It doesn't sound like something I'd want to read, either. I agree. 'Perfect' characters are boring. Nick

But...but it has waifus...😢

Look up Anthony Burgess, there is a video of him explaining the book

Are the illustrations in this edition done by the author himself?

good stuff

If you like Jung, you will love The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, Canada's greatest novelist. Many of Jung's ideas permeate the volumes, and two of the most prominent motifs are magic and the art of illusion. Fifth-Business is one of the great books of the 20th century. I've been waiting for the perfect opportunity to reccomend this to you. This one seems rather apt. Now I can rest easy, knowing that you know about the greatness that awaits you. Happy reading!

I haven't dreamt for years, and when I do dream (maybe once every few months) it's usually a nightmare. Love Yungian stuff though, thanks Logan!

Vethek comes to mind as far as gothic literature goes.

Read the razors edge by Somerset Maugham and review it.

Thats where my Name came from

I enjoyed your review. I am currently up to chapter 5. I've read a lot of Melville, one of my favorite English authors. I feel like you need a good understanding of the bible to truly appreciate him, a journey I have recently begun.

You mention several ignominous features in She. I am reading King Soloman's Mines and came across a section where the three main characters kill nine elephants in one go. I was appalled and disgusted.

Happy birthday! It's always great to see someone talking about Dinesen/Blixen here on youtube -- doesn't happen very often. I'm pretty sure she's my favourite author, and I've read almost everything there is to read from her in English. All four short story collections published in her lifetime are well worth your time (can't speak about the posthumous one -- that's the one I haven't read yet), but to me Seven Gothic Tales is her masterpiece. My favourite from this is probably 'The Deluge at Norderney', though it's really hard to choose just one. 'The Monkey' is a great choice as well! It's probably her most straightforwardly Gothic story. Blixen is kind of on the fringes of the Gothic imo. I agree that she's closer to Radcliffe/the Brontes/etc than the more horror-adjacent kinds of Gothic, but even there I don't think she entirely fits in. In Denmark and elsewhere in continental Europe, Seven Gothic Tales was published as Seven Fantastic Tales, but I don't think she's really what you'd consider a typical writer of the European fantastic either in the way that some of her big influences (like Hoffmann) were. I also compare Blixen's writing to things like Canterbury Tales and The Thousand and One Nights whenever I have to pitch her to someone! The inspiration she drew from oral storytelling and 'the tale' (rather than the short story) is very obvious. Though I know some people have argued that her own stories are too complex/indirect/intertextual/etc. to work as oral tales themselves, which I think I agree with. Which ones did you feel were too long/not as good?

I'm reading I am Lazarus at the time of writing. 70% through or so. Wow wow wow.

The only full tale by Isak Dinesen I've read is "Sorrow-Acre", which I found in an anthology, a masterful and subtly biting indictment of the old European aristocracy in its terminal stage of dominion before the era of revolution at the close of the eighteenth century. It's not at all Gothic, but I think stands with any of the great English-language short stories of the twentieth century. I've also perused the author's famous memoir 'Out of Africa', and was impressed by the powerful and supple prose communicated there. Though not completing the written tale itself, I have seen the film adaptation of "Babette's Feast", an interesting and quietly moving allegory of artistic vocation, and saw the Hollywood interpretation of 'Out of Africa', starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a reasonably engaging though not fully satisfying gloss on the visionary power of the original. Incidentally, I've read that Isak Dinesen was the favorite writer of American director Orson Welles after William Shakespeare. And congratulations on your birthday anniversary this week!

I just bought this. Perfect timing.

chief keef

❤❤ 당신의 채널의알게되어 매우매우 기쁩니다,, 하먼멜빌을 사랑하는 마음에 함께하며 감동했습니다, I'm sending you a review, excellent. While I agree with the analysis, I think that all the writings of that era were derived from the Bible, and I think Moby Dick is based on the book of Ecclesiastes, I think it's nothing more than a book based on the Bible, and that's entirely my opinion. I hope you don't misunderstand my opinion. The literary font of Moby Dick is so elegant and beautiful, I was so shocked. It was like looking at a very beautiful painting. It was definitely a work of art, like Van Gogh's. It's not only worth reading, but it's also worth reading. Before reading the Bible, I had to read Llego's work.

Good review. Just finished MTS today. I liked it but felt the ending was a little hurried but also dragged. I had issues with a few characters but overall enjoyed it. Scanner Darkly was my first PKD novel. Great. LOVE Flow my tears.. The edition with Ubik and Three stigmata I have. The latter novel being my favorite PKD.

I found this book at the library. I was going to read it, but now I won't waste my time on it. I much appreciate the summery. Thanks.

I read 'The Golden Pot' as a story of Romantic Sehnsucht, though weirdly enough one that ends with the longing being satisfied. But maybe that's part of the fairytale feel of it. 'The Sandman' is excellent. And I enjoyed 'My Cousin's Corner Window' as well. I read the Oxford collection of Hoffmann's stories, where it was also the last one -- it was a selection of I think 4-5 tales arranged to reflect Hoffmann's gradual movement from full on Romanticism to more naturalist types of writing. There seems to be a surprising lack of current, authoritative, complete editions of Hoffmann in English. All I've been able to find are scattered selections like the ones from Oxford, Penguin, and Archipelago.

It sounds a bit dull. I hope your books are selling decently. Nick

I completely agree with everything you said. Commercial success and quality are different, and proof of that lies in the authors you mentioned. I'ld also mention Jack Kerouac, who wrote an entire novel on a giant roll of paper, filled with hundreds of grammatical errors and no punctuation. The commercial appeal of art involves a series of social structures beyond the art itself. The structures that make art successful are not given a priori; they are social constructs. I honestly find it a bit dishonest when these KZbinrs fail to make it clear that their advice is actually about commercial success and not quality. Because, as you said, it ends up discouraging new writers and killing any possibility for creative development.

Thus concludes my seven and a half minutes of KZbin for the day. In watching some of your older videos from 2018-19, I was struck by just how playful and experimental your style was (injecting humour into your reviews - the famous repetition of 'ooo!' in your Hawthorne video comes to mind - the use of clips from shows, movies or music videos to emphasize your points, your habit of doing videos not centered wholly on books - namely your review of book covers or magazines and the like - and the overall quaint character of your channel back then). I was wondering if you would consider reinstating some of that old energy into your more recent fare, just to make things more interesting. I think it would benefit the future of your channel going forward.

This video just popped back up on KZbin and I'm glad it did! I've been a little stuck on a project I'm working on, so I've deviated back into fanfiction for a while, just to get me writing/typing/ideating again. Incidentally, I checked my email a few months ago and found a comment on a fanfiction project I'd uploaded YEARS ago, which I didn't think ANYONE had cared about, liked, or even seen; this random person had read my story, found some deep meaning in it, and cried happy tears over this little project of mine that I hadn't even thought about in such a long time. It was a very nice moment. Anyway, can confirm - what other people will or will not connect with is honestly wild, and very unpredictable, so we might as well bang out that story on our typewriters and put it out there for people to read! (I can't wait to read your anthology, You Our Host Logan Albright!)

Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?

Top 5 ? Did he not wrote 7 in all ? :)

If do Napoleon book, fun fact this was going to be Kubrick Napoleon movie. But Kubrick did not like script. Let put this Anthony Burgess and bigger falling out with Stanley Kubrick. He is to writer what Shelley Duvall is to actress. Seriously look it up.

This is my fav book from Burgess. Is sort based on true story in same fargo is based on true story ( in this case is based on Anthony vaction)

Do you have a present favorite among the books by Burgess you have read? I myself have so far only read 'A Clockwork Orange' (one of my favorite novels), but I'm aware that Burgess himself did not feel that book represented his best work. I know some critics hold 'Earthly Powers' to be Burgess's masterpiece.

My cousin said it best regarding paperbacks: 'They get the job done.' Having said that, I do have some luxury editions of certain volumes, and about half of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series from The Easton Press. Beautiful editions!

I put a copy of Finnegans Wake in my toilet as a bathroom reader twelve years ago and just finished it.

Great review. I hadn't heard of it before, but I'll seek it out now. I can recommend Earthly Powers, which is one of those books that reads differently every time you read it.

Oh, yay! More Burgess! Just when I was revisiting your other reviews of his. I actually have this one in my collection. It seems quite short, and, based on your review, enjoyable. I think I'll start with this one.

I only know A Clockwork Orange, which I enjoyed so I guess I should try a few more.

Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. I love the fact that I see IKIRU on the shelf behind you.

Elf expert! You've arrived, Logan.

Thanks, how do you find the time to read so much?

Thank you Logan,for a very interesting review of Iceland.

Just found your channel. Blessings from chicago and yay for me.❤😂🎉

This may have been the wrong choice to expose you to Ligotti. Since you like the stories of Aikman (so do I!!) you might enjoy his earlier stories from the collections Songs of a Dreamer and Grimscribe. Short works with a certain quality of total *weirdness*. I think Penguin has a collection with both of those books in it. Plus another of him sort of mid-career before the corporate horror period we see in the book you reviewed. Also you might want to find some interviews with him. He's very thoughtful and well read. Not just some guy who hated his job LOL.

Underrated video. Surprised it didn't come out on April Fool's Day.

Hi Logan, thank you as always for your continued uploads on this wonderful channel,. You've brought so many wonderful stories and authors to my attention over the years, Robert Aickman included. I am currently finishing up a short story collection of Robert. E. Howard horror stories that I am very much enjoying. From my understanding he was one of the fathers of Weird Fiction and is credited as the creator of Conan the Barbarian among other famous characters. His stories can feel a bit formulaic and predictable when read to quickly back-to-back but considering how much of a pioneer he was for the fantasy genre it is easy enough to overlook if not find charming after a while, though that may just be me being overly charitable. Despite this he is extremely good at building atmosphere and is capable of writing some genuinely beautiful passages and descriptions when the time calls for them. I also really enjoy how his characters do not fall in the typical camp you often see in horror stories of this time of being puny and powerless in the face of evil as a means to demonstrate our insignificance in the universe, instead Howard's characters feel fear and danger but through sheer will and courage face their fears no matter how terrible it may be, often accompanied by badass proclamations of how the main character will smite the ancient, often "uncivilized" evil before him with nothing but his fists, a magic sword blessed by priests from a forgotten era, and/or a gun, and the indomitable spirit of his Anglo-Saxon ancestors coursing through his veins lol. They are a little cheesy but without a doubt my favorite of Howard's "Howardisms" so far. As a result I find Howard's stories much more inspiring and enjoyable to read compared to some of his contemporaries like Lovecraft or Blackwood who despite being great authors in their own right, seem to almost relish in the futility and insignificance of humanity as a species to point where it just gets depressing to read after a while, at least for me personally. If anyone is interested in exploring his work I can not recommend the Del Ray collections of his stories enough, as they not only include awesome illustrations by Greg Staples but are faithful and unedited reprints of his original stories without any of the censorship you unfortunately see more and more of these days in reprints of older works. Sorry for writing so much incoherent fluff, this became less of a comment and more as way to get the thoughts swirling around in my head out into the world as I have no one to share them with lol. Thank you to anyone who made it this far for taking the time out of your day to read what I have to say!

The Bette Davis films from 1938-1944 are very good. Now, Voyager is far from a light romp. The subject matter is far ahead of its time & the character is one of most complex I’ve ever seen.

No interest in spooky books. I always enjoy your videos, though.

Precise in your review, I have read half of it and I loved it yes the miracle part sounds unrealistic but yes I also believe special people can create miracles and see them as well and he was definitely special one good thing I liked about the book is that he has also included Christianity in his learning and shows that Hinduism is not a radicalised religion and is pretty accomodating 🙏

Finished Sanctuary the other night. I've become a student of Roman Noir and didn't know until half way through that I would be reading another book that falls under that category. What impressed me the most as a work of Roman Noir is that it exposed a structure used in the genre. There's 2 Parts. Part 1 is a "down the rabbit hole" plot device, setting up desperate times with desperate people (Red Harvest and Personville as an example). They act impulsively, irrationally, with often misplaced motives. The Depression serves as a fantastic backdrop for this story, as Davis Grubb lays out it in The Night of the Hunter (published in 1953). Part 2 is about the Consequences of the actions taken in Part 1. Many Consequences suffered are near Act of God, Deus Machina (like the whopper of the ending in The Postman Always Rings Twice by Cain). Postman also plays very clearly with that 2 part structure, which is why I don't think anyone was able to faithfully or satisfyingly adapt it to the big screen, or any screen ftm. Sanctuary really layed out the structure of Roman Noir while I was reading it. And found it very exciting as I was checking off plot points by the 2nd half, and always wondering (on the edge of my seat) what that final chapter would have in store for our cast of characters. Would there be truth sought and justice served? How messy did these characters make their lives and the lives of others around them? A recent Roman Noir I read and loved was Laura Lippman's Prom Mom. Despite its tacky title, Ms Lippman proves that she is a student of the genre. She also wrote a very underrated novel a few years ago called Sunburn, which was such an homage that she invoked James M Cain's writings into her plot (which she didn't need to do. We see you, Laura. We see you.) Great video and wonderful channel, sir! Keep up the good work!

"Elias" was Elijah. The Bible consistently outlines Elijah as the one who precedes the Messiah. John the Baptist, and so on. So in this story. Elijah was a soul who was taken by God and used for all time to prelude the divine intervention in our world. Easily described throughout the story "The Divine Invasion".