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nice video

You don't seem to have liked The Twilight of the Eastern Gods. But maybe I am just projecting since I am reading it right now and its good but I don't love it so far.

Boll's novel The Train Was on Time is missing

Enjoyed this video and new sub here. My academic advisor loved Willa Cather I remember for some reason haha. I've just started to read classics and I plan on reading O Pioneers sometime here in 2025. Enjoyed your discussions!

Jerry, enjoyed hearing your thoughts on Bolaño who is an author I have yet to read. Thanks again for a great video.

Hi Jerry, I've been enjoying checking out some of your videos in recent days. Nice to find your channel! I have a request, if I may. Would you be able to list the books mentioned in the description box? For the distracteds who saw some intriguing titles mentioned but didn't write them down, so have to come back later! Thanks for considering. You finally got me interested in Bolano after many years of avoiding him for now-unclear reasons!

I'm planning to read "By Night in Chile". I've high expectations for it.

The only book by this author I read is Arabian Nights and Days. It's a modern version of the book of 1001 Nights, much shorter. I really liked it.

The War at the End of the World, is also my favorite book of him. Such a masterpiece of a book. Also really relevant considering the genocide in Gaza.

great video

Great video! She is definitely one of my favorite writers. There is the National Willa Cather Center up in Red Cloud Nebraska and I'd really like to drive up there sometime and pickup a boxset.👍🏼

Jerry I do hope you will decide to keep going with your channel, even if you have to scale it back somewhat. Your positivity in describing brief plot points often inspire me to seek out and read those books. I've rediscovered old favorite authors and completely discovered new authors along the way. Excellent taste in reading and a nice method of communicating your enthusiasms have really made a difference in my reading as well. Truly my favorite booktube channel.

fantastic video! i hope you'll do a top 10 for 2024. i loved your annual wrap-up from last year

love this

Love these monthly wrap-up!

looks like a great month of reading! fabulous video!

keep going from Ethiopia

Didn't Thomas Keneally have something to do with Steven Spielberg??

Greetings from Texas. I enjoyed The House of Sleeping Beauties, but the adapted German film made a few years ago, I found even more enchanting.

Is your shirt a Magic Mountain reference?

Snow Country ...Such a beautiful story ...finished reading it today ❤ it is lyrical and delicate ...symbols and metaphors fall like soft snow ❤

thanks for sharing

Really enjoyed the video, but I've always wondered why would someone like you who is surronded by lots of great English and French pieces of literature would be interested in Arabic literature! Considering the huge difference in cultural backgrounds.

Modiano is a great writer, but sadly I seldom see his books where they should be - in bookshops. A Nobel Prize winner who deserved to win. I may be wrong, but you seem to be the first person here to talk about him.

I began reading Hermann Hesse in the early 1970s when I was a high school drop out in The Army as E5 medic that I had dropped out of high school to join. I noticed you don't seem to have any videos on Irving Stone which was another author I devoured as I did with James Kirkwood.

i have just commented on your saul bellow video. i have read a story by issac bashevis singer called probably fool golash it was such a splendid piece of literature i feel like saying ,i think like me you too are fascinated by writers who have won nobel prize, because i went on to read the heretic of soanna by gerhart hauptmen and some books by andre gide strai is the gate and other that were available in my town library

sir i request you to read the dangling man, too it was the first book i read tat led me to read sorrows of young werther, and i have read a little of the victim and will finish surely

"Missing Person" seems to be very interesting! I'm definetly going to check it out. Thanks for sharing!

Awesome video! I’m glad you enjoyed your trip

I love Heinrich Boll! Very glad to see this.

I am still reading through the Steinbeck canon, but I wanted to mention two nonfiction books of his. They are Travels with Charlie (TwC) and Log from the Sea of Cortez (LSC). You might enjoy those. I read TwC when I was a young man, and again as a much older one. When I was young I saw the book as a light-hearted road trip with your best dog, a giant poodle named Charlie. But when I was old, it felt much more grim. Indeed it felt final, as in the end, as in Der Abscheid. Like the author in TwC, I have had to say farewell to many that I loved. As I was losing these vital participants in my life, I came to realize that TwC is not only about this sense of loss: it is also about your own impending death. If it is a road story, it is about the final journey, not the buoyant romps of youth. Then I learned that Steinbeck's wife sent him on TwC because they both knew he was dying of heart disease. You might also like Log from the Sea of Cortez. LSC is a prime of life story on the open sea during a marine collecting expedition. It combines friendship, marine biology, and the philosophy of existence. The friendship is with Steinbeck's life-long collaborator Ed Ricketts, the inspiration for Doc in Cannery Row. You might enjoy the thrill of living in the moment that LSC radiates. You know, there has never been anyone in American letters quite like John Steinbeck. I would have to say he is easily my favorite.

He is still alive.

The idiot was quite a good book. There are two parts that stand out to me personally… 1. A description of what happens in the mind of a prisoner during the last minutes of a mock execution. 2. The description of the room before unveiling the death of the femme fatale. Also some interesting dialogues between Myshkin and the clique of serviles who are after his money.

I recently finished notes from underground and really enjoyed it. This video made me excited to read more of his work!

evelyn juarez 5181 - has an interesting take on things - via one of her Shorts.... (no pun intended LOL.....)

I've only read Crime and Punishment, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Seems I need to widen my read with this author❤

Great video 1 thanks you

My son gave me a copy of Kavalier and Clay and urged me to read it and I was just blown away by it. After that I read all, nine?, of Michael Chabon's books and enjoyed them. Really liked Moonglow. Chabon's prose can be so beautiful at times. Telegraph Avenue is technically his best book but not a favorite because some of the characters are real jerks. Yiddish is very good. Summerland was fun. The Final Solution was another book with beautiful prose as was Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Gentlemen was a fun read but just OK as was Wonder Boys. I wish he would write some more books as it has been a long time since the last one. I could not get into his short stories. Currently reading through all 41 of the Discworld books readiing #27 right now

Sun also rises is a great book. A lost generation as the previous pillars of society, marriage, class, religion and patriotism were all becoming less important, had less belief and trust in them. What was left was friendship, hedonism, your personal art (eg being a writer), for some, your career. Hemingway builds on this with some fantastic dicotomy. Jake being the centre of the friendship group of hedonist people but not being able to consummate it. For Brett, the most hedonistic character in the book, she has the possible way out of that hedonistic lifestyle, Jake, dangled in front of her (no pun intended) and yet he has the physical flaw that precludes him. She feels that this is a cruel curse on her as her true love died in the war and she swore not to love again. Having fallen in love again, the curse was that it could not be consummated. One of best premises for a book I have ever heard. The sun also rises is a pun on Jake's impotence. Best wishes to you and your channel.

It appears that you've missed the short story that earned him the Nobel Prize. It's called "Tale of the unknown island".

Slick editing at the Tanazaki book. Lol.

Always appreciate your perspective Jerry, even (or especially) from the deep recesses of memory.

Liked and subscribed, because I know far less than you do about quantum physics etc. Actually, now that I think about it, I know far less than anyone at all. 😂

I am a scholar from China, and I would like to use the interactive version of the novel Arcadia as my research subject, as well as introduce Mr. Iain Pears and his works to China. However, I found that the app seems to no longer be available for download. Could you please let me know how I can contact Mr. Iain Pears, or if you are aware of any archived versions or other ways for me to access it for my reading and research? Thank you, and I look forward to your reply.

Very cool! East of Eden is one of my favorite novels ever. I will have to check out some of the others you discussed

Thanks Jerry for another Great Video! I always enjoy your selections. Another Great American writer that preceded Steinbeck was Jack London. Surely you've read him, and I'd love to see you do a review of his books.

Thank you very much. You love Nabokof's books and explained them well.I enjoyed so much ❤

I live in Ecuador and I've been to the mystery spot in Santa Cruz.

Great video! Some very interesting reads this month

Hello uncle , i really enjoyed the video , I love your taste in books 💙💙