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I have to dance to Debussy now.

It's such a beautiful and heartbreaking story. I really love the TV version with Geraldine Paige even more though and it's nice because Truman Capote narrates part of it. I watch it every year if possible and I notice it's available for free on youtube. I also have a book of Truman's short stories with that one in it.

Such a beautiful story ...finished reading it today ❤ it is lyrical and delicate ...symbols and metaphors fall like soft snow ❤

i usually like to go back and read my favorite HB passages....not with this book. kind of just boring. maybe it will grow on me, think it;s a slow release and will age well for me b/c I like the author.

Your videos are so insightful and relaxing

What can you learn from the book?

You have beautiful bookshelf, my friend. Thanks for the vid.

I wonder if Dostoevsky wrote this for the unreliable narrator in all of us?

Good to see you're back! This is my favorite booktube channel

Es una pena que allí no se conozca esta magnífica e intensa novela, que en su momento fue aplaudida por Albert Camus. Es absolutamente fascinante. Léanla, no se arrepentirán.

I laughed when you said "balzac" hehe. Welcome back buddy. I've been wondering about you lately.

I too found this to be a very mixed bag. The family and marital relationship stuff was fantastic and moving, but a lot of the other bits were in and out and inconsistent. The novel could have been shorter and tighter. The translation’s editing was shocking for such a release.

This is an amazing story I share this story with my students ... they love it !!!!

What's your favorite Houllebecq book? (if I rule this one out due to the translation)

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Didnt leave anyone down! Just delighted to see another video from you! Keep well.

It’s interesting how different translations of these stories have such diverging details. In my everyman’s library, Richard peever translation; the narrator has a raccoon fur collar and he shows up at 5 for a dinner that was pushed to 6 unbeknownst to him. Lol

It was funny, absurd, and had a lot of hidden meanings to international relationship and import of the european culture into a slavic/eastern european culture (which I am part of haha and can see as valuable), also to the absurd idealism and elitism one can have even when being eaten alive by a crocodile, sitting there comfortably numb and "dreaming" and idealising about the concept of humanity and personal contribution to its future with scientifical observations, totally blind to the fact that men already started to engage more closer to his wife lol

Do not be so hard on yourself, mate. We introverts understand.

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Welcome back! You didn’t let anyone down!

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Welcome back Mathew, you did it on the election day, literature above politics for sure, lol.

good to see you again

I've watched every one of your videos, Matthew! Thank you for every video you make - I appreciate them all deeply thank you for making this video & Thank you for every video that you ever have made or ever will make, they are all loved and appreciated - so thank you ! :) - great to see you!

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I was going to read this, but I would prefer not to

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Always great to see you!

Missed your videos. Glad to see you back .

Welcome back. Nice to hear you talking while I work. I've never heard of this author.

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You're back :)

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No need to apologize for not making videos. It’s all up to you if you want to continue this booktube thing. Glad you’ve had a good reading year!

Houellebecq has been appearing in my feed quite a lot lately - this is the first one I’m clicking on. Welcome back.

So great to see you! 🤗🍂

Long time no see! Great timing for your return - I just finished Annihilation this morning. I very much agree with your estimations, especially about the translation and the typos. If Houellebecq hadn’t written it, I don’t think this novel would get any attention based on Whiteside’s English prose alone. In this age of lazy publishers and corner-cutting, it almost makes me curious if AI was involved since the prose is so mundane and robotic, so different from earlier Houellebecq. I don’t remember Serotonin, Whiteside’s other translation, being this way at all. That said, you’d think typos would be a thing of the past if AI could do its job and help proofread the damn thing!

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Welcome back sir!

I'm currently reading Avsey's translation of The Karamazov Brothers and currently loving it. I was going to move on to the Penguin Classics version of The Idiot afterwards. I heard you say that Ignat Avsey translated this book, and I'm now immediately going to purchase this version instead. Thank you! - Also, great to hear your thoughts as always!

Does the Oxford Bible have a readable font?

What a great commentary of a great novel. Many thanks!

Thank you for the review. Just technical one - pls try to volume up your recordings.

I like how I'm ahead of you in understanding

One thing I noticed about the book was that as soon as a character expressed a desire for something you knew, without fail, that that character would not be fulfilling that desire.

Good review, thank you, his intriguing stories are mentioned in the film The English patient Reminiscent of Gore Vidal’s fictional history ‘Creation’ documenting the rise of the ‘Sky gods’ & the various religions installed at approximately the same time in human history - a book ignored by establishment literary reviews for obvious reasons

I'm checking in to see if you're still tubing. Looks like I'm not the only one.

Thank you so much