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Modiano is a great writer, but sadly I seldom see his books where they should be - in bookshops. A Nobel Prize winner who deserved to win. I may be wrong, but you seem to be the first person here to talk about him.

I began reading Hermann Hesse in the early 1970s when I was a high school drop out in The Army as E5 medic that I had dropped out of high school to join. I noticed you don't seem to have any videos on Irving Stone which was another author I devoured as I did with James Kirkwood.

i have just commented on your saul bellow video. i have read a story by issac bashevis singer called probably fool golash it was such a splendid piece of literature i feel like saying ,i think like me you too are fascinated by writers who have won nobel prize, because i went on to read the heretic of soanna by gerhart hauptmen and some books by andre gide strai is the gate and other that were available in my town library

sir i request you to read the dangling man, too it was the first book i read tat led me to read sorrows of young werther, and i have read a little of the victim and will finish surely

"Missing Person" seems to be very interesting! I'm definetly going to check it out. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome video! I’m glad you enjoyed your trip

I love Heinrich Boll! Very glad to see this.

I am still reading through the Steinbeck canon, but I wanted to mention two nonfiction books of his. They are Travels with Charlie (TwC) and Log from the Sea of Cortez (LSC). You might enjoy those. I read TwC when I was a young man, and again as a much older one. When I was young I saw the book as a light-hearted road trip with your best dog, a giant poodle named Charlie. But when I was old, it felt much more grim. Indeed it felt final, as in the end, as in Der Abscheid. Like the author in TwC, I have had to say farewell to many that I loved. As I was losing these vital participants in my life, I came to realize that TwC is not only about this sense of loss: it is also about your own impending death. If it is a road story, it is about the final journey, not the buoyant romps of youth. Then I learned that Steinbeck's wife sent him on TwC because they both knew he was dying of heart disease. You might also like Log from the Sea of Cortez. LSC is a prime of life story on the open sea during a marine collecting expedition. It combines friendship, marine biology, and the philosophy of existence. The friendship is with Steinbeck's life-long collaborator Ed Ricketts, the inspiration for Doc in Cannery Row. You might enjoy the thrill of living in the moment that LSC radiates. You know, there has never been anyone in American letters quite like John Steinbeck. I would have to say he is easily my favorite.

He is still alive.

The idiot was quite a good book. There are two parts that stand out to me personally… 1. A description of what happens in the mind of a prisoner during the last minutes of a mock execution. 2. The description of the room before unveiling the death of the femme fatale. Also some interesting dialogues between Myshkin and the clique of serviles who are after his money.

I recently finished notes from underground and really enjoyed it. This video made me excited to read more of his work!

evelyn juarez 5181 - has an interesting take on things - via one of her Shorts.... (no pun intended LOL.....)

I've only read Crime and Punishment, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Seems I need to widen my read with this author❤

Great video 1 thanks you

My son gave me a copy of Kavalier and Clay and urged me to read it and I was just blown away by it. After that I read all, nine?, of Michael Chabon's books and enjoyed them. Really liked Moonglow. Chabon's prose can be so beautiful at times. Telegraph Avenue is technically his best book but not a favorite because some of the characters are real jerks. Yiddish is very good. Summerland was fun. The Final Solution was another book with beautiful prose as was Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Gentlemen was a fun read but just OK as was Wonder Boys. I wish he would write some more books as it has been a long time since the last one. I could not get into his short stories. Currently reading through all 41 of the Discworld books readiing #27 right now

Sun also rises is a great book. A lost generation as the previous pillars of society, marriage, class, religion and patriotism were all becoming less important, had less belief and trust in them. What was left was friendship, hedonism, your personal art (eg being a writer), for some, your career. Hemingway builds on this with some fantastic dicotomy. Jake being the centre of the friendship group of hedonist people but not being able to consummate it. For Brett, the most hedonistic character in the book, she has the possible way out of that hedonistic lifestyle, Jake, dangled in front of her (no pun intended) and yet he has the physical flaw that precludes him. She feels that this is a cruel curse on her as her true love died in the war and she swore not to love again. Having fallen in love again, the curse was that it could not be consummated. One of best premises for a book I have ever heard. The sun also rises is a pun on Jake's impotence. Best wishes to you and your channel.

It appears that you've missed the short story that earned him the Nobel Prize. It's called "Tale of the unknown island".

Slick editing at the Tanazaki book. Lol.

Always appreciate your perspective Jerry, even (or especially) from the deep recesses of memory.

Liked and subscribed, because I know far less than you do about quantum physics etc. Actually, now that I think about it, I know far less than anyone at all. 😂

I am a scholar from China, and I would like to use the interactive version of the novel Arcadia as my research subject, as well as introduce Mr. Iain Pears and his works to China. However, I found that the app seems to no longer be available for download. Could you please let me know how I can contact Mr. Iain Pears, or if you are aware of any archived versions or other ways for me to access it for my reading and research? Thank you, and I look forward to your reply.

Very cool! East of Eden is one of my favorite novels ever. I will have to check out some of the others you discussed

Thanks Jerry for another Great Video! I always enjoy your selections. Another Great American writer that preceded Steinbeck was Jack London. Surely you've read him, and I'd love to see you do a review of his books.

Thank you very much. You love Nabokof's books and explained them well.I enjoyed so much ❤

I live in Ecuador and I've been to the mystery spot in Santa Cruz.

Great video! Some very interesting reads this month

Hello uncle , i really enjoyed the video , I love your taste in books 💙💙

Keep it up

I will also do a video of all the hamsun's books I've read thus far. The list is as follows: Hunger (Sult) Mysteries (Mysterier) Editor Lynge (Redaktør Lynge) Shallow soil (Ny jord) Pan Victoria Mothwise (Svermere) Benoni Growth of the soil (Markens Grøde)

Nice video! Waiting for next :)

KLT. I suggest that if you want to do reviews, create outlines on each subject so that you can be succinct and still include what you want to say. It will streamline your work. I was in a classroom teacher. Outlines help cover everything to said without reading from a script.

Love Mahvuz, and I'm not connected with Arabs in any way. Children of our Alley is phenomenal. I found it as an example for life to be a source of religion, not other way around. It also goes this way for mythology. Don't get me wrong, I am not too rational. Love also some books wrote by Rushdie.

Pushkin is the most important Russian poet. He wrote a phenomenal fairytales in verses. There are also significant dramas, mostly historical, also in verses. One of them is Mozart and Salieri, but that is more like a metaphor than history. One short story you probably know is Queen of Spades, not in verses.

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great video

Love your videos and coming here to get recommendations for books to read! I'm having trouble reading these days though. Any tips on how to read more?

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Great writer. Enjoyed seeing your various editions. Mothwise is also known as Dreamers.

love this

Very interesting, sir.

Very interesting, sir. I've added that author to my list and I'll get to know his work soon. Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge of literature. ❤

Thanks for the review . . . I had recently bought Davita's Harp at a sale at my local library and am reading it now; it is an excellent portrait of how a young person growing up in a leftist, secular family is drawn to the practice of Judaism, which her Jewish mother had mostly abandoned, he is absolutely brilliant in portraying a child's perspective on life, faith, politics and parents, and issues of Jewish identity in the U.S. I had read the Chosen and the Promise years ago, as a youth, but find this book truly insightful as to how a child will desire to have some spiritual practice in his/her life and will take the initiative to seek it out. These are ultimately existential questions: Why is such important in life and why do we both "thirst" for such and also question certain elements of the traditions and practices?

It's pronounced guttural "H,"(Hi eem), meaning life in Hebrew. I haven't finished listening to your reviews on the substance but thanks for offering them.

Absolutely lovely collection! I pride myself on having read most of Faulkner's work but you have like all of the ones I haven't read lol. I would love to hear more about your opinions on his works (especially his earlier stuff since those are very rarely talked about) and also some of the stories behind those editions! Insight from someone with many more years of reading under their belt is something I would love to hear!

Man, you sure know your anthropological material! Good for you😎👍

You say you don't 'get' quantum physics, but your description of superposition and the collapse of the wave function shows you do.

Most books that try to link quantum physics to metaphysics are just nonsense.

These are great reviews; you're shaping my TBR! Thank you Old Man and the Read!

I appreciate the story recommendation. Great line in that one: "old people must pay for their joys"