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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 เม.ย. 2018
- ...but every time I say “Martin Amis” something wonderful happens
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I'm still waiting for the next one
Still waiting...
Still waiting
Thank you for a bookshelf tour that isn't a pandering 20 something reeling off YA tropes. Definitely have put me onto some future reads x
oyoiyoi! but how pretty / color-coordinated some of them shelves are :)
PLEASE MAKE MORE I LOVE YOU I NEED LITERARY GUIDANCE
I am oddly excited about watching this video.
This is great! Can't wait 'til you do the whole collection.
yeah, something bout shelf tours... fun to watch :)
more please! this was so incredibly entertaining - just your opinions on books and recommendations
You are more a rare bird. Devouring the written word like a drug addict. Faster and faster. More never being enough. But in a kind and generous way! Then there are the videos rushing around and slowing down and going sideways within seven minutes. Clearly better than the rest. Never stop.
First and foremost, I'm so glad to see you again!
Your shelves looks stunning, and this has to be the most perfect book shelves tour I've ever seen. In true Paper Bird fashion! Look forward to the next part.
I hope you are having a great day 😊
thanks Silje! hopefully things don't shift around too much before i can get to the next plank!
I’ve barely heard about any of these works, and the way you described them is really endearing, there’s so much personality to your reading memory or how you remembered certain things about the writers themselves, very interesting!
thanks! i'm very nostalgic about books i read in my formative years, tho it's been so long, probly getting some details wrong! :)
Can't wait for the next installment of this
what kind of absolutely devourable bookshelf tour-
i need more.
plenty more in store!
This was so nice to find. I hope to see all the planks.
hi Caleb, good to hear, still pondering Night to let u know :)
Yes I'm here for all of it!
I recently found and bought a collection of 8 or 9 of John Hawkes' novels. I know he was friends with Gass and Barthelme. I'm excited to dive into his work.
happy for you, Hawkes is so awesome, my favorite out of that bunch
Have been wanting this for a moment, cheers.
So excited to watch this. Have a pen and paper at the ready to write down recs haha
some of the stuff on there, probably wouldn't recommend!
Really anticipating this. You're probably the only youtuber I'd take reccomendations from
shucks man:) maybe i can do a more focussed recommendation vid at some point
Good day. I've been watching libraries by Spanish and Latin American writers, so this was enjoyable.
In the 90's at Dolbie Mall in Austin there was a philosophy/foreign language/critical theory bookstore that would have wine and cheese parties Friday nights with music playing by Skinny Puppy. It was there that I bought my Adorno book you have. I didn't know who he was at the time, but It looked interesting, and I had read Walter Benjamin in college, so he seemed like a nice fit.
Martin Amis in the 80's, along with Julian Barnes, Ian MaCewan, and Chris Hitchens, were part of yet another British invasion. I didn't know Amis had fallen out of fashion. Like you, my into to him was LONDON FIELDS, which I bought when it was initially published.
Home libraries are out of fashion. One day those of us who still have libraries will be considered the misfits of a bygone age in our neighborhoods.
i think i remember that bookstore in Dobie Mall! they had a good selection, i got Fishboy by Mark Richard over there. The University area had some great bookstores back in the day. yeah, always wished to have literary friends over to go over books with in the library room, but i think what visitors i've had are more impressed by the robustness of the shelves (as furniture)
You should do this weekly/monthly. I love your takes
Love the commentary you provided.
thanks! tried to squeeze out some thoughts on each, tho some have been a while...
Can't wait until the next plank!
Still waiting for part 2 LOL
Ahhh I’m really excited to see the other planks.
thanks for watching :)
Show more of this!
We need more of this 🙏😡
Great video slot of good stuff filled my Amazon cart.Please do more from your collection
good to hear, hope to do more soon :)
Still waiting for the rest
please mate im dying to see the rest make part 2
Sure thing. Maybe later this year? 😁
i love your channel theres just so few content i got through most of your videos within a day of discovering your channel. im not trying to push you to do anything you dont want to do, but i definitely want to see the rest of your library!
Where's part II?
Would love to see an update. Maybe like a 2 hour update
Would love to see you continue this series, for sure. I've studied this vid an embarrassing amount, and I'm recognizing many spines. Wondering what you have to say about A Flag for Sunrise- I've never seen that one discussed anywhere.
sure, would u like lots of small vids or one long vid for the rest? actually havent read Flag yet, that's the next Stone for me. enjoyed A Hall of Mirrors; Dog Soldiers, can't remember much from. i'd really like to pick up Outerbridge Reach for some reason
Whichever is amenable. It's a treat to watch.
You just knew it was not going to be finished, and it was.
to be continued!
Next one?
only the first plank...
toyed w/ the idea of the whole tour in 7 minutes, at 10x times speed
Wow just wow
Sent here by MementoMori, now just binge watching your videos. So good.
cool! very kind of Adam to mentioned the channel
Hi PaperBird, is that sticker on the Abish book from Half Price Books near Madison? I live in Madison, and I just went to Half Price Books last week!
Madison... WI? Naw it's from a Half Price in Texas
All about this book tour. Looking forward to the series.
How are you liking Dillard?
hi Adam! at first i found her writing oversaturated/overblown, but no doubt powerful, then it grew on me, like some kind of phosphorescent moss
Lovely. More please.
cool thanks!
It must be extremely difficult to sustain the motivation to create and upload these videos. As someone new to these kind of videos it makes me think something is really fucked up with TH-cam. It seems like the most wacked, boring and repetitive producers are filled with an inexhaustible energy to upload.
Hey man, just wanted to drop this here as a small thank you for being a truly fresh and exciting book channel. You've recommended a lot that I've bought over the last few weeks, the first being that Sleeping fish issue that had that short fiction you wrote in it. Awesome stuff man. T'was a tasty morsel in of itself, and the collective purchases have all in all been worth the destitution it's all put me under.
Looking forward to whatever you show us next. All the best!
PS. Is there any way we can get a hand on more of your writing? Cheers
thanks for the kind words! here are some links still up...
www.webdelsol.com/5_trope/4/ek.htm
www.cooprenner.com/fiction/Kim/Aberration.html
delsolreview.webdelsol.com/epicks6/kim.htm
www.cooprenner.com/poetry/Kim/Mint.html
Thanks!
Do you recommend The Exegesis of Phillip K. Dick?
i think diehard fans may enjoy it
Make more!
Looking forward to successive planks. Briefly, what are your thoughts on Ishiguro? He's obviously received a lot of press since the Nobel Prize but have you enjoyed any of his fiction in particular?
I think the Nobel committee had to backpedal, so arrived at Ishiguro. I'm not sure if you're interested in seeing an author's progression but with Ishiguro it's amazing. Seeing him go from Pale View, then Remains, then totally flipping the script with The Unconsoled. The Unconsoled is one of my favorite novels. I finished Never Let Me Go and threw it against the wall, it was so dumbed down. But then let it marinate, now I really appreciate that one also.
do you live in boston
no, why do u think that? :) i've enjoyed visiting Boston
A dumb utilitarian question from someone aspiring one day to have a wall of books like yours - what are the bookshelves you use?
ah, it's been so long i've lost track of the manufacturer... i think the billy bookcase by ikea looks pretty ok and affordable, i'll probably get some of those when I need more shelves
@@PaperBird got it. thank you! by the way i love your channel - thanks for your work :)
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:)
You have any Sam Shepard?
naw i don't have a whole lot of plays. i did like him in Days of Heaven
Is that Vollmann's whole violence series next to The Tunnel?
dang u got good eyes! do u like Vollmann?
I can spot that red band through the heaviest thicket of wire. Anyway, I have his Rainbow Stories but never got too far into it. I do find myself extremely fascinated by him though and appreciate the uncommon kind of seriousness his brings to American literature. Do you have a good starting place with him? It is unfortunate they made so few copies of the full set though...you must be glad to have picked it up.
I greatly admire his Seven Dreams series. Not a single volume has disappointed. Yes, I was very excited to get the Violence series, but it's a slog to get through, I'm still stuck on volume 3
What's wrong with amis?
Nothing really, he was pretty badass in his own way
I think you'll find that while 'in place', she was allegedly spun around by a sumo wrestler, while still dangling from a rope. That didn't actually happen in the book- it was offered by the other guy (who ended up being not a guy) but he didn't accept! Very prudish of him
thanks, found it -- 'What happens is, the ceiling opens and this oiled princess is lowered down on a silken rope. She's doing the splits. You understand what I'm saying to you? You connect, maybe half an inch. Then a 300-pound sumo wrestler comes through the door, takes her leg in his hands, and spins her like a top.'
I suppose I'll make it a rule now to talk to anyone who reads Bernhard in public
it's a rare phenomenon to witness, for sure
AMIS
[bloop][funny visual effect]
Note to Self: Find Amis
Been a while on him but I do remember enjoying London Fields
...and?
I use librarything.com which I use bar code to create virtual library. I donated my books to local library. Downey California
That’s a cool concept. Thanks
That’s a lot of Rick Bass! Sadly, I must report that he’s an ass in real life. I also found out today - in a very cool, very odd anecdote from my nurse practitioner - that David Guterson is a jerk. Love the tour!
thanks. now I'm curious, how did you get that impression of Bass? i met him once and he was kind but that was in the context of a book reading he gave. i suppose in most cases, it's better not to meet your heroes in real life.
I’ve never read his work, but he was on a panel discussion at the Montana Festival of the Book (as it was then called) one year with Andrew Sean Greer and Marianne Wiggins. I took my students, as we were reading Wiggins’s novel John Dollar for class. And Bass clearly resented having to be there. He was irritable throughout the discussion and short-tempered and sneery with questions from the audience afterward. Andrew Sean Greer, on the other hand, came across as the nicest, most genuine man in the world. Marianne Wiggins was one of the flightiest people I’ve ever met.
i can kinda see Bass acting that way. whenever i saw him read (decades ago) he would appear uncomfortable during the q&a portion. but it was good to see him come out of the wilderness once in a while. that's very cool that you taught at the university there. Montana had/has some fine writers
@@OldBluesChapterandVerse That's because he's somewhat of a recluse and not too comfortable around people. But interaction with the audience is a necessary evil that nearly every writer has to do. Don't discern too heavily from that single experience maybe..
Yeah I usually get a really inflated ego with something philosophical too, even if I don't get all of it.
And you've got a nice plank
i try not to read too much philosophy b/c i turn into an A hole for a couple days after haha