Recently cannel “According to Alina” started “Reading Dante in 2024” where she’s discussing 2 canto a week from Inferno. It’s feel like a book club and I finely started this classic because of it. Really recommend.
Great Expectations is fantastic. I'm 62, been reading all my life, seriously for the last 10 years but had never read any DIckens until last year. You will love it!
Demons is such a great book for the winter. I have the same copy but mine is.. very worn. Also I recently got a copy of "Vivir Para Contarla" by Marquez- I am fluent in Spanish but I don’t use the language a whole lot so I lack some vocab these days, I think his books are very good help with that.
If this was my TBR, I would place Wuthering Heights and The Aeneid at the top. I relate so much to the reset period and the assigned reading aversion. It does feel good when I finally get those nagging books off my mind though.
Vonnegut is definitely cool and Cat's Cradle is, in my humblest of opinions, even better than Slaughterhouse Five. As far as the same era of postmodern absurdity though, Pynchon is where it's at. Also, TOTALLY read The Secret History after how much you've praised it and it's phenomenal. Thank you for the push that got me to read Donna Tartt.
Gabriel García Márquez is one of my favourite authors, his books are definitely worth the effort, The General and His Labyrinth is definitely overshadowed by his other work but I loved it. Moby Dick was also wonderful. Its great to break up books that are heavier going with lighter stuff, I just finished Titan : The life of John D. Rockefeller Sr By Ron Chernow and followed that up with Normal People By Sally Rooney. Dense and heavy followed by light and breezy, it was a perfect combo strangely....
Hi new sub here from the philippines. I'll share here my list/collection, I hope it's okay. haha. But it's really nice to be on a community with fellow classic readers. I started reading lit back in 2021. It became my main passion and interest since then. There are other factors in my situation but I'm hoping for the best. Read 1 Howl's Moving Castle 2 Castle in the Air 3 Perks of Being a Wallflower 4 Forrest Gump 5 Kafka on the Shore 6 Dune 7 Dune Messiah 8 Children of Dune 9 One Hundred Years of Solitude 10 Catcher in the Rye 11 The Little Prince 12 The Stranger, Camus 13 Lord of the Flies 14 Brave New World 15 Flowers for Algernon 16 Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy 17 Restaurant at the End of the Universe 18 Frankenstein 19 The Collector 20 2001 A Space Odyssey 21 Don Quixote 22 Sherlock Holmes (half of the series) 23 House of Many Ways 24 Shutter Island 25 Metamorphosis, Kafka 26 Alice in Wonderland 27 Bridge to Terabithia 28 Edgar Allan Poe (some) 29 The Kite Runner 30 H.P. Lovecraft (some) 31 Slaughterhouse-Five 32 The Myth of Sisyphus 33 The Time Machine 34 Little Women 35 A Tale of Two Cities 36 Pride & Prejudice 37 The Count of Monte Cristo 38 Grimms Fairy Tales (handful) 39 Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained 40 Romeo & Juliet 41 Othello 42 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 43 Inferno 44 Purgatorio 45 Paradiso 46 Iliad 47 Odyssey 48 Moby Dick 49 The Secret Garden 50 The Phantom of the Opera 51 The Princess Bride 52 Coraline 53 Neuromancer 54 The Last Wish (witcher) 55 Sword of Destiny (witcher) 56 Blood of Elves (witcher) 57 Fight Club 58 Time of Contempt (witcher) 59 Beauty and the Beast 60 The Queen's Gambit 61 The Handmaid's Tale 62 Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Currently Reading - Peter Pan To be Read Continuation of The Witcher Series - Baptism of Fire - Tower of Swallows - Lady of the Lake - Anne Frank - Dracula - Les Miserables - Anna Karenina - Arabian Knights - The Three Musketeers - Snow Crash - The Yellow Wallpaper - Of Mice and Men - Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores - Sylvia Plath - Jules Verne - Lolita - Dostoevsky - Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Emily Dickinson - The Canterbury Tales - Noli Me Tangere & El Fili - Banaag at Sikat/Radiance & Sunshine - Agatha Christie - More Shakespear - Great Expectations - Asimov - Heart of Darkness - etc.
I actually LOVED Life and Fate - I had to read for school and thought it would be such a drag. But it was really easy to read and overall I just loved it. Stalingrad too
Increíble que tengas conexión con Luis Carlos Galán---héroe nacional. Crónica es genial, corto y fácil de leer, así que perfecto para practicar español y para empezar con García Márquez en mi opinión. Después tendré mucha curiosidad de qué te parece Cien Años. Es uno de los mejores libros que he leído en mi vida y creo que significa más para uno si uno es colombiano
Si! estoy súper agradecida que tengo esa conexión y por todo lo que he aprendido sobre el tema gracias a mi tío Gabriel. Acerca de Cien Años, me encantaría leerlo en inglés y en español 🙌 ahí veremos. Creo que voy a empezar con Crónica.
Nice. I loved 100 Years of Solitude but found the plot really hard to understand. Have you read Strange Pilgrims? Also, I strongly recommend Pale Fire by Nabokov.
I love Wuthering Heights, but giving it to highschoolers should be considered abuse!! And if you can find La Divina Comedia translated by Jorge Aulicino, an argentinian poet, you should read that, it's the best translation of the comedy I've read. It flows incredibly well and is really close to the original.
I thought the Oppenheimer bio was really good--though I audiobooked it rather than physical copy. Being able to speed it up to 1.5x made it a lot less intimidating. It also made me appreciate the film a bit more because, even though it's three hours, a lot of thought went into which pieces of the story were going to get told and how.
I don't know what to say after watching your video. Many books, biography, fiction. Just pick a book and read it. I've read the Oppenheimer book. Seen the film. Maybe start there.
That is the one by Franzen that interests me, if only for the cover. I think I have been confusing Franzen and Lethem in my missives to you! Dante is 7 or 800 years old so it's going to be different for sure, but is well worth any effort in my view, though I don't exaggerate like Eliot and say that EVERYTHING is about Dante and Shakespeare. There are MANY translations of Dante, some which might get along with you more than others. You might try Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle" about socialist labor unions in California, composed overwhelmingly of poor whites as recently as the 1930s. That might be a break from the over-familiar Steinbecks inflicted on you by the schools. Steinbeck is really worth reading, but the "academic" air imposed on him by the school system might have to be overcome! I remember when the Escobar cartel killed a Colombian journalist sitting in a cafe here in QUEENS so yeah, the world lost nothing when Escobar himself was killed. Thanks for the tip on Broder my instincts have told me to avoid her and you just gave me all the excuse I need to do so! 😁😸
I loved Freedom and his next one Purity. The last classic I loved (took me a while to get into it but so worth it) was Middlemarch by George Eliot.-The Great Russian Novel except British😂btw I’ve started and stopped most of the novels you’ve started and stopped!
Totally stopped Catch-22. More than once I’ve started and stopped. And just like you I liked it, thought it was funny and had something profound to say about absurdity and “duty.” Funnily enough I did finish a different novel by Heller called Something Happened. Stream of consciousness novel about a businessman. Somehow found it easier to finish….A new novel which is getting a lot of high praise from the fanciest critics is a French novel in translation called The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. If I can predict based on what you’ve said you like I think it will blow your mind.
not related to the video, but: "She was also moved when she read horrible novels in which evil was cold and intense like a tub full of ice. As if she were watching someone drink water only to discover their own thirst, profound and ancient." i just read that in clarice lispector's "near to the wild heart" and immediately thought of what you said regarding why you love the secret history. 🥰✨
Let's see, ive got four books i keep going back and forth with: jg ballard hi rise, the best short stories 2023, stephen king bazaar of bad dreams, ? No exit.❤❤
Val, dear, you have some extraordinary books....but may i say right now, put everything away and read Marquez...first Chronicle of a Death Foretold is short and blistering great, arguably his greatest short novella and then turn off youtube and the world, and read 100 Years of Solitude...easily top 10 greatest novels of the 20th century, easily the greatest and most important Colombian novels ever...and you will be forever changed...YOU MUST MUST MUST READ IT....period...i promise you, if you read 100 Years now, you will discovered the most transforming novel of the 20th century....if you dont love and are transformed, i will send you $100 via youtube to use for any books you want....or i'll send iyou a B&N card ....must....but all the books are great you're considering, but trust me...open it up, and start......will check back after saturday.........bb
@@bookpogo elena ferrante, mona awad, isabel allende, elsa morante, mariana enriquez, tove ditlevsen, melissa broder, monica ojeda (i think mona awad and monica ojeda is your cup of tea), julia armfield, clarice lispector, annie ernaux, anne carson, olga tokarczuk
Utopia IS boring. Big brain or small brain there is no plot at all (deliberately). Just a guy thinking about what his perfect society would look like and that society has weird archaic rules
I love Wuthering Heights, but giving it to highschoolers should be considered abuse!! And if you can find La Divina Comedia translated by Jorge Aulicino, an argentinian poet, you should read that, it's the best translation of the comedy I've read. It flows incredibly well and is really close to the original.
"I didn't have the brain I have now" is what keeps me returning to so many books I barely got into
i think i've been subscribed for less than a month to your channel and i can definitely say you're my new favourite youtuber
Thank you 🥹
one hundred years of solitude and wuthering heights are some of my favorite books ever, can't wait for you to get into them!
Recently cannel “According to Alina” started “Reading Dante in 2024” where she’s discussing 2 canto a week from Inferno. It’s feel like a book club and I finely started this classic because of it. Really recommend.
I will definitely check this out when I pick it up again, thank you!
Great Expectations is fantastic. I'm 62, been reading all my life, seriously for the last 10 years but had never read any DIckens until last year. You will love it!
I’m looking forward to it!
you definitely have taste!
Merci 🤗
Love Milton. Kafka is very dark and not easy to follow. He used to be one of my favorite writers, but now, I don't have nerves for such books.
Demons is such a great book for the winter. I have the same copy but mine is.. very worn. Also I recently got a copy of "Vivir Para Contarla" by Marquez- I am fluent in Spanish but I don’t use the language a whole lot so I lack some vocab these days, I think his books are very good help with that.
Winter weather advisory for the next three days… I’m tempted to start it now. I’m looking forward to building my vocabulary with his work as well 💪
@@bookpogo excellent! great choice then. Also for the Spanish Don Quixote is so fun to read too. More difficult Spanish than Marquez but it is doable
Siddhartha is a great book! I highly recommend for you to read it
If this was my TBR, I would place Wuthering Heights and The Aeneid at the top.
I relate so much to the reset period and the assigned reading aversion. It does feel good when I finally get those nagging books off my mind though.
Vonnegut is definitely cool and Cat's Cradle is, in my humblest of opinions, even better than Slaughterhouse Five. As far as the same era of postmodern absurdity though, Pynchon is where it's at.
Also, TOTALLY read The Secret History after how much you've praised it and it's phenomenal. Thank you for the push that got me to read Donna Tartt.
Breakfast of Champions for me!!!! His complete stories is worth seeking out as well....
@@owendavis4154 Breakfast of Champions is excellent!! 😊
Wow I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
Gabriel García Márquez is one of my favourite authors, his books are definitely worth the effort, The General and His Labyrinth is definitely overshadowed by his other work but I loved it. Moby Dick was also wonderful. Its great to break up books that are heavier going with lighter stuff, I just finished Titan : The life of John D. Rockefeller Sr By Ron Chernow and followed that up with Normal People By Sally Rooney. Dense and heavy followed by light and breezy, it was a perfect combo strangely....
That sounds like a great pairing 😮
Paradise Lost is genuinely the best , you definitely should give it a read
In the next few months I really want to get to it!!
Hi new sub here from the philippines. I'll share here my list/collection, I hope it's okay. haha. But it's really nice to be on a community with fellow classic readers. I started reading lit back in 2021. It became my main passion and interest since then. There are other factors in my situation but I'm hoping for the best.
Read
1 Howl's Moving Castle
2 Castle in the Air
3 Perks of Being a Wallflower
4 Forrest Gump
5 Kafka on the Shore
6 Dune
7 Dune Messiah
8 Children of Dune
9 One Hundred Years of Solitude
10 Catcher in the Rye
11 The Little Prince
12 The Stranger, Camus
13 Lord of the Flies
14 Brave New World
15 Flowers for Algernon
16 Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
17 Restaurant at the End of the Universe
18 Frankenstein
19 The Collector
20 2001 A Space Odyssey
21 Don Quixote
22 Sherlock Holmes (half of the series)
23 House of Many Ways
24 Shutter Island
25 Metamorphosis, Kafka
26 Alice in Wonderland
27 Bridge to Terabithia
28 Edgar Allan Poe (some)
29 The Kite Runner
30 H.P. Lovecraft (some)
31 Slaughterhouse-Five
32 The Myth of Sisyphus
33 The Time Machine
34 Little Women
35 A Tale of Two Cities
36 Pride & Prejudice
37 The Count of Monte Cristo
38 Grimms Fairy Tales (handful)
39 Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
40 Romeo & Juliet
41 Othello
42 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
43 Inferno
44 Purgatorio
45 Paradiso
46 Iliad
47 Odyssey
48 Moby Dick
49 The Secret Garden
50 The Phantom of the Opera
51 The Princess Bride
52 Coraline
53 Neuromancer
54 The Last Wish (witcher)
55 Sword of Destiny (witcher)
56 Blood of Elves (witcher)
57 Fight Club
58 Time of Contempt (witcher)
59 Beauty and the Beast
60 The Queen's Gambit
61 The Handmaid's Tale
62 Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Currently Reading
- Peter Pan
To be Read
Continuation of The Witcher Series
- Baptism of Fire
- Tower of Swallows
- Lady of the Lake
- Anne Frank
- Dracula
- Les Miserables
- Anna Karenina
- Arabian Knights
- The Three Musketeers
- Snow Crash
- The Yellow Wallpaper
- Of Mice and Men
- Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores
- Sylvia Plath
- Jules Verne
- Lolita
- Dostoevsky
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Emily Dickinson
- The Canterbury Tales
- Noli Me Tangere & El Fili
- Banaag at Sikat/Radiance & Sunshine
- Agatha Christie
- More Shakespear
- Great Expectations
- Asimov
- Heart of Darkness
- etc.
I actually LOVED Life and Fate - I had to read for school and thought it would be such a drag. But it was really easy to read and overall I just loved it. Stalingrad too
So excited I feel like it’ll be right up my alley
Increíble que tengas conexión con Luis Carlos Galán---héroe nacional.
Crónica es genial, corto y fácil de leer, así que perfecto para practicar español y para empezar con García Márquez en mi opinión. Después tendré mucha curiosidad de qué te parece Cien Años. Es uno de los mejores libros que he leído en mi vida y creo que significa más para uno si uno es colombiano
Si! estoy súper agradecida que tengo esa conexión y por todo lo que he aprendido sobre el tema gracias a mi tío Gabriel. Acerca de Cien Años, me encantaría leerlo en inglés y en español 🙌 ahí veremos. Creo que voy a empezar con Crónica.
Nice. I loved 100 Years of Solitude but found the plot really hard to understand. Have you read Strange Pilgrims? Also, I strongly recommend Pale Fire by Nabokov.
Love pale fire 🙌
And no I have not read strange pilgrims oops I forgot to answer rhat
I love Wuthering Heights, but giving it to highschoolers should be considered abuse!! And if you can find La Divina Comedia translated by Jorge Aulicino, an argentinian poet, you should read that, it's the best translation of the comedy I've read. It flows incredibly well and is really close to the original.
I thought the Oppenheimer bio was really good--though I audiobooked it rather than physical copy. Being able to speed it up to 1.5x made it a lot less intimidating. It also made me appreciate the film a bit more because, even though it's three hours, a lot of thought went into which pieces of the story were going to get told and how.
Audiobook in 1.5x speed sounds like the way to do it
5:35 As a native Spanish speaker, that’s an uncannily good pronunciation!
I’m also a native speaker 🙌
I don't know what to say after watching your video. Many books, biography, fiction. Just pick a book and read it. I've read the Oppenheimer book. Seen the film. Maybe start there.
No need to say anything 😭 I’m reading three books right now. The point of the video is just to show books I haven’t read or completed
That is the one by Franzen that interests me, if only for the cover. I think I have been confusing Franzen and Lethem in my missives to you! Dante is 7 or 800 years old so it's going to be different for sure, but is well worth any effort in my view, though I don't exaggerate like Eliot and say that EVERYTHING is about Dante and Shakespeare. There are MANY translations of Dante, some which might get along with you more than others. You might try Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle" about socialist labor unions in California, composed overwhelmingly of poor whites as recently as the 1930s. That might be a break from the over-familiar Steinbecks inflicted on you by the schools. Steinbeck is really worth reading, but the "academic" air imposed on him by the school system might have to be overcome! I remember when the Escobar cartel killed a Colombian journalist sitting in a cafe here in QUEENS so yeah, the world lost nothing when Escobar himself was killed. Thanks for the tip on Broder my instincts have told me to avoid her and you just gave me all the excuse I need to do so! 😁😸
Great comment as always! Full of info.
@@bookpogo Thank you, any time 👍
I loved Freedom and his next one Purity. The last classic I loved (took me a while to get into it but so worth it) was Middlemarch by George Eliot.-The Great Russian Novel except British😂btw I’ve started and stopped most of the novels you’ve started and stopped!
I’d love to know which ones we have in common. Why do i feel like catch-22 is definitely one of them
Totally stopped Catch-22. More than once I’ve started and stopped. And just like you I liked it, thought it was funny and had something profound to say about absurdity and “duty.” Funnily enough I did finish a different novel by Heller called Something Happened. Stream of consciousness novel about a businessman. Somehow found it easier to finish….A new novel which is getting a lot of high praise from the fanciest critics is a French novel in translation called The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. If I can predict based on what you’ve said you like I think it will blow your mind.
His latest book was great too. Crossroads i think its called. Kind of like The Shards. A great late career gift
not related to the video, but:
"She was also moved when she read horrible novels in which evil was cold and intense like a tub full of ice. As if she were watching someone drink water only to discover their own thirst, profound and ancient."
i just read that in clarice lispector's "near to the wild heart" and immediately thought of what you said regarding why you love the secret history. 🥰✨
Wow that’s a brilliant quote. Thank u for that. Missed your great comments 🙌
Let's see, ive got four books i keep going back and forth with: jg ballard hi rise, the best short stories 2023, stephen king bazaar of bad dreams, ? No exit.❤❤
serving face as per usual 😌
Thank you ☺️
Val, dear, you have some extraordinary books....but may i say right now, put everything away and read Marquez...first Chronicle of a Death Foretold is short and blistering great, arguably his greatest short novella and then turn off youtube and the world, and read 100 Years of Solitude...easily top 10 greatest novels of the 20th century, easily the greatest and most important Colombian novels ever...and you will be forever changed...YOU MUST MUST MUST READ IT....period...i promise you, if you read 100 Years now, you will discovered the most transforming novel of the 20th century....if you dont love and are transformed, i will send you $100 via youtube to use for any books you want....or i'll send iyou a B&N card ....must....but all the books are great you're considering, but trust me...open it up, and start......will check back after saturday.........bb
Ok I’m on it
@@bookpogo trust me Val...your life will change...and if you dont feel the same, you will get a $100 B&N gift card....
I’ve heard of none of these books.
Bruh ur hilarious
Thank you 😊
You must read the book thief
You need to read more women
yeah I know 😫
@@bookpogo elena ferrante, mona awad, isabel allende, elsa morante, mariana enriquez, tove ditlevsen, melissa broder, monica ojeda (i think mona awad and monica ojeda is your cup of tea), julia armfield, clarice lispector, annie ernaux, anne carson, olga tokarczuk
@@rafaela6594THANK YOU
Woman*
Utopia IS boring. Big brain or small brain there is no plot at all (deliberately). Just a guy thinking about what his perfect society would look like and that society has weird archaic rules
Also HOLY COW life and Fate is THICK I had no idea it was that heavy.
I love Wuthering Heights, but giving it to highschoolers should be considered abuse!! And if you can find La Divina Comedia translated by Jorge Aulicino, an argentinian poet, you should read that, it's the best translation of the comedy I've read. It flows incredibly well and is really close to the original.
Thank you, I think reading that translation will help me out