CRITICS WORST TAKES ON THE CLASSICS!

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🔍 Dive into the hilarious world of literary criticism gone wrong in this eye-opening video! 🤦‍♂️ Ever wondered what happens when supposedly erudite critics completely miss the mark on timeless classics? Look no further!
📖 we dissect the most cringe-worthy critiques that'll leave you laughing and shaking your head. 🎭 Get ready for a rollercoaster of absurdity as we expose the wild takes and misguided opinions that some critics have dared to unleash upon literary masterpieces.
🚀 Key Highlights:
🌟 Unbelievable Critic Blunders
🎭 Classic Literature Roast Session
😆 Laugh-out-loud Moments of Literary Misunderstanding
🤔 Curious about which classics faced the harshest criticism?
🤣 Watch as we unravel the absurdity behind the critiques!
🕵️‍♂️ Discover the most searched-for fails in literary criticism.
Please note that everyone has the right to their opinions. This is merely a light-hearted look at critics' judgments of books which would go on to become some of the most admired classics written.
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#LiteraryCritics #ClassicLiterature #BookReviewsGoneWrong #HilariousCriticFails #LiteraryFacepalms #TimelessClassics #LaughOutLoudBooks #BookishHumor #LiteraryDisasters #WorstBookReviews
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@SimplyBeautiful516 6 месяцев назад

This was worth watching just to hear your laughter. 😂

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@knowledgelust 6 месяцев назад

I'd love to see some of these literary critics compete in public roasts. Their language is so cutting, a treat in itself.

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Absolutely! I admire their conviction and their erudition in contempt.😂

@Svensk7119 6 месяцев назад

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Erudition! Now there is a Word!

@ProseAndPetticoats 6 месяцев назад

Ha! Here's Gustave Flaubert's opinion on critics, and I quote: "It's a waste of time to read criticism. I pride myself on my ability to uphold the thesis that there hasn't been a single piece of good criticism since criticism was invented; that it serves no purpose except to annoy authors and blunt the sensibility of the public; and finally that critics write criticism because they are unable to be artists, just as a man unfit to bear arms becomes a police spy." This is from his letters, and I'm glad I tab my books because otherwise I never would have found it again. 😆 Great video, Tristan!

@ProseAndPetticoats 6 месяцев назад

Omg Mme Bovary is on your list! I broke into a fit of laughter. Flaubert is not a writer AND YOU LAUGHING 🤣 I'm dying.

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

That's such a great quote. I'm not as strident as Flaubert on critics. I like reading them. However, the best ones do happen to be very proficient authors themselves. And, when Flaibert writes as well as he does, I don't blame him for not giving a fig for the opinion of lesser critics.

@johnclaybaugh9536 3 месяца назад

Criticism is almost 100% opinion. That, in my opinion, makes it completely worthless.

@therookerybookery 6 месяцев назад

I loved this, Tristan! Plus your laugh is so infectious! Also, reminded me of a rather dramatic quote from Edgar Allan Poe about British criticism, "There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland!" And now I'm going to go and watch a few episodes of Upstart Crow!

@dorothysatterfield3699 6 месяцев назад

Dorothy Parker had a book-review column in "The New Yorker" called Constant Reader. She finished her review of one of A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books with this sentence: "And it is that word "hummy," my darlings, that marks the first place in "The House at Pooh Corner" at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up."

@Svensk7119 6 месяцев назад

I had to read this twice, just to translate. Hah!

@Daphne-tm5lg 6 месяцев назад

Another video on discussing popular myths about classics would be wonderful 😊.

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Excellent. I have added it to my list of future vids. 😀👍

@oaktreeman4369 5 месяцев назад

It's hilarious how eloquently these critics write, when criticising a work which they don't realise they've failed to understand!

@ChrisHunt4497 6 месяцев назад

Yes, I would love a video about the myths of classics. It was only by finding your channel that I now adore classic literature and everything else pales in significance. What a laugh this was. Thanks so much. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@DramaPixie-wt8hm 6 месяцев назад

I'd love to see a video about 'myths about classics' please! I also think that if you edited bits from your videos so that there was one that ONLY featured you chuckling, and marketed it as being good for mental health, it would go viral!!!

@TricoteTaLife 6 месяцев назад

Myths about classics is a great idea ! Thank you so much for the good laugh 😂 Nadia, a French fan of yours

@kellysober9352 6 месяцев назад

Thank you Tristan this was great fun!! So many lessons here. And you giggling was the best part by far!! 😂

@still-reading 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the chuckles - I needed them today! I'd love a video on myths about classics, it would help me to better formulate ideas when I'm talking to my friends about them.

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Pleased it gave you a spot of diversion. I will try and get onto making the myth video.

@andreluissoriano 6 месяцев назад

Lmao that criticism about Wuthering Heights sounds like a true compliment actually. That book is so violent, indeed, how can you live after writing/reading it. Love that book.

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

I must admit, I knew precisely where they were coming from.😂

@angelawebb7676 6 месяцев назад

The way you crack yourself up! 😂😂😂

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

I'm very easy to please. 😅

@kimberlyferguson3277 6 месяцев назад

I love how much joy you bring to reading. Delightful to listen too💕

@user-ei9lg1cp6b 6 месяцев назад

I'm not too well right now, so I hope that this doesn't make offend you, but I just love your videos, so I just plug my earphones in and your voice just lulls me to sleep Thank you so very much for all the work that you put into your videos.

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

My wife says the same thing. She says that whenever I start talking she wants to go to sleep 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you, I understood your meaning. Hope you get well soon. 🙏

@j.c.o6333 6 месяцев назад

This was a great idea for a video Tristan! As is the case with art, some works which have been critically panned are later on vindicated by history. It would be fun if you did the opposite, maybe books critics were right in dismissing? Or rather works that were praised effusively but have not stood the test of time (like that great quote from Murakami's Norwegian Wood "Baptised by time") or books you personally feel are overrated. You tend to be positive so I understand if you would not want to make that video but we learn as much from great works as we do from works that are not so good. Just a thought, thanks for the video!

@Iza56 6 месяцев назад

He should have stuck to describing world. World is fine, everything else is trash

@karenrouth2056 6 месяцев назад

At book 3 and all so far is hilarious, laughing with you! Contd…! Altogether an entertaining video, thoroughly enjoyed such a great laugh out loud with you! You must have had such fun prepping this! Thank you Tristan!

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

It was a very diverting day of researching. I hope to do the same with Amazon reviews at some point.😀

@radiantchristina 4 месяца назад

I am still laughing at the Wuthering Heights and the Madame Bovary reviews

@maudieicrochet9491 6 месяцев назад

Loved it, Tristan. Especially your laughter.😅 I think I’ll just skip the critics

@KarenSDR 6 месяцев назад

This was delightful, and I loved how you couldn't help smirking 😀 Two of your authors had their own cutting things to say about other authors: I believe Mark Twain said something to the effect that he'd like to exhume Jane Austen and beat her over the head with her own shinbone. And Tolkien didn't like Shakespeare. He never forgave him for the scene in Macbeth where Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane. He was so disappointed that the trees didn't actually march, which is why he put the march of the ents in his work. I'd like to add that I've read that one reason Melville didn't go over well with American critics was that he was so outspoken about the damage American imperialism was doing in the Pacific, particularly Hawaii. And as soon as you held your delighfully well-read copy of LotR, I knew you were going to bring up Wilson's review 😀

@williambavington5392 24 дня назад

You could also add Tolstoy's low opinion of Shakespeare. The particular focus of his ire was King Lear and the suggestion is that Lear's foolishness in giving away his possessions and then still expecting decent treatment paralleled Tolstoy's own behaviour and the theme struck too close to home for him to see it in anything other than very negative terms.

@sid1gen Месяц назад

A Susan McClary wrote in 1987 that Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 1st Movement, represented "the throttling murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release," I kid you not. Criticism is, at the end of the day, opinion, and we all know what that great American philosopher, Harry Callahan, said about opinions. As usual, great video, Tristan: fun, funny, engaging. You have become one of my favorite youtubers and one of the few to whom I've subscribed. Happy readings.

@pdcasablanca 6 месяцев назад

Tristan, my good sir. I would love to see a video of myths about classic literature! I would also like to hear your opinion on critics like Harold Bloom, whom I love to read (even though some might think of as pompous and/or discouraging). Cheers from Sweden

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Great idea! Harold Bloom is probably the most well-known critic. I'll have to dust off his books again, some of which I have tucked away somewhere.

@jennyaldridge4186 6 месяцев назад

I would love to understand why Bloom is so popular. He winds me up and although I don’t like to be unkind to the dead, from what I’ve seen and read he stuck me as a pompous old man.

@lcn325 6 месяцев назад

Yes Tristan!I would love to discuss or hear more about the classics. It's delightful. 🥰 📖 📚

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Marvellous. I'll put it in my "list of videos to make" list. 😀

@athertonca 6 месяцев назад

Oh, my! My favorite works of fiction ever (The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath) are both on the list.

@Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад

A video on myths about classics would be great! And while I wouldn't call it a "myth", I know I've sometimes had wrong assumptions / expectations about certain classics. For example, I always assumed JANE EYRE was a sappy romance. That's not my type of story, so I avoided it my whole life. I finally read it a few years ago. It became an instant favorite! I think I will be rereading it the rest of my life.

@KarenSDR 6 месяцев назад

Along those same lines, Wuthering Heights is also not a romance. It's a psychological thriller, much likeThe Count of Monte Cristo. And Lolita is not a romance either. It's a horror story, and a good one in my opinion. Once I realized what it was, I was able to appreciate it.

@tonybennett4159 6 месяцев назад

@@KarenSDR I get what you are saying about WH and I agree to a point but I just didn't get on with the style which I found rather clunky and awkward causing me reread passages. Agree about the other two but would add that there is extremely dark comedy in Lolita too.

@KarenSDR 6 месяцев назад

@@tonybennett4159I first read WH at age 12 and fell in love with it, mistaking it for a romance. I loved the scenery and the surprising similarities to another favorite book, The Secret Garden. I've re-read it about once a year since 1969. At this point it's probably nostalgia as much as anything else.

@MrsAnomanderRake 6 месяцев назад

Your delightful laugh made this video!! 👍🏿👍🏿

@jenniferkate7167 5 месяцев назад

This was hilarious!! Your laughter made me laugh. Can't wait to read Madame Bovary & Wuthering Heights this year as part of your book club.

@jaimeehingerton2397 6 месяцев назад

Those are some real gems 😂. Thanks for sharing a great laugh!

@lpetitoiseau9146 5 месяцев назад

I love it when well-spoken critics get their panties in a twist! I tried to capture the best put downs but I was laughing so hard, I couldn’t see the page in front of me for the tears. 😂

@siobhancondon8109 6 месяцев назад

Well, that was enjoyable! 😂

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Pleased you enjoyed it, Siobhan. 😀❤️

@anothersoulintheuniverse 6 месяцев назад

Well, I’d have to completely agree with the criticism of Wuthering Heights 😂😂😂 To me, it was torture to finish it 😅

@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD 6 месяцев назад

Hilarious!! I think it's a shame that a lot of critics nowadays can't call a book garbage when it is!

@evamatlach1986 6 месяцев назад

😂 your laugh is so infectious, it was such a refreshing Video! Thank you for this great video! 😊

@evie2411 3 месяца назад

As someone currently reading Moby Dick and feeling rather skeptical 200 pages in, that review made me laugh and feel some degree of sympathy 😂

@Jcarp7607 6 месяцев назад

This was a good time! 🎉

@ba-gg6jo Месяц назад

I wish many of your fellow booktubers would judge a book on its merits rather than their own morals. Always enjoyable to see someone enthuses about books as you do. Thanks.

@vesch5083 6 месяцев назад

You have a fabulously contagious laugh

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Thank you 😊

@raynoldj 5 месяцев назад

As a non-native English speaker, sometimes classics are quite challenging to read.

@AsuraSantosha 3 месяца назад

As a native English speaker, I quite agree. As Tristan mentions, they are Classics because they stand the test of time, which often means the language used can sometimes lean towards the archaic or at least out of common usage. Also, a good understanding of the history and time in which is was written is so so so helpful for understanding the works. Both in terms of understanding setting, characters, etc. as well theme.

@sid1gen Месяц назад

Non native English speaker here, as well. Most English language classics have been translated to many other languages, so you shouldn't have a problem finding acceptable, or even good, translations of those books. If what you want is to deepen your knowledge of this language, the English language classics can be challenging, but worth the time and effort.

@LillyReads450 5 месяцев назад

Hilarious! I love it!😂

@HamsavahiniVajraasthra 6 месяцев назад

Amazing video, would definitely love to see another one like this!

@icanseecornfromhere8919 5 месяцев назад

Your videos are always fantastic, but I truly enjoyed the laughter throughout this one ❤😂

@insearchofwonder 6 месяцев назад

This was hilarious. I particularly appreciated the review of Moby Dick. From everything i have read - both positive and negative - that is a book i have zero desire to read. 😂 I think this goes to show that it's incredibly difficult to objectively critique art, although we should always attempt to do so. But in the end, subjectivity will always come into play. Even the comments on the video reinforce that idea. Ultimately, we either like a book or we don't, and that's fine. As long as we understand that our opinion is not the final word on the objective quality of the book itself. I'm perfectly ready to acknowledge that Moby Dick has its place in the classics canon even if i personally have zero interest in it.

@jennyaldridge4186 6 месяцев назад

Loved this video and would like to see others in a similar vein. Are there any other current day books (other than Harry Potter) that you think will become classics? Also have any classics fallen from popularity and who will we still reading in another 400 years?

@paulhammond6978 6 месяцев назад

I think it's fair to suggest that Lord of the Rings is not a great example of form - I don't think Tolkien was aiming at form especially when he wrote it. But given the amount of effort he put into imagining his world, the idea of a British mythos, and the languages he invented to give his world depth calling it "juvenile" seems especially wide of the mark. Since "fantasy" as a genre didn't exist at the time, you can certainly forgive a critic for not really knowing how to react to something like Lord of the Rings.

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

You are completely right, Paul. I agree. It is a necessary peril of the job as a critic to stick ones neck out. I applaud the courage of conviction. Also, your observation that fantasy was new, and therefore impossible to predict, is very valid. Though, academia dd have a rather disapproving opinion of the romantic, heroic myth. It was considered a rude and irrelevant form of literature, apparently. 😀👍

@Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад

I love that edition of LOTR you were holding. I'm wondering how small the print is? It would be great to have a bind up that is a bit smaller/lighter than the more modern ones I've seen. It's always such a debate. I love having all three parts together. But it's more uncomfortable to hold and read, and especially if you carry books around in a bag like I used to do for years. Ah, well. I also have it on Kindle, so that's always a help.

@Svensk7119 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for including El Profé in this! Acknowledging The Lord Of The Rings as a classic startled me, and touched my heart I shall even forgive you for "subscribe-thingy"!!!

@margaretinsydney3856 6 месяцев назад

Critics can be like generals fighting the last war. When something new appears, it can just confuse them. And the better educated they are, the worse the affliction.

@christineschollar1317 6 месяцев назад

Brilliant. Love the laughter and appreciate the comment at the beginning about just because you don't like a classic doesn't make you a bad reader. Here's my confession...shock..horror. I ploughed my way through 'The Hobbit' last year (thank goodness that's done🤦🏼‍♀️) and have failed to get anywhere with 'Lord of the Rings' despite numerous attempts. Even gave up on the talking book version. Sorry.

@SepulvedaBoulevard 6 месяцев назад

Upstart Crow was a bookshop/coffehouse in Seattle (? So long ago!) and I always admired the name. For the record, I despise the tone of Dickensian narrative, yet fully acknowledge that mine is the minority opinion. On the other hand, I wallow in Melville like a contented sow in the mire - and embrace the ambivalence towards narrative 😊❤

@ericcasey7593 6 месяцев назад

I just finished the Wordsworth edition of Moby Dick a few days ago, and got the feeling Melville was intentionally trying to bore and disgust his audience. It has a few quotable lines, but other than that it's four-hundred and sixty pages of waffle. I enjoy your channel, by the way. Differing opinions on books are part of what makes the reading life so interesting. I have immense respect for C.S. Lewis' critical essays, for example, but I'll never understand his adoration of The Lord of the Rings, which is an objectively bad book. I think he was blinded by his friendship with Tolkien. It seems old J.R.R. expended all his power on The Hobbit, which is so high above The Lord of the Rings in terms of quality that it seems to have been written by a different man.

@58angieb 6 месяцев назад

A man who had been through the horrors of WWI. Fire breathing dragons - 'fire breathing' military tanks;, further developed by the military with engineers & industrialists ,& first used in combat in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette 15 September 1916. Tolkien,as he himself once explained, turned/transfered his experience of Warfare,the theatre of WWI, onto the written page, set in a fantasy land with creatures created from his vast imagination coupled with a minor reference to the Norse/Icelandic ancient sagas.

@ericcasey7593 6 месяцев назад

None of that makes The Lord of the Rings good. The book has numerous objective flaws. Inconsistency, for example. Tolkien goes out of his way to describe the beauty of Glorfindel's saddle, only to reveal later on that elves don't use saddles. In Helm's Deep Gimli claims to have 'hewn nought but wood' since leaving Moria, but he killed plenty of Orcs when the Fellowship was attacked outside Lorien. The list goes on.

@gardenplots283 5 месяцев назад

You would probably enjoy a small book titled Vicious Nonsense - Quips, Snubs & Jabs by Literary Friends & Foes. Edited by Kristen Hewitt. An example... As a writer he has mastered everything except language; as a novelist he can do everything except tell a story; as an artist he is everything except articulate. - Oscar Wilde on George Meredith from the collection 'Intentions', 1891 Or there is this... Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. - Mark Twain on Henry James

@AmalijaKomar 6 месяцев назад

Well, this was true fun. Nice to laugh with you. I do not like modern-day fantasy books, but Tolkien is an objecively good and original writer.

@duffypratt 6 месяцев назад

Huck Finn is trashy and vicious. That’s part of what makes it so great. I’m willing to bet that a review like that delighted Twain. And I think a “compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors” is a pretty good take on Wuthering Heights. But again, I don’t see that as a bad thing. My main problems with that book are the worst dialect writing I’ve come across, and the general misunderstanding that the book is somehow a story of great romance (which is not a criticism of the book). I also think some of the other criticisms had their points. For example, Steinbeck does tend to be a lot more sympathetic to the union organizers in his stories. They are complex, fully drawn, but end up seeming like modern day Knight-errants. By contrast, the big farm owners are much more often nothing more than one-dimensional villains. Overall, I enjoyed this. It’s amazing how wrong contemporary critics can be, and it’s one of the main reasons why it’s much riskier to be reading contemporary fiction. Your chances of picking up something old that is worthwhile is just much greater, unless you find someone’s opinions you trust who reads contemporary stuff.

@rogerevans9666 2 месяца назад

The music of Beethoven was often criticized---occasionally by Haydn and Weber, themselves composers.

@Roderic07 6 месяцев назад

omg...i guess that all these books if they were published today would be destroyed...funny how they felt Attacked somehow,,,or they didn t quite understand what the writer wanted to convey yet the public even in those days loved all those classics this was a very entertaining video...i never thought about this

@gerrygunn5109 5 месяцев назад

I didn't much like Wuthering Heights; kept expecting it to get better, but, in my estimation, it never did. Loved Moby Dick.

@Michael-hw5wk Месяц назад

I loved every work listed here; however, while I appreciate 1984, I have never been big on sci-fi books as they rarely predict the future well and are often way off on future technology. I know that if I read a novel or watch a film in the wrong mood, it can affect the way I feel about it. People can also become more intelligent with age as I remember hating Shakespeare soliloquies when I was an idiotic teenager.

@nnjack9931 6 месяцев назад

Oh this will be fun!

@robertfranklin8704 3 месяца назад

One does have to look at literature with philosophical and ethical eyes. Having read "Madame Bovary" in the original, I get those who appreciate its stylistic merits, but can't stand the heroine. As for "Wuthering Heights", I evaluate it as I do "Romeo and Juliet." Like these less as I grow older.

@mj2495 5 месяцев назад

I first read Moby Dick over forty years ago and was a bit overwhelmed by what I felt was beyond my ability and understanding. In the years since I've read it twice, the last time with the book and Audible audiobook. I've come to regard it as a favorite. Nevertheless, I am aware of the criticism of his work or more specifically, Moby Dick...

@joyceredman2136 6 месяцев назад

Yes, I would like to hear more ideas about the classics. I love Lord of the Rings and seeing Shakespeare plays after reading them. His poem, The Rape of Lucrece is heartbreaking!

@kriskringlereads 5 месяцев назад

Yes, please, to the myth video 😊

@robertfranklin8704 3 месяца назад

Personally, I find the literary pundits at times suspect. Here is one for you, Tristan. Ever heard of Romain Rolland? He won a Nobel Prize for Literature. But when I studied French at uni, nary a mention of him. Instead, we had to study rubbish like Sartre, and worse!

@NadineTouzet 6 месяцев назад

Very funny. Some of these critics have some imagination too!

@SirenaSpades 6 месяцев назад

Wuthering Heights' review was really quite bad - lol imagine poor Miss Bronte reading that in the paper that morning. I've enjoyed all of your videos I've watched so far, so please, keep the titters coming :)

@robertfranklin8704 3 месяца назад

I believe "The Great Gatsby" among the most over-rated of novels 😮.

@grannycollins7847 6 месяцев назад

Yes please❤

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

👍👍👍

@igorgoliney9494 6 месяцев назад

27 січня. Субота Very long ago, during the reign of the tsar Tim, when the Earth was slim, in the Soviet Union, in the library, I came across a book of translated reviews of American motion pictures, or as you would say movies. One positive review and one negative review for each of the famous films. I regret not having borrowed that book to enjoy all the reviews. But the negative review for The Godfather scarred my heart. Naturally, I haven’t seen the film, such movies were not shown for the general public, but I knew the music that was broadcast from every dormitory window on the campus. Well, I vividly remember the image of men in the darkness of the theater fantasizing of being daring and tough. Later, when I finally saw the film I was slightly disappointed as, in my opinion, the power of the score was wasted. So, enjoy negative reviews. There is a share of truth in every truth.

@samdryden7944 6 месяцев назад

The people crying Communism clearly missed the part where the Joads were embarrassed and uncomfortable about receiving public assistance. They just wanted an honest wage for an honest day's work. The Grapes of Wrath is a beautifully-written novel and burning or banning books is an abomination in a supposedly free society.

@susprime7018 6 месяцев назад

Sometimes it is not criticism but as you say, political censorship.

@bdwon 6 месяцев назад

Is the idiom "deserve well" a standard Massachusetts usage of the time?

@vanessasperling 6 месяцев назад

Yes! (to the video)

@Roderic07 6 месяцев назад

it would be hilarious if the sons and daughters of those critics that obliterated the books ...read those books...and said...hmmm...not bad at all

@susanstein6604 6 месяцев назад

This is a an off-topic comment but you need to read the chapter on The Merchant of Venice in Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg.

@tehaneponcolona2984 6 месяцев назад

😅😅😅

@Moriahg 6 месяцев назад

Looks like I'm the first comment.☺️

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Congratulations! Always a pleasing experience. 😀

@Moriahg 6 месяцев назад

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Thank you it is!

@rightcheer5096 6 месяцев назад

The laugh’s on you. The critics were and are 100% correct about every one of these candidate novels for a bonfire. As the future will attest.

@nedludd7622 5 месяцев назад

It is worse today. Now even politicians think that they are literary critcs.

@fatshibaballs 3 месяца назад

now??????? buddy politicians have been trying to control what you read for centuries, a whole millennia even.

@josephromance3908 6 месяцев назад

I still think Tolkien is a bad writer. LOTR obviously has a great appeal to many. That doesn't mean it is great.

@Daphne-tm5lg 6 месяцев назад

Tristan, I like you and your channel, but, after your introductions, you are overusing the phrase “so, without further ado “. Maybe can you mix it up a little, eg. just say “so…”

@tristanandtheclassics6538 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the feedback, Daphne. I use that phrase as a deliberately cheesy tagline which adds predictability and constancy. But if it is irksome I shall consider changing it. So pleased that you reached out.😀❤️😊

@Daphne-tm5lg 6 месяцев назад

Ah.

@laurels7892 6 месяцев назад

Don't change anything!@@tristanandtheclassics6538

@peggymccright1220 6 месяцев назад

Have you done banned books? Especially the classics? Here in the states the right wing is getting carried away with their nonsense. Just a thought. I like going through the lists of banned books looking for my next read.

@amyschmelzer6445 6 месяцев назад

I liked Madame Bovary but it was sad how she ended things. I agree that LOTR is garbage. The only thing it was good for is putting me to sleep each night for months on end. I didn’t like the movies either. Fantasy isn’t my genre of choice though, so if it’s yours, then you’ll probably like it.

@Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад

You may not like it, but that doesn't mean it's "garbage." Good grief, the man invented his own languages and created entire histories for this story, in a way that I am not aware of anyone else doing. That deserves at least some respect.

@amyschmelzer6445 6 месяцев назад

@@Yesica1993 Have you not heard the phrase “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure?” It is my trash and obviously it is your treasure.

@Yesica1993 6 месяцев назад

I listed some objective achievements here. You don't have to like it. But that does not mean it's objectively "garbage". There are books/movies/music I don't personally like. That is subjective. But I can acknowledge their importance and achievement and influence. That is objective. It's an important distinction. @@amyschmelzer6445