Must Reads for Literature Lovers

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my selection of 4 must-read works of fiction spanning 4 countries and over 135 years of literature: staples of the craft, highly influential works that formed, defined, and expanded the relationship between a reader and the writing, between the reader and reality #booktube #books #bookreviews #literature #writing
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Edifice Complex - Karim immigrates to Paris and has his tenuous grip on reality further jeopardised when he develops an erotic, obsessive relationship with a residential building set for demolition.
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The Orthography of Madness and Misgivings - a short-story collection representing 3 years of my career and 5 countries I was living in while creating dark surreal fiction
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@literarylove123 8 дней назад

I am absolutely thrilled that you included The Yellow Wallpaper in this list.

@Michael_Wertenberg 8 дней назад

😁

@InfiniteQuest86 11 дней назад

Brilliant! I was getting ready to write in the comments "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" and then you got to your last entry. I've also read Numbers in the Dark and Invisible Cities by him and those are quite good too.

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

😁Great minds... I've heard many good things about Invisible Cities. I should really read it. Thanks for the reminder!

@susanburgess820 11 дней назад

I love the yellow wallpaper and have told so many people about it. Truly worried me, in a good way. Please keep them coming michael. Blessings from chicago hon❤😂🎉

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

Thank you, Susan!😊

@444Raine День назад

I'm delighted to have found you courtesy of the magical RU-vid algorithm. I subscribed! I love The Yellow Wallpaper and have been planning to read The Count of Monte Cristo one of these days. The other two were not on my radar but they are now. Thanks!

@Michael_Wertenberg День назад

😁Love the YT algorithm. If you get around to reading them, please let me know what you think.

@BlueEyedMatt42 11 дней назад

You’ve sold me on Count whenever I eventually branch into more genres outside of horror 😅

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

😁I think that story would actually make a very good horror if it were told from the point of view of Mercedes and not Edmond Dantes. (Keep that in mind when/if you read it😉)

@sodapopbrosky 11 дней назад

Thank you for the suggestions!

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

You're welcome😊And thank you for watching🙂

@DAGDRUM53 11 дней назад

Sadly I've not read any of the classics you mention but made a mental note to investigate. Classic I remember reading are The Pickwick Papers, The Trial, The Sun Also Rises, Anna Karenina, Catcher in the Rye, The Fountainhead, lots of Norman Mailer (An American Dream & Harlot's Ghost are favorites), several Tennessee Williams' plays, and many of Chekhov's short stories which taught me the very important Chekhov's gun lesson. As much as I've liked them, or in Salinger's case disliked, I preferred From Russia With Love (Ian Fleming), The Way Some People Die (Ross Macdonald), My Gun Is Quick (Mickey Spillane), The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan), The Ninja (Eric Van Lustbader---it's hard to hold your breath for 500 pages) and, most recently, Mick Herron's eight Slow Horses novels, devoured in two weeks. I own and intend to read Crime & Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, but have not to date.

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

Those are great recommendations! Thank you. I need to read E. V. Lustbader. The Ninja is now on my radar, thanks!

@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 11 дней назад

The only one I have read is the Count of Monte Cristo which was excellent. The rest are food for thought. Best wishes.

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

Thank you😁

@wavaleebranch 11 дней назад

❤❤❤

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

😊

@Summalogicae 12 дней назад

I’ve read The Yellow Wallpaper, which I very much enjoyed; but the other three all have been on my “I want to read this but am still reading other stuff” list. Don’t know why I keep doing that.

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

😁Hey, I have a list like that, too!

@angelwalker979 11 дней назад

Love the Yellow Wallpaper, read it a long time ago. Count Monte Cristo has been on my tbr for about 100 years now.😂 The Winter journey was just mentioned in Drawing Blood, Kinda weird huh. You need to do a part 2! xx

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

😁I need to read Drawing Blood. I'll race you? You w/ Monte Cristo, me w/ Drawing Blood, winner takes all

@angelwalker979 11 дней назад

@@Michael_Wertenberg 🤔😬👍

@angelwalker979 11 дней назад

Somehow I think you have an 800 page or so advantage over me tho..🤔😕

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

@@angelwalker979 Yes, but I have an aversion to commitments, so it kind of evens out.

@angelwalker979 11 дней назад

@@Michael_Wertenberg 😂😏

@Tetsujin-28 11 дней назад

Winter’s Night : It's at the library and I have a hold on FICTIONS. I'm currently reading I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman) and The Inhabited Island (Arkady /Boris Strugatsky).

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

You are going to love Fictions! I Who Have Never Known Men has been on my TBR for too long! Thanks for the reminder

@JosephFrancisBurton 10 дней назад

I am just wrapping up my reading of Jose Rizal's _Noli Me Tangere_ , and I never even thought of it as, what you describe as 'agenda-driven' literature, but good grief does that description fit. Afraid it beats Yellow Wallpaper by about four years, and you are right, I cannot think of many earlier examples than that. Maybe Uncle Tom's Cabin? Anyway, I will probably have to steal your excellent insight for my review.

@Michael_Wertenberg 10 дней назад

Nice. Thank you for the insight. Much appreciated😁

@christine7956 12 дней назад

You explained The Yellow Wallpaper beautifully. That ending,creepy. Have you ever read The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions? There's a line in that story that gives me the shivers everytime.

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

I had never heard of The Beconking Fair One! It's on my radar now. Thank you😁

@christine7956 11 дней назад

@@Michael_Wertenberg You're very welcome.

@dyanstoutenburg9974 11 дней назад

Christine, I went to Goodreads and looked up the author and found this novella. You might want to edit your comment as to the spelling of the Title of this novella. It is called, The Beckoning Fair One. After reading what it is about I have put it in my October must read! So glad I read your comment.

@christine7956 11 дней назад

@@dyanstoutenburg9974Oops. Sorry about that. Hope you enjoy it.

@BrentDavis75 11 дней назад

Enjoyed The Yellow Wall-Paper a great deal. Alas, the Calvino novel proved somehow impregnable to me - it repulsed my every attempt to get "into it". The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry is an interesting take on The Count of Monte Cristo, but I must read the original. Finally, I must thank you for turning me onto Daphne Du Maurier -- I'm loving her writing.

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

Hi Brent. I'm very glad to hear that😁Do you have a favourite Du Maurier yet?

@BrentDavis75 11 дней назад

@@Michael_Wertenberg I've been savouring her short stories (The Birds anthology). Next up will be Rebecca... So not a favourite as yet, but judging by her short stories, she's a wonderful writer.

@BrentDavis75 10 дней назад

@@Michael_Wertenberg Michael, have you read any Robert Aickman? If you enjoy the slightly stranger Du Maurier, you might enjoy his weird fiction.

@Michael_Wertenberg 10 дней назад

@@BrentDavis75 I'm only just hearing about him now. I had a look on Goodreads. Thanks for the recommendation!😀

@fiberartsyreads 9 дней назад

Im always intimidated by Count of Monte Cristo-I need to just bite the bullet and read it.

@Michael_Wertenberg 9 дней назад

I can definitely appreciate that. I'm the same with Lonesome Dove (which everyone says is a masterpiece). I'll be biting my own bullet, too, shortly🙂

@fiberartsyreads 8 дней назад

@@Michael_Wertenberg I’m in the minority with Lonesome Dove (didn’t love it) 😬

@GentleReader01 12 дней назад

I’ll give you the like but I refuse to subscribe. Since I already am. Count of Monte Cristo is so cool! It’s got enough story for all those pages. A fave. The Yellow Wall-Paper is great, with as much anger as calmly presented as Shirley Jackson. Umberto Eco in Postscript to the Name of the Rose: “I wanted a blind man who guarded a library (it seemed a good narrative idea to me), and library plus blind man can only equal Borges, also because debts must be paid.” The first chapter of If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler may be the truest and funniest thing ever written about book buying.

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

The Name of the Rose! That's an extraordinary book, too! And thanks for subscribing, by the way😁

@susanburgess820 11 дней назад

Oops.. the word was horrified me, not worried me. Dang it.😂

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

🙃😂

@ericneff9908 11 дней назад

Interesting list! I've only read the Dumas. Would I be too pedentic if I corrected your pronounciation of pathos?

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

😁I think there's at least one word in every video that a viewer has to correct me on. I looked it up, so I should be good now😁Thanks (By the way, it's 'pedantic' not 'pedentic'🤪

@ericneff9908 11 дней назад

@@Michael_Wertenberg Typos don't count! (But I deserved that!) (But you seem the type that would want to know.) 😀

@Michael_Wertenberg 11 дней назад

@@ericneff9908 Exactly😁