10 BIG BOOKS I LOVE, PART II 

Excellent, as always. I spy on your shelf another big book you should cover someday, Leopoldo Marechal's _Adam Buenosayres_.

We need pt 3. Honestly this could be an ongoing series

Would love a continuation of the bookshelf tour. I’m not a voyeur in any other way, I promise. Great channel, thanks for taking the time.

Just discovered your channel and have binge watched a half dozen videos back to back. This is really good stuff. The second best thing to reading books is listening to someone like you talk about books.

Wow image, sound, editing, everything with more and more quality, congratulations for the incredible work and great content, good readings!

Finding your channel has been a highlight of my 2020. So damn glad I found it

Love that there’s a sequel video to my favourite video on RU-vid. Thank you for introducing me to so much great literature in a never ending sea of books.

This has become my favorite RU-vid channel, he's so eloquent and shows great enthusiasm for books and language! I'm so happy to be here. Great job sir.

So glad I found this podcast. I loved Mason & Dixon. I'm glad you chose to introduce your listeners to this novel.

This video inspires me, Chris! And intimidates the hell out of me. Alas, we can read but one word at a time, and savor each chewed idea like candy an adult finally eats, the childhood impulsions saturating the lists of failures we now drown in the sweetness of appreciation for having made it to this point where the big books wrap their leafs around us leaf by leaf and warm our colding bodies.

Another phenomenal video! I'm going to be reading 2666 in December. Extremely excited about that, will be watching your series on it. Thanks for this gem of a video.

Great recs as always, including the podcast!

Just discovered your channel last night via a intro video to philosophy and I’m hooked. You’ve got excellent tastes and you are great at motivating me to put my phone away and read…and maybe to tackle Infinite Jest again and hopefully finish it this time.

Another of your videos that sends me right back to the bookshelf to devour more books and back to my computer to try and write something that could one day be worthy of a review on your channel haha! Idk if it truly counts as a big book but I love The Glass Bead Game. Obviously Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow and The Recognitions but those go without saying at this point.

What a beautiful list! I will get on Ducks, Newburyport in 2021 and Mason and Dixon maybe later in the year... Turned on to a couple I don't know as well, thank you Chris! Great vid!

Great video and great selections. The Brothers Karamazov is one of my favorites, so it was cool to see it here. Also, I agree with you about reading Dostoevsky. When reading The Idiot, the part describing what it is like to be executed was so stressful I was squirming as I read it.

Loving watching and thinking and learning about books here. Great.

Love that you chose to read from Ivan's Nightmare. It was one of the most impactful moments in the book for me too. (Which is saying quite a lot).

loving the crisp clean A/V, Chris! looking forward to W&M on a future big books episode... maybe Terra Nostra, too? :)

I would definitely recommend the Tobias Smollett translation of the Quixote as well, it’s beautiful.

Audio and visuals looking/sounding great!

Loved the Brothers K! It was part of a college class, so there were marvelous discussions (and a few arguments) to enhance the reading experience.

I just discovered this channel and am enjoying it thoroughly. I see that we both have small collections.

As always, I am loving your latest videos. I am drawn to big books. Don Quixote is one of my favorite books of all time. A few other big books that I don’t think you have mentioned yet are War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Middlemarch. A book I haven’t finished yet but one that I’m drawn to is Clarissa by Samuel Richardson. And I’m intrigued by The Tale of Genji. You could spend a lifetime just reading these few titles...

i keep coming back to watch your videos on big books because i’m obsessed with them and have bought many of the novels you suggest in both videos, do you think you’ll make another video suggesting any more?

Great video, many books I need to get to in this list, finally. You've also made me want to reread the manifold destiny of eddie vegas. I finished it two or three months ago and hardly a day goes by where I don't think about it. Donnie and Drake are the best

I'd be interested in hearing of your favourite genres. Favourite short story collections, poems, essays? I think I like your library more than any other I've seen! Strange how The Manifold Destiny only has 19 ratings on GoodReads...

THE QUALITY IS AMAZING!

good to see Man Without Qualities on this list as Musil seems to me a writer of amazing intelligence and insight.

Loving The FEELING BOOKISH podcast its like finding treasure

Excellent video. Sound quality is superb now(new mic doing its magic). I have read only The Brothers Karamazov and Don Quixote. Looking forward to read Ducks, Newburyport in immediate future. I would suggest you The Luminaries and The Goldfinch in the big books category.

20:30 How the hell did Pynchon write another massive brick that's comparable to Gravity's Rainbow? I had no idea.

Great video Chris! I'd like to read a few of the books you mentioned. Hoping to start Quixote soon. What are your thoughts on Tobias Smollett's translation of Don Quixote (Barnes and Noble Classics edition)?

Leaf by lead comin in clutch with the second part of the 10 books i love! Enjoyed this a lot, ✌

I find myself caught up in that readers anxiety, constantly dreaming about all of the lists of books I want to get to, it gets in the way of the book that is presently in front of you. I have made a commitment I will not buy another book until I have read everything on my shelves. I have even cancelled my audible subscription as I have amassed quite the backlog there as well lol.

Brothers Karamazov is my favourite book

Ok, that passage from The Brothers Karamazov you read, it was incredible, so creepy, so alive I'm just getting in to Dostojevskij myself, having just finished a very well written introduction on him and his works, and his youth work "White Nights", which I found very intense and gripping. I'm going to read Crime and Punishment next, and then definitely The Brothers Karamazov after that.

Excellent video

Love this! Can I ask what book you’re reading in the intro clip?

Hi, there! Obviously I couldn't resist checking your second video on big books - I got other very interesting suggestions for authors I did not know such as Bauer, Burton, Harsch. I doubt I will find them translated in Italian... but I can always read them in English! I'll try to return the favor mentioning some of my favourite big books (that are not your list already: our lists have many titles in common!) - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: a super-classic that is always a great read - but probably you have already read it... - Europe Central by William Vollmann: my only Vollmann so far (very few of his books arrive in Italy) but an unbelievable experience! - UnderWorld by Don DeLillo: it seems strange to me you did not mention this masterpiece so far (or did I miss something?) - Heaven by Josè Lezama Lima: a fantastic book by a Cuban author that can be considered as the Gaddis of Central America - The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann: the great german author builds a unique world in this hospital isolated by the world - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Stern: an experimental and avant-garde book written in the XVIII century - it was like finding post-modernism in something written 300 years ago! and finally what I consider the greatest novel of the XX century (surely in Europe, possible in all the world): - Journey to the end of night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline - he was one crazy fellow, but nobody could write like him... Keep up the good work!!

Can’t wait to get in Brothers K. Great succinct read and review of 2666, ha! I’ll have to check out the longer ones that should go with a second read of the Opus. As a Mexican citizen, it’s probably a necessity . ;-) what’s Raintalk, btw?

I have the hardcover version of 2666. A great novel and worth a reread.

Philosophy/ Theology perspective. The City of God- St Augustine. From an agnostic’s perspective- very worth while, especially if one draws parallels with contemporary media criticism and antique monotheistic critiques of paganism/ polytheism. Also Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy. Sloterdijk’s meandering and perhaps *slightly* pretentious erudition is graced by style, whit, and humor

@Leaf by Leaf Mason & Dixon is hands down in my top favorite books. It possesses some special quality that is hard to describe.

I think you still owe us a book shelf tour of your literature section!

when's the war and peace read? would love to hear your thoughts on the best thing i've ever read

Hello sir. It's because of you that I read 2666 and My Struggle. Both two of my favorite books I've read. Would you ever consider doing a series like your proust videos for My Struggle?

Wow, love the new intro Chris, also huge improvement in the quality of the video! 👌

Do you have any tips for getting through these larger tomes? I feel like I get too impatient to get to the end and so it becomes demotivating. Thanks!

Are there any books by John Cowper Powys in your library? A Glastonbury Romance, Porius, Owen Glendower? Might suit this thread/theme.

I love your vids.

Excellent video as always, the audio and video quality of this one in particular is astonishing. How could it be otherwise on the part of an Argentine, I recommend to you an excellent big book that I know is translated: Adam Buenosayres. I know it's the kind of stuff you'd like. Greetings from the southern hemisphere.

Hey man, just found your channel today because of your videos on 2666, great stuff, congratulations ! Seeing as you've clearly had no problem diving into Spanish language or Latin American literature I was left wondering if you've ever given Portuguese literature a chance (it's my native tongue). José Saramago would be a great place to start, even if his writing style is peculiar to say the least.

Hello, Chris. I was sent here by Rick Harsch, who just posted an article on promotion on my writer site. After writing for forty years, I am finally about to (self) publish. What took me so long? My stuff is quirky, and difficult, and I never believed I'd find a trad publisher. I also illustrate. I am close to putting out a comic adventure in print. And I will soon e-publish book one of an eight-book series, another comic adventure, so I need to get on top of promotion. BTW, I call my genre 'Animals in Pants'. I write sophisticated nonsense, with my characters commenting on the world, the sixteenth century in one case, nineteen-twenties Hollywood in the other. Very enjoyable. I will definitely be back. Hmmm. "The telling detail ... to make the story seem real." That's exactly what I do. I'm a maniac for historical research.

Do you have any videos on how and why you tab your books? And if so can you send me the link? Thanks in advance!

Hey, this might be an odd question, but do you recommend a specific reading chair, one perfect for long stretches of reading? I would love to create the perfect reading nook, and I imagine you've found some good chairs (or types of chairs) for extensive reading. Let me know. Thank you.

If you are interested in reading a bit more about 1913 I highly recommend Florian Illies “1913”.

So, I have a question for you. I was at Powell's bookstore in Portland some years ago. They had this large, white hardcover on display. It was German novel that was translated into English, and claimed to be the German literature's equivalent to James Joyce's Ulysses. I remember that the text did not have a standard layout, and looked a bit experimental. I know that is not a lot to go on, but...any ideas?

Do you have a list of all the books on your bookshelves?

Wonderful video, thanks. I’ve been trying to get my hands on The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas... I’m going to email Mr Harsch to try to get a copy from Corona Samizdat.

I love Feeling Bookish! You might also want to check out the podcast Books of Some Substance :)

Roberto Bolaño! Awesome writer

Big book means you got’a big book cover 😎

Sometimes big books like those are hard to read... how did you practice?

do you got any recommendation for book that is relaxing, calming, but at the same time it gives you new insights? Weather it's story or not. Perhaps the one like The Things You Can Only See When You Slow Down and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Hey Chris, how close was Darconville's Cat to making the list?

I've read (twice!) and loved (and reviewed) _2666,_ _Mason & Dixon,_ and _Don Quixote,_ but need to read the others. If you're gonna doing a _Finnegans Wake_ read-a-long, please, count me in! I've read and annotated several copies in the past 3 decades, with groups and alone. Love that _shite,_ lol . . . Good one, Chris 🤓🍀😎

It should have been several books. ...Like most very long books

Was re-watching this, been a fan for a long time, and on the point of Burton taking religion to task, hell, anyone who takes religion to task, particularly Christianity, the Bible does this already. In spades. It’s almost like people forgot that the Bible “beat them to the punch” and it is hard to take those people seriously.

@Leaf by Leaf M.B.S.: Multiple Book Slams

did you read Sometimes a great notion by Ken kesey. took me some months last year (after reading Cuckoo´s nest) if not i highly recommend it. I know what you been by reading dostoevsky, it being really draining. I listened to both- Crime and punishment. and later Devils, the ladder being somewhat harder to follow. (the names...) I just started Inherent Vice and it´s funny. the movie is also great

I love Pierre Menards version of the Quixote a little better.

Love your videos! I will say that your editing can be choppy at times, to the point of being a little distracting. Thought I’d give some constructive criticism as I’d like to see your channel grow more

I counted 11

Have you ever read through the Bible?

I can't get along with The Bros. Karamazov unfortunately, I know it's well loved - but I'm with Nabokov on it (he really hated it). Too much religious blabbering.

C. S. Lewis was so arrogant.

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