Nice /mu/core back there

This book Was a trip 😅 Unfortunately it was my first of his book and I’ve never read anything as challenging. it definitely is a slow burn but it was great not perfect read.

Excellent review. Intuitive, transcendental, oe'rbrims the cup with the elixir of the artistic gesture and the vain attempt to put the mystery into words. Glad I found this channel. Thumbs up. Subscribed.

The part about the Critics was my favorite part. It provided momentum for me to plow through the rest (though I do love the whole book, it is amazing).

Sounds like you saved me from a DNF. Thank you.

Finished it in just under 2 weeks. By the time I reached part 2 I just couldn’t put it down. I felt like my own sanity was degrading as I kept reading

This was my first bolano and i loved it cause imma freak

Can I get it in PDF? Or any audio book?

how big of a f-up have I done considering that withou previous reading and researching I have gifted this book to my mother?

Love this show,. Love your reviews.

Great review, almost done the book now

was looking for another good video on this book beyond the ones i'd already seen, and spotted the records in your thumbnail. i chose wisely

The Idiot by Dostoyevsky is solid

I loved that book…ch. 3, ugh….200+ pages on ‘Femicide’…but it was allays, the Nazi, he brought that shit over from Europe, only to make innocent young women ‘pay’ in the desserts. But Mexican cops are shabby and I got into At The Drive-In, they sing about that too (femicide.)

Love this video! AND! Seek out Yelena Moskovich. A good intro might be 2021's "A Door Within A Door." It could be read in 2 hrs. Ignore the cover's comparison to "Crying of Lot 49" or most people's comparisons to David Lynch movies. It's weirder than both combined. And a lot of your descriptions of Can Xue's challenging & participatory writing reminded me of Moskovich.

Idk I’d you plan to continue making videos but I really like you should. This was very well made

Read this based off of this video a few hours ago and loved it. While I did think some of the writing was a tad simplistic, the story was surprisingly engaging and subdued in a very comforting way. Plus she somehow spun this into an positive message which I fully buy into. Great recommendation!

awesome video

Love this!!!!! I will say I do wish someone would discuss the ending, because I truly do not know what to make of the rushed feeling thing!

I found your channel through Shawn the Book Maniac, and I think it's terrific. Happy to hear you liked Convenience Store Woman too! After I finished it, I just sat there thinking the main character was SO weird, but super interesting! I love a book that's beyond the mediocre best seller, and that wakes me from my complacency!

Reading it now, a search for opinion led me here. I share your views, and it's funny that I'm half way in and I want to re-read. I feel I'm missing lots of things like Andreas relationships with the people he discusses. Good vid. I've subscribed.

Beautifully articulated.

Thank you again. Can Xue is ordered.And.... what a beautiful girl!

Had to come over and love another video! I did the same thing.. I did my newbie tag problem a month after I started my channel bcz honestly I Had No Idea What say🤣

You are a highly intelligent young man! New friend here and I hope you stop by and visit me too🔔 it’s sad that you have more responsibility than most adults! 👏 👏 👏

I'm going through all your videos! Wonderful stuff, keep it up please. Can I recommend two contemporary Irish poets, Derek Mahon and Vona Groarke.(And I love the deep house jam at the end :)

A great review thank you. I just finished 2666 for a second time. Bolaño writes so many characters that are short lived but have more depth than others who occupy a full novel by other writers. The final part of the book is stunning. The asides on the second world war, the strangeness of the seaweed boy, the tales of love in its many forms. There is so much to take from this novel but aside from all of these many many wonders in its pages is just the pure beauty of the writing. I'll never get over it and I'm finding it difficult to read other novels since (poetry being my saviour).

This has actually been one of the most intelligent and eloquent videos by a white person I have seen on this topic! I can only imagine how worried you must be about the safety of your husband and your children!

Jesus- what your husband has had to face is horrible. I think you and I came to the same conclusions. Well said.

Fuck, yeah. 💕. As for the police violence that struck at the center of your beautiful heart-fuck that! Can’t wait to watch the Baldwin Giovanni dialogue!

I love that conversation between Baldwin and Giovanni. Nikki Giovanni is amazing. Freeing ourselves, as individuals, of as much of the racism that has infected our thinking is a project of a lifetime. Education is the starting point, not the end point

Well said Dan. I think the benefit with this movement is it has a singular, clear goal, that even though it may seem outside the box, it is very tangible and achievable in a short time. Obviously the greater goal is to end systemic racism but the immediate goal of defunding/abolishing the police would be a stride in the right direction and go a long way to protect Black Lives whilst working towards the ultimate goal of an equal society for all. A very easy thing for everybody to do is to let their elected officials know that they support the abolition or defunding of the police and that this will be the singular issue at which they judge who to vote for in all future elections. You’re absolutely right that just reading is not good enough.

Sorry that happened and you're absolutely right ✊ That conversation between Baldwin and Giovanni sounds fascinating

I cannot explain how much I hated the first story. So much so that I refuse to read the rest. I gave it away at the earliest moment I could!

I love your deconstruction of books and this is no exception. Bert from Pastory Time also reviewed this book and said- “where is the joy?” and that let me know I won’t be picking it up. This video with you and Shawn just confirmed it. Thank you.

A boring book about penises. Well, at least it looked short 😄

why is it alway 'one last job'? Is there a bigger cliche in genre fiction? Isn't the swooning woman a Victorian novel trope? Maybe it's reclaiming that. I dunno, can't help feeling that by the sound of it, this novel could only have been written by somebody French, that odd mixture of a culture completely bereft of any subcultural influence, with the institutionalised concept of the 'mistress' and men and women having beds in separate rooms. I say this without having read one word of the novel under discussion of course...

1. So happy to see you with a new video! 2. "I miss Kentucky, and I miss my family." But, most importantly, this idea and execution was fantastic. Kudos to all and hope ya'll do this again. Thanks for the great work

I really appreciated hearing your thoughts about this book, and think you've raised some great points regarding the perception of sex and sexuality in fiction. I'll admit to some reticence in reading Cleanness, but am grateful to you, Sarah and Leo for going into such depth with your discussion.

This was wonderful!! "Between desire and dirtiness" yes, exactly! You articulated perfectly what I couldn't: my hesitance with understanding what the narrator's motive was based on his mystifying sexual past that led to tropey territory that became, for me, a larger blimp than what Greenwell may have intended, which took the spotlight over his prose. This was such a compelling and, more than ever, charming review! Even with those, er, musically independent stylings featuring sounds of the orgasmic variety? I have a feeling it was no royalty free Audio Jungle selection! : )

"Teaming hoards of porn watchers" :) Thought your answer to question four was brilliant.

You are back! Lovely!

You read very well.

I noticed pretty early on when reading 2666 that it had *infected* me; the academics might have said this, might have said that - then- these deep pool blue dreams. My own experience is that its perfectly paced - as you said these books that might not have been intended to be put together, but somehow the long paragraphs become a single breath, the narriator feeding you this detail (all in past tense?) that builds and dissolves walls between characters and places and waking and dreaming lives. Im still reading it but needed to find out some more about the author - I enjoyed your take on it! Cheers

Happy booktube Birthday! What is your favorite weird book you have ever read?

I m only ever here for the maggot brain jacket.

Not even picture of pink penis palaces seem like they can improve this read- maybe it will rise to the occasion by the end 😉😊. Thank you for Breeders nostalgia too Dan.

I watched the whole video waiting for the black, silicon phallus to change location.

dunno I just thought of American Psycho and that tedious listing of brands and labels throughout that as you both talked about this.

Great job on this you two!