Where to start with classic literature & tips for beginners 📒 How to start reading classics
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2021
- it's finally here! Welcome to an introduction to classic literature in ten books I think anyone could love and get into. Of course this list is constructed solely based on my own opinion and this list of classics recommendations by no means dives deeply into the huge conversations about "classic literature" - that's gonna need a whole other video which I'm looking forward to filming too! From shorter classics to simple plots and beautiful language, this list comprises classics from different countries, different time periods and a variety of genres to help you find where to begin. You guys have been yelling at me for quite some time to film this so here it is!! Hope ya love it xoxo
Books Mentioned
The Broken Wings tidd.ly/2P16W2W
The Picture of Dorian Gray tidd.ly/2OyxBVg
The Alienist and Other Stories
Brave New World tidd.ly/3eZTTKr
Frankenstein tidd.ly/3bUvaVW
Giovanni's Room tidd.ly/2QgqTUp
The Wind in the Willows tidd.ly/2NpUE3X
Snow Country tidd.ly/36IZccd
Ethan Frome tidd.ly/3vvg5Sd
Perfume tidd.ly/3rZyjcs
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“Charles Dickens likes to write sentences longer than the Mississippi River” resonated so deeply with my soul, like this man is one of my all time favorite authors and yet he makes my adhd brain suffer all the gd time
I probably have ADHD but personally I love run on sentences and stream of consciousness writing and sometimes it actually helps me concentrate and get through a book.
**Virginia Woolf has entered the chat**
I've only ever read A Christmas Carol by Dickens but I have a feeling I'd be in the same boat as you. I also have ADHD so I feel ya
*Chuckles in Marcel Proust*
Wow. I just discovered your awesome channel
You’re the kind of person that everyone wants as their best friend
100%
YES. ❤️
agreed. i wish i had someone to discuss classic literature with 😳😔
Can't agree more.
Absolutely
im not an English lit student but I need you as my English lit teacher
How in the world I've recognized you.. Hello bookish brews!
Where are you from? PK? Glad to see ppl loving literature.
@@areeshakhan3427 hiiii
@@muhammadhanzilah7395 yes I am
Would love to chat about literature and books if its easy for you, cause i literally am in expedition to make friends those are bookholics :p
Has anyone ever told you how beautiful your voice is? It’s rich like chocolate or honey.
Exactly. I love hearing her talk
it feels like warm tea with honey
Like liquid chocolate
Right like it’s just so “I love classic lit want recommendations” like it feels so right for someone like her
0:00- Intro
4:30 - The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran
8:00 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11:46 - Pro Tip #1
13:11 - The Alienist by Machado de Assis
16:19 - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
18:21 - Pro Tip #2
19:50 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
23:07 - Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
26:07 - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grathame
28:53 - Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
31:57 - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
35:05 - Perfume by Patrick Suskind
I believe you made a mistake while writing one of the authors' names. It's not Kablil Bibran it's Khalil Gibran.
But he is also referred in English as Kahlil for some reason...
@@user-rq7jn9ce9i Thanks for catching that.
thanks
thank you!!!
I knew Dorian Gray would be on this list! This is the book that made me realize classics could be engrossing and accessible to people today
For me, the book that really made me feel that way was my favourite book of all time, The Catcher in the Rye.
@Lady Macbeth Haha I guess its how your going into it and how your reading it, and also it comes down to personal preference. For some people its not the book for them, and for others its not the right time in their life to read it or they're not in the right state of mind.
For me it was Alice in Wonderland, Oliver Twist and Pride and Prejudice that got me into classics. Haven't read Dorian Gray yet, but I want to read it very soon 🤩
@@leonmayne797 i like the book but i kind of hate the vocabulary? like why does he say sonovabitch every two seconds.. i don’t know maybe it’s the raging lesbian in me just absolutely hating the level of MAN this character is. i don’t know it’s a cool look into just a terrible humans mind but personally i’m not very good at enjoying books with “protagonists” i don’t like or relate to
@@yviivy Firstly, I like and relate to the protagonist and that's one of the main reasons why I even enjoyed the book to begin with.
Secondly, he speaks like that because he's from New York in the 50s.
Thirdly, if you have a book with a protagonist you relate to I probably don't want to read that either.
So many good recommendations! If I could add a few, I'd put:
•Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (another children's classic, yay!)
• Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (the structure can be a bit weird at first, but when the story fully kicks in you're in for a ride lmao)
• The Martian Chronicles or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (for those who enjoy sci-fi)
• Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (a piece of classical Mexican literature, said to be the inspiration for One Hundred Years of Solitude)
I would add las batallas en el desierto (the desert battles?) By jose emilio pacheco, it is short and easy to read.
I found pedro paramo a bit too hard, but it was a fun read. I might need to read it couple more times to understand it hahaha
Love Rebecca!!
@@heyyouyou1000 Hahaha totally agree, Pedro Páramo can be hard to follow at times. But I thought the magical realism element was amazing. Also I've never heard about Pacheco, but i'll be checking it out for sure
@@ashleycaralee1369 Yay! Maybe i'm just too stupid, but I totally didn't see that twist coming :)
@@valel1879 i hope you like it :)
The writing in The Picture of Dorian Gray is so unique. I remember reading the first couple of chapters and literally smelling roses and and linen. It felt beautiful without luscious prose somehow.
I know right! It is so beautifully written that you can actually feel yourself in the environment and you can actually picture the characters and even hear their voices 🦋🦋
The Picture of Dorian Gray has a special place in my heart since it was the first classic lit novel I read 🧡✨
the first couple of pages were my absolute favorite
“Charles dickens likes to write sentences longer than the Mississippi River”
Me: *laughs in Portuguese language in which there are sentences that can be literally one paragraph long*
?????? Every language can have sentences that are a paragraph long
@@CanalPanendithas I know. Syntactically speaking it is much more common for Portuguese to have a longer sentence filled with commas and many ideas. Which is not as common in the English language. But I know that this is not exclusive to Portuguese. I used Portuguese as an example because I’m Brazilian so it’s to what I relate closely :)
@@larissaprates1384 Could you share your sources for this affirmation? Have you ever opened a Woolf or a dickens book?
"syntactically speaking" I find that very hard to believe
@@CanalPanendithas I literally studied that at university with a professor who has a PhD. But hey, I’ve said it twice that what I meant isn’t exclusive of one another (as in only one is correct). And yes, I have read both Woolf and Dickens. Why, now, is my opinion valid?
I heard that this is also the case for German, but I am not sure if this is true. I only speak English and French and am more used to the grammar of both of these languages.
me who’s not planning to read classics anytime soon but is watching anyway because it’s emma: 👁👄👁
Some people don’t understand the impact of RUclips videos… until they see someone who inspires them so much in just a few mins, thats you for me!
You should definitely make videos on how you annotate your books and write your essays 💜🥺
Perfume: Story of A Murderer is one of the books that got me excited about reading in general. Which is both a blessing and a curse because I have yet to read a book as good as it since.
I had to read it in school and absolutely despised it 😅
My favorite book ever
I think there is a movie or series about this.
@@carlottaschmitz3441 We had to read it at school but I skipped it. Picked it up after some time on my own and it’s one of my favorite books now, probably my favorite
@@fae4513 There is a movie, but the book is so much better because it’s hard to describe smells visually. The way the smells were described in the book made you almost be able to smell them yourself, it was such an interesting concept
Hey, I'm Brazilian and it was a surprise to see a foreigner recommend a Machado de Assis novel, it made me feel happy somehow lol💙
aaaaaa sim! senti o mesmo
nossa,simm, fiquei tão feliz
simm
Que satisfação ver o Bruxo do Cosme Velho sendo recomendado, hein?
nossa simm
i'm actually in an English major and English is not my first language (it's Spanish) and yes reading classics is really overwhelming especially if it's not your first language, at least for me what it helped me was start with short stories or poems so you can go slow with unknown words. Also start with classical short stories like a 20th century author for me are a way easier than ancient authors. Another thing you can do is let the text flows naturally, when i read the scarlet letter it was hard for some words but as long as you know the context or what is happening is fine.💗
Russian literature (my favorite literature) got me into classics.. Dostoevsky is my favorite I’ve read everything by him. Immediately read Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov’s short stories, Bulgakov, and Nabokov. Dickens is another favorite I’ve read a handful of his books and they’re unbelievably charming. Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Wuthering Heights, Don Quixote and Les Miserables are all favorites of mine. And all fantastic places to start I think.
I absolutely adore Les Miserables!!! And I quite enjoy Dickens and Dostoevsky as well. Tolstoy's works on on my bucket list. I
f I might ask, what exactly do you love about Don Quixote? I am reading it now (about half way through) and am not very enamored of it so far. I feel like there must be more than I'm getting out of it, but am not sure what exactly. I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of someone who really enjoys it.
I absolutely love Dorian Gray. The plot is so good .
I'm literally not even ten seconds in and I can tell you right now the video is good from the unfathomable amounts of Matilda vibes from you and the thumbnail alone.
I would recommend anyone trying to get into classics to start with what interests you. There's no need to read Dickins if you have no interest in doing so. Find classics that appeal to you, either an interest in the writer or the premise. It will motivate you to read because you will enjoy it more than following a prescriptive list.
If you’re getting into Machado de Assis, you might also enjoy Dom Casmurro, it’s still a really discussed book in Brazilian literature to this day and it has incredibly intriguing characters and wonderful writing
yes, excellent
Still can't get enough of your mild voice and manner, thank you.
in the UK spotify has released some free classic audio books and that has really helped me get into classics as I can follow along but also listen whilst im dog walking/driving etc. I've conquered 'frankenstein' and 'the awakening' this year so far and I'm really eager to continue opening my mind to more classics.
I've been enjoying them too, hope they do more.
If you haven't read Dracula there is a really good reading on Spotify read by a guy called Mike Bennett, he has 2 chapters left to upload mind.
I died at the 100 years of solitude reference 😂💀
For the most part I didn’t find it that hard to get through or understand who was who or what was going on personally, but I fell off so close to the end like I often do with books, which was kind of gutting.
really love you emmie ✨ I’m a huge classic lit nerd so this ones right up my alley. Thank you for your recommendations 🙂
NATILIE
You are one of the influencers that helped me get on track with my mental health
"slowly work your way backwards"
my literature teachers: ok everyone so we're gonna start with dem Greeks 👊
I literally just picked up Perfume yesterday and i’m LOVING it.
giovanni’s room is so freaking good 🤍 i just read ‘begin again’ by eddie s glaude which is full of excerpts from baldwin’s essays and newly uncovered interviews, he is so singular and brilliant it’s a privilege just to be able to experience his words i highly recommend his nonfiction
I want to add some things to this list: Hemingway would be a great entry into the classics. Some people hate his short, choppy sentences but it's so clear and easy reading and you're amazed that he can say something so clearly in so few words. Rudyard Kipling and Jules Verne would probably be considered classic children's authors, but an adventure book like Treasure Island or Around the World in 80 days is so entertaining. Also, I think the Hound of the Baskervilles is a great place to start- novella length so not intimidatingly long, but the language and situations are still that 19th century formality that you have to get used to, and everyone loves a murder mystery. The language in County of the Pointed Firs by Sara Orne Jewett is also lovely, and the book is nice and short.
oh emma, you make me want to become the best version of myself that I can be, and I can't thank you enough for that.
also your taste is impeccable.
Perfume is such a fantastic book, I’m excited for you to try it out! I loved its descriptive writing, and the way Suskind described smell is just phenomenal.
And I don't know if it was supposed to be as funny as it was, I literally laughed so many times while reading it.
“Dickens likes to write sentences longer than the Mississippi River”
😂
I honestly cannot tell you enough how much your videos help me deal with my anxiety, plus to expand my understanding of literature of course. Thank you for all the effort you put into your channel!
Thank you for motivating me to pick up a book in my language which for the longest time I couldn't do. I've always wanted to start reading khalil gibran, I heard alot about him come up in everyday conversation since he's a really respected author in my country. I'm grateful that I have Arabic language privilege so I can read The Broken Wings in its original text 💙
ooh that must be an amazing experience. My grandma was lebanese, but she moved here when she was a teen and forgot the language, so I'm not familiar with it at all. But I want to get closer to her culture now she's gone, so I'm gonna pick up Gibran's book. Hopefully you like it!
Never new Perfume was a classic. Read it because of Kurt Cobain. September 2020 was my third time through haha
Appriciate how well spoken you are. No ums or ahs, you can even tell it's not scripted.
Crime and Punishment is the one that led me right into reading any piece of classic literature without fear. Even as a literature student, I feared every classic. I then met my husband, who told me that his favorite author was Dostoyevski. His favorite book, The Brothers Karamazov, was too intimidating at the time, but I picked up Crime and Punishment and didn't put it back down until I finished it a few days later. I immediately transitioned into The Brothers Karamazov, which is now also my favorite novel (all time favorite piece of literature is Whitman's "Song of Myself"). After The Brothers Karamazov, I read Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and fell in love. Now, I'm not afraid of any piece of writing. I am excited to read your recommendations that I haven't read.
I didn't even looked at the title, I was so excited
Me, a third year lit student who has to read multiple classics every month: 👁👄👁
I love that you do your world wide tour in literature. That's so important for new readers to widen their horizons ❤️
As a classics reader and someone who tries to make people read ( because it makes me sad to think all the great stories that they are missing), excelent job!! I may star quoting you!!🤗🤗❤
This is exactly the video I was looking for, I’ve struggled to read classics since I was forced to read pride and prejudice my sophomore year of highschool and disliked every moment of it. I think I just needed some beginner classics first in order to enjoy it, so thanks for all the awesome recommendations!
Uhulll, Machado! I recommend João Guimarães Rosa, my favorite brazilian author!
Ethan Frome was such an impressive read, I definitely agree that it’s a good book to get into classics. The characters were so interesting and layered.
As a Brazilian, I was so happy to see Machado on your list! ❤️
this was just the video i needed right now because i want to get into more classical literature💞 thank you emmie
Oh man, I love this video! I’ve been obsessed with reading my whole life (even worked in bookstores for years), but succumbed to “gifted burnout” a while back and pretty much stopped reading for a long time. This video singlehandedly revived my love of reading, so thanks! ☺️
i recently found your channel through your video on what a first year english major has to study and I've been *loving* your videos, i love that they're usually long, it just brings me so much joy to sit down in a cozy setting with snack or a drink and watch you talk about literature, it has been my favourite part of my days lately, thank you make these lovely videos🤗
Love this video! Giovanni's Room is on my 2021 TBR, I'm so excited to finally read it
I love the way you speak, your voice is so calming while your choice of vocabulary is tremendous
Classics is something I could never get myself into reading. But absolutely love this video and I bought five of the books you mentioned and I'm already loving "The broken wings". All your videos are aesthetically pleasing and calm and makes one happy! Thank you and lots of love! ❤️❤️🌼🌼
I stumbled on one of your videos yesterday and now am in absolute love with them. You have the most soothing voice. These recommendations are fantastic. Love that you included books that are not usually talked about.
Growing up I loved reading children’s books such as A little princess , little lord Fauntleroy , The enchanted castle , Little women ,etc and my love for classic literature has only grown !! Many of my friends think they are boring but I find them rather enjoyable and comforting 😌
This video was literally for me as I was searching for some recommendations for beginners to start reading classics and you uploaded a video!😍 I would start reading the broken wings soon. Thanks Emma🙂😊❣.
AHHHH thank you so much! I was in a reading slump but your channel has rekindled my love for reading. I'm graduating from high school soon and I'm gonna major in Literature! My entrance exam is on April 20th, soo fingers crossed! >~
Hey! All the best for your exam! I hope it goes really well!!
@@Afrah03 it was moved to next month 🤧 but thank youuu anyways 🥺💛 stay safe!
@@melaviosa7152 Ah okay! :D Yep stay safe!
Omg how did you do?
So happy I have 3 of these books in my lil library ❤️ I love your content and appreciate your calm delivery. I’ve always wanted to dive into classics but where to begin was always a struggle.
My recommendations:
1. Jane Eyre
2. Great Expectations
3. Sherlock Holmes
Your voice is really good. So calm and logical.
look at you recommending clarice lispector and machado de assis!!! aaaah, i'm brazilian and it makes me really happy to see booktubers and people in general appreciating brazilian literature
emma I have been loving your recent uploads so much! the review of snow country, the cottagecore haul, the vlogs and now this! i love it :) also i love the discussions you always include in your videos and i always love when i can sit down with my coffee and listen to you for a bit of time during the day!
I love how you chill you are! Love your videos Emma!
girl i just get emma watson vibes from you. like your so well spoken it’s amazing.
Great video ✨ I loved “The importance of being earnest” by Oscar Wilde when I started getting into classic literature. It was so much fun and easy to read.
Emmie, this video has been tremendously helpful! I’ve read only a handful of the classics many years ago and had no idea where to start on this journey. I will be keeping your list in mind. Thank you!
your voice is so calming and relaxing :(was seriously having the worst anxiety day and i'm so glad i clicked on this
Great recommendations! I would also recommend:
- The master an Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. A bit lenghty, but so beautiful and it played in my head as muture studio Ghibli film
- The Collector by John Fowles
- Nights at the circus by Angela Carter
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys. I´ve never cried so much and felt so much over a book, as I did reading this
Flower for Algernon was soooooooo good, post-reading blues are definitely the hardest. 😩♥️♥️
Great list! Loved the One Hundred Years of Solitude reference 😂 Perfume was required reading in one of my high school literature classes in Turkey! Absolute thrill ride. So so creepy but you just can't put it down.
Thank you for being you Emmie.
You have so many interests, like a patchwork quilt and I always love to listen to your voice. Thank you for all the inspiration.
Thank you Emma, I'm starting to collect classic books because of you! I just bought Wuthering Heights and The Secret Gardens and also having Picture of Dorian Gray and Broken Wings as my wishlists 😊
Loved the recommendations. 😃 Even though I’m German, we did not read Perfume at high school unfortunately, but I read it at home and it really is brilliant! Already at the beginning Süßkind describes nicely how badly it stinks in Paris and he did such a good job at it. (I know sounds weird... but read for yourself). The end is a little bit... “surprising” I think. 😂
Other than that I would also recommend “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury if you want to start reading classics. It has very simple but beautiful language and the content is also very intriguing. And of course “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins which is an exciting mystery novel. 👌🏼
As a brazilian, I'm very happy that you recommended Machado de Assis cause I barely see brazilian authors being recognized worldwide
Thank you for this list. With me being slightly scared of classic lit but is trying my best to dive into it, your channel is really helping me and has inspired me to read more. You are also one of the booktubers who inspired me to start a channel Emmie :) Thank you!
Aaa you just made my night 😭 i've been getting into classics more because of you. Thank you for spoiling us with this 🥺♥️
Que incrível eu não sabia que o Machado tinha esse reconhecimento internacional, estou muito feliz e me sinto representado, uso seus vídeos para treinar o meu inglês 😍
Guys I'm wondering how can emma make all of these videos while she have college?and every video is so long wow she is amazing!
I am very happy to find your channel since I told myself that it's time to get back to some reading 😜. You know so well how to talk about books and it's an amazing skill. I definitely will find a lot of help and fun here. Thank you!🌷🌷
AHHHH I just found you last week and you got me hooked on trying classics.. this was somehow manifested into the world
I LOVE Frankenstein! It was my first scifi book and my first (literary) encounter with humanism. The themes of creation and power are so intelligently explored and have been speculated to be indicative of Mary's own emotions about her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, who died during childbirth. Mary Shelley's a genius and I love her.
i’m reading it rn and it’s so boring i’m on page 50, does it get better??
There's so much great classic literature. I try to get through as much as I can. I don't read like I used to. I have read over four thousand books, though.
I'm not sure how I stumbled into your video(s) but I just want to say that your voice is so soothing yet it's not...boring? You have one of those voices that I can listen to while still understanding the content, even though I'm multitasking with something else. Which is great because sometimes I want to focus on some work but I don't feel like listening to music. I've never read a classic book before. But I want to pick up reading again, so I'll try some of these. Thank you for your amazing contents!
Must-read classics: Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice (but I prefer Northanger Abbey), and anything by Shakespeare.
I liked a lot of your suggestions! I'm a lit major too and classical literature can be so intimidating to do even for me, much less the average person. I agree with your point on tackling smaller works first and I think a great starting place is shorter novels, such as The Pearl or Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I read both of these in middle school and loved them, they are very short and (while not without flaws) the endings are very powerful.
I think it is also important to acknowledge that some books really benefit from being read under the guise of a teacher who can guide you through a reading and help you establish the context of a work. For example, I would not have gotten a solid understanding of Slaughterhouse-Five if I had read it on my own. If you don't have access to this, don't be afraid to use guides like Sparknotes! They do tend to spell things out for you which is a bummer and they do not catch everything, but looking at their guides *after* you read something can point out things to you that you missed on your own.
I'd really love to listen to you talk about the problematic nature of the literary canon! I feel like the exclusionary nature of it is starting to be tackled in literature studies and I'd love to hear your thoughts about it!
LOVE that ive found a booktuber whos not afraid of long form videos. I love relaxing for a while with ur vids
Machado de Assis is one of the best brasilians writers. The Alienist is a book that we read when we are about the finish the school and it's a great book to start to read his books, but i reccomend you to read Dom Casmurro, his most famous book. I hope you like it
"Dom Casmurro" is brilliant!
Capitu is such a interesting female characther, one of the most iconic in Brazilian literature; And Bentinho (Dom Casmurro) it's such a tragic figure, full of complexity and obscure marks in the spirit.
And Machado's rithim and style. WOW!
Great video, and book reccs
I pretty much went from modern generic self help-esque books, straight to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Was definitely challenging but no regrets. Still is my favorite book to this day.
That's very bold of you to do that..
when you said Machado de Assis my brazilian ass got so excited lol i really wasn't expecting for his name to be on this video, i'm so happy! His works are amazing (well, i read then in portuguese so idk about the translation but it's probably really good) and i'm sure you'll love it! He's so famous here that when you simply say "did she cheat or not?" EVERYONE knows it's about one if his books (Dom Casmurro). So good!
this is the first video i watch of yours, and usually i'm not down to hear people i'm not very familiar with ramble on at length BUT the way you speak and your analysis of each book besides all the great and interesting recommendations, god, i watched all the way through without skipping or speeding up and i rarely do that even with my favourite youtubers! i love the way you speak simply and how diverse your list was, i was specially hooked on when the first author was Gibran! i'll definitely check more of your videos out, you're so interesting :))
I love your voice and how conversational you speak in your videos.. is that weird?? Idk I like your style, it's so calming..😌
i’d also recommend Anne of Green Gables! it’s a children’s book I think and it tells a beautiful story :)
Thank you for doing this video. These are some great ideas you've shared as to how to approach classic literature. I've taken a decades long hiatus from the old classics and would like to get back into them. Your suggestions and advice will be very helpful as I slowly dip my toes back into the water :)
Your voice is so calming you could talk for hours and I would do nothing but simply listen to you. Also I will definitely try out the books you named. :)
Omg I felt the same way about Frankenstein in High School. Also I read it translated so I really want to try the og now that I'm older and can read English :)
Lovely video ♥
i remember having to read Perfume for German in high school and then having to watch the film in class and i still have nightmares. lol
I've just found u and ur channel, and I'm so fascinated by this video. Partly due to the list itself. Since the pandemic I'm really into (mainly British 19th century) classics, but this list is so diverse! But apart from the list your thoughts are really worth listening to, so intellectual but not overwhelming. And joining to previous comments, your voice is really soothing. :) thank you for this video (and for all the others as well)
This is such a great list! So many classics that you don't usually find on these kind of lists - thank you!
“What the hell is that” as she peers intently at the book cover. Lol. It’s a water rat. The Wind In The Willows is such a fun comforting read.
Perfume is actually cited as being an inspiration to Kurt Cobain during the writing of In Utero. Most notably he noted the song Scentless Apprentice being a product of his thoughts and ideas from reading this book. Sometimes it's fun to see where literary art can influence other forms of art as well. :)
This was my first time watching a video of yours and I feel like I could have listened to you talk forever. Great content!
I could listen to you talk all day, I really like your voice! It's very calming
I absolutely agree, the more you read, the better you will read, and the greater your comprehension will become, but there is a limit...and that limit is...Finnegans Wake
You're the kind of bestfriend I wish I had 🥺