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this book has been staring at me from my unread book shelf for a while. This was my sign to start lol Nice video

Needed This!

Can you review a book from David Baldacci

omgg finally you uploaded!!!

where did the 100 thieves jersey go

incredible philosopher and beautiful novelist I love camus

the myth of sisyphus was one of my most succint reads (well, anything camus is). also, i need to see a handwriting reveal bc from what i see it looks neat.

That’s a good book haul! Wuthering Heights is superior. Orlando is just beautiful beautiful writing.

I have stumbled upon your channel and have been watching some of your videos. Thanks for sharing a vulnerable moment of your life here. I agree, you can't be that unlucky. (This "unlucky" thing has also been bugging me past few weeks. One person pointed out how unlucky I was, and ever since then I can't stop seeing how unlucky I am indeed, and this makes things worse than they are, because it bends our perspective of how life is treating us, and now we can't see our lucky moments clearly. So now I'm trying to purge this tendency, and it's helping a lot.) I hope everything gets better for you. You have a very nice view outside your window. The weather was also perfect (not sure now in January though haha). I have skipped the Satanic Verses part because I want to read it soon. Will revisit once I'm done. Hope you enjoy reading and playing! I will be watching your reviews.

love the vibe, great books too <3

Honestly you yourself hold the capability of loveing all. Its just that you are holding ideas of what is good and bad. When i look at trees starts waterwaves. I dont critizize it. Why is it we critizize humans? Why cant you look at humans the same way you look at the stars. What makes you think we humans are any diffrent from the water waves? Do you critizie cats behaviour or does the cat just act the way its suposed to? Why arent we like the cats. Well maybe we are. Just that we havent relized that yet. I havent read the idiot yet tho i got it on my bookshelf.

Funnily enough I’m too dumb to read this book

I read The Idiot this past year and it was my 3rd Dostoyevsky after Karamazov and Crime and Punishment and I’m so in love with Dostoyevsky but this was the first one so far that I felt like I didn’t fully understand. It was still very emotionally affected by the end, actually tearing up and I was literally thinking about it yesterday and then this video was in my suggested. I think what threw me off was that Prince Myshkin was supposed to be a stand in for Christ and while he was kind and sweet and pure, he also seemed naive to a degree which is not an attribute I would attribute to Christ and from then on my train was off the tracks until the end. But I keep coming back to it in my head and it’s bothering me that I didn’t get everything I could out of it especially because I love Dostoyevsky so much and have felt so close to his other work. I think I’m just going to have to reread it. I was also reading it at bad/weird time in my life and don’t think I gave it as much attention as I should have. I know it’s going to bother me until I get back to it. The spell of Dostoyevsky.

I loved both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. I THINK I liked WH more because I found Mr. Rochester absolutely insufferable, so I just wanted to shake Jane.

Also looking for good early American lit. I normally stick to 20th century American classics- currently reading East of Eden (I'm doing Ben's course as well!). The only thing older I've read lately was Little Women which I didn't love. I've mainly been indulging in Brits for 18th/19th century stuff.

Incredible review. I loved this book so much but felt i didn’t get the full picture but you explain it so well. If your interested White Nights is another good book by Dostoyevsky that shows his romantic writing style prior to being sent to the work camps which changed his style a lot.

Nostalgic feel, articulate, good sense of humor, and great summary. Keep going

what camera did you record this on? the frame movement is lowkey nostalgic bc of how choppy it is 😭

Really putting the idiot in the title 😂

i definitley want to read more murakami next year so it's cool to see you got two! both are ones I need to read too. if you haven't already, I definitely recommend reading Murakami's "Blind Willow, Sleeping Women". Its a collection of short stories, and in my opinion this is where he really shines.

haha loved this- kinda felt like we were on a facetime you speak so comfortably. honestly i stand by book buying and book reading being two different hobbies! wish you luck in your future reading endeavors!

just love that video

Yesss, i enjoyed the book so much. You should defo check out her other books

You Good?

I recall watching the movie for the Count of Monte Cristo and if the book is anything like it I'll be sure to give it a read!

Jerum read your comments bro it’s Jorge from high school I wanna get back in touch 😂

This books seems related heavily to your last review, both dealing with oppression and a characters viewpoint of said events. Another great review, can't wait to see what you do next. I know you mostly do more classical-esque novels, but a acquaintance recently recommended me The Magician's Guild, similar concept with a character who has to fight authority, might be a book you're interested in; even with it's more fantastical elements.

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I like your Jersey in the background, are you a 100 Thieves fan? I've never heard of James Joyce, I didn't even know he was an author let alone the greatest modernist author. To be honest, I also didn't even know what modernism in literature was, but I like your definition, it really got the point across so I could understand more of your review. I like how it's very Plato-ic, seeing as the character reflects inward and sees the greatest thing as knowledge itself, very much like Socrates' ideas. Thanks for the heads up that the large conversation part of the book is confusing and to really pay attention to the characters that are speaking as to get more out of the book. Great review.

"not high literature, but its literature" lel. Got me tied into this book review quickly. Never heard of this book before, but I definitely came away with an understanding of it. A very tabula rasa -esque idea. I can't wait to read it, it actually sounds quite interesting. especially because it blends the ideas of criticism of humanity and religion, and the idea that we ourselves are a folly. Very interesting concept, can't wait to read it.

Never even heard of this book, a great hook at 2:15 couldn't wait to hear the review after "what you decide love is, is up to you" because I agree, "love" is such a concept subjective to everyone. It was such a turnaround after 5:20 because going in you think it's such a story of love and the pretty things of said love, but it's actually quite the opposite. Definitely flips the concept of a love story on its head.

Dude, Fantastic Review of the Iliad, I really learned a lot, at 2:09 I completely agree, every day under war would feel like a lifetime. I've only read a summary of the Iliad but I like how you summarize his writing style at 4:14, honestly an all-around great review, especially from 4:00 to 6:00 you really capture what the book is about with its gritty descriptions of war, suffering, and psychological torment of individual characters, will keep watching this channel now.

Where are the sexy ladies?

Bring on some sexy girls on your next podcast

I also like your cat

thanks for the book review