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I always love a good bookshelf backdrop. Though I'd kill for one more level of quality settings, there are some gems indeed in that Danielewski to Isis frustum.

Love this! By the way, i just found your Podcast and was wondering why it ended so early, will it continue in the future? Really enjoy your opinions, you are one of the most passionate voices on literature out there!

Very underrated channel and a great video 👍🏽

Just started reading this. While there's some eye rolling Gen-X "literary masculinity" that permeates the book, it's enjoyable. Reminds me of the interactive books I had growing up. Realized there was definitely nods to concrete poetry, and had wondered if anyone had made this connection. Liked the review.

this video is so beautiful.

❤

Classical Gas slowed right down?

Come on, Sherds! Do us another video. It's wet as a duck's arse in Blighty and my spirits are damp. Make it about spooky, spectral stuff-- you do that well!

Love your content man.

Beautiful. Is that a telecaster?

Nice

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My favourite book tuber

Love the vibe!

Looks like I’m due my annual rewatch every sherds video

This is such a great channel, Thank you Sherd. The Literary Sherpa!

seeing this late tonight, I was transported again to the shores of the Island of Sherdstube, that unique place where story and place and haunting music come together in a most beautifully dissociative way. There is no other place online that truly allows what philosopher Byung-chul Han would call the art of lingering to be practised. Thank you again Sam.

"She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s - and I own a big building there - it’s no - I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world - sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?"

Some more quality stuff

Love the guitar bits so much. In general your videography and music choice is great!

Reading list updated!!

Please don't take such a long break between videos again

Just this morning, I was thinking it seemed time for a new sherd to drop! I've been drawn to Japanese women writers over the past few years, and Mieko Kawakami has become one of my favorite writers. I highly recommend her powerful novella Heaven. Been meaning to read Izumi Suzuki for a while now. Excited to check out the authors you mentioned. I wonder if you've read or are familiar with the novel Out by Natsuo Kirino. It is a feminist noir crime/horror novel that goes about as dark as a novel can go. Unlike any other story I've encountered. Really one to check out when you're in the mood for a twisted, intense Japanese crime novel. Thanks for these meditations!

As always a highly inspiring, beautiful video. Thank you so much for this. Greetings from New Zealand.

"a taste-making uncle"!

Well, you've done it again with another lovely atmospheric video that propels me towards book stores in search of your recommendations. I didn't know before I watched this that I must read Japanese women writers. Now I do. Thank you very much.

Fantastic effort here on putting this together. Best wishes.

Thank you!

Oh man, just what I needed.

MY GOD ! I have just started Watching the video …and it’s going to take a long time to finish …I will finish it in two or three sittings …but I am hooked right from the start ! The visuals …the setting …your beautiful country…and your engaging insightful words …everything is so captivating! Congratulations on making such a long video on the women writers of Japan ..I am very intrigued and excited to watch this . All my best wishes and love ( I will comment here again after finishing the video piece )

Have you try to tackle the two big Monogatari?

Revisiting your videos again and again. They are multilayered and full of amazing multidisciplinar connections. Thank you!!!

Might just’ve been reading a bit too much Ligotti, mate. Just kidding. I feel this too, definitely. I still hit books all the time that I absolutely love, and which open my skull up and eggbeat my brains deliciously. (Been bingeing PKD this summer, and a few others-Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach,’ Robert L. Forward’s ’Dragon’s Egg,’ Evelyn Piper’s ’Bunny Lake is Missing,’ etc.) Honestly, when I need a transformative literary experience, I turn to Alan Moore. Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Voice of the Fire, Jerusalem…his prose is intricate, elegant, eloquent, lush and luxuriant, rhythmic to the point nearly of independent life sometimes, pulsing in the mind. Big fan of this channel, and what you’re doing. Great work, guy.

Beautiful. It’s heartening to hear other readers espouse this view. Love the idea of literature as an antidote to some of the invisible intellectual ruts of modernity. Great video!

Love the channel! Curious on your thoughts of reading one book at a time vs reading two, three at the same time?

I feel that Im being 🎉 lucky finding your channel here on youtube.

Please add subtitles too.

You look deeply disturbed by this book! I don’t think I’ll read it.

Keep coming back to ur channel, noticing that I had been unsubscribed btw, …..man, you’re becoming a national treasure I fear

Beautiful work as usual. Have you ever considered writing a fantasy novel yourself?

I've just been getting into "booktube." Despite being an avid reader for a while now, I didn't know there was such a community on here. Safe to say, I'm not too impressed by most, but you are very articulate, the production on your videos is great, and you say very interesting things, and have cool insights. Thank you. Love the ambient music you put too.

Just about anything by Stephane Mallarmé has its convolutions, though his prose works can be particularly effective. One must read Mallarmé slowly, but it is worth it.

Eploring connections between the aesthetics of Thomas Ligotti's Teatro Grottesco (2006) and those of the Polish avant-garde as well as mid-20th-century European theater. ??? No No No!!!! You missed the fact that Thomas Ligotti's home towen is Detroit Michigan which in 2000 was totally Carnage I use to Hobo ride Freight Trains in 1990.s and 2000.s often Got Off the Boxcarrs to get Free Food in Homeless Shelters in Detroit and Detroit WAS MURDER CITY every body call Detroit MURDER TOWN, so the Polish avant-garde is NOT his model, Detroit Michigan was his Model and Hometown.

Your interpretation of that song was honestly unreal

I discovered your work the other day when I found your video on convolution. Ah, a man after my heart! Such a pleasure to hear about the love of books and reading in this day and age. I've discovered a dozen or more books and writers that I've never heard of from your podcasts. You do ask for recommendations, and knowing that you have read only a limited amount of French authors, I'm wondering if you've ever read Mallarmé? He's been my Northstar for the past 5 plus years. His oeuvre is relatively compact, but every poem is a gem, difficult , and convoluted (in the way you suggest). I have about a half dozen books of his poetry because each translation is so different, it's almost like a different poem. The joke about Mallarmé during his lifetime was that he needed to translate his poems into French. In any even, I would appreciate your take on Mallarmé.

You should always be ready to forgive your twelve-year old self.