WBBC Tags: BookTube Newbie

[@paulsomerville4005]

I greatly admire your honesty and point of view. There is nothing more intriguing to me than a quiet radical.

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks, Paul! I hope I can intrigue you further in the coming year.

[@HardcoverHearts]

Happy anniversary, Dan! I’m glad you are here, weirding up the joint.

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks, Sarah! Your encouragement only stokes my drive to out-weird myself.

[@SupposedlyFun]

Happy BookTube birthday!

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks, Greg! If I can keep this up a few more years you'll be able to watch me "Portrait of Dorian Gray" in real time as I fall deeper and deeper into depravity.

[@SupposedlyFun]

@@WeirdBookBookClub It's always nice to have something to look forward to.

[@anenthusiasticreader]

Maybe everyone should do the newbie tag once a year. It's great. Happy anniversary.

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks, Sonya! I think there's a BookTube Newbie 2.0 Tag as well for folks with some experience under their belt, but I figured I should start at the beginning.

[@brittabohlerthesecondshelf]

Happy booktube birthday! Here's to the glorious, raw new take on booktube.

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks, Britta! I'm excited to see what inspiration our Murdoch buddy read will bring.

[@ProvoFresh]

Happy Book Tube Birthday!

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Hey, thanks! I am feeling a bit older and wiser these days.

[@BookishTexan]

Based on my rereading of 2666 I’d say your assessment of Bolaño is right on. I regret that I am too old to have read the Goose Bumps books . I might be a whole different person.

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Rereading?! Brian, you're a glutton for literary punishment! (The best kind.) It's never too late to partake of the joys of R.L. Stine, though they may have lost their life-changing potential at this point.

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

Merry book birthday! Head messing uncomfortable reads are the best

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thank you, Madeleine! We share a common literary mission, I think.

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

@@WeirdBookBookClub we do!

[@whatpageareyouon]

I’m so glad to be a part of the weird weird book club !

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

We're lucky to have you on board, Alex! I'm planning to try out The Waves at some point this year--looking forward to revisiting your Woolf videos then.

[@GunpowderFictionPlot]

“I don’t want to live in the worlds I read about - but I do want them to fuck me up” - I think that generations of recreational hallucinogen users would argue that this is in fact escapism.

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Haha--I suppose the mind-altering effect could become a kind of refuge from reality...

[@bighardbooks770]

I really must get round to reading some of these books. I've read _2666_ and loved it (and will reread it this #MarchingMammoths) but need to read _The Savage Detectives._ Butler I've read a bit--decades ago--and remember really enjoying her work.

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks for sharing! I don't know when I'll have the courage to revisit 2666, but I would pick The Savage Detectives up again in a heartbeat. If you're looking to dip your toes back into Butler I thought "Bloodchild and Other Stories" had some good stuff in it. (Kind of an odds and ends collection, but easy to put down and return to over time.)

[@bighardbooks770]

@@WeirdBookBookClub Thx for the tips, mate . . . 🍀🇮🇪☘️

[@josmith5992]

Congrats on a weird and depraved year on booktube Dan!

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks, Jo! Aiming for new heights (or depths) in 2020.

[@e.abebooks]

Happy booktube Birthday! What is your favorite weird book you have ever read?

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Hmmmm, that's a good question. Like I said, The Savage Detectives is my current favorite novel, but the weirdness of it is more about the delivery than the content. Some great fantastical-weird books that come to mind: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, The Trial by Franz Kafka, Ghost by Cesar Aira, and Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue (all 5-star reads for me.)

[@thearchive1132]

*Casually taking a wee note of Roberto Bolano What's more heart warming than tentacled aliens I ask thee? Loved your take on this tag nice job fella :-)

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks, Graham! If you end up giving Bolaño a try, please let me know what you think.

[@dylanclymer1145]

Have you read any of Thomas Pynchon's novels? If you want something weird that will fuck you up I'd reccomend his third novel Gravity's Rainbow. It's a difficult read but it's definitely worth it.

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks for the recommendation, Dylan! So far, I've only read "The Crying of Lot 49" (a long time ago, so the details are fuzzy outside of a very vivid description of a Remedios Varo exhibition) and "Inherent Vice" (which I was skeptical about at first, but actually ended up enjoying thoroughly.) Gravity's Rainbow has been sitting on my shelf for some time now--I really should get around to it soon.

[@dylanclymer1145]

@@WeirdBookBookClub Hope you like it man, it's seriously one of the strangest and times, the most profound texts that I've ever read.

[@ReadingRetail]

Had to come over and love another video! I did the same thing.. I did my newbie tag problem a month after I started my channel bcz honestly I Had No Idea What say🤣

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Haha, thank you! I think this sort of video would actually be harder to make at the "correct" time since at the very beginning you typically have no idea what you're doing. (At least I didn't.) Congrats on starting your channel!

[@sararichards518]

Just found you courtesy of Britta. Glad to have done so although Bolano is absolutely not my cup of tea,

[@WeirdBookBookClub]

Thanks for checking out my channel, Sara! While I do love Bolaño, I can totally appreciate why others would rather have nothing to do with him--he can be a bit of a sadist. 😅