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I like good almonds too. /joke

very cool little little novellas dr angela thanks. you might want to read the o.g. of twilight zone stories, an occurance at owl creek bridge by ambrose bierce. or at least watch the famous short film of it. silent snow, secret snow by contad aiken is similar, about a boy with childhood schizophrenia onset, not fully understood in those days. both are very atmospheric and outright classic stories and short films. 🎉

I read this on recommendation from my English teacher when I was 18 and it may or may not have fucked up my entire worldview and my attitude towards science ad religion

I never felt like it was about good or evil. But more about the nature of man, how they are, how they will be. Even after centuries ultimately the same.

the google comp is run by the wrong ppl

In part two there was a brief conversation that seemed to reveal the intentions of the Church. They were preserving the science for later use when all people were "good." This way science would go in a better direction and not create machines of war. The response was that that will never happen. The idea is that once science gets started it will inevitably end in nuclear war because that is human nature. The preservation and suppression of science was to avoid that inevitability. The idea behind sending the rocket ship with the science was that the "good" people of the Church could start a new world of good people and advance science in a better way, and avoid an inevitable nuclear war. side note: The science they had didn't matter, for example the blue print. The point is once the spark is lit in any area of science it is an unstoppable force. But also this is my opinion and I could've completely missed the point, so there's that.

Reading the classic books, some of which are obviously ridiculous as sources of intelligence, doesn't hurt much in the school context..? If you want a basis to begin the natural reiterative search for actual self-defining sources of human intellect, my preference is Professor Sapolsky's lectures and books, and spread out from there before a rerun of the classics and historical analyses of anthropological stuff. Assume, like any school kid, "this is mostly b-s", because like any Scientific Analysis, it's correlations and the Correspondence Principle that identifies legitimate intelligent connections. IMHO

Bottom line, I think they are worth it, but their quality is not as good as the original series. 2017 is OK. Of course visuals are much better, but in a plot driven episode they are not so important. I would not say it is bad, but definitely not the same quality as the original series. 1980s version was hit and miss also, but the best episodes were I think better than the latest version. Some episodes are really compelling and I remember them after watching them several years ago. Some of the episodes are remakes of the originals. I guess that may jar a little if you know the original, but in my case I watched the 1980s series before the original, so it did not bother me. The series from Ray Bradbury was also good. Although a different vibe, since they are terror tales, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities has some very good storytelling, but I think the stories are perhaps 15 min too long. They are 1 hour episodes.

Feel free to make that Star Trek video.

Most of my google searches have Wikipedia or Reddit on the end of them for exactly this reason. Reddit is still ok for trying to solve software/smartphone/multimedia related issues.

The remakes are all knock offs, it's not possible to find twilight zone writers that aren't going to try too hard to make it tz and spoiling it

shout out to our boy euro-christ🎉

I read A Short Stay in Hell thanks to this video and loved it, thanks for sharing your reads :) I had to suspend my disbelief a bit about the man who does the computations near the end (I found it hard to believe no one else would even try to estimate what he calculated beforehand) but I found it very unique how scale was approached in the book, both in physical dimension and in time

yeah you gotta read master and margarita at the age of 14 or about

Is this the movie, "The Book of Eli"? Denzel Washington...

I also hated The Age of Innocence, but I thought that The House of Mirth, by the same author, was really good. It's witty and tragic and the main character is NOT a lame rich man unable to make up his mind to cheat on his fiancee

Hi Angela, S.W. Smith here, I was Mrs. Dalloway's ol boy who was half educated, self educated, whose education was all learned from books borrowed from public libraries and read in the evening after the days work on the advice of well known authers consulted by letter. I love your book huals! They're the best thing you do on the YT, and that's a very high bar as you other work is the best thing on YT and YT is the best thing since Gutenberg's little invention! If you want to try some more Steinbeck, Grapes (my favoriate) & Eden (John's favoriate) are both great but I'm afraid you'll find them depressing. Might try instead his last novel, Travels with Charlie or any of his Salinas Vally stories, Tortilla Flat or Cannery Row. As for Twain, did you ever try Conneticut Yankee (my favoriate) or Innocents Abroad or Roughing It? I'm totally with you on Bulgakov, I love all things Russian but can't really say I liked The M & M. I thought since the Stones liked it (Sympathy for the Devil) it must be good, but no, just weird. If you want to try a Russian title that won't depress you...come on now they're Russian what did you expect...read Gogol's, Dead Souls or (believe it or not) Dostoevsky's, The Crocodile. Keep up the good work, we're all counting on you!

People have already recommended it but still I absolutely fucking adore *Parable of the Sower* by Octavia E. Butler (and the sequel Parable of the Talents) - They are beautiful brilliant pieces of writing and I have literally never in my life read a book that felt more meaningful and terrifying and hopeful (but like the earned hard-fought kind of hope) in the current time we live in. HIGHLY recommend! (:

Classic are just books that happened to be the favourites of dead literature professors. I don't care much about them. They're usually mediocre

I still have not watched Black Mirror, But I will suggest Love Death and Robots

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The crazy thing about Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is that the potion doesn't turn him into a bad guy - HE ALWAYS WAS A BAD GUY, and the potion is essentially a means by which to diguise himself, so he can indulge his underlying nature without facing repercussions - at least initially. The problem becomes as he keeps indulging, he loses the willpower to suppress his desires, which triggers the transformation without need of the potion, as his body has become accustomed to taking that form to reflect his true nature. It's much like a man who "only" hit his wife because he was drunk... no, he's a wife beater. The alcohol didn't force him to do anything, it lowered his inhibitions and gave him an excuse. The more he drinks and abuses her, the more likely he is to beat her while sober. The mask of civility disappears gradually, but once it's gone, there's no going back to being Dr. Jekyll. Everyone knows Hyde was the real you all along now.

In the game Alan Wake there's this tv show called Night Springs that is pretty much the in-universe equivalent of Twilight Zone. In the first game you can find bunch of TVs that play episodes of it. They're really short but pretty fun and cheesy. The sequel has a DLC that's basically a collection of playable episodes of the show.

I actually stopped the video and read A Short Stay in Hell, and OMFG it hit me like a freight train an eternity light years long. 10/10 would get existential crisis again. Please more people read it, I need to discuss it 😅.

I loved all your comments. You have the opinion of a 40+ year old person. You don't look anywhere near 40. You're a good girl. I like you! ❤

I predict you will like "Hearts of Oak" by Eddie Robson (from 2020). I can't say anything about the plot because anything I say I would spoil it. Speculative fiction with a slight horror vibe. I found it spellbinding.

An oldie but goodie might be _Dangerous Visions_ by Harlan Ellison.

good doctor, hyde TRAMPLES A LITTLE GIRL. he stomps on her! (and i believe it's pronounced co-burn, but i shan't swear to it). love your videos!

I would recommend "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin for a Twilight Zone type story.

If you liked True Grit I think you would love Paper Moon (Addy Pray)!

If you want to watch something which nails that Twilight Zone vibe, I heartily recommend the 2019 film The Vast of Night. A haunting sci-fi horror drama set in the 1950s.

Some of the 80s TZ episodes were great. The trucker who accepts a job hauling mysterious cargo, but finds he's actually carrying souls to hell. The guy stuck between moments, where construction crews are assembling the next moment in time. And one called "Nightcrawlers." Nightmares from Vietnam. I was just old enough to get it and it scared me half to death.

You might like "Five Ways to Forgiveness" by Le Guin.

4:55 You're right, they were published chapter by chapter

Bad > Bland

I've read a lot of Lem. The Cyberiad is my favourite. Amusing, philosophical and quirky. But if you like golden age stuff, try Eric Frank Russell. Men, Martians and Machines is perfect golden age exploratory SF. Sentinels from Space is basically X-Men... written in 1954.

You can watch the 2020 version - the 4th version, if you like. Same with the 80s one. But the 2002 iteration had some great SF episodes.

You need to watch The Prisoner (1967)

My favorite TZ episode is “A World of His Own”, about a writer. Redshirts is great, and very meta.

I'm 2 yrs older than the book. The first time I read it was for a college class called Religious Themes in Science Fiction. I love religion in sf. Watching you climb through the ins and outs was entertaining and enlightening. I'm a retired United Methodist pastor, so I didn't find the churchy details confusing, but I can see why you might have. Thank you very much for your dedication to your calling among the books. If I can be of any help theologically, please let me know.

Have you seen Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blonds"? She is amazing in this movie. Its very lighthearted... but an interesting version with some diversion from the book... of course

I've tried to get through R.U.R. a few times without success, but I was going to recommend Capek's "War with the Newts". I'd also like to recommend Rogue Moon, by Algis Budrys. My very favorite novel at least four days out of seven. it was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1961 but lost to A Canticle for Leibowitz.