Listening to you talk about books is the perfect background music as I rearrange and edit my Amazon book wish list. Needed less mundane fiction and more horror books about demons. Ya know, just girly things 🎀
Great collection of Classics! I love Steinbeck but am not familiar with To A God Unknown which sounds amazing. I added it to my TBR. Enjoying your book shelf tours 😊
I'm enjoying your bookshelf tours, but my ears really perked up when you mentioned the appendices in the Dungeons and Dragons books. I have a whole shelf of those books from back in the day, and the book recommendations in them led to some great reading in my teen years. It's nice to see someone else who found some good reading there. The only Sinclair Lewis book I ever read was Elmer Gantry until about 2017 when, like about half the US, I bought and read It Can't Happen Here. A chilling, prescient, and well-written book. I love the Count of Monte Cristo. Unlike many classics that, for all their worth and brilliance, have slow spots or things you just have to push through, I think I enjoyed nearly every page of that book.
They really do. I know that I found The Dying Earth in that list, and I believe that it is where I first came across Michael Moorcock's Elric stories. It was a Dungeons and Dragons rulebook, either that list or the Deities and Demigods book.
Chesterton is probably the only writer whose sentences make me smile. His books have wide variety admirers, including Neil Gaiman who included him as a character in his Sandman comics, Jorge Luis Borges admired The Man Who was Tuesday, and historian Gary Wills and essayist and great Harper's editor, Lewis Lapham, often quoted him in essays and books. Did you see the BBC adaptation of Middlemarch? It's excellent.
That's high praise for Chesterton. I haven't seen that BBC adaptation of Middlemarch, ether. I have so much to do now, but it's all such fun stuff, too.
It Can't Happen Here is a great book. It has some places that are dated - meaning we can see that it was written in the 1930's - but if anything that makes it even scarier.
You have never heard anything bad about Middlemarch? Well, I did find it drudgery. It took me about 18 months to finish. It was no doubt brilliant, and some unforgettable moments in the novel with brilliant characterizations, but oh my gosh you have to go through a lot of sludge in the meantime. I dig that edition by the way.
Listening to you talk about books is the perfect background music as I rearrange and edit my Amazon book wish list. Needed less mundane fiction and more horror books about demons. Ya know, just girly things 🎀
Aww, you always know just what to say
Great collection of Classics! I love Steinbeck but am not familiar with To A God Unknown which sounds amazing. I added it to my TBR. Enjoying your book shelf tours 😊
Thanks so much. I've really been enjoying making these bookshelf tours.
So many books and so little time. Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories.
That's always the question, isn't it?
I'm enjoying your bookshelf tours, but my ears really perked up when you mentioned the appendices in the Dungeons and Dragons books. I have a whole shelf of those books from back in the day, and the book recommendations in them led to some great reading in my teen years. It's nice to see someone else who found some good reading there. The only Sinclair Lewis book I ever read was Elmer Gantry until about 2017 when, like about half the US, I bought and read It Can't Happen Here. A chilling, prescient, and well-written book. I love the Count of Monte Cristo. Unlike many classics that, for all their worth and brilliance, have slow spots or things you just have to push through, I think I enjoyed nearly every page of that book.
Those Appendix N books really do make for great reading, don't they? I'm dying to get started on The Count of Monte Cristo, too!
They really do. I know that I found The Dying Earth in that list, and I believe that it is where I first came across Michael Moorcock's Elric stories. It was a Dungeons and Dragons rulebook, either that list or the Deities and Demigods book.
@@stevengentry9396 I think those were both in Appendix N. I also really loved the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser tales.
Chesterton is probably the only writer whose sentences make me smile. His books have wide variety admirers, including Neil Gaiman who included him as a character in his Sandman comics, Jorge Luis Borges admired The Man Who was Tuesday, and historian Gary Wills and essayist and great Harper's editor, Lewis Lapham, often quoted him in essays and books.
Did you see the BBC adaptation of Middlemarch? It's excellent.
That's high praise for Chesterton. I haven't seen that BBC adaptation of Middlemarch, ether. I have so much to do now, but it's all such fun stuff, too.
@@LiterateTexan It was the miniseries that made me read the book. I've watched it twice over the years.
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt Okay, I'm in. That's awesome.
I'm adding The Man Who Was Thursday and It Can't Happen Here to my TBRs!
Oh, how fun! Today I'm reading 'Duane's Depressed " at my doctor's appointment
It Can't Happen Here is a great book. It has some places that are dated - meaning we can see that it was written in the 1930's - but if anything that makes it even scarier.
It sounds really great
You have never heard anything bad about Middlemarch? Well, I did find it drudgery. It took me about 18 months to finish. It was no doubt brilliant, and some unforgettable moments in the novel with brilliant characterizations, but oh my gosh you have to go through a lot of sludge in the meantime. I dig that edition by the way.
18 months is a long time! But I'm even more intrigued now that I have heard something bad about it.