Thank you so much for shouting out my novel, Visegrad. It sort of limped out of the gate after COVID (I live in Eastern Europe and published with a small press), and didn't get any reviews, so it means a lot to me that you took the time. I hope you continue to enjoy it. Edit: Recommendations-wise, I believe everyone should read George Saunders. Start with his short story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. Also, if you're interested in writing, I think his A Swim In a Pond in the Rain is the most useful book for writers since Elements of Style.
It is I! The TRUE author of the novel mentioned! This man is an imposter! Wait... what were we talking about again? In all seriousness, that's really cool. Happy for you, bud.
As everyone knows, phase one of the MCTU showed the origin story of Man, back when he only carried book. Then by the start of phase two he had already completed his arc into becoming the Man Carrying Thing
@@ManCarryingThing Easy solve for character driven IP run out of ideas. create a fem version with different gravity variable and in this universe she drops things.
@@TheCookieFlavaJARno, she carries things too. And does it way better than man ever did. Man even makes a guest appearance in an episode to tell her how much better she is than him.
I read Cat's Cradle when I was in High School, like 16-17 years old, and it gave me the most intense feeling of existential dread I've ever felt in my life. Even over 10 years later, thinking about Ice Nine and how these incompetent, selfish people could easily end the world and I would be none the wiser until it was much too late gives me chills. Dr. Strangelove is the closest piece of media to also give me that feeling.
I’m so glad you’re not abandoning booktube!! I’m definitely more of a sci-fi fantasy fan but I feel like your tastes align with mine so well so your recommendations outside of the stuff I found your channel from (dune messiah) are trusted a lot more. Definitely found some cool stuff I never would’ve otherwise through your channel, thanks so much for all your content!
I always felt like breakfast of champions would make a good film. Until I saw the actual film they made. I think you'd be right if it wasn't for the Bokononism elements. I don't see any film dealing with those parts well. That's kind of the spanner in the works for any adaption in my head. But I guess they could just cut it out, the narrative would still function without it.
@@medes5597 give it a different name and call it a cult. Have Wes Anderson direct the film so the serious undertones are masked by the whimsical characters and editing.
@@CassidyListon oh wow. OK yeah that would definitely work. That off kilter indie film "serious without being serious, funny without being funny" vibe would work incredibly well here.
I recommend the novel Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, it honestly made me question all my life choices (even more than usual). It's about a man who gets kidnapped by a ruthless version of himself from another dimension and switches places with him. how do you fight someone that's all the worst parts of yourself and is willing to do anything to steal your life.
For real, man. The Parker books are my all time favorite series. They make me feel like I took a wrong turn in life and should have been a career criminal lol
thank you for still doing book talks 🙏🏻💕💕 i started watching you for them since you watch such different things than i do and i'm always looking for recs outside my own realm
Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite non fantasy author, sirens of titan is my all time favorite book. I just recently got all of his books, so I'll be reading them all sometime this year!
Just recently jumped into the Parker series (at your recommendation), and I really loved it. I've only read Backflash (only Parker book my library had), which I don't believe you've gotten to yet--and really enjoyed it! Thanks for the recs!
Sirens of Titan is worth it if you want to read a another Vonnegut. Packs a lot of the recurring ideas in his ouvre and is probably one of his more entertaining installments.
I went on a Kate Atkinson kick recently. I think you would like her Jackson Brodie series. She's one of my favorite writers, because of the way she intertwines completely new, unexpected characters into the world of the series. I think my favorite is Started Early, Took My Dog, but all of them are great, as are her stand-alone books
based vonnegut in thumbnail. if you're looking to get more into vonnegut I'd recommend "god bless you mr. rosewater" and "the sirens of titan". also adore "mother night" and "bluebeard" though they're both kinda black sheep among his wider body of work. night especially is interesting as a more straight wwii novel, like a less developed precursor to slaughterhouse in some ways
@@ManCarryingThing oh yeah, that's one of his best! it shares some characters with bluebeard, actually - the painter rabo karabekian is the protag of bluebeard and first appears in breakfast. I think I prefer bluebeard for how... strange it is as a vonnegut novel (think it's the only full novel he ever wrote without an overtly pessimistic ending, for one), but breakfast is probably the better book objectively and it's one of his best-known for good reason
I thoroughly enjoy your book videos and hope you keep making them. I read Cat's Cradle in high school and really enjoyed it. I loved what it was saying about religion, belief, and the destructive forces of men. If you liked Cat's Cradle, I can't recommend Breakfast of Champions enough, I really enjoyed reading that book. Also your ability to keep track of multiple books you're reading at once is impressive.
Every time I hear "Richard Stark", my mind finishes that as "Starkey" and assumes they're about to talk about Ringo Starr, so I'm slightly disappointed that the Parker series isn't (not so) secretly written by the Beatles' drummer. Thank you for an update on your readthrough of those books! Nice to hear you read Cat's Cradle - I quite enjoy Vonnegut, but I never feel right recommending him to anyone (I might've recommended Player Piano once recently, that's it).
I have started reading the Parker series thanks to you and greatly enjoy it. I must recommend God Bless You Mr. Rosewater for another great Vonnegut book. It's my favorite of his novels for sure.
I think the relatively one-dimensional characters in Kurt Vonnegut’s writing play well to his style. The relative simplicity of his characters combine with the density of his writing to create a mass of simplicities that really effectively satirize more complex issues. It makes his writing really digestible despite often trying to touch on a lot of different stuff in one go. Big part of why I adore his novels, personally
@@w1ckedn0nsense34 bluebeard is incredible, it's a top 3 vonnegut book for me from memory, it's been over a decade since I've read any of the books so that could change
I'm really surprised you haven't read much Vonnegut before. I'd really recommend pretty much everything of his, the only exceptions I'd say are Player Piano and his stuff from the 80s onwards is not so great. Mother Night is probably my personal favourite. Interesting that you say his writing is dense, I've always thought that the thing about him is that he's very accessible, his books *feel* like they're very casual and thrown together, but when you look at them again everything is very carefully constructed.
I've been wanting to check out the Parker books for years. Your videos pushed me to finally do it. Recently read The Hunter and loved it. I'm planning to read book two soon. Thanks for covering them!
I read a fantastic chunker of a book earlier this month, called Power in the Blood, by Greg Matthews. I've never heard of it, no one I know has ever heard of it. It was truly a hidden gem
I read Cat’s Cradle last year and I absolutely loved it. I haven’t read any other Vonnegut so I might pick up Slaughterhouse Five soon. Great video as always
I only discovered your channel recently, thanks to the silly short videos. Really happy to see this longer-form thing especially given you are extolling the virtues of the Parker series. I just picked up a couple at a book sale based on my love of Point Blank (my favorite Boorman film). I might have to dig into these this summer. Thanks for the push.
Every book you gave recommendation was fantastic when I want to read some new books i always ask people for advice but books they mention often disappoints me But you are different Thank you very much
Great video I’ve found a lot of great reads through your recs. I unfortunately had to DNF the Poky Little Puppy I thought the characters were very flat and downright unbelievable
Just recently got back into reading, and I’m finally getting through the last Maze Runner book I own, “The Kill Order.” Loved the series as a kid, tore through it, but never read the 4th one. Honestly I’m really enjoying it.
Currently reading Nothing to Envy, a non fiction book about North Korea. Mind blowing look at how the country operates/operated, propaganda, famine, dictatorships, etc etc Really enjoyed Five Decembers btw, love the book content keep it up :)
I'm glad you liked the screenshot included with the book! I'm going to pass this video onto the guy who designed the cover, he's gonna love your comment! Thank you again for all the recommendations!
Great video as always! But this angle makes it seem like you made this entire vid while waiting for your mom to let you out of Time Out in the corner. 😄
if you liked cat's cradle you should really read Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut as well. Very very interesting moral debate and some beautiful writing. My favourite Kurt Vonnegut book, and the movie adaptation is beautiful and a genuinely touching film.
In the theme of self-publishing, there's this great book called Featherlight by Jake Schaefer. It's got this great blend of sci-fi, noir, and fantasy. I have no idea how it works but the main character's internal monologue is so smooth and enjoyable. Definitely recommend if you're looking for something genre busting.
I've read a handful of Vonnegut books, and I could also never really get into him. He just doesn't do anything for me. I remember Slaughter-House Five being a huge disappointment and not really liking it. I read Breakfast of Champions, which was probably my favorite, and even then I thought it just sort of fine. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; God Bless You, Dr. Kavorkian; Mother Night - all felt like wastes of time. I had read some of Cat's Cradle. I also read a handful of his short stories, 'The Big Space Fuck' being the best, and even then is, again, fine. Hope you get more out of him than I did.
I can't remember which one it is, but there's a Westlake novel that does a similar thing to the Gores crossover he did (where they both had the same event occur from different perspectives in their respective and otherwise unrelated books) where someone is describing a heist from one of the Parker novels in a conversation they have with the main character. The clever thing is that the details they give aren't quite right and when the main character mentions the heist in another conversation later, he's accidentally messed up a few details himself. It kind of shows the myth of this heist building in front of you as it gets more dramatic with retelling. It's just a little thing (and I don't think the book it's in is any good, that detail and an obscene comment about Clara Bow are the only things I remember from it) but it stuck with me because it gave this impression of a universe of Westlake characters that existed between the pages of his books. Which isn't uncommon these days, but I was 14 and that kind of thing blew me away.
I cannot recommend the graphic novel adaptation of “The Score” by Darwyn Cooke highly enough. It’s such an excellent ride and it made me fall in love with the series. (Also he uses the likeness of other famous comic artists as the characters that make up the team, like Jim Steranko. A fun little easter egg!)
I havent read Cats Cradle yet, but Slaughterhouse 9 was my introduction to Vonnegut. I loved the surrealist humor, and how he interwove and explored parts of his real life into the narrative. Aside from that one, I also listened to a collection of shorts he wrote titled Welcome to the Monkeyhouse. I loved all of the shorts, and while most made me laugh, there were others, namely the titular Welcome to the Monkeyhouse short story, that were thought provoking, and thematically challenging. Thanks to Kevin the Floor Guy for showing me Vonnegut.
I'm up to Cities on the Plain, the last book in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy (have you done any videos about those?). I had only read Blood Meridian years ago in University. All the Pretty Horses is now my all time favourite book, highly recommend.
@@experiongallup do the trilogy man! I almost tapped out during the Crossing but I’m about to finish Cities on the Plain and it makes for such a good trilogy.
@@jackw5430 Thanks, they both are on the list. Speaking of tapping, Suttree tapped me out early in the goings. It was just too dark for me at the time.
Slaughterhouse-5 is the best written book I've ever read, but my three favourite Vonnegut books are Slapstick, Breakfast of Champions and Deadeye Dick. I've read a lot of Vonnegut 😁 he's cranky, he's funny, but as you mentioned... Not that nice
I just read Last Days by Brian Evenson and i think you might like its style. He has several novellas, this one is about a retired detective getting dragged into this cult to investigate a murder for them. Straightforward, brisk style.
I just finished reading The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. It's a murder mystery with a lot of crazy twists and turns, and it's presented in a really unique way. I recommend it!
YOOO!! HAV is literally one of the best books I have ever read. Jan Morris is the GOAT. It's not science fiction tho, don't go into it thinking that. Still, absolutely killer book, worth the read. Whoever sent you that has great taste. (it wasn't me lol)
I see that Beckett collection (?) sitting there. Have you read much Beckett? I got into him last year starting with Molloy and god I loved it. I also got into Tarjei Vesaas recently - The Birds (my fav so far by him), The Ice Palace, The Hills Reply
Would love to see you read or if you have read it, your thoughts on Flowers for Algernon. Made me cry like a baby at the beginning, middle, and end and I’m a cold hearted b when it comes to sad stories.
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If Blood Meridian ain’t on here, I’m not listening.
I like how every man carrying book video starts with you explaining that you’re not just silly, you also read books
its true. i read books.
I don’t believe it
Every time I watch one of his book videos I’m surprised to find that this man does not, in fact, just carry thing, but sometimes reads books.
What a nerd
@@grandadmiralthrawn3494 He carry the books in his head.
Thank you so much for shouting out my novel, Visegrad. It sort of limped out of the gate after COVID (I live in Eastern Europe and published with a small press), and didn't get any reviews, so it means a lot to me that you took the time. I hope you continue to enjoy it.
Edit: Recommendations-wise, I believe everyone should read George Saunders. Start with his short story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. Also, if you're interested in writing, I think his A Swim In a Pond in the Rain is the most useful book for writers since Elements of Style.
It is I! The TRUE author of the novel mentioned! This man is an imposter! Wait... what were we talking about again?
In all seriousness, that's really cool. Happy for you, bud.
As everyone knows, phase one of the MCTU showed the origin story of Man, back when he only carried book. Then by the start of phase two he had already completed his arc into becoming the Man Carrying Thing
now his character has nowhere to go, they should kill him off and do a reboot.
@@ManCarryingThing Easy solve for character driven IP run out of ideas. create a fem version with different gravity variable and in this universe she drops things.
@@ManCarryingThing And call it "Person Carries Object"
@@TheCookieFlavaJARno, she carries things too. And does it way better than man ever did. Man even makes a guest appearance in an episode to tell her how much better she is than him.
Can confirm. Before man carried thing, he carried book
Yep. He carries thing and book still. He is carrying the fire
I love your booktube videos and they're the main reason I subscribed. There are dozens of us. Dozens I tell you!
I read Cat's Cradle when I was in High School, like 16-17 years old, and it gave me the most intense feeling of existential dread I've ever felt in my life. Even over 10 years later, thinking about Ice Nine and how these incompetent, selfish people could easily end the world and I would be none the wiser until it was much too late gives me chills. Dr. Strangelove is the closest piece of media to also give me that feeling.
I’m so glad you’re not abandoning booktube!! I’m definitely more of a sci-fi fantasy fan but I feel like your tastes align with mine so well so your recommendations outside of the stuff I found your channel from (dune messiah) are trusted a lot more. Definitely found some cool stuff I never would’ve otherwise through your channel, thanks so much for all your content!
Out of all of his stories, Cat's Cradle always seemed like the Vonnegut novel that would best adapt to film.
interesting - i need to read more to see if that is
@@ManCarryingThing my favorite Vonnegut of all time is Sirens of Titan... but really, they're all pretty good.
I always felt like breakfast of champions would make a good film. Until I saw the actual film they made.
I think you'd be right if it wasn't for the Bokononism elements. I don't see any film dealing with those parts well. That's kind of the spanner in the works for any adaption in my head. But I guess they could just cut it out, the narrative would still function without it.
@@medes5597 give it a different name and call it a cult. Have Wes Anderson direct the film so the serious undertones are masked by the whimsical characters and editing.
@@CassidyListon oh wow. OK yeah that would definitely work. That off kilter indie film "serious without being serious, funny without being funny" vibe would work incredibly well here.
I recommend the novel Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, it honestly made me question all my life choices (even more than usual). It's about a man who gets kidnapped by a ruthless version of himself from another dimension and switches places with him. how do you fight someone that's all the worst parts of yourself and is willing to do anything to steal your life.
For real, man. The Parker books are my all time favorite series. They make me feel like I took a wrong turn in life and should have been a career criminal lol
These are my favourite videos of yours
thank you for still doing book talks 🙏🏻💕💕 i started watching you for them since you watch such different things than i do and i'm always looking for recs outside my own realm
Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite non fantasy author, sirens of titan is my all time favorite book.
I just recently got all of his books, so I'll be reading them all sometime this year!
You're taunting me with that Dark Tower set in the background, aren't you?
its been a minute since a book video so thank you
Hell yeah!!! Cat’s Cradle is by far my favorite book OAT it’s so amazing!!!
Same, I reread it every few years to be like “surely it doesn’t hold up.” But damn does it ever.
Just recently jumped into the Parker series (at your recommendation), and I really loved it. I've only read Backflash (only Parker book my library had), which I don't believe you've gotten to yet--and really enjoyed it! Thanks for the recs!
Sirens of Titan is worth it if you want to read a another Vonnegut. Packs a lot of the recurring ideas in his ouvre and is probably one of his more entertaining installments.
i'm getting back into reading, thanks for this man
love when you make book videos
Love the book vids! I also read Cat’s Cradle recently. Uncle Kurt never fails to delight.
Just wanted to say thank you for the recommendation of Hit Man by Lawrence Block. Finally got around to reading it and it's really good.
glad you liked it!
why does this silly fella have misery in the middle of his dark tower box set?
You run my favorite channel right now. Thank you for being you.
Glad to hear you haven't given up on the Dark Tower series. Interested to hear your thoughts on the final book.
I went on a Kate Atkinson kick recently. I think you would like her Jackson Brodie series. She's one of my favorite writers, because of the way she intertwines completely new, unexpected characters into the world of the series. I think my favorite is Started Early, Took My Dog, but all of them are great, as are her stand-alone books
I've only read her debut novel. But my goodness, there's a good author.
man literally carried a thing today!
Holy shit the parker series on the first recommendation. I hope people would pick up the series. I want to talk about it so much
Genuinely one of my favorite TH-camrs. Man carrying thing and that thing that man carry is youtube.
I like that you stick to your book video roots
based vonnegut in thumbnail. if you're looking to get more into vonnegut I'd recommend "god bless you mr. rosewater" and "the sirens of titan". also adore "mother night" and "bluebeard" though they're both kinda black sheep among his wider body of work. night especially is interesting as a more straight wwii novel, like a less developed precursor to slaughterhouse in some ways
nice - how about Breakfast of Champions? I just picked that up
@@ManCarryingThing oh yeah, that's one of his best! it shares some characters with bluebeard, actually - the painter rabo karabekian is the protag of bluebeard and first appears in breakfast. I think I prefer bluebeard for how... strange it is as a vonnegut novel (think it's the only full novel he ever wrote without an overtly pessimistic ending, for one), but breakfast is probably the better book objectively and it's one of his best-known for good reason
I second God Bless You Mr Rosewater. It gives context to some of the recurring characters and themes in his later work
Been missing the books
I thoroughly enjoy your book videos and hope you keep making them.
I read Cat's Cradle in high school and really enjoyed it. I loved what it was saying about religion, belief, and the destructive forces of men.
If you liked Cat's Cradle, I can't recommend Breakfast of Champions enough, I really enjoyed reading that book.
Also your ability to keep track of multiple books you're reading at once is impressive.
Thanks for including bookmail! Really special that you mentioned the book my sister wrote.
Ahhhhh, yay! More book recs(and more to add to my infinitely growing pile), so in the words of Dr. Doofenshmirtz: Thank you and curse you
Every time I hear "Richard Stark", my mind finishes that as "Starkey" and assumes they're about to talk about Ringo Starr, so I'm slightly disappointed that the Parker series isn't (not so) secretly written by the Beatles' drummer. Thank you for an update on your readthrough of those books!
Nice to hear you read Cat's Cradle - I quite enjoy Vonnegut, but I never feel right recommending him to anyone (I might've recommended Player Piano once recently, that's it).
I have started reading the Parker series thanks to you and greatly enjoy it. I must recommend God Bless You Mr. Rosewater for another great Vonnegut book. It's my favorite of his novels for sure.
15:33 lol. I don't have the patience to film unboxing books either. As soon as a package arrives I'm like a kid on Christmas morning.
I think the relatively one-dimensional characters in Kurt Vonnegut’s writing play well to his style. The relative simplicity of his characters combine with the density of his writing to create a mass of simplicities that really effectively satirize more complex issues. It makes his writing really digestible despite often trying to touch on a lot of different stuff in one go. Big part of why I adore his novels, personally
Hi man carrying things, just finished the name of the rose by Umberto Eco, a murder mystery in an abbey during the inquisition
Good read!
The Sirens of Titan is my favorite Vonnegut book, give that one a try.
bought breakfast of champions. is that one good?
Breakfast of champions is AMAZING
@Man Carrying Thing It's not my favorite of his but it's good. Has a lot of the same themes as slaughterhouse five but told in a sillier way.
@@ManCarryingThing breakfast of champions is my least favorite so far and I've almost read everything. I really like Bluebeard and recommend it.
@@w1ckedn0nsense34 bluebeard is incredible, it's a top 3 vonnegut book for me from memory, it's been over a decade since I've read any of the books so that could change
I'm really surprised you haven't read much Vonnegut before. I'd really recommend pretty much everything of his, the only exceptions I'd say are Player Piano and his stuff from the 80s onwards is not so great. Mother Night is probably my personal favourite. Interesting that you say his writing is dense, I've always thought that the thing about him is that he's very accessible, his books *feel* like they're very casual and thrown together, but when you look at them again everything is very carefully constructed.
I've been wanting to check out the Parker books for years. Your videos pushed me to finally do it. Recently read The Hunter and loved it. I'm planning to read book two soon. Thanks for covering them!
Tbh I’m here for the book stuff (silly stuff is great too tho)
I read a fantastic chunker of a book earlier this month, called Power in the Blood, by Greg Matthews. I've never heard of it, no one I know has ever heard of it. It was truly a hidden gem
BOOKS?!?!
I read Cat’s Cradle last year and I absolutely loved it. I haven’t read any other Vonnegut so I might pick up Slaughterhouse Five soon. Great video as always
I only discovered your channel recently, thanks to the silly short videos. Really happy to see this longer-form thing especially given you are extolling the virtues of the Parker series. I just picked up a couple at a book sale based on my love of Point Blank (my favorite Boorman film). I might have to dig into these this summer. Thanks for the push.
I read a comic adaptation for the score and ever since I haven't stopped thinking about it. Good to know that the source material is good, too.
Every book you gave recommendation was fantastic
when I want to read some new books i always ask people for advice but books they mention often disappoints me
But you are different
Thank you very much
Im wondering are ppl just recommending very popular obvious books or what is it about their recommendations that disappoint?
I always knew there was something behind Parker's eyes when he was driving Lady Penelope around
Nothing makes my day like a ManCarryingBooks video.
Great video I’ve found a lot of great reads through your recs. I unfortunately had to DNF the Poky Little Puppy I thought the characters were very flat and downright unbelievable
Tarantino really loves the Parker series as well, there's a good chapter about it in his book Cinema Speculation that released last year
Read Cat’s Cradle in high school and it’s still my favorite novel. Excellent recommendation!
You look so happy talking about books, never stop.
sympathy for man carrying thing: he broke his elbow, but evil MCT at 13:07 doesn't care
Just recently got back into reading, and I’m finally getting through the last Maze Runner book I own, “The Kill Order.”
Loved the series as a kid, tore through it, but never read the 4th one. Honestly I’m really enjoying it.
Currently reading Nothing to Envy, a non fiction book about North Korea. Mind blowing look at how the country operates/operated, propaganda, famine, dictatorships, etc etc
Really enjoyed Five Decembers btw, love the book content keep it up :)
I'm glad you liked the screenshot included with the book! I'm going to pass this video onto the guy who designed the cover, he's gonna love your comment! Thank you again for all the recommendations!
Ill be keeping an eye out for 361, sounds like it'd be right up my alley!
Your mic placement gives me energy
Congrats on 250K! I'm here mostly for the book content.
Yesss another book video!! I love cats cradle so much
Great video as always! But this angle makes it seem like you made this entire vid while waiting for your mom to let you out of Time Out in the corner. 😄
Love to see Cat’s Cradle- been my favorite book for years ❤
So excited. Been reading again thanks to you
if you liked cat's cradle you should really read Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut as well. Very very interesting moral debate and some beautiful writing. My favourite Kurt Vonnegut book, and the movie adaptation is beautiful and a genuinely touching film.
In the theme of self-publishing, there's this great book called Featherlight by Jake Schaefer. It's got this great blend of sci-fi, noir, and fantasy. I have no idea how it works but the main character's internal monologue is so smooth and enjoyable. Definitely recommend if you're looking for something genre busting.
I've read a handful of Vonnegut books, and I could also never really get into him. He just doesn't do anything for me. I remember Slaughter-House Five being a huge disappointment and not really liking it. I read Breakfast of Champions, which was probably my favorite, and even then I thought it just sort of fine. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; God Bless You, Dr. Kavorkian; Mother Night - all felt like wastes of time. I had read some of Cat's Cradle.
I also read a handful of his short stories, 'The Big Space Fuck' being the best, and even then is, again, fine. Hope you get more out of him than I did.
Last night I saw David Sedaris speak on tour and he only read new essays and they were all super funny. New revisiting his stuff
Have you checked out the Parker graphic novels by Darwyn Cooke? He was only able to adapt 4 books before he passed away but they’re very good.
im so grateful that no one is gonna f*ckin stop you carry on carrying he thing man!
I can't remember which one it is, but there's a Westlake novel that does a similar thing to the Gores crossover he did (where they both had the same event occur from different perspectives in their respective and otherwise unrelated books) where someone is describing a heist from one of the Parker novels in a conversation they have with the main character. The clever thing is that the details they give aren't quite right and when the main character mentions the heist in another conversation later, he's accidentally messed up a few details himself. It kind of shows the myth of this heist building in front of you as it gets more dramatic with retelling. It's just a little thing (and I don't think the book it's in is any good, that detail and an obscene comment about Clara Bow are the only things I remember from it) but it stuck with me because it gave this impression of a universe of Westlake characters that existed between the pages of his books. Which isn't uncommon these days, but I was 14 and that kind of thing blew me away.
20 min gang new book vid HYPE
I cannot recommend the graphic novel adaptation of “The Score” by Darwyn Cooke highly enough. It’s such an excellent ride and it made me fall in love with the series. (Also he uses the likeness of other famous comic artists as the characters that make up the team, like Jim Steranko. A fun little easter egg!)
I havent read Cats Cradle yet, but Slaughterhouse 9 was my introduction to Vonnegut. I loved the surrealist humor, and how he interwove and explored parts of his real life into the narrative.
Aside from that one, I also listened to a collection of shorts he wrote titled Welcome to the Monkeyhouse. I loved all of the shorts, and while most made me laugh, there were others, namely the titular Welcome to the Monkeyhouse short story, that were thought provoking, and thematically challenging.
Thanks to Kevin the Floor Guy for showing me Vonnegut.
YES. The Man!
Carrying the thing.
Love the content, I think it’s time for you to ascend to omega booktuber chad by reading Malazan and Gene Wolfe
I'm up to Cities on the Plain, the last book in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy (have you done any videos about those?). I had only read Blood Meridian years ago in University. All the Pretty Horses is now my all time favourite book, highly recommend.
I finished All the Pretty Horses about 4 months ago and I agree, the book was amazing.
@@experiongallup do the trilogy man! I almost tapped out during the Crossing but I’m about to finish Cities on the Plain and it makes for such a good trilogy.
@@jackw5430 Thanks, they both are on the list.
Speaking of tapping, Suttree tapped me out early in the goings. It was just too dark for me at the time.
My favorite Vonnegut is Bluebeard, one I often recommend.
Cat's Cradle is my favorite Vonnegut.
That camera angel screams hostage situation
Samuel Beckett’s staring made me lose my concentration
I think Cat's Cradle might be the first book you've talked about that I have actually read.
Also The Sirens of Titan absolutely fucks.
Only someone who would read books would carry so many… *things.*
Slaughterhouse-5 is the best written book I've ever read, but my three favourite Vonnegut books are Slapstick, Breakfast of Champions and Deadeye Dick. I've read a lot of Vonnegut 😁 he's cranky, he's funny, but as you mentioned... Not that nice
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I just read Last Days by Brian Evenson and i think you might like its style. He has several novellas, this one is about a retired detective getting dragged into this cult to investigate a murder for them. Straightforward, brisk style.
Never heard of the Parker series, but it sounds great
Robert Downey Jr is making a Parker movie
Thanks for books vídeos!
I just finished reading The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. It's a murder mystery with a lot of crazy twists and turns, and it's presented in a really unique way. I recommend it!
Books are things. The things man carries could be books.
YOOO!! HAV is literally one of the best books I have ever read. Jan Morris is the GOAT. It's not science fiction tho, don't go into it thinking that. Still, absolutely killer book, worth the read. Whoever sent you that has great taste. (it wasn't me lol)
I see that Beckett collection (?) sitting there. Have you read much Beckett? I got into him last year starting with Molloy and god I loved it.
I also got into Tarjei Vesaas recently - The Birds (my fav so far by him), The Ice Palace, The Hills Reply
Would love to see you read or if you have read it, your thoughts on Flowers for Algernon. Made me cry like a baby at the beginning, middle, and end and I’m a cold hearted b when it comes to sad stories.
Could you make a viedo ranking/recommending your favourite roman noir books? Thanks!
"Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land. Man Carrying Thing got to tell himself he understand."