Ten Books That Shaped My Reading Tastes
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- So I'm actually altogether pretty knew to the whole reading thing, so here's a rundown of ten books that I thought really shaped my tastes in reading!
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Honestly I just love the idea of including books you didn't like into a list like this
I was honestly just waiting for Toni Morrison lol, its guarenteed she will appear! The Bluest Eye was the one for me
You should try Maya Angelou's memoirs. She's a poet and you said you should read more books by poets. Her memoir about her relationship with her mother is my favorite but they are all beautiful.
If you enjoy Southern Gothic and the atmosphere it creates, you MUST give one of Flannery O’Connor’s short story collections a read. Everything she writes is immaculate!
I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this video. You’ve gained a new subscriber!
Cool idea for a video, and what a beautiful version of A Fable you got there!
Love the vibe of the vid - looking forward to more
I love reading novels written by poets! I recommend Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson and Stoner by John Williams.
I like these two! Can you recommend more?
@@breatheinmyworld8230 I also really enjoyed Butcher's Crossing by John Williams. Your House Is On Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye, Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, Nothing Can Hurt You by Nichola Maye Goldberg, Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill. I have a ton more recs on my channel too if you're interested ( •ᴗ•)
@@superblomper Thank you for your recommendations. I subscribed your channel. I'm gonna check out.
Really recommend Stoner!
Awesome video. I also know that you mentioned that you like good prose and meta fiction, and I am noticing a lack of Vladimir Nabakov. If you've not read his works, I think you might really enjoy (especially Pale Fire!)
I may or may not have an irrational fear of Russian Literature that has been keeping me off of Nabakov lol. One day tho!!!
@@TomorrowAndStillStart with short story collections. Before I read War and Peace and Anna Karenina I started with The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other short stories and that worked wonders for me.
@@TomorrowAndStill Well good news: Vladimir Nabakov is not Russian literature. Lolita and Pale Fire are both written originally in English (his THIRD language) and are about American culture (in the 1950s). So this is definitely postmodern, not the dense Russian philosophy you're expecting!
@@NotJustAnyPod Damn I didn't know those works were written in English! I've been wanting to check out Nabakov for a really long time, but maybe I'll look into it now. I have a really thick tbr tho so we'll see lol
@@TomorrowAndStill The TBR will only get thicker, but I respect the consideration.
I just know you'll really enjoy it considering that you read a lot of books that are about the American experience and really like dense prose! Either way, you provide some awesome discussion on books so I am looking forward to the next video
Greetings from Mexico, great video! Subscribed already and Ill have to put a couple or three of your recommendations in my to-read backlog (I already wanted to read Ubik). I also enjoy surrealism and anything dream-like, I'm not a sophisticated reader by any means but a couple of novels I would recommend are The Mirror in the Mirror by Michael Ende which was my favorite in my youth and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami which is my current favorite.
The passenger by Camus and Stoner by Williams.
I would love to know your opinion on James Ellroy. His books currently have me captivated, specifically his LA quartet. He writes crime novels set in late 40s- 50s LA, his characters are morally dubious police officers and his works tend to be about the grimy underbelly of LA, with corrupt police departments and the politicians who allow the police to get away with their shady (illegal) behavior. He also writes such punchy prose (in my opinion) full of period-accurate police jargon and manages to weave actual cultural and historical events that took place at the time into his fictional stories. I recommend reading The Black Dahlia to start, which is about a real unsolved murder case in LA and even though the book is fictional a few of his characters actually existed in real life and he keeps their names the same and everything. He also has such an interesting backstory himself if you look into it but basically when he was a child his own mother was murdered and they never solved the case and there are many parallels between the black dahlia case and his mother’s case that can be drawn, partly why his book is dedicated to her. Very interesting guy imo. Only drawback is the sheer number of characters he includes, that it ends up being hard to keep track of them but the black dahlia is a good way to dip your toes into his writing :)
New Sub... I am at 12 minutes. So not half way. But still enjoying Reviews. I read James Joyce when I was 20.. im guessing. I enjoyed the book. But I read a few of the Classics. Also, enoyed reading a Bio on Hemingway but his books are tough for me to start off. Sometimes just enjoy simple Forgotten Realms books. I will read a huge mix of everything. Just started John Le Carré... The Night Manager.
Lovecraft is the epitome of All Genius / No Talent
I hope you try Ulysses. It’s amazing. Unlike Portrait it’s really funny.
Oh please read Ulysses please buy the companion book-the annotated whatever it’s called to gloss all the references. Every other chapter is easy to read so it’s not impossible to get through. And then please read the canon. Please. Please. 20th c. even. Read Alice Munro and Richard Ford and LeCarre and Styron and Hurston. Please don’t succumb to anti-intellectual BS.
Wow. That Faulkner is gorgeous
great vid, loved it! regards from brazil
Great video!
If you like weird, difficult books, you should read Infinite Jest
I've very very slowly been making my way through Infinite Jest for the past like two years or something, reading it in bursts. I'm about halfway through at this point
@@TomorrowAndStill What are you thinking about it so far? I was immediately endeared to Hal but I know some people need time to get into it
@@haleyhart9373 It's definitely fascinating, I'll give it that. One of the things that I think both love and hate about DFW as an author is how much time he spends making his point, and the passage that exemplifies that is the AA section in Infinite Jest. Some of the points and things that he explores in the AA section are really fascinating and well done and I think very pertinent, but also it just takes so long. That's the point of the novel too, to be maximalist so that you can understand every facet of these people's lives, and that's what I find so fascinating while also being the thing that really gasses me out on it. I did particularly love the book when it was all over the place in the first 300 pages or so, always jumping from one story thread to another.
@@TomorrowAndStill I find this maximalist style of writing really captures neuroticism and flightiness of thought very well, the very mundane way we observe and perceive things and the vague connections we make. That contrasted with some of the absurd concepts and the heart of very powerful and very real emotive moments really opens pockets of truth and life in the center of that mundane, neurotic, absurd vortex. And some of these pockets are so small, barely slits in the prose, blink and you might miss it realizations which pass us by daily if we aren’t conscious enough to notice. And that way of capturing life amidst talk of entertainment so entrancing, drugs and alcohol so mouth watering…you can really understand why we escape into these things, to avoid that constant stream of mundane thought which drives us so mad.
I like you channel. I have some quick advice, hold the books you are talking about, still. So many people on booktube move the books they are talking about, with their hand gestures and it makes it hard to watch.
I just get really excited lmao
I agree..... my only issue with Book Reviews. Buy a stand or make one to set book on. Or add still picture to side of video. I just enjoy seeing the Cover of the book.
Bro, I'm going to recommend you some books that will give ptsd to your adhd. They're huge and well written, but easy to read.
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Shogun by James Clavell
1Q84 by Murakami
Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
I don't like Faulkner, Hemingway's novels, or Joyce in general. They're so boring!!! But maybe it's better to read them and put them away while you're young.
Thank you for the recs!! I’ve heard of shogun being compared to Count of Monte Christo before, and that kind of intrigued me, so that’s definitely I. The tbr. 1Q84 I have no desire to read since I read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, which I enjoyed, but I also couldn’t stand how Murakami wrote his women, and I’ve heard it’s at its worst in 1Q84, so yeah. The other three I haven’t heard of and I’ll definitely check out!
@@TomorrowAndStill Dont bother with Clive James. If you like Faulker, try Voss by Patrick White. Or other Patrick Whites in general. Hes a much better Australian author than James.
Dont shake books it shows unprofessional n careless
got to show the whole cover of book steadily amid your explanation
Imma do what I want with my books!
@@TomorrowAndStill you got to be clear with what you what to introduce to audience . Or if let me guess or take times to guess about the book .then i will leave your programs ,so do some audience.