These are my favorites! I managed to get the Proust copies over the past year and they are beautiful! Cannot wait to tackle them! Thank you for the video!
Great introduction to your collection, I've been getting deeper into this series after starting with Burroughs' Naked Lunch back in 2017. There's so much great literature to explore. Subscribed!
I started Middlemarch on the basis of your reading it sometime soon. I realize it is sort of esoteric, but damn if I'm not invested in seeing if Fred Vincy makes good on his current situation. The writing is so dense (e.g., Chapter 10) that I can't imagine going any faster than 1x. YMMV of course.
ahh les mis is my favorite!! i think the only reason i powered through 1k+ pages was because i was heavily obsessed with the musical at the time. super pretty books, i can only dream of having that many LMAO
Having lived in Germany as a teen, I wouldn't recommend packing a big book. There's just way too much to see and do to add a massive read to the list. Even sitting on the trains will have you staring out the windows watching the scenery. I would recommend getting a Eurorail Pass so you can zip around the continent for cheap.
Paradise Lost is one of my favorites. It’s a difficult read, but it’s worth the effort. I’ve read it a couple of times myself and learn something new each time. Yale has a series of lectures on John Milton and Paradise Lost that might be helpful if you decide to read it (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H62G9yIN5Wk.html). Don’t be intimidated by the writing style, give it a try, it may not be your favorite, but you won’t regret reading it. Fun fact: the first use of the word “pandemonium” is in Paradise Lost. If you like art, Gustave Dore did a series on Paradise Lost, I enjoy his illustrations of the classics.
They definitely are more aesthetically pleasing over being easily readable. I like reading from the paperback english library editions they publish, super floppy
@@ReadingWithMoe I own most of my Classics with Everyman's Library Hardcovers, Oxford University Press soft cover ,The Black Pengun Classics Trade Paperbacks and Pengin English Library. P.E.L has the best font size
@jeffreykaufmann2867 I’ve heard from so many RU-vidrs say that the cloth bound books are for the aesthetic purposes only, because the design from the cover rubs off the more you touch them and that it’s hard to hold when reading. I wouldn’t buy them either
I haven’t had an issue with the font size, but I could see how it would be too small for some people. They definitely aren’t the friendliest for reading I find floppy paperbacks better for that, these have more of a stiffer spine.
So, don’t wanna be old school here - and I was only born in 1990 - or exude negative energy at all but you don’t remember if you’ve read a book or not - just to kick off the video - and then you comment that “20 hours is a long time” to commit to a book (not sure I understood that remark) - which audio-books aren’t reading, by the way. Sorry, but no wonder you find a “big book” intimidating. 😂 Then again with “Vanity Fair” you admit not remembering “anything” about the plot because you read it a long time ago. Well I “went through” Crime and Punishment from beginning to end when I was 15 but does that actually mean I “read” the thing - being so young, naive and unaware? Does it even count when today I can barely account for the plot or the general skeleton of what FD proposes in the novel? I don’t think so. What is “reading” at the end of the day? Clearly not just going over the words in a book. Does one actually enjoy reading or does one rather like the “idea” of saying one reads? Legit question after 3 minutes into your video. I hear a lot of people comment on books daily and sorry, this gave me “Gen Z/Goodreads frenzy” vibes more than anything. Also, I hear these editions wear off very quickly after one read and people are abstaining from buying them all over the place. What’s your opinion on that? Thanks!
Hello sorry for the extremely late response but am just now returning to my booktube channel. We can agree to disagree on whether audiobooks count as real reading or not. Theres plenty of online discourse on this debate, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. When it comes to 20 hours being a long time to commit to a book I mean that that is a lot of time to spend. We only have a finite amount to time and almost a full 24 hour day is a lot to spend on one book. Of course if its a great book its not a big deal but if its a book you end up feeling lackluster about it would have been nicer to put that time into something else. Vanity Fair is a book I picked up on my own sometime around 15/16 as well, well before I used Goodreads or knew what Booktube was. No matter what book in question I'm not going to remember every book I read 15 years ago(as badly as I wish I could). It doesn't mean I couldn't use a reread and look forward to picking it up again as I'm sure as I read my memory will be jogged and more of it will come back to me. My brain works similarly to when I consume movies/tv shows. Theres many I have seen over the years I remember watching but don't remember off the top of my head. Reading can mean different things for different people. Reading for me is overall about the enjoyment I get as I read. If a book sticks with me longterm the better but if it doesn't I'm ok with only having had that time with it. I'm sure through different phases of my life reading has and will continue to be different things for me. Reading can be a means of escape or distraction if something else is causing anxiety. Maybe there are those who read just for the idea of saying they read but theres probably a lot easier things you can spend your time doing if all you cared about was impressing others. Booktube is probably one of the smaller niches here online. At the end of the day I'm consuming as much books as I would regardless of if I was sharing my reading life online or not. I have heard with these clothbound book editions they can wear easily. Mine show a bit of wear, mainly the ones I purchased secondhand. If that was an issue for someone I wouldn't recommend purchasing these. I probably will never own all of these editions but as I'm not too precious with the condition of my books I will continue to keep the ones I already own on my shelves. Hope that touched on most of your points and have a great weekend!
