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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Mr Bibi? isn't that fellow prime minister of the State of Israel nowadays?