Nice video! Your video on the Crying of Lot 49 video is also outstanding. I haven’t read many of these so I’ll have to check them out. Keep up the good work! Here’s my top 10 novels list: 10. On the Road 9. Sound and the fury 8. Invitation to a Beheading 7. The Road 6. Heart of Darkness 5. Clockwork Orange 4. Slaughterhouse Five 3. Foucault’s Pendulum 2. Ulysses 1. Crying of Lot 49 Currently reading Gravity’s Rainbow
I really want that particular edition of Gravity's Rainbow. Love the cover, looks nice and big and durable. The Penguin Deluxe edition from 2006 which is basically made of cardboard is a terrible product that seems designed to tear itself apart upon being read. Maybe a reference to the themes of assured destruction and designed obsolescence? Also, happy to see some love for Beyond the Zero specifically. It's such a dense, disorienting piece of genius. I really began to appreciate its structure upon rereading. The section which jumps off from Roger and Jessica listening to the choir is maybe my favorite chunk of really out-there Pynchon at the moment.
Welcome, Aiden! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have loved Watership Down for many years. It’s probably the only book I have read in every decade of my, admittedly brief, life. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a delight despite its length, and I also get a kick out of Against the Day, though my wife prefers Infinite Jest. Looking forward to your future videos. I hope you have a great weekend. Best, Jack
Man this is so awesome. You explore and talk about literature in such an interesting and insightful way. Pynchon is my favourite author so I’m really keen to hear you go deeper into Gravity’s Rainbow or V if you’ve read that.
Welcome Aiden. Gilead is also one of my favorite books. Watership Down is such a great book too. I've not heard of several of these books. Glad to hear about them.
Excellent list. I've had Europe Central on my shelf for a while, but for some reason, I keep working my way around it - hopefully I'll get to it one day. Also, you make me want to pick up Against the Day.
Hey mate, it's been awhile since I've seen some content from you on the ol' UA-cam feed. Do you reckon you'll do more in the future? Really enjoyed both this and your Pynchon videos. Plus, as I've recently been inducted into Vollmann's work, it's a pleasure to find other readers of his.
I tend to move between projects a lot, and recently my main focus has been on music and college… I do think I’ll be posting here in the future though, most likely a series of video essays about structuralism and aesthetics.
Hi, Aiden. John from Instagram here. Honored to give you your first well-deserved thumbs up on booktube (and subscribe, of course). Welcome, and I hope to see a lot more of you soon!
You sound like Leonardo DiCaprio. This is a compliment. A handful of these I’ve been meaning to read. Some I hadn’t planned on reading till now. Like that last one. Thanks for the recs and welcome to BookTube!
Aiden, welcome and Bravo! A stellar video and I will say you appear as though you’ve done it dozens of times. I’ve recently had a tattoo done with Pale King/This is Water themes. Very eager for you to explore IJ. Fabulous top 10. Will you perhaps be playing some music on this here channel?😀
Thank you! It looks like I’m something of a teleprompter natural, as this was only my second run through! I’m excited to read Infinite Jest probably later this year. Will indeed be posting music on this account as well. Me and my roomate are cooking up some cool shit!
Welcome Aiden! Hope to see more videos from you, this was great! Immediately subscribed. 😉 Always wanted to read Europe Central, never did, you really sold it to me again. Do you recommend Night Film by Marisha Pessl? I really enjoyed "Physics" by her.
Apparently I’m the odd one out. Everyone else I hear loves Pynchon, but, to be fair, I strongly dislike post-modernism. Anywho, my top 10 novels list looks something like this: (1) Brother’s Karamazov (2) Swann’s Way (3) Ulysses (4) Blood Meridian (5) Anna Karenina (6) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (7) The Stranger (8) The Passenger + Stella Marris (9) Nausea (10) Frankenstein As with most any serious reader, I can only say I’m confident about the placement of a few of these, and what’s more some books may shift on and off this list depending on the day, hour, minute, or second. Really only the top 6 are cemented into my top 10.
I haven't read as much as I plan to so this list will likely change fairly dramatically but as of right now my top 10 would go 1. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 2. Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 3. Charles Bukowski - Women 4. JK Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces 5. Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice 6. Charles Bukowski - Post Office 7. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle 8. Christopher Isherwood - A Single Man 9. Don DeLillo - The Silence 10. Charles Marohn Jr - Strong Towns (only nonfiction on the list but the analysis on American urban planning was genuinely perspective changing)
Fascinating to see those specific DeLillos and Pynchon’s, which are widely viewed as the lower tier of their work!! But I think inherent Vice is phenomenal and haven’t yet read the silence. Great stuff. Also love your profile picture.
@@heartfeltineptitude3816 Thanks man I'd definitely appreciate if you have any recommendations. Honestly my best explanation for those picks is that I haven't gotten to either Gravity's Rainbow or Underground yet simply due to their length. Plus Inherent Vice is so wildly funny I'll always have a place for it
@@cw4019 based on this list you should definitely check out Vollmann. Europe Central is probably his best novel but his stuff is fairly consistent in my experience. He’s a fascinatingly abrasive author. You really get the sense he doesn’t give a shit about you, the reader, which somehow works in a weird way. Reading his fiction is like being brutally initiated into some strange society of the taboo, a confederacy of rejects and outcasts. Really fascinating stuff.
Why only 3 videos???I want more and more videos! You are fantastic!!!
Nice video! Your video on the Crying of Lot 49 video is also outstanding. I haven’t read many of these so I’ll have to check them out. Keep up the good work!
Here’s my top 10 novels list:
10. On the Road
9. Sound and the fury
8. Invitation to a Beheading
7. The Road
6. Heart of Darkness
5. Clockwork Orange
4. Slaughterhouse Five
3. Foucault’s Pendulum
2. Ulysses
1. Crying of Lot 49
Currently reading Gravity’s Rainbow
Wow, you certainly have a prodigious vocabulary, and the way you use the words is as perfectly precise as a laser. Top notch stuff, keep it up.
You are going to absolutely love Infinite Jest, man. Very interested to see you dive further into these novels!
I really want that particular edition of Gravity's Rainbow. Love the cover, looks nice and big and durable. The Penguin Deluxe edition from 2006 which is basically made of cardboard is a terrible product that seems designed to tear itself apart upon being read. Maybe a reference to the themes of assured destruction and designed obsolescence? Also, happy to see some love for Beyond the Zero specifically. It's such a dense, disorienting piece of genius. I really began to appreciate its structure upon rereading. The section which jumps off from Roger and Jessica listening to the choir is maybe my favorite chunk of really out-there Pynchon at the moment.
Fascinating! 😊
Welcome!, you have awersome taste and the way you describe books makes me wanna read them now!
Welcome, Aiden! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have loved Watership Down for many years. It’s probably the only book I have read in every decade of my, admittedly brief, life.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a delight despite its length, and I also get a kick out of Against the Day, though my wife prefers Infinite Jest.
Looking forward to your future videos. I hope you have a great weekend.
Best, Jack
Subscribed! Great Content and I like your Selection of books!
Love to see against the day on here, it was the first Pynchon novel I read and the most unique
Hey Aiden, glad to see you launch a channel! Happily subscribed.
Oh Watership Down! And Pynchon! Two of my forever faves too! Great taste.
Come back to youTube, young man!
Awesome list!
Man this is so awesome. You explore and talk about literature in such an interesting and insightful way. Pynchon is my favourite author so I’m really keen to hear you go deeper into Gravity’s Rainbow or V if you’ve read that.
Welcome Aiden. Gilead is also one of my favorite books. Watership Down is such a great book too. I've not heard of several of these books. Glad to hear about them.
Excellent list. I've had Europe Central on my shelf for a while, but for some reason, I keep working my way around it - hopefully I'll get to it one day. Also, you make me want to pick up Against the Day.
Great job. Another overlooked Southern Gothic writer is Larry Brown. His collection of short stories are some of the best I've read.
Fantastic. Welcome!
Hey mate, it's been awhile since I've seen some content from you on the ol' UA-cam feed. Do you reckon you'll do more in the future? Really enjoyed both this and your Pynchon videos. Plus, as I've recently been inducted into Vollmann's work, it's a pleasure to find other readers of his.
I tend to move between projects a lot, and recently my main focus has been on music and college… I do think I’ll be posting here in the future though, most likely a series of video essays about structuralism and aesthetics.
Hi, Aiden. John from Instagram here. Honored to give you your first well-deserved thumbs up on booktube (and subscribe, of course). Welcome, and I hope to see a lot more of you soon!
I appreciate it my man! More is definitely coming!
You sound like Leonardo DiCaprio. This is a compliment.
A handful of these I’ve been meaning to read. Some I hadn’t planned on reading till now. Like that last one. Thanks for the recs and welcome to BookTube!
Aiden, welcome and Bravo! A stellar video and I will say you appear as though you’ve done it dozens of times.
I’ve recently had a tattoo done with Pale King/This is Water themes. Very eager for you to explore IJ.
Fabulous top 10. Will you perhaps be playing some music on this here channel?😀
Thank you! It looks like I’m something of a teleprompter natural, as this was only my second run through! I’m excited to read Infinite Jest probably later this year.
Will indeed be posting music on this account as well. Me and my roomate are cooking up some cool shit!
Welcome Aiden! Hope to see more videos from you, this was great! Immediately subscribed. 😉
Always wanted to read Europe Central, never did, you really sold it to me again.
Do you recommend Night Film by Marisha Pessl? I really enjoyed "Physics" by her.
Interesting choices.
Apparently I’m the odd one out. Everyone else I hear loves Pynchon, but, to be fair, I strongly dislike post-modernism. Anywho, my top 10 novels list looks something like this:
(1) Brother’s Karamazov
(2) Swann’s Way
(3) Ulysses
(4) Blood Meridian
(5) Anna Karenina
(6) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(7) The Stranger
(8) The Passenger + Stella Marris
(9) Nausea
(10) Frankenstein
As with most any serious reader, I can only say I’m confident about the placement of a few of these, and what’s more some books may shift on and off this list depending on the day, hour, minute, or second. Really only the top 6 are cemented into my top 10.
Well spoken.
10 books I never read!! Welcome.
I haven't read as much as I plan to so this list will likely change fairly dramatically but as of right now my top 10 would go
1. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
2. Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. Charles Bukowski - Women
4. JK Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
5. Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
6. Charles Bukowski - Post Office
7. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
8. Christopher Isherwood - A Single Man
9. Don DeLillo - The Silence
10. Charles Marohn Jr - Strong Towns (only nonfiction on the list but the analysis on American urban planning was genuinely perspective changing)
Fascinating to see those specific DeLillos and Pynchon’s, which are widely viewed as the lower tier of their work!! But I think inherent Vice is phenomenal and haven’t yet read the silence. Great stuff. Also love your profile picture.
@@heartfeltineptitude3816 Thanks man I'd definitely appreciate if you have any recommendations. Honestly my best explanation for those picks is that I haven't gotten to either Gravity's Rainbow or Underground yet simply due to their length. Plus Inherent Vice is so wildly funny I'll always have a place for it
@@cw4019 based on this list you should definitely check out Vollmann. Europe Central is probably his best novel but his stuff is fairly consistent in my experience. He’s a fascinatingly abrasive author. You really get the sense he doesn’t give a shit about you, the reader, which somehow works in a weird way. Reading his fiction is like being brutally initiated into some strange society of the taboo, a confederacy of rejects and outcasts. Really fascinating stuff.
Welcome! I just finished Against the Day 30m ago and am floating... In my own world far above this mundane life 😍
THEY FLY TOWARDS GRACE!!!!
@@heartfeltineptitude3816 **swoons** 🥰🥰🥰