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Butcher’s Crossing has been my favorite read this year! And Stoner was a beloved treat to experience. John Williams writes with a lot of intent, not a sentence is wasted in either of those works. Happy reading!
@@bearcards3497 goodness, it’s fantastic. Harrowing, beautiful, heartbreaking, real. It’s crazy to me that it went out of print so soon after its first publication only for it to be picked up later and explode. Truly a contestant for “the great American novel”
I'm so happy that I found this channel!! It's been so difficult for me to find one person who I share basically the same reading taste with! I'm so happy!!!! 🎉😊
Nick thanks for creating this channel! I love to hear about your book recommendations! I just returned to reading last year after taking several years away, coming back I felt overwhelmed with choices but your channel helped to guide me to great titles. Keep on being awesome!
The story of John Kennedy Toole, and of how his book "A Confederacy of Dunces" was publish is very painful but beautiful at the same time. And you sort of feel this throughout the book as well, I loved it !
I love it too! Got it at a library book giveaway during lockdown. I had to take a couple of breaks from it, but I always came back and I loved the ending. Wikipedia has a good article on Toole's life.
Stoner is great - WASP discontent. Confederacy is great - 400 pound guy wanders through New Orleans. The sun also rises - excellent - bullfighting in Spain amongst discontented expats. Sleepless Nights excellent memoir - great section where she goes to hear Billie Holiday . Some of the stories in Dubliners are amazing: “Clay,” “The Dead,” “Araby”, and “The Sisters.”
A Confederacy of Dunces and Dubliners are great! A Sun Also Rises is also pretty solid. I still need to read Annihilation and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
I read that exact copy of The Things They Carried in high school and it’s such a gruesome and illustrative encapsulation of war. The Lemon tree. Sheesh.
Glad you loved Cujo - its in my top 3 King books. What I love is that Stephen King's ability to write REALLY quirky and unlikable characters is on full display here and I also loved that there's no supernatural elements at play - its a literal dog with rabies but SO MUCH MORE. lol.
I was debating myself over the spine breaker shirt, not sure why,, but when you said its the last chance i went ahead and preordered it. Im not to fond of youtube any more but i love your channel its prob one of the few things keeping the app on my phone. im glad to be wearing the shirt soon =D thanks for being sick !!
Would love to see you get into more science fiction. There are some literary gems in the stack, man. I recommend Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg and The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. They're both excellent and you get to look cool for reading SF that pretty much no one else covers.
I also loved Annihilation, I ran out to the bookstore 20 minutes before it closed when I finished it to get the next one. All I'll say is consider getting the second one from the library... I haven't read the third if that gives any indication. I'd recommend Planetfall by Emma Newman, it is only tied for the top of my list with the second one in the series After Atlas. It is sci fi but very much on a human level.
Reading is really hard for me. I tried starting the Dark Tower series but really struggled. Started Invisible Monsters. Easier to read but fell off. However, I’m currently halfway through High Fidelity and it’s alright, but I’m really dying to finish it because I’ve given myself a carrot on the end of the stick in Fantasticland. That sounds completely up my alley and I’m super excited to read that!
I love Irish authors. Love Claire Keegan's Foster. Will look for So Late.... Check out the film The Quiet Girl based on Foster. Dubliners? heady stuff. I have not read John Williams so I will google. I have put off Cujo for the same reason. Now I'm curious. Thx!
A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my most favourite books of all time! Ignatius is so hilarious... He has this pompous attitude (like frasier or Niles Crane) and he has no filter 😂 just says what he's thinking, almost zero self awareness. And he's a mess!
Hey what can I expect if I join your bookclub via Patreon? Do we discuss it together on zoom or chat about it somewhere? It’s not really clear to me how it works. Thanks!
Bro…if someone has mentioned this already I am sorry…you missed the opportunity to call it the “Spine Buster” shirt instead and then used all the pro wrestling iconic imagery that comes with that.
