The My Favorite Book of All Time Tag!
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Hey Steve! Just popping back in here to let you know I'm finally reading Metamorphoses and loving it! It's so cool how it provides a complete history of...everything...and I love the theme of change.
Mine is "The Prince" By Niccolo Machiavelli. This book talks about the nature of power, princely virtues and vices in a political realist sense, and cunning maneuvers.
Found Will just a few weeks ago, love that you shouted him out as I think he deserves a lot of attention. I cannot wait to see everyone's favorite ebook. I think my TBR is going to explode in about a month after these all come out. I fear I cannot contribute though as just a about a month ago I did a video on my favorite book, but again will love to see eveyrones answers. Great tag. Lastly again nice to find the common thread between us. I love Metamorphoses! Both surprised and not surprised that it is your number 1!
You could always use your FREE WILL to decide to make a reprise video of your favorite book! Grrrrrrrrrrr
Ahh, the Decameron is back in the background. Lovely!
EYES ON THE PRIZE, you! (although in this case it's allowable, since I'm blurbed on that Decameron)
Oh, no! Only 200 Spartans left...
I saw that. We've had many desertions ...
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. I read this as a teen, reread in my late 20’s, and read it again in my late 50’s, at which point I decided it was my favorite book. Just love it.
BTW, I read Ovid’s Metamorphoses after hearing you talk about it in a previous video and loved, loved, loved it! Oh my!
My son is named Gilbert who is apparently the love interest in this. I will have to read it very soon
I read that edition of Metamorphoses last summer. Prior to that I was mainly familiar with the Greek and Roman myths from Bulfinch. I was surprised by the disparity between these two depictions of ancient myths, including the very different sexual sensibilities between the two; moreover, Ovid actually had a lot of humor in it. I really liked the choice of what aspects of famous stories Ovid chose to tell. E.g. for the Trojan War he emphasized the debate between Odysseys and Ajax for the shield of Achilles. Ovid also included some oddball stories including one where he weaves Egyptian mythology in with the inclusion of Isis, and another that features a quaint elderly couple playing good hosts to a wanderer who's actually Zeus.
I'm reading Euripides on and off these days and using Ovid for reference. It's definitely a book that will stay in my shelves dedicated to books I refer to frequently.
Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing your excitement and passion for this amazing book! I just ordered a copy because I've never read it and you made me want to fix that right away! This is my new favourite tag :) Thanks for getting it rolling and for the shoutout and all your support!
It was the least I could do for a fellow soft-spoken twenty-something!
@@saintdonoghue Us soft-spoken twenty-somethings have to stick together! :)
I love how you get excited while taking about books 😀
Well thanks a lot for spotlighting that video. Another Canadian. Always nice to find more of us.
Everything changes… except for Steve when he reads books, apparently, he said, sarcastically lol nice to hear your thoughts on it. Not read it. Yet.
Hah! The only reason this book's standing hasn't changed is because it keeps earning it! Every time I go back to it, I find lots of new marvels ...
@@saintdonoghue you sold me on it. Books like that I try to read early on, so re reads years later earn dividends!
But what I meant was, in the book palate tag you did you and Marc Nash both had said you didn’t have reading experiences that changed you or made you think differently about others, the world, or yourselves. Yet, from my perspective, you demonstrably speak about books altering you in some manner literally all of the time! It’s probably poor wording for the tag prompt because it seems to elicit this notion of a truly transformative experience, when it could simply be, I don’t know, I read a book that proved racism was real and school taught me that wasn’t true. Or, I read about neuro divergent people and realized why my friend with ADHD does X. Or whatever! It’s maddening, in a comical way when people assert they’ve never changed due to a book. Like people who think advertising doesn’t work on them.
OK, maybe At Swim-Two-Birds.but I don't have a blog, so no video explanation. BUT meta hijinx, gorgeous lyricism in places, hilarity in others, a wild structure that ultimately succeeds, and a salute to modernity and implicitly our own age, boxes within boxes that I've never been able to mentally simplify that gives it life through multiple readings. Flann O'Brien did it only once---his others are dim shadows of this one.
I love this assignment and look forward to all of the responses! I subscribed to Will and he now, thanks to you, has 202 subscribers.
What a beautiful discussion, Steve. Thank you.
I have actually read your favorite book!! Wow! It is magnificent. Subbed to Will as well. Will try and come up with my favorite book of all time 😳
Remember: no more than 15 minutes! If *I* can do it, everybody can!
Fantastic! Can you imagine what the Commedia would be if Ovid had never written the Metamorphoses?
I remember seeing a documentary that suggested William Shakespeare likely read The Metamorphoses when he was growing up and it probably influenced his writing.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange.
Ahh, my first encounter with Metamorphoses was with the Martin translation in a course, and I’ve been in love ever since. A book I desire to read in other translations to piece together the beauty of the Latin (before I get the gumption to learn enough Latin to read it directly!). As for favorite: Bram Stoker’s Dracula. One of my earliest “good” books, and it thrills me to this day. But the competition is fierce!
I envy your command of Latin, Steve. I am not totally illiterate in Latin as I went to a British Grammar school when Latin wss necessary for University. Recently I brushed it up, but online help is too expensive after you get past school level. I am going to get a copy if Ovid with the Latin and English texts. Could you recommend an edition? I loved the enthusiasm shining in your face during thus video.Thanks fir enriching my year, and hoping you enjoy your break
My favorite book of all time is Mad Magazine's Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions by AL Jaffee. It's a masterpiece ✨️ 🙌
We are born in medias res.
We spend much of our youth
figuring out our place in the world
by finding out what happened
to our family, our country,
our species, the universe
before we were born.
For me, Jared Diamond’s
Guns, Germs & Steel
answered a lot of those questions
& is the book w/the BIGGEST impact
In my life.
Furthermore, I think
Guns Germs & Steel is the most important
book written in the 20th century.
I only wish it had been available
when I was young.
You need to read Charles Murray's The Bell Curve. Jared Diamond is naive and idealistic.
It's propaganda.
sounds like a great tag! Subscribing to Will and doing the tag soon.
Mine is Chaos Calmo by Sandro Veronesi. I just love it. It touches a nerve.
Well, I still can't decide which is my favorite of all time. I go back and forth between three or four.
what are they?
You don't have to pick one favorite.
It's a tossup between _Midnight's Children_ & _The Ground Beneath Her Feet._ _MC_ is the better book, but _TGBHF_ was my first exposure to the man's writing. Rushdie was like a thunderbolt straight into my brain. As a reader, as a writer, I was never the same after that.
And Will’s subscribers have gone up to 77 😀
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Hello Steve. My favorite book of all time is REMY by Katy Evans. In the story there is a guy named Remington Tate who is an Underground Circuit Fighter. He is a fighter who wins in the ring. He meets a woman named Brooke Dumas. She is at one of his fights. She leaves before he has a chance to talk to her. He hires her and he falls in love with her. It is incredible !!!!!!!!!
Great call to action. I’ve only read my favourite book once. I wonder how many times you’ve read yours.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. It's way less disturbing than Slaughterhouse Five, and it's way better than Slaughterhouse Five! It's kind of like "Island" by Aldous Huxley but better.
Is this still your favourite book of all time? I'm reading it now (the Horace translation). One of my fond memories from high school was learning The Aeneid book 4 in Latin and Ovid's poetry makes me want to scrub up on my verb and noun tables again and revisit it in the original language. Peace brother.
Bible NLJV A lot of folks Don’t believe it’s truth though it is the word of God and how can then it not be The number one book of all timee
What's your favorite book within the canon?
Nighwood by Djuna Barnes
My favourite book of all time is The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
Oh my. I don’t own my favorite book of all time and I’m on a book buying ban!
Not to write endless paragraphs in a comments section. I’ll simply state that my favorite book is The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas.
This is a great tribute to Ovid and his Metamorphoses. I love it too, but it’s not in the top spot for me.
Boy. Now I feel like a pretty shallow reader.
Hah! I doubt very much that you're a shallow reader!
Your final 300 are failing because you’re at 11.8K.
They let me down! But the 200 will prevail!
Hmmmm…. Weaponizing the new guy’s video. Sly move, Donoghue. Sly move.
You and Harry could be next! No one is safe!
You’re 15 minutes were rather long 😂 but very interesting.
Fantastic! I have subbed and am kicking around my favorite book 😎👍
Kicking around? But surely it's "Jerusalem"?
@@saintdonoghue I think so