can i predict a book prize winner? (i read every book shortlisted for the booker prize) 

after already doing the livestream though. Not much risk now

​@TiresiasPrufrock at the beginning, he said this was filmed a day before the live stream

@@TiresiasPrufrockI think it was less about risk and more so about professionalism (which he mentions in the beginning) because he interviewed the authors at the beginning of the livestream

Lol literally what i was thinking about. I read about 12 books a year lol

@@masonwinfreyplatman2294which is totally fine because you have time to deep dive and reflect on each book, which is always going to be better than doing a fly-by of 200 books, not retaining or taking anything from any. Let’s also not forget reading is a major part of his full-time job. 180 books a year is 15 books a month. That’s entire days of reading he is paid to do. No need to compare yourself :).

@@ruchieru that is true ❤️

he also tends to read books less than 200 pages as he likes short, concise writing and also books with no plot just vibes - which honestly you don’t have to concentrate on as much and is sometimes just a nice escape from the tumultuous world we live in i.e. joan is okay, cleopatra and frankenstein, any sally rooney book tbh etc.

Do you really believe he actually reads 180 books? 😂

I thought the same thing

Yes!😂

Same here 😂

me too haha

same i don't agree with his design opinion

Omg same😂

why is the flag of Palestine in the middle of the emojis?

​@@jip521 honestly, the qoute Jack read from Prophet Song made me think of Palestine and the plight of Palestinians. That's probably the book I'm most interested in reading. This Other Eden sounds interesting too, but what Jack said about the writing style kinda turned me off. I don't like books that keep me at arm's length 😅 Full immersion or nothing!!

@@DeluluSwiftie yes and he did mention what’s happening in Palestine in relation to the Prophet book. And I agree with you on the Eden one; I’m torn! The Western Lane book also calls to me ❤️‍🩹

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i lke it too!

Yes! Totally agree ❤

agree!

“prophet song” by paul lynch won this years booker prize

Over 20,000 Palestinians have been murdered in under 2 months - if you don’t consider that genocide then that’s slightly horrifying. Also, I recommend you read the resignation letter of the top UN official who stepped down and explicitly mentioned the genocidal intent Israel has displayed as one of the most worrying aspects of their actions (an example from the top of my head of their clear intent is the map Netanyahu showed at the UN a few months ago showing the ‘New Middle East’ that erased Palestine entirely)

@@areesha.a The number of casualties is provided by Hamas - a widely-recognized terrorist organization - because it also runs the Gaza Health Ministry. To the extent that the numbers are even reliable (they are not), Hamas includes both militants and civilians within those numbers. One estimate suggests that there are about 40,000 Hamas militants in Gaza, so if Israel were to kill all of them (the same people that have committed the atrocities of October 7th and that continue to hold hostages in tunnels underground), then people around the world will cry out that “Israel has killed over 40,000 Palestinians!” Numbers do not speak to whether a country is or is not committing genocide. I am not suggesting that innocent civilians have not been killed in Gaza, and I mourn for every single one of them. It is a tragedy that I cannot even fathom. The loss of Palestinian civilian life is just as horrific as the loss of Israeli civilian life. But to (1) use the term genocide, and (2) just list the number of dead as evidence of that, is either in bad faith or simply ignorant. Finally, and a point we can both agree on, Netanyahu needs to be removed from office. I trust that Israelis will do this as he is deeply, deeply unpopular in the country. I just hope that it is sooner rather than later.

@@WorldsCollide23what a horrifying and cold way of trying to defend/explain away a genocide. I hope in a few years you look back and regret your callousness but somehow I doubt it

⁠@@areesha.a Calling my comments “horrifying and cold” do not make them so. I have been steeped in genocide studies during my time in graduate school, have read countless scholarly articles and monographs on the concept and will continue doing so for the rest of my career. That is significantly more than I can say about the vast number of people engaged in this debate. Using the term “genocide” here does not make you a more emphatic, worldly person. It just goes to show that you do not actually understand what the term means, or the context in which you are using it.

what a lame way of outting yourself as a zionist

I don't think the implication is that it's only a book for 2023; I think the implication is just that of the books it feels the mostly timely and the most pertinent to 2023. I haven't read it yet but it may also be the case that the attitudes reflected in the book towards circumstances such as these resonate more strongly today than they would have done in, for example, 2015, and perhaps than how they will in the future. I don't think anyone's trying to limit the book by saying it's a book for 2023

He has a video about this. Try searching Jack Edwards research assistant or something like that. I don’t remember the exact title but it’s from like 2020/2021.

@@thehopefuledwardian Ty