This was a great tag Steve. After watching hundreds of your videos you still have the power to make me laugh like an idiot watching them. Your description of inept videos is priceless, and totally true.
Oh, Steve. . . . How can we go on this way? You trash Faulkner one minute and then eviscerate O'Reilly & Dugard. You take me from angry stuttering to giggles of glee in the space of three minutes. You vex me sir, you vex me.
You should do a video series critiquing O'Reilly's killing books and explaining how they are inaccurate. I'm a student of history and have always been on the fence about reading those books not knowing if I would get accurate tellings.
Hilarious video and as always, insightful!! Now I’m even MORE self conscious about being....”inept” LOL! Gotta take “sorta” “kinda” “uhhhh” and “I don’t know” out of my vocabulary STAT! 😂
Oh no - I wasn't railing against verbal place-holders like "sorta" and "kinda"! Everybody does that, and there's no problem with it - I'm talking about people who don't bother to know what they're talking about before they talk about it.
Steve you should do a video ranking authors in their particular genres. I think they would be great because your opinions are always so articulate and valid. I would love to see you rank philosophy writers! Selfishly though because I would like to know who you would recommend reading.
The Sound and the Fury doesn't sound like a good start to Faulkner from hearing you and Adrian talk about it. I also have As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom! on my shelf. Would you recommend one of those as a starting point?
I would recommend both "As I Lay Dying" and "Absalom, Absalom!" as starting points - for a COMPOST PILE! Simple tear them up page by page and rub them down deep into the MULCH, and come summer, you'll be growing the most pretentious tomatoes in the neighborhood!
@@saintdonoghue Haha, I've been thinking about starting a compost pile but I still think I'm gonna give them a shot beforehand and see if I'll feel differently. ;) Although I really do like fresh tomatoes...
I think there is a certain age for everything, I used to like S. King as a preteen, now that I am 30 he is no longer interesting, even though I still like one of his earliest and most unpopular works called Library policeman, but generally everything he has written in the last 15 years is utter crap. I did like The sound and the Fury though, but then I like everything Faulkner wrote:) Jane Austen’s Emma though... I don’t think I can ever get through it, such drudgery! P.S.: just found your channel, enjoying so much!
I THINK they do it to compensate for the "nervousness" I've been told some people experience when they're on-camera. I think they do it to fake a kind of nonchalant indifference that they're not really feeling. But regardless of the reason, It's mighty annoying!
I'll be honest. I have read two books by Faulkner and just don't like him. He can write, as can be seen from his first chapter in As I Lay Dying. I do not like his characters.
@@saintdonoghue what are you saying is the ratio between those that can and those that can't? BTW I have a few reservations about your ability to determine one from the other given your view of Faulkner :-)
This was a great tag Steve. After watching hundreds of your videos you still have the power to make me laugh like an idiot watching them. Your description of inept videos is priceless, and totally true.
Oh, Steve. . . . How can we go on this way?
You trash Faulkner one minute and then eviscerate O'Reilly & Dugard. You take me from angry stuttering to giggles of glee in the space of three minutes. You vex me sir, you vex me.
This is the single best comment I've ever received! We've got a real "odi et amo" situation on our hands! HAH!
Im glad you had this opportunity.
It’s weird that this tag focused on the worst of things and yet you had me cracking up especially with your descriptions of the people you tagged.
This was just so much fun. I am really giggling at the roasting ppl are giving one another lol. All in good fun 😂
Hahaha, fluff, thats the best insult you could come up with?
Your impression of an inept booktuber made me laugh out loud. ::rustling noise::
Ugh, the eating/drinking in videos! The worst.
"It's like watching a Mennonite funeral."
You should do a video series critiquing O'Reilly's killing books and explaining how they are inaccurate. I'm a student of history and have always been on the fence about reading those books not knowing if I would get accurate tellings.
Hilarious video and as always, insightful!! Now I’m even MORE self conscious about being....”inept” LOL! Gotta take “sorta” “kinda” “uhhhh” and “I don’t know” out of my vocabulary STAT! 😂
Oh no - I wasn't railing against verbal place-holders like "sorta" and "kinda"! Everybody does that, and there's no problem with it - I'm talking about people who don't bother to know what they're talking about before they talk about it.
Steve Donoghue oh I know what you meant, just teasing! 😉
Ah, Steve. I wondered why I was getting new subscribers. They are waiting for my next video where I act like a DudeBro. Do I smell? LOL.
Hahah spot on with the RUclips gripes 😂
You were nearly led into dangerous waters with these questions, Steve. lol
Actually I'm sure you were.
Steve you should do a video ranking authors in their particular genres. I think they would be great because your opinions are always so articulate and valid. I would love to see you rank philosophy writers! Selfishly though because I would like to know who you would recommend reading.
I love the idea, and when it comes to philosophers, there's no need for a whole video: none of them are worth reading. There! Problem solved!
@@saintdonoghue Hahaha how did I know you would say that?....
The Sound and the Fury doesn't sound like a good start to Faulkner from hearing you and Adrian talk about it. I also have As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom! on my shelf. Would you recommend one of those as a starting point?
Also I'm glad I'm not the only one who is disturbed by Kelly's constant belching and armpit-scratching. 😂
I would recommend both "As I Lay Dying" and "Absalom, Absalom!" as starting points - for a COMPOST PILE! Simple tear them up page by page and rub them down deep into the MULCH, and come summer, you'll be growing the most pretentious tomatoes in the neighborhood!
@@saintdonoghue Haha, I've been thinking about starting a compost pile but I still think I'm gonna give them a shot beforehand and see if I'll feel differently. ;) Although I really do like fresh tomatoes...
I think there is a certain age for everything, I used to like S. King as a preteen, now that I am 30 he is no longer interesting, even though I still like one of his earliest and most unpopular works called Library policeman, but generally everything he has written in the last 15 years is utter crap. I did like The sound and the Fury though, but then I like everything Faulkner wrote:) Jane Austen’s Emma though... I don’t think I can ever get through it, such drudgery!
P.S.: just found your channel, enjoying so much!
This was really fun!
I read The Sound and the Fury last year and god it was bad. I am with you on the food/drink thing not sure why poeple do that but it drives me mad!
I THINK they do it to compensate for the "nervousness" I've been told some people experience when they're on-camera. I think they do it to fake a kind of nonchalant indifference that they're not really feeling. But regardless of the reason, It's mighty annoying!
Just read the first page of the 'The Love Letter' - 'eeek'!
Thank you! Faulkner is...no, just no.
Thank you for saying what I've always felt.
Worst books I read in last year were Snap & The Bus on Thrusday
I love this tag!
I'll be honest. I have read two books by Faulkner and just don't like him. He can write, as can be seen from his first chapter in As I Lay Dying. I do not like his characters.
If most writers can't write (not even better than the group collective of film screenplay adapters of their novels), why do you even read Steve?
Why, for the ones who CAN, of course! The ones who CAN write are everything!
@@saintdonoghue what are you saying is the ratio between those that can and those that can't? BTW I have a few reservations about your ability to determine one from the other given your view of Faulkner :-)
@@MarcNash For my ratio, I'll stick to Sturgeon's Law! The PG version of which is "90 percent of everything is crap"
@@saintdonoghue 90% which presumably includes those who posit epigrammatic laws
@@MarcNash It certainly includes 90 percent of Ted Sturgeon's own literary output! But nevertheless ...
This was awesome!