Yes! Glad to see another upload, I find you to be one of the most organic reviewers here, like a friend who stops by once in a while to discuss her interests.
Your enthusiasm is contagious! I shall go up to the attic and fetch it down. 'Islands' was the last Huxley I read and although the structure is, erm, a bit all over the place, it is the perfect response to the dystopian 'Brave New World.' and maybe our own increasingly dystopian world.
Brave New World had a major impact on younger me. This makes me wanna check out some of the other works too! Also the 'aesthetic' of this channel slaps.
I don't think I've heard another human being speak at length about a novel in over 25 years. People actually used to do this, primarily in university classrooms. You say that you ramble, but you've actually unpacked a lot of information, impressions, and innuendo without taking a breath. Honestly, I used to pass over this novel in bookstores--sure, I'd read Brave New World--but now I will be on the lookout for it. You have sparked curiosity. Well done.
I thought your "meandering" was quite lucid and your love of this book obvious to the point that you felt the need to share. I used to read Huxley when I was younger and always enjoyed his writing. The Perennial Philosophy, though not a novel, is one of my favorite books, and shows you the depth of his interests and abilities. I always thought Huxley was under appreciated. If one is a searcher in this world that mostly seems to gravitate toward more superficial soft treasure, that is frequently the case. I thank you for helping illuminate an author I haven't read for a long while. I plan to read this book with your recommendation. I have also subscribed!
My brother (who never reads, by the way) loved Brave New World. From his description, it does sound like something I'd enjoy-but it also sounds like something I've read before. Eyeless in Gaza sounds more unique, based on what you said here. I want to give both books a go, but I think Eyeless in Gaza comes first. Love your review style btw. Feels like chatting with a friend, very low-key and relaxing!
This is the first of your videos I've seen, and certainly will not be the last. I haven't read Eyeless in Gaza, but at this point it would be impossible for me not to. If this is what you call rambling, well, I hope you never stop.
I love what you said here about the book reflecting how our live d experience really is - that "we are always thinking or feeling.' That that is the stuff of our experience, it seems like a simple thing, but it's actually pretty intense to think about. Im going to check out more of your videos. Your review was genuine, passionate, and thoughtful without pretension or gimmick or spectacle and I feel like that is really special to find on TH-cam. Thanks!
I just took this book off my shelf a few days ago and started to read it. Your talk has given me an extra kick to finish it. How strange to see your video pop up about this old book. Thanks!
"I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities."
I came across that part in the book today. Just had to stop reading, let it sink in what I just read. This is Huxley just casually playing with Nietzsche ethics in a very introspective way. Beautiful
Elegant reflections on some of the nuances of Huxleys writing and methods. Loved Huxley's writing on the perrenial philosophy also. Thanks for your upload. Really nice exploration of ideas
You are quite smart, thank you for talking about this book that I tried to read decades ago when I may have been too harried and young for it -- I always read books that were not on the reading list, but that had been referred to by the profs, then had to cram for exams, oh! Look forward to spending more time with you! Did you read the Sybille Bedford book about her spending teenage years with the Huxley's in France? Illuminating!
@@Kelpy I did the same when I studied, it was almost compulsive to read whatever wasn’t required (which leads to the desperate need to cram). I didn’t, but it sounds like something I must!
Thank you for sharing ! Very interesting, never read yet this particular book of him, only Brave new W. Your voice is very nice, greetings from Polska.
I saw this in a secondhand bookstore & the title drew me in. Been sitting in the back of my car for a couple of weeks, but now i think I’m going to read it.
I love these old school kind of reviews just talking about your experiences, what stuck with you, what moved you... stellar review :) This definitely sounds like it's right up my alley, I'v only read Brave New World so far and I wanted to get into Huxley's other works for a while now. I think I'll start with this one, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Excellent review. I read this book right out of high school and remembered it was special so I started it again recently. I probably didn't catch everything the first time with the plot going back and forth in time, but just enjoyed the language and the ideas. You've helped me orient myself with the structure of the main character and his friendship. Thanks!
Great review. As a kid and still today. I loved jack londons "call of the wild" and still love anything jack london, "white fang" to name another. I highly recomend. Hope to hear more book reviews soon...
I read this book a (rather) long time ago and I'm so glad it's not lost to time. Hopefully more will read this and other fantastic books from the last century.
wow this just popped up on my recs , its strange because i was just talking to someone about the "doors of perception" earlier but i have to add thats the only huxley ive read ! this sounds interesting tho i have heard the title before but i had no idea what is was about , so thanks for the rec ! :D
Thanks, great review. I'll certainy read Eyeless now. I read Crome Yellow which was terrifically funny. (I suspect AH could turn his hand to pretty much anything.)
It's so interesting how an author/book can give us a vocabulary for fleshing out parts of our identity that we had yet to recognize or even form perhaps. As if through the story some aspect of ourselves comes suddenly, unexpectedly out of the sea of our own psyche. It's a way of mapping onto our own experiences those of the characters we are vicariously embodying. I don't know. There's something in your delivery, your specific thoughts and analysis that helps me understand this process. Especially your review of Atwood triggered this recognition in me. I hope you find time to do more of this work. It's very provocative in a mind-expanding sort of way. I think because the aesthetic is so, how do I say, giving. Your voice is authoritative, don't get me wrong. Your analysis is unequivocally bright. But it has It's own story-telling quality to it, so I don't feel run over by your erudition; rather, I feel invited to step into your findings and opinions. In a safe and pleasing way. Thank you for bringing this channel into the world.
Thank you for this recommendation! I've only read 'Brave New World' by Huxley and found it very thought provoking. I'll add this one to the ever-expanding reading list haha. Cheers!
I think I read this book a couple years back. I related to the protagonist quite strongly and got really into the book by the end. I remember finding the passages detailing the experiences of the two boys and their ridiculous parents very interesting. I think I felt at the time that the book was too long. Maybe some parts of the timeline weren’t as interesting as others were for me. This video has convinced me that I should give it another read. Also I recall reading some chapters of the book and being amazed that this book came out before world war 2. Can’t remember specifics though! Thanks for your review!
"anything to make you feel less alone in the human experience." thats the feeling I get from characters in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I hugged the book and cried when i finished it.
i hadn't heard of this book but there is a song by timber timbre called lonesome hunter ~ must be from this inspired th-cam.com/video/2R-Ikfyh-6Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GZv8m7HEoZXd8QQF
Excellent thanks. I think certainly Huxley’s deepest and most intimate novel. Interesting and a bit eye-opening how much Brian resonated with or moved you so much. In terms of that difficult to portray goodness in a character, if you haven’t read it yet, an obvious one to read, if not already done so, is Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. One other to mention is Sybille Bedford, who was great friends with Huxley and wrote a biography of him, but she has autobiographical novels of her own that are beautifully written, and interestingly, Huxley would even borrow stories she might tell him from her life and insert into his own books - notably the incident in Eyeless in G involving opiate addiction and crawling through some mess to open a window or some such - the substance of it has gone a bit hazy for me!
No need to apologize for rambling! The tone of your voice is soothing and direct, and your passion and emotion-rich thoughts are very compelling. I’m getting this book today.
I never read this one but "Brave New World" I loved to bits. I remember helping my late brother doing the lighting for a short movie titled "Soma" before I even read the book. So I guess it made a huge impact on him too. The short movie is lost, I'm hoping to find a copy somewhere. Miss you lots, bro.
One of my favorite books. So underrated. It's fragmented and jumbled but beautifully woven together. Kind of an aside: it's one of the best demonstrations on how to use em-dashes and parentheticals.
this is one of 3 of his novels I Haven't read, and I'll add this one to the top of the list, my favorite writer by far, range for lightyears, favorites include after many a summer dies a swan,(I think it's a different title in Britain for some reason?) point counter point, and brave new world. More Huxley everywhere , we all need it.
I read you video title, first reminded myself Huxley wrote Brave New World, then thought since I forgot about his Eyless In Gaza I should listen now. I listened now because I thought that it had anything to do with, maybe someone traveling through Gaza in the very early 1900s and that a novel set in that region could give us a bit more dimension in looking at the very real things happening there today. // ( But it turns out the word Gaza is probably only picked from another writer's lines, and the book Eyless In Gaza says nothing about Gaza the region but only about the journeys of the minds of the characters.
I’ve read a couple of novels by Aldous Huxley brave New World and the doors of perception to name a few but I’ve never heard of this one. I’ll definitely have to check it out and give my review by the way great alien sex fiend poster in the background. I saw them live in 2010.
I had a dream a month after my dog passed, led me to buy 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'. Once I finish it up, I'll look into a copy of this. Never met my mom or my father, I mean, I had parents growing up of course, but, it's definitely a factor. Interesting concept in character development to explore.
My favorite quote from Charlie Brown, the cartoon character, is: "I will fall in love with any girl who smells like library paste." You, dear lady, reek of library paste.
well this was wonderful. glad i found this channel. since you tend to gravitate towards literature with female characters or female sensibilities, I wonder if youd enjoy Kate Chopins "The Awakening" ?
3:30 anything to make us feel less alone in the human experience, i like that. i never heard of this Huxley book; but i struggled a bit with doors of perception & heaven & hell.. you like the classics? im currently reading Hemingways Moveable Feast .. his early life biography in paris1920s.. a nice thin book not so much a novel but beautiful narative writing & i was surprised I liked it bc i dont like any his other books so much lol.. i supose i like it also bc it reminds me of the film Midnight in paris all the best
*_"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"_* *_thanks for the recommendation - always on the lookout for good, new reads_* ps ~ *_"no good deed goes unpunished"_* 😉
You know what's a weird book by Huxley? Ape & Essence. I found that book to be just wild, both in writing style but also in the theme of the story. I'll have to check out Eyeless I Gaza
I share your estimation of this novel and admiration of Huxley's abilities as a writer and storyteller. Although the novel has a melancholy mood running throughout it, and is an exploration of human sadness, I don't see the novel as espousing pessimism. Key for me is when the narrator says: "Only the barbarians among us 'know what they are'. The civilised are conscious of 'what they may be', and so are incapable of knowing what, for practical, social purposes, they actually are - have forgotten how to select a personality out of their total atomic experience". Although Huxley writes novels of 'ideas', they would not work as well as they do if he was not a good storyteller. His intellectual range is extraordinary, ranging in this particular novel from Shakespeare, especially the figure of Hamlet (one of his favourite dramatists and whose plays inspire some of the titles of his novels) to Pascal and even Jacob von Uexkull and who charted a new understanding of animal worlds in the 1920s with his ideas about the 'Umwelt'. I think Huxley was not a pessimist because he believed that through a new understanding of human beings, as well through individual and social experimentation, we could fashion our lives in new ways. His books, fiction and non-fiction, are perhaps more relevant today than ever. Other novels by him I recommend include 'After Many a Summer' (about our misguided desire for immortality') and 'Time must have a stop' (the title is from Shakespeare). I recently finished the novel 'Island' - this might have been his last work of fiction - and although not an especially great novel it is packed with fertile ideas, exploring utopia in contrast to the dystopia of 'Brave New World'.
Are you afraid of seeing the stars? I can show you how to reach them." "The moon may be high (Sha bop sha bop) But I can't see a thing in the sky (Sha bop sha bop) I only have eyes for you"
I haven't read it (yet) but my dad raved about it...or should I say: "closed the book and, in a kind of triumphal sulk, almost looked at me, his gaze almost meeting mine, and then he turned his head away and never spoke to me of the book again...although, I do believe, he read it half a dozen times, quietly like, in his office...and in-between binging on P.G. Wodehouse novels, that is, coz he had the whole collection...he even read them in the sauna and while taking a bath...so the pages were all fluffy, twice or thrice their normal size and you had fun just flicking them through, like the pages were playing cards you wish you could have played, with him...magic cards, you know, now, you ripple shuffle through...shuff...shuff...shuffle...or like Mum's hair in a tumble or a rumble after her visit to the hair salon, and I wonder why he turned away...all those long and wide pages ago"
If I should find a copy, well-worn with illegible markings, I shall get myself some music, like 'interstellar', and run up the hill on a rainy windy night, when the stars are out...and hold it's spine up to the moon...and when the song is done on repeat...take a video of the rain slowly engulfing the pages of the book, drop by drop, till the slow Waltz rushes to punk rock...and the sepia tone turns to acid burn on film, soft petals streaming like pebbles by my feet, running downhill in the rain, deaf to the sound of words in the book...just reading the signs in illegible markings left behind.
Huxley was a brilliant author & though held in very high regard by a few, is on the whole under appreciated. Everyone knows Brave New World but so few ever talk about Chrome Yellow or After Many a Summer. Along with writers like Herman Hesse & Norman Mailer, Huxley is essential.
11:50 Have you ever read “Point Counterpoint”? For me it is probably his most philosophical novel-most definitely a “novel of ideas”. Toward the end of the book the discussion between two of the characters on the subject of Beethoven’s Am String Quartet is quite remarkable.
@@booksintheattic As a musician by profession I find very few works in literature that can equal that description of music in those passages. As far as contemporary writers I’ve found only Richard Powers can do that, and he sometimes even exceeds Huxley.
I can't help but wonder about your choice of background and how it connects with you. I think a lot of guys' wondering imaginations are adding a red arrow pointing at you to that poster.
I stumbled across your channel and literature was one of my favorite subjects in college. Huxley was an interesting character with a complicated background. Brave New World is a fascinating book on many levels. Thanks for your review and I like your poster. ☺️
The tone and pace of your voice is so calming. I wish you read audiobooks.
Yes! Glad to see another upload, I find you to be one of the most organic reviewers here, like a friend who stops by once in a while to discuss her interests.
Thank you! I’m glad to read that, I think that’s very much how the channel operates
Your enthusiasm is contagious! I shall go up to the attic and fetch it down. 'Islands' was the last Huxley I read and although the structure is, erm, a bit all over the place, it is the perfect response to the dystopian 'Brave New World.' and maybe our own increasingly dystopian world.
Brave New World had a major impact on younger me. This makes me wanna check out some of the other works too!
Also the 'aesthetic' of this channel slaps.
Check out older brother, Julian Huxley, and his book, UNESCO: Purpose and Philosophy :)
I don't think I've heard another human being speak at length about a novel in over 25 years. People actually used to do this, primarily in university classrooms. You say that you ramble, but you've actually unpacked a lot of information, impressions, and innuendo without taking a breath. Honestly, I used to pass over this novel in bookstores--sure, I'd read Brave New World--but now I will be on the lookout for it. You have sparked curiosity. Well done.
Never seen your channel before, great video... I loved Island by Huxley, so i will search this out
I thought your "meandering" was quite lucid and your love of this book obvious to the point that you felt the need to share. I used to read Huxley when I was younger and always enjoyed his writing. The Perennial Philosophy, though not a novel, is one of my favorite books, and shows you the depth of his interests and abilities. I always thought Huxley was under appreciated. If one is a searcher in this world that mostly seems to gravitate toward more superficial soft treasure, that is frequently the case. I thank you for helping illuminate an author I haven't read for a long while. I plan to read this book with your recommendation. I have also subscribed!
brilliant stuff and your voice is really wonderful. thanks for the recommendation. added to the ever growing list
My brother (who never reads, by the way) loved Brave New World. From his description, it does sound like something I'd enjoy-but it also sounds like something I've read before. Eyeless in Gaza sounds more unique, based on what you said here. I want to give both books a go, but I think Eyeless in Gaza comes first.
Love your review style btw. Feels like chatting with a friend, very low-key and relaxing!
I'm glad I stumbled into your channel. I like the variety in Huxley's books. I'll add this one to my TBR. Thanks!
This is the first of your videos I've seen, and certainly will not be the last. I haven't read Eyeless in Gaza, but at this point it would be impossible for me not to. If this is what you call rambling, well, I hope you never stop.
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I love what you said here about the book reflecting how our live d experience really is - that "we are always thinking or feeling.' That that is the stuff of our experience, it seems like a simple thing, but it's actually pretty intense to think about. Im going to check out more of your videos. Your review was genuine, passionate, and thoughtful without pretension or gimmick or spectacle and I feel like that is really special to find on TH-cam. Thanks!
I just took this book off my shelf a few days ago and started to read it. Your talk has given me an extra kick to finish it. How strange to see your video pop up about this old book. Thanks!
Preparing to write so listening to a reader like you was very helpful, thanx:)
"I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities."
I came across that part in the book today. Just had to stop reading, let it sink in what I just read. This is Huxley just casually playing with Nietzsche ethics in a very introspective way. Beautiful
Elegant reflections on some of the nuances of Huxleys writing and methods. Loved Huxley's writing on the perrenial philosophy also. Thanks for your upload. Really nice exploration of ideas
Chrome Yellow is my favourite Huxley novel. If you can, get hold of Michael Maloney reading the audiobook. Great review.
The most inspiring and heartfelt review I have seen for years! Thankyou♥
Your book reviews are a complete delightment-eager for more, please and thank you.
Randomly got recommended this video and I regret nothing!
I am a big reader and just discovered you, thanks for thoughtful reviews !!!
Thank God for You Tube so can listen to people like you, I don't know many that talks about subjects like this.
Just finished The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, definitely going to check this one out
You are quite smart, thank you for talking about this book that I tried to read decades ago when I may have been too harried and young for it -- I always read books that were not on the reading list, but that had been referred to by the profs, then had to cram for exams, oh! Look forward to spending more time with you! Did you read the Sybille Bedford book about her spending teenage years with the Huxley's in France? Illuminating!
@@Kelpy I did the same when I studied, it was almost compulsive to read whatever wasn’t required (which leads to the desperate need to cram). I didn’t, but it sounds like something I must!
Thank you for sharing ! Very interesting, never read yet this particular book of him, only Brave new W. Your voice is very nice, greetings from Polska.
Interesting review! I’ve never heard of this novel - but now it’s on my radar. So thank you.
Thank You for the review, I was unaware of this Novel & you have made me want to read it. I find you incredibly attractive & articulate BTW.😊
I saw this in a secondhand bookstore & the title drew me in. Been sitting in the back of my car for a couple of weeks, but now i think I’m going to read it.
I love watching and listening to you. Thank you! ❤
I love these old school kind of reviews just talking about your experiences, what stuck with you, what moved you... stellar review :) This definitely sounds like it's right up my alley, I'v only read Brave New World so far and I wanted to get into Huxley's other works for a while now. I think I'll start with this one, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Excellent review. I read this book right out of high school and remembered it was special so I started it again recently. I probably didn't catch everything the first time with the plot going back and forth in time, but just enjoyed the language and the ideas. You've helped me orient myself with the structure of the main character and his friendship. Thanks!
@@cypressbutane4575 I’m glad to have helped! :) It’s definitely a little unusual
Great review. As a kid and still today. I loved jack londons "call of the wild" and still love anything jack london, "white fang" to name another. I highly recomend. Hope to hear more book reviews soon...
I read this book a (rather) long time ago and I'm so glad it's not lost to time. Hopefully more will read this and other fantastic books from the last century.
wow this just popped up on my recs , its strange because i was just talking to someone about the "doors of perception" earlier but i have to add thats the only huxley ive read ! this sounds interesting tho i have heard the title before but i had no idea what is was about , so thanks for the rec ! :D
Thanks, great review. I'll certainy read Eyeless now. I read Crome Yellow which was terrifically funny. (I suspect AH could turn his hand to pretty much anything.)
It's so interesting how an author/book can give us a vocabulary for fleshing out parts of our identity that we had yet to recognize or even form perhaps. As if through the story some aspect of ourselves comes suddenly, unexpectedly out of the sea of our own psyche. It's a way of mapping onto our own experiences those of the characters we are vicariously embodying. I don't know. There's something in your delivery, your specific thoughts and analysis that helps me understand this process. Especially your review of Atwood triggered this recognition in me. I hope you find time to do more of this work. It's very provocative in a mind-expanding sort of way. I think because the aesthetic is so, how do I say, giving. Your voice is authoritative, don't get me wrong. Your analysis is unequivocally bright. But it has It's own story-telling quality to it, so I don't feel run over by your erudition; rather, I feel invited to step into your findings and opinions. In a safe and pleasing way. Thank you for bringing this channel into the world.
hits home, thanks for this and I bought this book right away.
Thank you for this recommendation! I've only read 'Brave New World' by Huxley and found it very thought provoking. I'll add this one to the ever-expanding reading list haha.
Cheers!
I think I read this book a couple years back. I related to the protagonist quite strongly and got really into the book by the end. I remember finding the passages detailing the experiences of the two boys and their ridiculous parents very interesting. I think I felt at the time that the book was too long. Maybe some parts of the timeline weren’t as interesting as others were for me. This video has convinced me that I should give it another read.
Also I recall reading some chapters of the book and being amazed that this book came out before world war 2. Can’t remember specifics though!
Thanks for your review!
"anything to make you feel less alone in the human experience." thats the feeling I get from characters in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I hugged the book and cried when i finished it.
i hug books 2
i hadn't heard of this book but there is a song by timber timbre called lonesome hunter ~ must be from this inspired
th-cam.com/video/2R-Ikfyh-6Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GZv8m7HEoZXd8QQF
that poster is sick!
Check out the band's videos. There are some on TH-cam.
@@VirtualTeds I did and it scared me lol...
Excellent thanks. I think certainly Huxley’s deepest and most intimate novel. Interesting and a bit eye-opening how much Brian resonated with or moved you so much. In terms of that difficult to portray goodness in a character, if you haven’t read it yet, an obvious one to read, if not already done so, is Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. One other to mention is Sybille Bedford, who was great friends with Huxley and wrote a biography of him, but she has autobiographical novels of her own that are beautifully written, and interestingly, Huxley would even borrow stories she might tell him from her life and insert into his own books - notably the incident in Eyeless in G involving opiate addiction and crawling through some mess to open a window or some such - the substance of it has gone a bit hazy for me!
I have this on my shelf, thanks for reminding me to read it. it sounds a bit like his book Antic Hay , the other one i love most after BNW
@@shenmue249 I think it is most likely in the same vein, I haven’t read it yet but I think it will be the next I do of his
Glad the books are making it out of attic! You're so beautiful and your videos are amazing.
I read Huxley's Devils of Loudun in the same paperback series recently. You are adorable, my dear.
Oh yes, that was good.
big huxley fan. haven't read this but i'll keep an eye out for it now. Appreciate the review thanks
Thank you for this thoughtful review. I am embarrassed to say I have not read this yet. I only remember the band who took their name from this novel.
Great review. Also, your hair looks fabulous.
The Doors of Perception opened my mind to infinite creativity. Eyeless in Gaza sounds like a good read
No need to apologize for rambling! The tone of your voice is soothing and direct, and your passion and emotion-rich thoughts are very compelling. I’m getting this book today.
Stop simping. That is embarrassing. She will never have s-x with you.
Good luck with your channel 🧡
Well done review - Thanks!
I never read this one but "Brave New World" I loved to bits. I remember helping my late brother doing the lighting for a short movie titled "Soma" before I even read the book. So I guess it made a huge impact on him too. The short movie is lost, I'm hoping to find a copy somewhere. Miss you lots, bro.
I remember Perrenial Philosophy was really impactful to me growing up. Hopefully you can do a review on that someday
One of my favorite books. So underrated. It's fragmented and jumbled but beautifully woven together. Kind of an aside: it's one of the best demonstrations on how to use em-dashes and parentheticals.
Thank you person who reads books; I have been trying to get into reading more and more.
I never read this. Of all the books I haven’t read this sounds the most intriguing.
Grey Eminence is on deck but now I want to read this one too!
this is one of 3 of his novels I Haven't read, and I'll add this one to the top of the list, my favorite writer by far, range for lightyears, favorites include after many a summer dies a swan,(I think it's a different title in Britain for some reason?) point counter point, and brave new world. More Huxley everywhere , we all need it.
@@FirstmaninRome Point Counter Point is one of my favourites. He certainly is needed
I read you video title, first reminded myself Huxley wrote Brave New World, then thought since I forgot about his Eyless In Gaza I should listen now. I listened now because I thought that it had anything to do with, maybe someone traveling through Gaza in the very early 1900s and that a novel set in that region could give us a bit more dimension in looking at the very real things happening there today. // ( But it turns out the word Gaza is probably only picked from another writer's lines, and the book Eyless In Gaza says nothing about Gaza the region but only about the journeys of the minds of the characters.
I’ve read a couple of novels by Aldous Huxley brave New World and the doors of perception to name a few but I’ve never heard of this one. I’ll definitely have to check it out and give my review by the way great alien sex fiend poster in the background. I saw them live in 2010.
I need to learn more about Huxley...
This Aldous Huxley lady is easy on the eyes, cant wait to order her book.
I've read Brave New World and Doors of Perception, so I was already a fan but this has made me want to read Huxley further.
Cool poster. I'll check out the book.
I haven’t read much of Huxley outside of BNW. I’ll check out Eyeless, thanks.
never heard of this one but always wanted to try smt beyond Brave New World... thanks for introducing it ^^
Now I Am Feeling Zombified! Love Huxley and
Thank you. I would like to give this novel a try.
Beautiful, i didn't read the book but must be good as well.
I had a dream a month after my dog passed, led me to buy 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'. Once I finish it up, I'll look into a copy of this. Never met my mom or my father, I mean, I had parents growing up of course, but, it's definitely a factor. Interesting concept in character development to explore.
You should review some Kurt Vonnegut books
My favorite quote from Charlie Brown, the cartoon character, is: "I will fall in love with any girl who smells like library paste." You, dear lady, reek of library paste.
You are lovely. I always wanted to meet a woman who liked reading and Aldus Huxley at that…
Good review!
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Read this ages ago and was impressed
well this was wonderful. glad i found this channel. since you tend to gravitate towards literature with female characters or female sensibilities, I wonder if youd enjoy Kate Chopins "The Awakening" ?
A interesting name for a novel. There is a band barring the same name that I am familiar with.
@@Mondgeist7777 indeed! A good band too
3:30 anything to make us feel less alone in the human experience, i like that. i never heard of this Huxley book; but i struggled a bit with doors of perception & heaven & hell..
you like the classics? im currently reading Hemingways Moveable Feast .. his early life biography in paris1920s.. a nice thin book not so much a novel but beautiful narative writing & i was surprised I liked it bc i dont like any his other books so much lol.. i supose i like it also bc it reminds me of the film Midnight in paris
all the best
Will you be doing other reviews?
*_"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"_*
*_thanks for the recommendation - always on the lookout for good, new reads_*
ps ~ *_"no good deed goes unpunished"_* 😉
What type of microphone are you using?.....you are very easy to hear?
You know what's a weird book by Huxley? Ape & Essence. I found that book to be just wild, both in writing style but also in the theme of the story. I'll have to check out Eyeless I Gaza
I like your hair !👍
After Many A Summer is a good one too. Takes a very Lovecraftian turn by the end of it.
We’re living in a combination of 1984 & Brave new world oh and animal farm. Good luck all.
I share your estimation of this novel and admiration of Huxley's abilities as a writer and storyteller. Although the novel has a melancholy mood running throughout it, and is an exploration of human sadness, I don't see the novel as espousing pessimism. Key for me is when the narrator says: "Only the barbarians among us 'know what they are'. The civilised are conscious of 'what they may be', and so are incapable of knowing what, for practical, social purposes, they actually are - have forgotten how to select a personality out of their total atomic experience". Although Huxley writes novels of 'ideas', they would not work as well as they do if he was not a good storyteller. His intellectual range is extraordinary, ranging in this particular novel from Shakespeare, especially the figure of Hamlet (one of his favourite dramatists and whose plays inspire some of the titles of his novels) to Pascal and even Jacob von Uexkull and who charted a new understanding of animal worlds in the 1920s with his ideas about the 'Umwelt'. I think Huxley was not a pessimist because he believed that through a new understanding of human beings, as well through individual and social experimentation, we could fashion our lives in new ways. His books, fiction and non-fiction, are perhaps more relevant today than ever. Other novels by him I recommend include 'After Many a Summer' (about our misguided desire for immortality') and 'Time must have a stop' (the title is from Shakespeare). I recently finished the novel 'Island' - this might have been his last work of fiction - and although not an especially great novel it is packed with fertile ideas, exploring utopia in contrast to the dystopia of 'Brave New World'.
Are you afraid of seeing the stars? I can show you how to reach them."
"The moon may be high
(Sha bop sha bop)
But I can't see a thing in the sky
(Sha bop sha bop)
I only have eyes for you"
Thanks for sharing!
I haven't read it (yet) but my dad raved about it...or should I say: "closed the book and, in a kind of triumphal sulk, almost looked at me, his gaze almost meeting mine, and then he turned his head away and never spoke to me of the book again...although, I do believe, he read it half a dozen times, quietly like, in his office...and in-between binging on P.G. Wodehouse novels, that is, coz he had the whole collection...he even read them in the sauna and while taking a bath...so the pages were all fluffy, twice or thrice their normal size and you had fun just flicking them through, like the pages were playing cards you wish you could have played, with him...magic cards, you know, now, you ripple shuffle through...shuff...shuff...shuffle...or like Mum's hair in a tumble or a rumble after her visit to the hair salon, and I wonder why he turned away...all those long and wide pages ago"
If I should find a copy, well-worn with illegible markings, I shall get myself some music, like 'interstellar', and run up the hill on a rainy windy night, when the stars are out...and hold it's spine up to the moon...and when the song is done on repeat...take a video of the rain slowly engulfing the pages of the book, drop by drop, till the slow Waltz rushes to punk rock...and the sepia tone turns to acid burn on film, soft petals streaming like pebbles by my feet, running downhill in the rain, deaf to the sound of words in the book...just reading the signs in illegible markings left behind.
excellent video
Huxley was a brilliant author & though held in very high regard by a few, is on the whole under appreciated. Everyone knows Brave New World but so few ever talk about Chrome Yellow or After Many a Summer. Along with writers like Herman Hesse & Norman Mailer, Huxley is essential.
Point Counterpoint FTW! (also Maximum Security by ASF).
🎉 I am sure it was made into a television series years ago.
thanks for doing this!
11:50 Have you ever read “Point Counterpoint”? For me it is probably his most philosophical novel-most definitely a “novel of ideas”. Toward the end of the book the discussion between two of the characters on the subject of Beethoven’s Am String Quartet is quite remarkable.
@@deirdre108 I have, it’s a wonderful book. I do especially love those end passages like that one.
@@booksintheattic As a musician by profession I find very few works in literature that can equal that description of music in those passages. As far as contemporary writers I’ve found only Richard Powers can do that, and he sometimes even exceeds Huxley.
That Alien Sex Fiend poster on the wall though.
can we pls have the most requested "Gravity's Rainbow" review pls 🙏
I can't help but wonder about your choice of background and how it connects with you. I think a lot of guys' wondering imaginations are adding a red arrow pointing at you to that poster.
I stumbled across your channel and literature was one of my favorite subjects in college. Huxley was an interesting character with a complicated background. Brave New World is a fascinating book on many levels. Thanks for your review and I like your poster. ☺️