Shadow and Claw book review: Dying Light (The Book of the New Sun Vol. I & II) The Falcon Reads 2024-02-03 | 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 #bookreview
The Necrophiliac book review: La Petite Mort The Falcon Reads 2024-10-17 | 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 #bookreview
Zofloya book review: Black as the Devil The Falcon Reads 2024-10-12 | 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 #bookreview
Joker: Folie a Deux movie review (spoilers): The Last Laugh The Falcon Reads 2024-10-07 | 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:youtube.com/watch?v=rb_Xc26r5sE#jokerfolieàdeux #joker #movie #movies #moviereview #moviereviews #film #films #filmreview #filmreviews #cinema #kino
At the Mountains of Madness book review: A Cold Day in Hell The Falcon Reads 2024-10-05 | 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 #bookreview
Bend Sinister book review: A Man Apart The Falcon Reads 2024-09-28 | 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 #bookreview
Wallenstein: A Bohemian Rhapsody The Falcon Reads 2024-09-21 | 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 #bookreview
Explaining Postmodernism book review: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters The Falcon Reads 2024-09-14 | 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 #bookreview
Nachzehrer book review: Of Monsters and Men The Falcon Reads 2024-09-07 | 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 Murderer The Falcon Reads 2024-08-31 | 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 #bookreview
The Decline of the West Vol. II: Perspectives of World History book review: Render unto Caesar The Falcon Reads 2024-08-24 | 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 - Intro02:18 - Darwin Debunked?03:55 - Cave-Man06:38 - Russia Russia Russia13:12 - City-Slickers15:52 - Mo' Money, Mo' Problems17:55 - Reign in Blood22:20 - The Trouble with Being Born24:24 - Outro#thedeclineofthewest #oswaldspengler #history #philosophy #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreview
The Decline of the West Vol. I: Form and Actuality book review: Its All Downhill from Here The Falcon Reads 2024-08-17 | 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.00:00 - Intro06:09 - Background12:39 - Overview22:10 - Apollo's Creed27:12 - Faust World Problems38:27 - Outro#thedeclineofthewest #oswaldspengler #history #philosophy #riseandfall #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreview
The Law book review: ...with Liberty and Justice for All The Falcon Reads 2024-08-10 | 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 #bookreview
The Republic, by Plato book review: An Ambiguous Utopia The Falcon Reads 2024-08-03 | 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 Analysis23:18 - The Most Important Takeaway#therepublic #plato #philosophy #philosophybooks #books #literature #reading #booktube #bookreview
Time Regained book review: This Do In Remembrance (In Search of Lost Time Vol. VII) The Falcon Reads 2024-07-27 | 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 #bookreview
The Incest Diary book review: A History of (Sexual) Violence The Falcon Reads 2024-07-20 | 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 #trauma
Antinatalism, Extinction, and the End of Procreative Self-Corruption book review: Cease and Desist The Falcon Reads 2024-07-16 | 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 #literature
Adventures in Immediate Irreality book review: A Study in Strangeness The Falcon Reads 2024-07-13 | 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 #bookreview
The Captive & The Fugitive book review: To Have Loved and Lost (In Search of Lost Time Vol. V & VI) The Falcon Reads 2024-07-06 | 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 #bookreview
Cato: Live Free or Die The Falcon Reads 2024-06-29 | 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 #bookreview
The Sunset Limited book review: Contrast The Falcon Reads 2024-06-22 | 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 #bookreview
Fog book review: Words Made Flesh The Falcon Reads 2024-06-15 | 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 #bookreview
The Last Man book review: And Then There Was One The Falcon Reads 2024-06-08 | 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 #bookreview
Sodom and Gomorrah book review: My Girlfriends Girlfriend (In Search of Lost Time Vol. IV) The Falcon Reads 2024-06-01 | 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 #bookreview
The Fountainhead book review: Standalone Complex The Falcon Reads 2024-05-25 | 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 - Intro04:07 - Summary13:44 - Writing15:43 - Characters23:15 - Story25:14 - Rating26:57 - Legacy29:08 - Excerpts and Extracts41:55 - Outro#thefountainhead #aynrand #individualism #objectivism #books #literature #reading #novel #fiction #philosophy #philosophicalfiction #philosophybooks #booktube #bookreview
Cain book review: Wrathchild The Falcon Reads 2024-05-18 | 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 #bookreview
The Worm Ouroboros book review: The Forever War The Falcon Reads 2024-05-11 | 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 #booktube
Critique of Pure Reason book review: Take It to the Limit The Falcon Reads 2024-05-04 | 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 #bookreview
Against Nature book review: Leave the World Behind The Falcon Reads 2024-04-27 | 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 #bookreview
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds book review: She Blinded Me with Science The Falcon Reads 2024-04-20 | 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 #bookreview
The Tragedy of Man book review: Days of Future Past The Falcon Reads 2024-04-13 | 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 #bookrecommendations
The Histories, by Herodotus book review: History of the World, Part 1 The Falcon Reads 2024-04-06 | 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 #penguinbooks
The Book of Disquiet book review: Diary of a Madman The Falcon Reads 2024-03-30 | 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 #booktube
Story of O book review: Of Human Bondage The Falcon Reads 2024-03-23 | 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. 🥵#storyofo #paulinereage #bdsm #kink #erotica #books #literature #booktube #bookreview #nsfw
The Pilgrims Progress book review: Highway to Heaven The Falcon Reads 2024-03-16 | 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 #bookreview
Wittgensteins Mistress book review: A World of Her Own The Falcon Reads 2024-03-09 | 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 #bookreview
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus book review: Words and Images The Falcon Reads 2024-03-02 | 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 #bookreview
Demons book review: Spiritual Warfare The Falcon Reads 2024-02-24 | 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 #bookreview
The Book of the New Sun review: Let There Be Light The Falcon Reads 2024-02-20 | 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.Shadow and Claw review:youtube.com/watch?v=dwtPvuujNHISword and Citadel review:youtube.com/watch?v=LwwbSzog9roThe Urth of the New Sun review:youtube.com/watch?v=7NDYu9kxSaI#thebookofthenewsun #bookofthenewsun #genewolfe #sciencefiction #scifi #books #literature #booktube #bookreview
The Urth of the New Sun book review: Light Bringer (The Book of the New Sun Vol. V) The Falcon Reads 2024-02-17 | 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 #bookreview
Sword and Citadel book review: Last Light (The Book of the New Sun Vol. III & IV) The Falcon Reads 2024-02-10 | 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 #bookreview
Night/Dawn/Day book reviews: From Darkness to Light The Falcon Reads 2024-01-27 | 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 - Intro01:40 - Night review: Darkness Visible11:03 - Dawn review: First Light15:40 - Day review: Everything is Illuminated19:00 - Outro#holocaust #holocaustremembrance #holocaustmemorialday #holocaustliterature #books #literature #memoir #novel #booktube #bookreview
The Guermantes Way book review: Movin On Up (In Search of Lost Time Vol. III) The Falcon Reads 2024-01-20 | 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 #bookreview
Within a Budding Grove: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (In Search of Lost Time Vol. II) The Falcon Reads 2024-01-13 | 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 #booktube
1,000 Subscribers Q&A Special! The Falcon Reads 2024-01-09 | 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 #booktube
Swanns Way book review: The Persistence of Memory (In Search of Lost Time Vol. I) The Falcon Reads 2024-01-06 | 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 #bookreview
The Best and Worst Books of 2023 The Falcon Reads 2023-12-30 | 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 - Intro0:02:37 - #10 worst0:05:16 - #10 best0:07:12 - #9 worst0:09:44 - #9 best0:11:32 - #8 worst0:16:34 - #8 best0:18:36 - #7 worst0:21:23 - #7 best0:23:17 - #6 worst0:25:54 - #6 best0:27:33 - #5 worst0:29:41 - #5 best0:31:53 - #4 worst0:36:11 - #4 best0:39:08 - #3 worst0:41:49 - #3 best0:47:48 - #2 worst0:50:26 - #2 best0:52:56 - #1 worst0:57:47 - #1 best1:00:57 - Outro#readingwrapup #yearending #yearinreview #bestandworst #books #literature #booktube #bookreview #bookreviews
The Gift of the Magi short story review: The Thought That Counts The Falcon Reads 2023-12-23 | 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:online-literature.com/o_henry/1014And merry Christmas! ;)#thegiftofthemagi #ohenry #shortstory #shortstories #classic #classics #literature #christmas #christmasreading #yuletide #yuletideseason #booktube #review #merrychristmas
Linden Falls book review: War of Angels The Falcon Reads 2023-12-16 | 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.
