Great video Joe, as always. Because you don't dip into genre fiction often I want you to love Le Carre. Tinker is striking but something like The Night Manager is where you might best start.
@JoeSpivey02, let me try to shed a little light on Homer and his gods. Even in the ancient world, Homer, although his poems were a touchstone and cultural wellspring, came under criticism for his depiction of the gods as too human and too petty-jealous or scheming or whatnot. In Greece, as in other places, gods were at once, and confusingly, both like elevated humans, with human attributes and personalities and definable “biographies,” and awesome, indescribable, and frightening powers. (Think of Dionysus in The Bacchae, who is both a young man and a serpent, a bull, the grapevine, and is capable of destroying everything around him.) And it’s hugely important that there were so many local cults and variations. Before the Classical age especially, and well into it, the gods had various “homes,” and could be very different in each place. Your Artemis, a goddess protecting young women, might not have much apparent connection to my Artemis, a goddess primarily of the hunt. As time went on, the “stories” worked harder and harder to make all the disparate aspects of gods come together and make sense.
Well, the pile of I will read it later... Always are some works somewhat more important or library offers something more interesting, but this stops tonight. A Midsummer night dream, and analyses of passages I do or do not like at all, just as it should be. Odyssey is excellent, I will have to reread it, hopefully this November. I have stopped reading Middlemarch, plainness of characters and paragraphs and obscurity of some ideas are just not for me, at least at this moment.
I've neve read Don Quixote; I don't know why. I've read a modern day version of it: "A Confederacy of Dunces," which takes its title from a Swift essay: "If a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him." I liked that book very much and have read it several times. There was a wonderful movie, Joe, about Henry Vlll and his relationship with Anne Boleyn: "Anne of a Thousand Days." It stars Richard Burton giving one of his better performances.
Well, you certainly didn’t put this tag in your “I’ll get around to it later” list, did you? I would love to hear your personal reasoning for why you don’t love Dickens. Have you talked about it before? (You’re in an odd little crowd that includes Steve D and me.) Bleak House is my second favorite of his-after Great Expectations.
I don't think he ever sat down to write a book in a serious and stalling manner. I think, like very many of his technical sons, he wrote to please via comedy. I've never once reeled back from a Dickensian paragraph and marveled at a new worldly revelation. Whereas Trollope and Eliot give us that every five minutes!
@ Yes! I tend to resist his caricatures. Interestingly, I have found film versions of his books to be much more appealing than the books themselves. The Stafford-Clark Bleak House is especially good.
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I'm loving your voice 😍
Isn't that jolly splendid?!
I laughed so loud at that.
I aim to please...
Great video Joe, as always. Because you don't dip into genre fiction often I want you to love Le Carre. Tinker is striking but something like The Night Manager is where you might best start.
I'm going to surge ahead with Tinker. All thoughts shall be dutifully recorded!
@JoeSpivey02, let me try to shed a little light on Homer and his gods. Even in the ancient world, Homer, although his poems were a touchstone and cultural wellspring, came under criticism for his depiction of the gods as too human and too petty-jealous or scheming or whatnot. In Greece, as in other places, gods were at once, and confusingly, both like elevated humans, with human attributes and personalities and definable “biographies,” and awesome, indescribable, and frightening powers. (Think of Dionysus in The Bacchae, who is both a young man and a serpent, a bull, the grapevine, and is capable of destroying everything around him.) And it’s hugely important that there were so many local cults and variations. Before the Classical age especially, and well into it, the gods had various “homes,” and could be very different in each place. Your Artemis, a goddess protecting young women, might not have much apparent connection to my Artemis, a goddess primarily of the hunt. As time went on, the “stories” worked harder and harder to make all the disparate aspects of gods come together and make sense.
@@orsino88 thank you very much! From that explanation, it sounds like I shouldn’t feel silly for such confusion 😂
Well, the pile of I will read it later... Always are some works somewhat more important or library offers something more interesting, but this stops tonight.
A Midsummer night dream, and analyses of passages I do or do not like at all, just as it should be.
Odyssey is excellent, I will have to reread it, hopefully this November. I have stopped reading Middlemarch, plainness of characters and paragraphs and obscurity of some ideas are just not for me, at least at this moment.
I've neve read Don Quixote; I don't know why. I've read a modern day version of it: "A Confederacy of Dunces," which takes its title from a Swift essay: "If a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him." I liked that book very much and have read it several times.
There was a wonderful movie, Joe, about Henry Vlll and his relationship with Anne Boleyn: "Anne of a Thousand Days." It stars Richard Burton giving one of his better performances.
The Swift essay sounds amazing! Are many dunces in confederacy against me? 🤣
Winnie the Pooh noted.
Well, you certainly didn’t put this tag in your “I’ll get around to it later” list, did you?
I would love to hear your personal reasoning for why you don’t love Dickens. Have you talked about it before? (You’re in an odd little crowd that includes Steve D and me.) Bleak House is my second favorite of his-after Great Expectations.
I don't think he ever sat down to write a book in a serious and stalling manner. I think, like very many of his technical sons, he wrote to please via comedy. I've never once reeled back from a Dickensian paragraph and marveled at a new worldly revelation. Whereas Trollope and Eliot give us that every five minutes!
@ Yes! I tend to resist his caricatures. Interestingly, I have found film versions of his books to be much more appealing than the books themselves. The Stafford-Clark Bleak House is especially good.
@@JoeSpivey02 I guess I'm going to bed to give this Trollope fellow a try...
@@LiterateTexan you know what's good for you! 😜
@@HannahsBooks How frightfully modern of you!
Couldn’t disagree more with Mr. Amis on Don Quixote. I found it an easy and very enjoyable read. Don’t go into it with that attitude.
Mr Bibi? isn't that fellow prime minister of the State of Israel nowadays?
Mr Bibby. But well played sir...well played