Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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This is a video of me looking back at the modern classics I had hopes for a little over three years ago.

Books mentioned
Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgako
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'connor

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