a lot for the review. 👍❤️

hey! thanks for not being watched!

thanks so much for covering this! an acquaintance raved about it to me almost a yr ago & i kinda fuzzed out the exact title. wasn't.... wasn't too easy to google, believe it or not. your synopsis made it sound as appealing as it was painted to me before, i'll have to check it out

2:35 proust is fun! (yes i know i'm loathsome) doesn't have to be Lost Time/Remembrance, i'd def watch if you ever do a vid on any of his stuff

Before i begin watching in earnest i have to burn a pinner to get myself right. i think portrait of the artist and, like, the great gatsby were 2 works that i was forced to read >several times< at school, & found the material well crafted but.... off putting. couldn't explain it. with perspective i realize now why gatsby got under my fkn skin (bc i dislike rich whytes doing rich whyte things & nobody in Gatsby was empathetic or relatable), but with Portrait i'm still drawn to try to appreciate it. feels like it deserves better than compulsory education & entry-level lit classes at state Uni led me to feel about it. You're not welcome for me watching this

I would gladly buy this of you if you have paypal!!!