Thanks for the mention of Tiloran! It means a ton and I hope you enjoy it 😁
@taeinvestments5 ай бұрын
Bulb seems very interesting
@richardbrown30556 ай бұрын
I stumbled on this through the algorithm gods….The City and its Uncertain Walls release date isn’t until November, so I’m guessing you’ve got an advance reader copy, I am decidedly jealous, as that is high on my list of books to read upon release.
@Lifeonbooks6 ай бұрын
Yeah I get advanced copies pretty regularly. Usually 3-5/month. If you start a Bookstagram or Booktok account, publishers will send you stuff. You don't really need a big following.
@Joaquim.Oliveira6 ай бұрын
Have you read a book from Brazil yet ? If not, I can send you a couple .
@Lifeonbooks6 ай бұрын
I've only read The Alchemist, which I wasn't a fan of. I did recently grab a copy of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas though.
@Joaquim.Oliveira6 ай бұрын
@@Lifeonbooks ohh Bras Cubas is amazing . I’ll get your address and send you a book from Jo Soares
@Lifeonbooks6 ай бұрын
@@Joaquim.Oliveira lifeonbooks.com/forauthors/
@rammelbroadcasting5 ай бұрын
How on earth did you get an advance copy of a Murakami book!
@Lifeonbooks5 ай бұрын
I make book related content on social media 🤣
@rammelbroadcasting5 ай бұрын
@Lifeonbooks I make book related content on KZbin, and I don't get shit 🤷♂️ oh well, lol.
@Lifeonbooks5 ай бұрын
@@rammelbroadcasting make sure you have a mailing address somewhere accessible for people to find. There's also a bunch of programs that you have to sign up for. You definitely have enough followers/good enough content to get tons of free stuff.
@michaelmasiello67526 ай бұрын
Hey man-I watched your Shōgun conversation today. Your discussion involved, briefly, voices from the peanut gallery complaining of Blackthorne/Anjin-san as a “white savior” figure. While I don’t see Blackthorne as a bumbler (your take) so much as a remarkably quick study in an utterly foreign environment-he is made one of the story’s heroes as well as a tragic figure-and would instead point to the way Japan conquers him, e.g., his disgust and horror once reunited at last with his crew, the long hot bath he takes to be rid of the “mottled lumps” of flea bites (and this a man who initially thought bathing would ruin his health) and suchlike as internal evidence that the swashbuckling pilot encounters a Japanese civilization Clavell resolutely admires (and of course, the Anjin is ultimately Toranaga’s plaything anyway-see the novel’s concluding pages), I thought you’d be interested to know about another difficulty for any interpretation of the book as a British celebration of European virtues. That fun fact is that-although Clavell changed his historical name-the Anjin’s story is based on actual historical events. An Englishman named William Adams ( = Blackthorne) washed ashore in Japan in 1600 and became, in time, a person of real influence with Ieyasu (whom Clavell, again changing historical names for no reason I can fathom, renames Toranaga), who became shogun after the Battle of Sekigahara, inaugurating the Tokugawa period (Clavell’s “Minowara”), which lasted centuries. The cool thing about all this, and this is why I wanted to tell you about it, is that there’s finally a book dedicated to the subject: a fellow named Frederik Cryns released In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams just this month (the publisher is Reaktion). I haven’t read it yet, but have heard good things. I do know that Adams was perhaps a bit less noble in life than in Clavell’s novel (so perhaps some whitewashing was involved, but probably to make Blackthorne palatable), and that he met with an unhappy end. Figured I’d stick this late-to-the-party post here because… well, you might see it. In any case, if you’re interested in the historical basis of the novel, there you go. Also, the old miniseries with Richard Chamberlain and the legendary Toshiro Mifune (star of so many Kurosawa masterpieces) did far more justice to Clavell’s book than the newer series, which was, I agree, kind of a hot mess. If you haven’t seen it, it’s available, and totally engrossing. This is a longer comment than I meant to write. Short version: I thought your discussion of Shōgun was smart and interesting, here’s a fun factoid/book rec, and man, I hope your CPAP machine has arrived and your sleep apnea improved. Cheers.
@Lifeonbooks6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment! I knew it was loosely based on Adams. I would definitely be curious to know more about the true story that inspired the book.