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If you got to page 100 of “Finnegans Wake,” you did a lot better than I. I think I made it to page 35. I once heard a recording - if I’m not mistaken, read by James Joyce himself - of a passage from the novel, and what struck me as odd was that read aloud, it made perfect sense.

Can't go wrong with John Boorman's Excalibur from 1980 though! 😃

If they make a tv series Reverent Sparrow would probably be portrayed as a celibate homosexual.

There is a show called “outlander”. Some woman is transported into Scotland during the colonial period. She falls in love with a Scottish guy. After some problems in Europe they eventually end up in the Americas. There is more sex and violence. And time travel.

Even the United States postal service?

I was expecting a photo of Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee after the expression “a summer place.” (Remember? 🎶Daaah da-dah da-daaah.) Oh well, can’t have everything! Enjoyed the review nonetheless.

Love your sense of humor. I'll have to check some of these out. Hope you cover the rest of the decades?

The way you talk books reminds me of my Dad so great work sir!

People give me flak for reading George Chesbro.

I enjoyed the review. I’ve never read a Nesbo (Nesbø?) book, but I once saw a movie based on one of his books - I think it was called “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” or something like that. I know, I know, a movie and a book are two completely different things, but if the book bore any resemblance to the movie beyond the title, it was enough to warn me away from the writer. After what I thought was a fairly intriguing opening, the story became so far-fetched that by the end it raised the far-fetched to the ludicrous. (BTW, I’ve never been one of Neil Diamond’s biggest fans, but if I had to listen to one of his songs, I’d choose “Holly Holy.”)

Very good book. Highly recommended ❤

Most people did not attend school up until 8th grade in the 1890s

A very good video, thank you

Everything you said at the beginning is 1000% accurate. Compared to most people today I'm extremely well read, but compared to the average 1950s housewife I'm nothing.

Nyc review just listed the dramatization it's good

I like that you mention "The Other". Thomas Tryon is too often forgotten.

I'm pretty late to the party but I very much enjoyed your video. I'm old too, lol, and I agree with your definition of "horror." Some of my own favorite titles would be: The Turn of the Screw (though it's novella, not a novel) by Henry James Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin Ghost Story by Peter Straub Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice Let the Right One In by John Lingqvist Blackwater by Michael McDowell

The three-volume LOTR set is the older one. I used to have the same one and wish I still did, even though JRR himself hated the cover designs.

Loved the ironic pause at 4:52! Whatever could it imply? BTW - Eastern Catholics aren’t Orthodox; they’re Catholic. Not all Catholics are “Roman” Catholic. The history is a bit complicated, but at the time of the Great Schism (11th century), some Eastern churches remained in union with Rome. Hence, Roman (Western-rite) and Eastern-rite Catholics can receive Communion in each other’s churches, but Catholic and Orthodox may not. I myself am Roman Catholic and have received Communion in a Byzantine Catholic Church; however, in the Russian Orthodox Church, of which one of my best friends is a priest, I may not. (I myself didn’t even know of the existence of Eastern-rite Catholic churches until I was in my mid-30s and met a college student who told me he was a Maronite. “Mennonite?” I asked. “Maronite,” he said and proceeded to explain.) And yes, a married man can become an Eastern-rite priest, which is not the case in the Roman rite.

It is one of the few newer sci-Fi books that really engaged my attention.

"Decade: The 1950s". Favourite story - "Surface Tension" by James Blish.

The book sounds very interesting. And it's Veh-las-kehs. Thanks for the recommendation.

Bah-see-gah-loo-pee.

Good perusal! I also very much enjoyed this book. His "The Death Of Grass" is also very good.

Interesting you have an Alfred Hitchcock anthology in your list. One of my favorite anthologies is AH’s “Stories for Late at Night.” It contains Ray Bradbury’s “The Whole Town’s Sleeping,” which is actually a chapter from “Dandelion Wine” (my favorite book by RB), as well as a full-length novel called “The Iron Gates” by Margaret Millar, wife of Ross McDonald. I’ve read that back in the ‘40s Warner Bros. considered making it into a movie starring Bette Davis, but there was a problem (spoiler alert!) - the character she would play dies about 3/4 of the way through the story. Also, I used to own a paperback anthology of stories used on “The Twilight Zone,” but mine included only stories for which Rod Serling wrote the teleplay. I know you’re a big Bradbury fan. What do you think of “The October Country”? It’s one of my favorites.

I read and liked them in the "70s. I found them easy to read and understand.

The Cadwal Chronicles are a literary treasure by America’s preeminent prose stylist.

I was a big fan of Dickson’s Right to Arm Bears collection. It was some of the best lighthearted Cold War inspired science fiction.

It is enough to make me try Analog magazine again

I read a few Nancy Kress and Kim Stanley Robinson books but the the genre does not appeal to me.

I wonder if Ray Bradbury's "To the Chicago Abyss", from his collection The Machineries of Joy, might be the story you're thinking of?

I find Neal Stephenson to be very hit and miss which is why this one has sat on my shelf unread for a couple of years. I loved Reamde and Seveneves, though Snow Crash was quite good but couldn't stand (or finish) The Diamond Age.

I loved Dark Shadows as a kid. Getting home from school and turning on the t,v. The Bloopers were also fun.

I swore I would never read Colleen Hoover but niece gave me Verity for Christmas. It is sitting on my shelf unread. I may give it a try now. 🤗

Verity surprised me as well! Did you read the book with the bonus chapter or the original release? 😊

I love Wyndham. He’s my favourite Sci-fi author so far. I really need to read some Ray Bradbury. Could you recommend a good place to start please?

For a great short story, I’d recommend “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. Not science fiction or dark fantasy, but seeing you’ve uploaded a lot of videos on books and stories of other genres, I doubt you’d hold that against it. Happy reading!

I also enjoy Bradbury's writing, and I have read two of his novels. I bet you can guess which two.

TH-cam reccomended did me good here!!🤌🏻

So many of these stories involving children are bleak. I've read The Lonesome Place, a Pail of Air and seen on T.V. adaptations of All Summer in a Day that was very sad, Final Exam, also very sad and both read the story then seen the Twilight Zone version of It's a Good Day. There is also a 80's Twilight Zone version of Good Day which takes place yrs later when Anthony is an adult and has a daughter with the same powers. It is Chilling.

Although you probably pronounce Woburn correctly, in eastern Massachusetts, where I was born, grew up, and spent much of my life, it’s pronounced WOOburn, or, more accurately, WOOb’n. I had relatives who lived there, whose water supply fortunately was not affected by the contamination the book and movie document.

I read that book and remember how sad it was. To be fair the Confederate government have issues supplying their own soldiers due to the north's plan of strangling any supplies. It was harsh but necessary to finally end the war and preserve the country.

When I was 15 I found a book with an obviously nude woman in dark sillouette on the cover and the title One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane. From the picture and title you can imagine how intrigued I,at 15, was. It turned out not quite what i thought but I fell in love with Mike Hammer and read every Spillane book. I also read John Sandford Prey novels, Virgil Flower too. F.Paul Wilson author of The Advarary Cycle and the later Repairman Jack series. Still reading C,J,Box and Preston Douglas and Lincoln Child thrillers. Also James Rollins action, adventure books with history/science mix.

Love the review.

I enjoyed your video. As a very unsuccessful booktuber ( much more than you ) I can identify with your outlook. I have to admit, though, that I'm not at all concerned with the number of views or subscribers I get because I simply am doing this for my own enjoyment and only plan to do it until I've talked about the books and writers I want to.

One of my favorite novellas, novelettes, long short stories, whatever, is Daphne Du Maurier’s “The Birds.” In fact, I’ve long felt that Hitchcock would have done well to keep the story as Du Maurier wrote it, film it in B&W, and use it as one of his hour-long television shows; however, he never asked my opinion. Glad you included “The Horla.” I taught English for 25 years and included it in my Honors World Lit. curriculum. “Notes from the Underground” - fabulous! “Siddhartha” - not quite so fabulous, but well worth reading. (My favorite Hesse is “Steppenwolf” with “The Glass Bead Game” a close second.) If you haven’t read it already, I’d recommend Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” (or anything else by him, for that matter).

Love the name

New subbie! Binging your videos. I love your style! Avid reader. Born in 1973, only child, introverted, older parents (born in the 20s) so books were my best friend.

Maybe the oankali will come and ‘save’ us readers 😂. Just found your channel and love it! Would you be willing to do an overview/review of your series on The Ship?