I needed this for hw, and even though I’m a year late, thanks yall!

Outstanding review. thank you

Story of a lonelyness by the same author. Not humor, just drama, slow burning reading... I prefer this to tje furies although it was a funny and decent nivel

i didnt knew it was a book,i tought it was just a short poem,thanks for the video

This is the best book in the world

En español

When you read a book you can understand the author from his quotes! Here Tolstoy says "How much land does a man need"

its good but the amount of hard o n words around chapter 48-50 is abit off-putting for me as a young person

I have been reading Pedro Páramo for over forty years in both Spanish and English. I am never bored with Páramo because it changes every time I read it. My wife’s family is from Sayula.

Great review! I read Pedro Páramo a couple of years ago after I heard Guillermo del Toro at a Q&A here in LA say that it’s a foundational influence on his work and life. I read the translation by Margaret Sayers Peden, but now another one by Douglas J. Weatherford has come out that I want to read.

I think Faulkner's relevance is in helping us, as Americans, see where we came from, what we went through, and why certain things linger.

When the novel was written, Thomas Mann did not know there would be another European war in less than 20 years. Thus, The Great War was thought to be an aberration in Western culture.

Thank you for your review of The Magic Mountain. It's a fantastic novel. As I understand it, the story is an allegory of Europe prior to The Great War. The Sanatorium's patients symbolize different social groups within Europe. They are all sick by degrees. I did not find The Magic Mountain a comic tale. It's a warning and a tragedy.

best book in i have ever read

One of my favorite books. Something about being able to live in relative isolation, but yet when one wants occasionally to go "among the public" appeals to me......................

I've read WAR &PEACE at least 6 times in various translations. I've read the second epilogue only once. Once was enough.

I've read WAR &PEACE at least 6 times in various translations. I've read the second epilogue only once. Once was enough.

Stayed for the spoilers 😊

What mean the mongoose? And the men without face?

I just discovered this Chanel. Come back Juan!!!

Five stars, whatever that means.Wonderful book.

I loved most of it, but did have a difficult time with the sexual situations you mentioned, but not for the reasons you allude to. It struck me that the author or protagonist was presenting the characters cruelly and with a heap of disdain. Is it just me? 🙅‍♀️

Thank you for this pretty review❤

Good Review. Copperfield is one of the top 30 all time, by any measure. Pooing it says more a out the reader than the book. I have it 22 on my goat list between Nathan The Wise a d Saramago's Gospel According To Jesus Christ.

Thanks for posting this. It's great to have different opinions about the literature I've read. Also, this book might be the impetus behind the song, "Hotel California."

Thank you Juan for the review.

10:03,11:00 even a year to read a dense book is okay..

Thank you for your efforts.

@ 3 Years ago a sweet man sparked my memory about this beautiful book sharing how great it was...I hadn't finished it so i picked it up and it broke my heart!

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I may be wrong but I think this novel was first published on a sunday newspaper, one chapter at a time. Like a show producer who checks numbers for audience, Machado learned from the streets and cafes, in person, how it was going, who it was reaching. That explains the short and catching chapters, and the feminine addressment.

In high school, reading Machado de Assis's books is mandatory. As a teenager I found it very annoying to be forced to read old books to take a test, but in my adult life I reread some of them and it's simply incredible how modern Machado's narrative is for the time. The ironies, the sarcasm, the breaking of the fourth wall that he uses in some of his books. Machado was a black man, stutterer and epileptic in a very prejudiced and backward society. I wonder how this shaped his sense of humor that still works today.

One of the best book i have ever read. Good review!.

You're the best!!. I have red two more books from Diaz. The last one in Spanish "Negocios" it was okay . Im reading this one now and im like it. I read The Farming of Bones by Danticat . Good book. Keep it going Juan

My second favorite book after Roald Dahl's "The best of". You realize that you begin talking about the book in only second half of the video? Noticing scientists and horses was awesome. In your talk I got afraid that you will never touch it. Not sure what you mean by this video, but it is a start.

Vendam todos ao Brasil 😊

The Magus is my favourite novel - I have read it twice, and will read it again. I would say you downplay Alison's role a little - she is absolutely critical to the plot, and remains in the shadows throughout, and the fact that her character is not developed in the way you suggest (at 4:22) adds to her mystery and fragility, and the uncertain resolution in the (revised) ending.

Watch anime..it has 10x more crazy plots

It so happens that I recently reread" Daisy Miller” and just wrote the final essay assignment for my American Literature class on “Daisy Miller.” I really don’t like her (Daisy Miller the character, not the novella). She’s nothing but a spoiled, entitled brat who is, as Wintervourne and the other expats keep saying, “uncultured” and “vulgar” for the moral standards of the day. She refuses to adjust to the local social customs, and expects they to adjust to her Schenectady/New York social customs. She’s basically en early representation of the Ugly American type. Randolph is even worse, but he’s only nine years old, so I let it slide.

Yes, it‘s an incredible work, my favourite chapter is ‚Schnee‘ absolutely fantastic!

Where are you, Juan?😢

I clicked because I thought it was about wizard but got something far more interesting

An incredible book. On so many levels. Unclassifiable. Five stars, whatever that means.

Thank you for so many perceptive and well articulated insights into this great novel. A few years since I last read it - time to return to it again.

Hi, you mentioned The Magic Mountain was Thomas Mann's favourite novel. I thought it was Doctor Faustus, though I can't remember where I read that. Do you have a source where Mann actually said that?

I just read the novel (Brazilian- Cia das Letras version) I appreciated your video very much! I can even link it to nowadays and the Gaza-Israeli tragedy. What would Roth think about students invasion to Columbia University. 🤨

I'm profoundly tired of people in the 2020s - predominantly misanthropes - accusing JK of "misogyny" without reading even one passage as an example of that misogyny. Jack loved every living creature.

I still fail to see why people think this book is so great. I read comments like "one of the greatest", "best", "incredible"... but this are opinions, not facts.

Thanks for sharing this video😊. I've recently read Anne karenine and I loved some elements like the portrayal of Anne while disliking others like Lewis's rural experiences. It's so interesting to learn more about the elements that I disliked and found boring - thanks to this video I still find them a bit annoying, but I see their deeper meaning and can appreciate them more. Anne karenine is such a complex book with so many various themes - I couldn't grasp them all at first and this video enables me to notice more details that I missed and understand the book better