How many letter writers does the novel Clarissa have? (A) 6 (B) 4 (C) 3 (D) More than one of the above (E) None of the above

It's my favorite novel. The fact that the censors wouldn't permit the chapter with Bishop Tikhon made problems. Fyodor went to fetch his father- a doctor- when he was small when a little girl was raped. It's not beautiful; it's intensely interesting.

So refreshing to encounter a person open to both NYRB (my favorite publisher) & the Holy Bible (my favorite book). It's funny that deep readers will dig hard into all realms of literature looking for insight & clues...& yet will ignore the most important source of all-and the strangest-and the loveliest-and the most truthful-etc. Also, I've noticed that many Bible-haters tend to those who haven't read it. (Yet another sign of its power....). Thanks!

The name of this novel was the basis of perhaps the cleverest essay title I've ever come across: _Dunce For The Confederacy: The Lost Cause of Shelby Foote_ Two great quips, the first is inspired; the second, icing on the cake. otoolefan.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/dunce-for-the-confederacy-the-lost-cause-of-shelby-foote/

Just read this, I didn’t like Harry either!! But it was a good read, thanks for sharing your thoughts

I hate rattle gun script readers, but this is the extreme opposite.

I would say that burroughs is the david lynch of literature, his books in my opinion are meant for authors . Hes hes an author for authors if that makes sense. Hes works is jard to follow sure but man whqt it does to you imagination is an awesome experience.

So glad I searched KZbin today for Baudelaire and found your channel! I just subscribed and look forward to viewing more of your videos.

I'm finally going to start this in September, after putting it off for years! I listened to the Hardcore History episodes covering this period to ground myself, so hopefully that'll make this endeavor less intimidating! Very excited to see what all the fuss is about with this guy Herodotus :) Thanks for the video!

I will be taking a 10 week read of the Brothers K… with the Katz version with Brian Zahnd -a very well read individual who adores this book. He is a theologian and pastor and world traveler and his church is word of life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri for 45+ years. He just asks for a donation of any amount and the information about the Course will be up on his website the first week of September I ( the read itself will take place probably first week of January and then 10 weeks do… came to your site because I wanted to hear a commentary on this version, thank you very much. I enjoyed your talk. Susan

I fee like he’s more of an experience of reading, than a storyteller? He’s calling attention to the postmodern frustrations and absurdities… life is people who show up without context, we are constantly trying to determine the significance to assign things… Burroughs expresses/examines these truths in a way many people find meaningful. He emphasizes the disparity between narrative fiction and existence, which is absolutely his stated objective (he called language a virus that sucks the emotion out of direct experiences, he wrote to disrupt that relationship). He rocks. Thanks for sharing your perspective though, you have much to share and your experience is of course so valid, but you asked!

Is this a book you would read to your children?

Wow you missed the whole point

May I know what the slightly racist joke was at the end?

One of the greatest books ever written

Spoiler! Don't read beyond this point if you haven't read it! People dying during floods is a pretty common thing. I don't understand why people were shocked when they died!

Thank you! My point of view of this story: explore, Dont follow.

Hi, Matthew. I love your thoughtful reviews. Will you ever return to KZbin? You are missed.

Amazing video! Subscribed to all the links you got, man! And you made me buy the book, which I had seen before but always had my doubts about.

I read the “Classics Illustrated” version when I was about 12. One of the best days of my life was when I finally visited the house about 20 years ago.

My favorite writer and story. I even made my own adaptation for my kids in Hebrew😊

Very helpful! I'm reading it now. Thanks!

Since you are a reader of Proust as well as fascinated by different translations, here's a very interesting comment on that issue by an important and very well known Proust scholar, Christopher Prendergast. I hope you'll find it interesting and thought provoking: 46:25-53:20: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYLEZpmpgtuEpJI

Enjoy the channel. The lip smacking tho…

I hope this 4 month lull in content means that you're taking a break from a very punishing reading regimen. Being well-read is great but there's always more books to read and we must refresh ourselves from time to time by swimming in the ocean of experience if we want to actualise ourselves and be fully human. Life's what happens when we're making other plans.

This month, I read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and unless the book I am currently reading by Joseph Conrad is better, I would say it is the best book I have read this month, with its only real competition being The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. The other authors I read this month are Italo Calvino, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Denis Johnson, and Nicholas Eames. I believe this is a testament to how good Philip K. Dick can be despite his flaws as a writer. The book is truly food for though.

I just ordered this book. Can’t wait to read it. Ross Coulthart mentioned that he read it and that’s what got me interested. Thanks for this video!! Good job.

how you explain it's irritating

Bazarov is the fiction slayer fr

I just reread this poem and was looking for some videos about it. I was so delighted that you did one. I miss your videos so much, you always give the very best comments on your reading.

I finished Les MIs last night. It’s my favorite book I’ve ever read. When I finished War And Peace, I thought I’ll never read a better book than this. But I loved Les Miserables more. I can’t wait to read Hugo’s other novels, which I’ve managed to piece together while reading Les Mis.

"riverrun makes me think of game of thrones" yes, George RR Martin is doing a time looping think with his series as well, except in a more intelligible manner also the prologue starts with "we should start back", which is not only what you should do once you finish reading the books, you should read them again, but the prologue itself can be read backwards for more story and themes from the series

Which translation did you read first and what did you think of it?

just stumbled across this video, and gotta say it's pretty unfair overall. i'm not sure what was in the norton collection that was so bad... but i was completely taken by his collection Epigrammes. it's not just a rehearsal of the greek and latin forms, it is a complete overhaul rooted in a modern scientific worldview that attends to things as they are - including the things of thinking/thinking thing. Descartes is not far off... let alone the romantics who 200 years later will finally turn this turn toward things into nature poetry as encounter/event. it is a poetry of things and surfaces - the slight looks, ephemeral moments, instants that pass without notice but are registered nonetheless. and the poem, for jonson, captures that instant, gives it shape and makes it into what it is. this is an incredibly modern poetry that doesn't try to hide the solidity of the letter and the line with an idealized sense of the spirit of the poet. poetry as writing - literally, the epigram means inscription - is returned to its ancient greek sense of poeisis as making. hence that third line to the end of "on my first sonne" where he puns on his son's name with his own: he buries himself alive in the very monument that he made for his son. the entire drama of language and death, is basically bound up in that poem... but you also find incredible details of people at court - some of whom he names or nicknames or refuses to name at all, as in On Something, that Walks Somewhere At court I met it, in clothes brave enough, To be a courtier ; and looks grave enough, To seem a statesman : as I near it came, It made me a great face ; I ask'd the name. A Lord, it cried, buried in flesh, and blood, And such from whom let no man hope least good, For I will do none ; and as little ill, For I will dare none : Good Lord, walk dead still. anyways, it's been a few years since this was posted so maybe you've come around on ol' jonson - but maybe these few words could change your mind! thanks for the video ~~

I loved the passages where he projects his inner states onto the landscape, nature, with incredible pathos, imagination. Yes, Werther is pathetically self-obsessed, but Goethe does describe with truth and insight that crazy state of limerence and infatuation. What lover has not experienced despair?

Would you say Avsey or Katz portrays the dark humor/ humor better?

In Spain people think Sancho Panza is fat and is tiny because of the description of him in chapter 9, when the change of narrator happens and the narrator sees him in the cover of the book in Toledo, but the thing is that the narrator never describes him physically, only that he is coward and likes to eat and drink.

very good video , i also read it and i loved it , keep doing this greats videos 👍👍

Please, read "The story of an hour" by Kate Chopin.

If I am allowed to express my personal opinion: Dostoevsky is one of the most overestimated writers of all time. Really D.? What can one say about Alyosha's theological discussions with a 13 year old boy? What can one think about the ending of Brothers Karamazov, where Alyosha together with some pre-adolescent children (!) are all together cheerfully happy as they celebrate... the coming of the Last Judgement Day!... Seriously? Is this suppose to be good literature? Even a believer reader should have enormous problems with such a literary, such an artistic solution, which is not. In Dostoevsky we find always the following concept: All "good" guys get to be rewarded and all "bad" guys either commit suicide or go to prison or get crazy. Ivan Karamazov, the one that could have saved Dmitri's - his brother's - life, gets crazy one day before the court! And why? Because he is the "atheist" of the novel! Is there anything more p r e d i c t a b l e in whole literature? Do we want our literature to be predictable in that silly way? How can a healthy human mind accept this forced and totally disgusting solution? And this novel is considered by many, many, many "serious" people that read (do they actually read?) serious literature as "the best novel ever written". H o l y cow! After having read Dostoevsky's works again and again I have come to this conclusion: He is the most horrible, boring and kitsch author out there. Not even his language has anything to offer! And although I don't agree with every single critical opinion Nabokov expressed for a number of authors, I totally agree with his opinion on Dostoevsky. There are so many writers out there that are... writers! D. is at least mediocre. And please, for all of you reading this comment and thinking that I am crazy: Read D. anew; don't let yourself repeating "what the world is saying". Shape your own opinion.

I really like Maugham's writing, and have recently started to listening to audiobook versions which are published on a youtube channel called neuralsurfer. It uses AI automated reader, which is surprisingly good, though there are often very obvious errors of pronunciation, tone and stress of certain words etc. Maugham was a great writer, and so prolific - you've got to admire the confidence of his style and output! He was not pretentious about writing; he was economical, not wordy, and he strove to keep his readers interested. The plot always keeps moving and he never strayed very far into lofty abstraction or overly sophisticated ramblings. Sometimes though, certain parts of some storylines or the endings seem to rely on rather pat resolutions that don't seem natural or realistic to me. Still, overall I am in awe of his work.

I read a version where there's no ''essay'' kind of chapters. I feel like i was scammed 😭😭

the first book i couldn’t finish. it was funny but i just didn’t care about anything the book offered

this is by far my favourite of him wide spanning through modernism romp from whores to electrocuted pumpkins to the first time people looked into the sky and saw balloons i really loved this book got into its cadence read it like poetry in a lot of places laughed so much at his bitterness as it is lovely in its purity he still attended to people he despised as a dr this book is a must read for lovers of people like de passos in its rangem almost fully showing the world modernising . anyway what a beauty of a book although after i finished it i never read another word from him for 1o years if celiene was a rock n roll star hed be mark e smith

So I was reading The Histories by Herodotus and I was thinking "wait a minute, I'm going to read The Iliad and The Odyssey first. I bought the Emily Wilson translation and apparently its a very controversial translation. What translation would you recommend? Have you read her translation yet? I saw in another video that you did indeed have that book as well. I'm wondering what translation you recommend for The Histories by Herodotus as well, for that I have Tom Hollands translation and feel pretty set on that. What's your take? thanks

Man thanks for doing this video. Love your channel. I can’t wait to read this novel. I’m only now finally reading Hugo with “Les Miserables”. Had I known what an unbelievably great writer he was I would have read his work a long time ago. Besides Les Miserables, Hunchback, and Toilers, he apparently has several other novels that are supposed to be superb but I can’t seem to find good copies in English. Gonna keep working on that cause I’m not sure if Hugo isn’t the best writer I’ve ever read, and I’ve read some of the best.

Yes numb characters

Do you know about the IBOO press edition? I haven't been able to see it irl but the cover is beautiful so I'm not sure if I should get that one or this new translation.

Thank you!

I hope you read some happy and edifying material as well to keep your phycological equilibrium. Thank you and God Bless you for your efforts.