What I've Been Reading + My TBR
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Here's a look at what I'm currently reading as well as a few books I recently added to my list.
What book should I add to my TBR? Comment below!
Timecodes:
0:00 - Long Time No See
0:50 - What I’m Currently Reading
2:03 - Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
5:29 - The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
8:36 - What I’m Reading Soon (TBR)
8:50 - Consider The Lobster, David Foster Wallace
9:10 - Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt
11:26 - Falling in Love with Literature
13:21 - Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
14:08 - The World As Will & Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer
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Glad i discovered your channel, just came over from your shorts and found your fuller videos here. i'll be keeping up!!
So very pleased to have found your channel. Intellectually stimulating; much needed by this 73 year old.
It's amazing how I wouldn't have discovered so much of my favourite literature without the Internet. In particular, I would never have learned about Brazilian literature (Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector) and Portuguese literature (Jose Saramago, Fernando Pessoa). I'm grateful to live in an age where we can be exposed to quality literature we wouldn't have heard of before.
The Book of Disquiet is one of my favourite books and I'm really glad you liked it too! I also bought a bunch of Cormac McCarthy books and will probably be starting with The Road or All The Pretty Horses before diving into the devastation in Blood Meridian. Can't wait for your next video, Brock!
Blood Meridian is great and McCarthy in general is a master of the craft. The Road and No Country for Old Men are the best places to start imo because they are his most accessible. Hope you enjoy Blood Meridian!
Excited to get into his works!
Really enjoying your content! One book I have been enjoying very much is The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius! I might need to pick up some nietzsche and David Foster Wallace :)
Love your recommendations! 🤩
I don’t know the work of David Foster Wallace so why not read one of his books! 😁
The part where you talk about falling in love with literature is so interesting to me because I mostly read fiction and want to get into philosophy I would like to ask if you could elaborate more on why you used to think literature was only something mostly for fun
Philosophy is dry but I feel like I walk away with immediate application or concepts to think about. Fiction seems to lead with entertainment and you end up learning a lot through the characters, storylines, themes, etc.
I wasn’t ignorant to this but slightly naive where I expected fiction to offer value but not in the same insightful way as philosophy. Hope that makes sense!
If you are going to read more fiction, I would recommend Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Very unique book. Also, A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe. Although both fiction they are both about characters struggling and trying to find who they are and what is right.
Read that one earlier this year and loved it!
Really interested to see what you think about blood meridian!! I read The Road and absolutely loved it, but was super frustrated by BM because I just didn’t feel like I understood what the point of it was… it was astoundingly beautiful and horrible at the same time, but I just couldn’t put my finger on Why he felt like it was a story he needed to tell…
I’ll have to finish it and report back!
Hello The Active Mind. Thank you again for your recommendations. I would certainly consider reading them in the future. If you are interested on good recommendations on eastern literature then I would like to recommend "Dusk" (or in its original language Poon) by F.Sionil Jose.
Appreciate the recommendation! I’ll add it to my list!
Hello. I love your content!!
Grateful for the support 🙌🏼
I’ll add infinite jest to my list. I’m reading moby dick for the first time rn. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is my favorite writer. I recommend his book the confessions, he writes in a beautiful way, and I like his philosophy on natural law. Interesting guy, and a big impact on democracy and our founding. I haven’t read his social contract, but will eventually.
I’ve read The Social Contract but not Confessions, so I’ll need to give it a go!
I just read Moby Dick in the summer myself! What are your thoughts on it? I definitely enjoyed it, and its undoubtedly brilliantly written. it has moments of brilliance and I learned so much from it (especially the history of whaling) but i did find it to be a tough read at times because of how digressive it was. Found it hard to get into a real flow with it. So many chapters and different ideas and topics it was a slog at times but glad I can say I read it and experienced the full story. its so multi layered.
@@ThaKid14 very multi layered, he is such a good writer. It’s very long but somehow he has the ability to keep you interested, I like how everything has a deeper meaning too. Definitely my favorite book of all time
Please tell me your opinion on Sextus Empiricus, and skepticism.