What I loved about Rory's book list -- much like Lane's music playlist added to my pop music oeuvre -- is that it led me down a rabbit hole of authors and book titles I would never have discovered or read otherwise. I'm particularly grateful to Rory (and Amy Sherman Palladino) for introducing me to Eudora Welty's short stories and Katherine Butler Hathaway's The Little Locksmith. 😍
Absolutely! I am always really impressed by just how many cultural references the Palladinos manage to put into their work. I haven't read either of those yet, so I'll add them to my list!
That the Gilmore Girls remains popular pleases me, and I've read a lot on Rory's list (which to be fair is books mentioned by her without saying she's actually read all of them) but on the recent hundred best of 21st cent. I've read like a half-dozen (so embarrassing). Hopefully in ten years TGG will still be popular and the 21st cent. list will look completely different : )
Considering we're not even a quarter of the way through the century, I'm sure a lot of it will change! I haven't read many from that list either, ha. My reading skews classics/historical at the moment, and I don't really keep up with the literary trends. It'll be really interesting to see what works survive the passage of time in terms of popularity
I have read more than 100. Most of which I wish I had never read... I hadn't read as widely as Rory as a teenager though. And by the time you are my age, Celine, you'll have that many under you belt (or more) and probably better books than are listed. I notice Rory doesn't have very many medieval woman biographies on her list.
So true - Actually currently I'm listening to Castor's Joan of Arc. I'm quite enjoying it too. Where you and I disagree is in the wish of hadn't read. There are very few I might pass on now, for example Egger's Work of Staggering Genius, as good as it is didn't pass IMHO the test of time. Only going to prove that there are indeed advantages to accumulated years : )
@@jamesduggan7200 @novelideea I swear there is nothing like coursework to make a book feel like a horrible chore. I too read many books after their courses were already finished 😅
As a teenager I was knee-deep in fantasy and horror haha. But at least I could use the Stephen Kings in this list anyway 😊 Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy a lot of books on the list though! We should make a new and better one
58 of them read for a 17%. Currently reading six more. That's quite the random list, though perhaps not unusual for a curious kid who reads everything she can get her hands on.
I decided to follow your channel based on what you said about Slaughterhouse 5. I also do not believe Rory read much of some of those books. Finnegan's Wake?
Not all those books are rory gilmore books most seem to just be any book mentioned on the show for example Richard was the one who finished the rise and fall of the Roman empire and april read deeny
A most pertinent question, indeed 🤔. But what does it really mean to be "well-read" anyway? Does reading a Justice League comic book with its declining sales put out by DC count? Is a Playboy Magazine subscription included? How about pulp fiction: Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian? Acerbic, paternalistic travel writing penned by V.S. Naipaul? There's an assumption to be well-read denotes familiarity with "the classics," those stubborn fixtures in the Western Canon pegged to the anglophone world, which tend to be exclusive as opposed to inclusive of world literature. Chilean Nobel prize winner Pablo Neruda, renown for his surrealist poetry in works like "Canto General" as much for his love poems is almost never mentioned in any list of top books and he is practically a persona non-grata on BookTube. Nobel prize winner Sir Derek Walcott, another extraordinary poet, nonexistent in literary parlance. Something to think about...
The concept of well-read is always contextual! I'm sure comic buffs consider certain runs of Batman absolutely essential reading, whereas the academic canon is obviously completely different. Like you say, the Western canon is stubbornly Anglophone (though I think the French happily made their own francophone canon) as well as immensely patriarchal and imperialist. I think poetry in general doesn't get any love on BookTube. That said, my partner has a collection of Neruda's poems, this is making me feel like picking it up!
@@TheEclecticLibrary If I've gotten you to reconsider the pull of poetry, well, my, my Celine, by all means plunge right into the stirring sea that's Neruda. I like to read Neruda when I'm by the poolside. Works better for me that way, the breeze bobbing against me. The water. It will be interesting to see you list out the French canon in some details. I'm curious. Currently 256 pages into Don Quixote. The parts book tubers deem long-winded and repetitious is actually the real point of novel. Cervantes, apart from showing the frailties of Spain as it started to decline, is unlocking the inner workings of the human psyche from the level of the individual @ the dawn of modernity, the mind as a prison in a way that anticipates Sigmund Freud. The book is truly amazing!🤩
There's a six volume Oxford Anthology. I read one volume cover-to-cover (at the start of Covid lockdown) but it was hard work (which is not why I read :)). There are plusses and minuses to reading the anthology: You definitely discover new authors and learn a little about them and their work, but on the downside everything in there is very brief. In balance, for me the best part of that Oxford was rediscovering things I'd forgot.
@@TheEclecticLibrary I guess he said it was required reading or something... not sure. I believe we sometimes read these things just for the sake of having them read.
@@none8680 Yes, you're mostly right on that score but to be fair it was the volume covering the period from which typically I read so the next volume would have been harder work, I figured.
What I loved about Rory's book list -- much like Lane's music playlist added to my pop music oeuvre -- is that it led me down a rabbit hole of authors and book titles I would never have discovered or read otherwise. I'm particularly grateful to Rory (and Amy Sherman Palladino) for introducing me to Eudora Welty's short stories and Katherine Butler Hathaway's The Little Locksmith. 😍
Absolutely! I am always really impressed by just how many cultural references the Palladinos manage to put into their work. I haven't read either of those yet, so I'll add them to my list!
That the Gilmore Girls remains popular pleases me, and I've read a lot on Rory's list (which to be fair is books mentioned by her without saying she's actually read all of them) but on the recent hundred best of 21st cent. I've read like a half-dozen (so embarrassing). Hopefully in ten years TGG will still be popular and the 21st cent. list will look completely different : )
Considering we're not even a quarter of the way through the century, I'm sure a lot of it will change! I haven't read many from that list either, ha. My reading skews classics/historical at the moment, and I don't really keep up with the literary trends. It'll be really interesting to see what works survive the passage of time in terms of popularity
I have read more than 100. Most of which I wish I had never read...
I hadn't read as widely as Rory as a teenager though. And by the time you are my age, Celine, you'll have that many under you belt (or more) and probably better books than are listed. I notice Rory doesn't have very many medieval woman biographies on her list.
So true - Actually currently I'm listening to Castor's Joan of Arc. I'm quite enjoying it too. Where you and I disagree is in the wish of hadn't read. There are very few I might pass on now, for example Egger's Work of Staggering Genius, as good as it is didn't pass IMHO the test of time. Only going to prove that there are indeed advantages to accumulated years : )
@@jamesduggan7200 I think the ones I was Made-to-read in course work are the ones I wish didn’t live in my head rent free 😂
@@novelideea With that sentiment I heartily sympathize provided I first confess much of my coursework was read years and years after graduation.
@@jamesduggan7200 @novelideea I swear there is nothing like coursework to make a book feel like a horrible chore. I too read many books after their courses were already finished 😅
As a teenager I was knee-deep in fantasy and horror haha. But at least I could use the Stephen Kings in this list anyway 😊 Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy a lot of books on the list though! We should make a new and better one
58 of them read for a 17%. Currently reading six more. That's quite the random list, though perhaps not unusual for a curious kid who reads everything she can get her hands on.
It's all over the place, which is definitely part of the fun! Hope you're enjoying the ones you're reading now
I decided to follow your channel based on what you said about Slaughterhouse 5. I also do not believe Rory read much of some of those books. Finnegan's Wake?
Not all those books are rory gilmore books most seem to just be any book mentioned on the show for example Richard was the one who finished the rise and fall of the Roman empire and april read deeny
A most pertinent question, indeed 🤔. But what does it really mean to be "well-read" anyway? Does reading a Justice League comic book with its declining sales put out by DC count? Is a Playboy Magazine subscription included? How about pulp fiction: Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian? Acerbic, paternalistic travel writing penned by V.S. Naipaul? There's an assumption to be well-read denotes familiarity with "the classics," those stubborn fixtures in the Western Canon pegged to the anglophone world, which tend to be exclusive as opposed to inclusive of world literature. Chilean Nobel prize winner Pablo Neruda, renown for his surrealist poetry in works like "Canto General" as much for his love poems is almost never mentioned in any list of top books and he is practically a persona non-grata on BookTube. Nobel prize winner Sir Derek Walcott, another extraordinary poet, nonexistent in literary parlance. Something to think about...
The concept of well-read is always contextual! I'm sure comic buffs consider certain runs of Batman absolutely essential reading, whereas the academic canon is obviously completely different. Like you say, the Western canon is stubbornly Anglophone (though I think the French happily made their own francophone canon) as well as immensely patriarchal and imperialist. I think poetry in general doesn't get any love on BookTube. That said, my partner has a collection of Neruda's poems, this is making me feel like picking it up!
@@TheEclecticLibrary If I've gotten you to reconsider the pull of poetry, well, my, my Celine, by all means plunge right into the stirring sea that's Neruda. I like to read Neruda when I'm by the poolside. Works better for me that way, the breeze bobbing against me. The water. It will be interesting to see you list out the French canon in some details.
I'm curious. Currently 256 pages into Don Quixote. The parts book tubers deem long-winded and repetitious is actually the real point of novel. Cervantes, apart from showing the frailties of Spain as it started to decline, is unlocking the inner workings of the human psyche from the level of the individual @ the dawn of modernity, the mind as a prison in a way that anticipates Sigmund Freud. The book is truly amazing!🤩
@@TheEclecticLibrary Just finished The Collected Poems of Ann Sexton, which definitely you'll adore, especially the brilliant ones from 1967 - 1968.
Jack Edwards has said a few times he read the Norton anthology cover to cover.
I'd be really curious to know why!
There's a six volume Oxford Anthology. I read one volume cover-to-cover (at the start of Covid lockdown) but it was hard work (which is not why I read :)). There are plusses and minuses to reading the anthology: You definitely discover new authors and learn a little about them and their work, but on the downside everything in there is very brief. In balance, for me the best part of that Oxford was rediscovering things I'd forgot.
@@TheEclecticLibrary I guess he said it was required reading or something... not sure. I believe we sometimes read these things just for the sake of having them read.
@@jamesduggan7200 I assume it wasn't overall a satisfactory read, even with the pluses, or you would have read the next five volumes.
@@none8680 Yes, you're mostly right on that score but to be fair it was the volume covering the period from which typically I read so the next volume would have been harder work, I figured.
I’ve read 72 out of 339. Not bad!
That's really good!!