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That is the enjoyment of books. I absolutely enjoyed Against the Day. When I finished the book, I hand wrote a note to Mr,. Pynchon, care of the publisher, to thank him for that book, and how much I enjoyed it. I have never done that, before or again, for anyone else. I have no doubt the letter was never received by the author, but I did not care, It was something I felt was needed to be done. On a side note, I accepted the challenge of reading Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time. Actually, I have enjoyed the first book more than I thought I would.

Great progress. I really must read some Borges. Against the Day is possibly the craziest book I’ve ever tackled. But think of that page count 😂

I was abducted by aliens, yep, circa 1999 in Phoenix; and they _probed_ me on the inside of my left calf, and, man, did it smart! Borges is The Shite. 👾

Borges is my “desert island” writer. I have “The Aleph” to read this year..

Wow. You almost have me convinced to read the Carl Sagan! Sounds interesting. Maverick ❤ so cute.

I've read a couple of Philip Roth in the LOA edition. They were amazing, and put the collection on the radar for me. Well done with your collection!

Great conversation gentleman!

I tried to read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series once, and gave up halfway through the second one, partly because every time he described a woman it made me roll my eyes almost all the way out of my head

I would want to use the Men In Black “memory eraser” for the books you suffered through.

Grade school kids can't go to NC-17 movies. Are those banned movies? Parents can take their kids to an R-rated movie, and they can get any of these books for any of their kids. The term "banned" has been broadened ridiculously for political reasons to falsely harken back to actual banned books that were available to no one. The Gender Queer book describes and has drawings of kids performing oral sex on each other. If you want your grade-school kid to read it it's perfectly legal to get it for them -- the kid can even go online themselves and get it. But there are parents who don't want their kid reading it in grade school and don't want it available in the school library. I guess you think we're on the verge of putting blacks back into slavery, too. A bit too over-dramatic since we're talking about school kids libraries.

I will take your word for these. Especially the milking of women one. 😳

Я почти все эти книги перевел на русский язык.

I love joyful malevolence

Super- Entertaining Greg! I knew No One Rides For Free would make your list- the brother sister stuff was 🤮. I do not know about the other books and will avoid them like the plague. 🤣 I understand that politics is a sensitive subject in America at the moment, wish you all the best. Have a wonderful 2025! 📚

Three Booktube prize nominees, I'm glad I wasn't involved with that prize...

The food writer's dilemma: how to describe something as delicious without constantly using the word "delicious." Maybe it's like writing horror--having to describe fear without using the word "afraid," or writing a zombie story without ever using the "zombie." (Notice how the word "zombie" is never used once in The Walking Dead.) Anyway. Cheers.

Greg, I forgot to ask you.... on your Kindle do you have any difficulties with loading and reading large (Beefy) books? For some reason my Kindle, while by no means full to capacity, has developed an aversion to large books. As an example I acquired Delphi Complete Charles Dickens from Amazon and have found on several occasions it freezes up and I must reboot. Even then it wont show the index for the contents. I have deleated and reinstalled it many times. This also occured with other hefty Beefcakes. Dickens volumes are chunky or beefy coming in at over 3,000 pages. Amazon have offered no solution. Thanks Greg!

Lol what is that flowchart book haha. And I got nervous for a second when I saw Zola and thought it was going to be Emile Zola, glad it didn't turn out that way haha. Great vid Greg

Unhumans sounds like real rubbish. A well deserved worst-book award!

I love the smell of book roast in the morning. 😂

Yeah, GR deleted a few of my reviews, for misc reasons.

I really liked Blackouts and How to Say Babylon. I would not say I'm a virtue reader as I just connect to some books and don't connect to others. I certainly wouldn't question someone's motives for disliking Blackouts for example. If someone doesn't vibe with a book, that's the way it is.

This was very funny in places 😂. I agree on the Chinese food book, I had to read that too and didn’t like it at all 😊

I only know three of these books, but in this case, that’s a good thing 😂

You made me LOL a few times, w this one! I also'd like to thank you for not roasting me, and _Shanteram,_ my friend 😅 (Albeit I may just fininsh that reread, next year; least the Audible) 😊

I have both How to Say Babylon and Educated on my TBR- hoping to enjoy them more than you but time will tell

Thank goodness I think my books of 3 made it on your worst list 😅 It could have been all of them! Ha! Fantastic reviews Greg and a well done list . Some books I am new too ! Stay stunned for more of my worst books that I will introduce you to in 2025 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I like their box set designs quite a bit.

Storming through this challenge Greg. Great work 😊

Impressive progress!

When you see the drooling and washed-out colors of the Box Go Color 7, then you tell yourself that the Kindle Colorsoft really has bright days ahead of it.

Great job Tibby and Another Bibliophile Reads. I've timed myself, and read 30 pages an hour. Wonderful week of reading there!

Great progress, Greg. You're incredible!

Damn, that's impressive.

_First!_ Youre voracious. Period (only w books rather than _food)!_ (Tibby's getting bigger 🙀) Very cooleeo Lovecraft Manga 🐙 Whelp? I took a few days off from ATD: Back to the book! 🎉 I'll catch up w ya on Borges! 😊 _Pzzzz_ ... Place the 6 & 8 w Odds, thank me later. 😅🎲😮

This is the best of these sorts of lists I've seen in a while. Thanks for your top-notch selection of these top-notch books, Greg.

I remember loving Man's Search for Meaning back in 2021, but I really don't know if it would hold up on a reread. Hiroshima on the other hand is still fresh in my mind and I am glad I read it, it had a really strong impact on me, only comparable to that of the very different experience of watching 'Come and See'. As for Desert Solitaire, I do love going out to experience the wilderness first hand, with all of its discomforts, reading about it is not so exciting for me but I will give this one a try :)

What an amazing collection Greg. Such beautiful editions. So nice to see just a small part of your library in detail 😊

I didn't set out to purposely collect these volumes. It was really through finding a good used copy of an author I wanted. So I ended up with the Chandler, the Ross MacxDonald, James Thurber i(n the case) and Wallace Stevens, Collected Poetry and Prose.

Came for the NYRB, and also see the Hard Case and Black Lizards.

I have a few Library of America books both fiction and nonfiction bur I was not aware they did American translations of classic literature from other countries. It would be interested to compare those translations with those from the UK or other English speaking country and see how they differ and how they agree

I dearly love the Library of America. You have a marvelous collection. Great video!

Personally, I can’t stand the black striped covers. I think it’s one of the most poorly designed in all of limited edition copies

i have the Mary McCarthy box set and two Eudora Welty volumes. they are well built books.

Very nice collection! 📚 Elmore Leonard is The Shite. I'd like to reread _VALAS,_ too. 😮 "Double Indemnity" is one of my fav film noir films. *Dont worry, Greg, we won't be reading **_The Reviers_** in **#FaulknerInAugust** anytime soon 😅 We dont want to lose you!*

Love LoA. All dust-jacketed books to me, however, terrify me. I handle them like nitroglycerine, I'm so afraid of damaging them. Think of the movie Sorcerer, with Roy Scheider.

Your collection is a beauty!! Thanks for showing us !

Greg, thanks for doing this video. You have an incredible collection here. I have only recently started collecting these. What treasures. I have some of the volumes of American poetry, 19th and 20th century. I have also been buying the Ursula K. LeGuin volumes. I think they have 6 or 7 volumes of her works now. Every time I check, it seems like a new one has been added. I'm looking to get Faulkner and Steinbeck next. This is a magnificent collection, Greg. Happy Holidays, my friend. I'm so glad to have met you this year.

Very nice books, Greg.