Honestly, if you watch my videos at 1.5 speed they are a lot better and I sound a lot smarter. :-|
@Tribecasoothsayer3 жыл бұрын
Haha!! I like the way you talk honestly. And the lighting is kinda cool. Maybe if the color changed subtly over time.. hmm. But it’s cool. Keep it up! Thanks again.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Well, I really appreciate that! Thank you. The light does have a setting for the color to change over time. I haven’t tried it yet, though! Lol.
@sluggo5622 жыл бұрын
I'm typically multitasking, reading other reviews of other things or pausing to simmer on an interesting idea. The pace is fine. But it's an interesting suggestion, not one I've seen any other youtuber suggest. So hats off.
@gibsonraymonda Жыл бұрын
Would you care for a weird book suggestion? I tried to write one.
@drewramey50952 жыл бұрын
Your observation on weird content vs weird format makes a lot of sense. I'm reading House of Leaves right now, and it's funny because while everything about it's format is weird, it's plotline and content really isn't weird. If it was stripped of all the additional formatting and ramblings, it would pretty much just be a greek mythology inspired horror story. I haven't read too many books weird in content. Infinite Jest by DFW is probably the closest, it's one of the only books I've read that I have an incredibly hard time telling someone what it's about. When people casually asked me at work, I could never really figure out what to say without having to talk for hours. I also just finished reading The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea by Yukio Mishima. I think it is pretty contemporary overall, but it's main plot event would probably make most people uncomfortable.
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
Agreed! House of Leaves is such a conventional and depressing story, but people seem to think it’s just an experimental diatribe simply because of its format. It’s quite frustrating. I have never read DFW. For some reason, he has never called to me. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is one of my favorite novels!
@kingfuzzy23 ай бұрын
Tangents are by far my favorite thing love how clearly spoken your monologues are definitely subscribing for more. Wouldn't it be sick to have a top 20 book tangent video?
@andrea_20223 жыл бұрын
I like the last 3 -4 videos. You become better at this. Congratulations!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I’ve really, really been trying! Lol. I’m glad to hear there’s visible improvement.
@andrea_20223 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions that's good. Trust yourself. You're doing just great! 🙌
@Jake-rv9hr3 жыл бұрын
Great vid as per usual haha, also sidenote i really like the lighting and music it really builds an atmosphere!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching again! I’m happy to hear you enjoyed the music/lighting.
@seamusgaelic64473 жыл бұрын
Man, I totally envy your level of articulation.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Seamus, I assure you, there’s not much to envy, but always lots to learn!
@ANewKindaGuy3 жыл бұрын
Likewise, lol.
@tomflynn29122 жыл бұрын
Does that mean his arms can bend in many directions?
@ghost2783 жыл бұрын
I've been "trying" to jump into these kinds of weird, surreal, dreamlike books. Haruki Murakami is a great opener to the huge iceberg of weird surrealism stories. "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" by Iain Reid, "Rene's Flesh" by Pinera Virgillio are the recent novels I read that perhaps might interest you? maybe? I have yet to read "Teartro Grottesco" by Thomas Ligotti, and "The Hearing Trumpet" by Leonora Carrington, but I heard great weird things about these stories. Another great video, more books to add to my list! Thank you!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I would definitely want to do a sequel to this video! The topic is fun and there’s no end to the bizarre things that have been printed throughout history. I was not a big fan of Iain Reid or Ligotti, but Leonora Carrington’s writing AND paintings are such a strange delight. She was a truly incredible artist. I was recommended La carne de René previously, but have been unable to get my hands on a copy of Piñera’s work (apparently it’s been long out of print and very expensive). Thank you so much for watching! I’m happy you enjoyed the video! :)
@b.l.i.s.e3 жыл бұрын
Kafka on the shore was a lifechanging experience for me. I've read it during lockdown and it just stuck with me and changed the way I navigate through life. I've wanted to read The Master & Margarita for quite some time, might give it a try soon! I've already read Heart of a dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (a kind of Flowers for Algernon but with a dog!) and enjoyed it. As per usual, a very good video thank you :)
@trishbirchard12704 ай бұрын
Just fell into this dreamy channel, the perfect segue into reality as I soon must stagger out there and face it. Loved all your reviews, can’t wait to hold these books in my hands, seen old editions of many of them all my life and never opened them( Tristram Shandy) , now I can’t wait. 💚💚💚💚💚
@codeinesnaps3 жыл бұрын
BOOKSHELF TOUR NEXT!!!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I can certainly do that as like a 300 subscriber special or something!
@codeinesnaps3 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions YESYESYES
@codeinesnaps3 жыл бұрын
I also loved the lighting... It's so moody and chill at the same time
@MegBatsBujos3 жыл бұрын
Yes, please!
@HakimALIGHT Жыл бұрын
Great video! Loving your channel,
@007shlomo3 жыл бұрын
Juan Valencia yay Samuel Beckett, I love a tiny prose piece of his called The Lost Ones, anyway have you read The Journal Of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen It might be more suited to a surrealist list or maybe another unreadable vid, but still ,amazing.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I have not heard of this book, but I do have plans to make a video on surrealist literature so thank you for bringing this to my radar! I also have queued up Les Chants de Maldoror and Nadja.
@007shlomo3 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions Maldoror kicks like crazy especially considering its vintage. I was disappointed with Nadja but I was a teen when I read it so I might have been too hungry for thrills, but after Nadja I read some of Freud's dream work with patients in therapy, (poor patients), man he had a strange spooky mind, there is a weird aura of dread around his voice. I can see why the surrealists where attracted to him. The funny thing about Freud is he had no idea he was skewed. He thought he was the plumb-line of rationality. Perhaps that's what gave the stuff I read such a strange frisson. Perhaps it wasn't his patients but Freud that was doing the projecting. Thanks Juan love your posts you are more interested in the Lit than your ego self, it's very refreshing and your book selection is great.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
@@007shlomo I love reading Freud because I think his works have a gothic sensibility to them. His case study, Dora, is one of my favorite horror tales, so to speak. I think that’s why he’s dismissed in the sciences, but venerated in the humanities: He truly gets at the heart of what makes fictions unsettling and perverse. His work is so revelatory as to what literary and critical studies entail. I owe him a lot for what I wrote for my college thesis!
@codeinesnaps3 жыл бұрын
The Divine Child sounds so interesting! I'll add that to my TBR now! This background music... Sooo atmospheric!!! I was about to ask for a religious horror book!!! But I think The Master & Margarita fits the bill Blonde Roots sounds soo fun too!!! Again, Remainder sounds amazing!!!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thanks again for watching! Glad to hear you liked the background music. I’m getting mixed reviews on it so we’ll see how it plays out. I wouldn’t call Master & Margarita necessarily horror but it definitely has horrific elements, and I would 100% recommend it.
@jessica-tq1sf3 жыл бұрын
im late to this video but just saw you are at 1k subscribers!! congrats! it is well deserved
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! 😭😭
@inkladizzable2 жыл бұрын
I'm late on discovering your channel (which I really dig!) but I wanted to give my own 'weird' recommendation. Have you heard of Jeff Noon? Vurt is definitely the strangest book I have read. I think of Jeff Noon as a weird as hell, futuristic version of Hunter S. Thompson. If you're not averse to drug culture literature, I'd highly recommend it. Cheers!
@PlaguedbyVisions Жыл бұрын
I see that Vurt is getting a reprint this August. That’s exciting! Thank you so much for the recommendation. This absolutely sounds like my kind of thing!
@Tribecasoothsayer3 жыл бұрын
You’re bringing me a lot of books that I would like to have a go at. Thanks for the video!!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it! That is my mission statement, haha.
@Tribecasoothsayer3 жыл бұрын
I want to read all these selections now! Thanks for your presentation.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
By all means, please do! They’re all unique in their own, very very weird way. :)
@frankeinsteinrestoration82506 ай бұрын
Great list thanks. Master and Margherita a classic. My recommend for a bit weird.. Three to see the king by Magnus mills. And in watermelon sugar by Richard Brautigan which is very out there and unique.
@abc123band3 жыл бұрын
Just discovered your channel recently. Really enjoying your videos!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Welcome! Thank you for watching!
@blessedtobealive3 жыл бұрын
You keep making videos, I'll keep watching.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I really, really appreciate that! Thank you!
@stephen68499 ай бұрын
Been loving this channel. Have you ever read Becketts trilogy? Its one of my favourites of all time
@RinLockhart3 жыл бұрын
Definitely will check out _The Divine Child._
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Yes, it’s quite zany and fun!
@hannaleoncio11723 жыл бұрын
Love your recommendations, they compose half of my list on Amazon
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
So glad to hear it! Thank you so much for watching and for the support!
@WeirdReadswithEmilyLouise3 жыл бұрын
Just gonna go change my channel name because I haven't read ONE of these. Thanks for making my TBR even more stacked.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I think that just speaks more to the fact that writers make too much weird sh*t to keep track of.
@danielkibira40643 жыл бұрын
🤯🧐🤔🤕 discombobulated, loved you selection, in-depth analysis and yet non-spoilery👌perfect💯
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for such kind, wonderful words! They mean a lot.
@threezkids74693 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the recommendation. Kafka on the shore was very interesting! In a good way! I wish you would give your thoughts 💭 on what happened…. Lots of riddles. Like how many souls of Kafka are there. Is Nakato Kafka and Crow like some trinity or something (originally thought BTW lol,Not that it’s a great one. just finished still wrapping my brain around it) or are they separated?
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I am definitely not the most qualified person to uncover the mysteries of Kafka on the Shore. I mostly just took it for the bizarro literary journey that it was, and that was good enough for me!
@IndustrialBonecraft3 жыл бұрын
Attempting to explain the Atrocity Exhibition generally tends to lapse into prolongued silences while one tries to encompass the shattered rorshach test that is that book.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Still recuperating from the stroke caused by this video.
@Jessica-xn4bk3 жыл бұрын
😃YAAY!!!😃thanks for the shout out, I really enjoyed this. I’m excited for the remainder, the divine child, and the master & margarita. The thumbnail looks great 👍 I like the colors and the font. I thought the lighting and music worked well, it made it very atmospheric.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
So happy you got to watch this, Jessica! I had a lot of fun doing it. Glad to hear some of the suggestions piqued your interest. Thanks for the feedback! I've gotten mixed reviews on the music, but the lighting is definitely a keeper for me!
@MegBatsBujos3 жыл бұрын
I was so excited when The Master & Margarita popped up! It is one of my lifetime treasures.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Amazing, chaotic tale!
@horrorandinconvenience50363 жыл бұрын
Funny story about Tristram Shandy...a professor I TA'd for once asked me what my favorite book was. I said Tristram Shandy (it's somewhere in the top 5 and I didn't want to admit to Jane Eyre). She said, "really? Not many people can...-do- eighteenth century literature. If you can, you should." So I went for a PhD in it, and, in true Shandeist spirit, dropped out. It feels good to see someone besides me mention this book outside an academic setting, so thank you for that.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
That’s a great story! I felt similarly. I enjoyed the tangential genius and experimentation with publishing, which could only have come about when the novel was such a young and wondrous thing. And the rest of my classmates HATED it. Thank you for your comments. Not only are we fellow Tristram enthusiasts, we are also fellow PhD dropouts. :) No regrets!
@cryptojonny68378 ай бұрын
I find the Choose your own adventure books interesting books because you can actually play a game in the book, and you can choose different paths that lead to different outcomes maybe one day you will review some of them.
@eymerichinquisitore90222 жыл бұрын
For me Nightmare Alley, House of Leaves and The Third Policeman
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
House of Leaves is a great pick!
@drakemerritt34822 жыл бұрын
When I saw the video description, “Kafka on the Shore” was the first book that came to my mind.
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
Trust me, it was one of the first ones to come to mind when putting this video together!
@J.S.32593 жыл бұрын
Interested in DIVINE CHILD, as a I read Bruckner’s EVIL ANGELS, the basis of Roman Polanski’s BITTER MOON (1992)
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I think you would really enjoy the Divine Child!
@erjondividi53033 жыл бұрын
You read any fantasy novels? A top 10 fantasy reads would be great for the channel
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
After reading this comment I kept thinking it over and eyeing my bookshelf up and down and realized that I really don’t read that much fantasy! I love other sides of speculative fiction (scifi and horror), some of which have fantasy elements, but I don’t really read straight-up fantasy. The closest I could think of was Neil Gaiman’s Ocean at the End of the Lane. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated!
@erjondividi53033 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions since you are a beginner in the field I would suggest reading The Neverending story from Michael ende and then The lord of the rings. After those you can read the name of the wind wich has great prose and if you like you can read my favorite The chronicles of thomas Covenant by stephen donaldson. This one is very original but is greatly inspired by lord of the rings, some consider it to be the dark version of lotr.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
@@erjondividi5303 thank you for such a comprehensive list! Reading this comment, I remembered I HAVE read the Hobbit, lol, so maybe LOTR is a good next step for me. Will definitely give it a shot, thank you!
@erjondividi53033 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions ok that is a good start. Just in the fellowship of the ring the part of Moria it's a bit boring but when you pass that it all becomes very addicting. So don't stop at that part.
@Magzie019503 жыл бұрын
Hi Juan, I checked out your review here of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami and think that we probably came to the same conclusion, it's very weird but somehow it was mesmerizing. I have it on Audible and will have to listen to it again because there was so much going on and there was no way I could connect all the dots if indeed there were dots to connect. As for a strange book that I have read, "Such Small Hands" comes to mind, by Andres Barba. Hugs Mags
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! Yes, Murakami is a special kind of strange that’s really captivating and powerful. I love his work. I have never heard if Such Small Things. Thank you for the suggestion!
@Magzie019503 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions It's " Such Small Hands," I think it was written in Spanish and then translated into English. You can check it out on Goodreads. Mags
@masfher4 ай бұрын
la luz se ve bien va con el tema del video, saludos
@teddydog62293 жыл бұрын
I don’t know if you include plays in your reading list but Beckett’s ‘Endgame’ was pretty damn weird too but you’re right. It’s a very blurry line between weird and disturbing. Your description of ‘How It Is’ could have applied to that play as well. There’s a legless guy who lives in a box for instance. Some say it’s a post-nuclear apocalypse story but with Beckett who knows ?
@teddydog62293 жыл бұрын
Master and Margarita is my favorite novel ever as well as the funniest. Why Stalin didn’t have him shot remains one of the greatest literary mysteries ever. In fact that novel was the immediate inspiration for the Stones song ‘Sympathy for the Devil’. Great video as always !
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I recently read Sarah Kane and did a video on disturbing theater, so plays are most certainly in my radar now, and yes, Samuel Beckett’s entire bibliography could probably fit into this video. Master and Margarita was indeed fantastic! So daring and really a watershed moment of surrealism and acidic political commentary. I’m happy that it survived such harrowing years!
@teddydog62293 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions This isn’t really related to this thread but I know you’re interested in French surrealism so it made me curious if you’ve read anything by Antonin Artaud. It’s not really fiction - rather a charting of his severe mental illness but it’s well worth your time anyway. And I have a challenge or maybe a dare to see if it lands in your unreadable pile - sticking with the French surrealist theme I wonder if you could conquer an entire book by Robbe-Grillet. It was so static it made my eyes cross but maybe you can detect a pulse. Also you probably know more about James Joyce than I do and if so please tell me - he HAD to know Finnegans Wake would be unreadable to 99.9% of people on the planet right ? He just had to ! Since you’re always looking for transgressive and weird fiction I can’t forget the novel Flan by Stephen Tunney. It’s about a man and his talking fish (as well as a giant floating eyeball but I don’t want to give too much away) traversing a hellish and freakish hellscape to find his girlfriend Holly. I read this years ago and still haven’t recovered from the ending. I first heard of Tunney as a musician who goes by the name of Dogbowl and I discovered the book because he recorded a soundtrack to it ‘Flan - The Album’ which it can’t hurt you to listen to for a non-spoiler overview. It’s not on Spotify for some dumb reason but it is here on KZbin. Anyway if you do check it out I hope you find it both as disturbing and entertaining as I did. And again I’m thrilled you just discovered my favorite novel ever. Bulgakov wrote another short hilarious satire/novel ‘Heart of a Dog’. You will never forget Mr Underwear I promise ! And the reason Stalin never had Bulgakov shot was because he wrote Stalin’s favorite play and novel ‘The White Guard’. I know it sounds improbable but Stalin was a voracious reader and had more respect for writers than any other group. He infamously described them as ‘engineers of the human soul’. He even let the author of ‘We’ named Zemyatin emigrate after Zemyatin wrote to him personally and said the USSR was becoming an intolerable place for artists to live. That’s another book you may want to check out someday. Ok I took enough of your time. Back to your channel to find out what I want to read next !
@ccreel642 жыл бұрын
Tristram Shandy is a fabulous book! My high school English teacher assigned it to me for a paper. I howled in laughter as I read.
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
It is indeed incredible, and even more so by how readable it is even today! The innuendos are to die for.
@007shlomo3 жыл бұрын
hahaha well done I guess weird is the best description of weird lit.
@zamiadams43438 ай бұрын
You should read "Mangled Hands" By Johnny Stanton, its bonkers in a great way.
@SkewtLilbttm2 жыл бұрын
Don't know if you'll see this, but have you read Nabokov's Pale Fire?
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I have! I have a video called Top 10 Most Mystifying Novels where I talk about it, if you’re interested!
@SkewtLilbttm2 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions Excellent, thank you. I just discovered your channel yesterday and have very much enjoyed what I've watched so far, keep up the good work!
@evanmarschand9930 Жыл бұрын
Everyone who loves bizarre books should read "Son of Man" by Robert Silverberg. It's one of the strangest books I've ever read.
@kohhna Жыл бұрын
Have you read anything by Will Self? British author. He writes some really weird literary fiction that has a lot of the uncanny and uncomfortable in it too.
@PlaguedbyVisions Жыл бұрын
I have a copy of Cock & Bull! It sounds… like something I should read!
@pollypipilotti6399 Жыл бұрын
I love your videos so much
@PlaguedbyVisions Жыл бұрын
And they love you INTENSELY.
@GloWe724 Жыл бұрын
Do you have any good cultish recs?
@J.S.32593 жыл бұрын
Karen Tei Yamashita is a gem, and deserves to be more renowned
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, an unsung allegorical genius!
@TheMrpiggy66663 жыл бұрын
Sam Beckett was my first literary hero as a child..I have performed How it Is on stage among many other pieces....performing his short fiction tends to nullify what would at first appear weird...they are extremely difficult to perform up to a point...what happens over time is that the internal monologue becomes relatable to our own internal monologues
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Interesting that your relationship to How It Is was forged through performing it (I would assume out loud). My experience, as with most books, of course, was reading it silently, and I think that transformed it into running thoughts and lamentations, so it made it that much more significant and fluid for me (which is the same reason why I’ve similarly enjoyed the works of Woolf and Faulkner in pure silence - all three wrote such meditative pieces, perhaps not necessarily as literary and philosophical siblings, but definitely... cousins? Lol).
@TheMrpiggy66663 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions reading Faulkners As I Lay Dying with Becketts Three Novels was an experience I never want to experience again, I was depressed for months after combining those four books....there was a historical aspect to that event though,,,when I was very young say 4 years old my dad would read Waiting For Godot together we did this for a few years and even though I didnt understand exactly know what was going on I found it funny,,until i was 7 yrs old when the ideas it explored started to give me existential nightmares, I would sometimes scream in the middle of the street in terror...they never really went away but I managed to hide them,,but reading those 4 books in silence together in my 20's brought those nightmares back back into full force...I rarely have them now..but I can see the connection between Faulkner and Beckett through those books in particular...performing his work on stage was in my way a catharsis....In a similar way Kafka's Metamorphosis was a story I also had to perform on stage to take away the deeply seated discomfort I felt reading it.
@TheMrpiggy66663 жыл бұрын
Regards and Thanks from Tim
@WilliamsLibrary3 жыл бұрын
Was Class Trip a good read?
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
It wasn’t particularly memorable in mind, but it’s been years. I’d have to reread it!
@becwrites Жыл бұрын
I could not describe master & margarita any where near as good as you did!!!!! Spot on
@PlaguedbyVisions Жыл бұрын
And here I thought I was just rambling. 😅 Thank you so much!
@AllenFreemanMediaGuru3 жыл бұрын
Weird writer on my shelf is Chuck Palahniuk.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
One of the weirder guys out there for sure!
@m0dulegirl3 жыл бұрын
I liked the color filter. It suited the subject matter.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I thought so, too. :)
@Evan.Stevens3 жыл бұрын
How do you feel about bizarro fiction? Would love to see a video with your thoughts about it!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I wasn’t really sure what “bizarro fiction” was, so I looked it up and... ah, yes, Satan’s Burger. 😳 That seemed to be the only work of bizarro fiction I’m familiar with but this definitely is something in line with this channel’s theme and I’d be more than happy to do a further dive into it for a video!
@junkieluv53263 жыл бұрын
Do you have a book list of novels that have made you cry?? If so, please ignore my comment, I'm new to your channel and haven't gotten to your playlist!!
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily “made me cry” (desensitization does things to you, lol), but I did make a video in the saddest horror books I have read!
@junkieluv53263 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions Ok, great..I will definitely check it out!! Thx
@rocsimmons85352 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@paulmessis10942 жыл бұрын
You must read very fast, I love reading but it takes me soooo long to complete.
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
As far as actual reading speed, I’m pretty average. The key is to consistent and persistent!
@aleksandrakoc143111 ай бұрын
Try a Polish author Gombrowicz if you look for some weird and funny books: Trans-Atlantic or Ferdydurke.
@saydvoncripps4 ай бұрын
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
@TheMightyPika2 жыл бұрын
Not a fan of Murakami. He comes across as having a smug 'too big for his britches' tone in his writing that turns me off. After going through a lot of other titles by other writers of weird, imho he's not good enough a writer to be too good for his readers.
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
I’ve only read enough Murakami to know he, more than anything, piles on so many eccentricities that it really tickles me. I think I just enjoy how strange and fragmented he makes his stories. I really just take him at face value.
@TheMightyPika2 жыл бұрын
@@PlaguedbyVisions That's all good! Being anti-smug is my problem, not anyone else's. There are a lot of celebrated writers I can't enjoy because of it.
@Alex-rz3hy3 жыл бұрын
Another great video! The background music was distracting though. IMO
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! I really appreciate it. I’ve gotten some yes’s and no’s about the music over on Instagram, so I await more feedback. If it is too distracting, I can at least turn it down next time (or do away with it entirely). I certainly don’t plan to use it on all my videos. Thanks for the feedback! 🤙🏽
@seanrosenau20882 жыл бұрын
If you want weird try Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You. It's a Bizarro fiction short story about Arnold Schwarzenegger losing his mind, believing he's John Matrix and going on a killing spree. It's hilarious.
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
This sounds way too trashy to resist. 😂 Thank you for the recommendation!
@Lewcifer5862 жыл бұрын
Alot of people wouldn't make it pass the 4 min mark. Without being too rude...its hard to explain a point of view. He nails it. I waited very still for the list it was silly.
@PlaguedbyVisions2 жыл бұрын
Only the truly devoted survive! 😂
@diositojuega3 жыл бұрын
Is it weird that I've read all these? 🤓
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
That’s crazy insane
@blessedtobealive3 жыл бұрын
I wanna be you rn
@Chriscorpr3 жыл бұрын
No Kurt Vonnegut on the list. Thats a miss.
@PlaguedbyVisions3 жыл бұрын
I figured Mr. Vonnegut has had his praises sung by many booktubers. I always try to recommend less popular works to keep things interesting :) but yes, Slaughterhouse-Five is marvelously wacky.
@TheMrpiggy66663 жыл бұрын
I dont believe I have found any intentionally weird book 'weird'...the books that take me strange places within and awaken something are the ones that stick with me and for the want of a better word I find weird...masterpieces like Knut Hamsun's Mysteries, Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste, anything by Italo Calvino...or the work of William Burroughs or even The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey with its mixture of archaic and modern language, particularly where he explores masturbating in minute poetic detail for an entire chapter..ot the unclassifiable experimentalism of John Hawkes in works such as Blood Orange oh and more recently Julio Cortazars Around the day in Eighty Worlds.....as a side note please tell me you have read Paradiso by Lezama Lima