Books about books can be tremendously interesting, from cover designs, publication history, discovering titles not known before. I like the Encyclopedia series books (science fiction, fantasy, and so on) that have short articles on books, authors, short stories, themes, etc. The books on individual publishers are always interesting. This one looks great, and I enjoyed your video.
Happiness as the moral purpose of life. Productive achievement a noble activity. Respect for individual rights. Objective reality. How can anybody be against that?
@@Dacre1000 Thank you for reminding me not to try and reason with a leftwing authoritarian. All you are ever going to get is personal attacks and name calling in return. Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty, and the pig enjoys it!
@@monkey2.092 You just assuming I am left wing just because I see trough your bullshit says it all really. Calling an imbecile an imbecile is not a personal attack nor an insult. It is the sad truth.
I learn so much from your videos; I didn't know about the UK having Penguin Modern Classics that weren't regularly available here in the US. It's so fascinating how companies and their marketing divisions treat different populations in different ways. British people already get better covers for a lot of novels, but who knew they were getting exclusives? And the audacity for them to publish this book to throw it in our faces! LOL.
I loved Penguin Modern Classics. I used to have The Hustler in Modern Classic. My favourite was Sherwood King’s If I Die Before I Wake. The cover was a still of Rita Hayworth from Lady From Shanghai. I’m not sure I would have read the novel had it not been a Modern Classic, but it is a great crime novel.
Inclined to agree with you about Ayn Rand. I read her book "Philosophy: Who Needs It" and was extremely underwhelmed ... I couldn't remember the name of her philosophy either, while I was listening to you, but it's just come to me: Objectivism!
I just got this book also the other day. It’s so well done. I’ve already found so many books I’ve never heard of that I want to read. Did you see that Morrissey was included? When I saw it I thought of you. Lol!!! 🤣
Beautiful book! I don't know if I'd personally have any need for it, but it would definitely be fun to flip through. 😊 And we love the Ayn Rand shade... 😉
If John Galt had just said “Be a d*ck” instead of pontificating for 60 pages we could have saved thousands of unfortunate trees and millions of literate minds.
Two classics ... oops, mentioned classics again. Truly love those two books. I assume you have the brilliant "Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005" as well as the Puffin version and that is a classic also ??? It is an amazing catalog of their books but it is done with so much style, you can ignore that. I used to get a lot of catalogs back in the 70s and they were lists and lists of the penguins (pan, nel etc) and they had the covers, sadly, I never kept any of them but they were often just piled up in the book shops with little interest, certainly they were always of interest to me. Now I will have to go and look on ebay and see if any still are available .. though probably hard to search for (probably the sort of thing that turns up at book fairs for £20 or so now or more)
Interesting. Thank you! I was just taking a break from reading a Penguin 20th Century Classic, i. e., the aqua color spines. I'm reading a Bernard Malamud book from my tbr. I love a lot of the cover art Penguin uses, but all their crazy versions drive me nuts.
WOW - turns out I've been practising that Ayn Rand philosophy and didnt know it !! 🤣🤣I just browsed the inside of the book on Amazon - it's great. You better sit down before I tell you this, but it's even available in Australia ! 😉😉
Its now more confusing as Random House, Penguin, and Vintage are together and so I have Faulkner books and Hemmingway books in Vintage classics as well as some Hemmingway books published by Arrow. I have a thomas Lygotti book published by Penguin Classics and H P Lovecraft in Penguin Modern classics.
Listen to the tiny Bibliophile on your shoulder! The one with the horns and little pitchfork. He says “Buy it NOW! Forget the challenge and buy it NOW!”
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 One could argue this doesn't count as a book, because it's a reference book and not something you're likely to read cover to cover. But it's interesting that one of the few books you decide to splurge on after you failed the challenge - which you plan to restart - is a book that tells you about all the wonderful books you don't own! 😋 So the question is, does this work as a proxy? Like, maybe you can't *buy* these modern classics, but at least you can own a facsimile of the cover? Or, does browsing it make you itch all the more?! 😈
That’s really interesting… I did not know that. It’s odd how the UK often has cooler covers. Outside of Penguin, there have been numerous times I’ve sprung for the UK version because the cover was so much better.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I’m glad you are not reentering the 100 book challenge. For one thing, it’s not something to start in The Year of the Mammoth. And for another, when Marvel Epic Collections come out, you need to get them while you can, as they go out of print far too soon.
Congratulations on 3K! Do you think Penguin will put out an updated Penguin Classics anytime soon? I don’t remember when you said the first one was published.
Apparently quite a few people have read and practiced the Ayn Rand way to life. Not me though. I prefer to blissfully go through life banging my own drum.
Books about books can be tremendously interesting, from cover designs, publication history, discovering titles not known before. I like the Encyclopedia series books (science fiction, fantasy, and so on) that have short articles on books, authors, short stories, themes, etc. The books on individual publishers are always interesting. This one looks great, and I enjoyed your video.
We have Penguin Modern Classics down here at the bottom of the world, in Australia and New Zealand. 🥳
I just purchased the regular old Penguin Classics book. Now I'm very tempted to go for the Modern Classics. I love books about books...
I think you nailed the explanation of "objectivism" perfectly.
Happiness as the moral purpose of life. Productive achievement a noble activity. Respect for individual rights. Objective reality.
How can anybody be against that?
@@monkey2.092 Cause they are not children or imbeciles.
@@Dacre1000 Thank you for reminding me not to try and reason with a leftwing authoritarian. All you are ever going to get is personal attacks and name calling in return.
Never wrestle with a pig. You just get dirty, and the pig enjoys it!
@@monkey2.092 You just assuming I am left wing just because I see trough your bullshit says it all really. Calling an imbecile an imbecile is not a personal attack nor an insult. It is the sad truth.
Thanks Tony. Unfortunately I precipitated the great Monkey VS. Dacre battle of 22!
I learn so much from your videos; I didn't know about the UK having Penguin Modern Classics that weren't regularly available here in the US. It's so fascinating how companies and their marketing divisions treat different populations in different ways. British people already get better covers for a lot of novels, but who knew they were getting exclusives? And the audacity for them to publish this book to throw it in our faces! LOL.
ROFL over your Ayn Rand comment. It was so well delivered.
I loved Penguin Modern Classics. I used to have The Hustler in Modern Classic. My favourite was Sherwood King’s If I Die Before I Wake. The cover was a still of Rita Hayworth from Lady From Shanghai. I’m not sure I would have read the novel had it not been a Modern Classic, but it is a great crime novel.
Inclined to agree with you about Ayn Rand. I read her book "Philosophy: Who Needs It" and was extremely underwhelmed ... I couldn't remember the name of her philosophy either, while I was listening to you, but it's just come to me: Objectivism!
I just got this book also the other day. It’s so well done. I’ve already found so many books I’ve never heard of that I want to read. Did you see that Morrissey was included? When I saw it I thought of you. Lol!!! 🤣
Beautiful book! I don't know if I'd personally have any need for it, but it would definitely be fun to flip through. 😊 And we love the Ayn Rand shade... 😉
A beautiful book.I think ill get this one too.....
If John Galt had just said “Be a d*ck” instead of pontificating for 60 pages we could have saved thousands of unfortunate trees and millions of literate minds.
I got the Penguin Classics book when it went on sale after Christmas, and have been debating about this one. Thanks for the push.
Two classics ... oops, mentioned classics again. Truly love those two books. I assume you have the brilliant "Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005" as well as the Puffin version and that is a classic also ??? It is an amazing catalog of their books but it is done with so much style, you can ignore that. I used to get a lot of catalogs back in the 70s and they were lists and lists of the penguins (pan, nel etc) and they had the covers, sadly, I never kept any of them but they were often just piled up in the book shops with little interest, certainly they were always of interest to me. Now I will have to go and look on ebay and see if any still are available .. though probably hard to search for (probably the sort of thing that turns up at book fairs for £20 or so now or more)
Interesting. Thank you! I was just taking a break from reading a Penguin 20th Century Classic, i. e., the aqua color spines. I'm reading a Bernard Malamud book from my tbr. I love a lot of the cover art Penguin uses, but all their crazy versions drive me nuts.
3k!!! The Manor is blowing up on the interwebs
It’s odd. All of a sudden the mysterious algorithm noticed me. I’m getting all these comments on my dusty old videos. Some of them are rather strange!
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 You’ve pushed too far into the Eastern marshes … there be Picts!
WOW - turns out I've been practising that Ayn Rand philosophy and didnt know it !! 🤣🤣I just browsed the inside of the book on Amazon - it's great. You better sit down before I tell you this, but it's even available in Australia ! 😉😉
I never realized there was such a schism between the British Penguins and the American Penguins.
Its now more confusing as Random House, Penguin, and Vintage are together and so I have Faulkner books and Hemmingway books in Vintage classics as well as some Hemmingway books published by Arrow. I have a thomas Lygotti book published by Penguin Classics and H P Lovecraft in Penguin Modern classics.
Yeah, it can be confusing, that’s for sure.
Dang! I want that book. When I’m done with the 100 Book Challenge.
Listen to the tiny Bibliophile on your shoulder! The one with the horns and little pitchfork. He says “Buy it NOW! Forget the challenge and buy it NOW!”
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 One could argue this doesn't count as a book, because it's a reference book and not something you're likely to read cover to cover. But it's interesting that one of the few books you decide to splurge on after you failed the challenge - which you plan to restart - is a book that tells you about all the wonderful books you don't own! 😋
So the question is, does this work as a proxy? Like, maybe you can't *buy* these modern classics, but at least you can own a facsimile of the cover? Or, does browsing it make you itch all the more?! 😈
hey Michael I am starting my year 9 Literature elective tomorrow and I am going to introduce my students to you.
That’s really interesting… I did not know that. It’s odd how the UK often has cooler covers. Outside of Penguin, there have been numerous times I’ve sprung for the UK version because the cover was so much better.
I do like the look of these books. I will buy some of them…because I can now!
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 😮 I thought you were starting over in the book-buying ban? Also, congrats on 3K! That was fast!
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I’m glad you are not reentering the 100 book challenge. For one thing, it’s not something to start in The Year of the Mammoth. And for another, when Marvel Epic Collections come out, you need to get them while you can, as they go out of print far too soon.
Congratulations on 3K! Do you think Penguin will put out an updated Penguin Classics anytime soon? I don’t remember when you said the first one was published.
Apparently quite a few people have read and practiced the Ayn Rand way to life. Not me though. I prefer to blissfully go through life banging my own drum.
Ayn Rand. Ugh. I think you're right. I tried to read _Atlas Shrugged_ and just couldn't do it. I was bored out of my mind and hated the characters.
You forgot to say 'modern classic' ! hihihihi
I can live with the inclusion of Morissey but I really draw the line at Rand. Shame on Penguin!
It is disturbing!