I just know you’re right. I love McMurtry’s writing, his characters, his sense of humor. It really great to hear it praised from other readers. Thank you!
I loved Titus Groan! Then I got sidetracked trying to find the [non-essential but good] novella "Boy in Darkness" that Peake wrote after Gormenghast. I was thinking that it took place between the first two books, but now I see that it takes place during Gormenghast. Anywho, I see my library has a copy of "Boy in Darkness and other Stories", so my search is at an end... I am part way through Swann's Way and definitely enjoying it, but I find I have to read it quite slowly or my brain stops absorbing the material even while I'm delighting in the writing. Greg from Another Bibliophile Reads is doing a Proust group read next year. Love those Landmark editions!
I’ll have to see if Boy in Darkness appears in my copy of Peake’s Progress, or find a copy elsewhere. I’m getting a lot of encouragement about Swan’s Way and Proust which is great. I’ll have to check out Greg’s channel, it sounds like fun. Thanks!!
Reading The Reivers and Light In August right now. Easily the richest, most multi-layered masterful of any of the books I ever read. The Sound and the Fury is one of those books you really have to give yourself up to.
I took a Southwestern literature course during my undergrad and the professor had us read Scarbrough's description of the wind and Texas, and it is spot on! I moved from Mountainous Utah to New Mexico when I was ten and the change in landscape was awful! Then, as I grew, I fell in love with the landscapes out here.
Its just amazing. I guess I wished it was another kind of novel, not that it was a bad one. The opening preface is amazing and the first chapter was like someone coming to an alien planet where everything is a mockery of a lush pastoral earth. I think my high school English teacher mentioned this description because I have a memory of him saying something like this. But I remember it as Kansas not Texas.
It was a lot of fun. And you get yo talk about books you normally wouldn’t. I loved Graham’s video and waited far too long to make this. It was originally a booktag video but I just made it a list so I don’t bother any of my friends more than they can tolerate 😆. If you’re interested you could consider yourself tagged. Anyone who reads has at least a few books that they put off and this list is a good way to motivate yourself to finally do it.
So much to say on this vid! First off, since 2022 I've been on a mission to read all the unread books in my own collection, and this year and next I'm zeroing in on the huge books that I keep putting off that I own. So I totally understand your commitment to finally knocking off those bucket list books! Also I was totally on the ball watching this, 'cause I correctly called out 4 of the books before you named them, based on how you intro'd them :P Anyway, I read Once and Future King last year and HATED it! Had to drag myself through it. I only kinda liked book 1 and 3. It was pretty much my first King Arthur story so maybe that's why I couldn't get into it. I've also read and loved the Aeneid--it's my favourite ancient literature I've read so far. Hope you like it, it's definitely worth your time! And lastly--the next chunker I plan on reading after my current one is The Histories by Herodotus! I actually own the Landmark edition as well, and it's such a gorgeous book--I've taken it down to look at so many times! I'll likely start it in late August/early September! Care for doing a read-along? Might be fun! :D Maybe I should cover 10 'read before you die' books for me--but the problem is, all the books I can think of for that list are all obscenely long, like that 1,600 page book on the Kennedy Assassination and its conspiracies ("Reclaiming History," by Vincent Bugliosi), or the Mahabharata, which is 8,000. Wish I didn't have to sleep, so I could spend all that wasted rest time just reading, haha.
First yes. A read along sounds awesome. I would greatly appreciate starting in September because: I have five kids growing back to school (in various forms) and there is always a certain amount of chaos, and August begins birthday season 🫨 Very excited about the Aeneid. Bummer that you didn’t like Once and Future King, it could be a knowledge of Arthurian myth would have helped but I don’t think it would have changed your view much since it sounds like the narrative was the issue and not misunderstood references. As for your “10…” video. Yes! Do it! You have a great point of view. If you think it might not be “marketable” I think you may be surprised (just like I am about The Wind). And who else will talk about those books if not you? Be our beacon in these dark times! 😁
RUclips recommended this to me.... I can't believe someone else has read The Wind! I had to really hunt to find an ebook (Internet Archive was the only one I could find), so I'm pleasantly surprised that it's being discussed. I agree with you completely on the repetition, but I absolutely loved the novel anyway. Reminded me a lot of Shirley Jackson's work.
I really liked it. Some parts weren’t very exciting but I am putting modern expectations on a style of writing from another time which isn’t fair. While reading I kept thinking what a shame it was that this was basically forgotten. Well, I’m trying not to repeat your own words back to you but… I’m surprised and happy about this too. It did have a wonderful southern gothic feel sometimes. There was a story in the middle somewhere about how the wild horse herds came about, I think that’s right, it was just so good. Very happy to have read it. Of course readers are terrible about recommending books to each other even though we know we all have shelves to read so forgive me in advance… If you like this and Jackson I highly endorse Elizabeth Engstrom’s “When Darkness Loves Us”. Curtis from Deep in the Reads (he’s in these comments too) recommended it and it was Amazing. I did a video on it but instead of mine watch his “My 6 favorite Horror Stories” or skip all that and read it. It was SO good (assuming you like horror. Specifically southern gothic horror). You can totally tell me “okay sure,” and I’ll never know and you’ll be completely free of obligation. If you do read it though I’d love to hear what you think (again you could make something up and I’d be clueless). Okay, I’m sorry. I’m done.😆
Great list. I understand your hesitation with The Once and Future King, but I think you'll like it on rereading. Also, I recommend Proust - I read it a long time ago (as 'Remembrance of Things Past') and it's deep, convoluted, and very rewarding.
Once and Future King is my wife’s favorite book so even if only for that I want to reread it. I read it at 13 so whole sections were over my head but even then I could see how good it was. Thank you for the encouragement on Proust. That’s just what I remember hearing about his writing and what peaked my interest.
I know I down sell the book a bit but I really did like it (just difficult to recommend). I haven’t seen the movie yet but if you enjoyed it and are interested see if an ebook can be found or if the library has a copy if only to read the beginning. There is an audiobook on audible, probably other sources too. It was a great find, I just never expected anyone else to know about it 😆
Humm. I hadn’t thought of that. Borges was a librarian. And I think he had a story about a library with a book for every possible combination of words (or something like that). I’ll have to keep that in mind when I read his stories. Thanks!
You are saying Borges correctly, but his first name has a pronounced e at the end. pronounced like Whore-heh (sorry, but accurate) middle name is pronounced like Louise.
I definitely struggled when I tried reading it the first time. So that’s on my mind. But I’m going to try again to let the book do it’s thing and just see what happens.
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Food for thought. So many books and so little time! Happy reading.
Definitely so. Thank you!
Lonesome Dove is an absolute masterpiece. So much better than all the rest. Stupendous.
I just know you’re right. I love McMurtry’s writing, his characters, his sense of humor. It really great to hear it praised from other readers. Thank you!
The prose in Swann’s way was a big influence for book of the new sun, reads like Severian reminiscing about cakes and tea
Ah, you know I remember reading that now. “Severian eating teas and cakes” 😆
I loved Titus Groan! Then I got sidetracked trying to find the [non-essential but good] novella "Boy in Darkness" that Peake wrote after Gormenghast. I was thinking that it took place between the first two books, but now I see that it takes place during Gormenghast. Anywho, I see my library has a copy of "Boy in Darkness and other Stories", so my search is at an end... I am part way through Swann's Way and definitely enjoying it, but I find I have to read it quite slowly or my brain stops absorbing the material even while I'm delighting in the writing. Greg from Another Bibliophile Reads is doing a Proust group read next year. Love those Landmark editions!
I’ll have to see if Boy in Darkness appears in my copy of Peake’s Progress, or find a copy elsewhere. I’m getting a lot of encouragement about Swan’s Way and Proust which is great. I’ll have to check out Greg’s channel, it sounds like fun. Thanks!!
Hi! Ooo Paradise Lost, The Histories, Proust! A great list you have.
Thank you. Proust is one I’ve wanted to read for so long. I think it’ll be my priority next year. Can’t wait to dive into The Histories next month!😅
Reading The Reivers and Light In August right now. Easily the richest, most multi-layered masterful of any of the books I ever read. The Sound and the Fury is one of those books you really have to give yourself up to.
That sounds like good advice. Light in August is another Faulkner that I want to read. Sound and Fury won out because of my previous stalled attempt.
I took a Southwestern literature course during my undergrad and the professor had us read Scarbrough's description of the wind and Texas, and it is spot on! I moved from Mountainous Utah to New Mexico when I was ten and the change in landscape was awful! Then, as I grew, I fell in love with the landscapes out here.
Its just amazing. I guess I wished it was another kind of novel, not that it was a bad one. The opening preface is amazing and the first chapter was like someone coming to an alien planet where everything is a mockery of a lush pastoral earth. I think my high school English teacher mentioned this description because I have a memory of him saying something like this. But I remember it as Kansas not Texas.
This was a great video and got me to thinking about it so I made my own list. I already finished one…… fittingly it was The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Very cool. It always feels great to read something you put off for a while. Especially when you know it will be good.
Interesting video! I feel like it would be fun to try to make a 'bucket list' of all the books you want to read before you die.
It was a lot of fun. And you get yo talk about books you normally wouldn’t. I loved Graham’s video and waited far too long to make this. It was originally a booktag video but I just made it a list so I don’t bother any of my friends more than they can tolerate 😆. If you’re interested you could consider yourself tagged. Anyone who reads has at least a few books that they put off and this list is a good way to motivate yourself to finally do it.
@@literallybooks omg my first book tag! thank you, i’d love to do this at some point 😁 how fun!
@@johanna_st_johnFantastic! I don’t remember the actual tag but Graham’s video linked in the description has all that. Best of Luck!! 😁
So much to say on this vid! First off, since 2022 I've been on a mission to read all the unread books in my own collection, and this year and next I'm zeroing in on the huge books that I keep putting off that I own. So I totally understand your commitment to finally knocking off those bucket list books! Also I was totally on the ball watching this, 'cause I correctly called out 4 of the books before you named them, based on how you intro'd them :P
Anyway, I read Once and Future King last year and HATED it! Had to drag myself through it. I only kinda liked book 1 and 3. It was pretty much my first King Arthur story so maybe that's why I couldn't get into it. I've also read and loved the Aeneid--it's my favourite ancient literature I've read so far. Hope you like it, it's definitely worth your time! And lastly--the next chunker I plan on reading after my current one is The Histories by Herodotus! I actually own the Landmark edition as well, and it's such a gorgeous book--I've taken it down to look at so many times! I'll likely start it in late August/early September! Care for doing a read-along? Might be fun! :D
Maybe I should cover 10 'read before you die' books for me--but the problem is, all the books I can think of for that list are all obscenely long, like that 1,600 page book on the Kennedy Assassination and its conspiracies ("Reclaiming History," by Vincent Bugliosi), or the Mahabharata, which is 8,000. Wish I didn't have to sleep, so I could spend all that wasted rest time just reading, haha.
First yes. A read along sounds awesome. I would greatly appreciate starting in September because: I have five kids growing back to school (in various forms) and there is always a certain amount of chaos, and August begins birthday season 🫨
Very excited about the Aeneid. Bummer that you didn’t like Once and Future King, it could be a knowledge of Arthurian myth would have helped but I don’t think it would have changed your view much since it sounds like the narrative was the issue and not misunderstood references.
As for your “10…” video. Yes! Do it! You have a great point of view. If you think it might not be “marketable” I think you may be surprised (just like I am about The Wind). And who else will talk about those books if not you? Be our beacon in these dark times! 😁
RUclips recommended this to me.... I can't believe someone else has read The Wind! I had to really hunt to find an ebook (Internet Archive was the only one I could find), so I'm pleasantly surprised that it's being discussed.
I agree with you completely on the repetition, but I absolutely loved the novel anyway. Reminded me a lot of Shirley Jackson's work.
I really liked it. Some parts weren’t very exciting but I am putting modern expectations on a style of writing from another time which isn’t fair.
While reading I kept thinking what a shame it was that this was basically forgotten. Well, I’m trying not to repeat your own words back to you but… I’m surprised and happy about this too.
It did have a wonderful southern gothic feel sometimes. There was a story in the middle somewhere about how the wild horse herds came about, I think that’s right, it was just so good. Very happy to have read it.
Of course readers are terrible about recommending books to each other even though we know we all have shelves to read so forgive me in advance… If you like this and Jackson I highly endorse Elizabeth Engstrom’s “When Darkness Loves Us”. Curtis from Deep in the Reads (he’s in these comments too) recommended it and it was Amazing. I did a video on it but instead of mine watch his “My 6 favorite Horror Stories” or skip all that and read it. It was SO good (assuming you like horror. Specifically southern gothic horror).
You can totally tell me “okay sure,” and I’ll never know and you’ll be completely free of obligation. If you do read it though I’d love to hear what you think (again you could make something up and I’d be clueless). Okay, I’m sorry. I’m done.😆
Great list. I understand your hesitation with The Once and Future King, but I think you'll like it on rereading. Also, I recommend Proust - I read it a long time ago (as 'Remembrance of Things Past') and it's deep, convoluted, and very rewarding.
Once and Future King is my wife’s favorite book so even if only for that I want to reread it. I read it at 13 so whole sections were over my head but even then I could see how good it was.
Thank you for the encouragement on Proust. That’s just what I remember hearing about his writing and what peaked my interest.
@@literallybooksyou’ll definitely take a liking to eating madelines after proust. 😂
@@meesalikeuI don’t know what to think about that… and I like it 😆
great vid, thanks
Appreciated! 😁
I like books, you like books, book book book!
Wisdom for the ages. 😆
i had no idea the wind was a book. i only know the great lillian gish classic silent movie. 🎉
I know I down sell the book a bit but I really did like it (just difficult to recommend). I haven’t seen the movie yet but if you enjoyed it and are interested see if an ebook can be found or if the library has a copy if only to read the beginning. There is an audiobook on audible, probably other sources too.
It was a great find, I just never expected anyone else to know about it 😆
I think borges was the model for the old librarian in shadow of the torturer
Humm. I hadn’t thought of that. Borges was a librarian. And I think he had a story about a library with a book for every possible combination of words (or something like that). I’ll have to keep that in mind when I read his stories. Thanks!
You are saying Borges correctly, but his first name has a pronounced e at the end. pronounced like Whore-heh (sorry, but accurate) middle name is pronounced like Louise.
Thank You!🙏🏻 You have no idea how much I appreciate this.
The sound and the fury is a huge waste of time. Drivel
lol nonsense. if you’re confused its meant to be reread. its depressing and not for everybody though.
@@meesalikeu who said anything about being confused?
I have a degree in literature. It’s a convoluted mess of a book imho
@@tmoh99 It sounds like you just don't like it.
I definitely struggled when I tried reading it the first time. So that’s on my mind. But I’m going to try again to let the book do it’s thing and just see what happens.
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