It seemed to me that the reason for Addie to die was to have been sexualy assaulted by her husband, as to when the boy is yelling "you kilt her!" Implicating that she got hit by the horse, he also implies he saw his father going on top of her, which then took her will to live. Theres a parallel with the 40 years of pilgrimage in the desert by the hebrews, or so it seems.

This was exactly the depth of convo I was looking for after just finishing TSH!! Thank you for sharing

I have a love/hate relationship with Donna Tartt.

If "Power can change a person" is a whole ass book

"Story of the Eye" was hilarious, bizarre, and erotic. Mostly hilarious, though. I so want someone to film this in some graphic, surreal way that pays attention to how funny and sexy it is. I so want to hear the first few lines of the novel read as a voice-over introduction.

I really liked "Dune Messiah". I loved that "Dune" and "Dune Messiah" formed a complete tragedy. I've spent years telling people to just disregard everything written after "Dune Messiah". "Children of Dune" was awful, and "Worm-God of Dune" was unreadable.

Did you know that "Cien Años de Soledad" was actually banned from being read in Cuban schools; it has a very strong religious foundation from the Genealogical tree of the Buendia family to the sign at the very entrance to Macondo: "Dios Existe."

Irish / English alcoholics and school trauma are 2 subjects that so worn out and uninteresting. I really hate it when every character other than the main one are jerks. So unpleasant to read. Authors who treat every character as human are superior. I started reading this book recently but gave up quickly. The characters were so awful

Thank you

Most excellent book review I have had the pleasure of seeing.

Winston is a journalist. Julia is a congress person in 2024.

Great review! I just finished it and I thought it was great. It felt like a Huck Finn story with a kid having a big dangerous adventure. I've loved all three of Tartt's novels and I'm ready for a fourth book!

I was delighted by the title, I had to click on this. I completely view McCarthy as the successor/heir to Faulkner. The Orchard Keeper was only published 3 years after the publication of The Reivers and Faulkner’s death in 1962. It is hard to imagine a more seamless torch passing. I just reread the opening of All The Pretty Horses earlier this evening and was struck by how much it could absolutely pass for the opening of a Faulkner novel. Their common obsession with light is present. Anyway, great review!

You might check out Better than Food Book Reviews since he loves the book so much that he actually bought the rights to it.

Aureliano Babilonia history it's devastating.

Too many redundant boring conversations in Messiah. It just drags on and on before any action takes place. The most interesting conversations were between the conspirators (who were disposed of too easily IMO). I imagine the movie will show more of the jihad to prevent it from being a total snoozefest.

Awesome review. Enjoyed it a lot. I would rate Messiah 4/5. It’s deep and certainly worth a reread. I think FH was very brave though in the turns he took on Paul, was the right thing to do to keep it interesting. Did people expect him to be the Good protagonist throughout the whole series? Anyway, feels like Messiah is underrated.

Great review and analysis, thank you for sharing it. I am reading it in French (I am French), the passage where Rudolphe writes his break-up letter..

I appreciate you.

"And it's golden Ponyboy!" ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

And when you temper with gods plan, that’s a sin

I here I thought Christopher Nolan was obsessed with time, William does play on time with his books very well, especially The Sound of Fury

Thanks, the recap helped put together some things where I understood what was happening, but wasn’t sure if it was happening. This is my 3rd mccarthy book and I love how the setting never fades into the background. It’s a lot like real life, especially for people who aren’t able to rise above their circumstances.

It’s years since I read McCarthy’s Orchard Keeper. What stands out for from all his writing is his style. It takes on a life of its own. It’s the background music ( as in film) to the plot. I love McCarthy. A veritable genius. R.I.P.Requiescat in Pace.( love to take this woman out for a few pints sometime: I live in Ireland, unfortunately !

I'm way late but you mentioned you like to visit libraries and I immediately thought you'd probably like to visit the Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Rio de Janeiro. Look for pictures and you'll understand

Thanks!

Great analysis but I'm surprised you didn't mention Homais, who Flaubert clearly despises, represents the banality and unscrupulousness of bourgeois rationalism, and whose success is the subject of the last line of the book.

Enjoyed it at the beginning but once it hit the Las Vegas stage and the sadistic Russian father, nausea began to set in and I finally threw the novel in the trash!

So good ! Thanks Stella !

THE BABIES SCENE!!!! YEAH

Sou do Brasil, e sinceramente foi a melhor análise que vi até agora desse livro brilhante de Machado de Assis, repito, você foi brilhante em sua resenha do livro. Adorei!

It's been a while since I've read it, but to me, the kid, the judge, and the priest, and possibly other characters were all aspects of a single man with multiple personality disorder.

Thank you for making this!!

If you're still interested in ancient Greek politics you should check Claude Mossé

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I loved your humor in this pleasant review. And yes, Machado was a genius. ❤

WHAT A GREAT REVIEW!! I loved it, also your interpretations about the dedicatory was very interesting.

I loved this book as well. I was surprised it was rated relatively mid on GR. The perspective of someone who thought they were doing a good thing to have their life’s work belittled and damned. What do you do when everything you believed in is now considered wrong? And even if you went into it with theoretically justifiable causes (walking with Matasuda in the pauper village)

Li "memoria...", li "Quincas...", li "Dom Casmurro" (na verdade, acho que, dos nove romances dele, só não li "A Mão e a Luva", esse, da fase romântica) e sua analise é bastante válida. Gosto de todos, mas no "Memorial de Aires", o ultimo romance que ele escreveu, há essa síntese do cansaço com o mundo e com a aceitação dele. A soma dessas duas coisas, gera uma notável leveza. A vida, tal como ela é. Dos contos, obviamente, destaca-se "O Alienista". Esse conto foi devastador na minha vida. Outro conto nessa "categoria", mas de outro autor desse mesmo período, Lima Barreto, é "O Homem que falava javanês".

Great review!

First rate review thanks so much.

Holden puts ever Disney villain to shame. Honestly, switch out any villain with him and all the side characters saying to don't test him would make sense. Heck, if The Little Mermaid had someone like Holden, Sebastian saying to Ariel not to go see him, but she says, "Why don't you go tell my father? You're good at that.", only for him to do exactly that would make sense. Since I guarantee that any adult should be informed that they're child's making a deal with the devil.

Where are you? Hunh? You're awesome. Stick around. Wait for last year.

Quincas Borba u can try spell borba as bourbon but change the n for s

Hated Dune Messiah. Totally destroyed the first book.

Found your channel over your video on faulkners as i lay dying, I think that and this video are some of the coolest things (on this platform) honestly discussing books I’m interested in, so thanks so so much first of all. I wasn’t expecting you to start discussing something I’ve been wondering about, but I’ve been thinking about how to deal with art or media that supposedly is great but that I can’t recognize/ don’t see that way, i thought what u said was awesome. Listening to your thoughts on the book made me realize a bit more why I loved the book so much, I had similar impressions about a difficult type of person being portrayed, I loved it though because it seemed to understand a part of me. Like given all the stupid decisions and problems that the Stephen-life brings or needs, I have a soft spot for it, either cuz I relate or because I sympathize. Might be a bad way to live and might be an ignorant way to think but yk… In a sense I’m ready to put this up there with things that edgy teen boys relate to, right next to donnie darko and fight club.

The one thing I have so far in my journey as a reader, associated with "bad writing" is didacticism. No matter the genre, if an author is more concerned with giving answers, rather than inspiring the reader to formulate their own questions, they are in my eyes, committing a literary cardinal sin. Siddhartha is happily innocent of this. I only read this book a year ago myself, but I have since then come to consider it one of those books that I would guiltlessly gift pretty much anyone - it is short, it reads like a fairy-tale, while at the same time it is packed with as much food-for-thought and insight, as the reader is inclined to perceive. So, for me it's not a question of choosing aesthetics over morality as all great works of fiction are unavoidably grappling with some moral issue. The question is: can you pull-off writing about morality/moral dilemmas, and can you conjure meaningful realisations for the reader without attempting to control what those will be?

Life's too sh;ort.

I have just finished the book and the connection I sense began from the beginning, like how it started off with Darl, the one that I see myself through. The things I personally appreciate are the growth of Cash's consciousness or like when Faulkner puts you in another angle to look at Jewel from, not as a nagger but who has misbehaved when deserved respect due to his heroic labor to get himself a horse.

I've felt about this book exactly like you did. I Ve got so impressed about the way Faulkner was able to tell the story, I was unable to connect with it, though. But this was still awakening curiosity for his work as a writer and I'm sure I'm going to read more!

Such an excellent review. I just red the book and I'm attending to read it once again without making a pause because, from the opening scene and a raw atmosphere that I felt , I knew that I will cope with in the end, and now, I just want to reenjoy in the organised haos of Faulkner's style. You helped me a lot (My apologies for mistakes , I haven't wrote something on english for a long time)