Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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It’s amazing Chris that you can walk that line of humbly and authentically sharing your appreciation of literature without projecting elitism or narcissism in direct proportion to how many books you’ve read. It’s amazing and keeps bringing me back to your channel as opposed to others. With deep reading in desperate need of being discovered by the social media distracted minds of the many, our world truly needs to see how the challenging books can be rewarding and amazing, even spiritually uplifting. As our average intellects wither in the TikTok thoughtworld, your unassuming style lets us feel re-included in our cultural and narrative history, our mythic history. I know it’s easy to be called elitist or intellectually superior for even discussing how great these books are, and how some reviewers really do seem narcissistic in their presentation of their increasingly unknown or esoteric or rare choices of books, but you show us there is another way. That makes me feel more optimistic about the future of reading and writing. Thank you for making reading books a meaningful and enjoyable experience in contrast to the world that yells at us through the noise that Byung chul Han knows all about.
Well, isn’t this video a wonderful Christmas gift! Thank you, Chris!
My husband and I have 4 grown sons (his, mine, and ours). For one of their Christmas gifts, I am giving each one of them a box of books curated to their particular interests and personalities. Most of the books I am giving are ones I’ve watched Chris or Cliff (Better Than Food) review. I’ve given them books from these reviews before and they were very appreciated. I’ll put a sticky note on each book of which channel I watched the review. Thank you for the amazing content over the year and helping me become the GOAT book-gifting mother!
I passed this comment over to Cliff and he is also very touched. First, you are definitely the GOAT-mom for this! What a cool idea! I am seriously moved to think that you do this. All my very best to you and your family!
This is the mom I want to be. Thanks for the wonderful idea.
Oh wow! today I learned I share a birthday with Jane Au--- ohhhh.
Always a treat to wake up to a new Leaf by Leaf, thanks Chris!
Hahaha! Dude. That _really_ got me!
Another great video - I appreciated the glimpses of some of the critical literature. Thank you.
Thanks! My pleasure!
What a multifaceted gem this book is. Jane Austen is a genius. I like how fresh Pride&Prejudice still is not one but two hundred years after it was published. And Mr Bennet genuinely cracks me up.
Dude just wants to live inside a book! Oh, wait--Austen gave him his wish!
I was just thinking you haven't posted in a while, and there you go. Today, I am picking up Jane Austen! Been reading lots of Plato and need a change, so jumping from 500 BC to 1900s! Loveeeeeee the new setup Chris! Love the placement of the typewriter, Those mugs with pens, and the background of your lovely collection, im running short on words (in pure awe) , but this set up and your bookshelf is erotica to those who love literature
Love from India
Ahhhh, thanks so much for all the kind words! Have fun! All my best to you!
Thank you, Chris. Pride and Prejudice is on my reading list for 2025.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. I hope you all have great holidays and wonderful times together 🎄🎁💕✨
As always, it’s a pleasure to share!
A very merry Christmas to you and yours, too!
All best!
hehee, ofc I respect and appreciate your reviewing work, but it's great to have you back uploading regularly! esp. in this pre-xmas time when I got the time to enjoy 2h video breakdowns and deep dives
Ah, thanks so much! It's great to be back, and, like you say, great to have this season upon us with the luxury of slowing down a bit. Hope you enjoy the video and your holidays!
Thank you so much for sharing your love of reading Chris. Happy new year to you! Question: Do you have your full western core list of the books available anywhere??
My pleasure--and happy new year! There is an introductory video to the series out here that has them in the description, but I shall place them here, too, for your convenience:
_Iliad_
_Odyssey_
_Divine Comedy_
_Canterbury Tales_
_Hamlet_
_Don Quixote_
_Paradise Lost_
_Pride and Prejudice_
_Faust_
_Wuthering Heights_
_Moby-Dick_
_Leaves of Grass_
_In Search of Lost Time_
_Ulysses_
_To the Lighthouse_
Fantastic and interesting video! It’s sad that so many letters by Jane Austen have been burned, but the ones that survived are lovely to read, mainly for her wit, she had a great sense of humor.
Thanks so much! I've only read the letters that have been excerpted in studies, so I'll have to get the collection and read 'em all.
I find myself reading older books for that very reason….its not a noisey world. Interesting practical point and v BCH!
I definitely see myself leaning further and further into a life away from noise. But I don't really wanna become that grizzled fellow in a cabin off the grid either!
Wonderful video! I read P&P for the first time recently and loved it. Also nice Göteborg cup there on the table haha.
Thanks so much! Are you from Sweden?
@@LeafbyLeaf I am, not from Göteborg though my dad is from there. Im in Uppsala (north of Stockholm) greetings from there! And I think you've said that you've been to Sweden a few times on work-related things?
Yep. Been there many times over these 20 years working for Volvo. 😁
@@LeafbyLeaf Volvo! thats awesome, we currently drive one of those✌
Kanon bra !
Hey Chris. I’m enjoying your Pride and Prejudice video. I haven’t read it yet. I read Emma a while back.
I wanted to mention that I read Clarissa a few years ago and I found it addictive. I don’t think it will be to many reader’s tastes, but I loved it! ✌️💚😎
Here we go!
In addition to reading the whole divine comedy, I would also consider adding in the aeneid. Aeneas' trip into the underworld was dante's main inspiration for his work, which is why virigil is his guide through hell.
Indeed, the _Aeneid_ is so important and wonderful. I'm trying to keep my person core at around 10-12 books, so I painstakingly left out Vergil and Ovid and so many others. BUT--this one deserves a video nonetheless. Thank you!
Oh man! I already have enough books on my tbr for next year, but your video really makes me want to reread P&P. Ugh, choices, choices! 😁 By the way, greatly enjoyed the 'vibe' of this setup and format. It feels organic.
So many books-so little time! Trust me:
I know the feeling. For every book I read, I swear 10 more new ones I wanna read pop up! Thanks for affirming my decisions on the more casual format of the video, too!
MY MAN enjoy your vacation! Hopefully youll get some reading done in the holidays and ill get some drawing done
Thanks so much! I’ve already been enjoying quite a bit of reading. Enjoy your drawing! 🙏
@@LeafbyLeaf 😎
Looking forward to this. Merry Christmas :)
Happy holidays to you and yours!
This video and your style today ( stopping your intro to sip etc) was very lively and amusing in the most charming, academic quirky genius professor sort of way. You are now Professor Leaf.
When are we getting a Chonker Donker whipper Whopper shirt? Or at LxL shirt 😎
LOL! Thank you!
Chris, do you dust the bookshelves in the Library of Babel?
Hahaha! Yes. But only like 5x/year. 😬
@@LeafbyLeaf Probably a tad more than me and my bookshelf is singular. Not good.
It’s just not a very natural discipline. Plus, I’m doing well if I can stay on top of my car’s oil changes!
@@LeafbyLeaf Too right. It doesn't feel natural at all. Painful, actually. Quite painful. If only it weren't such an organisational nightmare each time. Yours must be... Can't even fathom.
What an awesome location for reading and writing!I tried to read pride and prejudice weeks ago but after few pages I gave up. Perhaps you'll be able to fascinate me with your thoughts about this book. I wish you and your family merry christmans.
Thanks so much! I love my little haven! Let me know if the video inspires you at all. And a very merry Christmas to you and yours, too!
Sir, what's your job? I'm asking because I wanna know what kind of lifestyle affords the money to buy so many books and also the time to read them. I'm very envious lol:)
Ah, my friend, first of all, please note that I have been working on this lifestyle for over 30 years. Currently, I work full-time as a data scientist for Volvo Group (I've been there for over 20 years). As far as time, I could give you the huge list of things that don't fill my reading time (e.g. sports, TV, etc.). It takes time and effort and patience--and perhaps a bit of obsession and madness--to settle into such a lifestyle. Oh--and you want your loved ones to be on board, too. But it can be done. It's rather counter-cultural.
Great review and love the sweat shirt from White Whale Bookstore from my neighborhood, Bloomfield, here in Pittsburgh, PA
Ah, how cool! One of the judges of the literary prize works there. I hope to make a trek up that way soon!
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@@LeafbyLeaf I completed half of the novel, then I gave up and became obsessed with Marxism (nothing new there.) I found Austen's prose very difficult despite it's elegance. There are a lot of characters and their relationships with eachother is complex and subtle.
So you literally skipped the entire 18th century.
Yeah, it’s pretty bad, I know. But I challenged myself to keep it to 10-12 books total, so I had to be wretchedly selective. 😬
@LeafbyLeaf I would have thought you'd at least do Tristram Shandy.
Indeed, Rabelais and Sterne are the forerunners of a ton of twentieth- and twenty-first-century books that I love. I should make it clear that my personal core books are an exercise in constraint and not intended to be a negative comment on what is left out. Nevertheless, your observation is absolutely valid.
Unfortunately, I find Austen's prose to be suffocating. Gotta sit this one out.
Why suffocating? I can see someone finding her prose too dry as it aims for clarity over style.
@dylanmcdermott1110 It seems like she overwrites, and the details are lost in a rambling, stuffy kind of style. That's the best way I can describe it. I don't think she's clear at all.
I definitely understand where you're coming from in terms of the sort of post-Hemingway "show don't tell" approach in contrast to the 18th- and 19th-century novelists. Instead of just hitting the main things necessary to convey an impression, writers like Austen, I think, (Dreiser and James come to mind, too, for more recent stuff) wanted to try to make sure they conveyed exactly what they want the reader to know, and not really leave anything to the imagination. Sort of like they were too highly aware of the ambiguity of language unless they exhausted it to get it just right. Like an orator who says the same thing a hundred different ways in hopes that you grasp the message the way s/he wants you to. In any case, the style is certainly not going to appeal to everyone. All best!
@LeafbyLeaf you have summarized it perfectly, Chris. I have trouble with James as well.
@@LeafbyLeaf I've never read James, but your description of Austen makes sense and I feel it gives me insight as to why I love this novel and want to read more of her. I think it also gives me insight as to the type of writer I would be (if I was one).