Love a bookshelf tour! I also enjoyed hearing your thoughts about Eichmann in Jerusalem because I read it earlier this year and really struggled with it. I found her prose hard to follow. Now I understand you're just much smarter than me. 😉☺
The first cycling race I saw was the Vuelta, when a guy called Vinokourov, who according to the late great David Duffield who was never wrong about anything, had patently very little chance of success as he kicked for home on stage-idk with about 50km still to go! He won that stage then the next one and went on to win the entire tour. Kazakstan has never been the same. Subsequently watched many hours of Chris Frome gloriously winning, and funnily enough annoying the French t'boot! Almost a holiday, especially with Duffield at the mic.
Lovely to hear your entry into cycling! Vinokourov runs his own team now! Always helpful to bear in mind that everyone was on intergalactic hot sauce until the earlier part of the 2010s, and even now they’re up against legal limits on all sorts.
@@JoeSpivey02 It's disappointing to hear in a way. I always say they are the greatest athletes on the planet. What other sport requires the equivalent of anything remotely like cycling up to 200km every day, for three weeks (with two days off), and which includes going up a mountain, or several, in any one day! They never cease to amaze!
You’re right about universities being ideologically captured. I’m in my first year of university, and nearly all the books we’ve read were obviously chosen for political reasons instead of aesthetic reasons. They were all crappy.
Try and find ways to look beyond that in your essays and maybe even spoof on them. I always used to get extra marks for hinting at how poorly they’d been written!
I certainly empathize. For me, at least, selection of reading lists can very well be done for demographics sake - as long as it’s anchored on literary merit! I adore reading literature from different literary traditions and circumstances, but far too often the presiding ideology is not cosmopolitan but separatist, in that if you want to read a dead white European male who did brilliant work you can’t read anything else and vice versa.
2:09 someone finally said it. A lot of booktubers will shove down your throat crappy books because the author is black, because the protagonist is lgbt...like who cares, the books are bad and poorly written
Fortunately, there are many excellent gay and black authors to choose from, so the bad ones are no excuse to ignore minority perspectives and no reason to stay in the white writer comfort zone.
Hannah Arendt did much damage in her famous line about "the banality of evil" in discussing Eichmann, a seemingly apparent pencil-pusher who "kept his head down" and merely did his job as a bureaucrat. That is an attractive but distorted and inaccurate view that has been utterly refuted by historians and by Eichmann's own recordings in which he declaims as a seething unrepentant antisemite who remained proud of his work long after the war. You don't have to be be foaming at the mouth and look like a monster in order to be evil. Coming across as average is an effective cover and he fooled Arendt.
She talks very many times about the uncertainty surrounding Eichmann's banality, so I wouldn't say that she was outright deceived. Either way, the ruminations are of such an exhilarating power that I think the book stands alone as a short work of 20th century non-fiction.
This was SOoo fun. Thanks for sharing your shelves with us. I can’t wait for the next one!!
Thanks Joe looking forward to the next shelves
Abdolutely golden content! I certainly wish there were more booktubers like yourself, love the bashing on the academical readings lol
There’s plenty more bashing where that came from!
Love a bookshelf tour! I also enjoyed hearing your thoughts about Eichmann in Jerusalem because I read it earlier this year and really struggled with it. I found her prose hard to follow. Now I understand you're just much smarter than me. 😉☺
It’s definitely worth a slow re-read.
Interesting thought. It sounds like a good candidate for Remember December. Thanks Joe!@@JoeSpivey02
Hey Joe, found you through Steve Donoghue and i’m looking forward to more of your videos in the future 👍🏻
Was looking forward to the classics on the shelf until you paused right before them 😮
Treating you mean and and keeping you keen!
Well, that's Martin Amis done, onward and upward. Despite not being overly keen on Amis, i enjoyed your elaborations on his works.
Bravely presented.
What a great tour! But wait ... there's a bookshelf fairy??? I'm assuming this creature has given Hyde Cottage a wide berth because of how I smell?
She only visits those very much in need. I’m sure you’ll agree you’re a member of the bookshelf aristocracy!
American universities are the same these days from what I've heard.
The first cycling race I saw was the Vuelta, when a guy called Vinokourov, who according to the late great David Duffield who was never wrong about anything, had patently very little chance of success as he kicked for home on stage-idk with about 50km still to go! He won that stage then the next one and went on to win the entire tour. Kazakstan has never been the same. Subsequently watched many hours of Chris Frome gloriously winning, and funnily enough annoying the French t'boot! Almost a holiday, especially with Duffield at the mic.
Lovely to hear your entry into cycling! Vinokourov runs his own team now! Always helpful to bear in mind that everyone was on intergalactic hot sauce until the earlier part of the 2010s, and even now they’re up against legal limits on all sorts.
@@JoeSpivey02 It's disappointing to hear in a way. I always say they are the greatest athletes on the planet. What other sport requires the equivalent of anything remotely like cycling up to 200km every day, for three weeks (with two days off), and which includes going up a mountain, or several, in any one day! They never cease to amaze!
You’re right about universities being ideologically captured. I’m in my first year of university, and nearly all the books we’ve read were obviously chosen for political reasons instead of aesthetic reasons. They were all crappy.
Try and find ways to look beyond that in your essays and maybe even spoof on them. I always used to get extra marks for hinting at how poorly they’d been written!
I certainly empathize.
For me, at least, selection of reading lists can very well be done for demographics sake - as long as it’s anchored on literary merit! I adore reading literature from different literary traditions and circumstances, but far too often the presiding ideology is not cosmopolitan but separatist, in that if you want to read a dead white European male who did brilliant work you can’t read anything else and vice versa.
2:09 someone finally said it. A lot of booktubers will shove down your throat crappy books because the author is black, because the protagonist is lgbt...like who cares, the books are bad and poorly written
Fortunately, there are many excellent gay and black authors to choose from, so the bad ones are no excuse to ignore minority perspectives and no reason to stay in the white writer comfort zone.
You're very beautiful, aren't you? Even in low lighting.
You’ve been talking to my secretary again haven’t you? 😂
Hannah Arendt did much damage in her famous line about "the banality of evil" in discussing Eichmann, a seemingly apparent pencil-pusher who "kept his head down" and merely did his job as a bureaucrat. That is an attractive but distorted and inaccurate view that has been utterly refuted by historians and by Eichmann's own recordings in which he declaims as a seething unrepentant antisemite who remained proud of his work long after the war. You don't have to be be foaming at the mouth and look like a monster in order to be evil. Coming across as average is an effective cover and he fooled Arendt.
She talks very many times about the uncertainty surrounding Eichmann's banality, so I wouldn't say that she was outright deceived. Either way, the ruminations are of such an exhilarating power that I think the book stands alone as a short work of 20th century non-fiction.