The Booker Prize Longlist 2021 - Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
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Happy reading!
0:00 what I think of the Booker Prize
3:30 how the judges chose the longlist
12:00 A Passage North summary
13:40 A Passage North review
16:00 Second Place summary
16:40 Second Place review
20:15 The Promise summary
21:40 The Promise review
22:40 The Sweetness of Water summary
23:40 The Sweetness of Water review
25:00 Clara and the Sun summary
25:45 Clara and the Sun review
27:50 An Island summary
29:20 An Island review
30:20 A Town Called Solace summary
31:30 A Town Called Solace review
32:30 No One Is Talking About This summary
33:30 No One Is Talking About This review
35:00 The Fortune Men summary
36:15 The Fortune Men review
37:45 Bewilderment summary
39:00 Bewilderment review
39:30 China Room summary
40:35 China Room review
41:30 Great Circle summary
42:40 Great Circle review
43:30 Light Perpetual summary
44:28 Light Perpetual review
46:00 let me know your thoughts about the Booker
Hey, guys! I started reading Klara and the Sun last night and couldn't put it down. I'm halfway through and it's wonderful. Recommended so far :)
Thank you for that! Good to know -- I'll have to track it down too.
Hi Benjamin, have you finished it? What did you think? I read a sample after your inspiration and I loved what I read.
I'm about half way through The Sweetness of Water. It's a delightful blend of his delicate, poetic prose conveying highly charged incidents and themes. An unhurried pace too, like the way to enjoy a good meal -- one forkful -- or page -- at a time.
@@kimpears2492 Hi Kim! I still have around 50 pages to go :) I slowed down on this one as a couple of deep rereads have gripped me the past few days (Moby Dick, Clarissa, Don Quixote). I'm thinking I may do a podcast on Klara and the Sun once finished. I'm glad you enjoyed the sample. And I love your analogy of one forkful at a time :)
An ardent follower of your channel,Benjamin. Currently reading Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and enjoying it.
Love from India 🙏.
Thank you for watching and reading along, Neerja :) I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying Dostoyevsky!
Hello Benjamin,
Thank you for this great summary. Perfect timing! I listened here full of a cold whilst eating soup for tea.
I'm curious and have just downloaded a sample of The Sweetness of Water -- frustrated that Bewilderment isn't available yet.
Sally Rooney's latest offering didn't make the cut. Her Normal People, which I came across by chance, had me engrossed.
I'm not a mad fan of prizes. At the same time, anything that puts books on people's agenda and encourages us to delve, and explore the latest literary offerings can't be all bad.
Have a great day! And goodnight from NZ.
Thank you for listening along with your soup, Kim. I wish you a speedy recovery! I was quite frustrated that Bewilderment wasn't available yet. September release, I believe, so not too long to go. I'll have to check out Normal People with a review like that :) You're right about things putting books on people's agendas being a good thing. If anything, talking about books is such a lovely respite from the political talk most of us find ourselves indulging these days. Have a great night!
@@BenjaminMcEvoy Hi Benjamin, Thank you for your good wishes. I agree with you -- better to talk about books than politics! Saying that, have you come across the UK magazine Positive News? Comes out quarterly. Such a refreshing antidote to most media diets.
Surrounded by tissues, I read the whole sample of The Sweetness of Water. Sublime!
Speaking about the two recently freed slaves:
'They sat in silence, and George found their aversion to speaking welcome. Other than his wife, they seemed like the only individuals he'd come upon in some time who would rather leave a moment naked than tar it with wasted words.'
Can't wait to read the whole thing now. Go well!
@@kimpears2492 I'll have to check that out. By the way, I started reading Klara and the Sun last night - beautiful hardback first edition - and I could not put it down. Can't wait to read more of it later :)
What do u think of Shuggie Bain
Hi Ben I saw in one of your videos you keep a book journal? Do you have a video on that or is there a place where we can see a snippet?
Hi Rita :) I have an audio guide on how to keep a book journal over at the book club, but I'm working on a video for the RUclips channel to show it off to everyone soon. I'll be demonstrating what it looks like when I write on a page in real time, using Proust as my example. Thank you for asking!
@@BenjaminMcEvoy I am not sure what the book club is, but I'll try to find it. I am new to your channel. Wonderful, I kook forward to the journal. I am an avid journal keeper but oddly have never thought to keep a journal!
@@ritas140 Welcome to the channel, Rita :) Great to have another journal lover here. And this is the book club: www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature
@@BenjaminMcEvoy wonderful! Thanks for the link. One last question, I promise to stop bombarding you after this.. do you have an instagram I could follow as well?
@@ritas140 I don't have one, I'm afraid :) Perhaps I'll start one someday.
I love your voice a lot ! Why do not you make audiobooks ?
I will eventually read Klara and the Sun for a sense of continuity, read three of his others, although The Buried Giant was a chore. An Island sounds interesting, I enjoyed J.M. Coetzee novels, a beautiful writer. I have read books before because of the Booker or Man Booker Prize long list. The Pulitzer is more about commercial success, or it used to be. I like the idea of a prize list or just a ranking like the New York Times list.
I agree - The Buried Giant was indeed a chore! I felt similarly about A Pale View of the Hills too.
@@BenjaminMcEvoy Did not read A Pale View of the Hills, dodged that one.
Love booker list wish there were so lrish book in the list that would be nice
I agree with so many contenders how can you give fair judgement of ALL the books of you havnt read them all. So I think it can interesting for “entertainment” purposes if they want to give authors money or whatever good for them!
I agree with you.
It's late afternoon on a hot California day just finished my watering
Hello. I love your channel. I had to pause this video to say Never Let Me Go is literally the worst book I have ever in my life read. It felt like reading Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants which I also think is absurdly stupid. To each his own!!! I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and I am astonished at the stunningly gorgeous writing and the monumental brilliance of Hugo. I'm a little over halfway through it and so far it will be in my top favorite books of all time and might even secure the number one spot. Dickens and Tolstoy are up there too. But no. Never Let Me Go....no. No no no. Awful. LOL I'm so happy to have that off my chest! Okay, back to the video......
Thank you, Julie :) I've heard that opinion quite a lot, and can easily understand it. 'Hills Like White Elephants' certainly does have some similarities. I must say, though I can see what Hemingway is doing in that short story, I didn't like it myself personally either. His 'Snows of Kilimanjaro' is much better - his masterpiece, and way more readable. 'Hills' is, rather like The Old Man and the Sea, most likely poking fun at the reader. I'm glad you're loving Les Misérables. It's in my top three/five favourite novels of all time, easily!
@@BenjaminMcEvoy Oh I'm delighted to hear that you love Les Miserables so much too! I read a goodly portion of it today and loved every sentence as always with Hugo. PS. I did actually enjoy Old Man and the Sea. :-)
Do you think ulysses is suitable for a 13 year old
He would have to be a very intelligent 13-year-old. I read Ulysses at age 13, but I didn't understand too much. I enjoyed the aesthetic splendour of the prose though.
@@BenjaminMcEvoy I must confess that I am the 13 year old
@@s.n6021 I thought so ;)
Klara is fantastic
Agreed :) I've read it now!
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