Видео

Just started Perible of sower…

I love your videos Reminds me of what I was a few years ago as a student

Also advice for reading Pynchon- the writing doesnt' do well with skimming. His density of prose means that the more you skim the more unclear it is. I had a mentor say "When reading pynchon, just read every damnn word and you'll do fine"

Gravity's rainbow is only difficult because as a magical realist Pynchon expects you to have enough historical/contextual knowledge to know when he's playing with it. same as Marquez or Rushdie. Magical realists just have the expectation you know the era and locations. Learn a little about the history of science in that era, the politics of post-world war 2 in Germany, a little bit of literature of that era and you'll be fine. his most famous book but honestly not his best; he keeps maturing as an author. Mason & Dixon is my favorite, Against the Day expects a little more math/math history knowledge to get but it also is a good look at the late 1800s/early 1900s, and for shorter reads I recommend Bleeding Edge for early 2000s tech history

You seem to have mitten the German actress who actually developed wifi connectivity.

... now im thinking of bsd 😃

Nooooo! Not The Sound and the Fury!!! Benjy only tells part of the story and it's not particularly difficult to figure out what's going on. And once you do you feel the pathos and waste in this family as deeply as anything in Macbeth. I read most of the others, but my reading of Finnegan's Wake was fake reading. I spent much of my time wondering what was for dinner.

I have listened to this book every year for the last few years… I can’t say I was surprised when Goblins showed up the first time. It is Tolkien after all.

Ulysses, as a simple reader putting aside all symbolizm, literary secrets etc (which I wouldnt get) it was boring to read. and yes the sound and furry was very confusing.

You missed the glass bead game.

No cz why is Dostoevsky's draft basically how all my drafts look what 😭

I've seen Russian cursive make grown men cry

Wow I’ve never been more thankful for Microsoft Word

Herman Melville had great fictional and poetical writing abilities, but in my opinion he wasn't mature enough, at least not at the time he wrote Moby-Dick at around 30, to attempt writing something profound in the sprawling manner of Moby-Dick. He's all over the place in his tangents--like a bore at a dinnerparty--and there's simply not enough in those musings to warrant serious attention. Let the story be plain but interesting and engaging and thought provoking in it self so that it evokes deep reflection in the reader. Don't write the reader on the nose with philosophical musings only loosely related to the story. That's the main problem with Moby-Dick.

Ulysses is approachable. You need to expect every chapter to be written in a different style, know a little about Catholicism and the Irish independence problem and you are ready to go. Maybe you won't get every single reference, but according to Joyce himself even university professors have been able to get all of them.

I don't know where I once read that once you hit 50's, that's the best age when.you can start writing. So much experience in your life, so much wisdom, and you can pour all of that in your works.

Stephen King wrote The Long Walk when he was 17

Magnificent video, but listening against the barrage of background music left me giving up after 2 1/2 minutes. Why hide wonderful content, engaging narration, and your lively presentation behind loud music?

I actually think emily dickinsons writting is wonderful

That was her deal with the devil. When she got to the last letter she would die, but she couldn’t stop writing even if she had wanted to.

I’m hopefully going to become a published author in the next few years. I’m almost at the stage when I can submit to publishers. My greatest fear is that something awful will happen to me before I finish the series. So my best friend is the one person who knows EVERYTHING about the series. She knows the characters almost as well as I do, knows all of the plot and practises my writing style (she’s also an aspiring author). Just in case.

Mama sing-sing watcha gotta jibbo gotta jiboo gotta jiboo

I started reading Finnegans Wake with a detailed commentary beside it and gave up after a few pages. Then I listened to a 5 minute sample of the audiobook on Audible. It was beautiful.Dont try to understand it - just let the sounds wash over you and it’s like nothing else you’ve ever heard.

I’m so tired that I thought the first photo was in Gregg. I stared at it for two whole minutes being like “this is incomprehensible…” before realizing that I’m just an idiot.

I think a lot of the great authors had dysgraphia. Just something works differently in the mind, when you have it. You also notice their syntax is a little off, too. It's more fluid and natural, rather than hyper punctuated and to the perfect phrasing

Over my lifetime, I've tried all 5 and gave up on Infinite Jest (>100pp.) and Finnegan's Wake (>10pp.). But as for the 3 persevered with (occasionally by skimming!), I rue the time wasted after it became clear the authors scorned repaying readers' efforts. I'd been had.

Another great example is J.R.R. Tolkien, who was 45 when he started writing lotr

Berserk fans are the only people who can laugh at this.

I have read over and over all these (not Wallace). They all provide reading and other pleasures. Don't chicken out. Use your brain as a muscle. Use or lose it.

Dude all I read was Tom swift and was so confused

Real ones know Thats the miraculous code

True that However, 99 plus % of science fiction is fantasy. We can never locate, let alone contact, let alone reach, let alone SURVIVE in a biosphere that evolved differently, even if DNA and RNA and right chirality proteined. Cult of fantasy future tech very destructive. When coal ends, recoverable, machine age ends, forever....hand and hoof, stone and wood....while a short geologic age will pass before most of the poisons we mine and manufacture are reabsorbed below said biosphere. Even if Fusion power were usable...a feeble fantasy...no difference. Takes fossil fuel to make modern 'windmills', turbines, etc., and they WEAR OUT. Simplest version here....parents national scientists and more...am student of acience, and all other, fantasies 58 years now.

That’s basically in Hebrew…

Do a video about William Gibson and all the shit he named and predicted before it existed.

I don't know how you ended up in my algorithm but your video is interesting and well made.

Halo fans in 10 years:

I have "Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle" from my great grandfathers library. He read it as a boy, and so did I.

Any book is difficult if you don’t know how to read. Think about 🤔

Ah, the tshaer

The confederates made a submarine in 1863-65 before this. Credited it wasn't great . So I'm curious why this one gets credit?

Alrite which dumb mofo first wrote about Tiktok and homework!

Wouldn't it be a THASER for Tom Smith And His Electric Rifle? Ooooh! How about we re-name it the SHATER lol 😆 💩

Jules Verne was legit a time traveler who saw the future and then wrote about what he saw.

The first nuclear-powered submarine was named the Nautilus after Jules Vern's book, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".

He kept lying to all four of his children. I wouldn't believe a word he said.

I love how sci fi is often like "hey imagine how awful things would get if this tech existed?" And these people were like, "bet"

Someone is *going* to invent the Torment Nexus, aren’t they?

Pretty cool.

So basically fancy hebrew???😂😂😂😂