I definitely recommend Lullaby or Diary by Palahnuik but Invisible Monsters (or his "Remix" version) is where it's at. Also, I just started The Shards and it's amazing to be back in Ellis's lurid 80's L.A. world after years since Imperial Bedrooms.
I agree that NYRBs are so buttery and deluxe feeling… I call them the Criterion Collection of books. Also I really love that they strive to bring back books that have gone out of print or books that have never before been translated into English. I just read one called “My Death” by Lisa Tuttle, and it was so weird and good and under 100 pages I think. Also, if you like charming or funny books, another good one is Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. Oh, one more weird NYRB! Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin! Love your videos!
"he was always seeking love and shelter and comfort from people or from places and he finally reached the point at the end of this where he could never have those things and he finally realized he would never be able to be happy." "if i just submerge myself in all of this media that i love, and surround myself with adults that treat me as an adult then i basically skip childhood and i don't need family and i don't need anybody." i think you summarize emotional themes so wonderfully, and here it becomes unavoidably clear to me that being an adult doesn't mean an absence of dependence-a double negative (now triple if you include my "doesn't). i think a concept that would work better might be autonomy, meaning self-understanding and self-nagivation both internally and within social space-which i feel also connects with your takeaway from the end of lucky jim. i also hope february is a good a month as january, and it's lovely sharing this journey with you as always! 🥰✨
i just read blakemore’s the manningtree witches while waiting for the glutton to be returned to my library and i loved that book sm, its one of my favorites now!! i also second the perfume recommendation. another fav
I own Motherless Brookyln but I'm yet to read. the NYRB style is so cool, I own one I got from the US. final note but I adore Fight Club. Palahniuk is a great writer, and I remember reading him because of my love of Bret Easton Ellis. the second half of Glamorama feels like a Palahniuk book.
You have already declared "The Glutton" the best of the year, who needs the other 11 months?! 😆😸 But I know what you mean I reacted that way to Murata's "Earthlings" myself. "The Glutton" will go on my list, if I had not seen your review the cover alone would have put it there. It seems you are finding about Calvino the same things that I did, though you are somewhat agreeable towards them while I am not! You seem to say that you love reading even books you might not like, which sounds like someone passionate about literature if I've ever heard one
im am SO excited you loved AK's book....i will tell her (im leaving for london tonight)...READ her brilliant first novel.....she will be thrilled...and invisible cities is one of the greatest books ever....explore more calvino..and NYRB books are seriously the best.....anyway, looking forward to your reaction to 100 yrs...off to london, happy reading...p.s. love again the sharp cut ending edit....bb
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Like this one from Nabokov, I think you generally pick good books. Calvino has much better work than this one you read. Try Baron on The Tree. Don't know how this one was translated. If it is at all.
Calvino's Invisible Cities captures absent desire with deep longing. Calvino's best book.
Thank you for the references for books to read in the future.
If you liked Glutton you might like Perfume by Patrick Suskind. Twisted, warped, weird protagonist who you still somehow root for.
Yesss on my list
definitely going to read THE GLUTTON, I love bizarre books
I definitely recommend Lullaby or Diary by Palahnuik but Invisible Monsters (or his "Remix" version) is where it's at. Also, I just started The Shards and it's amazing to be back in Ellis's lurid 80's L.A. world after years since Imperial Bedrooms.
I agree that NYRBs are so buttery and deluxe feeling… I call them the Criterion Collection of books. Also I really love that they strive to bring back books that have gone out of print or books that have never before been translated into English. I just read one called “My Death” by Lisa Tuttle, and it was so weird and good and under 100 pages I think. Also, if you like charming or funny books, another good one is Too Loud A Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. Oh, one more weird NYRB! Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin! Love your videos!
Awesome! Thank you for the recs because i definitely want more unique nyrb books🙌 and i appreciate the support :)
I also recommend The Invention of Morel from NYRB. I just finished it and it was great. Just over 100
@@sophias9686 I'm re-reading that right now! I love The Invention of Morel, glad to see it's getting more love 💜
Gluttony was such an interesting interpretation have to check it out!
Yes!!!
"he was always seeking love and shelter and comfort from people or from places and he finally reached the point at the end of this where he could never have those things and he finally realized he would never be able to be happy."
"if i just submerge myself in all of this media that i love, and surround myself with adults that treat me as an adult then i basically skip childhood and i don't need family and i don't need anybody."
i think you summarize emotional themes so wonderfully, and here it becomes unavoidably clear to me that being an adult doesn't mean an absence of dependence-a double negative (now triple if you include my "doesn't). i think a concept that would work better might be autonomy, meaning self-understanding and self-nagivation both internally and within social space-which i feel also connects with your takeaway from the end of lucky jim.
i also hope february is a good a month as january, and it's lovely sharing this journey with you as always! 🥰✨
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Bro i read chapter 6 and even wrote it was one of the best chapters ive ever read before i knew it was the reason for fight club. Amazing
I love your video so much
Thank you very much!!
i just read blakemore’s the manningtree witches while waiting for the glutton to be returned to my library and i loved that book sm, its one of my favorites now!! i also second the perfume recommendation. another fav
Neeeed to read that. I’m sure you’ll love the glutton. And yes! I’m dying to read it
I own Motherless Brookyln but I'm yet to read. the NYRB style is so cool, I own one I got from the US. final note but I adore Fight Club. Palahniuk is a great writer, and I remember reading him because of my love of Bret Easton Ellis. the second half of Glamorama feels like a Palahniuk book.
Yesss you’re speaking my language 🙌🙌 I hope I didn’t spoil too much of MB lol 😭 I tend to do that on accident
You have already declared "The Glutton" the best of the year, who needs the other 11 months?! 😆😸 But I know what you mean I reacted that way to Murata's "Earthlings" myself. "The Glutton" will go on my list, if I had not seen your review the cover alone would have put it there. It seems you are finding about Calvino the same things that I did, though you are somewhat agreeable towards them while I am not! You seem to say that you love reading even books you might not like, which sounds like someone passionate about literature if I've ever heard one
I’ll make sure everyone knows if something replaces it as my fav haha
Hope February's reading is good for you. Best wishes.
Thank you!
my favorite book i've read in january was ,Happening' by Annie Ernaux! 🦋
Ooo I have been meaning to check that out
Great variety of books. And you know that you are the queen of spoilers, right?
Brooo I swear it wasn’t even that much in this video😭😭
im am SO excited you loved AK's book....i will tell her (im leaving for london tonight)...READ her brilliant first novel.....she will be thrilled...and invisible cities is one of the greatest books ever....explore more calvino..and NYRB books are seriously the best.....anyway, looking forward to your reaction to 100 yrs...off to london, happy reading...p.s. love again the sharp cut ending edit....bb
Safe travels 🙌 more Calvino will be certainly be read…
@@bookpogo hello from london....enjoy
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Have you read any books by Chuck Palahniuk?
Besides fight club, no I have not but I plan on it
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If you can, read Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes and report back.
Have you read Lapvona?
Not yet!! I want to read that and Eileen soon
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Fight club 5 ⭐️
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Thank you! If I can find it at the library I will read ir
so adorable... 😍
Im reading survivor by chuck rn
Also have lullaby and choke on my shelf
Like this one from Nabokov, I think you generally pick good books. Calvino has much better work than this one you read. Try Baron on The Tree. Don't know how this one was translated. If it is at all.
I love your videos but you need to stop spoiling the events of the books 🙏