Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Why Do We Value This Work?) Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-13 | My thought from reading Lolita. Feel feee to share why you love or loathe this book!Recommended if you like:Pale Fire by NabokovSpeak, Memory by NabokovAda, or Ardor by NabokovIn Search of Lost Time by Marcel ProustLike Death by Guy de MaupassantMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertRabbit, Run and the Rabbit Angstrom novels by John UpdikeLondon Fields by Martin AmisOn the Road by Jack KerouacThe Inferno by DanteHangsaman by Shirley JacksonThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, my discussion: Stoner by John WilliamsOther Men’s Daughters by Richard SternThe Symposium and Phaedrus by Plato#booktube #vladimirnabokov
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin (Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper) Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-11 | A discussion with SPOILERS at the end, of Dibdin’s great Holmes pastiche. 0:00 Introduction8:50 Dibdin’s Take on Holmes11:43 Recommended if you like17:16 SPOILERS and the FinaleRecommended if you like:The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures, Memoirs, and Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, particularly “The Cardboard Box”, “The Naval Treaty”, “The Empty Room”, and “The Final Problem”From Hell by Alan MooreWhite Chapell Scarlet Tracings by Iain SinclairHawksmoor by Peter AckroydAurelio Zen mysteries by Michael Dibdin, particularly Cabal and Dead LagoonThe Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarryThe Return or Moriarty and The Revenge of Moriarty by John GardnerDust and Shadow by Lyndsay FayeDead Girls by Selva Almada, my discussion: youtu.be/5S_CH_ZTdBI?si=kdPiVjNiQjzqJ4Gn2666 by Roberto Bolaño, my discussion: youtu.be/a8NTjNkpL1w?si=-ySJ0lV5cF5Dr7m9Nineteen Seventy-Seven by David Peace Sagittarius by Ray RussellDeath and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges, my discussion on Borges’ Secret Knowledge: youtu.be/7cWEo3Rv6qs?si=kO7PheIctd1p-i-e#booktube #sherlockholmes #jacktheripper#victober #victober2025
Paradise Lost Book XII: Milton’s Anti-Monarchical Finale #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-08 | ...
Paradise Lost Book XIb: Adam & Milton Question Violence #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-07 | ...
Paradise Lost Book XIa: Cain & Abel #johnmilton #booktube #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-07 | ...
Paradise Lost Book Xb: Milton’s Elliptic Echoes #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-06 | ...
Paradise Lost Book Xa: Judgment in Hell #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-06 | ...
Paradise Lost Book IXc: Romance & Awakening Sin #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-05 | ...
Paradise Lost Book IXb: the Fall continues #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-05 | ...
Paradise IXa: the Fall Begins #johnmilton #paradiselost #booktube Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-05 | ...
Paradise Lost Book VIII: Adam Needs Eve by Milton #johnmilton #booktube #paradiselost #maryshelley Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-04 | ...
Paradise Lost Book VII: Creation! by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-03 | ...
Paradise Lost Book VIc: the Son Triumphant by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-02 | ...
Paradise Lost Book VIb: Artillery enters the war #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-02 | ...
Paradise Lost Book VIa: Homeric Echoes, War in Heaven by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-02 | ...
Paradise Lost by Milton Book V: Rebellion in Heaven #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-02 | ...
Paradise Lost: Sympathy for the Devil, Satan as Character #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-01 | ...
Paradise Lost Book IV: the Garden, Adam, and Eve by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-01 | ...
Paradise Lost Book III: Father & Son by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-01 | ...
Paradise Lost Book IIb Journey from Hell by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-01 | ...
Paradise Lost Book IIa: the Council in Hell by John Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-01 | ...
Paradise Lost Book I by John Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-01 | ...
Paradise Lost by John Milton, brief background #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselost Rambling Raconteur 2024-10-01 | ...
The New Roman Empire: a History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis Rambling Raconteur 2024-09-18 | A discussion with a few readings from Kaldellis’ new history of Byzantium. Recommended if you like:A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius NorwichNorwich’s Three Volume history: The Early Centuries, The Apogee, Decline and Fall, my Top 10 Nonfiction Books from Early 2020 at the start of the channel: youtu.be/J5ze1cLl8v0?si=itsKrDP8XxGQle7FThe Secret History by ProcopiusByzantine Histories of Michael PsellusThe Alexiad by Anna KomnenaThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon1453 by Roger Cowley The Glory of the Empire: a History, a Novel by Jean d’Ormesson#booktube #byzantium #byzantine_empire #romanhistory #medievalhistory
Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber Rambling Raconteur 2024-08-19 | A discussion of Haber's debut novel.Recommended if you like:Saint Sebastian's Abyss by Mark Haber, my discussion: youtu.be/iTFn9RMVEl0?si=hKFIN7Z-TXa5kGGFConcrete by Thomas Bernhard, my discussion: youtu.be/FxsfSih95sw?si=MDNUZcpXnlb1Ib9PGargoyles by Thomas Bernhard, my discussion: youtu.be/WLYTFXn5zS0?si=YeqIbYZPWdV1G_cpThe Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert BurtonThe Melancholy of Resistance by Krasznahorkai Laszlo, my discussion: youtu.be/rO5hygISvB4?si=E4LH8kvwvybWfl_yDon Quixote by Miguel de CervantesZama by Antonio di BenedettoThe Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo TolstoyMemory of Fire by Eduaro Galeno, my discussion on Genesis: youtu.be/q-9n1_jbfz0?si=CUvkJdA3dDZP3i18and Memory of Fire: Faces and Masks: youtu.be/n8v-QZG3HNU?si=99gwfDqagF5zkJtfStories of Horacio Quiroga, my discussion of "The Decapitated Chicken": youtu.be/-bUhAbEiShs?si=Ev7sxdKkwzR-JioOThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannWoman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo2666 by Roberto Bolano#booktube #markhaber#thomasbernhard#krasznahorkai
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin 🇹🇼 🐊 Rambling Raconteur 2024-08-12 | A discussion of Miaojin’s postmodern Bildungsroman set at a university in Taipei. Recommended if you like:Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin, my discussion: youtu.be/cGuJ33PmkGo?si=T9BhoOQxLJezm24iNorwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki, my discussion: youtu.be/fJEbbQVyMpo?si=83RFF-ZnwnBTNj1pNo Longer Human by Dazai Osamu, my discussion: youtu.be/b3y9ylhhkPY?si=t98YtTrUZM-5x1ZTThe Ruined Map by Abe KoboStories of Akutagawa RyunosukeThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima YukioOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MarquezSolo Dance by Li KotomiThe Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, my discussion: youtu.be/yo5AnL2mYOk?si=9c4SCoFVD7BRTytyThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, my discussion: youtu.be/21lGqigOfdU?si=DSWWnuaDUy-79fVhGoodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, my discussion: youtu.be/OrMifpO_9-E?si=w2p4wDU1GkeA_h49A Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzDancing in the Dark by Janet HobhouseThe Private Life of Plants by Lee Seung-U, my discussion: youtu.be/xQBjiWoKiuU?si=tdiJ_bnFIJCZ0PGh#booktube #womenintranslation#witmonth#qiumiaojin
July Marginalia (Stories, Essays, Poems, Books) Rambling Raconteur 2024-08-10 | Works I read in July 2024:Stories: A Mirror and Birthday Girl by Murakami Haruki, collected in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 🇯🇵 The Old System by Saul BellowSummer by Joy Williams, collected in Taking CareA & P by John UpdikeA Perfect Day for Bananafish by JD Salinger, collected in Nine StoriesBooks:Yellow-Dog Contract by Ross ThomasPawn of Prophecy by David EddingsPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip RothIslands in the Stream by Ernest HemingwayNonfiction: Too Much of Life, the Collected Cronicas by Clarice Lispector 🇧🇷 On Interpretation by Aristotle 🇬🇷 What Is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant 🇩🇪 Consider the Lobster by David Foster WallaceCharisma and Disenchantment, the Vocation Lectures of Max Weber 🇩🇪 Poetry:Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish 🇵🇸 my discussion: youtu.be/NP8N7dG_LEY?si=0ppSjdpuDBUuOAxdPoetry of Thomas HardyUnfinished Book: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon#booktube
Reflections on Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books Rambling Raconteur 2024-08-08 | After our daughter read most of Dahl’s children’s books this summer, she wanted to make a video!Please note that we did not use her name during the video. Comments that do use it will be removed.
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace, Failures of Language (and Excess) Rambling Raconteur 2024-07-20 | A discussion with readings from Wallace's debut novel.0:00 Introduction2:03 Wallace on Language11:57 Wallace's Excess15:10 Metaphors Succeed and Fail18:35 Influences, Recommended if You LikeRecommended if you like:Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceGirl with Curious Hair by David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster by David Foster WallaceNine Stories by JD SalingerFranny & Zooey by JD SalingerRaise High the Roof Beam Carpenters & Seymour: an Introduction by JD SalingerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonJR by William GaddisThe Recognitions by William GaddisOmensetter's Luck by William GassA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleGarden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis BorgesOn Interpretation by AristotlePhilosophical Investigations by Ludwig WittgensteinModal Logic by Cocciarella and FreundKiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel PuigStories of Donald BarthelmeThe Names by Don DeLilloHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami Haruki, my discussion: youtu.be/Q8toUY79DrY?si=1j9y09Ub-Tbb14qrDead Souls by Nikolai GogolPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovPortnoy's Complaint by Philip RothOther Men's Daughters by Richard SternThe Ginger Man by JP Donleavy#booktube #davidfosterwallace
The Last Time The NY Times Told Me What Books to Read! Rambling Raconteur 2024-07-14 | Memories of how the 2006 “What is the best work of American fiction in the past 25 years?” Prompt from the New York Times dominated my reading for two years. The Article by AO Scott: nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/review/scott-essay.html0:00 Introduction7:43 The Top 514:22 The Long List19:26 Contemporary Literature21:24 1965-1980Books mentioned:Beloved by Toni MorrisonUnderworld by Don DeLilloBlood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyRabbit Angstrom by John UpdikeAmerican Pastoral by Philip RothMcCarthy’s Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the PlainLibra by DeLillo, my discussion: youtu.be/4BxUwzQ4IVU?si=gfAVnFbe0WHIHUBWWhite Noise by DeLilloThe Counterlife, Sabbath’s Theater, The Plot Against America, and Operation Shylock by RothWhere I’m Calling From by Raymond CarverJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonA Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Known World by Edward P. JonesMating by Norman RushThe Things They Carried by Tim O’BrienInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann The Gold Bug Variations by Richard PowersThe Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonRagtime by EL DoctorowSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison, my discussion: youtu.be/iM5RB3WrImU?si=uns0pCg96LaD5piTPortnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth Humboldt’s Gift by Saul BellowGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonJR by William Gaddis#booktube #nytimes#tonimorrison #cormacmccarthy #dondelillo#johnupdike#philiproth
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Impressionism & Woolf’s Artistic Statement) Rambling Raconteur 2024-07-01 | A series of impressions I focused on while rereading Woolf’s marvelous novel. 0:00 Introduction2:43 Stream of Consciousness in Part 17:36 Ravages of Nature in Part 210:30 Woolf the Artist in Part 314:34 Recommended if you likeRecommended if you like:Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, my discussion: youtu.be/m4XHOXWROik?si=7rWiNhL_U0pRfcDzThe Waves by Virginia WoolfBetween the Acts by Virginia WoolfEssays and Letters of Virginia Woolf As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerDubliners by James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoyceUnder the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, my discussion: youtu.be/dMc5igVIx-M?si=n-_K9arATz-otl04Party-Going by Henry GreenStories of Katherine MansfieldLoving by Henry Green, my discussion: youtu.be/LjqjmrbZy0U?si=wjpAM1mshABS0hKGIn the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William GassIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowers by Marcel Proust Love by Toni Morrison, my discussion: youtu.be/fELnk2EBxpI?si=cWX8qWI-AB4cTVfOAtonement by Ian McEwanHoward’s End by EM Forster The Sea, the Sea by Iris MurdochAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyPoems of John KeatsPoems of Percy ShelleyEssays of Thomas Carlyle #booktube #virginiawoolf #modernism #impressionism #jamesjoyce #williamfaulkner
Library Memories: My First Disappointing Read (Age 8) Rambling Raconteur 2024-06-29 | Our older daughter has been reading quite a few books this summer, and she recently read a book that is the first novel I can recall being genuinely disappointed in. Let me know you’re interested in more memories from my library.
Norwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki 🇯🇵 Rambling Raconteur 2024-06-26 | A discussion of the strengths in Murakami’s first “realistic” novel. 0:00 Introduction7:30 Grounded Settings12:20 Norwegian Wood in Murakami’s Oeuvre15:10 Relationships20:19 Recommended if you likeRecommended if you like:A Wild Sheep Chase by MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami, my discussion: youtu.be/Q8toUY79DrY?si=LgOsNAQCJwYcYtJnThe Wind-up Bird Chronicle by MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Murakami, my discussion: youtu.be/Nb26nV_ysOk?si=XlJSpnUqtW_meEfrAfter Dark by Murakami, my discussion: youtu.be/5s-tv5xwRQQ?si=EmVMW4TEp_oJVjl6Sputnik Sweetheart by Murakami “Firefly” collected in Blind Willow, Sleeping WomanNo Longer Human by Dazai Osamu, my discussion: youtu.be/b3y9ylhhkPY?si=2KW89MPizubDXAXXThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Magic Mountain by Thomas MannFrom Rockaway by Jill EisenstadtBeauty and Sadness by Kawabata YasunariPeople of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi, my discussion: youtu.be/RLnkPmjqbjk?si=1yvqSW4Z9daDsYOWScandal by Endo ShusakuSwann’s Way by Marcel Proust, my discussion: youtu.be/GJXXjgsJtZ0?si=oTWUMThcLuh04FTJ#booktube #japaneseliterature #murakami #murakamiharuki #harukimurakami
Patrimony by Philip Roth Rambling Raconteur 2024-06-18 | A discussion of Roth’s memoir of his father’s final months. 0:00 Introduction2:44 First Readings6:28 At His Mother’s Grave13:29 Patrimony in Roth’s Oeuvre16:43 Recommended if you likeRecommended if you like:Roth’s Zuckerman Novels, particularly The Ghost WriterAmerican Pastoral by RothThe Plot Against America by RothGoodbye, Columbus by Roth, my discussion: youtu.be/OrMifpO_9-E?si=oWD-DqDM9UmJsWErA Dreambook for our Time by Tadeusz KonwickiThis Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz BorowskiA Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzIf This Is a Man by Primo LeviWittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard My Struggle Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard“Death of Monseigneur” from Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-SimonThe Guermantes Way by Marcel ProustDeath of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy#booktube#philiproth
Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert Rambling Raconteur 2024-06-17 | A few spots from our hiking in the Petrified Forest and along the Painted Desert. These are the ancestral lands of Hopi, Navajo, and Ancestral Pueblo First Nations.
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber (Bernhardesque Satire) Rambling Raconteur 2024-06-10 | A discussion of Haber’s wonderful novel. Recommended if you like:Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark HaberOld Masters by Thomas Bernhard The Loser by Thomas Bernhard, my discussion: youtu.be/O9MfPD0G6zo?si=RKueQveMlX093NqpHerman & The Last Wolf by Krasznahorkai LászlóThe Death of Virgil by Hermann BrochAva by Carole Maso Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel BeckettThe Aspern Papers by Henry JamesPossession by AS Byatt2666 by Roberto Bolaño, my discussion: youtu.be/a8NTjNkpL1w?si=e_YLYFuP5gUfL9zhThe Recognitions by William GaddisThe Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles WillefordHadrian the Seventh by Baron Corvo (Frederick Rolfe)The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de BalzacAlien Hearts by Guy de MaupassantThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima YukioPoetry of Francois Villon#booktube #markhaber#thomasbernhard#laszlokrasznahorkai#williamgaddis
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (Space Opera & Syntax) Rambling Raconteur 2024-06-08 | A discussion of Delaney’s early novel. Recommended if you like:The Ballad of Beta-2 by Delany, my discussion: youtu.be/CAAUI8546RY?si=_qruKO8rPQx8SApwNova by DelanyDhalgren by DelanyTriton by DelanyDangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison (includes Delany’s “Aye and Gomorrah”)Joseph and his Brothers by Thomas Mann, my discussion: youtu.be/AZ9JciETbm0?si=VhwL_yhfpc9IYT9rFinnegans Wake by James Joyce, my discussion: youtu.be/AztAFas-R34?si=xs3N2kLtfOXOStqiMolloy by Samuel Beckett, my discussion: youtu.be/TDjWt9EGXxM?si=Gw8sSYHaSxejsVLAInvisible Cities and Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, my discussion: youtu.be/kMc8KGIK4Nw?si=Aa-eDe4P7ttRz9aZHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami Haruki, my discussion: youtu.be/Q8toUY79DrY?si=RCJDAEnNSj2ax7o1Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonRocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin, my discussion: youtu.be/pobUGne5vuY?si=VpuIilw53CTI_pbRThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, my discussion: youtu.be/sZ42jfZrd2E?si=oYOCfIL_HMU93RbYAlways Coming Home by Ursula K. Le GuinA Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny#booktube #sciencefiction #samuelrdelany#newwave
Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo (Memory, Time, and Perception) Rambling Raconteur 2024-05-31 | A discussion of Augustine of Hippo’s crucial work, with a particular emphasis on his writings regarding memory and time. 0:00 Introduction4:00 Confessions as Autobiography 9:31 Memory16:25 Time20:04 Conclusions23:45 Recommended if you likeRecommended if you like:City of God by St. AugustinePolitical Writings of St. AugustineAn Augustine SynthesisWritings of PaulThe PsalmsMere Christianity by CS LewisDialogues of Plato, my Where to Start with Plato: youtu.be/uDrqlQhb_aU?si=NwRU8wh0VQC9GMRXSayings of the Desert FathersThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusMeditations of Marcus AureliusUlysses by James JoyceFinnegans Wake by James Joyce, my discussion: youtu.be/AztAFas-R34?si=KfNWZbdHxASVfW5YDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannSwann’s Way by Marcel Proust, my discussion: youtu.be/GJXXjgsJtZ0?si=DWIP4opuiNZR4Lm9Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceOn the Road by Jack KerouacA Fan’s Notes by Frederick ExleyMy Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgard Septology by Jon Fosse, my discussion: youtu.be/SMDUDFiCpJ4?si=a8xZJtbLTxlmCilNThe Pilgrim’s Progress by John BunyanSermons and Poems of John Donne#booktube #staugustine#augustineofhippo#philosophy
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (an Epitaph for the Jazz Age) Rambling Raconteur 2024-05-29 | A discussion of Fitzgerald’s final complete novel. Recommended if you like:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald“Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott FitzgeraldRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesThe Garden of Eden by Ernest HemingwayOther Men’s Daughters by Richard SternMating by Norman RushAntony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare#booktube #fscottfitzgerald #jazzage
25 More Contenders for the “Great American Novel” Rambling Raconteur 2024-03-28 | 25 books I recommend as a great novel from the US organized chronologically within themes. 0:00 Introduction1:04 Redemption6:12 Conspiracy/Individualism11:29 Legacy19:16 Greed25:01 Race30:31 Subverting the Dream Brian @BookishTexan and his list: youtu.be/YtVwCuO3mkI?si=Jtxnizri5sigzWSfInspired by Greg’s video @SupposedlyFun : youtu.be/LMSkNViSOFE?si=52BO1r2Ar11vOI-wRedemption:The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) my discussion: youtu.be/tfR6c85EwHk?si=c-wRiy0WE9Vs_LQ6East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) my discussion: youtu.be/iM5RB3WrImU?si=Eb7fciwCzOQVgcZTConspiracy/Individualism:Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)Libra by Don DeLillo (1988) my discussion: youtu.be/4BxUwzQ4IVU?si=fguqYeyhtWm96MlNJesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (1992)Legacy:Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott (1868-69)Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (1936)American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (2008)Greed:McTeague by Frank Norris (1899)House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)JR by William Gaddis (1975)Race:Cane by Jean Toomer (1923) my discussion: youtu.be/WacfkDJUaLw?si=XwAeJxzH75kU80zdKindred by Octavia Butler (1979) my discussion: youtu.be/jDy3F-taoSM?si=1ZlslnPjzblYoS92Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison (1999) my discussion: youtu.be/9L0vaSHedu8?si=a1CumwYE5dubTPdRThe Round House by Louise Erdrich (2012)Subverting the American Dream:In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes (1947)Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1960)Ragtime by EL Doctorow (1975)Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin (1988)The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann (2015)#booktube
Master & Commander by Patrick O’Brian Rambling Raconteur 2024-03-02 | My first foray into O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels, and the aspects I enjoyed most. Recommended if you like: Post Captain by Patrick O’BrianSharpe’s Rifles by Bernard CornwellMoby Dick by Herman MelvilleThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasPersuasion by Jane AustenTinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le CarréCasino Royale by Ian FlemingFlashman by George MacDonald FraserChannels I’ve seen discuss the Aubrey-Maturin novels:Brian @BookishTexan Mark @BookTimewithElvis Mark @richardsonreads573 #booktube #patrickobrian
The Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz Kafka 🇨🇿 Aphorisms, Parables, Microfiction, and Fragments Rambling Raconteur 2024-02-03 | A discussion with numerous readings from Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks, composed between 1917-1919. 0:00 Introduction6:01 Kafka on Paradise11:34 Contrast to the Diaries & Letters12:49 Kafka on Life & Death16:03 Recommended if you likeRecommended if you like:Diaries of Franz KafkaStories of Kafka, my discussion on The Metamorphosis: youtu.be/21lGqigOfdU?si=NW0-wVojb3CJHoBJMeditations of Marcus AureliusBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich NietzscheThe Pensees by Blaise PascalToo Much of Life by Clarice LispectorThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaThe Book of my Life by Girolamo CardanoThe DhammapadaThe Analects of ConfuciusProverbs and Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew BibleSayings of the Desert FathersThe Writings of Elias CanettiStories of Jorge Luis Borges, my discussion on his exploration of Gnosticism: youtu.be/7cWEo3Rv6qs?si=WUxrggOQTlU9ErkSZibaldone by Giacomo LeopardiThe Tragedy of Man by Madách Imre#booktube#kafka #franzkafka #philosophy
Larva ♾️ Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julián Ríos 🇪🇸 Joyce’s Successor: Coherent Excess and Chaos Rambling Raconteur 2024-01-14 | A discussion of the highly unconventional novel by Ríos, translated by Richard Alan Francis, Suzanne Jill Levine, and the author. 0:00 Introduction 2:11 Reading Larva9:39 Literary References16:42 Recommended if you likeRecommended if you like:Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, my discussion: youtu.be/AztAFas-R34?si=fmMJfhyZaQH2OzYHInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonMulligan Stew by Gilbert SorrentinoWritings of Alexander TherouxTerra Nostra by Carlos FuentesParallel Stories by Nádas PéterDucks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannDon Juan by Lord ByronThe Unnameable by Samuel BeckettJR by William GaddisAbel and Cain by Gregor von RezzoriJerusalem by Alan MooreDr. Faustus by Christopher MarloweFaust, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 by GoethePoetry of Arthur RimbaudPoetry of Charles BaudelaireThe Tales of 1001 NightsWritings of Jonathan SwiftGargantua & Pantagruel by RabelaisTristram Shandy by Laurence SternePoetry of Fernando PessoaMumbo Jumbo by Ishmael ReedPlays of AristophanesPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovDon Juan by MolièreSteps by Jerzy KosinskiSexus, Plexus, Nexus by Henry MillerStories of Jorge Luis BorgesHouse of Leaves by Mark DanielewskiA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareEarthly Powers by Anthony Burgess#booktube#experimentalfiction#julianrios
Favorite Fiction Reading in 2023! Rambling Raconteur 2024-01-06 | My favorite novels that I read in 2023:Satantango by Krasznahorkai Lászlo 🇭🇺 my discussion: youtu.be/Ars3CtOkRs4?si=OPso5Jzm-Qfz30uoOur Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo 🇬🇭 my discussion: youtu.be/af2QGQHv850?si=N8g1vqqtsmgJGFgFA Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš 🇷🇸 my discussion: youtu.be/DD5-xnkdmC0?si=q_mE8p2lYYZKD3qTBut Crime Does Punish by Ján Johanides 🇸🇰 my discussion: youtu.be/RCZzDwR8USs?si=KvYqhnVPk8QOJ_FANinth House by Leigh Bardugo 🇺🇸 my discussion: youtu.be/8a9Hg6gdB5A?si=a862F8RmQRuPct-OThe Secret History by Donna Tartt 🇺🇸 my discussion: youtu.be/65TfxA-SHRQ?si=1fZAMxAHdZ4Q63CJFeebleminded by Ariana Harwicz 🇦🇷 my discussion: youtu.be/nrOZoopyhS4?si=wLDgZIUlOQfyYMD9The Loser by Thomas Bernhard 🇦🇹 my discussion: youtu.be/O9MfPD0G6zo?si=GJeDc6Fhr19cfzJULayli and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi 🇮🇷 my discussion: youtu.be/bPOAP_fSAs8?si=QiAuWJRy32xT8iDDMemory of Fire: Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano 🇺🇾 my discussion: youtu.be/n8v-QZG3HNU?si=pDIIxs3K-stNNRnhJuneteenth by Ralph Ellison 🇺🇸 my discussion: youtu.be/9L0vaSHedu8?si=lmBqvyTdEJwlgVmyÁgua Viva by Clarice Lispector 🇧🇷 my discussion: youtu.be/5v6fB43ZlSA?si=zfOko0TDXmbHojLZOf Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia 🇧🇷 my discussion: youtu.be/aYvA9CEzP0k?si=BXUTpuFMF1DsUwI2Honorable Mentions:Mexico Set by Len Deighton 🇬🇧 my discussion: youtu.be/wGCJjEZfbvc?si=Hf9Pn_IoBCu6RlemSunflower by Krúdy Gyula 🇭🇺 my discussion: youtu.be/v3HGK1lhzSI?si=k-630e0wT8qMd9pBUnfinished Novels:Emperor of the Sorcerers by Budhasvamin 🇮🇳 Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai’an 🇨🇳 #booktube #favoritenovels#favoritebooks
The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar 🇹🇲 Rambling Raconteur 2023-12-27 | A discussion of Welsapar’s novel examining the collision between modern and traditional culture in a Turkmen fishing village and the ghost of a woman from the past. Recommended if you like: The Chosen Place, the Timeless People by Paule MarshallMaru by Bessie Head, my discussion: youtu.be/5IhYcGT8c3g?si=B429_2V5KbwUf6vdStories of Nikolai GogolStories of Nikolai LeskovVis & Ramin by Fakhraddin Gorgani, my discussion: youtu.be/hN6jMM29J9k?si=V2Re8zZZzuUeFUGD#booktube #akwlesapar#turkmenliterature#asianliterature
My Desert Cave of Books Lost to Time Rambling Raconteur 2023-12-24 | A discussion of texts that once existed but have been lost that I would love to see found. Please share your own lists in the comments or as a response video!0:00 Introduction 2:46 Greek and Roman Texts8:11 Burnt Books14:50 My Top Two!Books mentioned:The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoPoetics by AristotleDead Sea ScrollsLyric Poetry of Sappho, Anacreon, and AlcaeusNiobe by SophoclesHistories of LivySuspiria de Profundis by Thomas de Quincey, my discussion: youtu.be/vYUqgfVRvXA?si=dGcO-d3_PZnf3QwRDead Souls by Nikolai GogolJuneteenth by Ralph Ellison, my discussion: youtu.be/9L0vaSHedu8?si=dloKqslAwzNDgXQGLord 8 Deer Jaguar ClawAztec and Mayan CodicesPrometheans Ancient and Modern by Burton RascoeThe Satyricon by PetroniusBrihatkathā by Gunadhya aka the Great NarrativeEmperor of the Sorcerers by Budhasvamin aka BrihatkathāślokasamgrahaKathāsaritsāgara by Somadeva aka The Ocean of the Rivers of StoryVasudevahindi by Sangharasa#booktube
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Dark Academia and Greek Philosophy) Rambling Raconteur 2023-12-21 | A discussion of the elements in The Secret History, focusing on elements in Greek philosophy and tragedy and the sense of finding oneself as a young adult. 0:00 Introduction5:32 Elements of Greek Thought14:40 Socrates & Alcibiades19:37 Recommended if you likeMy Take on the Dark Academia Tag: youtu.be/lFgeCLTmIPY?si=obZOxGkF0ZcC3LmyRecommended if you like:The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The Bacchae by EuripidesDialogues of Plato, particularly Alcibiades I, Phaedo, my video on Where to Start with Plato: youtu.be/uDrqlQhb_aU?si=jUSyhpiwXGDtd61uApologia by Plato, my discussion: youtu.be/HKWzKRP-yFg?si=aYPHXNo-RLMaIiHRCrito by Plato, my discussion: youtu.be/sZVm46zJQlg?si=MbdpTkVBnEH1v--PThe Bacchae by EuripidesCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyNinth House by Leigh Bardugo, my discussion: youtu.be/8a9Hg6gdB5A?si=aOK0QZRMjgVMX15IAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonTragedies of SenecaThe Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil by John WebsterThe Lover’s Melancholy, The Broken Heart, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Wh0re by John FordThe Atheist’s Tragedy by Cyril TourneurBright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerneyThe Player by Michael TolkinThe Big Chill, directed by Lawrence Kasdan#booktube#darkacademia#donnatartt
Śatakatraya by Bhartrihari 🇮🇳 (Sanskrit Poetry on Wisdom & Love) Rambling Raconteur 2023-12-19 | A discussion with numerous readings from Bhartrihari’s Hundred Verses, translated by Greg Bailey in the Clay Sanskrit Library. 0:00 Introduction 2:43 Poems on Politics7:19 Poems on Passion10:54 Poems on Disenchantment 17:00 Recommended if you likeRecommended if you like: The Hermit and Love-Thief by Bhartrihari and Bílhana, translated by Barbara Stoler MillerSpeaking of ŚivaSays Tuka by TukaramI, Lalla, the Poems of Lal Dêd, my discussion: youtu.be/brkDlkNC2u4?si=A-qGSXoRJdDCyOOcThe Upanishads, my discussion: youtu.be/D0B3jXLvO6Q?si=wLjklKl94WFWWzrrThe Ruba’iyat of Omar KhayyamPoems of HafizPoems of the Late T’ang, my discussion: youtu.be/-K5wz-kd4IQ?si=MUsgi41vYkzvNjLbEcclesiastes, Song of Songs, and Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible#booktube #poetrytube #bhartrihari#sanskritliterature #indianliterature
Erasure by Percival Everett (adapted as American Fiction) Rambling Raconteur 2023-12-14 | A discussion of Everett’s brilliant satire. Recommended if you like: The Trees by Percival EverettI Am not Sindey Poitier by Percival EverettNative Son by Richard Wright, my discussion: youtu.be/S8h1pqvRXm4?si=fsj1vDcxFfReYkJ3Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonJuneteenth by Ralph Ellison, my discussion: youtu.be/9L0vaSHedu8?si=nuKd2n8KOmAcN0dRZuckerman Bound by Philip RothMumbo Jumbo by Ishmael ReedTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, my discussion: youtu.be/tfR6c85EwHk?si=aT0wK4MJ2Jr8ngmUCane by Jean Toomer, my discussion: youtu.be/WacfkDJUaLw?si=BiDHW8g1VP5m-fAbBlack No More by George SchuylerGulliver’s Travels and A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan SwiftWoodcutters by Thomas BernhardPale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov#booktube#percivaleverett
