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Quaint And Curious Volumes
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Talk about books, mostly old.
An erstwhile college teacher turned software developer/amateur musician rediscovers his English major past and reads a pile of the old books. I'll talk about classics, canons, cannons, banjos, and miniature poodles.
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An erstwhile college teacher turned software developer/amateur musician rediscovers his English major past and reads a pile of the old books. I'll talk about classics, canons, cannons, banjos, and miniature poodles.
Thanks for watching.
Email: qcvbooktube@gmail.com
Voxer: jrucha542
Stink-o-la: a reaction to reviews.
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A reaction to
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Not Quaint Enough! Friday Reads
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#booktube #fridayreads Books discussed: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Arthur Ashe: a Life by Raymond Arsenault Levels of the Game by John McPhee Channels mentioned: @ToReadersItMayConcern
Garb-poetry Thursday with Szymborska
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#booktube #poetrythursday #garbaugust I read the poem "An Opinion on the Question of Pornography" by Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012. Originally published in People on the Bridge (1986). Read from Map: Collected and Last Poems (2015).
A Member of the Wedding and other Friday reads
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#booktube #fridayreads I talk about The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. Also a bit about Evicted :Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond.
July and August reads. Ashe, Austen and 2 of 100
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#booktube #fridayreads #janeausten I talk about my reading for the previous week and plans for the month of August. Books mentioned: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust Arthur Ashe: a Life by Raymond Arsenault Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen A Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Orlando by Virginia Woolf Heavy by Kiese Laymon Exit West by Moshin Hamid
Garb-poetry Thursday: "S*** List"
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#garbaugust #poetrythursday #booktube I read the poem "Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity" by A. R. Ammons. Find the poem at public-domain-poetry.com/a-r-ammons/shit-list-or-omnium-gatherum-of-diversity-into-unity-2698 Check out @BookChatWithPat8668 's video today, too: ua-cam.com/video/9j49JNEjPOU/v-deo.htmlsi=UT_U8Mb4x5mT5sNt
Hats beware!: The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
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#booktube #proust #losttime Some of my thoughts on finishing The Guermantes Way, volume 3 of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Books mentioned: The Trial by Franz Kafka
Honest Booktuber Tag on Tag Tuesday
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#booktube #tagtuesday #honestbooktuber THE HONEST BOOKTUBER TAG: I was tagged by Pat at @BookChatWithPat8668 Jessica says: "I saw 'The Honest Booktuber Tag,' on someone else's channel. I decided to do it. It's a fun one to do and I am hoping it gets revived. 'The Honest Booktuber Tag' was created by @HarrietRosie13 Prompts: 1. Have you ever lied about reading a book? 2. Have you ever avoided a ...
Winning Titles on Tag Tuesday
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#WinningTitleTag #tags #tagtuesday Winning Title Tag This is the Winning Title Tag where you get to talk about books where the title made you buy them. You can either get together a stack of books and talk through them or answer the questions below, whichever works for you. This tag was created by @heathereads I was tagged by Pat at @BookChatWithPat8668 Have You Ever Bought a Book Because it Ha...
I also select the best 100 books of the century: Friday Reads
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#booktube #fridayreads #nytimes I talk about my reading for the week and blather for a bit about the New York Times list of the top 100 books of the century (so far). Here's the list: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k0.K1cv.Cua5bl4mJnLV&smid=url-share Books mentioned: Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ...
I do the Counting the Days tag!
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#CountingTheDays #tags #TagTuesday #CountingTheDays #tags #TagTuesday COUNTING THE DAYS Tag Created by @ToReadersItMayConcern and @ProseAndPetticoats I was tagged by @bookchatwithpat 1. What is a book that excites you because of its cover? 2. … because of its author? 3. … because of its premise? 4. … because of its style? 5. … because of its influence? 6. … because of its emotional weight? 7. …...
I don't want what they're selling. Friday Reads
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#booktube #fridayreads I talk about @LiterateTexan 's go-fund-me. Give if you can at gofund.me/f56cdf17 Also Daniel Emmett's Virginia Minstrels Retail bookstores vs. used bookstores. The Supreme Court and my representative's email If you want a one-month trial of Steve Reads from @saintdonoghue send me you email address qcvbooktube@gmail.com I also recommend checking out @fictionesque1992 for s...
"it's not that bad" tag on a day when it might be that bad
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#booktube #tagtuesday This is an original tag created by Melinda @awebofstories I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668 . Melinda writes, "There are a lot of things we are told we shouldn't do as readers and, honestly, those things really aren't bad!" Prompts: 1. Do you dog-ear your books? 2. Do you annotate your books? 3. Do you roll covers or break spines when you read? 4. Do you listen to som...
The Most Pretentious Mid-year Freakout?
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#booktube #tagtuesday I do the Mid-year Freakout tag, because @davidnovakreadspoetry and @saintdonoghue said I had to. Now you have to as well. It is mandatory, buckaroo. The Prompts: 1. Best book you've read so far in 2024 2. Best sequel you've read so far in 2024 3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to. 4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year. 5. Biggest disappoin...
Republican Tennis and Thriftbooks refunds: Friday Reads
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Republican Tennis and Thriftbooks refunds: Friday Reads
Fake Rebel Girls and other Amazon rip-offs: Friday reads
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Fake Rebel Girls and other Amazon rip-offs: Friday reads
June on the Range: Call of the Canyon "Not American enough!"
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June on the Range: Call of the Canyon "Not American enough!"
Louise goes to Arrakis - Friday Reads
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Louise goes to Arrakis - Friday Reads
One Book to Satisfy All Prompts?: Friday Reads
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One Book to Satisfy All Prompts?: Friday Reads
My Draft for the Western Canon Part 2
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My Draft for the Western Canon Part 2
Friday Reads: Kindles and big square books
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Friday Reads: Kindles and big square books
Don't you forget about me on Tag Tuesday
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Don't you forget about me on Tag Tuesday
I Refuse to Wait for It: Friday Reads
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I Refuse to Wait for It: Friday Reads
Sometimes a review can be life changing. Just ask Jaime , Mario, and Gilbert Hernandez aka The Hernandez Brothers. The brothers in the early 80's put out a self published comic book called Love & Rockets (an English band borrowed the name from them), It was an anthology of stories incorporating different genres. They sold them at small comic book conventions and wherever they could peddle them. One of the brothers got the idea to send a copy to the editor of the premiere comic book review publications, The Comics Journal, and it's strongly opinionated publisher, Gary Groth, a man notorious for disliking traditional super hero books, and who approached comic book reviews like one did in film magazines like Sight & Sound or as in books, The New York Review of Books In depth analysis and critique. They thought Groth would hate the comic book and give it a blistering review, but it wold give them publicity and allow them to sell more copies. Well it didn't turn out that way. Not only did Groth like the comic book, giving them a glowing review in the journal and stating that this was the future of comic books, he contacted the brothers and offered to publish future issues of the comic book. The rest is history. Love & Rockets celebrated it's 40th anniversary last year with a beautiful box set of the initial run and is still going strong today. A masterpiece in the medium
Nice detailed post James. Being sent stuff for free is out of my experience! Best wishes as always.
You're always wandering out in fields and "finding" money, though. You might have to time-travel to find a shop to spend it in.
This was interesting and thought provoking. I think a less outlandish response - a more measured put down - may have been harder to deal with, in my case. For Joseph Heller, it’s hard to say. But I can easily imagine Kafka’s _The Castle_ getting misunderstood had it been released in its day.
The Castle might be misunderstood if it could get published today. Catch-22, while it has it's moments of brilliance, is a frustrating book to read for all the reasons set out by the reviewer. Thanks again for sharing that hatchet-job from so long ago.
Pat, both of these anecdotes are priceless. The Whitman review quote is hilarious, but the one on Atwood more deeply thought-provoking. Mary McCarthy was no slouch, and so for her to get it wrong speaks to the originality we get in art or poetry. I imagine Blake would have had some caustic words about Dickinson if he ever got to see a poem - something about the movement of the times too.
Catch-22 “repetitive and monotonous.” Well, how’s this for coincidence-earlier today I was listening to a 1988 Fresh Air interview with Joseph Heller (as one does). Explaining the choice of the number 22 (originally intended to be 18, but Leon Uris beat him to the punch with publication of Mila 18), he said it works in part because it reflects the “repetition of dire events that occur throughout the book.” So there. 🙂
I believe there were a few other numbers entertained for the title. Reminds me of the year 2009 when two films were released called Nine (a musical with Antonio Banderas) and 9 (an animated film). Of course, those titles added together (9+9) would be 18, like the Uris book, and now we're talking about (2 books, 2 films) four creative works, which if you add that (18+4), we're back at 22, like the Heller. All the pieces fit!
@@JamesRuchala Well done sir!
I watched Dave read his review a few times because i thought his performance was entertaining and artistic.
His reading of that review is one of the best things I've seen on yt in a while
Can we talk about his Anne Boleyn curtain raiser?
@@PatriciaCrabtree-wm8xd well it was an unexpected delight.
This was really interesting, James. That review of Catch-22 is priceless. Here's a famous line from a review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass from The London Critic: "Whitman is as unacquainted with art as a hog is with mathematics." Here's one that seems particularly significant today. Mary McCarthy apparently reviewed Atwood's Handmaid's Tale very unfavorably in The NY Times in 1986. She called the writing "undistinguished." She criticized it for not having a futuristic language like what Orwell used in 1984 and Burgess in A Clockwork Orange. She wrote: "The writing...is undistinguished....This is a serious defect, unpardonable maybe for the genre: a future that has no language invented for it lacks a personality. That must be why, collectively, it is powerless to scare." Wrong, Mary, very wrong. Nice video, James. Very thought-provoking.
Thanks for sharing those pans. Whitman couldn't help but get bad reviews--He'd have been disappointed otherwise. If every science fiction needs to invent a new language on the level of those two books to be good, that's way too far. I kind of agree that the writing is not on the level of Orwell or Burgess, but the world is perfectly powerful to scare nonetheless.
@@JamesRuchala well, it’s proven to be horrifically frightening to most of us living in this country today. Mary McCarthy couldn’t have known what the future would hold, but I don’t know any women living in the U.S. today who aren’t completely terrified by the world that Atwood created-and its relationship to our society today.
I've gotten some free books that I do not like, and I ignore them and keep reading and focusing on the books I enjoy. I don't feel any pressure to cover the books I get for free; I email anyone who sends me a book that there's no guarantee of anything and they have to be okay with that.
Sounds like the right approach, Ruben. Thanks for watching.
Evicted sounds brutal but good. The landlady at Christmastime sounds like she could be a British politician...
Your British politician sounds like some of the American politicians I could think of.
Hey, buddy. Hey, when we gonna buddy read (your pick; something new), hey? 🎸 Molly, my ex, is a landlord genius in Toledo, Ohio. (Almost bought a house off her and staying! Glad I didnt.) Jenna Bush recom.ends books?¿? 🤔
Buddy read, eh? I'm looking at "The Good Soldier" (Ford) and "Portrait of a Lady" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" coming up. But they're old. Also Dune Messiah and "Ink: the Indelible J. Mayo Williams" by Cliff Murphy (that's new). Or maybe the recent "Devil House" by John Darnielle?
@@JamesRuchala Bith the new ones sounds interesting. I can get the audio of _Devil House_ immediately thru Libby app. Can't find INK: at the library (interlibrary loan?¿?)
@@bighardbooks770 Ink is new and from University of Illinois Press so maybe had to get from the library. I'm overdue to read Devil House so let's do that one.
@@JamesRuchala Okay, cool. Whenever you'd care to read it, I'm ready (no hurry). Are you on Voxer? allen770 = my Voxer ID
Evicted sounds excellent. I read Desmond's more recent book, Poverty by America, earlier this year, also very good.
give it a try if you have time. I'll certainly read any other Desmond books I come across.
On-brand or not, much good stuff here. As always. 🙂
Thanks so much!
“Stumbled into being a landlord…” Is that like England stumbling into empire? 😂 Interesting Ashe details, nice quotes. Ah, you may have got the Ruben boost… 🎉
Are we pulling Ruben's Orlando from the shelf, Dave?
I think that I did get the Ruben boost! Interesting that he says he decided to start his channel while watching my channel. If I keep spawning more successful channels like this, I'll be rich in no time.
Reading or hearing of folks down on their luck spooks me to survey my good luck that could have gone wrong at any time. Luck is about one's judgment which can seem good at the time but prove not so. Quaint and Curious Proust has lots of poor judgment to discover; deCharlus and Morel are talking stupidly about girls today.
I completely agree with you about feeling "spooked" when reading about the unlucky/unfortunate. I'm sure Charlus has all kinds of opinions about girls that would make one back away slowly.
My wife said I was obsessed with tennis. I said can you get me some juice love.
Still don't fully understand that scoring system.
Hey, don't knock Jenna, she's a fellow Texan, and cute! Orlando...just can't make up her and his mind:)
Nothing personal, Jenna. Surely, not all Texans are un-knockable.
Evicted does sound like a very good and important book. “Gotta get back to the garden….” I like that. The Arthur Ashe bio does sound very compelling too. “Honorary White…” I never knew about that. Incredible.
If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription, the Ashe bio is on there for free these days. Very compelling, but I find myself skipping some of the details of particular matches.
@@JamesRuchala oooh! That’s good to know. I would probably skip detailed descriptions of matches too!
Oh, my vote is strongly for you to read Orlando! But as you suggest earlier in the vid, you shouldn't devote too much time reading for others. Still, Orlando Orlando Orlando... Orlando... let that title fade in echo... (And thank you for the kind words, as we keep ebbing and flowing compliments to one another).
Ha! I think Orlando might well be the one for me.
I'm glad you highlighted her poems, James. Her name has crossed my path for years and when I forget about her someone new brings her up. I like Eastern European writers, they share the tragic (and sometimes dark comedy) found in Mexican and South American writers I like.
She's one of my very favorites. I recently found that she has an essay collection. Once I can find a space on my shelves for it, I'm keen to read that.
“When correctly viewed Everything is lewd, I could tell you things about Peter Pan And the Wizard of Oz… there’s a dirty old man.” 😂 (I like Szymborska too.)
Tom Lehrer!
After that dog on cat action in your last video, I figured we were all crawling into the gutter.
Am wondering if she is saying that porn prose is dirtier than porn pictures. Wish I was young again to imagine a dirty feeling. I take that back.
I think it's not even about written porn, but more that reading and thinking are kind of erotic in their own way. Maybe more of a "Shakespeare was the first rapper" kind of argument.
@@JamesRuchala Can discuss Hamlet's country matters next month.
@@PatriciaCrabtree-wm8xd "he smote the sledded Polacks on the ice"
Well, that was simply terrific. How have I not heard of her? Thanks for the introduction. I'm off to learn more about her . . .
I think you'll like it. There's a selected poems called View with a Grain of Sand that's pretty ubiquitous (for a poetry book)
It was so mean of Proust not to send you a copy! Coincidentally, he hasn't been responding to any of my fan-mail either...
Probably taking one of his naps..
Just picked up my first Proust today. Best wishes James.
You're in for it now. Libro Paradiso keeps saying it'll be the death of me.
Doesn't the narrator realize how boring the 200-page party is? At the time I guessed that was the point of that long and boring scene. Either way, great you are promoting In search of lost time!!
Thanks for watching. I think the narrator is thrilled to have finally been invited into that world but is having his illusions about it slowly crushed.
Proust will be the end of you, James:) "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" is the only McCuller's book I read. In time I'll just buy the Library of America edition and read her other works including A Member of the Wedding.
Sounds like a good plan. Her short stories a very strong.
I’m fascinated by the Mc cullers! I have it and have meant to read it for awhile. It sounds right up my alley. I don’t particularly like books with children, but if it has quirkiness to it, then yes!
I'm not big on books about children either, but this is a very unusual child.
Hi James. Nice video. I remember reading A Member of the Wedding early in high school. I also remember that it made me very sad. I don't think I have revisited it....Poems? I have you seen the videos that we are doing on five great poets? Maybe you would like to join in? Hint, hint. No pressure from me though....😉
I"ve been turning it over in my mind. Trying to come up with a good list of five, even though I'm not the biggest poetry reader lately.
@@JamesRuchala no pressure from me-ever. 😉
I don’t think about the South a lot, but I heard “Ode to Billie Joe” the other day after many many years and keep thinking about how the song gets its dramatic power - not that I can figure it out. This sounds like a book to put on my list now.
Carson McCullers definitely has some of that Bobbie Gentry southern gothic (maybe not Reflections in a Golden Eye).... strange children, sudden violence, unsolved mysteries.
The Quixotic children of literature. There's an interesting subgenre. My mom brought The Member of the Wedding home from the library for me to read in 7th grade. Too late, I was already in cranky contrarian adolescent mode by then, so I just rolled my eyes and ignored it till it left the house.
Cranky contrarian adolescent Patricia H might have liked this one--I probably would have gotten into it at that age, if I could have got past the title.
@@JamesRuchala She might have liked it, but she would never have admitted it.
I found I put a tab at F. Jasmine referring to her brother and the bride as the "we of me" and feeling resonance. Then over hopping-john, "The crazy call the sane the crazy." You got me thinking I should try to endure the play.
I remember those phrases too. What a strange character.
@@JamesRuchala Was reading Sociopath A Memoir at the time and it offered some explanation for her behavior; bratty with danger.
So interesting how books resonate when you read them in proximity like that. I never would have noticed a parallel to Proust's "dominant chord followed by silence" if I read this book in another two months. Bratty with danger
@@JamesRuchala The goal is to have my books talk to each other behind my back. Am currently inhabiting books about folks in the Polish and German underground; courage with danger. Along with All Things Shining, by Hubert Dreyfus, a philosophy of literature starting with David Foster Wallace's Nihilism and depression; fear of writer's block with danger. Plus now Stephen Crane; rhyme with danger. All make a perfect pile for a crouching coward like me.
Seven Gables is such a subtle psychological thriller. Many people miss the ending's meaning. The Scarlet Letter is a great book on many levels. And Pearl, well, she's just creepy. Have you read it recently? I liked it in high school and liked it even more as an adult. Once I read a book, it usually gets unhauled/donated. The Scarlet Letter is a keeper. =)
Only read Scarlet Letter in high school, but Seven Gables definitely made me want to revisit it. It's on my medium range tbr. Thanks for watching!
Listening you talk about Exit West made me think of Denis Villeneuve's "Incedies." Did you see it? It's an early film by him. I recently saw it not knowing what the film was about (not even seeing a trailer) nor that it was made by him. A strong movie, just like Sicario.
I've only watched his first Dune film, which was impressive to look at. I don't know Sicario or Incedies yet.
@@JamesRuchala Excellent films. Wonderfully grim and tragic.
An Arthur Ashe book, what's not to love?
It's a good read, maybe more detail than I require!
Yes to poetry content. Trashy, trash-adjacent, or highfalutin, bring it on.
I'm starting a list of potential "garbaugust" worthy poetry thursday entries. See you next week.
I’ve just gotten _Exit West_ from the library - mainly to take a glance at - and _Heavy_ will be coming. Thanks for piquing my interest.
I think Exit West will be interesting to you.
In Proust world, welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah. Am looking forward to your travel reporting.
Genesis 19, here we come! Well, soon.
@@JamesRuchala Genesis 19 would be appropriate for Garbaugust even though still no kissing.
That was some sh*t😂
Nice video. No sh*t. Winnie the.... Richard the....
I remember a zoo exhibit that had a scat test - you had to identify the animal (in a multiple choice) based on its leavings. I rate that poem: 💩💩💩
Sounds like a fun exhibit. So as a poetry professional, do we want more poop emojis or fewer?
@@JamesRuchala There’s the rub isn’t it? 🤔
"that leopards induce" 🤣
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
Oh my! Well, that did make me laugh out loud!
Glad you like it. Not for high school English class, but they'd probably like it.
@@JamesRuchala oh they would have loved it!
Crab shit not okay. Booktube shit neither. Napping until September.
Sorry to hear about the condition of the crab shit, P. Hope you're feeling better next month. I'm not as into "trash books" as most of the g.a. folks. I usually find reading really bad books to be a boring trial.
@@JamesRuchala Would you ask a crab if they read in the bathroom?
@@JamesRuchala If bad books are boring, what are your plans for the rest of August? Recently read The Member of the Wedding and am waiting for your take. P.S. If all the Booktubers were jumping off a cliff in August, would you follow them? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
I assume that's between the crab and its dog.
You remember that in that one Shakespeare play there’s a character with his pet dog and the dog’s name is Crab. I forget which one but it’s hilarious.
Hello James, I found your channel because of this tag. I was also tagged by Pat. She’s a wonderful booktuber and person. I also have been watching Hannah for more than a few years and she is an eloquent speaker and super smart. She’s also a kind human. The only disagreement I have with your answers has to do with my own emotional make up. I get very caught up with authors of books I like and books I hate. If I read a book and find that something the book says reveals the author to be Butthead. I tend to go down rabbit holes to see if I’m right. Then I won’t read anything by them anymore. This really has to do more with modern books not books written in in the 17th and 18th century. Sorry for the long comment, but I tend to write long comments. Aloha from hawaii. PS my partner was born in Long Island and I was born in Brooklyn.
Thanks for watching Marilyn. Pat and Hannah are favorites. I commend you for your thoroughness in finding out if a given writer is indeed a Butthead. I'll usually just not read another book once I've sensed that they're showing Beavis-like tendencies on the page. I've never been to Hawaii. My parents were both born in Brooklyn.
You are not convincing me to finish _Swann’s Way._ I didn’t find your excerpts tedious though (nor tediously gay).
Runciman and Adams seem to be keeping you plenty busy these days and it's making me want to throw my plans over and read long books about the crusades too.
The sad section you mentioned is one of the few times a book has made me sob. Very well done.
Thanks for watching--it is an amazing piece of work that could probably stand on it's own as a novella.
Poor hat, never did anyone any harm. I love how you can take a “most boring” meandering waffle and find all the giggles, puzzlements, and insights. When you talk about these characters and their goings-on, I’d swear you're telling us stories of people you’ve actually met.
Thanks, Patricia--you're too kind. Would be good if there weren't like, 100 pages between puzzlements!
Volume 4 tells us Charlus is tediously gay and so's the narrator. 300 pages in am still wondering if they will kiss. Am pretending to care as I patiently wait for a delicious description or a bit of philosophy. Has happened so still reading.
Proust spoiler! "tediously gay" is the only kind of gay there could be in this book.
About his book prisoner
Hi. What about The Prisoner? That's about 700 pages in my future. Do you like it?
@@JamesRuchala like to know the plot heard about the book in a song lyrics I liked but yes if you were to read it online I would join in
@@JamesRuchala Are we preparing to race to volume 5? Speed read Proust? Gonna' try. Will report.
Catching up a bit, but wanted to say don’t be intimidated by Jon Fosse’s Septology. I’m reading it right now and it’s not challenging although there’s a lot to think about. It just flows. Granted I’m Norwegian, but I think it would translate well although some traditions and such mean more to us possibly.
Wow! thanks for watching Norwegian viewer. I've got a copy of the Fosse's Trilogy here that I'll probably read before giving Septology a try. Either way, it's got to wait for me to finish Proust. Whenever that happens.
Proust seems like a huge undertaking 😅 Not much intimidates me, I think it’s Proust and St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica. I think those are the two that truly intimidates me. Proust mostly because I have a feeling I might not like him. Summa Theologica because it’s an absolutely enourmous work 😅. Either way they are both on seperate reading projects I do. Septology is my first Fosse strangely, and I love it. Definitely want to read more! I hope you enjoy it when you get to it, but there’s always a ton of things vying for our attention! Thank you for a great channel! I really enjoy your thoughts on books.
I am surprised that taking another writer's unique idea then reworking as in "James" can be considered such a great work. To me it's a form of plagiarism.
Thanks for watching, and for your thoughts. Have to disagree, though. Everett took Twain's plot and characters as a starting point, but invented a whole new thing out of it. Is Paradise Lost a plagiarism of Genesis? I don't think so.