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Jesus Christ is the only Truth guys, the only role model and person We all ought to look up to

Pangobooks is good for used books. Readers selling books, good prices and you'll find several editions.

I appreciate your book selections. I would like to add one book. Or, more appropriately, a grouping of six books. Any person who cares to learn about philosophy should first read the Organon of Aristotle. It is absolutely imperative to learn how to use syllogistic logic for understanding philosophy. Some books you’ll read by philosophers will be well written, but with flawed logic. It’s imperative to understand logic first and foremost before beginning in philosophy. This is my humble opinion, thank you for reading.

A recent subscriber, I'm hopping back and forth through your back catalog as the algorithm demands (Ha ha). I appreciate your opinions and analyses and varied tastes very much. Your concentration on Russian literature is getting me excited to start on the copies of Crime and Punishment and War and Peace sitting on my shelves. I had Russian Lit as an undergrad; I loved Chekov the most, but the gem of the entire semester was a book of short stories by Fyodor Sologub, Kiss Of The Unborn. The title story was both sad AND hopeful. The edition I had was a hardback edited by my professor, Murl Barker (don't you love when professors do that?). As for Moby Dick, I have no edition preferences per se, but I do dislike deckled pages, they're a PITA to turn. I also prefer that any book have a good 'hand-feel', rest in my hand easily, have generous inside margins, and an attractive cover is a plus but not a deal-breaker. If you see this before you read it, try to pick out the Bible allegories you come across. That was the challenge put to us by my American Lit professor when I read it. No skipping the middle section on cetology. 😆

For some reason,l can’t get past the beginning of Brave New World. Maybe it was just too boring. But 1984 and Animal Farm were quick reads. Of course Animal Farm was a novella.

I am always fascinated to hear non-Russian takes on Lermontov. I look forward to your thoughts.

Agreed... not a fan of deckled edge pages. It makes it more of a struggle to turn them.

For an earlier dystopian novel than Orwell's "1984", try Eugene Zemiatin/Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We"

John Irving is one of my favorite modern authors; I just repurchased used editions of all his books, most of which I sacrificed in a big move I made 15 years ago. I look forward to rereading Garp, Hotel New Hampshire, Cider House Rules, and Prayer for Owen Meany. I hope you enjoy. After you've read The World According to Garp, watch the film with Robin Williams and Glen Close in principal roles; one of my favorite book-to-movie adaptations ever.

What a surprise awaits you with Lermontov! 🤭🫣 I Recommend pairing it with Camus’s “The Fall”

How about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance!?

Excellent haul! I'm sure you'll enjoy them all! Based on personal experience Things Fall Apart (Achebe) goes well with Heart of Darkness and A Hero of Our Time with War and Peace.

I’ve also been wanting to read ‘A Hero of Our Time’ specifically because there is a Circassian character in the novel. I’m especially excited since I am of Circassian descent and want to see how Russians’ depiction of us was during that time period.

Correction: Grass was born in Danzig not Lübeck

Günter Grass was born in Danzig - you'll realize the importance of that when you read his works. He died in Lübeck.

13:58 I just read whatever catches my attention. I always have tons of books to choose from. Also, read LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness.

Love Oblomov & Heart of Darkness … did you know English was his third language, Joseph Conrad?

Of course it is

Congratulations! I'm writing you from Romania, the country of Mircea Cărtărescu (by the way, which I know). I like your videos: You speak about philosophy and serious literature. My all time favourite authors are Checkov - complete stories -, Michel de Montaigne and Marcel Proust. Lately, I like Javier Marias (The trilogy: Your Face Tomorrow), Siegfried Lenz (The Gunter Grass Friend) with The German Lesson and Orahan Pamuk, The Black Book.

Gunter Grass was a member of the Hitler Youth as all young Germans had to be and was called up at the end of the war. Tin Drum is a brilliant novel, in my top 10 all time. Dog Years is another one of his you should read. Also you should look up Alfred Doblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz published in 1929 about the death of the Weimar Republic and forseeing the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party.

I haven't read The Tin Drum yet but am currently reading To Far Afield which I had tried years ago and gave up. The central theme is early reunification and earlier history surrounding two main characters and their families. If you like Gunther Grass you will like this book, but it has a definite German character to the book.

I was in Lübeck last year, beautiful city with three Nobel Prize Laureates (Mann and Grass and former Chancellor Willy Brandt)! Just found your channel and really like your content!

First time watching your channel, sounds like you’re mostly into fiction. However given the themes, I am wondering if you’ve read any Chomsky? Manufacturing Consent or Understanding Power are some of his best.

Overly complexed ... I don't think it's worth the effort

The Tin Drum❤❤❤

It was great listening to your reading list. Finally not Lucy Score and Ali Hazelwood, Sarah J Mass. Enough of all the shallow stories

Blasphemy that some people don't like The Master and Margarita! I loved it so much that I became a Bulgakov completist, and I now have The White Guard (adapted I believe into the play The Days of the Turbins, which was loved by none other than Joseph Stalin), Heart of a Dog, Black Snow, a collection of short stories : The Diabolids, and A Country Doctor's Notebook. If there are any others, I need to know. Some of these titles may now be difficult to get as I acquired them when TMAM was making a big splash. I'm with you on And Quiet Flows the Don. It's both epic yet intimate and sweeps along like a best seller and maybe that's why it's not so highly rated : people think that Russian literature shouldn't be that easy to read. Apparently its sequel The Don Flows to the Sea is a bit of a let down so I've avoided it.

I think you're going to get a lot out of these. I've read all but "Dr Faustus", "Oblomov" and "The Lathe of Heaven" and while I found Wuthering Heights rather a miserable experience, I know others who love it. If you're interested in movie tie-ins, famed director John Huston's film of Joyce's story "The Dead" (considered by many to be one of the greatest short stories ever) is amazing and was described by an Irish friend as being made by somebody who knows and loves the Irish people. "Heart of Darkness" provided the basic plot for the river journey in "Apocalypse Now". For further reading about the "heart of darkness" which Conrad describes, I would thoroughly recommend the non-fiction book "King Leopold's Ghost". "Tin Drum", "The World According to Garp", and of course "Wuthering Heights" have also had movie adaptations.

Bookshelf tour when?

I have noticed from many of yours videos that you enjoy kafkaesque books - so you definitely have to read Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes and/or Face of Another!! I loved these.

Great finds! You have some wonderful reading ahead.

Conrad is one of the greatest novelists. Try The Secret Agent.

Have you read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian? A difficult, confronting read.

Do you know when you're gonna read Wuthering Heights? I think it's the best classic I've ever read. The characters, the relationships, the quotes, ... It's amazing. Btw you're talking about the Bröntes (Emily and Charlotte), but there's also Anne. She might be interesting to check out too.

I love the selection! Quite diverse, each book interesting in its own way. I absolutely loved The hero of our time for it's beautiful prose. Dubliners on the other hand felt quite bland, only 3 stories appealed to me. Wuthering heights drove me insane yet I still loved it! :D I just finished reading Stoner by John Williams, a story about the unassuming professor of English literature - it was so gripping, written with almost a perfect flow. Another recommendation, if you haven't got to it yet, would be Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse which is brilliant and beautiful.

Favorite Dostoevsky?

Have you read robert musil's the man without qualities?

The Heart of Darkness was a book assigned in my English class in high school and made an impression on me. I just recently reread it and it still holds up❤.

Garp is easily a top 10

Fabulous 🎉🎉❤❤

I want to know, what makes you "not" want to buy a book whenever you're out there buying For me personally, I judge it on the possibility of me reading it (or something similar) in the near future. I know it's dumb but kinda helps me not to over buy stuff sometimes 😅

Great haul! I typically stick to Amazon or online delivery for books I'm unlikely to find in physical bookstores (e.g. Brazilian lit, Indian lit) or any book that requires a particular translation, but I've been easing up on that recently. I managed to find some great second-hand bookstores here in Vancouver and grabbed an awesome copy of Plutarch's Lives (Vol I) that I'm excited to dive into someday. Weirdly enough, I also found a copy of Oblomov, so it was wonderful to see you got a copy too! Heart of Darkness was a great read. It's insane Conrad could write so well with English being his fourth language. If you find the prose is becoming a bit murky and shadowy, stick with it; I think Conrad intended that when writing it. If you're a movie fan, Apocalypse Now is heavily inspired by Heart of Darkness and is what got me interested in the book.

Yo! Garp! It makes me so happy to see you picking up a copy -- and such a nice one too. I have profound respect for the way you carry yourself as well as the way you talk about these books you've been diving into. I hope you enjoy Garp (whenever you do read it) and am happy that I could contribute to the TBR-list! This video made my night :)

Love listening to you’re commentary. Very well spoken and interesting to see what books interest you. I’ve already read two of the books you have recommended. 5:50

Make sure you read "The Dead" last story in Dubliners. It's a masterpiece.

Donna Tartt and Hermann Hesse. We all need them in our lives

HoD was one of the first books I read that made me realize that books can be, 'great'

I like to have a variety of genres on my bookshelves because I am a mood reader. Those books that are at the forefront of my list are just those that I feel like reading. Russian books to checkout: Envy by Yuri Olyesha and Hope Against Hope by Nadezdha Mandelstam.

Hows gravities rainbow?