Terrific video, Will. I really like this topic. I may try to do one of these assessments in the future. I’d like to get there with Dickens, but I’m not even close…I’ll have to think about this. Nicely done!
I have read all of Orwell, not including essays and letters. Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out are my favourites. I've read all of Austens novels and incomplete novels, but not all of her letters and juvenilia. I can't think of anyone else I've done it for who has written a lot of books. Robin Hobb, Patrick O'Brien, Agatha Christie, and Terry Pratchett I've read tons but have loads to go. I've only read The Rachel Papers by Amis, and Lucky Jim by his dad.
@@AaronReadABook I'd like to read Homage to Catalonia as it sounds very intriguing. And by extension I'd also probably include Bunt by Wladyslaw Reymont to see its parallels to Animal Farm or not as the coincidence of those two stories is weird and I need to know.
Only Our Mutual Friend and Barnaby Rudge left to go. But I'm 49. I've read The Inheritors and The Double Tongue as well. Both great. And Mario Reading, most likely you've never heard of him, had only 8 books of fiction. 1.5 yet to be read.
@@willchambers8065 His last novel, posthumously published, is about an SS officer who falls in love with a french girl. And there are two trilogies. It'll sound stupid if I call them thrillers, bc the books are quite witty actually. The first one is about lost Nostradamus prophecies and the second includes a historic novel, set in the time of Frederick Barbarossa's heir. There you go 🤷♂️
Terrific video, Will. I really like this topic. I may try to do one of these assessments in the future. I’d like to get there with Dickens, but I’m not even close…I’ll have to think about this. Nicely done!
I have read all of Orwell, not including essays and letters. Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out are my favourites. I've read all of Austens novels and incomplete novels, but not all of her letters and juvenilia. I can't think of anyone else I've done it for who has written a lot of books. Robin Hobb, Patrick O'Brien, Agatha Christie, and Terry Pratchett I've read tons but have loads to go. I've only read The Rachel Papers by Amis, and Lucky Jim by his dad.
@@AaronReadABook I'd like to read Homage to Catalonia as it sounds very intriguing. And by extension I'd also probably include Bunt by Wladyslaw Reymont to see its parallels to Animal Farm or not as the coincidence of those two stories is weird and I need to know.
@@AaronReadABook And you can rarely go wrong with Amis, senior or junior.
Only Our Mutual Friend and Barnaby Rudge left to go. But I'm 49.
I've read The Inheritors and The Double Tongue as well. Both great.
And Mario Reading, most likely you've never heard of him, had only 8 books of fiction. 1.5 yet to be read.
@@meryuk I have not heard of Mario Reading, what type of books do they write?
@@willchambers8065 His last novel, posthumously published, is about an SS officer who falls in love with a french girl.
And there are two trilogies. It'll sound stupid if I call them thrillers, bc the books are quite witty actually. The first one is about lost Nostradamus prophecies and the second includes a historic novel, set in the time of Frederick Barbarossa's heir. There you go 🤷♂️