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Yeah this book was hella frustrating. Cathy though is shackled by her guilt - as she should be! That's why she stays with him. She knows damn good and well that Bart's nuttiness (genetics aside) is her fault, her AND Chris'. Chris was a SHIT. He was NOT wonderful. He was conducting a perverted sexual relationship with his sister. And everyone, Jory, Cindy and of course Chris and Cathy just sort of shrug their shoulders and say oh well. No wonder Bart went nuts! He became a religious zealot partly because of his "parents'" perversity. So I can't count him as a total villain. The big problem with the Dollanganger series is this underlying notion that if the person is BEAUTIFUL then they must also be GOOD. And if they are GOOD they must be forgiven everything, no matter how off the wall it is. Sadly, I remain team Bart (#teambart) in this story. Because as bad as he is, everyone else is ACTUALLY worse. And the only thing I hold against Melody is leaving her kids. Because you can't just live in this kind of madhouse. And Cindy was a little ho' bag, lol (it's funny cause it's true...)

I love how you read a big Dickens book in a month and it takes me several months. I will take NICHOLAS up again. I read the first 100 pages or so but I got sidetracked. Still reading my way through FORSYTHE before the new BBC version comes out. David Lean's film of PASSAGE is quite good and I'm sure I bought the book intending to read it. I see you have MOBY DICK on your shelf behind you. I must read that before next March when I am going to see the opera based on it. Good intentions but lets see how much I accomplish :) Always good to see you Joshua.

I’ve always felt that Bart senior was Cathy’s truest love. I felt like after all her other loves were gone she gives up fighting Chris and realizes she’s not going to find whatever she’s been looking for so she decides that he’ll be most happy if he can finally be with her and she does love him so she decides it’s time to try to make him happy and try to give him what he wants.

Heather Graham was perfect for the role of the wicked regretful grandmother who never learns her lesson. I haven't read the book since like 1989 but I thought in the novel Bart really is crazy, not just being gaslighted by John Amos?

Hi Joshua. I'm currently reading To the Lighthouse and find this overview helpful. I had the same reaction to Mrs. Dalloway that you did---I hated it. I may pick it up at a later date.

Terrible, more terrible, slightly less terrible. Do not read Jane Austen. It may leave you permanently scarred.

Good stuff brother!

it's not really unrealistic. Have you not seen true crime before?This stuff does happen.

Did you even read the book???

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Forster always sounds super appealing to me but I've yet to read any of his books. I've had Maurice sitting on my shelves for a few years now. One day... I just finished The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, which is an excellent summer book unsurprisingly haha. A series of vignettes about an elderly artist and her young granddaughter all set on a small island in the Gulf of Finland. Ended up reading it more as a collection of short stories -- slowly and one chapter/vignette at a time. The stories come alive on a whole other level that way, with all their humour and little insights.

Did Jane Austin read this book?

loved the review, i watched the movie a long time ago and was wondering how it could’ve been so bad hahahah then i read the book and understood… i preferred the flowers in the attic

Well done and interesting

“A Passage to India” caught my interest in this video, certainly one I have heard of but not read or seen movie. Think I will check into it. Finished listening to “Mysteries of Adolpho” recently so need another one to listen to. Think you will ever do another viewers Q &A video?

I think it’s a story of a difficult, abusive, and highly dysfunctional love. Both things can be true, and then we eventually see in the next generation a couple who learn (albeit with difficulty) to set boundaries and communicate their needs, leading to a healthier relationship.

You speak about keeping Lucy in the dark. However, Van Helsing did not tell any of the men about a vampire visiting Lucy either. Only that she is losing blood. Also, Dr. Seward is mystified about the use of garlic and not told why. It is not until Lucy becomes a vampire and feeds off children that Van Helsing tells Dr. Seward and the other 2 that Lucy was preyed on by a vampire and became one herself.

The book is written in Cathy’s first person point of view. Us readers are living with her and her siblings in the Attic. It seems to lack common sense because the characters are children and teens! They do not know any better about the situation their own mother put them in! They are literally imprisoned in a mansion and do not know right from wrong since they do not have any other people to learn from. They didnt go to school like normal children and suffered the effects of solitary confinement. When we read the book we are losing our common sense and social skills just like the 4 kids in the story. Hence we are living inside Cathy’s point of view in that attic. The story id about a set of chrildren being mentally, physically and emotionally abused by their own family members, none of it makes sense rationally. Thats the point of the whole story

Wow, that was really helpful for me and my future diploma

can you rank them based on prose

I read the book ages ago and I loved it. It was regarded as a cult book in the hippie sixties when I read it. I saw the film of the book. I would not recommend the film.

American Gods isn't the first thing you should read from Gaiman because it does get a bit meandering. I think you should consider giving his graphic novels like Sandman a try, they are self contained and have great character trajectories. I would also recommend Anansi boys, which is a loose successor to American Gods but is the central conflict is on a much more domestic scale and consequently is far superior as a read.

Joshua, you mentioned the gypsy scene. This is my take on it because Mr Rochester masqueraded as a gypsy fortune teller to test out the female members of the party. Most notably, he was comparing Blanche Ingram and Jane Eyre's reactions. Tell me if I am wrong, but he was caught between marrying Blanche Ingram, whom society expects him to marry, and marrying Jane, who he truly loves but would be met by society's disappoval because "she was only a governess." I think he made his mind up in that scene. One is not shown the scene between Bl anche and the gypsy, but she obviously didn't like what she was told and seemed offended. My guess is that Blanche revealed herself to be the shallow mercenary person she was.When it was Jane's turn, we see from the outset that she did not take it at all seriously compared to the other ladies who did. It did not take her long to see through the act and realise it was Mr Rochester. It must have impressed him more than ever about her. She was very perceptive, but she also displayed more of her outspoken honesty. I always thought of this as a good part of the plot.

I am inclined to believe that Lockward saw the ghost of Catherine rather than dream it not only because she introduced herself as Linton but also because she says that she has wondered as a ghost for 20 years. Lockward had no previous knowledge that Catherine had been dead for 20 years.

My first experience of the Wuthering Heights story was watching the 1939 Lawrence Olivier film when I was 14 years old and into romantic stories. My impression of it was a tragic story of star-crossed lovers rather like Romeo and Juliet. A few years later, I came across a copy of the book, read it, and was disappointed. It did not meet my expectations and found the violence and abuse uncomfortable to read, expecting the opposite. Over the years, I warmed to it once I realised what the story was really about. I found it intriguing.

Loved this video!

I think fanfiction is just supposed to be a fun thing for the fans. It's not supposed to be taken seriously.

What I took from the rape scene was that Cathy blamed herself, just as many sexual assault victims do. She thinks that he fell for her because she's an evil temptress; she was too sexual in her clothing and dancing; the grandmother was right about her being corrupt, all along. Those are Cathy's thoughts, or at least they seem to be her mindset. I didn't get the impression that she was at fault, nor Chris. I think isolation and codependence on each other in times of crisis turned them towards each other, perhaps the same way that Corinne and Christopher did.

The story is told by Nellie Dean and Mr Lockwood. Both of whom are, some in most senses, low grade snobs. Nellie doesn't like Catherine, at all. She feels a bit sorry for Heathcliff, but only for not knowing his place. Her memories, the heart of what we are told about Heathcliff and Catherine, are that of a teenage servant girl. Does Emily look at Heathcliff and Cathy in the same prim way Charlotte did? Does order, at the end of the book, lay the passions and jealousies of wily, windy moors in its grave? In the 1840's, women were not allowed to have passions. Catherine marries the rich guy and dies in childbirth aged 18 for the privilege. The novel is about the two Cathys. Hareton is the only man in it who is not a thug. He looks like one, and cares for the other.

Hi, happy Tuesday! Here's V. C. Andrews' Flowers in the Attic (1979) in other languages I found: Bulgarian: Цветя на тавана ("Tsvetya na tavana") Chinese: 閣樓裡的小花 ("Gélóu lǐ de xiǎohuā", Traditional Chinese), 阁楼里的女孩 ("Gélóu lǐ de nǚhái", Simplified Chinese) Czech: Květy z půdy Dutch: Bloemen op zolder Finnish: Pimeyden kukat French: Fleurs captives German: Blumen der nacht Greek: Λουλούδια στη Σοφίτα (“Louloúdia sti Sofíta”) Hebrew: פרחים בעליית הגג Hungarian: Virágok a padláson Italian: Fiori senza sole Japanese: 屋根裏部屋の花たち ("Yaneuraheya no hana-tachi") Korean: 다락방의 꽃들 ("dalagbang-ui kkochdeul") Latvian: Ziedi Bēniņos Lithuanian: Palėpės gėlės Norwegian: Djevelens Yngel Polish: Kwiaty na poddaszu Portuguese: Herdeiros do Ódio (Portugal), O Jardim dos Esquecidos (Brazil) Romanian: Florile de la mansardă Russian: Цветы на чердаке ("Tsvety na cherdake") Slovak: Kvety v podkroví Spanish: Flores en el ático Swedish: Vindsträdgården Turkish: Çatı Vietnamese: Những bông hoa trên tầng áp mái

Thank you for the video! Can you speak more about sexual tensions part if that's not too personal? I'm struggling to understand what kind of tensions there may be. In my 10 years of marriage I never had that problem, but looks like its a thing for many people. If we're physically attracted to a person, does it mean that some people will tend to use exploitative flirting tricks and friendship relationship will be derailed/compromised by this somehow?

These don't quite fit your criterion of being totally accessible to the general reader, but the two greatest works of literary theory that I've read are Northrup Frye's Anatomy of Criticism and Bloom's Anxiety of Influence (as well as his Map of Misreading, which is really the continuation and completion of Anxiety of Influence -- I took three classes with Bloom as an undergrad English major so I already had a window into his thinking before I picked up his books a decade or so after I'd graduated). I think Anatomy of Criticism, which is more accessible than the two Bloom books, is especially worth reading because of the way it offers a total taxonomy of literature that gives a bird's-eye view that will give you a deeper understanding of every literary work you read thereafter (and of what you read before as well) in the sense of placing them in certain typological categories. My mind was blown when I read all three of the books I mentioned, and they fundamentally changed how I look at both literature and, at least in the case of the Bloom books, at many other pursuits we undertake in our lives.

Adam’s first wife was named Lilith. She refused to be submissive and wanted to be on top in more ways than one. That was my initial thought, but he calls his wife devil so would that make the other women eve? Definitely confusing to say the least, I’d love to read the original manuscript to see how the two compare.

I’m not fond of Cathy, especially in this book. The main reason is that her retelling of the events is done with the framing device of this and “Flowers” being memoirs. Essentially, her adult self is writing a self-insert of…well, her, pretending to act more “mature” than her age because of severe trauma or something. She makes impulsive decisions, victim-blames Paul’s dead wife after he abused her, flits back and forth between relationships between not one, not two, not three, but four creeps, one being her brother, and anytime, any single time, any bloody damned time something goes wrong, she blames her mother. She may as well have given up ballet to become a mental gymnast. And I refuse to believe that Andrews wasn't trying to justify/romanticize abuse to some degree. With how erotically she writes about the illegal relationship between Cathy and Paul, who’s painted as this sad but kind middle-aged man, it's impossible to see it as anything else. Edit: Thank you for addressing Cathy’s chronic need to remind the audience of how she’ll have her revenge. I’m just like, “Stop telling me, and show me.”

Perfection! Enjoyed it a lot ❤

Joshua, I think this is a really interesting review. On the topic of the prose style, which translation did you read?

I believe Huxley claimed that he hadn't read 'We' at the time of writing 'Brave New World'! Orwell, on the other hand, published a review of 'We', and even said that he was taking it as the starting point for his next novel (i.e. '1984').

Thought of you. Hope all is well. Heard BBC is doing a new "Forsyte Saga", so I dug out my hardbound copy and will try to read it. 800+ pages so we'll see what happens. Cheers [looking up the new program I found "...a major new reimagining of John Galsworthy’s Forsyte novels". Why does that statement make me leery :) ]

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Just read it. So excited for this video.

I enjoyed your review of Jane Eyre. I have read the book twice and you have givien me a lot to think about and new things to look for. I also enjoyed your series on Whutering Heights and Dracula.

Lovely summary. I find the image of the big microphone very disruptive and not necessary at all.

Thank you for these amazing video essays ❤️

I absolutely enjoyed this book it's one of my favorites in the series anne did a great job in this one a big improvement from the vampire lestat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Recently rediscovered this.

you’re videos are so helpful, i have my wuthering and tess of the durbervilles exam soon !!

Is there a translation available in Arabic?

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS WHOLE SERIES KING YOU'RE GONNA HELP ME PASS LITERATURE CLASS <<<<<333

Really enjoyed your analysis. I wonder to what extent we should even see lust in the novel. To modern readers, the gothic romantic imaginary of the moors and the weather etc reads likes sexual imagary. But perhaps to Bronte and the 19th Century reader that association isnt so obvious, and we are applying a sort of emotional anachronism in seeing it that way.

Great review sir. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on such a great graphic novel.