awful book. Pulp dialogue. We think we are going to get a thriller with Germans v Americans. Instead we a quasi tarot card reading and antique stores. Super dull and wooden.

I'm struggling through it right now. The writing itself is great but everything is soooo slow and drawn out. 4 pages about choosing a dress. You can really tell this was a serial when it was first published and Tolstoy had to meet word counts.

1984 is what you see when you stop taking your soma.

It seems like most the people that have reviewed this book on KZbin didn't understand it.

1984 is my alltime favourite book, and I read BNW only recently, so I’m a bit biased in preferring the Orwell book, yet your summary has really made me reconsider what makes BMW so great and I’m really grateful for that!!

Forget about “what’s cool”, just get to the heart of the matter.

what an interesting cover the book has

Can you post that video you filmed when you were gonna return in 2020?

I like ur milk

I like that you talk about the missteps as well as showing the successes

I realize that it's been 8 years since your review, thank you, So many perceptive comments, the I disagree with your comment "pretentious lest you did not intend it to be pejorative.' BTW, I'd also recommend his "The Third Policeman", if you really want to explore his superlative surrealism...Again, thank you. PS...this book pretty much demonstrates Hemmingway's caution..."Write drunk, edit sober." 🤣

Hey! Ruby is back!🙌 Hello again😋✌️ Btw, going to Edinburgh for school sounds amazing! 😱😭

Blair witch project lol. I watched that when we were living basically in the wilderness and if was terrifying!!! Beautiful dress. Love the lipstick

Heeheehee its cute when you try to thread the needle

I loved your book reviews! Hope you are doing well.

OMG. You're alive!) Glad to see you.

Welcome back Ruby! :)

It's so inspiring to see a person who came back for subscribers All the best for your future and congratulations on your experiences you have been through. Be great 👍 and keep rocking 🎉 I will support you 💯

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it's no more pretentious than your average guy nursing a pint at a bar without a television blaring. if you've had some familiarity with old irish literature, 'god-big finn' and sweeny, are fair game for a humorist. the rambling, indulgent prose, who is a student, is guffaw-worthy. also, the amiable posturing and rambling unresolved storylines become less odious after three or four decades of porter. i think you might get a better taste for flann with :THE HARD LIFE' which is more coherent perhaps. it's also shorter.

Amazing synopsis on the book, one of the best ive seen yet, thanks!! from my own readings, and my understandings you did it justice, thanks,

Great review! I am re-reading the novel so I am watching some reviews. I first read it for a "science fiction as literature " course in college. I agreed with your observations 100%

😢glad you enjoyed it but prospective readers might want to know that the book is as Irish as it is possible to be: that it includes large sections that are basically translations of Irish folk tale about Sweeney; that it is enormously funny; and that the shadow of Joyce hangs over it.

Pleasure VS Pain

I've actually heard conflicting information on what adaptation bothered Alan Moore the most. I heard one say Matrix, and another say it was Watchmen, and yet another say it was V for Vendetta (even though Moore actually refused to see it according to TV Tropes).

You're the og. Dozens of women have reviewed it recently and mostly talk about how laborious it is to finish or understand. You acknowledged it and we're able to contextualize the content beyond 'some old chore of a book'. Seriously even the ones who liked it mostly talked about how long or confusing it was. Thank you!

War and peace is world famous,I haven't gone through it but as you told that it's about french invasion of Russia and he was against the war.Moreover Russian society had badly suffered,he would have written about misery of his country,never the less it was all about misery and suffering in the 19th century He gave us a massage that is moralistic,against the vices of people, actually he was carried away by impulse of love and how to hate the disgraceful and derelict life people trudged on He was a reformer at all level of society May be there would have been more to study to get the true picture

There's a lecture by Huxley himself online where he compares his world with Orwell's; it's called The Ultimate Revolution.

Jojoba is pronounced “huh-hoba”. H sound not Y sound.

Have u seen werewolf by night ? I hope they let Michael do swamp thing

I know it’s been a long time since you’ve reviewed a Comic. But I genuinely think you would really enjoy James Tynion’s work when it comes to horror comics.

LOVE YOU !!!

I started reading the Wordsworth classic translation of WAP and found it to be unreadable. I have a copy of the Penguin Classic translation that I a now reading. It is so much better with a larger font . Plus the translation is a modern one that is better to understand. Your comment on the war sections is confusing considering the title of the novel. However if you are thinking about reading WAP get the Penguin Classics edition.

If you can't be bothered to even get the name of the book right then please explain why I should bother to listen to what you thought of it?

Your make up looks absolutely fine. Not AS fine as Heller's little book on the top shelf, but still... You say pretentious, I say potato. Echo-blow of a goblet-base against the tables of the palace, sweet to me is that. I like gull cries and the twittering together of fine cranes. These also please me, man-shouts at a parting, cuckoo-call in May. I mean...Come on!

1984 has poor writing, Aldous is the more skillful writer, I prefer Brave New World especially in regards to predicting soma and the whole sexual relationships.

Foucault was mixing his philosophy with his homosexual masochistic practices when he said: there is no truth only power imposed on people. We got to question the background and lifestyles of philosophers because it does reflect such as Nietzsche said

Is that a Buflinch Mythology book ? that asshole mixes the greek and roman goods names Minerva is roman not greek Athena is the greek god of wisdom.

I love swamp thing. He uses feminism in his story mixing horror where a woman becomes so frustrated about female expectations she turns into a werewolf

thank you for your honesty. i learned a lot from your video.

Crap. It looks like this might be a dead channel, but could anyone tell me the second book she listed after house of leaves? HOL is my favorite book and the reason I bought this book, so I read anything that's compared to it, but I legit can't make out what she said.

HI could you react to Lore of HDnG or Lore of HID&GEM? The fanbase will be super excited to see - thanks!

Great concept, but the Czech language in the newspapers was just look alike (total gibberish). For someone from Prag that was a big flaw. I would love if they made reedition of the book and hire someone who knows to speak Czech.

Can you gift me few books from your collection please 🙇

"The end was unfullfilling". Welcome to reality.

For me 1984 and A Brave New World separately have different warnings about the future. 1984 is afraid of boots stomping on human faces, it's worried about ultranationalism, surveillance states, censorship, and control. While A Brave New World is afraid of humans taking pills to feel something, it's worried about secularism, unregulated freedoms, entertainment, and sedation. One is anti totalitarian in favor of a free society where civil liberties and individualism is protected, while the other is anti progressive ( in the technological sense though there is a problematic reading you can have about either novels) and in favor of a society in which we still value knowledge and the human experience. However, what I think we should consider when talking about both of these novels is how they reflect the class not discussed in their respective books. While both protagonists have the same job they both belong to different classes. In 1984 we see an industrial worker class that is constantly spied on and conditioned to think the way they're supposed to, which is similar to the test tube laborers that we hardly hear from in A Brave New World. The protagonists life in 1984 is most likely extremely similar to that of the laborers in A Brave New World. The same could be said about the party leaders lavish life style in 1984, which is hinted at, and the lifestyle of the protagonist in A Brave New World. What pairing these novels together show, is how power is held by both the state and the ruling class. Both are necessary in maintaining each other's power, and both use different forms of control of the population. The private sector sedates the middle class and distracts them from the horrors that the state inflicts upon marginalized identities and the working class. These marginalized groups are then forced out of circumstances to work low wage labor jobs which create profit for both the state and the private sector which continues the long cycle of sedation and oppression. If one book speaks to you more than the other, it could possibly be telling which side of the social hierarchy you are on. Next time watch the news, notice how fast news stories go by on such horrible topics of things that are going on. Notice how no solutions are thought up or how no problems are examined, they just are explained as "it is what it is." Think about how much comedy news shows, commercial breaks, or social media feeds do to stream endless content despite the fact that there are real stories of human suffering within these mediums. While someone may be able to forget about a news story about a bombing of a baby formula making factory in Baghdad, or the swat officers breaking into a couples house in the middle of the night and murder a black woman in her sleep in Kentucky (Breonna Taylor), there are people who can't. They can't because they aren't the people who view these stories through a screen, these are the people who are in the stories. To these people it's not A Brave New World, it's 1984. It's the boot stomping on someone's face, or in this case an officers knee on a man's neck (George Floyd). The masses are divided and deal with different problems. While marginalized groups and the working class have to deal with low wages exploitation evictions police brutality, and if you're from another country imperialism. The middle class is more concerned with technology, Facebook spreading misinformation, not being able to trust their news sources anymore, and an overall lack of engagement or fulfillment at their job despite the fact that they make enough to support themselves and have multiple subscriptions to steaming services. If you are a straight man who is overwhelmed with the multiple possible connections you can make on dating apps and ultimately end up feeling isolated because of the amount of options presented, then the loveless orgies depicted in A Brave New World might connect with you on a personal level. However, if you're a trans person who lives in constant fear that your life would be taken in a hate crime or are kicked out of your home and are faced with homeless shelters, hospitals, jails, and prisons that deny your identity and very existence, then perhaps the idea of an unperson from 1984 resonates with you. Maybe Big Brother dictating sex to be purely for pro creation and not pleasure implies a binary view of gender and an enforcement of heteronormativity that we see today in our own country. The reason for all of this, is because of a lack of community, a lack of freedom, a lack of democracy, and a lack of regulation. Ultimately to solve the problems of both the working and middle class, we must democratize the private sectors (A Brand New World) and our governments (1984) to democratize our economy is to have collective ownership of the means of production and to truly democratize our government is to demilitarize and give power to those who have historically been powerless due to systematic oppression.

OMG, I love it

So your advice is, that though intellectually lazy like yourself, read this book?!

When your title has “unboxing” in it, shouldn’t you show the actual unboxing?

Great essay review. I liked the book a lot too, especially the early pre-hxtoric chapter in which he imagines what familial love mite have been in some neanderthal proto-language