After watching you for over a year a trip to the Brattle has become my great ambition. If only the world returns to some kind of normal I hope to do it later this year.
We own John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk, but I haven’t read it yet. That prose from Bruce Cotton painted such a clear picture in my mind. Thanks for reading from it.
@@saintdonoghue I'm not a fisher so take it for what it is, but I remember receiving a fly rod as a kid and how much fun I had just practicing with it in the back yard, endangering only the lives of the roses on the rosebush. I never actually went fishing with it, though. I would imagine it's the joy of that particular kind of fishing that brings people to it. Fly rods are great fun. I guess better inflicting pain than death?
Still scratching my head at “most people don’t know” regarding Lawrence Norfolk. Lempriere’s Dictionary and The Pope’s Rhinoceros were great reads. And for some reason, I’ve attached Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish as a complimentary book. They’re all purposefully nestled on the same shelf for some reason and I can’t remember why. Looks like re-reads are going to be a theme for part of 2021 - strong work as always Steve 👏🏼
Hello from Murfreesboro a stone’s throw from the Stone’s River Battlefield where my wire haired dachshund Whiskey and I walk every day! Will look for the Caton book!
Great to see you back Steve! I dare say, despite your war mongering, we missed you. I want to get that Columbus book you showed. It looks great and, although I have never read him, everyone says Morison is great. It is on one of my "Books to Buy" lists. Bruce Catton is such a great author who makes history so much fun to read! I am currently reading Terrible Swift Sword, and as expected, it is good. I would like to give the Hitler and Stalin book a read. It would go with my own learning for my WWII unit at school. Thanks for sharing your book haul with us. Good stuff! Have a great week! P.S. Operation Sink the OGBG is currently in progress. I won't tell you when, or where, or how, but know that you will see the rise of Iowa in this book haul mania and I will be a force to be reckoned with! (cue the evil laugh) moo hoo ha ha ha. LOL ... that is if my boss at home allows me to ... LOL
Train, Arthur Cheney The Blind Goddess and Old Man Tutt are on Project Gutenberg Canada. Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train is on Project Gutenberg and there are some more links to his works on his wikipedia page. I'm so happy to find them. I'm curious))))
I obtained 'The Confessions of Artemas Quibble" from Gutenberg today and so far it's a hoot! Very readable. I notice that Amazon have quite a bit of Train's stuff in including "The Ultimate Collection" containing a long list of Trains's novels (Tutt and otherwise), short stories and essays. All for less than one Canadian dollar, which is not unconscionably damaging to the old kitty!
Happy New Year from your English Lurker. I am awaiting Brian’s response with interest. In Stevenage, Hertfordshire about 15 miles from where I live is the Gordon Craig Theatre opened in 1975, he was born in Stevenage. Kind regards.
Awesome video as always. Are you ever going to do your Chapterhouse Dune Read-Along/Review videos? I started reading Dune after I found your channel a few months ago and am currently reading Children of Dune while watching your videos after each 150 pages.
@@saintdonoghue Would be awesome if you started that read-along/review back up again for Chapterhouse. You're the best source on TH-cam that I refer too for Dune content when i'm confused on a part of the book or need some insight. And i'm curious to hear your thoughts on the final Frank Herbert book.
You do realise that nobody watched your pretty face because they all did their best to read the titles behind you. So, it wouldn't have killed you to move to next shelves every 15 minutes or so, would it?
@@saintdonoghue It has all of this. Some novels, some sort stories. I am excited to read this stuff! Thank you for showing us a writer we weren't aware of. THE SHYSTER THE KID AND THE CAMEL CONTEMPT OF COURT BY ADVICE OF COUNSEL 'THAT SORT OF WOMAN' YOU’RE ANOTHER! BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THE HUMAN ELEMENT MOCK HEN AND MOCK TURTLE SAMUEL AND DELILAH THE DOG ANDREW WILE VERSUS GUILE THE HEPPLEWHITE TRAMP LALLAPALOOSA LIMITED McALLISTER’S CHRISTMAS THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF THE BARON DE VILLE THE ESCAPE OF WILKINS THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S TRUNK THE GOLDEN TOUCH McALLISTER'S DATA OF ETHICS McALLISTER'S MARRIAGE THE JAILBIRD IN THE COURSE OF JUSTICE THE MAXIMILIAN DIAMOND EXTRADITION MORTMAIN THE RESCUE OF THEOPHILUS NEWBEGIN THE VAGABOND THE MAN HUNT NOT AT HOME A STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY THE LITTLE FELLER RANDOLPH, '64 THE CONFESSIONS OF ARTEMAS QUIBBLE TRUE STORIES OF CRIME FROM THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE COURTS AND CRIMINALS THE "GOLDFISH" THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH
Oh Steve, Steve do you really know that many readers who need your exhortation to not read an author because of their gender, colour or sexual orientation? It is not that I don't want to read any more books by white, middle class, straight American blokes. I still do read lots of them. I just don't want to find that I am reading more of them than any other flavour of writer and I want the publishing industry to make this easy for me, which they are increasingly doing. I am more sympathetic to your worry that some people want authors to all be good human beings when we know that lots of great artists are pretty awful people. In fact I suspect that happy, healthy, well balanced individuals rarely write good fiction. Your description of Highsmith as odious is a good example, but you are just the person to give me an exception, a truly great book by a jolly soul leading their ideal life. Not giving some grubby individuals your cash is a different question of course. Thank you for the reading from Catton. It lifted my spirits. And some of us over here in England have heard of Norfolk. John Saturnall's Feast was gloriously weird. I meant to go back and read some of his earlier books so thank you for the prompt.
Seemingly contradicting a post I made to this very video (but not really) - I can identify practically a whole generation of readers in need of such an exhortation. Inclusivity is quickly become inverse and backhand exclusivity. I can't speak for him, but I suspect Steve could provide you a very long list of proper names from this cohort.
Hi! It's been a while. I've had a love/hate relationship with you for the past couple of years. I love that you focus on books and since I'm not as voracious a reader as you are, I never heard of most of the books you show (that's the love part). Sometimes your comments annoy the heck out of me and I go away not liking you very much (that's the hate part). Either way, I think you're awesome (maybe too strong of a word) and even when I am not liking you very much I still think you're awesome (I need a new adjective). This video and your comment about the latest fad of picking books based on the authors' gender or sexual orientation. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I think that by choosing a book based on those two criteria, the reader is doing exactly the opposite of their intended purpose. Maybe there is still hope for you ;). I'm subscribing again, until the next time you annoy the heck out of me again. - - going back to watching your video. I posted this comment at the 9:21 mark.... We never know what may happen in the next 20 minutes.
Good Lord, this comment was an emotional roller-coaster! Hah! I'm dying to know if we made it through the video as friends! But I have to ask: is there any pattern to the comments that infuriate you? Anything I can do, to keep us buddies?
@@saintdonoghue Hahahah yes. For now we're safe. We're still friends. We made it through the whole video. I would prefer you didn't do anything about it. I think the best course of action is for you to continue being you and I'll have to get over it haha. Not your fault I'm overly sensitive sometimes. I'm glad you took the comment the way it was meant.
Hi Steve. Hope you had a good Christmas and New year. I didn't like Orson Scott Card's writing long before I knew anything about his politics. It always seemed sophomoric and badly written. I haven't read everything - not even close - so maybe I don't have the full picture. What is clear is that, yes, not liking an author based on the color of their skin or some other facet of their biology is bigoted. Judging an author based on that author's own bigoted views, views which they expressed publicly, is not in itself bigotry. Not even close. I'm not promoting cancel culture here, but calling out public figures for bigoted views is well within the boundaries of civilized behavior. Not wanting to put money in such a person's pocket by buying their books is just basic sanity.
Your last sentence says it would be insane for somebody to buy a new book by Orson Scott Card - in other words, that if somebody agrees with his political views (or just doesn't care), they're insane. Needless to say, I disagree.
@@saintdonoghue No. You misunderstand. I said that it would be insane for someone to put money into someone's pocket which *they* so vehemently disagree with. No judgments about what other people choose to read or who they choose to support. Maybe I was unclear.
@@mdavidmullins OK, yes, I misunderstood - but is the clarification much better? That you disagree with somebody's politics so much you'll refuse to buy their books, even if you actually like their books (not the case for you and Card, true, but what about just in general), and even if the books don't contain the politics?
@@saintdonoghue I would love to find writer's whose prose I admired so much that I read them despite strongly disagreeing with their worldview. I like nothing more than having my breath taken away by a writer. I would absolutely read such a writer. I can't think of anyone like that though. I wonder if a writer's beliefs aren't part of what causes their writing to work for us. I can't think of anyone strongly conservative who has ever rung my bell literarily.
Actually, although Ayn Rand is at least equally sophomoric in her writing, I find her ability to create a sense of place very effective. I have to grudgingly admit that she had talent. I do however think that if she had not had the experiences in childhood that so warped her, she would have been a much better writer.
I know, I know! And the objection you allude to here - actually giving money to an author you personally dislike - is one I've heard before and largely agree with. Yes, if you dislike an author it's perfectly OK to refuse to buy their new releases, refuse to funnel money directly into their bank account. In this video, I was mainly thinking non-transactionally, mainly thinking about the people who refused to READ an author whose tweets they dislike, regardless of how much they like that author's prose.
My God, I wish I had a Brattle near me!!! Fabulous haul.
Welcome back, Steve! While you were gone, I was consoling myself by re-watching the first couple hundred videos on your channel.
Yeeesh - aren't the holidays depressing enough already?
@@saintdonoghue Well, that's precisely why I was doing it. You never fail to put a smile on my face.
Glad to see your break was a nice short one! Thanks for coming back.
Now the new year can officially begin!
After watching you for over a year a trip to the Brattle has become my great ambition. If only the world returns to some kind of normal I hope to do it later this year.
Don't you dare go without me!
So good to see you are back. Happy New Year
Yay, you're back! Happy New Year!
Steve's bro tube New Years' Resolution: 10k subscribers! You're gonna need to create a merch store to feed us hungry minions.
A merch store! What should my $5 T-shirts say?
Life can start again!! You are home!!
We own John Saturnall’s Feast by Lawrence Norfolk, but I haven’t read it yet. That prose from Bruce Cotton painted such a clear picture in my mind. Thanks for reading from it.
Welcome back! Happy New Years. 🍾😎
So happy you’re back! Happy new year to you! Now back to the show. ~ Mary
Happy New Year Steve! Glad you’re back.
I can't really explain how wonderful it feels to be back. I've never met most of you, and yet it feels great to be 'talking' to you all again
Great to have you back. Happy New Year Steve!
Hi!!!!! happy to see you! Happy New Year Steve.
Happy New Year!! The OGBG book wars lead to such great hauls.
Welcome back! Glad to see the regeneration was successful
Hah! Silly old universe - the more I save it, the more it needs saving!
@@saintdonoghue 😂😂
I love fishing! Especially fly fishing. I do catch and release.
Catch and release confuses me even more than normal fishing! I mean, doesn't catch and release reduce the whole exercise SOLELY to inflicting pain?
@@saintdonoghue I'm not a fisher so take it for what it is, but I remember receiving a fly rod as a kid and how much fun I had just practicing with it in the back yard, endangering only the lives of the roses on the rosebush. I never actually went fishing with it, though. I would imagine it's the joy of that particular kind of fishing that brings people to it. Fly rods are great fun. I guess better inflicting pain than death?
Welcome back Steve! Great haul!
Happy New Year Steve!
Welcome back! I always enjoy your videos!
Why thank you!
Welcome home, Steve. We’re very glad to see you.
He's alive!
Still scratching my head at “most people don’t know” regarding Lawrence Norfolk. Lempriere’s Dictionary and The Pope’s Rhinoceros were great reads. And for some reason, I’ve attached Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish as a complimentary book. They’re all purposefully nestled on the same shelf for some reason and I can’t remember why. Looks like re-reads are going to be a theme for part of 2021 - strong work as always Steve 👏🏼
Hah! Well, I don't quite follow the reasoning, but I totally share it! I love "Gould's Book of Fish"!
Happy New Year Steve. Looking forward to see what you and The Bean have in store for us in 2021
Hello from Murfreesboro a stone’s throw from the Stone’s River Battlefield where my wire haired dachshund Whiskey and I walk every day! Will look for the Caton book!
Hah! I LOVE how some of you actually live at the places I refer to in videos!
Welcome back !!
Steve!! Lovely to see you! Eeee yay 😊
Hi steve, would you be able to do a video on how you fortify your books.
I've done them! There are a few book-repair videos out there, like this one: th-cam.com/video/knOlzcJ8Vjg/w-d-xo.html
Steve Donoghue is the “Book Brah”
Great to see you back Steve! I dare say, despite your war mongering, we missed you. I want to get that Columbus book you showed. It looks great and, although I have never read him, everyone says Morison is great. It is on one of my "Books to Buy" lists. Bruce Catton is such a great author who makes history so much fun to read! I am currently reading Terrible Swift Sword, and as expected, it is good. I would like to give the Hitler and Stalin book a read. It would go with my own learning for my WWII unit at school. Thanks for sharing your book haul with us. Good stuff! Have a great week!
P.S. Operation Sink the OGBG is currently in progress. I won't tell you when, or where, or how, but know that you will see the rise of Iowa in this book haul mania and I will be a force to be reckoned with! (cue the evil laugh) moo hoo ha ha ha.
LOL ... that is if my boss at home allows me to ... LOL
Sink the OGBG!!!! Oh noooooooo!
Welcome back! And what a salvo!
Train, Arthur Cheney The Blind Goddess and Old Man Tutt are on Project Gutenberg Canada. Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train is on Project Gutenberg and there are some more links to his works on his wikipedia page. I'm so happy to find them. I'm curious))))
I obtained 'The Confessions of Artemas Quibble" from Gutenberg today and so far it's a hoot! Very readable.
I notice that Amazon have quite a bit of Train's stuff in including "The Ultimate Collection" containing a long list of Trains's novels (Tutt and otherwise), short stories and essays. All for less than one Canadian dollar, which is not unconscionably damaging to the old kitty!
@@ceephaxx I've found The Ultimate Collection. Thank you)
Happy New Year Steve!!!
Listen to more Jethro Tull in 2021!!
Cheers!!
Hah! I'm sensing a fair-to-moderate Jethro Tull fan here! But as I've said many times: All John Philip Sousa, all the time.
I clicked on this video SO FAST!
And you are, again???
Those shelves are filled!
Welcome back!
Happy New Year from your English Lurker. I am awaiting Brian’s response with interest. In Stevenage, Hertfordshire about 15 miles from where I live is the Gordon Craig Theatre opened in 1975, he was born in Stevenage. Kind regards.
Stevenage! Yes!
Happy new year !!
I do not think I have read a biography on Christopher Columbus. I am going to look for that one you hauled!!
Oh, A Month in the Country!
We need to talk....
Awesome video as always. Are you ever going to do your Chapterhouse Dune Read-Along/Review videos? I started reading Dune after I found your channel a few months ago and am currently reading Children of Dune while watching your videos after each 150 pages.
Hah! My long-lost "Chapterhouse" read-along! Good Lord, I forgot about that!
@@saintdonoghue Would be awesome if you started that read-along/review back up again for Chapterhouse. You're the best source on TH-cam that I refer too for Dune content when i'm confused on a part of the book or need some insight. And i'm curious to hear your thoughts on the final Frank Herbert book.
Ye Gods! The Regeneration is complete!!
You do realise that nobody watched your pretty face because they all did their best to read the titles behind you. So, it wouldn't have killed you to move to next shelves every 15 minutes or so, would it?
EYES ON THE PRIZE!
Welcome back! Is it still you or a new variant?
Hah! As always, a little bit of both ...
So I see The Idiot over your shoulder, is that a subliminal message to anyone in particular?
STEVE! I’m filming a video today! I’m coming back!
And you are?
I just found an Arthur Train anthology on Kindle for .99
It is mine!
Scott.
Oh my! What's in it?
@@saintdonoghue
It has all of this. Some novels, some sort stories.
I am excited to read this stuff! Thank you for showing us a writer we weren't aware of.
THE SHYSTER
THE KID AND THE CAMEL
CONTEMPT OF COURT
BY ADVICE OF COUNSEL
'THAT SORT OF WOMAN'
YOU’RE ANOTHER!
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
THE HUMAN ELEMENT
MOCK HEN AND MOCK TURTLE
SAMUEL AND DELILAH
THE DOG ANDREW
WILE VERSUS GUILE
THE HEPPLEWHITE TRAMP
LALLAPALOOSA LIMITED
McALLISTER’S CHRISTMAS
THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF THE BARON DE VILLE
THE ESCAPE OF WILKINS
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S TRUNK
THE GOLDEN TOUCH
McALLISTER'S DATA OF ETHICS
McALLISTER'S MARRIAGE
THE JAILBIRD
IN THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
THE MAXIMILIAN DIAMOND
EXTRADITION
MORTMAIN
THE RESCUE OF THEOPHILUS NEWBEGIN
THE VAGABOND
THE MAN HUNT
NOT AT HOME
A STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY
THE LITTLE FELLER
RANDOLPH, '64
THE CONFESSIONS OF ARTEMAS QUIBBLE
TRUE STORIES OF CRIME FROM THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
COURTS AND CRIMINALS
THE "GOLDFISH"
THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH
I just got one for 49p and it's 2000 pages long! I love ebooks 🤍
Oh Steve, Steve do you really know that many readers who need your exhortation to not read an author because of their gender, colour or sexual orientation? It is not that I don't want to read any more books by white, middle class, straight American blokes. I still do read lots of them. I just don't want to find that I am reading more of them than any other flavour of writer and I want the publishing industry to make this easy for me, which they are increasingly doing. I am more sympathetic to your worry that some people want authors to all be good human beings when we know that lots of great artists are pretty awful people. In fact I suspect that happy, healthy, well balanced individuals rarely write good fiction. Your description of Highsmith as odious is a good example, but you are just the person to give me an exception, a truly great book by a jolly soul leading their ideal life. Not giving some grubby individuals your cash is a different question of course.
Thank you for the reading from Catton. It lifted my spirits. And some of us over here in England have heard of Norfolk. John Saturnall's Feast was gloriously weird. I meant to go back and read some of his earlier books so thank you for the prompt.
Seemingly contradicting a post I made to this very video (but not really) - I can identify practically a whole generation of readers in need of such an exhortation. Inclusivity is quickly become inverse and backhand exclusivity. I can't speak for him, but I suspect Steve could provide you a very long list of proper names from this cohort.
Hi! It's been a while. I've had a love/hate relationship with you for the past couple of years. I love that you focus on books and since I'm not as voracious a reader as you are, I never heard of most of the books you show (that's the love part). Sometimes your comments annoy the heck out of me and I go away not liking you very much (that's the hate part). Either way, I think you're awesome (maybe too strong of a word) and even when I am not liking you very much I still think you're awesome (I need a new adjective). This video and your comment about the latest fad of picking books based on the authors' gender or sexual orientation. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I think that by choosing a book based on those two criteria, the reader is doing exactly the opposite of their intended purpose.
Maybe there is still hope for you ;). I'm subscribing again, until the next time you annoy the heck out of me again. - - going back to watching your video. I posted this comment at the 9:21 mark.... We never know what may happen in the next 20 minutes.
Good Lord, this comment was an emotional roller-coaster! Hah! I'm dying to know if we made it through the video as friends! But I have to ask: is there any pattern to the comments that infuriate you? Anything I can do, to keep us buddies?
@@saintdonoghue Hahahah yes. For now we're safe. We're still friends. We made it through the whole video. I would prefer you didn't do anything about it. I think the best course of action is for you to continue being you and I'll have to get over it haha. Not your fault I'm overly sensitive sometimes. I'm glad you took the comment the way it was meant.
Hi Steve. Hope you had a good Christmas and New year.
I didn't like Orson Scott Card's writing long before I knew anything about his politics. It always seemed sophomoric and badly written. I haven't read everything - not even close - so maybe I don't have the full picture. What is clear is that, yes, not liking an author based on the color of their skin or some other facet of their biology is bigoted. Judging an author based on that author's own bigoted views, views which they expressed publicly, is not in itself bigotry. Not even close. I'm not promoting cancel culture here, but calling out public figures for bigoted views is well within the boundaries of civilized behavior. Not wanting to put money in such a person's pocket by buying their books is just basic sanity.
Your last sentence says it would be insane for somebody to buy a new book by Orson Scott Card - in other words, that if somebody agrees with his political views (or just doesn't care), they're insane. Needless to say, I disagree.
@@saintdonoghue No. You misunderstand. I said that it would be insane for someone to put money into someone's pocket which *they* so vehemently disagree with. No judgments about what other people choose to read or who they choose to support. Maybe I was unclear.
@@mdavidmullins OK, yes, I misunderstood - but is the clarification much better? That you disagree with somebody's politics so much you'll refuse to buy their books, even if you actually like their books (not the case for you and Card, true, but what about just in general), and even if the books don't contain the politics?
@@saintdonoghue I would love to find writer's whose prose I admired so much that I read them despite strongly disagreeing with their worldview. I like nothing more than having my breath taken away by a writer. I would absolutely read such a writer. I can't think of anyone like that though. I wonder if a writer's beliefs aren't part of what causes their writing to work for us. I can't think of anyone strongly conservative who has ever rung my bell literarily.
Actually, although Ayn Rand is at least equally sophomoric in her writing, I find her ability to create a sense of place very effective. I have to grudgingly admit that she had talent. I do however think that if she had not had the experiences in childhood that so warped her, she would have been a much better writer.
Lol Steve spending 20mins excoriating fishing but then lecturing us on giving money to a bigotted scifi book author 🙄
I know, I know! And the objection you allude to here - actually giving money to an author you personally dislike - is one I've heard before and largely agree with. Yes, if you dislike an author it's perfectly OK to refuse to buy their new releases, refuse to funnel money directly into their bank account. In this video, I was mainly thinking non-transactionally, mainly thinking about the people who refused to READ an author whose tweets they dislike, regardless of how much they like that author's prose.
@@saintdonoghue gotcha :)
So glad to see you again! Happy New Year, Steve!