Giles Coren is best known to me as the guy who wrote weird erotica about his daughter and wrote up a sex scene in some god-awful novel which had the worst prose imaginable. That, and he is one of many of UK journalism's nepo-babies. I regretfully had to cancel my Telegraph and Times subscription - it was just too much money! The latter are a hassle to cancel - you have to phone and go through their desperate attempts to keep you on their books. I miss it though - they still provide better journalism than the increasingly unhinged Telegraph. As for Jonathan Bates, I like his work on Wordsworth, which is about all I know him for. His recent comments did not leave me surprised, though I am not convinced that swallowing dense, difficult Victorian novels in the space of a week is much of a reading or learning experience - it frankly takes the joy out of it I think. There have to be better ways to teach this stuff.
@@DressyCrooner having absorbed Coren’s Wikipedia page today, I know that a traineeship at ‘The Times’ would have been impossible without his familial backing. Jonathan Bate has earned the right to opine, but we have the right to refute it all!
Well, 6:59 and so on, it is somewhat expected from literature students, to read more, so it is somewhat worrying. But I do think the more concerning is amount of sex in novels without referring to them as pornographic. Novels are not intended for such purposes, at least not literary genre ones/common one and they should not be. There is a pornographic section, so they should be moved to that section, if it is about such amount of meaningless sex, at least in literary terms. I may be conservative, but some things in art in general, like art battles in making a work as fast as possible and in public, splashing of colors without any reason or intent on canvases, dressing up of girls that look like prostitutes with kitschy colors behind them, and meaningless mentioning of sex when there is no need for it, well, they are not art at all and cannot be perceived as such just because some individuals with bad concepts were louder than others.
21:40 , well, if Times are leaning toward right and are making turn in their editorial policy, then this new policy should be "attacked", because people buy them for what they are. And not just Times, humans in general. I do think it is better to say a word of qritique then not say it at all, when it comes to serious matters. So I do advise you to say something if you think it is wrong.
11:32 to be honest, I had to go to second listening to understand this part, but, actually never read anything from him. But this jelaousy thing among writers is interesting. Were there any controversies or not? Sabotage attempts? Because I never heard of them. About this tide that raises ships, I do think it is Chinese proverb, and it has nothing with questions asked and possible controversies with literary success mentuoned in article, and ideas presented in books, so it is bit puzzling. I will maybe read something, but really don't think so.
I am a victim of literary terrorism when I've opened the book and have expected to read about daily lives of average citizens and instead of it, I was rudely introduced into a sex scene and almost bullied with nudity pictures I never wanted to read in such a book. It was a form of attack on my personality and a form of offence, and it was really horrific experience.
18:10 About education, it is really complex and maybe too complex to be summed up in a comment. But I do think people realize what do they want to achieve and what amount of education/information they can process and are capable of learning, so maybe the whole premise should not be about legal boundaries/prompts for education
Please make more newspaper reading reviews! This is the best way to start my day
I greatly enjoyed this
Good good! There's plenty more where that came from!
please post more videos on reading newspapers
Giles Coren is best known to me as the guy who wrote weird erotica about his daughter and wrote up a sex scene in some god-awful novel which had the worst prose imaginable. That, and he is one of many of UK journalism's nepo-babies.
I regretfully had to cancel my Telegraph and Times subscription - it was just too much money! The latter are a hassle to cancel - you have to phone and go through their desperate attempts to keep you on their books. I miss it though - they still provide better journalism than the increasingly unhinged Telegraph.
As for Jonathan Bates, I like his work on Wordsworth, which is about all I know him for. His recent comments did not leave me surprised, though I am not convinced that swallowing dense, difficult Victorian novels in the space of a week is much of a reading or learning experience - it frankly takes the joy out of it I think. There have to be better ways to teach this stuff.
@@DressyCrooner having absorbed Coren’s Wikipedia page today, I know that a traineeship at ‘The Times’ would have been impossible without his familial backing. Jonathan Bate has earned the right to opine, but we have the right to refute it all!
Well, 6:59 and so on, it is somewhat expected from literature students, to read more, so it is somewhat worrying. But I do think the more concerning is amount of sex in novels without referring to them as pornographic. Novels are not intended for such purposes, at least not literary genre ones/common one and they should not be. There is a pornographic section, so they should be moved to that section, if it is about such amount of meaningless sex, at least in literary terms.
I may be conservative, but some things in art in general, like art battles in making a work as fast as possible and in public, splashing of colors without any reason or intent on canvases, dressing up of girls that look like prostitutes with kitschy colors behind them, and meaningless mentioning of sex when there is no need for it, well, they are not art at all and cannot be perceived as such just because some individuals with bad concepts were louder than others.
21:40 , well, if Times are leaning toward right and are making turn in their editorial policy, then this new policy should be "attacked", because people buy them for what they are. And not just Times, humans in general. I do think it is better to say a word of qritique then not say it at all, when it comes to serious matters. So I do advise you to say something if you think it is wrong.
11:32 to be honest, I had to go to second listening to understand this part, but, actually never read anything from him. But this jelaousy thing among writers is interesting. Were there any controversies or not? Sabotage attempts? Because I never heard of them.
About this tide that raises ships, I do think it is Chinese proverb, and it has nothing with questions asked and possible controversies with literary success mentuoned in article, and ideas presented in books, so it is bit puzzling.
I will maybe read something, but really don't think so.
I am a victim of literary terrorism when I've opened the book and have expected to read about daily lives of average citizens and instead of it, I was rudely introduced into a sex scene and almost bullied with nudity pictures I never wanted to read in such a book. It was a form of attack on my personality and a form of offence, and it was really horrific experience.
18:10 About education, it is really complex and maybe too complex to be summed up in a comment.
But I do think people realize what do they want to achieve and what amount of education/information they can process and are capable of learning, so maybe the whole premise should not be about legal boundaries/prompts for education
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