You’re by favorite RUclipsr of the book community and it aint even close. The fact that there’s a good distance between videos makes each one better and indicates to me that you’re probably busy reading, absorbing, and applying rather than just cranking out books for no reason
Oh, fantastic! I hoped we'd hear from you again! I'm a library worker who reads mostly classic fiction. When I found your classic lit collection video, it was an instant sub for me, and remains perhaps my favorite shelf-tour on youtube. But your channel has also really helped to open my eyes and whet my appetite for works of nonfiction. Your honest enthusiasm for literature is inspiring and infectious. Welcome back and thank you for your wonderful videos.
I could listen to you talk all day... as someone who is passionate about history and books about history, I really appreciate your videos! I'm a university student majoring in history and its refreshing to see someone like you who reads about the lesser known parts of history (like the Neo-Assyrian Empie) just because they can, its not very common. Keep up the good work and keep that wonderful mind of yours going!
@Tanya Well, many of the books that I've read are textbooks. None are exactly remarkable, but I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book assigned to me when I studied Middle Eastern humanities; mainly because of how informative it was. If you'd like to check it out its called "A History of Islamic Societies" by Ira M. Lapidus. He's one of the most respected scholars in the field, the book is pretty thick and it might be pretty pricey but it's worth it if you are genuinely interested in the topic.
I am so glad you're studying the Assyrians, as a middle Eastern myself I would definitely recommend studying and reading about the Syriac Orthodox Church, beautiful and rich history!
To @RetaD4 There is a terrific Great Courses entitled "Ancient Empires before Alexander" by Professor Robert L. Dise that has five lectures on the Assyrian Empire. They are quite well-done and extremely interesting. The rest of the lectures are very good, too.
I like that you are a serious reader. These books are actually pretty esoteric by an everyman's standard. One thing I've noticed, as someone gravitating at this point more in the direction of literature and poetry than history, is that as I take on challenging works (or those I've arrived at by virtue of my own idiosyncratic search), my capacity for appreciating all kinds of challenging art is increased. For example, reading Proust seems weirdly to contribute to my patience with classical music...
Your videos came into my orbit yesterday...like you I love the classics and to listen to you speak from your heart about literature is a joy. Thank you!
It's great to see you Mark! I've been so inspired by your channel. I enjoy classics and I've been in love with with Greek and Roman antiquity and philosophy. Thank you for sharing your finds. The first 3000 yrs of Christianity has just jumped to the top of my TBR!😂 Your updated bookshelf looks so inviting and I'd enjoy a tour if you have the time or inclination. 📚❤
I don't have many friends who love books as much as I do, so whenever i want to listen to someone talk about them and i'm looking forward to absorb some literary passion, i always come back to your videos. There's always something new to learn from them and they serve me --weirdly-- as inspiration.
Glad to see you back. A couple comments. You ought to look at some of Vasari's own art works. He was a formidable artist in his own right, so his judgment about other artists is worth more than that of a mere critic. There are some videos on RUclips covering his work. Long ago I read Eusebius. He's a very fine historian whose work should be better known. I never found myself able to read Sarah Orne Jewett. I tried a couple times but couldn't get beyond the first sentence or two.
There's a Faber & Faber edition of The Translations of Ezra Pound from 1970. If I remember correctly, it includes his translation of Cavalcanti, Giacomo Leopardi, Catullus, Horace, several Japanese Noh plays, Chinese poetry, and poems from several other languages.
So happy to see you back! I love Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables, I think it's very underrated! Scarlet Letter not so much. You might also be interested in his book The Marble Faun about Italy.
No ways this is so weird... I found your channel a few days ago and I was blown away by your ability to explain things so thoroughly and beautifully, one thing led to another I watched every one of your videos...(yeah) twas not long until I saw thou hadn't posted since like 5 months ago...I was sad to say the least😂 But here you are today! I'm so happy I can't even explain and contain it. Thank you thank you, you are an ineffable human being. I was wondering...did you study English Literature? Well, either way...you kind of did because you basically studied it at home by yourself without the whole system that gives you books like "the fault in our stars"😂. So if the above mentioned is minorly true, good on ya soul.
Thank you for your kind words Vanja, I feel very honored by them. I did not study English Literature. However, I think I can confidently say now that I've made up for all the books I sparknoted in high school!
I hope you enjoy reading Russell Wallace. He is much more interesting as a person than Darwin. Thanks for this video. I am not especially interested in ancient history and things, but love your passionate interest in books. I so recognised the feeling of delight at finding a copy for 6 dollars, when you have only been able to find 300 dollar copies. That looks a lovely copy that has been read many times by someone. Ditto re your discovery of the Helen Whaddel biography. What a find, especially when you didn't even know she existed. I look forward to your next video.
I saw this recommended in my feed. I really enjoyed this video, you seem very passionate and knowledgeable when it comes to literature. You just earned yourself a subscriber!
Dear Drunzo, more Booktube videos, please. You have a unique voice. And do include some classic film references and reviews. But defo please report back on Helen Waddell - she sounds fascinating.
Are you a student or a an avid reader? I remember being a student and loathing the required reads…older now with no pressure, it’s a great way to spend my time and use my mind. Cheers brother.
I'm really glad you mentioned the history of Christianity. I'm a huge fan of Diarmaid MacCuloch. I'm at university at the moment and I got to meet him recently which blew my mind slightly. Would particularly recommend his work 'silence - a Christian history', which is a more thematic history of Christianity. It's shorter, and it constitutes such an interesting critique of the church as a historical institution, and how it's influenced social values.
I remember reading Beowulf in 12th grade British lit--I think the translation was Kevin Crossley-Holland's. And really great to see a new video from you! I'm looking forward to the next.
Beowulf is epic. I have read it many, many times. I enjoy finding different translations of it. Seamus Heaney is wonderful,of course. If you struggle at all with it, I would also suggest the Burton Raffle translation for its readability. It’s a universal story, full of life lessons.
Two earlier artists Vasari discusses that you might want to check out to get an idea of how Renaissance painting developed are Giotto (one of the first to reject the Byzantine style and attempt to achieve more lifelike figures) and Masaccio (one of the first/the first to apply linear perspectives to his paintings)
Thanks for tipping me off to Giorgio Vasari! I had never heard of him, but I love the renaissance; and want to start getting into Architecture, sculpture, and painting. I'm diving into a crazy reading week: 80 pages a day! I've got to read Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and re-read Walden (will be ready a segment of each of them; finishing them all in three weeks: Dorian Gray will be the first to finish, this week). I'm glad to see that 2023 is treating you well! Thanks, again.👌😃
I would love to hear your thoughts on Emerson and Thoreau. I too love New England literature. And btw I aspire to your level of erudition and thoroughness in your studies of the ancient world. You think you'll ever pursue a formal degree in the classics? Much appreciation for the great work you do.
Thank you for your kind words Markus. And I do not have any plans on obtaining a formal degree in the classics - I much prefer setting my own curriculum haha
Nice channel bro... great idea to cover classic literature! I'm curious if you like John Steinbeck? He's my absolute favorite, but of course I love many, many other classic authors too!
Oh great to see you back man. I have the same complaint again , why don't you make one video a week. All my favourite youtubers are irregular like you.
Dude you have to read Nathaniel Hawthorne!! I read The Scarlet Letter for the first time last year and I loved it. Given that you really love Melville i think you’ll have a good time with Hawthornes writing. The Scarlet Letter was an easy and fast read, also I suggest you read Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny. It is published by NYRB but taken from his notebooks. His humor and delicate personality really shine through.
Thanks to you, I read War and Peace over my college Christmas break in 2022 and enjoyed the heck out of it. It is probably my second favorite piece of fiction. Looking forward to more videos of yours as I appreciate your passion for classics and history as it helped grow mine. Also, have you read Oedipus the King? I would like to know your thoughts on it.
Well now you gotta tell me what your favorite work of fiction is if War and Peace is only second! Haha. Thank you for your kind words. And I have not read Oedipus the King in quite some time. It has been a few years since I read the whole of the Oedipus cycle. I will probably re-read them this year and I will most likely bring it up on my channel sometime this year.
@@drunzo363 my favorite piece of fiction is The Wheel of Time, 14 book long fantasy epic. The characters, the plot, the writing style, the use of imagery, the magic system, the way different worlds connect and interact with eachother (usually dreams) it's fantastic. This story just has it all. Though 14 books is quite a commitment.
Have you heard of Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes? A great fever dream of a book detailing the creation of El Escorial and Spain's initial conquests into the New World, I highly recommend.
Great you're back! I wonder how long it takes you to read a classic piece of work? I find it a bit dull at times. Do you give up on a text when it gets too dense, winding, difficult or just dull?
Great video, so many interesting books! A few definitely went on my ever growing reading list. This might be a weird question but do you use protective sleeves on the dustjackets of your books, and if so what brand? I have a few older books with dustjackets that have seen better days, one gorgeous Swedish copy of Moby Dick for example, and I would like to protect them from further damage. I haven't had any luck yet in finding such sleeves so I'm in need of some clues and pointers.
A new bookshelf tour would be great
So glad you're back :)) your interest in literature and history is truly inspiring
So good to see you again! Great to see books like this talked about.
You’re by favorite RUclipsr of the book community and it aint even close. The fact that there’s a good distance between videos makes each one better and indicates to me that you’re probably busy reading, absorbing, and applying rather than just cranking out books for no reason
I'm glad you have returned. This is one of the very best book channels.
Oh, fantastic! I hoped we'd hear from you again! I'm a library worker who reads mostly classic fiction. When I found your classic lit collection video, it was an instant sub for me, and remains perhaps my favorite shelf-tour on youtube. But your channel has also really helped to open my eyes and whet my appetite for works of nonfiction. Your honest enthusiasm for literature is inspiring and infectious. Welcome back and thank you for your wonderful videos.
I am very glad you enjoy my videos - thank you for your kind words Phoebe.
@@drunzo363Bro talks about the Stoic Philosopher Epicurus. 🙌🙌
@@thawanestewartancap5333Epictetus, you mean? Epicurus was not stoic, he was...epicurian!
I could listen to you talk all day... as someone who is passionate about history and books about history, I really appreciate your videos! I'm a university student majoring in history and its refreshing to see someone like you who reads about the lesser known parts of history (like the Neo-Assyrian Empie) just because they can, its not very common. Keep up the good work and keep that wonderful mind of yours going!
@Tanya Well, many of the books that I've read are textbooks. None are exactly remarkable, but I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book assigned to me when I studied Middle Eastern humanities; mainly because of how informative it was. If you'd like to check it out its called "A History of Islamic Societies" by Ira M. Lapidus. He's one of the most respected scholars in the field, the book is pretty thick and it might be pretty pricey but it's worth it if you are genuinely interested in the topic.
I am so glad you're studying the Assyrians, as a middle Eastern myself I would definitely recommend studying and reading about the Syriac Orthodox Church, beautiful and rich history!
To @RetaD4
There is a terrific Great Courses entitled "Ancient Empires before Alexander" by Professor Robert L. Dise that has five lectures on the Assyrian Empire. They are quite well-done and extremely interesting. The rest of the lectures are very good, too.
Thank you for letting us know about the "Travels with Vasari" documentary. I just watched it from start to finish and absolutely loved it!
So good to see you Drunzo. Hope you’re doing well.
YOU ARE BACK !!! So happy to see you !!!
Fascinating selection of books. Keep the videos coming!
I've been subscribed for like a month now, so happy to see you back!
happened upon your channel by the great algorithm! all these pick-ups only prove how great book cover designs were! loved all of these!
Really happy to see you here! I enjoy the content you provide.
Thank you Marian!
OMG. IT'S BEEN ALMOST A YEAR. I HAD BEEN WAITING YOUR VIDEO 😭 so happy you're back!
I like that you are a serious reader. These books are actually pretty esoteric by an everyman's standard. One thing I've noticed, as someone gravitating at this point more in the direction of literature and poetry than history, is that as I take on challenging works (or those I've arrived at by virtue of my own idiosyncratic search), my capacity for appreciating all kinds of challenging art is increased. For example, reading Proust seems weirdly to contribute to my patience with classical music...
Your videos are so appreciated ! The longer ones, like the Herodotus you mentioned, are especially good.
Your videos came into my orbit yesterday...like you I love the classics and to listen to you speak from your heart about literature is a joy. Thank you!
Welcome back to RUclips. Your return is much appreciated
It's great to see you Mark! I've been so inspired by your channel. I enjoy classics and I've been in love with with Greek and Roman antiquity and philosophy.
Thank you for sharing your finds. The first 3000 yrs of Christianity has just jumped to the top of my TBR!😂
Your updated bookshelf looks so inviting and I'd enjoy a tour if you have the time or inclination. 📚❤
I don't have many friends who love books as much as I do, so whenever i want to listen to someone talk about them and i'm looking forward to absorb some literary passion, i always come back to your videos. There's always something new to learn from them and they serve me --weirdly-- as inspiration.
Your coming back just made my day :)
Thank you for the links to the documentary! What a great find!
I did my masters in Viking and Anglo-Saxon studies. So if you ever want advice on Beowulf or Anglo-Saxon editions, I’d be delighted to help!
It's so good to see you back!!!
You have good choices in what to read. I love big books too. Thanks for your motivating video!
We love you, nice to see you again bro! Your enthusiasm was missed.
So glad you're back, Mark. Seems that you got a new bookshelf. Maybe another bookshelf tour?
Glad to see you back. A couple comments. You ought to look at some of Vasari's own art works. He was a formidable artist in his own right, so his judgment about other artists is worth more than that of a mere critic. There are some videos on RUclips covering his work. Long ago I read Eusebius. He's a very fine historian whose work should be better known. I never found myself able to read Sarah Orne Jewett. I tried a couple times but couldn't get beyond the first sentence or two.
The most interesting content on booktube bar none. I lost your channel a while back so I'm so excited you uploaded again!
Hi Drunzo been following your excellent channel awhile. Really enjoy your taste in classic literature.
Welcome back 😊
When I saw your video in my subscription list I said “Drunzo!! No way” and smiled.
Thanks for the video!
Cheers from Brazil!
I would keep hold of your Codex Mendoza, here in Scotland goes for £ 200….wonderful find, well done 👍
There's a Faber & Faber edition of The Translations of Ezra Pound from 1970. If I remember correctly, it includes his translation of Cavalcanti, Giacomo Leopardi, Catullus, Horace, several Japanese Noh plays, Chinese poetry, and poems from several other languages.
So happy to see you back! I love Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables, I think it's very underrated! Scarlet Letter not so much. You might also be interested in his book The Marble Faun about Italy.
Glad I subscribed even tho you were not uploading! Happy to see you popping up in my sub box!
No ways this is so weird... I found your channel a few days ago and I was blown away by your ability to explain things so thoroughly and beautifully, one thing led to another I watched every one of your videos...(yeah)
twas not long until I saw thou hadn't posted since like 5 months ago...I was sad to say the least😂
But here you are today! I'm so happy I can't even explain and contain it. Thank you thank you, you are an ineffable human being.
I was wondering...did you study English Literature?
Well, either way...you kind of did because you basically studied it at home by yourself without the whole system that gives you books like "the fault in our stars"😂.
So if the above mentioned is minorly true, good on ya soul.
Thank you for your kind words Vanja, I feel very honored by them.
I did not study English Literature. However, I think I can confidently say now that I've made up for all the books I sparknoted in high school!
@@drunzo363 Such a good example you are for all of us😂
I was just today scrolling through u videos, happy ur back❤
He’s back!!
Welcome back! I really enjoy your content and hope you can post more often. Great book haul btw. 👍🏼
the way that notif made me smile! definitely thickening my TBR with some elite stuff thanks!
I missed you bro
Lol me too! I've also haven't seen the other creator/friend in a while too. The one that's a teacher 😂❤
The guys reads Greek mythology and looks like a Greek god? There are nowhere near enough thirsty comments on this channel.
It’s delightful watching your interest and passion. Looking forward.
just found this channel, you gotta post more
I hope you enjoy reading Russell Wallace. He is much more interesting as a person than Darwin. Thanks for this video. I am not especially interested in ancient history and things, but love your passionate interest in books. I so recognised the feeling of delight at finding a copy for 6 dollars, when you have only been able to find 300 dollar copies. That looks a lovely copy that has been read many times by someone. Ditto re your discovery of the Helen Whaddel biography. What a find, especially when you didn't even know she existed. I look forward to your next video.
Thank you for just being you Drunzo!!! Honest and humble. And just a great conversational-toned video.
Where have you been hiding... Glad RUclips sent this video to me! Youre a very curious fellow, its contagious!
I saw this recommended in my feed. I really enjoyed this video, you seem very passionate and knowledgeable when it comes to literature. You just earned yourself a subscriber!
So happy to have you back, Drunzo. Your video made my day. 🤗
Thank you Axl!
Good to see you back 👍
Thank you, from Caracas, hope you keep on, civilization!
Glad to have found your channel, nice to find more booktubers who discuss subjects other than the latest hockey romance YA. 😊
You're still in the land of the living? Lol glad to have you back
Dear Drunzo, more Booktube videos, please. You have a unique voice. And do include some classic film references and reviews. But defo please report back on Helen Waddell - she sounds fascinating.
Here from Portugal; I just got to know your channel and have already watched the videos available. I hope you keep coming back!
Missed you sooo much x
Are you a student or a an avid reader? I remember being a student and loathing the required reads…older now with no pressure, it’s a great way to spend my time and use my mind. Cheers brother.
Very articulate. I truly enjoyed coming across your video. Keep up the fantastic work.
I'm really glad you mentioned the history of Christianity. I'm a huge fan of Diarmaid MacCuloch. I'm at university at the moment and I got to meet him recently which blew my mind slightly. Would particularly recommend his work 'silence - a Christian history', which is a more thematic history of Christianity. It's shorter, and it constitutes such an interesting critique of the church as a historical institution, and how it's influenced social values.
I remember reading Beowulf in 12th grade British lit--I think the translation was Kevin Crossley-Holland's. And really great to see a new video from you! I'm looking forward to the next.
welcome back!
Your taste in literature is impeccable. Hats off🥸
THE GOAT IS BACK!!! 🔥🔥🔥
love the editions u find! everyman's library is a personal favorite of mine! although they're hard to find in texas :(
Beowulf is epic. I have read it many, many times. I enjoy finding different translations of it. Seamus Heaney is wonderful,of course. If you struggle at all with it, I would also suggest the Burton Raffle translation for its readability. It’s a universal story, full of life lessons.
Two earlier artists Vasari discusses that you might want to check out to get an idea of how Renaissance painting developed are Giotto (one of the first to reject the Byzantine style and attempt to achieve more lifelike figures) and Masaccio (one of the first/the first to apply linear perspectives to his paintings)
A really interesting book talk. Enjoyable and insightful from start to finish. Thanks!
HE IS BACK!
I also would like an updated bookshelf tour
Welcome back
So glad you're back! I really missed your videos 😊
Captivating my interests, you are; inspiring me to do a little gallivanting myself, around the hidden annals of history.
Thanks for tipping me off to Giorgio Vasari! I had never heard of him, but I love the renaissance; and want to start getting into Architecture, sculpture, and painting.
I'm diving into a crazy reading week: 80 pages a day!
I've got to read Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and re-read Walden (will be ready a segment of each of them; finishing them all in three weeks: Dorian Gray will be the first to finish, this week).
I'm glad to see that 2023 is treating you well! Thanks, again.👌😃
you uploaded again! yay!
I would love to hear your thoughts on Emerson and Thoreau. I too love New England literature. And btw I aspire to your level of erudition and thoroughness in your studies of the ancient world. You think you'll ever pursue a formal degree in the classics? Much appreciation for the great work you do.
Thank you for your kind words Markus. And I do not have any plans on obtaining a formal degree in the classics - I much prefer setting my own curriculum haha
Nice channel bro... great idea to cover classic literature! I'm curious if you like John Steinbeck? He's my absolute favorite, but of course I love many, many other classic authors too!
Judith Herrin, Formation of Christendom - great book. If you like her style, you ought to read her "Ravenna".
Oh great to see you back man. I have the same complaint again , why don't you make one video a week.
All my favourite youtubers are irregular like you.
Where the hell were you man?? Thought you had locked yourself in Borges’s infinite library.
Dude you have to read Nathaniel Hawthorne!! I read The Scarlet Letter for the first time last year and I loved it. Given that you really love Melville i think you’ll have a good time with Hawthornes writing. The Scarlet Letter was an easy and fast read, also I suggest you read Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny. It is published by NYRB but taken from his notebooks. His humor and delicate personality really shine through.
I second this, I think Drunzo will love it
Great stuff, I need to read Vasari.
Very interesting stuff. Oh, and the books are cool too 😅
Ah this is so inspiring... shame my attention span is so awful now. I used to be such a bookworm, now I can't force myself to sit :(
Hey, welcome back.
When are we gonna get a full video in the Ancient Mesopotamian language?
Upload a video about the works of Martin McDonagh and then maybe I'll consider it
He's back
Thanks to you, I read War and Peace over my college Christmas break in 2022 and enjoyed the heck out of it. It is probably my second favorite piece of fiction. Looking forward to more videos of yours as I appreciate your passion for classics and history as it helped grow mine. Also, have you read Oedipus the King? I would like to know your thoughts on it.
Well now you gotta tell me what your favorite work of fiction is if War and Peace is only second! Haha. Thank you for your kind words.
And I have not read Oedipus the King in quite some time. It has been a few years since I read the whole of the Oedipus cycle. I will probably re-read them this year and I will most likely bring it up on my channel sometime this year.
@@drunzo363 my favorite piece of fiction is The Wheel of Time, 14 book long fantasy epic. The characters, the plot, the writing style, the use of imagery, the magic system, the way different worlds connect and interact with eachother (usually dreams) it's fantastic. This story just has it all. Though 14 books is quite a commitment.
@@Hammy900 How long did it take you to read the whole of The Wheel of Time?
@@folksurvival sorry for getting to you a month later, but 2 months. It helps when you were homeschooled and had plenty of free time.
Good stuff. Just found your channel. Very interesting subject matter.
Have you heard of Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes? A great fever dream of a book detailing the creation of El Escorial and Spain's initial conquests into the New World, I highly recommend.
welcome back 😀 where can we find you on other platforms tho ?
Hey thanks - and I am not on any other platforms, just RUclips.
@@drunzo363 I take it that means you are not on Goodreads or Storygraph or something?
I’m going to Florence and Italy this summer and I’m about to watch the tour with Vasari video so I can reference later
Given your interest in primary sources, you may want to read Kautilya's Arthashastra for Indian history.
love you bro
Great you're back! I wonder how long it takes you to read a classic piece of work? I find it a bit dull at times. Do you give up on a text when it gets too dense, winding, difficult or just dull?
Great video, so many interesting books! A few definitely went on my ever growing reading list. This might be a weird question but do you use protective sleeves on the dustjackets of your books, and if so what brand? I have a few older books with dustjackets that have seen better days, one gorgeous Swedish copy of Moby Dick for example, and I would like to protect them from further damage. I haven't had any luck yet in finding such sleeves so I'm in need of some clues and pointers.
New bookshelf Tour, please🤗
yes, that would be nice to see. And his bookshelf tour would be super fascinating
COME BACK!!!!