A friend gifted me The Good Lord Bird. I read it but don't remember thinking much of it. I just read The Goldfinch. I thought it was remarkable.
@galilali42 жыл бұрын
Just found your chanel and loving it! Best wishes from Merida México
@SupposedlyFun2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much (from Montana, USA 😉).
@ToddsBookTube912 жыл бұрын
Dear Supposedly Fun, I love your KZbin Channel! I discovered it by searching for a 'Lonesome Dove' Book review. I enjoyed that video! Keep up the good work! I am still uncertain if I will like Lonesome Dove or not It was pitched to me as a quest story.
@SupposedlyFun2 жыл бұрын
It kind of is a quest story but that’s not how I would pitch it, I guess. Thank you for the kind words!
@im1ru1222 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing a video on worthy books from other decades! I have done some surfing of various YT channels - and it surprises me that so many seem devoted to ONLY books that have been published in the past few years, to the almost-complete exclusion of books that we have had around for so long that way too many are still probably not all that familiar with. Such a rich history of literature... not talked about all that much. (And WHY so many channels seemingly devoted to the complete works of Stephen King?! But I digress.) Don't get me wrong - I don't ignore new works and often read them. But there's so much stuff from before that doesn't get highlighted. So, thank you again. By the way, BY ALL MEANS do read 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' (one of the few books I've read twice) and consider also McCullers' 'Reflections in a Golden Eye' (a short, quick read). Two books of interest to LGBT+ book lovers.
@alanscheer2137 Жыл бұрын
Just found your channel and really enjoying it. You’re one of the calmest book tubers.
@SupposedlyFun Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@lightningbolt4784 жыл бұрын
What I learned from this video: The Pulitzer Prize is extremely controversial.
@SupposedlyFun4 жыл бұрын
Accurate!
@DuaneJasper5 жыл бұрын
Great list. Amazingly Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in 7 WEEKS.. Not only that but whilst conducting fieldwork as an anthropologist in Haiti- ie not even working on it full time
@SupposedlyFun5 жыл бұрын
That is interesting--thank you!
@dq39747 күн бұрын
I loved The Goldfinch. I have not read The Good Lord Bird but based on your criticism I will. If it’s better than The Goldfinch it will be more than amazing - imho.
@raulruizdevelasco62154 жыл бұрын
Loving your channel. I also have an obsession with the Academy Awards, starting to be obsessed with the Pulitzer as well. Overall, awards intrigue me. The Oscars received a lot of hate, but if you take a lot of their Best Picture track record, you’ll find quite a lot of gems. Yes, they’ll drop the ball once in a while, but I agree with their decisions most of the time. And now that they’re giving more credit to foreign film, I believe their quality will grow. Way more prestigious than the Grammys, anyway. I personally feel music should have a much more distinguished award ceremony that doesn’t just give it to whichever pop star is trending. Nothing against pop or pop artists, but if you write a top 10 hit single, you pretty much guarantee a spot in the nominations pool. Going back to the Oscars, I do think they would benefit in having some top critics as members.
@colleenjacobs82105 ай бұрын
I do love your channel and have read many books because of your recommendations, however I realize sometimes we don’t always agree on faves. Just watched this video and I agree with you concerning Goldfinch……I finished it but never did enjoy it! I am also attempting to read all the Pulitzer Prize winners…..the only reason I forced myself to finish the Goldfinch! Just wasn’t my cup of tea! ❤
@SupposedlyFun5 ай бұрын
I find it interesting when people don't necessarily agree on the books they read, so I'm glad you agree--and I'm glad we agree on The Goldfinch!
@anenthusiasticreader5 жыл бұрын
I'll be reading The Great Believers for one of my bookclubs in June. Really looking forward to it. Also, I had some problems with Swamplandia but overall liked the writing. As for Erdrich, Love Medicine is amazing. I see all of her work as part of an overarching narrative, so it's all important (though I just finished and didn't totally love Future Home of the Living God; it's an offshoot of the main work.) Your Pulitzer series of videos are a joy to watch.
@SupposedlyFun5 жыл бұрын
Having never read David Foster Wallace, it's hard to say with certainty but I really think my winner for that year would have been Train Dreams. I liked the ideas behind Swamplandia but the purple prose bothered me in many places and I also think it lost its way a bit in the middle. I'm really looking forward to reading Love Medicine (someday). I haven't read Future Home of the Living God because it looks like such an oddball for her, but I will say that I really didn't like LaRose. It's the only book I've read of hers that whiffed for me.
@capturecuriosity48385 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, thanks for pointing these ones out! I'm adding The Ox-Bow Incident to my reading list :)
@SupposedlyFun5 жыл бұрын
I hope you like it!
@melrose7185 жыл бұрын
I totally geeked out of this video! I'm a little prize nutty too, and challenged myself to read all of the PP for fiction so I wouldn't be in the dark anymore! So I love when booktubers discuss the PP. Out of all of the winners, I gave 22, a 5 stars. "The fire next time" by Baldwin should definitely be a PP. I have not read the Carver "where I'm calling from" so will remedy that soon! I loved his SS that did win...he's just weird enough, but not too weird :). I've never heard of "a manual for cleaning woman" so will check it out. Yes, to "A tree grows in Brooklyn". Yes, to "Catcher in the Rye"....and all that David Copperfield crap! The way Holden talks about Jane and old Phoebe, for me, is the secret of happiness...noticing & enjoying fully, the tiniest things in life and seeing them for what they truly are. Love your channel!
@SupposedlyFun5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you get as excited about it as I do! Always nice to meet another PP completist.
@christinebateman624 жыл бұрын
I just discovered your channel. I've been going through your videos. Your reviews ae fantastic. I just ordered five more books based on this clip. Thanks so much.
@SupposedlyFun4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy the books you ordered.
@clarkgable26073 жыл бұрын
I would definitely add Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road to your list. A great book about broken dreams and the awful truth that in spite of being unbearable has to be heard and lived with. Another strong recommendation is The Pale King, an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace. Even in its patched, fragmentary form it never fails to amaze - a real hymn to boredom called life as Wallace must have viewed it.
@vomittux5 жыл бұрын
That was indeed a fun little story!
@eddie_d12334 жыл бұрын
Norman Mailer's The Executioners Song won over Philip Roth's almost perfect novel The Ghost Writer. Too bad because Mailer's The Armies of the Night won for non-fiction in a different year which totally earned it. Try reading the Roth book. You should love it
@onetrickpony3812 жыл бұрын
Watching in 2022! Ha! Great vid ❤️
@SupposedlyFun2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@doowopshopgal4 жыл бұрын
Many great books in a nutshell
@SupposedlyFun4 жыл бұрын
That's a good summary!
@SaikulHassan5 жыл бұрын
👌👌👌
@houseofchapter5 жыл бұрын
WWAAAAAAOOOOOO ❤️❤️❤️
@OldBluesChapterandVerse5 жыл бұрын
I so hated Swamplandia. The first page of The Pale King is light years better than Swamplandia in its entirety.
@SupposedlyFun5 жыл бұрын
I really need to get around to reading David Foster Wallace.
@OldBluesChapterandVerse5 жыл бұрын
I haven’t read him either! Just that first page! But it’s SO good. 😄
@gudulla5 жыл бұрын
Whatever you do, don’t start with Infinite Jest. His short stories, for example, are fabulously written
@Vates1043 жыл бұрын
Gravity’s Rainbow was unreadable , pretentious, turgid, and overwritten. It strains toward profundity.