Recommended if you like: Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard The Loser by Thomas Bernhard, my discussion: youtu.be/O9MfPD0G6zo?si=RKueQveMlX093Nqp Herman & The Last Wolf by Krasznahorkai László The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch Ava by Carole Maso Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett The Aspern Papers by Henry James Possession by AS Byatt 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, my discussion: youtu.be/a8NTjNkpL1w?si=e_YLYFuP5gUfL9zh The Recognitions by William Gaddis The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford Hadrian the Seventh by Baron Corvo (Frederick Rolfe) The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima Yukio Poetry of Francois Villon
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber (Bernhardesque Satire)Rambling Raconteur2024-06-10 | A discussion of Haber’s wonderful novel.
Recommended if you like: Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard The Loser by Thomas Bernhard, my discussion: youtu.be/O9MfPD0G6zo?si=RKueQveMlX093Nqp Herman & The Last Wolf by Krasznahorkai László The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch Ava by Carole Maso Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett The Aspern Papers by Henry James Possession by AS Byatt 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, my discussion: youtu.be/a8NTjNkpL1w?si=e_YLYFuP5gUfL9zh The Recognitions by William Gaddis The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford Hadrian the Seventh by Baron Corvo (Frederick Rolfe) The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima Yukio Poetry of Francois Villon
#booktube #markhaber #thomasbernhard #laszlokrasznahorkai #williamgaddisLolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Why Do We Value This Work?)Rambling Raconteur2024-10-13 | My thought from reading Lolita. Feel feee to share why you love or loathe this book!
Recommended if you like: Pale Fire by Nabokov Speak, Memory by Nabokov Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Like Death by Guy de Maupassant Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Rabbit, Run and the Rabbit Angstrom novels by John Updike London Fields by Martin Amis On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Inferno by Dante Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, my discussion: Stoner by John Williams Other Men’s Daughters by Richard Stern The Symposium and Phaedrus by Plato
#booktube #vladimirnabokovThe Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin (Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper)Rambling Raconteur2024-10-11 | A discussion with SPOILERS at the end, of Dibdin’s great Holmes pastiche.
0:00 Introduction 8:50 Dibdin’s Take on Holmes 11:43 Recommended if you like 17:16 SPOILERS and the Finale
Recommended if you like: The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle The 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 Moore White Chapell Scarlet Tracings by Iain Sinclair Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd Aurelio Zen mysteries by Michael Dibdin, particularly Cabal and Dead Lagoon The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry The Return or Moriarty and The Revenge of Moriarty by John Gardner Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye Dead Girls by Selva Almada, my discussion: youtu.be/5S_CH_ZTdBI?si=kdPiVjNiQjzqJ4Gn 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, my discussion: youtu.be/a8NTjNkpL1w?si=-ySJ0lV5cF5Dr7m9 Nineteen Seventy-Seven by David Peace Sagittarius by Ray Russell Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges, my discussion on Borges’ Secret Knowledge: youtu.be/7cWEo3Rv6qs?si=kO7PheIctd1p-i-e
#booktube #sherlockholmes #jacktheripper #victober #victober2025Paradise Lost Book XII: Milton’s Anti-Monarchical Finale #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-08 | ...Paradise Lost Book XIb: Adam & Milton Question Violence #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-07 | ...Paradise Lost Book XIa: Cain & Abel #johnmilton #booktube #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-07 | ...Paradise Lost Book Xb: Milton’s Elliptic Echoes #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-06 | ...Paradise Lost Book Xa: Judgment in Hell #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-06 | ...Paradise Lost Book IXc: Romance & Awakening Sin #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-05 | ...Paradise Lost Book IXb: the Fall continues #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-05 | ...Paradise IXa: the Fall Begins #johnmilton #paradiselost #booktubeRambling Raconteur2024-10-05 | ...Paradise Lost Book VIII: Adam Needs Eve by Milton #johnmilton #booktube #paradiselost #maryshelleyRambling Raconteur2024-10-04 | ...Paradise Lost Book VII: Creation! by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-03 | ...Paradise Lost Book VIc: the Son Triumphant by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-02 | ...Paradise Lost Book VIb: Artillery enters the war #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-02 | ...Paradise Lost Book VIa: Homeric Echoes, War in Heaven by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-02 | ...Paradise Lost by Milton Book V: Rebellion in Heaven #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-02 | ...Paradise Lost: Sympathy for the Devil, Satan as Character #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-01 | ...Paradise Lost Book IV: the Garden, Adam, and Eve by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-01 | ...Paradise Lost Book III: Father & Son by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-01 | ...Paradise Lost Book IIb Journey from Hell by Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-01 | ...Paradise Lost Book IIa: the Council in Hell by John Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-01 | ...Paradise Lost Book I by John Milton #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-01 | ...Paradise Lost by John Milton, brief background #booktube #johnmilton #paradiselostRambling Raconteur2024-10-01 | ...Paradise Lost by John Milton, a third reread.Rambling Raconteur2024-10-01 | ...The New Roman Empire: a History of Byzantium by Anthony KaldellisRambling Raconteur2024-09-18 | A discussion with a few readings from Kaldellis’ new history of Byzantium.
Recommended if you like: A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich Norwich’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=itsKrDP8XxGQle7F The Secret History by Procopius Byzantine Histories of Michael Psellus The Alexiad by Anna Komnena The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 1453 by Roger Cowley The Glory of the Empire: a History, a Novel by Jean d’Ormesson
#booktube #byzantium #byzantine_empire #romanhistory #medievalhistoryReinhardt’s Garden by Mark HaberRambling Raconteur2024-08-19 | A discussion of Haber's debut novel.
#booktube #markhaber #thomasbernhard #krasznahorkaiNotes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin 🇹🇼 🐊Rambling Raconteur2024-08-12 | A discussion of Miaojin’s postmodern Bildungsroman set at a university in Taipei.
#booktube #womenintranslation #witmonth #qiumiaojinJuly Marginalia (Stories, Essays, Poems, Books)Rambling Raconteur2024-08-10 | 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 Bellow Summer by Joy Williams, collected in Taking Care A & P by John Updike A Perfect Day for Bananafish by JD Salinger, collected in Nine Stories
Books: Yellow-Dog Contract by Ross Thomas Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
Nonfiction: 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 Wallace Charisma and Disenchantment, the Vocation Lectures of Max Weber 🇩🇪
Unfinished Book: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
#booktubeReflections on Roald Dahl’s Children’s BooksRambling Raconteur2024-08-08 | 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 Raconteur2024-07-20 | A discussion with readings from Wallace's debut novel.
0:00 Introduction 2:03 Wallace on Language 11:57 Wallace's Excess 15:10 Metaphors Succeed and Fail 18:35 Influences, Recommended if You Like
Recommended if you like: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace Nine Stories by JD Salinger Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters & Seymour: an Introduction by JD Salinger The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon JR by William Gaddis The Recognitions by William Gaddis Omensetter's Luck by William Gass A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges On Interpretation by Aristotle Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein Modal Logic by Cocciarella and Freund Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig Stories of Donald Barthelme The Names by Don DeLillo Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami Haruki, my discussion: youtu.be/Q8toUY79DrY?si=1j9y09Ub-Tbb14qr Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy
#booktube #davidfosterwallaceThe Last Time The NY Times Told Me What Books to Read!Rambling Raconteur2024-07-14 | 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.
0:00 Introduction 7:43 The Top 5 14:22 The Long List 19:26 Contemporary Literature 21:24 1965-1980
Books mentioned: Beloved by Toni Morrison Underworld by Don DeLillo Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike American Pastoral by Philip Roth McCarthy’s Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain Libra by DeLillo, my discussion: youtu.be/4BxUwzQ4IVU?si=gfAVnFbe0WHIHUBW White Noise by DeLillo The Counterlife, Sabbath’s Theater, The Plot Against America, and Operation Shylock by Roth Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Known World by Edward P. Jones Mating by Norman Rush The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Ragtime by EL Doctorow Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, my discussion: youtu.be/iM5RB3WrImU?si=uns0pCg96LaD5piT Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon JR by William Gaddis
#booktube #nytimes #tonimorrison #cormacmccarthy #dondelillo #johnupdike #philiprothTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Impressionism & Woolf’s Artistic Statement)Rambling Raconteur2024-07-01 | A series of impressions I focused on while rereading Woolf’s marvelous novel.
0:00 Introduction 2:43 Stream of Consciousness in Part 1 7:36 Ravages of Nature in Part 2 10:30 Woolf the Artist in Part 3 14:34 Recommended if you like
Recommended if you like: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, my discussion: youtu.be/m4XHOXWROik?si=7rWiNhL_U0pRfcDz The Waves by Virginia Woolf Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Dubliners by James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, my discussion: youtu.be/dMc5igVIx-M?si=n-_K9arATz-otl04 Party-Going by Henry Green Stories of Katherine Mansfield Loving by Henry Green, my discussion: youtu.be/LjqjmrbZy0U?si=wjpAM1mshABS0hKG In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowers by Marcel Proust Love by Toni Morrison, my discussion: youtu.be/fELnk2EBxpI?si=cWX8qWI-AB4cTVfO Atonement by Ian McEwan Howard’s End by EM Forster The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Poems of John Keats Poems of Percy Shelley Essays of Thomas Carlyle
#booktube #virginiawoolf #modernism #impressionism #jamesjoyce #williamfaulknerLibrary Memories: My First Disappointing Read (Age 8)Rambling Raconteur2024-06-29 | 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 Raconteur2024-06-26 | A discussion of the strengths in Murakami’s first “realistic” novel.
0:00 Introduction 7:30 Grounded Settings 12:20 Norwegian Wood in Murakami’s Oeuvre 15:10 Relationships 20:19 Recommended if you like
#booktube #japaneseliterature #murakami #murakamiharuki #harukimurakamiPatrimony by Philip RothRambling Raconteur2024-06-18 | A discussion of Roth’s memoir of his father’s final months.
0:00 Introduction 2:44 First Readings 6:28 At His Mother’s Grave 13:29 Patrimony in Roth’s Oeuvre 16:43 Recommended if you like
Recommended if you like: Roth’s Zuckerman Novels, particularly The Ghost Writer American Pastoral by Roth The Plot Against America by Roth Goodbye, Columbus by Roth, my discussion: youtu.be/OrMifpO_9-E?si=oWD-DqDM9UmJsWEr A Dreambook for our Time by Tadeusz Konwicki This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski A Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz If This Is a Man by Primo Levi Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard My Struggle Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard “Death of Monseigneur” from Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
#booktube #philiprothPetrified Forest National Park and the Painted DesertRambling Raconteur2024-06-17 | 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.Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (Space Opera & Syntax)Rambling Raconteur2024-06-08 | A discussion of Delaney’s early novel.
#booktube #sciencefiction #samuelrdelany #newwaveConfessions of St. Augustine of Hippo (Memory, Time, and Perception)Rambling Raconteur2024-05-31 | A discussion of Augustine of Hippo’s crucial work, with a particular emphasis on his writings regarding memory and time.
0:00 Introduction 4:00 Confessions as Autobiography 9:31 Memory 16:25 Time 20:04 Conclusions 23:45 Recommended if you like
Recommended if you like: City of God by St. Augustine Political Writings of St. Augustine An Augustine Synthesis Writings of Paul The Psalms Mere Christianity by CS Lewis Dialogues of Plato, my Where to Start with Plato: youtu.be/uDrqlQhb_aU?si=NwRU8wh0VQC9GMRX Sayings of the Desert Fathers The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Ulysses by James Joyce Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, my discussion: youtu.be/AztAFas-R34?si=KfNWZbdHxASVfW5Y Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, my discussion: youtu.be/GJXXjgsJtZ0?si=DWIP4opuiNZR4Lm9 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace On the Road by Jack Kerouac A Fan’s Notes by Frederick Exley My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgard Septology by Jon Fosse, my discussion: youtu.be/SMDUDFiCpJ4?si=a8xZJtbLTxlmCilN The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan Sermons and Poems of John Donne
#booktube #staugustine #augustineofhippo #philosophyTender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (an Epitaph for the Jazz Age)Rambling Raconteur2024-05-29 | A discussion of Fitzgerald’s final complete novel.
Recommended if you like: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway Other Men’s Daughters by Richard Stern Mating by Norman Rush Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
#booktube #fscottfitzgerald #jazzage25 More Contenders for the “Great American Novel”Rambling Raconteur2024-03-28 | 25 books I recommend as a great novel from the US organized chronologically within themes.
Conspiracy/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=fguqYeyhtWm96MlN Jesus’ 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)
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)
#booktubeMaster & Commander by Patrick O’BrianRambling Raconteur2024-03-02 | 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’Brian Sharpe’s Rifles by Bernard Cornwell Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Persuasion by Jane Austen Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Channels I’ve seen discuss the Aubrey-Maturin novels: Brian @BookishTexan Mark @BookTimewithElvis Mark @richardsonreads573
#booktube #patrickobrianThe Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz Kafka 🇨🇿 Aphorisms, Parables, Microfiction, and FragmentsRambling Raconteur2024-02-03 | A discussion with numerous readings from Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks, composed between 1917-1919.
0:00 Introduction 6:01 Kafka on Paradise 11:34 Contrast to the Diaries & Letters 12:49 Kafka on Life & Death 16:03 Recommended if you like
Recommended if you like: Diaries of Franz Kafka Stories of Kafka, my discussion on The Metamorphosis: youtu.be/21lGqigOfdU?si=NW0-wVojb3CJHoBJ Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche The Pensees by Blaise Pascal Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa The Book of my Life by Girolamo Cardano The Dhammapada The Analects of Confucius Proverbs and Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible Sayings of the Desert Fathers The Writings of Elias Canetti Stories of Jorge Luis Borges, my discussion on his exploration of Gnosticism: youtu.be/7cWEo3Rv6qs?si=WUxrggOQTlU9ErkS Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi The Tragedy of Man by Madách Imre
#booktube #kafka #franzkafka #philosophyLarva ♾️ Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julián Ríos 🇪🇸 Joyce’s Successor: Coherent Excess and ChaosRambling Raconteur2024-01-14 | 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 Larva 9:39 Literary References 16:42 Recommended if you like
Recommended if you like: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, my discussion: youtu.be/AztAFas-R34?si=fmMJfhyZaQH2OzYH Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino Writings of Alexander Theroux Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes Parallel Stories by Nádas Péter Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Don Juan by Lord Byron The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett JR by William Gaddis Abel and Cain by Gregor von Rezzori Jerusalem by Alan Moore Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Faust, Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 by Goethe Poetry of Arthur Rimbaud Poetry of Charles Baudelaire The Tales of 1001 Nights Writings of Jonathan Swift Gargantua & Pantagruel by Rabelais Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Poetry of Fernando Pessoa Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Plays of Aristophanes Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Don Juan by Molière Steps by Jerzy Kosinski Sexus, Plexus, Nexus by Henry Miller Stories of Jorge Luis Borges House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
#booktube #experimentalfiction #julianriosFavorite Fiction Reading in 2023!Rambling Raconteur2024-01-06 | My favorite novels that I read in 2023:
Unfinished Novels: Emperor of the Sorcerers by Budhasvamin 🇮🇳 Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai’an 🇨🇳
#booktube #favoritenovels #favoritebooksThe Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar 🇹🇲Rambling Raconteur2023-12-27 | 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.
#booktube #akwlesapar #turkmenliterature #asianliteratureMy Desert Cave of Books Lost to TimeRambling Raconteur2023-12-24 | 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 Texts 8:11 Burnt Books 14:50 My Top Two!
Books mentioned: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Poetics by Aristotle Dead Sea Scrolls Lyric Poetry of Sappho, Anacreon, and Alcaeus Niobe by Sophocles Histories of Livy Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas de Quincey, my discussion: youtu.be/vYUqgfVRvXA?si=dGcO-d3_PZnf3QwR Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison, my discussion: youtu.be/9L0vaSHedu8?si=dloKqslAwzNDgXQG Lord 8 Deer Jaguar Claw Aztec and Mayan Codices Prometheans Ancient and Modern by Burton Rascoe The Satyricon by Petronius Brihatkathā by Gunadhya aka the Great Narrative Emperor of the Sorcerers by Budhasvamin aka Brihatkathāślokasamgraha Kathāsaritsāgara by Somadeva aka The Ocean of the Rivers of Story Vasudevahindi by Sangharasa
#booktubeThe Secret History by Donna Tartt (Dark Academia and Greek Philosophy)Rambling Raconteur2023-12-21 | 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 Introduction 5:32 Elements of Greek Thought 14:40 Socrates & Alcibiades 19:37 Recommended if you like
Recommended if you like: The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The Bacchae by Euripides Dialogues of Plato, particularly Alcibiades I, Phaedo, my video on Where to Start with Plato: youtu.be/uDrqlQhb_aU?si=jUSyhpiwXGDtd61u Apologia by Plato, my discussion: youtu.be/HKWzKRP-yFg?si=aYPHXNo-RLMaIiHR Crito by Plato, my discussion: youtu.be/sZVm46zJQlg?si=MbdpTkVBnEH1v--P The Bacchae by Euripides Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, my discussion: youtu.be/8a9Hg6gdB5A?si=aOK0QZRMjgVMX15I Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson Tragedies of Seneca The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil by John Webster The Lover’s Melancholy, The Broken Heart, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Wh0re by John Ford The Atheist’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney The Player by Michael Tolkin The Big Chill, directed by Lawrence Kasdan
#booktube #darkacademia #donnatarttŚatakatraya by Bhartrihari 🇮🇳 (Sanskrit Poetry on Wisdom & Love)Rambling Raconteur2023-12-19 | 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 Politics 7:19 Poems on Passion 10:54 Poems on Disenchantment 17:00 Recommended if you like
Recommended if you like: The Hermit and Love-Thief by Bhartrihari and Bílhana, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller Speaking of Śiva Says Tuka by Tukaram I, Lalla, the Poems of Lal Dêd, my discussion: youtu.be/brkDlkNC2u4?si=A-qGSXoRJdDCyOOc The Upanishads, my discussion: youtu.be/D0B3jXLvO6Q?si=wLjklKl94WFWWzrr The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam Poems of Hafiz Poems of the Late T’ang, my discussion: youtu.be/-K5wz-kd4IQ?si=MUsgi41vYkzvNjLb Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible
#booktube #poetrytube #bhartrihari #sanskritliterature #indianliteratureErasure by Percival Everett (adapted as American Fiction)Rambling Raconteur2023-12-14 | A discussion of Everett’s brilliant satire.
Recommended if you like: The Trees by Percival Everett I Am not Sindey Poitier by Percival Everett Native Son by Richard Wright, my discussion: youtu.be/S8h1pqvRXm4?si=fsj1vDcxFfReYkJ3 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison, my discussion: youtu.be/9L0vaSHedu8?si=nuKd2n8KOmAcN0dR Zuckerman Bound by Philip Roth Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, my discussion: youtu.be/tfR6c85EwHk?si=aT0wK4MJ2Jr8ngmU Cane by Jean Toomer, my discussion: youtu.be/WacfkDJUaLw?si=BiDHW8g1VP5m-fAb Black No More by George Schuyler Gulliver’s Travels and A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov