Good to hear. I was disappointed with my first Baldwin, Giovanni's Room, but I'm glad I gave him another chance because No Name in the Street is excellent.
Thank you for this huge book haul video! Tons of interesting and unusual stuff, as we (viewers) are rarely shown so much diversity and 'far from the mainstream' contents at once. Hope you enjoy these books and those for your Ph D research are useful. Thanks for taking the time to provide information and show illustrations when there are. I appreciate your thoughts about the authors or the books as this guides us among the jungle of publications. Taking note of Thomas Wolfe, James Baldwin, John Cleland (saw copies of Fanny Hill at the bookshop), and Joseph Luzzi, to name but a few. Take care and happy reading! Lego lego
Thank you, glad to hear the diversity/obscurity of some of the items was not an issue. Wolfe writes in a patrician, aristocratic way. I'm not sure how well it may translate to French, so you may want to take a look at his writings in English first. James Baldwin is already rated poorly by The Disappointed Man, but we'll see if he redeems himself with this effort (this book was free or I would have passed over it). Happy hunting for some of these names!
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedManFar from being an issue, it is on the contrary very satisfying to be introduced to more obscure works, and of course the diversity of the selection is part of the pleasure of discovering what you have read/purchased. Highly appreciated is your constant effort to share and explain why such book has something interesting, valuable, unique, or on the contrary why it is disappointing, deceitful. Thanks for the 'warnings' re Wolfe and Baldwin.
Re the Baldwin warning, his book is superb. It's autobiography rather than a novel, as was Giovanni's Room. I will do a Why Every Writer Deserves a Second Chance video about this experience. :-)
I'm planning to read Jean Rhys for Dominica at some point. Debating between Voyage in the Dark and Wide Saragossa Sea, leaning toward the former specifically because it is less read, and I haven't read Jane Eyre or even plan to in the near future if I'm being honest. Let me know what you think?
Hi, Mike. For the same reason as you I would avoid adding one more Wide Sargasso Sea to the multitude on UA-cam and focus on Voyage in the Dark. As for Jane Eyre, a great novel by just about any metric; hopefully you will sample its pleasures one day.
I'm currently wrapping up James Baldwin's "Another Country" - it's my favorite of his so far :)
Good to hear. I was disappointed with my first Baldwin, Giovanni's Room, but I'm glad I gave him another chance because No Name in the Street is excellent.
Going to need to put in some more shelves! I hope you are reading something good. Best wishes.
Yes, quite a few piles sprouting up on the floor now. As for reading, I'm on the last part of The Decameron, and it's been hugely enjoyable.
Thank you for this huge book haul video! Tons of interesting and unusual stuff, as we (viewers) are rarely shown so much diversity and 'far from the mainstream' contents at once. Hope you enjoy these books and those for your Ph D research are useful.
Thanks for taking the time to provide information and show illustrations when there are. I appreciate your thoughts about the authors or the books as this guides us among the jungle of publications. Taking note of Thomas Wolfe, James Baldwin, John Cleland (saw copies of Fanny Hill at the bookshop), and Joseph Luzzi, to name but a few.
Take care and happy reading! Lego lego
Thank you, glad to hear the diversity/obscurity of some of the items was not an issue.
Wolfe writes in a patrician, aristocratic way. I'm not sure how well it may translate to French, so you may want to take a look at his writings in English first. James Baldwin is already rated poorly by The Disappointed Man, but we'll see if he redeems himself with this effort (this book was free or I would have passed over it).
Happy hunting for some of these names!
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedManFar from being an issue, it is on the contrary very satisfying to be introduced to more obscure works, and of course the diversity of the selection is part of the pleasure of discovering what you have read/purchased. Highly appreciated is your constant effort to share and explain why such book has something interesting, valuable, unique, or on the contrary why it is disappointing, deceitful.
Thanks for the 'warnings' re Wolfe and Baldwin.
Re the Baldwin warning, his book is superb. It's autobiography rather than a novel, as was Giovanni's Room. I will do a Why Every Writer Deserves a Second Chance video about this experience. :-)
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I'm planning to read Jean Rhys for Dominica at some point. Debating between Voyage in the Dark and Wide Saragossa Sea, leaning toward the former specifically because it is less read, and I haven't read Jane Eyre or even plan to in the near future if I'm being honest. Let me know what you think?
Hi, Mike. For the same reason as you I would avoid adding one more Wide Sargasso Sea to the multitude on UA-cam and focus on Voyage in the Dark.
As for Jane Eyre, a great novel by just about any metric; hopefully you will sample its pleasures one day.
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan Thanks, I may be able to read and discuss both since they are fairly short but "Dark" shall be the protagonist.