The Falcon ReadsMy review of The Perelin Decline, a recently published and extremely existential novella by Pae Veo, a fellow booktuber you might like to check out if you're into philosophical literature. ๐
The Perelin Decline book review: Life on the RocksThe Falcon Reads2022-09-17 | My review of The Perelin Decline, a recently published and extremely existential novella by Pae Veo, a fellow booktuber you might like to check out if you're into philosophical literature. ๐The Necrophiliac book review: La Petite MortThe Falcon Reads2024-10-17 | My review of Gabrielle Wittkop's fleeting novella The Necrophiliac, the sordid tale of a man named Lucien who has rather...unconventional romantic sensibilities.
#thenecrophiliac #necrophilia #depraved #books #literature #reading #novella #epistolary #booktube #bookreviewZofloya book review: Black as the DevilThe Falcon Reads2024-10-12 | My review of Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya, a somewhat obscure gothic novel from the heyday of the genre about a devious Venetian sexpot named Victoria and her increasing iniquity under the sway of a mysterious Moor named Zofloya who may be more than he appears.
#zofloya #charlottedacre #gothic #gothicliterature #gothicfiction #books #literature #reading #novel #novels #booktube #bookreviewJoker: Folie a Deux movie review (spoilers): The Last LaughThe Falcon Reads2024-10-07 | My review of Todd Phillips's Joker: Folie a Deux, the highly anticipated sequel to 2019's phenomenally successful Joker, and a film which I found quite...surprising.
To watch my video on the first Joker movie, click here:
#jokerfolieร deux #joker #movie #movies #moviereview #moviereviews #film #films #filmreview #filmreviews #cinema #kinoAt the Mountains of Madness book review: A Cold Day in HellThe Falcon Reads2024-10-05 | My review of H. P. Lovecraft's short classic cosmic horror novel At the Mountains of Madness, which tells of an ill-fated Antarctic exploratory expedition which uncovers evidence of an ancient alien civilization which predates history, and one that might not be wholly dead.
#atthemountainsofmadness #lovecraft #lovecraftian #hplovecraft #books #literature #reading #horror #horrorstories #horrorbooks #cosmichorror #booktube #bookreviewBend Sinister book review: A Man ApartThe Falcon Reads2024-09-28 | My review of Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister, a dystopian novel (among other things) about a father resisting an oppressive regime whilst trying to care for his son which I believe constitutes something of an anomaly in the author's overall body of work.
#bendsinister #vladimirnabokov #nabokov #books #literature #reading #dystopian #dystopianfiction #dystopianbooks #booktube #bookreviewWallenstein: A Bohemian RhapsodyThe Falcon Reads2024-09-21 | My review of Friedrich Schiller's three-part epic play Wallenstein, which fictitiously chronicles the final days of Bohemian nobleman Albrecht von Wallenstein as he navigates treacherous waters whilst trying both to bring an end to the Thirty Years War as well as increase his own power.
#wallenstein #schiller #books #literature #plays #theater #theatre #reading #booktube #bookreviewExplaining Postmodernism book review: The Sleep of Reason Produces MonstersThe Falcon Reads2024-09-14 | My review of Stephen Hicks's nonfiction book Explaining Postmodernism, an illuminative work which traces the intellectual history and political underpinnings of a dangerous ideology from initial Enlightenment era reactionism to modern day identity politics and cultural collectivism.
#explainingpostmodernism #stephenhicks #postmodernism #philosophy #history #ideology #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewNachzehrer book review: Of Monsters and MenThe Falcon Reads2024-09-07 | My review of Nelson Keane's Nachzehrer, a historical war novel which was kindly sent to me for review.The Rag and Bone Shop book review: Making a MurdererThe Falcon Reads2024-08-31 | My review of Robert Cormier's fleeting final book The Rag and Bone Shop, a tense novella about the interrogation of a young boy suspected of murder by an unscrupulous officer, where truth is a hollow term and what counts is not the veracity of a confession but merely the voicing of it.
#theragandboneshop #robertcormier #yabooks #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewThe Decline of the West Vol. II: Perspectives of World History book review: Render unto CaesarThe Falcon Reads2024-08-24 | My review of the second and final volume of Oswald Spengler's work of historical philosophy The Decline of the West, which takes the theory developed in the first volume and applies it to broader examples from world history, as well as summarizes the then current state of the Western world and makes the gloomy prediction of an impending and unavoidable dictatorship which marks the final stage before ultimate collapse. Needless to say, an uplifting read this ain't!
00:00 - Intro 02:18 - Darwin Debunked? 03:55 - Cave-Man 06:38 - Russia Russia Russia 13:12 - City-Slickers 15:52 - Mo' Money, Mo' Problems 17:55 - Reign in Blood 22:20 - The Trouble with Being Born 24:24 - Outro
#thedeclineofthewest #oswaldspengler #history #philosophy #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewThe Decline of the West Vol. I: Form and Actuality book review: Its All Downhill from HereThe Falcon Reads2024-08-17 | My review of the first volume of Oswald Spengler's controversial work of historical philosophy The Decline of the West, which introduced some novel theories regarding human societal development, and also made the ominous prophecy that the days of the West may be numbered. A likely contentious read in many ways perhaps, but also an undeniably unique and fascinating one as well.
#thedeclineofthewest #oswaldspengler #history #philosophy #riseandfall #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewThe Law book review: ...with Liberty and Justice for AllThe Falcon Reads2024-08-10 | My review of Frederic Bastiat's The Law, a seminal work of political philosophy outlining the proper function of the law in regards to human society and economics, and a work which is just as vital and important now as when it was first published.
#thelaw #fredericbastiat #politicalphilosophy #politics #economics #capitalism #freedom #liberty #libertyandjustice #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewThe Republic, by Plato book review: An Ambiguous UtopiaThe Falcon Reads2024-08-03 | My review of Plato's The Republic, the veritable cornerstone of all western philosophy, and yet also a book so astoundingly wrong in almost every respect, rife with so many specious arguments, that the thought experiment which begins in pursuit of the most just state ends up with a dystopia so extreme it makes North Korea look liberal. But hey, it makes for interesting reading if nothing else!
00:00 - Review and Analysis 23:18 - The Most Important Takeaway
#therepublic #plato #philosophy #philosophybooks #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewTime Regained book review: This Do In Remembrance (In Search of Lost Time Vol. VII)The Falcon Reads2024-07-27 | My triumphant review of Marcel Proust's Time Regained, the seventh and final volume of the mammoth In Search of Lost Time. I did it. I read this bitch. Hear me roar.
#timeregained #insearchoflosttime #marcelproust #proust #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewThe Incest Diary book review: A History of (Sexual) ViolenceThe Falcon Reads2024-07-20 | My review of The Incest Diary, an anonymously published purported memoir recounting the life of a woman who was subjected to extreme sexual abuse by her father, and the subsequent ramifications this had on her life. Though it perhaps goes without saying, this one's rough, so be warned.
#theincestdiary #anonymous #memoir #memoirs #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreview #sexualabuse #incest #traumaAntinatalism, Extinction, and the End of Procreative Self-Corruption book review: Cease and DesistThe Falcon Reads2024-07-16 | My review of Amanda Sukenick's and Matty Hayry's Antinatalism, Extinction, and the End of Procreative Self-Corruption, a booklet concerned with the history and potential future of antinatalism, and the argumentative friction between a literal dead-end outlook with the common progenitive mindset of humanity.
#antinatalism #extinction #efilism #philosophy #books #literatureA ChautauquaThe Falcon Reads2024-07-13 | A meeting of minds.Adventures in Immediate Irreality book review: A Study in StrangenessThe Falcon Reads2024-07-13 | My review of little-known Romanian author Max Blecher's short novel Adventures in Immediate Irreality, a book about a weird young man who behaves strangely and that's about it.
#adventuresinimmediateirreality #maxblecher #romania #romanianliterature #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewThe Captive & The Fugitive book review: To Have Loved and Lost (In Search of Lost Time Vol. V & VI)The Falcon Reads2024-07-06 | My review of Marcel Proust's The Captive and The Fugitive, volumes five and six of the seven volume epic In Search of Lost Time, (which means I only have one volume to go!!!!!). In these books, the narrator and his girlfriend are now living together, leading to mounting friction between them, before an untimely and irreversible final parting, after which the narrator gradually moves on. Exciting stuff (sarcasm).
#thecaptiveandthefugitive #insearchoflosttime #marcelproust #proust #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewCato: Live Free or DieThe Falcon Reads2024-06-29 | In honor of the American Independence Day, my review of Joseph Addison's play Cato, a by now perhaps little remembered work about the last days of Cato the Younger and the fall of the Roman Republic which was enormously influential upon the founding fathers of the United States of America, who strongly resonated with its themes of liberty, courage, and the resistance of tyranny; and a work whose power I would say hasn't diminished much since its day.
#cato #josephaddison #rome #romanhistory #republic #stoicism #freedom #liberty #livefreeordie #july4th #independenceday #books #literature #plays #drama #theater #theatre #reading #booktube #bookreviewThe Sunset Limited book review: ContrastThe Falcon Reads2024-06-22 | My review of Cormac McCarthy's play (or novel in dramatic form) The Sunset Limited, a brief work featuring only two characters sparring ideologically, but which nonetheless packs quite a punch, both intellectually and emotionally.
#thesunsetlimited #cormacmccarthy #books #literature #reading #drama #plays #christianity #atheism #belief #unbelief #faith #faithless #booktube #bookreviewFog book review: Words Made FleshThe Falcon Reads2024-06-15 | My review of Miguel de Unamuno's early Modernist novel Fog, an at first fairly straightforward bildungsroman about a somewhat schmucky guy navigating the pitfalls of romance which eventually takes a turn into unexpected and extremely metafictional territory, and raising questions about such issues as reality, fiction, free will, and art.
#fog #migueldeunamuno #books #literature #reading #metafiction #booktube #bookreviewThe Last Man book review: And Then There Was OneThe Falcon Reads2024-06-08 | My review of my girl Mary Shelley's second most famous book, The Last Man, an early and quite flowery apocalyptic novel which both tells the story of a catastrophic plague that wipes out humanity save for a single individual and also effectively functions as an elegy for the Romantic movement.
#thelastman #maryshelley #books #literature #reading #romanticism #apocalypse #apocalypticfiction #booktube #bookreviewSodom and Gomorrah book review: My Girlfriends Girlfriend (In Search of Lost Time Vol. IV)The Falcon Reads2024-06-01 | My review, (after an extended hiatus), of the fourth volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Sodom and Gomorrah, which continues the affluent adventures of the yet nameless narrator as he is confronted by closeted homosexuality amongst characters close at hand, and has to contend with rising paranoia that his girlfriend may swing both ways.
#sodomandgomorrah #insearchoflosttime #proust #marcelproust #books #literature #reading #modernism #booktube #bookreviewThe Fountainhead book review: Standalone ComplexThe Falcon Reads2024-05-25 | My review of the ever controversial Ayn Rand's influential novel The Fountainhead, a book which makes a powerful argument for individualism through the story of an intransigent architect who refuses to compromise his vision.
00:00 - Intro 04:07 - Summary 13:44 - Writing 15:43 - Characters 23:15 - Story 25:14 - Rating 26:57 - Legacy 29:08 - Excerpts and Extracts 41:55 - Outro
#thefountainhead #aynrand #individualism #objectivism #books #literature #reading #novel #fiction #philosophy #philosophicalfiction #philosophybooks #booktube #bookreviewCain book review: WrathchildThe Falcon Reads2024-05-18 | My review of Lord Byron's closet drama Cain, a short but powerful work which provides a tragic backstory for the premier murderer, and poses some incisive religious questions.
#cain #lordbyron #romanticism #drama #plays #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewThe Worm Ouroboros book review: The Forever WarThe Falcon Reads2024-05-11 | My review of E. R. Eddison's classic fantasy novel The Worm Ouroboros, a strikingly written work which tells of the war between the nations of Demonland and Witchland; a tale of many deeds of derring-do, albeit with a rather questionable sense of morality behind it.
#thewormouroboros #fantasy #fantasybooks #books #literature #reading #bookreview #booktubeCritique of Pure Reason book review: Take It to the LimitThe Falcon Reads2024-05-04 | My attempt at a review of Immanuel Kant's groundbreaking and immensely challenging philosophical treatise Critique of Pure Reason, which seeks to determine and understand the limits of human reason and the relationship between our minds and the world. A beach read it ain't!
#critiqueofpurereason #kant #immanuelkant #philosophy #idealism #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreviewAgainst Nature book review: Leave the World BehindThe Falcon Reads2024-04-27 | My review of Joris Karl Huysmanns Against Nature, a brief and decadent book about an ailing aristocratic aesthete who turns his back on the world to live a life of solitude surrounded by works of art. Also the book which, implicitly, corrupted Dorian Gray. :D
#againstnature #frenchliterature #decadence #books #literature #booktube #bookreviewConversations on the Plurality of Worlds book review: She Blinded Me with ScienceThe Falcon Reads2024-04-20 | Apropos of the recent solar eclipse, my review of Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, an endearing little novella relating the dialogue between a flirtatious philosopher and a charming marquise about astronomy and the possibility of alien life.
#conversationsonthepluralityofworlds #bernardlebovierdefontanelle #astronomy #space #cosmos #planets #science #books #literature #booktube #bookreviewThe Tragedy of Man book review: Days of Future PastThe Falcon Reads2024-04-13 | My review of Imre Madach's immensely imaginative and amazingly ambitious (and unfortunately unknown) closet drama, The Tragedy of Man, which follows a newly fallen Adam and Eve as they are taken on a sweeping existential odyssey by the Devil himself through a series of visions depicting human history to come, and have to grapple with the burning question: is it even worth it to carry on?
#thetragedyofman #imremadach #hungary #hungarianliterature #books #literature #worldliterature #plays #drama #theatre #theater #masterpiece #greatbooks #booktube #bookreview #bookrecommendationsThe Histories, by Herodotus book review: History of the World, Part 1The Falcon Reads2024-04-06 | My review of Herodotus's The Histories, a book of great antiquity which constitutes the first real long-form compendium of historical events, and which primarily relates the conflicts between Greece and Persia, but which is also rife with tangents that help provide an immeasurably valuable glimpse into the lives of our ancient forebears.
#thehistories #herodotus #history #ancienthistory #greece #persia #books #literature #booktube #bookreview #penguinbooksThe Book of Disquiet book review: Diary of a MadmanThe Falcon Reads2024-03-30 | My review of Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, the diary of a fictitious bookkeeper who records his various highly prolix musings while he watches the world pass by.
#thebookofdisquiet #fernandopessoa #portugal #books #literature #bookreview #booktubeStory of O book review: Of Human BondageThe Falcon Reads2024-03-23 | My tactlessly explicit review of a tactfully explicit book: Pauline Reage's infamous erotic novel Story of O, which chronicles a woman's willing immersion into the violent and painful realm of sexual slavery, and the subsequent...err..."uses" to which she is put. ๐ฅต
#storyofo #paulinereage #bdsm #kink #erotica #books #literature #booktube #bookreview #nsfwThe Pilgrims Progress book review: Highway to HeavenThe Falcon Reads2024-03-16 | My review of John Bunyan's classic allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress, which dramatizes the journey of the Christian believer through the fallen mortal world towards eternal reward; a heavy-handed work to be sure, but also one written with great earnestness and conviction.
#thepilgrimsprogress #pilgrimsprogress #johnbunyan #christianity #protestantism #christianfiction #allegory #books #literature #classics #booktube #bookreviewWittgensteins Mistress book review: A World of Her OwnThe Falcon Reads2024-03-09 | My review of David Markson's highly lauded experimental novel Wittgenstein's Mistress, the testament of, apparently, the last person on Earth, in which she randomly reviews the various facts of the world which now only she inhabits, and slowly loses her mind.
#wittgensteinsmistress #wittgenstein #experimentalliterature #books #literature #booktube #bookreviewTractatus Logico-Philosophicus book review: Words and ImagesThe Falcon Reads2024-03-02 | My (attempted) review of Ludwig Wittgenstein's landmark work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the would-be solution to all problems philosophical, and what is, with virtually no contest, the hardest single work I've ever read in my life.
#tractatuslogicophilosophicus #wittgenstein #ludwigwittgenstein #philosophy #logic #books #literature #booktube #bookreviewDemons book review: Spiritual WarfareThe Falcon Reads2024-02-24 | My review of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Demons, one of his five masterworks, and a book which ultimately proved to be rather prophetic, and one which also, alarmingly, has certain parallels with certain aspects of our world today.
#demons #dostoyevski #dostoyevsky #fyodordostoyevsky #fyodordostoevsky #books #literature #russianliterature #booktube #bookreviewThe Book of the New Sun review: Let There Be LightThe Falcon Reads2024-02-20 | Well, after reading all five volumes of Gene Wolfe's landmark work The Book of the New Sun, it's time for a final, comprehensive review. If you would like to see my reviews of the individual books, then click the links below.
#thebookofthenewsun #bookofthenewsun #genewolfe #sciencefiction #scifi #books #literature #booktube #bookreviewThe Urth of the New Sun book review: Light Bringer (The Book of the New Sun Vol. V)The Falcon Reads2024-02-17 | My review of Gene Wolfe's The Urth of the New Sun, the fifth and final volume of his landmark work The Book of the New Sun, which brings the adventures of Severian the torturer-turned-autarch to a mind-bending, time-bending conclusion.
#theurthofthenewsun #thebookofthenewsun #bookofthenewsun #genewolfe #sciencefiction #scifi #books #literature #booktube #bookreviewSword and Citadel book review: Last Light (The Book of the New Sun Vol. III & IV)The Falcon Reads2024-02-10 | My review of Gene Wolfe's Sword and Citadel, the second omnibus of The Book of the New Sun, containing volumes three and four, being the further adventures of the wandering torturer Severian as he gradually and circuitously makes his way towards his ultimate destiny.
#swordandcitadel #thebookofthenewsun #bookofthenewsun #genewolfe #sciencefiction #scifi #books #literature #booktube #bookreviewShadow and Claw book review: Dying Light (The Book of the New Sun Vol. I & II)The Falcon Reads2024-02-03 | My review of Shadow and Claw, by Gene Wolfe, an omnibus comprising the first two volumes of his widely renowned science fiction masterwork The Book of the New Sun, a highly intriguing (and enigmatic) story about the wanderings of an outcast torturer across a dying Earth (or Urth), and the miraculous happenings which befall him.
#shadowandclaw #thebookofthenewsun #bookofthenewsun #genewolfe #sciencefiction #scifi #books #literature #booktube #bookreviewNight/Dawn/Day book reviews: From Darkness to LightThe Falcon Reads2024-01-27 | In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, my 3-for-1 review of Elie Wiesel's Night, Dawn, and Day, a trilogy of books which illustrate the harrowing psychology of the Holocaust survivor during and after the event.
00:00 - Intro 01:40 - Night review: Darkness Visible 11:03 - Dawn review: First Light 15:40 - Day review: Everything is Illuminated 19:00 - Outro
#holocaust #holocaustremembrance #holocaustmemorialday #holocaustliterature #books #literature #memoir #novel #booktube #bookreviewThe Guermantes Way book review: Movin On Up (In Search of Lost Time Vol. III)The Falcon Reads2024-01-20 | My review of Marcel Proust's The Guermantes Way, the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, and a book which I must say I found, although still beautifully written, to be rather trying at times due to its punishing insistence on recording a downright ungodly amount of idle chitchat. :(
#theguermantesway #insearchoflosttime #proust #marcelproust #modernism #literature #books #booktube #bookreviewWithin a Budding Grove: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (In Search of Lost Time Vol. II)The Falcon Reads2024-01-13 | My review of Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove, the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, and a book which takes the story in some interesting (sort of) directions.
#withinabuddinggrove #insearchoflosttime #proust #marcelproust #modernism #books #literature #bookreview #booktube1,000 Subscribers Q&A Special!The Falcon Reads2024-01-09 | Welp, I finally made it to 1K subscribers, and I felt it time for the customary Q&A. That being said, I didn't, however, get too terribly many Q's. But, nonetheless, here we be. Enjoy! :)
#1000subscribers #milestone #qanda #books #literature #booktubeSwanns Way book review: The Persistence of Memory (In Search of Lost Time Vol. I)The Falcon Reads2024-01-06 | My review of Marcel Proust's highly lauded Swann's Way, an incredibly lushly written book which constitutes the first volume of his monumental work In Search of Lost Time - a work I've set myself the task of at least attempting to read. How did I fare with this inaugural entry? Watch and see! :P
#swannsway #insearchoflosttime #proust #marcelproust #modernism #literature #books #booktube #bookreviewThe Best and Worst Books of 2023The Falcon Reads2023-12-30 | So I read some books in 2023, and now it's time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Join me won't you as I rank the ten best and the ten worst books that I read in 2023.
0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:37 - #10 worst 0:05:16 - #10 best 0:07:12 - #9 worst 0:09:44 - #9 best 0:11:32 - #8 worst 0:16:34 - #8 best 0:18:36 - #7 worst 0:21:23 - #7 best 0:23:17 - #6 worst 0:25:54 - #6 best 0:27:33 - #5 worst 0:29:41 - #5 best 0:31:53 - #4 worst 0:36:11 - #4 best 0:39:08 - #3 worst 0:41:49 - #3 best 0:47:48 - #2 worst 0:50:26 - #2 best 0:52:56 - #1 worst 0:57:47 - #1 best 1:00:57 - Outro
#readingwrapup #yearending #yearinreview #bestandworst #books #literature #booktube #bookreview #bookreviewsThe Gift of the Magi short story review: The Thought That CountsThe Falcon Reads2023-12-23 | In honor of the Yuletide season, a brief review of the likewise brief classic short story by O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi; a sweet and heartwarming tale of a destitute young couple trying to buy for each other presents at Christmas, only to discover an even more valuable gift in the process. If you would like to read The Gift of the Magi for yourself, (and I would highly recommend it!), then click the below link:
#thegiftofthemagi #ohenry #shortstory #shortstories #classic #classics #literature #christmas #christmasreading #yuletide #yuletideseason #booktube #review #merrychristmasLinden Falls book review: War of AngelsThe Falcon Reads2023-12-16 | My review of Linden Falls, a Christian fantasy novel which was very kindly sent to me for review by its author; a work of great promise I believe, although unfortunately also a work whose execution was rather...rough.