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Wow! This is amazing! I’ve been a Flannery fan for a long time. Rereading some of her short stories. Happy to have your guidance.

Glad to see y’all are doing well!

Thanks. A great intro 😊

Les Miserables is simply the best. A pure privilege to read. Jean Valjean is the most heroic character is literature.

Should read Meditations on the Divine Liturgy

Wild guess. Murder scene, older female author, got it.

Paradise Lost, suggests what the Grand Inquisitor's “we’re-all-robots” alternative coughs up? ..the binary outcome of goodness.. ? Q: What part does the Institution play on individuals choice/s made? A binding, of sorts? Accepting all the assumptions and hope you’re right! Or, be like “The Kid” and die in the end anyway because you sat on the fence? Or like Lewis, and individual feeling no desire, plus feeling abandoned, but chooses to obey anyway.. it’s not an obligation or even your only choice.. but it is, your, choice..

Your point at 11min50 is spot on!

Good intro!

My favourite book is 'Exploring The Earth and Moon' by Patrick Moore.

Best novel ever!

I adore O'Connor so much; she's probably my favorite author. Unfortunately, she's so underappreciated. I think of her as my own private Shakespeare. I haven't read all her stories, but I've read many, and The River is my personal favorite.

My no. 1s... - non-fiction (memoir): Desert Solitaire, Ed Abbey - fiction: Blood Meridian, Cornac McCarthy (though his Border Trilogy almost surpasses it, and his father-son exploration of The Road is unparalleled)

Our existence … absurdity? First I have heard someone make that claim, though I am sure someone does. But, correct, there is no inherent meaning or purpose. We just are. The universe just is. And that's okay. We create our own meaning and purpose for ourselves and then we are gone and the next generation does the same. And all of that is just fine. O'Connor was a great writer though.

There are so many excellent authors and books. I love seeing everyone's lists as I am sometimes introduced to a new to me book. Also, there are new books coming on the market on a regular basis. Thanks for sharing your list.

I liked David Copperfield. I like words too. But oh dear - Ulysses! I have yet to read and feel comfortable with that but guilty all at the same time. Wish I would have joined that group read BUT I didn't know about it until it was over. Darn.

MR ETTER!!!! My family and I are going through the Omnibus Courses from Veritas press, and just now we found this channel and absolutely flipped out! Massive respect for you!

The Repetition by Alain Robbe-Grillet might also be a fit. It explores the identity division too.

Excellent video. Thank you. I have been looking at a number of versions of this work... think I have decided on the Folio Society editions.

The reading public of that time also demanded an all afternoon read.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't "penta" usually mean five?

I feel like the luckiest man for having found this channel,thank you!

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ireen Wüst Gogol, , william james sidis all birthdays on april 1

I love these kind of videos. Im open to trying different genres and authors. I dont think i could narrow it down to a top 10.

I’m an atheist and one thing worth pointing out is how incredible well Flannery can write about religion from the perspective of a character who believes themselves to be an atheist. She’s so talented.

You want to sound impressive and consequential, but, really, apart from your self-importance, who are you and what are your credentials/qualifications???

What an asshole you are!

Where is the video on Parker’s Back? I can’t find it.

I got it!!!!!!

Although the Bible is a book of books..and without being preachy..its got just about everything in it. Especially the old testament. Even if we didn't know it as a religious book..its still very complex.

There's too much non book talking here. Get to the point quicker, please.

I guess he didn't take into account that folks would be watching this years later.

You need to do another series and include "War and Peace".

The Pee Wee Football trophy! LOL (Made me wonder where my Little League Baseball trophies are -- chuckle.)

You convinced me.

We had to read "Wuthering Heights" in high school and I was thoroughly prepared to hate it, but I loved it and plan on re-reading it one day, as well as reading her sister's "Jane Eyre."

Read Harper Lee and Me and find out what is really going on with To Kill a Mockingbird.

0:47 😊

Wow, I bet there’s a really cool drawing in that Bible

I think it's a fascinating question what is the relation of Kafka's spirituality to Christianity. He once called Christ "an infinite abyss of light" -- one of the most (if not the most) poetic encomium ever rendered. Yet he clearly dithered greatly about any belief in much of anything, let alone metaphysical hope -- other than in the dogged "indestructible" which is the core and pith of his survivalist outlook. I see Kafka as the Doubting Thomas in extremis -- a modern of supreme existential integrity who refutes in the very difficulty of his person any easy recourse to metaphysics, going deeper than the need in some sense. I do not think Christianity (nor Judaism) has a very good answer to Kafka, except that his agon is not unlike Job's with Yahweh -- but far more extreme in its fundamental doubt. He transcends both. (See his short story on Abraham.) Kafka is perhaps first a theologian...

I’m convinced the least amount of hits a TH-cam conference receives the better it is! The same conviction holds in bookstores. Except in rare cases, like “To Kill A Mockingbird,” what’s selling like hotcakes is usually junk. Thank you for your thought-provoking channel.

Got it mostly because I am a Faulkner fan, but also had seen him mentioned as someone whose work H Lee admired. As did Flannery O'Connor I believe.

This reminds me of the two selves in Don Quixote de la Mancha.

She has an essay on what the artist needs to produce a work of art. She says it is certainly NOT self expression. Rather, the work of art has to be considered by the artist as independent, objectively looked upon as an entity governed by its own inner laws of existence. I think this is why she was so successful.

Very intrigued! I’m going to order the book!

Rats, I was excited about your channel, but I consider Flannery O'Connor to be the worst, most over-rated writer of all time. "Wise Blood" was sophomoric treacle. I can't convey the depth of my loathing for that book. But, hey, The Brothers of Karamazov was good, and to each his own. .

I'm currently reading Emma. I read Pride and Prejudice just before Jane Austen July. Thank you for posting this.

Bullshit stops at 03:57

What a tease

Thank you. This is a nice intro for someone wants to read Franz Kafka.