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THANK YOU! I thought I was totally abnormal for not liking this book 🙈 But the “pick me” energy on this one was strong. Almost like it was written by a man. Dropped off in less than 50 pages.

The Glass Castle is my favorite book of all time

Thanks for your review. I recently finished Everett’s latest book - James. It does not have the outward humor of The Trees, but there are moments of comedic brilliance. I am reading The Trees and it does seem very funny in a dark way.

Thank you for the book recommendations. I love your channel. Keep up the great work! :)

I’ve never “met” someone who has such similar tastes to me in books. Love your wrap ups.

That bastard wrote Less Than Zero when he was 21. I am beyond jealous. Rules of Attraction is definitely worth reading. Wasn't as great a fan of The Shards - it's overly long for what it is. Apparently there's a limit to the amount of vapid rich teenagers I can deal with - I just did not care about anything going on.

Bret is my one of my favorite authors, I read American Psycho first, and while I can see its cult status imo I think it’s overrated. Less Than Zero is what hooked me, I knew people that were like the characters in the book. Then The Rules Of Attraction is what made me a fan. Reading Glamorama atm. I honestly love it so far.

Hello Sophia! I wanted to say that I love your videos, especially your Ottessa Moshfegh and Bret Easton Ellis reviews! I am an author myself, and I was wondering if you would be open to reviewing my own self-published novel? I feel like it aligns well with the genre/themes of other books you have discussed.

Most of the people who hate this book are not educated enough They never read biography , and history In 18 and 19 century women are not even allow to publish their book with their own name Many famous scientists stole their wife work and put their name on it

just watched the show, didn't realize it was a book. i stopped waching immediately after they killed the love interest. i almost lost it when they showed a black man as a lifeguard IN THE 1950s. i was like, oh this is an alternate reality... we're in the multiverse obviously lol

Thanks for the book review. 🤔 Mr. Percival Everett is one of my favorite writers! I read Erasure when it was published 20 years ago. Very well written satirical novel about the racial stereotypes in the literary industry. Percival Everett is a brilliant writer and I look forward to reading all of his books. I suggest you read Erasure and see the movie, American Fiction. I am planning to read all of Percival Everett's book. I appreciate his satirical sense of humor and his social commentaries.

I like your channel, You should review Fight Club, or something by John Irving. I'm curious about what you would say about those.

Just completed "James" by P. Everett. Takes Jim from Huck Finn and turns that character treatment on its head. Fantastic!. Started Trees and I have gone HUH? same author?, Very talented writer. I'll follow up after reading.

Is American Psycho worth reading? I’m scared 😂

Wait is that how you pronounce Lapvona 😂

I was obsessed with American psycho. As messed up as it was I feel like it should be required reading for psychology students. The real world is very much very scary and I could not figure out if Patrick was hallucinating everything or if it really happened. I feel like the topics in that book are more relevant today than ever, but I did have a bit of a trauma response while reading it, I don’t think I breathed through an entire chapter once I started figuring out what was going to happen 😖

The RUclips algorithm has played into my favour. This video popped up and i'm so glad I clicked on it. Keep up the good work.

You must not be a dog lover or an abstract thinker. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion though. I thought this book was masterfully written.

I’m like 5 pages in and reconsidering reading it. So far Elizabeth reminds me of the woman from Atlas Shrugged - a beautiful no-nonsense genius lady. I assume that’s just how it’s gonna be? Is she gonna have any flaws apart from being too smart for the peasants to like?

Who was ur favorite character and why ?

Currently reading Lapvona and I'm shocked by how much I hate this book. It checks off many boxes on my reading list but this one is brutal to get through. I'm 200 pages in and questioning how I even got this far.... I read My Year and enjoyed it for the most part--chuckling at its clever imagery. I like the world of Lapvona and its setting but I'm bored by the "humor" and painful banter (or lack there of because there's hardly any dialogue) between the questionable characters. Have you read Big Swiss by Jen Beagin? That's on my summer reading list. Apparently HBO is making it into a series.

Ok. A Finnish friend liked it. She is a mother of 2 adult unmarried working young women. Argh. I am 80. My mom was a WW2 war widow. All women in my family worked in professions: bookkeeping and medicine. This book seems to cheerfully fantasize the victimization of author's parental generation. WW2 did create a different America. This appears to be a cute unreal view for contemporary females. Arrgh. I have to buy it because of my Finn friend and a book group. Arrgh.

You are too emotionally involved, it colors your review too much.

You perfectly summed up my feelings about this book. It felt like someone wrote their own fantasy of being a woman based on a very early 2000s concept of what being an "ideal woman" is: modest-not putting too much effort into her appearance, but wildly attractive, more intelligent than everyone else, etc. Also for a book that had an extremely feminist focus I don't think it said anything interesting or nuanced about feminism. All of the sexism she deals with is generally extremely overt and is conquered fairly easily. I'd be much more interested if it explored her internalized sexism, the difficulty of dealing with people who want to fit her into a specific role, which is almost inevitable in the 1960s. Instead it felt like the character "won" by being unbelievably smart and somehow fitting the impossible and conflicting standards society places on women.

Just started Saint Sebastian's Abyss and wanting to see who on RUclips was talking about it. I see that and several books I loved or want to read!

Been loving your videos.

Just found your channel, and wow! Finally a booktuber that doesn’t only read booktook popular books or just reads them for the hype. You analyze them in such a great yet chill vibe. If I had the courage to open a yt channel I would sooo want to have a channel like yours!

Best wishes with what you choose to read. I'm currently reading the Count of Monte Cristo. It is excellent but I might be some time. Good luck. I hope you get some great stories.

great recommendations, im glad i found your channel!

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What an awesome list of books, sounds like a good winter. I'm getting overloaded with the amount of small book channels on youtube with such great quality. This was super enjoyable, thanks for doing it

I had the same exact feeling with Blood Meridian. Not necessarily an all time favourite book. 4/5 stars for me. Confusing at times because of the writing style. But such memorable characters, I think about the ending scenes and the Judge at least once a week. Even though I read it months ago now.

I thought Killers of the Flower Moon kind of fizzled in the end, like he didn’t know how to wrap it up….I agree with you about Wharton- sort of meh; I think Willa Cather is much better, strongly recommend. My favorite Maugham is a lesser known one called The Narrow Corner. Sutree is a great early Cormac which is actually funny. I’m an old Gen X’er who read that Kundera in high school and thought it was sublime and brilliant. Read it again recently and omg it has not aged well. Cringe sex scenes as you mentioned. Pseudo intellectual-yep. It might really be more like a racy YA for teenage boys who like Nietzsche😂 Really enjoy your videos, cheers from Madison, Wisconsin.

sophia, so excited to have found your channel this morning !! we have super similar taste. loved this!

It's sounds to me that you didn't want a FICTION book at all. You wanted a memoir, a historically accurate memoir at that.

My book club chose this book. I couldn’t get through it. There are so many things about it that irk me.

This is a great list. I love your videos!

Being not like other girls is a good thing. As a girl who is not like others I can attest to it :)

I really enjoyed it. I’ve heard a lot of people say they think Elizabeth is on the spectrum, which would explain the taking things literally and very specific chemical names for things. I personally relate to her character in a lot of ways, and I’m a science nerd, so that’s probably why!

Elizabeth Zott was not vain. She did dress plainly, as you stated. I pictured her to look like (my impression of) Maris Crane, so Elizabeth Zott did not wear stilettos. Also, her parents were charlatans, religious phonies, not serious religious folk. They milked innocents for their money. The father was serving time in jail for these crimes. I recommend to you the book, "Elmer Gantry." Elizabeth, a scientist, studied the physics of rowing, to connect with her partner who loved the sport. A lot of this book doesn't make sense to me, but it is fiction.

My dad is Mentioned several times in this book . I guess I'll have to read it .

I'm currenlty reading it, I think it's cringe. I wanted to know where the book goes from there, to know if the first 100 pages are setting up to something worth tolerating the book. this was very helpful. thanks

the realistic reality of the real world against the fiction of this book is gigantic...

I love all of Moshfegh, even Lapvona! And I love this video! Thoroughly enjoyed your takes on her books, especially your struggles with Lapvona. I too hope your grandmother doesn't pick it up looking for a light read😅!

Just finished it loved it….love imperial bedrooms too…great analysis

Thank you! I also absolutely hated it! It has absolute no depth in the various themes (or hashtags) it tries to kind of click bait you in. It tries poorly to talk about every theme out there in a very irresponsible way. Zott is blunt and unreal as a character with no development ark at all, she starts and ends at the same place and every single male character is depicted as bad or stupid or not interesting. Let me sum it up for yall: Beautiful_gorgeous_sexy_super_intelligent_woman_mother_self_taught_rowing yay, men boooo. Dog knows a thousand words, churches evil. That´s it. Cheers from Brazil <3

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Sounds like you just wanted to dislike it. All the things you disliked didn’t see weird in a book. What I find interesting is your confuse talking about religion and why it’s unimportant with attacking religion by not allowing their religion to some extent. All of the negatives seemed personal. It’s odd. Some men like myself might say you just sound jealous of the main character and is why you demand all main female roles to be negative stereotypes that men find disgusting.

I totally agree. This book was so smug, and so merciless in its hammering on feminism and relentless abuse of both the protagonist and we readers. It was the most unkind and unrealistic diatribe I have ever read. The story was, as the reviewer says, just totally stupid silly unrealistic. And deeply depressing. Skip it, by all means.

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