Funny, I mentioned in my comment in your first vid that Orlando was the one that got me into classics, and now the first book you showed here was Orlando. Excited to hear your thoughts about it! Also I have a small oral wound also, also because of accidental biting. Thanks for asking. Haha
I set myself a budget for each month and if I go over it I decrease how much I can spend. I'm currently reading Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin and In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson. I recently hauled Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, The Revolution of Marina M by Janet Fitch., Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor, Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, English Passengers by Matthew Kneale, The Visitors by Sally Beauman, and The Forbidden & Daughter of Nimmah by Lori Holmes. Now, these were bought between two visitors to an used bookshop.
ahhh that copy of Orlando is stunning! it's a fun time. i also had a bizarre look at her work in my undergrad, but took another class the next year that made up for it. it's a lot of fun getting to dissect her work!
@@JoeSpivey02 thanks Joe, but it was wonderful, as I love Tolstoy's works especially "War and Peace", which I have read 4 or 5 times in my long life. I'm loving you'd channel. Good luck to you and your channel.
Hi, Joe! I found your channel through MJ's new video over at Reading This Life. So glad I did, because this is a delight! Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Thank you for hopping across. I also watched and subscribed to your channel. Your video quality and composure in your first video was great! I think we can both agree that your channel name is also a little more inventive than mine ;)
As someone with an English degree, I agree that characters should be described. To be completely honest, there are several rules that they taught me in my creative writing classes that I choose not to follow. Don't get me wrong, I did learn quite a lot that will help me with my endeavor of writing novels, but there are some things from my studies that I choose to challenge to see if there's a better way to do something and apply it for my own writing.
I've had Chuzzlewit and Bleak House recommended to me as possible saviours for my hatred of Dickens. What is it that interests you about the American chapters?
@@JoeSpivey02 Two of the principal characters travel to America after a little while. Dickens himself had been to America only a year before. And he wasn't overly impressed. That makes a nice change if nothing else. As to Dickens generally I have not had an entirely positive experience thus far. Pickwich, Old Curiosity, Barnaby?, Dombey so-so. All via audiobook. I personally thought Nicholas Nickleby however was terrific, excellent; it has a story.
I don't so much like classics as feel myself drawn to them. As somebody who reads relatively slowly, the books that both critic, the public and the passage of time have honoured seem to be the ones I ought to be spending time with. I'll never shy away from crticising a classic if I think it stinks!
Maybe pick it up a notch. Your videos are too sombre and sedate!😂 Just kidding, I enjoyed this immensely and, as they say, smashed that like and subscribe button.
The Bonfire of the Vanities an airport book!? Only in the best ways; Tom Wolfe is a late 20th century American titan of fiction - I think. You’ll find his novels as ambitious as any Victorian you read. I’m rather jealous of those Oxford paperbacks that contain all an author’s poetical works; they’re seldom found in America, least of all the west.
I which case I'm even more excited to try him on for size! I think it will have been the cover that gave me the airport impression :) I can't say that those big poetical paperbacks are all that common here either. At least from what I've seen whilst browsing.
Funny, I mentioned in my comment in your first vid that Orlando was the one that got me into classics, and now the first book you showed here was Orlando. Excited to hear your thoughts about it! Also I have a small oral wound also, also because of accidental biting. Thanks for asking. Haha
I set myself a budget for each month and if I go over it I decrease how much I can spend. I'm currently reading Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin and In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson. I recently hauled Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, The Revolution of Marina M by Janet Fitch., Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor, Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, English Passengers by Matthew Kneale, The Visitors by Sally Beauman, and The Forbidden & Daughter of Nimmah by Lori Holmes. Now, these were bought between two visitors to an used bookshop.
ahhh that copy of Orlando is stunning! it's a fun time. i also had a bizarre look at her work in my undergrad, but took another class the next year that made up for it. it's a lot of fun getting to dissect her work!
I read Adam Zamoysky's book on Napoleon alongside War and Peace. It was a great read as each book fed into the other.
Yeah what a great pairing that was! Very clever on your part. I imagine War and Peace rolled on a little longer than the biography though!
@@JoeSpivey02 thanks Joe, but it was wonderful, as I love Tolstoy's works especially "War and Peace", which I have read 4 or 5 times in my long life. I'm loving you'd channel. Good luck to you and your channel.
Hi, Joe! I found your channel through MJ's new video over at Reading This Life. So glad I did, because this is a delight! Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Thank you for hopping across. I also watched and subscribed to your channel. Your video quality and composure in your first video was great! I think we can both agree that your channel name is also a little more inventive than mine ;)
@@JoeSpivey02 Thanks for the kind words!
As someone with an English degree, I agree that characters should be described. To be completely honest, there are several rules that they taught me in my creative writing classes that I choose not to follow. Don't get me wrong, I did learn quite a lot that will help me with my endeavor of writing novels, but there are some things from my studies that I choose to challenge to see if there's a better way to do something and apply it for my own writing.
I have a Daniel Deronda as well. I'm a bit sunk in Martin Chuzzlewit however currently. Which has some very very interesting chapters about America!
I've had Chuzzlewit and Bleak House recommended to me as possible saviours for my hatred of Dickens. What is it that interests you about the American chapters?
@@JoeSpivey02 Two of the principal characters travel to America after a little while. Dickens himself had been to America only a year before. And he wasn't overly impressed. That makes a nice change if nothing else.
As to Dickens generally I have not had an entirely positive experience thus far. Pickwich, Old Curiosity, Barnaby?, Dombey so-so. All via audiobook. I personally thought Nicholas Nickleby however was terrific, excellent; it has a story.
You might enjoy the movie Orlando, directed by Sally Potter and starring Tilda Swinton. It's from 1992, I believe, and very well done.
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What do you like most about classics ?
I don't so much like classics as feel myself drawn to them. As somebody who reads relatively slowly, the books that both critic, the public and the passage of time have honoured seem to be the ones I ought to be spending time with. I'll never shy away from crticising a classic if I think it stinks!
Maybe pick it up a notch. Your videos are too sombre and sedate!😂 Just kidding, I enjoyed this immensely and, as they say, smashed that like and subscribe button.
i only have verbal wounds Joe. Verbal.
Different wounds. Same orifice!
@@JoeSpivey02 same dictionary!! lol
The Bonfire of the Vanities an airport book!? Only in the best ways; Tom Wolfe is a late 20th century American titan of fiction - I think. You’ll find his novels as ambitious as any Victorian you read.
I’m rather jealous of those Oxford paperbacks that contain all an author’s poetical works; they’re seldom found in America, least of all the west.
I which case I'm even more excited to try him on for size! I think it will have been the cover that gave me the airport impression :) I can't say that those big poetical paperbacks are all that common here either. At least from what I've seen whilst browsing.
Snap - 1812 by Adam Zamoyski