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I have seen the film (1987) and never realised it was a book! So I will definitely purchase the book as the film came back to mind and that lovely sense of a search for peace that stayed with me after. Great review. Thanks.

This book just came to my attention while watching an interview with Francis Ford Coppola on the Daily Stoic channel.I look forward to reading it.

I’ve read this book many times. I’ve seen the BBC film. One snowy winter night I drove across Derbyshire to see a group of travelling actors portray it in a local hotel. I have suggested it to my book club for December. It will be interesting to see what they think.

I really like your perspective and hope you make videos again

Hope you’re doing ok

I would call it the best novel ever written that isn’t inordinately long. The only competitors are the best Jane Austen.

Great assessment. It’s a terrific novel.

Wonderful, heartfelt review letting 'us' into you & yours, especially your dog... It's good to trust your reviewer. Could the cleaning away of the grime from the mural be symbolic of Birkin trying to erase his experiences of Passchendaele & his trollope of a wife, to make some brighter, colorful space for his future? I took this story on audio, so I wasn't aware of the impending end that you have with a book... Whereby, "We can't have again what once seemed ours forever..." And, like yourself, the floodgates opened! Wow! Keep up the passionate work.

great recommendations

Man I love you

He was not a nazi. After witnessing all the horror of WW1 he became a very passionate pacifist and argumented, in the late 1930's, that collaborating with the nazis were better than a WW2. But he had also some pretty paranoid conspiracy theories about the jews, which actually was quite common in France at that time. Hence the misunderstanding..

I concur with your enthusiasm over this wonderful read. A full fledged novel packed into 135 pages…genius! The story telling was as intriguing as the story. Definitely intend to recommend to my book club.

Finally, someone who can say something that makes sense.

I’m so glad you rate this book so highly, I loved it so much I actually wrote my dissertation for my English degree solely on it! Have you seen the film?

Well listening in 2024, immediately after listening to your review of A Month in the Country I’m bound to say that I think this book would have been my choice for number 1. Having said that I have read Cormac Macarthy - The Road, and it horrified me it was so well written and so, being very narrow minded… I just couldn’t face the emotional upset I would be bound to experience Another book I’ve read and re read, like Month in the Country, is the biography Under Storms Wing, of the Welch poet Edward Thomas by his wife Helen. It has to me similarities to “Month”, it has the first word war, damaged human beings , love, passion, and inevitably loss. Highly recommended. A few other contemporaries including DH Lawrence and Robert Frost pop up too. Thank you for your brilliant and very articulate review

Tremendous review, ok I am biased as it’s probably my favourite book , and movie, of all time and I’m constantly reading. It’s sad yes but as your mother said, if you accept love you have to accept pain, and that really is evident in the book. Toms relationship with the vicars wife , Alice Keach, to me at least was gripping , i found myself holding my breath. She found herself quite lost, quite alone , they met and were drawn to each other but neither one daring to make a move, bitter sweet again Watch the film, you may be surprised at the cast! Usually I find film exploit and spoil a favourite book, not in this case, I believe it to be equal Thanks again for your review

You had me at Henry Miller, love that you appreciate him the same way I do. I have 32 of Millers books 🤓☺️. I read Celine’s books backwards, I read Death of the Installation Plan, and am now reading Journey to the End of the Night. I like the contrast between Miller and Celine; however, you can see the influence Celine had on Bukowski. I was so happy to discover Celine. Subscribing to channel, great video ☺️.

Lovely stuff. This is my favourite book ever. It’s beautiful. Thanks for your review.

I thought the ending was a bit rubbish. It was building towards more beetle action and maybe getting questions answered, and then that happened. I got it because of comparison with Dracula but it wasn’t even nearly in the same league. My highlights were the boxing talk and the old woman living across the way from the beetle.

I will read this book

John O’Hara was inspired by rumi the Persian poet

Interesting, he feels inferior to the success of those around him but resents the mindset or ideology, work ethic that got them to their status?

My name doesn’t matter. Classic! On with the show, if people like the content they will search your name high and low. Thumbs up!

Excellent review❤❤❤❤

Great review. I’m a few pages in and your review made me so excited to get into it more!

I like this.

This book has the same impact on me. Blew me away, so unexpected and endlessly wonderful. Quite literally perfect.

I finished this book literally a few minutes ago. To my astonishment, it made me cry upon completion. So moving and poignant.

Hard Rain Falling! That book! Was great!

It's a good book about a quite forgotten writer. But inspite of being an easy read, that keeps enough interest, it did not left me much print. Maybe it made it less interesting the insistance in letting it clear, that the main character is an alcoholic. And no, The Great Gatsby is a much better book, full of a romanticism in its voice in off teller. You won't find that romanticism in here. Neither the Fitzgerald sophisticated vocabulary. Also Gatsby's plot is a much more elaborated one. This is more a linear process of self destruction, as I remember it. I could only compare it to The Dissenchanted. A book in which Bud Schulberg portrays Scott Fitzgerald in a very cruel way. Anyway, this has become kind of an American Classic about the twenties and/or thirties, and remains a good and easy reading. About Updike, read Run Rabbit and found it quite boring. Even his Short Stories were uninteresting for me. John Cheever did it much better in many of his many Short Stories than Updike. And would say, also in his novels. Instead, some of the Dorothy Parker Short Stories were funny and unusually sharp or smart. Despite one could find them cruel or bitter. Perhaps DP managed drinking much better than O'Hara. Or this last one has better than AIS. Wouldn't rank O'Hara together with Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck or Fitzgerald, the great past century American Authors, anyway. 🆗😔🙏

Yes, it's a good book. But the first hundred pages go at a slow pace. Despite of being an action book, with plenty of dialogues, during its long start up, Carpenter dedicates too much pages for what's nothing but a long billiards game. A serie of billiard games in which besides, the winner is the foreseeable one. Then maybe the approach is also too pessimistic, for what the characters really were. Though of course, you'll surely say that this was the point of view about cases as these ones. It's a remarkable literary feat, that's all written with a prevailing slang use of. Being so that it may even help, to maintain or keep, the thirties and forties slang terms. The ones that were used at those days. Read it in a very good French translation. And it was good to refresh terms used in those decades (or even in the twenties), many of which are no longer used in nowadays slang. Found it rare, to think there ain't a movie about this story, but am perhaps wrong and just didn't search enough. It could easily be taken into a movie, I think. It's a good picture about past times in USA, with very well depicted characters. In this sense, it would make much more than the typical road movie. Also, the plot evolves enough as not to make it become a simple story. Find it better than for instance, On the Road, the Kerouac novel. This isn't just entertainment with a life kind of nomad philosophy. Agree with another Amazon reviewer in saying I found better the Willy Vlautin Northline novel. Though here the Nomad is a young woman. You might then say it has nothing to see this last one. 🆗😔🙏

Such great books referenced In your videos. I hope you upload more videos. Book tube can be so samey samey . its nice to see different books reviewed.

Thanks for the review. I have been wanting to read this for some time and I just finally ordered it.

This book caught my attention due to the cover (penguin modern classic edition)and my obsession with summer descriptions, thank you so much for the review!

Yes, I love this book!!! I LOVE John O’Hara✨✨♥️♥️

15:30 "It's kinda like Proust, at least thematically, but not as laborious." Hilarious and to the point! Thanks.

I love Bataille, it's really cool to watch videos about him. Thanks for the opportunity to watch your review

Great review. Just finished this book and appreciated hearing some other thoughts on it. The scene with Tom filling in and giving a sermon was great. I didn’t think it was life changing for me, but still some really great scenes and writing.

Beautiful review. One of my favorites also!

Reading it right now. Agree 100 percent about pausing at the constant profound entries.

a deeply thought out analysis of an amazing book.

Great review! I was looking for an overview of this book and the differences from the movie. Thanks for putting this together.

The best review I've seen of my favourite book, I'd echo everything you say about it and go further, in a positive way. Beautifully read aswell.

I'm going to get this book a.s.a.p. yes, sounds very much like one I'll like. Really looking forward to it, thanks!

thank you for this

Merci pour votre analyse !...

Your hat looks dumb.

Great book.

I read this novel a few years back for the first time and was also profoundly moved. The film adaptation starring a young Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh is gorgeous. Care was very involved in the filming.