Thanks a lot Patrick, let me know when your package arrives. Sorry I haven't been too good about providing you with your own membership-content recently. I appreciate your support and I am keeping it in the back of my mind to see if I can make a few videos early that will be only available to RU-vid members. Hope you are well! I'm happy to hear from you!
Aw, I love The Cabinent of Dr Caligari. My third year was brutal - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and the 18th century English novel. I read War and Peace very, very, VERY fast.
Street Car Named Desire: "Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Apocalypse Now: "You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill." The Great Gatsby: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Citizen Kane: "I always gagged on that silver spoon." Double Indemnity: "I didn't know that murder could smell like honeysuckle." Psycho: "I helped him pick out the dress she was buried in...(wistfully) periwinkle blue." I only picked up Vonnegut recently; I read _Breakfast of Champions._ I find him "gimmicky".
Very nice Ned! I like that quote from Gatsby. I think that if you don't read Vonnegut in your 20's you've missed your chance to enjoy him for what he does. Slaughterhouse-5, commonly accepted as his best book, is very tedious reading. It is the work of an old goofball who doesn't know when the joke has run its course and keeps repeating the same punchline over and over. I think Cat's Cradle might still be a good read. And I also have some good memories of Mother Night. His first novel, Player Piano is straight sci-fi, and not bad, but kind of cheap sci-fi as I remember it. You might want to stick to his earlier novels, before he got too goofy. Thanks for writing!
Hello 3rdpill, The Scarlet Empress was a lot of fun, in a very weird way. I wasn't so taken with Calagari. It has been a good class, and the teacher is very enthusiastic. Although last class it seemed like only 4 students actually watched Double Indemnity, which is a shame because I loved it. Have I sent you a copy of my self-published magazine? If you want a copy write to me at my gmail address and send me a mailing address, I'll send you one if you are interested.
@@the3rdpillblog934 I don't mind, if you are interested and would like to read it. I've sent two packages to Germany, one to Portugal and one to Denmark. I'm not afraid of a little postage.
That would be quite nice, then we could have some actual discussions about some of the books. Currently most of the students spend the whole semester trying to hide behind their laptop screens, not saying a single word for four months.
I keep trying Deb, but you know how hard it is for me. I just wish I could learn a little diplomacy and smile rather than riposte. Hope you are well! Thanks for always helping with the likes and the comments!
Could you be enrolled in a less than average University? Actually it just sounds as though the University you portray is not a great fit for you, while another one just might be. Doesn't sound like a very inspired faculty either, so how could they possibly inspire their students? And by the way, all the Literature students I've known over the years were on fire and reading even more outside of their assigned texts. Slaughterhouse-Five is Vonnegut's best in my view. The only one I've read more than once. So it goes. Citizen Kane might be the best film ever made--if there is such a thing. Surprised you haven't already seen it. I only watched Apocalypse Now once when it was new and in the theater. I though it was a pretentious mish mash of Conrad and TS Eliot to appear literary. Maybe I should give the Redux a glance or two. All the best as always.
Hello Sal, I really would give Apocalypse Now another chance. Robert Duval is the greatest in this film. I like it because it shows how all the crazy ones are the people who are 'successful' in war. It's not about scruples, it's being crazy enough to survive in this environment. The scene where they send Willard on his mission, the respect and admiration for Kurtz is fantastic. I talked about the redux version with the prof, he thought the extra scenes slowed it down. I guess it does, but the French rubber plantation scene I loved. My university is the cheapest in BC. Much cheaper than UBC or SFU, which are both highly considered schools. I suspect I would have had a better time at one of those schools. Hope you are well! Package coming to you soon!
@@grantlovesbooks So, I guess you get what you pay for--sorry, I just had to say that. Your choice, obviously. Duval is memorable with the smell of napalm in the morning. But the whole Brando bit was way too pretentious in my less than humble opinion, and ruined it for me. And maybe there were way too many Vietnam movies in the 70s, and I didn't want to be reminded of the US involvement there. Indeed it was a crazy time. Thank you again.
