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In today's video, strangers convinced me to read their favorite books...and I read them! Go check out the original "Strangers Convinced Me To Read Their Favorite Books" video after this! What a good time. Thanks for stopping by!
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The strangers convince me to read their favorite book video is actually what got me to finally read Jurassic Park, and I loved it!
Would you recommend it for someone who usually doesn't like sci-fi?
@@AnUncreativePerson Yes, actually! Even though it’s sci-fi, Michael Crichton does a great job explaining the genetics of making dinosaurs. It definitely has sci-fi aspects in it regarding the dinosaurs, but I wouldn’t say that’s the main part of the book. It doesn’t really read like sci-fi and is actually more like a thriller.
@@BookNerd-js9sl That sounds good, I'm more of a thriller person
Same for me! Loved it!!
Read it a long time ago and it was one of those books I started at midnight...And I went out of my bed at 2 AM to read more at my desk, I was instantly amazed by it..
End up buying the sequel and collecting all of MC books....he became my favourite writer because he enjoys to let his character have discussions with each other that may let you think......
A good example is the control scene in the book the one with the numbers. => ruclips.net/video/-eCoJkwt_Nk/видео.html It is barely a spoiler and if you watched the movie you know it so you can watch and listen to it. Those numbers gave me chill and the explanation and discussion was brilliant.
"It's even more unfortunate that he had to tell me about it" 😂😂😂
I agree
I was wheezing 🤣
You gotta read Project Hail Mary. Don't look it up or read anything about it. Just pick it up and read. Audiobook recommended :D happy reading!
Yes!! I laughed multiple times while listening do the audiobook, amazing
It’s an amazing book, you gotta read it soon before somebody spoils it 🥹
@@sarahhansen8004 Totally!! I was fortunate to just pick it up and read it and was blown away!
I loved this book. He writes humor so well but it’s such a gripping story as well.
@@jessicaadams3364 Absolutely!! I've been recommending it to anyone who will listen 🤣
Talking about the Murakami novel: "Now, there's one huge element about this book that I hate."
Me: it's going to be sex or women, isn't it
Ian: "The main character has weird sexual fantasies."
Me: Yep, Murakami never fails to alienate his audience by doing that
Maybe some more background on why Haruki Murakami reads so easy in translation. He actually taught at a university in Boston for a few years and is fluent in english (untypical for Japanese writers, even more his age) and with that partly helped translating his own books as well as having most likely developed a writing style fitted to be translated (which the Japanese language can be hard to translate especially since it's very open to interpretation which english or german, my mother tongue are not).
Because he knows english and lived in the US for years he was also able to promote himself and can be seen as a catalysator for so many Japanese contemporary literature to get picked out for translation and that a lot of the ones that are chosen have some kind of magical realism.
I'm currently writing a paper on the 'Japanese bestseller' in translation on the american/european market from a cultural studies perspective and he has his own chapter.
If you didn't know, he also translates English novels to Japanese!
@@cairdee ah yes! I read a paper on that but I had to cut it out of my own paper to safe space. The focus will be more on self advertisement as he acted as a catalysator for japan marketing themselves in the J-Boom and Cool Japan times in the 90's and basically using self-orientalization to milk the J-Boom cow some more (the last sentence is of course not written that way in the paper lol).
But that's so interesting as well. Thanks for reminding me/adding to the explanation for others!
Also there's so many more books getting translated into Japanese as the other way around.
You should read “The Radium Girls by Kate Moore.” It’s a non fiction book about when radium was first discovered, and how a lot of people got radium poisoning from their job. It was very interesting. It is considered a “true crime” book, but not because of murder or anything like that.
I actually listened to this case when I was in my true crime era! I'll be sure to add to my tbr
@@gaelleinjeyan same lol. I read my first true crime book called “If You Tell” by Gregg Olsen (that one is darker) and got sucked into true crime. I saw The Radium Girls and had to read it.
The video you made about asking people their favorite book was the first video I watched of yours! It started my obsession with booktube and I love your channel
I'm 62 years old and read Fahrenheit 451 in high school. I've been a Ray Bradbury fan since then. Another excellent one he wrote is "Martian Chronicles" that has a mind bending twist at the end. I think you'd like it.
You have no idea how many times I laughed out loud at “BIG T”. 😂😂😂
Haruki Murakami’s magnum opus is “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”. The best three days of my life were spent reading this book.
Is this really his magnum opus? First and only one of his I read. Remember liking it, but not much more than that.
Lost cat, something about a well, past sections about military with a scary Korean? And I eat more boiled eggs since reading this book.
My favourite Murakami is Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, it's an amazing display of his brand of magical realism and has all the major Murakami quirks: a parallel universe, an ennui-stricken man, a missing wife, a cat, etc. It's simply breathtaking in its storytelling. Kafka on the Shore is also great and a bit faster paced/easily engaging. It's probably his most adventurous novel in terms of strangeness, but a very enjoyable read. I do have to preface this by saying that Murakami is a superb storyteller, but his novels are not devoid of issues; there's quite a lot of male gaze and overall misogyny with his portrayal of female characters, which is, of course, upsetting. But I would reccomend those two mentioned above if you wanted to dive deeper into his works. A Wild Sheep Chase is very good as well, and doesn't really contain problematic elements as his others do.
Found your channel randomly a few weeks ago and I’ve been loving the content! It’s just a nice refreshing channel and you seem very relaxed and wholesome so thanks for making videos for us to watch!
Murakami is really well known for his characters having weird thoughts and fantasies… which is the reason why I’m not going to read any of his books 😅
Did you read at least one to form an opinion?
Laughing at “Big T” 😂😂 Enjoyed seeing this follow up video! I definitely need to check out Fahrenheit 451!
OMG please do a reading vlog on Something Wicked this Way Comes, it's also by Bradbury and it's my favorite book!!!!!
I loved that book! I read it last October. 👍
Just read it for the first time! 🤯
It was cool hearing you slip Jeremiah 17:9 in the video. Also, I’m gonna need a part 2. This video was really cool.
“Theology Matters” love it :D
Jurassic Park is a must-read!
You really should read THE SHAPE OF WATER
Winnipeg is in Manitoba Canada, And It is a Provence not a Territory.
Province *
Fahrenheit 451 was really good. Off topic but the scenes of you in front of the bed are an optical illusion. Your shirt blends in with the comforter at first glance and it makes you look like a floating talking head. :) Hahaha
My favorite novel is thick and daunting, but I promise it pays off over and over...and that is Bleak House by Charles Dickens...
It covers multiple genres from Romance to Mystery to Comedic Farce and every thread wraps together in a beautiful way. I couldn't believe how readable it is and how delightful...
I’m reading that right now! I’m reading all of Charles Dickens’ books and the next one on my list is Hard Times which I read years ago. 😊
@@Tams1978I am about constant Our Mutual Friend! I hope you enjoy Bleak House!!!
@@j.r.cilliangreen4083 I’m almost done with it and I’m enjoying it a lot. 😊
Haruki I think is known to be sexist by some readers / groups in his portrayal of women . Also, maybe the book ended without answers because because that’s how the character felt when he didn’t know why his friends abandoned him.
I think “thought to be” is a better way to phrase it. I was so puzzled when I read him and I’m now convinced this has a lot to do with western perspective of gender relations which unfortunately most westerners just think is the “right” perspective. We face this a lot here with expatriates who draw conclusions about our culture based on their perspectives
Not a book recommendation, but a movie recommendation: Equilibrium is Fahrenheit 451 meets 1984 starring Christian Bale. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
Dystopian fiction is some of my favorite genres and those two are some of the most impactful books. I looked up the trailer and will be watching this movie soon, thanks for commenting the suggestion!
Haruki Murakami has such a beautifully translated writing style. I love Killing Commendatore. It’s a very good magical realism story.
I really enjoyed Killing Commendatore. 🧡
Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes, both by Ray Bradbury. Highly recommend both of them!!! You should read the first one in the summer and the second one during autumn. They're perfect books, imo!
I’m so glad you made a follow up. I watched your first video and also read the Haruki book. I bought it immediately and I wish I had a way to say thank you to that woman. I devoured the book in one setting and called my friends throughout the story just because I missed them.
I was on the verge of ordering that Murakami book, especially with how that pedestrian pitched it, but Fahrenheit 451 sounds like a must-read! 😊
It is i can guarantee it
Fahrenheit 451 is amazing! I highlighted so much of that book.
I picked up that Murakami book and it’s not really what she said it was 😑. But Fahrenheit 451 is 100% a must read, everyone should read it.
Yes Fahrenheit all the way! That book was insanely good!
Love your channel my wife and I also enjoy reading together and most often read the exact same things. I think you said you are not a Brandon Sanderson fan, but my wife got me to read his Skyward series, and it is one of my favorites.
This was such a fun idea. In college a billion years ago (just kidding, more like 20) I took a class called Utopian and Dystopian Literature. I was already a fan of many of these books, but I discovered more older ones in the class. Such a great one! I also took a class called Deviant Women in Literary History. We started with reading about Eve, read Electra, Madame Bovary, Moll Flanders, several others, and end with one of my personal favorites, Carrie. Such an amazing class!
I would love love love for you to read The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle. It's such a beautiful story about change and regret. Ugh. I've read it so many times and some of the descriptions are so beautiful. I also read it aloud when I was pregnant with both of my kids.
Favorite book of this year so far is The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower. Its horror centered around a narcissistic mother and the damage caused to her children when one of the siblings (there are 4) died. You go through the book wondering is it the mother's fault cause she was with him when he died or is a ghost to blame. It was so good. I probably didn't do this book justice with my synopsis but, it really was a great book. (not recommended if you squeamish to body horror even though its maybe one to two scenes at most)
Memoirs of a Geisha is my favorite fiction, I highly recommend it!
The sexual fantasies are a Murakami staple I've heard, at least, so I've avoided him, even if his books sound right up my alley otherwise. (It gets worse than sexual fantasies so I recommend you good people look it up before buying his books...😅)
Murakami is so accessible yet he packs such a huge punch with his books. I'm so glad you enjoyed that one - I haven't read it yet, but I become superrr inntrigued after seing your post since I've read other Murakami.
Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world - Murakami is my favourite book of all time!
Fun video! I had actually forgotten about those recommendations, so it was great to see you circle back to them.
The first video ALSO convinced me to read ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ which i loved and I'm three Murakami novels deep and a massive fan. So thank you to that woman in the first video for the suggestion!
For me, Murakami excels in short stories rather than novels. His short stories are brilliant and gave the perfect cliffhanger/open-endings often happened in short stories. His novels meanwhile, he tended to rambling away? He also ended up explores the same theme over and over again. What you find in Tsukuru you'd also find in his other novels. My favorite "longer prose" of his was After Dark. It's a novella more than a novel. It's creepy, supernatural-y, and weird, which was what Murakami was known for before his internationally acclaimed status. For short stories collection of his, Elephant Vanishes still rules.
Now I'm interested to read Good Morning, Monster. Will read that up.
Your video inspired me to pick up Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and I loved it! It was a bit odd, but I like when authors throw something in that you wouldn’t usually read. I love these videos please continue them!!!
Please do more of this video! Love it!
The wind up bird chronicle by murakami, MASTERPIECE!
House of Leaves. It's about a family who realises their house is bigger on the inside than the outside and the documentary they made about it. King of ergodic literature. You will love it or hate it, there is no in between.
Read "Radium Girls" by Kate H. Moore. It's a piece of history that isn't taught, and the movie doesn't do it justice. Read "Immense World "by Ed Yong. It will open your eyes to how little we "see" the world.
I was sad that you weren’t going to read fahrenheit 451 but then you picked it up and the store and I got so happy! Thank you!!!
My favorite Murakami books were “1Q84” and “The windup bird chronicles”.
bro.... during my undergrad I took a Canadian Literature course and our focus was novel/memoires about residential schools. I don't think I stopped crying that whole semester. It BROKE me
She convinced me too. I picked this book to read and even recommended to friends.
Not sure about the favourite part, but right now I want to recommend you to read Worm. It’s a webserial (there are also fun made audiobooks). So far, it’s the only superhero story that genuinely got me excited to read it (I’m usually pretty apathetic towards superhero genre). It deconstructs and reconstructs superhero tropes quite well, in my opinion, and it explores the humanities reaction in a face of impending disaster in a dark and realistic way, while still leaving room for optimism.
Thanks for mentioning Ray Bradbury's prose. It might sound weird, but I enjoy prose just as much as plot--kind of enjoy it like sipping on a fine wine. Bradbury is very great.
Winnipeg is in Manitoba. We have 3 territories. But those are all northern Canada! But Manitoba is a province 😊
I highly recommend Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. It is a memoir by a therapist and it is so moving.
Ray Bradbury‘s short story collections are so good, and I’m not even much of a short story reader. You should try The Illustrated Man. 😊
I loved Remarkably Bright Creatures. i had the audiobook and listened to it during my drive to work.
Love your channel dude! I've started reading again after almost 10 years because of you! Currently reading a game of thrones for the first time
I just bought 1Q84 as my introduction to Murakami, can’t wait to start it.
Jurassic park is gooooood!
Listen to it
It’s a nice one to keep busy cleaning or something to
It’s always a great day when you upload a video!!
Speaking about the monster book, I’m finally going to therapy for issues that stem from having crap parents but I didn’t realize I never got saved from that situation at all until last year cause I found out my grandma (the family member that “saved” me from my abusive mom) was a narcissist the whole freaking time! Talk about a wake up call, so from 3rd grade to me being almost 31 I dealt with a narcissist who had convinced me we were so close, my therapist told me I have every right to be pissed off just off 2 sessions not even telling her what my narc had done. She said she was evil and vindictive :) if that tells you anything. So I don’t think I could ever read that book lol
I like this idea a lot and we do it a lot being online as well as active readers.
Fahrenheit 451 is so good!
You should read the Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Dorothy Gilman. The entire series (like 15 books) is such a treat! The books are pretty short, but fast paced. The premise is that a retired widow joins the CIA as a courier and all the shenanigans she finds herself in the middle of! Mrs. Polifax is so endearing and so are so many of the other characters you fall in love with as she gets into some pretty sticky situations.
There are 3 territories in Canada, Yukon, Nunavut, and northwest, and then the provinces which contains Manitoba and the capital of Manitoba is Winnipeg ,
Sincerely : someone from Saskatchewan (neighbors with Manitoba )
- Winnipeg is in Manitoba
- Yes, the residential schools were incredibly common and still have a lasting traumatic effect on indigenous people here in Canada. If you know a native person or family here, you’ve probably heard some horror stories that people have actually lived through.
- The Japanese “Ts” sound is just a harder S sound, like in Tsunami. I don’t think with a North American English accent there’s much of an audible difference, so Tsukaru would kinda rhyme with Subaru (this is my understanding as a Canadian and my first and second languages are English and French, and Japanese is my fifth language and first non-European language so I don’t know it very well, just the different alphabets and a few vocab words)
(I hope this didn’t sound passive aggressive you just seemed unsure and I was like “oh! I know about this! I wanna help!”)
I read The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami several years ago and I enjoyed it. I have a recommendation for another Murakami book, The Strange Library, it's a very weird little book, and it was my first Murakami. I had to read Fahrenheit 451 in school, and I actually enjoyed. I have been thinking about rereading it since it has been over 30 years ago when I read it.
You rock man! Loved the first video and this was a fantastic follow up!
❤📚❤️ I haven't read it, but I heard a rave review on After Dark by Haruki Murakami and immediately added it to my tbr.
You should read The Stranger by Albert Camus.
Please please read Beartown, it's a really really wonderful book and it is the first non fantasy book that really grabbed me, and it has somehow become my favorite book of all time
Its amazing! The whole trilogy is so compelling.
That sounds like it was a great introduction to Murakami because the weird sex stuff is in everything I've read by him. Also, if you like Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes has some of the most beautiful prose I've ever read. Great on audio too
Fahrenheit 451 is amazing. It’s actually the book that made my teenage son more of a reader. Same with my friend’s son too. It’s so good!!!!
1Q84 by Murakami !!!! Its a retelling of 1984 and i love it
ohhh good to know - gonna check that out
If you haven’t read it, I would suggest The Stranger by Albert Camus. It has stuck with me since first reading it in high school nearly 30 years ago. It’s a good introduction to the philosophy of absurdism - in the face of the benign indifference of the universe where the only certainty is death, confrontation, not surrender, is the daily path forward.
i read colourless because of this video,and loved it....😊
You and your wife are one of my favorite booktubers on here. You guys inspire me to read more. Much love and light ❤️
You need to read Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. This is really good 💔
My favourite book from Murakami is "After Dark". It feels like you are reading a movie script. I also recommed his non-fiction books, Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore.
my favourite book is that night by Chevy Stevens i love her characters and her plots are so deep and its a bonus she sets her books in western Canada and i live in western Canada
Loved this video so glad that you did a follow-up on the recommendation video. I have requested Good Morning, Monster from my library and I have placed Fahrenheit 451 on my TBR cart so that I read it this year.
Love this video! Loved the original video too! I've never considered or seen anyone else so something like this. Such a fun idea!
Still think you'd get a trip out of House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski.
I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 and the aesthetic that I compare it to is something similar to Fallout the videogame series but, if there was no nuclear event.
You should make this a series 😊
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami is so good! The atmosphere is palpable, the way he connects everything is 🤌🏼, but it's also like a fever dream and will just leave you 😮
I’m reading 11/22/63 by Stephen 🤴 , and then followed by Jurassic Park. What a ride I have ahead of me.
My brother listened to 1Q84 by Murakami and my mother tried to read another book by him, I think it was _Kafka on the Shore._ Both had the same complaints about the out of the blue R-rated scences and his weird fantasies about women.
I'm so happy that you have read Murakami! Also, one book came to my mind that I wish to recommend to you is We Die Alone by David Howarth. I'm not a religious person, so I was surprised when I felt the presence of God through the pages of this book over and over again. It is a 5 star read for me.
PS. my fav Murakami book is Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
Me sitting here thinking that my favorite book, Jurassic Park, wouldn’t fit with rest of the books people are reading, only to hear that someone else must have recommended. Read it when it first came out, before movie. I’ve reread it, and it still amazes me.
The Inuit story that affected you in Good Morning Monster is quite similar to what happened to an entire generation of Australian Aboriginal people. We call it the Stolen Generation. I recommend some fiction books by Claire G Coleman, Terra Nullius and The Old Lie are fantastic fantasy/sci fi/speculative fiction that I think you would enjoy. They cover themes of invasion, colonisation, war, displacement etc. which really hit home. I hope you get to them ❤
Hey ian, i love your content and i have a great book recommendation for you. It is a book called Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, i read it with not very high expectations and the ending is sooo insanely good and it is such a good plot. If you have not yet read this book i would love to see you make a video about this book. I am so curious to your reaction about it.
I am so so sad you didn’t read Jurassic Park I read it at the same time the original video came out and it ended up being a 5 star read I really hope you get to it.
Ok I forget if I recommend any books to you, but I’ll recommend bone by fae mynne (typo) ng. It’s a Asian American cultural experience novel on some historical context, with 3 sisters and there parents in around 1950-1965. The book starts in “In medias res” or in the middle, and ends in the beginning with the struggles that they face. Anyways that’s one of my books I’d recommend, and i loved this video!! Glad you found some compelling books!!!
The first and my favorite Murakami book is After Dark. It’s a bit of a surreal book.
I recently read Good Morning Monster earlier this same month. I thought it was fantastic and so interesting to see the inside of a psychologists head
If you're looking for another book recommendation, I highly recommend "Till We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis. I read it a few months ago and it has become one of my top favorites. :)
The Wind In The Willows. I will proudly die on this hill.
Your various expressions in trying to describe Murakami's book reminded me of a short by a reader describing a book by making facial expressions.
wind up bird chronicle is probably the best Murakami recommendation i have. imo it’s kind of the quintessential Murakami book. After Dark and Kafka on the Shore would be number 2 and 3 imo. I’ve also really enjoyed Hardboiled Wonderland as well, but it’s been longer since i’ve read it.
Sadly, those stories actually happened in Canada. Winnipeg is the capital of the province of Manitoba. These schools were called Residential Schools. We (I’m a teacher) have a day, each September, called Orange Shirt Day (aka “every child matters” day), which is meant to remember the suffering these sweet kids went through. I highly encourage a beautiful non-fiction book called Fatty Legs, if you’re interested in a first person perspective of a child’s experience in the residential school.
You could not pay me enough money to read that monster book, maybe you should read Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber next?Jurassic Park was a fantastic read, hope you get to that one soon.
Oh wow I was wondering what you would think of their recommendations I also added colorless to my tbr after seeing that. Great video.
I read Good Morning Monster last year and it was one of my favorite books of the year. It was so heartbreaking at points though.
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan