Just discovered your channel and love your content already. I've an attention problem but I watched till the end which I practically never do no matter how interested I'm in what I'm seeing. Your voice and manner of delivery are very soothing. I hope you keep going. I will definitely be following your journey through the 3,000 books which may inspire me to get out of my long-term reading slump. ❤
This kind of comment makes it all worthwhile! Thank you so much. All the 3000 Penguin videos are in a playlist on my channel if you’d like to watch the previous episodes. Welcome and great to have you along for the journey!
Your comments on the narrative voice in The Outsider were spot-on! Detachment allows us readers to slip into the gap and discover, perhaps, the interpretive choice in moral affect-and that distance is precisely that of the narrator, too. We live it in our reading of it.
The sailor on the cover of To Have and Have Not is Humphrey Bogart from Howard Hawks's film adaptation. This might be a case where the movie is better than the book.
My old boss was from SA and he gave me a copy of 'The House Gun' to read and I remember it feeling like a kind of writing I'd never come across before. There wasn't an obvious ratcheting up of tension, but tension shimmered in the background of everything, from beginning to end. Even when I could see how things were likely to play out I know that I was sat holding myself in a very rigid, uncomfortable position; my body's tension mirroring that of the story within. (Also, if you enjoyed 'The Snow Goose' you might like to try out the album 'The Snow Goose' by Camel. It's a beautiful piece of work from beginning to end.) P.S. 'Tristram Shandy' walked so that 'The Medium Is The Massage' could meander!
Gordimer is brilliant at evoking that tension that you so aptly describe. An underrated prose stylist of note! Thank you for the tip re The Snow Goose! Going to check it out! I have a playlist on my channel called Reading the First 3000 Penguins that has all the episodes I’ve made thus far in it (one of which includes Gordimer’s first novel!). I thought you might like to check it out. Thanks so much for watching and sharing your thoughts :)
@@brenboothjones I just stumbled across your channel today, but will definitely be going back to check out your other stuff. Good luck with the rest of the 3K Project!
Here is a list of the full 3000! How many of them have you read?
www.penguinfirsteditions.com/index.php?cat=main_series001-099
This is a monolithic list of titles. I’ve read some Dashiel Hammet and Algernon Blackwood but not the volumes listed so far lol
@@alexandersinclair8942 there are a lot of good crime crime novels on the list for sure mate.
Just discovered your channel and love your content already. I've an attention problem but I watched till the end which I practically never do no matter how interested I'm in what I'm seeing. Your voice and manner of delivery are very soothing. I hope you keep going. I will definitely be following your journey through the 3,000 books which may inspire me to get out of my long-term reading slump. ❤
This kind of comment makes it all worthwhile! Thank you so much. All the 3000 Penguin videos are in a playlist on my channel if you’d like to watch the previous episodes. Welcome and great to have you along for the journey!
Your comments on the narrative voice in The Outsider were spot-on! Detachment allows us readers to slip into the gap and discover, perhaps, the interpretive choice in moral affect-and that distance is precisely that of the narrator, too. We live it in our reading of it.
Your comment reminds me that it’s coming up on time for a reread of Camus! I need to wade in the cool waters of The Outsider again.
The sailor on the cover of To Have and Have Not is Humphrey Bogart from Howard Hawks's film adaptation. This might be a case where the movie is better than the book.
Ah had no idea. Thanks for the rec!
Very nice to hear of your connection to South Africa, this is a great project btw
Thank you, dear Emily! I’m a weird mix of many cultures! Seems like you are too from what I understand? Thank you for your encouraging comment!
My old boss was from SA and he gave me a copy of 'The House Gun' to read and I remember it feeling like a kind of writing I'd never come across before. There wasn't an obvious ratcheting up of tension, but tension shimmered in the background of everything, from beginning to end. Even when I could see how things were likely to play out I know that I was sat holding myself in a very rigid, uncomfortable position; my body's tension mirroring that of the story within.
(Also, if you enjoyed 'The Snow Goose' you might like to try out the album 'The Snow Goose' by Camel. It's a beautiful piece of work from beginning to end.)
P.S. 'Tristram Shandy' walked so that 'The Medium Is The Massage' could meander!
Gordimer is brilliant at evoking that tension that you so aptly describe. An underrated prose stylist of note!
Thank you for the tip re The Snow Goose! Going to check it out!
I have a playlist on my channel called Reading the First 3000 Penguins that has all the episodes I’ve made thus far in it (one of which includes Gordimer’s first novel!). I thought you might like to check it out. Thanks so much for watching and sharing your thoughts :)
@@brenboothjones I just stumbled across your channel today, but will definitely be going back to check out your other stuff. Good luck with the rest of the 3K Project!
@@bad-girlbex3791 thank you so much!
Picasso added on my list ✅
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I loved the South African short story ......
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