I feel like Heart of darkness is the most unanimously hated book by literature students I’ve never met one who wasn’t praying for death when studying it 😭
I’m so glad that I am not the only person who feels the exact same way about a street car named desire. I read the play way before I saw the movie and I remember just throwing the damn book far away from me when I finished, but I was hard for me to feel the same anger and disgust when it was Marlon Brando 😭 pretty privilege IS real lmfao
Hey, Lily! Heart of Darkness was one book that was given a fleeting mention in my uni course (took pol sc) and i thought it'd be an interesting read. But fml, I almost had a stroke trying to understand the first three pages. Haven't even attempted to read it again. I felt so pretentious. 😂
I HATED the incel dude from Convenience Store Woman and was frustrated that the main character seemed to not care about his sexist remarks. But the ending was great 👌
A. I think the mc is supposed to be autistic. And B. Awareness of sexism is still something many Japanese people haven't learnt to spot or point out yet.
Added some to my tbr! As always, LOVE your book reviews. I'm excited to see what other manga you pick up. You may like Death Note if you're into a supernatural crime thriller vibe, also the MC is batshit crazy.
honestly, good on ya for getting through some of those classics. it's hard sometimes but i think those stories help frame any modern fiction you read. they are important, just not always a joyful read lol. that being said, i wouldn't say all of those are essential reading per se. but they are historically significant reads without a doubt
yesssss obsessed w/ convenience store woman. her other book earthlings is CRAZY, similar themes but just weirder. one of the only books i sort of regret reading? it has every trigger you can think of and is an (unecessary imo) descent into madness
I read "Breakfast at Tiffany's" once and don't remember if I liked it or not. Even as a die-hard Audrey Hepburn fan, I understand the criticisms and disconnect of casting her to be Holly Golightly as depicted in the book. As text independent of its source material, though, what her screen presence and offscreen persona lent to a character like that... prototypical manic dream pixie girl helped habituate audiences to the idea that a woman who monetizes her company can be the last person you'd imagine would do so (on purpose and effectively?...except not really cause she shoves her cat out of a cab and catches feels for a man).
I had to take a break from Gone to See the River Man twice because it got too much for me. I absolutely loved the story and the setting and the writing and the ending.. the book was amazing and i enjoyed everything about it despite all the disturbing shit. Thanks a lot for recommending it!
Benjamin button the movie is actually a fucking godsend, I must say. It rips my heart to pieces whenever I watch (and also pretty privilege for cate blanchett and Brad Pitt looking fiiiiione together and they make the money fr). I remember after when I learned it was a book and I started reading it and thinking “what the fuck is this 30 page garbage”
I agree that hotness saves the film adaption of A Street Car Named Desire, but I find Vivian Leigh’s beauty is the most captivating (though Marlon Brando is gorgeous) as she was a goddess. I do enjoy the play as I’ve performed in it, but I agree that hotness saved the character’s flaws from being more apparent due to pretty privilege. Love you Lily! Proud of my queen ❤️
This was the final push for me to start Gone to See the River Man, gonna get to it today. Also, both your video and its comments convinced me, that I am the only person in the world who actually loved The Heart of Darkness :D
Glad to hear that you got some rest on your flight. I loved Convenience Store Woman! I will be reading Gone to see the River Man very soon. Beowulf: I felt the same. Congratulations !! That's an amazing accomplishment! 14 more books than I've ever read in a day . 💗U so much!!!
I had to read Heart of Darkness in uni and we had to write a term paper on it. I can sum this experience up by quoting the book: The horror! The horror! I lost my sanity while working on that term paper. In it I started rambling about the book The Beach by Alex Garland and I almost claimed that two of the characters were gay because I listened to the song "What Sarah Said" by Death Cab for Cutie while writing the stupid term paper. In the song there is a line that says that love is watching someone die and if I remember it correctly one guy was watching another guy die in HoD.
I don't know if you still love mystery thrillers, but you should check out 20th century boys. It's a manga, about a guy that discovers a conspiracy. Also read Gone Girl, I think you'll like it.
not me pulling out of year 12 literature (where heart of darkness was one of the 4 books we had to study that year) at the least second and saving myself from that pain
reading heart of darkness is obligatory in polish high school and let me tell you... i suffered my part, but yeah, going through it with a teacher during class really helps
Lily, I just read “Gone to see the River Man” upon your recommendation and mainly due to morbid curiosity on how well you pitched it. Must I say I was not expecting the twist and was quite grossed out by the development of the story. My stomach churned at the flashback scenes, this was quite literally the most “f**cked up” book I have read to date. Also to add the ending made sense to me and was expected when I had read it, due to the revelation of the protagonist. Scarily enough there are women in this day and age who idolise serial killers, so I couldn’t help but feel like it was real whilst reading it. Maybe the events leading up to the ending was a metaphor as well as self enlightenment for the protagonist. All in all, I agree with Lily.. if you have the stomach to read this and can handle the dark themes of this book I’d give it a go!
As soon as I saw heart of darkness in the intro… girl noooooo. I had to read it for my senior year of high school and I absolutely hated it and def feel the same way u felt.
I really like Jekyll and Hyde but I also read it because I wanted to see the source material of the story (which I'd already seen a couple adaptations off, including the one in the show Once Upon a Time). You might've felt it's a miss because it's a children's classic. It does read like a children's book to me, especially one of those older ones. Had I expected an adult book it would've been a miss too. I've completed Tokyo Ghoul and I do think it was worth it, more or less. Except the half open ending is a cliff hanger and the sequel series starts off weak (it did get better and more adult even though still labeled older teen) and the ending was kinda rushed because the author was ready to move on and it shows in Tokyo Ghoul: RE vol 16. It should've been 2 volumes but I'm just glad the story ended in a decent way. I don't know what your taste is very well, both fiction and manga but I personally enjoyed the manga Platinum End quite a bit. It has a bit of adult content in it but reads a bit more on the YA end because of the age of most of the main characters. The ending though, satisfying but also both what I did and didn't want and really sad in ways. I expected wholesome in a different way. And I still don't know if I should read Benjamin Button now. I really liked the movie (don't really know if it holds up since I watched it quite a while ago) but I just realized the story is written by the brain that created the most boring story in existence: The Great Gatsby. I tried every format under the sun, first because we had to go to a mandatory play for school and watched the movie beforehand in English class. Not even a great group of play actors could make that one interesting or fun to watch. And did a formidable job in other years with: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and A Christmas Carol (to this day the best adaptation I've seen and I've seen quite a few). Anyway, I tried reading the Great Gatsby years later and listened to the audio book and it's still sleep inducingly boring. If the only interesting scene in a story is the one where a pregnant lady gets hit by a car there's something wrong. And just because it portrays the opulence of the time well doesn't make it a good book. I've seen that element done a lot better as well. As for Benjamin Button: I just am not sure I should consume another written story from the same author. I don't think his very readable writing style is going to be less boring just because the story is more interesting.
if you want a good horror manga series with a really cool mystery i would suggest Umineko no naku koro ni, its long nut the story, art and characters are great.
"The queen of all pick mes" oh you re-read Anna and the French Kiss? Lmaooo but thank you for this content queen, this was wild of you but thoroughly enjoyed it
i’ve read 9 volumes of tokyo ghoul and strangely enough i only started to get invested after vol 9. I think it was because there was finally a female investigator on that hunting team or whatever + kaneki was finally doing things instead of complaining about his inabilities lol. but it’s been like a month and i haven’t continued it so ig i’m not too invested after all 💀
I love Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but I don't recommend it to people unless they're a big classics fan, so I agree with you there. I read 7 volumes of Tokyo Ghoul last year. My interest definitely tanked hard at the midway point, so I DNF'ed it. At least you were able to see it through to the end. I can give you a couple of short or ongoing mangas that might spark your interest: Shadows House (ongoing, about 130-40 chapters) - It's about these "dolls" that are training to be the "faces" of the shadows in the house. Starts off kind of sweet and slice of life, but slowly gets more insidious. The Ghost and the Lady (2 volumes) - the life story of Florence Nightingale but with a supernatural flare. SpyxFamily (really popular right now, 8-9 volumes currently) - It's about a spy that has to create a fake family in order to infiltrate a school where a man in an enemy organization's child goes, so he adopts a child (who he doesn't know is a telepath) and marries a woman (who he doesn't know is an assassin).
As an extreme horror lover I’ve been meaning to read Gone to See the River Man. Will be starting it today because your review reminded me that I need to stop putting off something I know I will enjoy. If you want some extreme horror recs, let me know!
@@LilyCReads10 I read it. Unsettling and creepy. Made me feel icky at times, but I loved the dark fairy tale of traveling down the woods and river to meet a cosmic evil being. Justice for Abby though. She deserved to have her revenge and she didn’t.
@@sassysarahreads This is exactly how i felt as well, books that evoke strong emotions while reading them are super hit or miss for me, but i think that's why this was so brilliant
Hi Lily! I would love to see a reaction series from you reading Jane Harper’s books! Or even just one video for The Dry to see how you like the style of them. I think they’re well written in terms of crime fiction, and I loved The Lost Man for the character writing- every person was so well written and I was suspicious of everyone at one point. I feel like you would have some great opinions and reactions to each of the characters. Hope you’re doing well! 💜
I love The Grown Up! I think the story originally appeared in an anthology by George R.R. Martin. I can’t remember the name of the anthology 🫠 But I think that may be why you were thinking it was a short story collection
I had to read Heart of Darkness for year 12 English Extension. Prior to this book I had never met a book I could not finish. Prior to this book I thought that all books had something good or engaging about them. When I tell you I despised this book, there are not enough words in English or any other language to communicate just how deeply I loathed it. I never even finished it. I read sparknotes for the rest and felt bad for whoever wrote that sparknotes entry. I must have read those first 10 pages a dozen times. I remember I would read a page and get to the end, have no idea what I just read, and have to go back to the top just to try and make sense of it. I remember thinking to myself at one point, "It's only 80 pages you'll have this done in no time!" I fucking hate Heart of Darkness. Hate hate hate hate. It is still, 10 years later, my most hated book.
I read some of these and I agree on Benjamin Button and Brokeback Mountain. Even though I did enjoy reading them, they were too short to be anything else than just a good idea 🤷♀️
Took me weeks to read Heart of Darkness. Definitely wasn't for me. Two guys in my English class were also reading it and really loved it... did not help Edit: glad to see other people also think it was impossible to read
My English teacher assigned heart of darkness and did not guide us through the book whatsoever. She just gave us the book and that’s it. I read a couple pages and was soooooo lost
how can you spend so many hours on a plane? I recently traveled by plane for the first time ever and it's a miracle I didn't shit my pants. It was one of the worst experiences in my entire life. it made me wonder how people do it on a daily basis while I was out there having panic attacks.
I know you didn't ask for recc Lily, but do check out Beastars the manga. It might be to your taste! It makes you question your moral and it's also entertaining as heck!
5:51 - I've never read the book, but the movie, in my opinion, is so good and does a fantastic job. In telling the story of Benjamin Button, especially as a 2h 46m long film.
i watched this video to procrastinate reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for my Gothic Literature class... so Lily saying "I wouldnt read this outside of a classroom setting" definitely called me out! (if i remember to, i'll write you a second comment about the themes and interpretation once we discussed it in class!)
Team work makes the dream work! - You do all the research into the themes of the book, and i'll sit here doing nothing, waiting for you to report back xx
@@LilyCReads10 as promised, here is the stuff I learned in class about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: the doubling was a common theme in the Victorian age, because secularism meant that the evil is now not an outside force anymore (aka satan), but it comes from within society and within each person. The Victorian people were therefore expected to manage their own evils and hide it away to play the role of a good person in society. Dr Jekyll is someone who cannot handle the societal pressure, therefore he attempts to separate his evil into another person. He separates the "hidden" evil part into its own persona (Mr Hyde = to hide). The animalistic, beastly appearance of Mr Hyde might also relate to Darwin's theory that humans descended from apes, which was a very new theory at the time and it made people scared that humans could go "back" to being apes (so a certain anxiety about the reversibility of evolution). There are also interpretations that think that Dr Jekyll is homosexual and is leading a double life to hide his sexuality etc. Okay I think that was everything, hope you enjoyed my ted talk!!
I feel like Heart of darkness is the most unanimously hated book by literature students I’ve never met one who wasn’t praying for death when studying it 😭
This is the validation i was looking for 😌
Can confirm 😂
Can confirm read it for uni and I remember absolutely nothing of it
I enjoyed it :(
My partner loved it, he talks about it a lot!
I would love a video from u reading like short kindle unlimited smut I feel like that would be a funny video from u. 💀
Hey Lily, just wanted to tell you, that i fucking love your humor, please never stop posting Videos, much love from Austria❤
Trying my best now to keep the vids coming 😅 ❤️
I’m so glad that I am not the only person who feels the exact same way about a street car named desire. I read the play way before I saw the movie and I remember just throwing the damn book far away from me when I finished, but I was hard for me to feel the same anger and disgust when it was Marlon Brando 😭 pretty privilege IS real lmfao
For real I'm like you just became a dad and the first thing you do when you go home is that???? 🤮🤮🤮
Pretty much sums up the entirety of the modern dating market in Western Societies
^ ok Jaden Smith....
Is brokeback mountain called that cus they go to the mountain to break each other's backs? In the fun way?
more like bareback mountain👀
The way you described gone to see the river man, i’m sold. I literally ran to download it!
Um read that sh!t immediately and get back to me with thoughts x 🙏
Hey, Lily!
Heart of Darkness was one book that was given a fleeting mention in my uni course (took pol sc) and i thought it'd be an interesting read. But fml, I almost had a stroke trying to understand the first three pages. Haven't even attempted to read it again. I felt so pretentious. 😂
So glad i left this one til last, i almost cracked open that emergency escape exit mid-air 😬
Heart of Darkness... Unbearable. Was climbing up the walls trying to get through it
I HATED the incel dude from Convenience Store Woman and was frustrated that the main character seemed to not care about his sexist remarks. But the ending was great 👌
A. I think the mc is supposed to be autistic.
And B. Awareness of sexism is still something many Japanese people haven't learnt to spot or point out yet.
Added some to my tbr! As always, LOVE your book reviews. I'm excited to see what other manga you pick up. You may like Death Note if you're into a supernatural crime thriller vibe, also the MC is batshit crazy.
honestly, good on ya for getting through some of those classics. it's hard sometimes but i think those stories help frame any modern fiction you read. they are important, just not always a joyful read lol. that being said,
i wouldn't say all of those are essential reading per se. but they are historically significant reads without a doubt
yesssss obsessed w/ convenience store woman. her other book earthlings is CRAZY, similar themes but just weirder. one of the only books i sort of regret reading? it has every trigger you can think of and is an (unecessary imo) descent into madness
it does expand more on the idea of not 'following the mold' though and is quite touching in places but it's just so weird man
I read "Breakfast at Tiffany's" once and don't remember if I liked it or not. Even as a die-hard Audrey Hepburn fan, I understand the criticisms and disconnect of casting her to be Holly Golightly as depicted in the book. As text independent of its source material, though, what her screen presence and offscreen persona lent to a character like that... prototypical manic dream pixie girl helped habituate audiences to the idea that a woman who monetizes her company can be the last person you'd imagine would do so (on purpose and effectively?...except not really cause she shoves her cat out of a cab and catches feels for a man).
Oooooh, Convenience Store Woman has been on my radar for a while and I really want to give it a go!! 💙
I had to take a break from Gone to See the River Man twice because it got too much for me.
I absolutely loved the story and the setting and the writing and the ending.. the book was amazing and i enjoyed everything about it despite all the disturbing shit. Thanks a lot for recommending it!
Benjamin button the movie is actually a fucking godsend, I must say. It rips my heart to pieces whenever I watch (and also pretty privilege for cate blanchett and Brad Pitt looking fiiiiione together and they make the money fr). I remember after when I learned it was a book and I started reading it and thinking “what the fuck is this 30 page garbage”
I agree that hotness saves the film adaption of A Street Car Named Desire, but I find Vivian Leigh’s beauty is the most captivating (though Marlon Brando is gorgeous) as she was a goddess. I do enjoy the play as I’ve performed in it, but I agree that hotness saved the character’s flaws from being more apparent due to pretty privilege. Love you Lily! Proud of my queen ❤️
Major book inspo from this video❤💙💙🧡💜💜🖤💜🧡💙❤
This was the final push for me to start Gone to See the River Man, gonna get to it today. Also, both your video and its comments convinced me, that I am the only person in the world who actually loved The Heart of Darkness :D
Glad to hear that you got some rest on your flight. I loved Convenience Store Woman! I will be reading Gone to see the River Man very soon. Beowulf: I felt the same. Congratulations !! That's an amazing accomplishment! 14 more books than I've ever read in a day . 💗U so much!!!
Please do read Gone to see the river man and get back to me ASAP!!! I need more ppl to read it
Okay - I got it. I read it. I had high expectations, and then it started off with a Tom Waits quote! I loved it. very dark & weird. great ending.
@@ottoismy1dog haha. Yeah very dark and weird is absolutely correct!! That whole key/chest scene is still freaking me out to this day 😅😬
@@LilyCReads10 that was such a good set-up. The pay on words, then the goop & the insects together in that enclosed tomb of a cellar 😬
I had to read Heart of Darkness in uni and we had to write a term paper on it. I can sum this experience up by quoting the book: The horror! The horror!
I lost my sanity while working on that term paper. In it I started rambling about the book The Beach by Alex Garland and I almost claimed that two of the characters were gay because I listened to the song "What Sarah Said" by Death Cab for Cutie while writing the stupid term paper. In the song there is a line that says that love is watching someone die and if I remember it correctly one guy was watching another guy die in HoD.
See, i didn't spiral THAT hard.. but i feel you 💀
*adds Gone to See the River Man to tbr*
I don't know if you still love mystery thrillers, but you should check out 20th century boys. It's a manga, about a guy that discovers a conspiracy. Also read Gone Girl, I think you'll like it.
Already read Gone Girl years ago and did really love it when i read it, one of my favourites.
I'll have to check out that manga then 🙏
not me pulling out of year 12 literature (where heart of darkness was one of the 4 books we had to study that year) at the least second and saving myself from that pain
reading heart of darkness is obligatory in polish high school and let me tell you... i suffered my part, but yeah, going through it with a teacher during class really helps
Lily, I just read “Gone to see the River Man” upon your recommendation and mainly due to morbid curiosity on how well you pitched it. Must I say I was not expecting the twist and was quite grossed out by the development of the story. My stomach churned at the flashback scenes, this was quite literally the most “f**cked up” book I have read to date.
Also to add the ending made sense to me and was expected when I had read it, due to the revelation of the protagonist. Scarily enough there are women in this day and age who idolise serial killers, so I couldn’t help but feel like it was real whilst reading it. Maybe the events leading up to the ending was a metaphor as well as self enlightenment for the protagonist.
All in all, I agree with Lily.. if you have the stomach to read this and can handle the dark themes of this book I’d give it a go!
As soon as I saw heart of darkness in the intro… girl noooooo. I had to read it for my senior year of high school and I absolutely hated it and def feel the same way u felt.
Queen shit 💅🏻
After watching your video i read Gone to see the riverman and did not regret it!
my favorite thing is that instead of making your life easier you actually just like to make it harder
It’s my specialty ✨💕
I really like Jekyll and Hyde but I also read it because I wanted to see the source material of the story (which I'd already seen a couple adaptations off, including the one in the show Once Upon a Time).
You might've felt it's a miss because it's a children's classic. It does read like a children's book to me, especially one of those older ones. Had I expected an adult book it would've been a miss too.
I've completed Tokyo Ghoul and I do think it was worth it, more or less. Except the half open ending is a cliff hanger and the sequel series starts off weak (it did get better and more adult even though still labeled older teen) and the ending was kinda rushed because the author was ready to move on and it shows in Tokyo Ghoul: RE vol 16. It should've been 2 volumes but I'm just glad the story ended in a decent way.
I don't know what your taste is very well, both fiction and manga but I personally enjoyed the manga Platinum End quite a bit. It has a bit of adult content in it but reads a bit more on the YA end because of the age of most of the main characters. The ending though, satisfying but also both what I did and didn't want and really sad in ways. I expected wholesome in a different way.
And I still don't know if I should read Benjamin Button now. I really liked the movie (don't really know if it holds up since I watched it quite a while ago) but I just realized the story is written by the brain that created the most boring story in existence: The Great Gatsby. I tried every format under the sun, first because we had to go to a mandatory play for school and watched the movie beforehand in English class. Not even a great group of play actors could make that one interesting or fun to watch. And did a formidable job in other years with: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and A Christmas Carol (to this day the best adaptation I've seen and I've seen quite a few).
Anyway, I tried reading the Great Gatsby years later and listened to the audio book and it's still sleep inducingly boring. If the only interesting scene in a story is the one where a pregnant lady gets hit by a car there's something wrong. And just because it portrays the opulence of the time well doesn't make it a good book. I've seen that element done a lot better as well.
As for Benjamin Button: I just am not sure I should consume another written story from the same author. I don't think his very readable writing style is going to be less boring just because the story is more interesting.
if you want a good horror manga series with a really cool mystery i would suggest Umineko no naku koro ni, its long nut the story, art and characters are great.
"The queen of all pick mes" oh you re-read Anna and the French Kiss? Lmaooo but thank you for this content queen, this was wild of you but thoroughly enjoyed it
i’ve read 9 volumes of tokyo ghoul and strangely enough i only started to get invested after vol 9. I think it was because there was finally a female investigator on that hunting team or whatever + kaneki was finally doing things instead of complaining about his inabilities lol. but it’s been like a month and i haven’t continued it so ig i’m not too invested after all 💀
15 books in 15 hours all included in 15 minutes, i like this ahhaha
That title is baffling(in a good way) holy shit
You read Beowulf for the same reason I read Frankenstein lmao it’s for the culture, but god at what cost….
A cute little manga that I personally like is called "failed princesses"
I love Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but I don't recommend it to people unless they're a big classics fan, so I agree with you there.
I read 7 volumes of Tokyo Ghoul last year. My interest definitely tanked hard at the midway point, so I DNF'ed it. At least you were able to see it through to the end.
I can give you a couple of short or ongoing mangas that might spark your interest:
Shadows House (ongoing, about 130-40 chapters) - It's about these "dolls" that are training to be the "faces" of the shadows in the house. Starts off kind of sweet and slice of life, but slowly gets more insidious.
The Ghost and the Lady (2 volumes) - the life story of Florence Nightingale but with a supernatural flare.
SpyxFamily (really popular right now, 8-9 volumes currently) - It's about a spy that has to create a fake family in order to infiltrate a school where a man in an enemy organization's child goes, so he adopts a child (who he doesn't know is a telepath) and marries a woman (who he doesn't know is an assassin).
As an extreme horror lover I’ve been meaning to read Gone to See the River Man. Will be starting it today because your review reminded me that I need to stop putting off something I know I will enjoy. If you want some extreme horror recs, let me know!
Honestly sassy sarah, it's like 100 pgs, it's time to get your sh!t together and make it happen - Then report back asap with thoughts
@@LilyCReads10 I read it. Unsettling and creepy. Made me feel icky at times, but I loved the dark fairy tale of traveling down the woods and river to meet a cosmic evil being. Justice for Abby though. She deserved to have her revenge and she didn’t.
@@sassysarahreads This is exactly how i felt as well, books that evoke strong emotions while reading them are super hit or miss for me, but i think that's why this was so brilliant
Hi Lily!
I would love to see a reaction series from you reading Jane Harper’s books! Or even just one video for The Dry to see how you like the style of them. I think they’re well written in terms of crime fiction, and I loved The Lost Man for the character writing- every person was so well written and I was suspicious of everyone at one point. I feel like you would have some great opinions and reactions to each of the characters.
Hope you’re doing well! 💜
HARD agree with your thoughts on Brokeback Mountain!
i love your reviews so much!!
yesss all of the hype for convenience store woman!
Lily I love your videos ❤️❣️
holly golightly being holy ghost lightly in the subtitles is sending me
I love The Grown Up! I think the story originally appeared in an anthology by George R.R. Martin. I can’t remember the name of the anthology 🫠 But I think that may be why you were thinking it was a short story collection
I had to read Heart of Darkness for year 12 English Extension.
Prior to this book I had never met a book I could not finish.
Prior to this book I thought that all books had something good or engaging about them.
When I tell you I despised this book, there are not enough words in English or any other language to communicate just how deeply I loathed it.
I never even finished it. I read sparknotes for the rest and felt bad for whoever wrote that sparknotes entry.
I must have read those first 10 pages a dozen times. I remember I would read a page and get to the end, have no idea what I just read, and have to go back to the top just to try and make sense of it.
I remember thinking to myself at one point, "It's only 80 pages you'll have this done in no time!"
I fucking hate Heart of Darkness. Hate hate hate hate. It is still, 10 years later, my most hated book.
Ok I need to read Gone to See the River Man! You do know how to sell books 😁
how *dare* you sleep? lol, loved this
I read some of these and I agree on Benjamin Button and Brokeback Mountain. Even though I did enjoy reading them, they were too short to be anything else than just a good idea 🤷♀️
I bought gone to see the river man after this video and totally forgot everything you said about it and I finally read it and yeah….
Took me weeks to read Heart of Darkness. Definitely wasn't for me. Two guys in my English class were also reading it and really loved it... did not help
Edit: glad to see other people also think it was impossible to read
If you want to read a good manga series I would recommend Spy x Family
I also read Breakfast at Tiffany’s recently… couldn’t sit through the movie after because I felt like Audrey didn’t fit Holly at all
Fast zombies and evil children are top tier NOPES for me.
OH true fast zombies, f that
My English teacher assigned heart of darkness and did not guide us through the book whatsoever. She just gave us the book and that’s it. I read a couple pages and was soooooo lost
girl you knocked out like half my ap english booklist
@@drog.ndtrax3023 lol chill
I am ready for the chaos
Very disappointed in you for not making a 24 hour video tbh
Okay but why did I expect this to be a full on vlog on the plane
“You were crusty not that long ago” I’m fucking crying 😂😂😂
Looks like I’m buying Gone To See the river Man 👀
Unfortunately I’m a peasant of this day and age LILY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
how can you spend so many hours on a plane? I recently traveled by plane for the first time ever and it's a miracle I didn't shit my pants. It was one of the worst experiences in my entire life. it made me wonder how people do it on a daily basis while I was out there having panic attacks.
I know you didn't ask for recc Lily, but do check out Beastars the manga. It might be to your taste! It makes you question your moral and it's also entertaining as heck!
thank you! I've just started reading manga, so recs are always welcome 😍
If you’re looking for a good manga, try A Silent Voice. It’s 7 volumes and REALLY good.
5:51 - I've never read the book, but the movie, in my opinion, is so good and does a fantastic job. In telling the story of Benjamin Button, especially as a 2h 46m long film.
Thank you! ❤️
Okay and now I need gone to see the River man…
I love this video!
Your hair looks lush here 😍
i watched this video to procrastinate reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for my Gothic Literature class... so Lily saying "I wouldnt read this outside of a classroom setting" definitely called me out!
(if i remember to, i'll write you a second comment about the themes and interpretation once we discussed it in class!)
Team work makes the dream work! - You do all the research into the themes of the book, and i'll sit here doing nothing, waiting for you to report back xx
@@LilyCReads10 as promised, here is the stuff I learned in class about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: the doubling was a common theme in the Victorian age, because secularism meant that the evil is now not an outside force anymore (aka satan), but it comes from within society and within each person. The Victorian people were therefore expected to manage their own evils and hide it away to play the role of a good person in society. Dr Jekyll is someone who cannot handle the societal pressure, therefore he attempts to separate his evil into another person. He separates the "hidden" evil part into its own persona (Mr Hyde = to hide). The animalistic, beastly appearance of Mr Hyde might also relate to Darwin's theory that humans descended from apes, which was a very new theory at the time and it made people scared that humans could go "back" to being apes (so a certain anxiety about the reversibility of evolution). There are also interpretations that think that Dr Jekyll is homosexual and is leading a double life to hide his sexuality etc. Okay I think that was everything, hope you enjoyed my ted talk!!
At the 0.04 second mark it looks like you started “We have always lived in the castle” - thoughts??
man FUCK heart of darkness fr
Beowulf makes absolutely no sense and I stand by that
💖 your book videos
Now that you’ve read Beowulf you can get drunk and watch the terrible animated movie with your friends. They will not thank you for it.
love your videos alwayss x but omg where did you get your top from ?
Thankyou! I got it in Italy from Zara :)
6:43 😂
Crusty Benjamin button 🤣
Second half of Tokyo Ghoul is not good.
Damn im here early
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heart of darkness i read for year 12 literature - it was just as awful reading it in that way trust me
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hey, just finished gone to see the river man. excited to send you my therapy bills!!