My Penguin Classics Collection (132 Books!) 

Welcome to the channel! Glad you enjoyed the video. I consistently collect whatever is of interest, and that is a lot. 😀👍🏼

I started with the modern classics solely because of the spine color, but I haven’t been disappointed by one yet. Just started working on collecting the black spine classics.

I directed an Off-Broadway play based on this, and then walked on stage as the jailer with one line. I ended up reading this and a book on the trial, and its really a fascinating history. Every so often I think I need to go back to read Plato and more on Socrates, outside of what I did for the play and the Symposium.

You are too kind Phoebe! What kinds of books do you like?

Welcome! Yes, charity shop gems are my favourites. And sometimes I’ll pick up a double, but I see it as giving them a good home 🙏

Welcome to the channel. 😀🙏

Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed it! Any collection of books, however small is great in my opinion! 🙏

Yes, to keep track of them all in ones mind is too much. I like to keep them in genres so they are easy to find.

I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the collection. Welcome to the channel. 🙏

What’s your favourite?

You are welcome! Glad you enjoyed it 👍

Your welcome. Happy to help 😀👍🏼

Thank you. I didn’t realise I had so many until I began preparing the video. 😀👍🏼

Oh is it sir. Really beautiful collection 😊😊

I am unaware of that author. If you don’t mind my asking, what stopped you from walking the path of knowledge?

@@bookclub5291 Though I may have given the impression that I have stopped reading, I can assure you that such is not the case, though my habits have changed. Even now I am slogging my way through the 1800 hundred pages of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. What has changed is that for many years in my past I refused to read anything written in the past 50 years. I calculated how many books I could possibly read in my lifetime and decided upon a kind of approach. One can only read so many so I decided to read only the best and let time itself be the arbiter of which books deserved my attention. If it could survive 50 years, it must be for a reason. I was well served as I was very rarely disappointed. Also I started to read up to 5 books at the same time using no bookmarks. We are bound to hit a work which takes much longer to read and doesn't quite fire the imagination. We might put it down for an extended period. Why not read many at once. Some purely for fun, some more Academic and some more Technical. No bookmarks is an exercise for the memory and can be quite useful. It is amazing how you might set aside a number in your mind for as long as you wish. One might remember a page number for a certain passage many many years after having read it.

@@bookclub5291 This is something I learned from Soren Kierkegard. He spoke of reading and memory at one point and made this discovery. If you need to remember something, write it down in repetition. The act of writing is very different to reading and uses a different part of the brain. It really works. Take the longest Mathematical Formula and write it out 5 or 10 times. You will be amazed. They didn't teach me this in School, I had to learn this from a Danish Christian Philsopher? This would be a big help in certain disciplines.

@@bookclub5291 Lastly, let me tell you a funny story about the Classics. I was always a big reader. When I was in my teens a friend came over and when looking around my room said, 'I'm always embarrassed when I come here because you have so many books. Piles and piles. I'm ashamed to say that I have never read a whole book. Imagine I got through High School and never read a book!" Well, I said, I'm sure your not alone in that. He tells me he would like to start reading and wonders if I could lend him something, not too hard to begin with. Of course I could, I have something for you right here. Dante's Divine Comedy. So he comes the next day, "OMG, I can't understand anything, this is too hard, I said something easy. Hmm, I said that's pretty easy, let me see... Milton's Paradise Lost. "What's it about? Oh he explains this right away. The next day, "Freaking Hell, that was worse, am I stupid or something. It doesn't even seem to be in English. Give me something else." Hmmm, that's about as easy as I have right now. Look the problem is your just not used to reading. Tale it home and try again. After a certain number of pages something will just Click! I have seen this before, believe me. A few days later he comes back "Wow, that was amazing. You were right, at around the eighth page something clicked and I understood it. I went back and started over and got it. It was wonderful. Give me something else, harder this time, I think I'm ready. Well, I said, the first book you ever read is like one of the hardest books ever written in English. So you can read anything at this point. The look on his face was priceless. He left with the Divine Comedy and we have never looked back. Many happy hours reading the Bard to each other and learning from each other. He went on to study Literature with Honours. Nothing like the Classics.

It's not all about the 'quantity' of books/book-reading,but rather the 'quality' of one's books/book-reading,& what enjoyment,& insight this brings to your life. Reading/owning many,many books is not a challenge,nor is this a competitive sport!

Enjoy your exploration 👍🏼

Happy to share it.🙏

Thanks Ayan for the suggestions. I’ll be sure to look into them! 😀🙏

@@bookclub5291 Nice. I'm jealous of you very nice collection :)

Hey. Welcome to the channel. I have never read the divine comedy, but have heard good things about it. Would you recommend it?

Thank you, It is a beautiful book. I’ve got the Penguin classics edition translated by Robin Kirkpatrick. I’ll admit it’s sometimes hard to follow but i did alot of research before hand and really enjoyed the history behind the book/author.

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Don’t be daunted, just stay in the moment and do one class at a time. Your mind will update as you go. You could also start reading some Plato 😜

You are welcome. I’m happy you enjoyed it! 🙏

I plan too! Glad you are enjoying them 👍🏼

I have yet to read Boethius, but keen to encounter his philosophy. Writing with the fog of death hovering around must make one quite determined.

The Penguin Random House website has them and there are other sites that sell them excusively as well.

@@ericgrabowski3896 the problem is the high price for shipping to Morocco 🥲

@@yassineamezough do you have someone who can buy them from abroad and bring them to you

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I would say that I am religious believer. But I don’t ascribe to any one faith.

Ok thanks. My mistake

I’ve read most of them. But surely just like owning lots of books isn’t impressive, so reading lots isn’t either. It’s the understanding that those readings bring that is important. No? 🤔

All of the authors you mention I have read on the channel. I thoroughly enjoyed Austen and Shelly.

He has read several female authors. Brontë, Woolf, Shelley, Austin. Perhaps his versions of these female authors happen not to be the Penguin version.