Thanks for such a lovely shout-out, Steve! I really appreciate it, happy to hear you're enjoying watching me ramble about books :-) Great idea to make this into a tag, it was begging for that. And I agree with you re. Hannibal - I need to watch the movie to see how it was 'fixed'!
To avoid an extraordinarily long list, I thought I would just present you with my notable books from my first ten years. 1954 _The Caves of Steel_ by Isaac Asimov (SF) 1955 _The End of Eternity_ by Isaac Asimov (SF) 1956 _Ficciones_ by Jorge Luis Borges (Fiction) 1957 _The Untouchables_ by Eliot Ness with Oscar Fraley (True crime) 1958 _Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories_ by Truman Capote (Fiction) 1959 _Time Out of Joint_ by Philip K. Dick (SF) 1960 _The Annotated Alice_ by Lewis Carroll with annotations by Martin Gardner (Children’s Fiction) 1961 _The Big Time_ by Fritz Leiber (SF) 1962 _Fact And Fancy_ by Isaac Asimov (Science essays) 1963 _Fallon_ by Louis L’Amour (Western)
I too hail from 1954, so you might enjoy my first decade: 54 "Dixon:" The Yellow Feather Mystery (Hardy Boys!) 55 Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley 56 Barth: The Floating Opera 57 Nabokov: Pnin 58 Hall: Warlock 59 Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House 60 Williams: Butcher's Crossing 61 Heller: Catch-22 62 Powers: Morte d'Urban 63 Thompson: The Grifters
@@aurelius54 That’s a good selection. I have heard of about half of those books although I have not read any of them. The one which I am most likely to read in the near future is _The Haunting of Hill House_ by Shirley Jackson.
I have been watching your video's for some time and just realized I had not subscribed. Done. This seems like a great tag and book challenge. Since I just turned 65 on July 11th I was pleased to discover a book on my big a$$ pile of books to read was Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe, 1958. I hope to get off to a good start with this challenge!. Just a side note, I was checking out your best of lists on your website and was very pleased to see you listed The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish in the Best category. One of my all time favorite books in the past few years. Keep up the great videos from a fellow Bay State (Northern Worcester County) reader. And because I can't write short posts... (only have been to The Brattle once and hope to return some day)
When I first started watching you, Steve, I thought we were about the same age. Sometime later you revealed yourself to be a 28 year old sexy TH-cam influencer--a mere boy. Alas, I passed my 28th year decades ago. My list would be much longer. That said, this is a great tag
My Name is Red is my favorite of Pamuk's fiction, I wasn't so impressed with Nights of Plague which seemed too much like a dry historical book but describing a mythical island... although my review of Nights of Plague has far more views than any of my other 1 minute reviews.
I can't believe my list was more than 50% Stephen King. MKV gave me the idea to do this challenge backwards, starting with the year I was born and seeing if I can name a book I read and liked for each of the previous 61 years. I've been noodling on that one ...
Thanks for such a lovely shout-out, Steve! I really appreciate it, happy to hear you're enjoying watching me ramble about books :-) Great idea to make this into a tag, it was begging for that. And I agree with you re. Hannibal - I need to watch the movie to see how it was 'fixed'!
Some days I feel so old I should start with The Epic Of Gilgamesh lol
Hey I recently found Postwar at a used bookstore and picked it up without knowing it was a Steve recommendation. Lucky me.
So great to have you back!
To avoid an extraordinarily long list, I thought I would just present you with my notable books from my first ten years.
1954 _The Caves of Steel_ by Isaac Asimov (SF)
1955 _The End of Eternity_ by Isaac Asimov (SF)
1956 _Ficciones_ by Jorge Luis Borges (Fiction)
1957 _The Untouchables_ by Eliot Ness with Oscar Fraley (True crime)
1958 _Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories_ by Truman Capote (Fiction)
1959 _Time Out of Joint_ by Philip K. Dick (SF)
1960 _The Annotated Alice_ by Lewis Carroll with annotations by Martin Gardner (Children’s Fiction)
1961 _The Big Time_ by Fritz Leiber (SF)
1962 _Fact And Fancy_ by Isaac Asimov (Science essays)
1963 _Fallon_ by Louis L’Amour (Western)
Great list!
I too hail from 1954, so you might enjoy my first decade:
54 "Dixon:" The Yellow Feather Mystery (Hardy Boys!)
55 Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley
56 Barth: The Floating Opera
57 Nabokov: Pnin
58 Hall: Warlock
59 Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
60 Williams: Butcher's Crossing
61 Heller: Catch-22
62 Powers: Morte d'Urban
63 Thompson: The Grifters
@@aurelius54 That’s a good selection. I have heard of about half of those books although I have not read any of them. The one which I am most likely to read in the near future is _The Haunting of Hill House_ by Shirley Jackson.
I have been watching your video's for some time and just realized I had not subscribed. Done. This seems like a great tag and book challenge. Since I just turned 65 on July 11th I was pleased to discover a book on my big a$$ pile of books to read was Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe, 1958. I hope to get off to a good start with this challenge!. Just a side note, I was checking out your best of lists on your website and was very pleased to see you listed The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish in the Best category. One of my all time favorite books in the past few years. Keep up the great videos from a fellow Bay State (Northern Worcester County) reader. And because I can't write short posts... (only have been to The Brattle once and hope to return some day)
I did that video, too... 53 years, 53 books. Fun idea to turn this into a tag!
When I first started watching you, Steve, I thought we were about the same age. Sometime later you revealed yourself to be a 28 year old sexy TH-cam influencer--a mere boy. Alas, I passed my 28th year decades ago. My list would be much longer. That said, this is a great tag
Wow, so I guess next year we will have been born in the same year!
Glad to see you doing better! I'm going to assemble my list this weekend and do the tag on Monday or Tuesday.
Good to see ya back, Steve!
My Name is Red is my favorite of Pamuk's fiction, I wasn't so impressed with Nights of Plague which seemed too much like a dry historical book but describing a mythical island... although my review of Nights of Plague has far more views than any of my other 1 minute reviews.
Just commenting to wholeheartedly endorse Alex Unabridged. I don't get why he doesn't have thousands of subscribers already.
That's very lovely of you to say! Thank you 😊
I can't believe my list was more than 50% Stephen King. MKV gave me the idea to do this challenge backwards, starting with the year I was born and seeing if I can name a book I read and liked for each of the previous 61 years. I've been noodling on that one ...