That War and Peace introduction, and the whole video in general, was hilarious and very informative! Thank you so much for sharing!

We meet again, doom apocalypse🤣 I really liked the ending of Sense of an Ending tooo. Cool to see what made the cut. I still haven’t read 1984 somehow :s

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Haha 😂 Ooo I'd recommend 1984!

congrats on the 4000 mark and no it's not an oscar but it's a sign of how much pleasure you're giving to so many of us. thanks and happy new year ben.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

☺️☺️

The second I saw the Kim Woodburn clip when you were talking about 1984 I immediately subscribed

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

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Happy New Year Ben! Thank you for all your wonderful videos this year! 😊

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ☺️

Loved this selection! You really inspire me to read more Ben, thank you 💜 THAT JUMPER AND YOUR HAIR YAS QUEEN 👸🏽

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

😄😋😋

Happy New Year, Ben! Your reviews are wonderful, and this reading year was incredible for you. Currently reading Stoner and will add several more from your favorites to my reading in 2023.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! That's awesome, I hope you enjoy them 😀

I also read Midnight’s Children this year, and it also took me a few months to get through for the same reason! But despite how difficult it was to get thought, you’re totally right, I couldn’t help but admire the sheer craft gone into it. Often once I started reading, I didn’t want to stop-it was only when I did stop that it was difficult to pick it up again 😅 I’m really looking forward to reading more of Rushdie’s novels eventually (like his one that’s being released next month!) I love classics but need to read more, so I’ve been enjoying videos like this from you! Cant wait for more in the new year ☺️

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeah I'd love to read a few more of his books, shamefully I didn't know he had a new one coming so that'll be exciting!

Hi Ben, fascinating book selection. Love your content, always entertaining and informative. Hope you have a happy and healthy New Year and look forward to your modern classic choices 🌻

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Carol! Happy new year 😊

Such great picks. I loooove EM Forster, just read Anna Karenina and loved it, and 1984 was one of my top 10 books of 2022!! (and I've never seen that copy of 1984 and it is so sexy)

Happy 2023, Ben. Like you, I loved the Claire Keegan. That was my book of 2022.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! Isn't it fab :D

I have seen, enjoyed, and subscribed. Che bello Ben!!

I laugh out loud when you took out the Marcel Proust 😂 They were the ban of my existence in High School.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

My biggest reading project this year by far and I almost forget to even mention it 😂

@Clara-vn4lk

Жыл бұрын

@@doomantidote 😂 well I'm glad you did. Now I feel like I didn't suffer alone. Those are still good books though!

Happy New Year Ben! Great review of your reading year. I loved Small Things Like These too. It is one I want to read every December.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! That's a good plan. I'd love to reread it again soon

Looooved the intro. And that slinky sweater. The ‘Celery’ moment really made me laugh, ridiculously. So did cumulatively. You always bring so much joy. At some point this year I’m going to have to get the fragments of Sappho.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Simon! Celery is my favourite poem of the year 😂😂

Happy New Year, Ben!! Looking forward to more of your fabulous reviews! 😊

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Charlotte! ☺️ Happy new year!

“2016 Booktube faerie lights”😂😂😂

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

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Hello Ben! Happy 2023 ❤ Wonderful to be thrown books at by you 🤗 and love that we’re not focusing on the *number* or rankings etc. I also fell head. over. heels. for Claire Keegan in December and I must must implore you to check out The Forester’s Daughter and Foster. 💔💔💔.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Oooo I will definitely look up more Keegan then, and hopefully will be able to throw my thoughts at you soon haha. Happy NY! 💙💙

Happy New Year, Ben! Great List. I still need to read War and Peace and 1984. That cover is great! Maybe 2023 will be the year. Song of Solomon is definitely on my list for this year. 😊💙

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Good luck of you choose to read any of those. S&S is especially awesome!

Your list is filled with books that I intend to get to one day. Indeed, I'm quite impressed with the number of classics that you took on last year. I kept wondering when Marcel would turn up - his presence seemed altogether inevitable. Although this video has left me somewhat terrified to try Coetzee. I hope that 2023 brings you a ton of favourites. Happy New Year 👍

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I very nearly forgot poor old Marcel hahaha Disgrace is... pretty rough but brilliant! Happy new year!

Those are some heavy books, thematically and physically. I have started 2023 with Anna Karenina so down the Tolstoy rabbit hole I go though I doubt I'll ever read War and Peace. I also think that if I were ever to write a book I would put the word flipping in the title just to hear you say it.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

I would flipping love that haha Anna Karenina is fab! I hope you enjoy it 😊

Great video. Thank you. Fun and informative.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ☺️

Happy New Year, Ben! Thanks for another great video.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! Thanks.for watching 😊

Merci pour ton bilan. 👍J adore le contenu de ta chaîne et ton humour. Bonne année à toi 😉

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

☺️☺️☺️

Thanks for the Teddy Bear content 🐻❤️

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

😊😊

Hi Ben ! Happy New Year! Thanks for another great and entertaining video. I would watch your videos, even if I don't read, yoz you always make me laugh. I am very grateful. I love Stoner as well....

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Hello! Thanks so much! ☺️

Your tastes are definitely more sophisticated than mine but you sold me on the hair and sound effects !

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Haha thanks!

Hi! First time in your channel and I’m glad I found it🤗Looking forward to read some of those books you mentioned. Your reviews intrigue me, motivate me to explore them. Happy New Year and Happy reading year! 📚👏👏👏

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

very refreshing not having this artificial limit of like 10 books! happy new year! :)

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! Thanks for watching :)

ok I need to read A room with a view soon. I hated A Passage to India with a passion and it put me off EM Forster. However he has written some amazing short stories so I know he can be good so I will overcome my bias and read it. Your word is enough honestly..Ive got Stoner and have been steeling myself to start t😃I've also got After Sappho which I'm very excited to read. I plan to start a book tube channel this year Ben, I am terrified and excited in equal measure but I'll be sure to let you know when my first video is up

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Amazing! Please do let me know. And I'd absolutely recommend room with a view!

Happy New Year! Loved "Room With A View" last year and just read "Howards End", which has equally gorgeous writing, although I fear I overlooked some of the social commentary. I got talked into reading John Williams' "Augustus" recently and didn't really get on with the writing, which has made me leery of picking up "Stoner". Plus, being about to start a new life in a new city with a new job (yet again) at 30 means I probably don't have the patience for a book about the ills of a stable life. I've got "Midnight's Children" on my list for this year. Thanks for the warning! I liked "Small Things Like These" but the ending felt like a cop-out to me. Sure, he's gone on this to make this very difficult choice but now he has to keep making that choice, every day, in the face of everyone's disapproval and what does that look like? Does his marriage survive this unilateral decision he made? What about his business? I just thought there was so much that could have been done with this premise and Keegan stopped so early.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! Good luck with Midnight's children. And that's interesting hearing your thoughts re small things. Thanks!

Happy New Year ⭐️⭐️⭐️

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! ☺️

Ben you wore the shirt!!!!!! 🔥 also congrats on the reading year :) 🥳

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

😋😋 thank you!

Congrats on reaching 4k!

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Small Things Like These made my list as well, as well as Foster. I love A Room with a View also. Great list of classics!

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm gonna read both again really soon :D

great list - i hope to pick up war and peace sometime before i die haha happy new year Ben!

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Larry! It's a goodun when you get to it! 😊

I admire how you’ve tackled so many big classics this year and that you don’t even want to count how many books are on your fav list. 😄📚 I need to get that copy of Sappho as I imagine I’ll stare and stare at it like you do. I agree The Sense of an Ending is so flipping good. Are you interested in seeing the film adaption of it? I think it gives an interesting take on the story. Happy New Year!

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

There's a film adaptation?? 😳 I'll need to check that out... Thanks Eric. It would be fascinating to hear what you think of Carson sappho translation! 😁

@EricKarlAnderson

Жыл бұрын

@@doomantidote Yeah, it came out in 2017 and starred Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling. I don't think it got much attention but I thought it was well done and gave an interesting slant on the novel.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich sounds fascinating. I'm definitely looking that up. The Sense of an Ending, you've convinced me on that one as well. I've been wanting to read Salman Rushdie's catalogue for a while now, but never seem to get around to it. I must make the time soon.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome, I hope you enjoy them!

First-person I have seen who hated Stoner, but glad you loved the skill of it! Great list and congrats on 4k!

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! And maybe I'm over emphasising the "hate", I did love how powerful it was!

@BrandonsBookshelf

Жыл бұрын

@@doomantidote For sure.

I've read three of these, and none of them recently: A Room with a View, 1984 (which I read in 1984), and Song of Solomon. Happy New Year!

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year! Thanks for watching :p

I seriously thought you were going to leave off Marcel flipping Proust! I was shocked. Quite some heavy hitters last year!

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

It almost happened haha 😄

I wanted to yell - wait, where’s Marcel??? :DDD I totally agree with your take on Midnight’s Children - I’ve only read about half of it so far and I feel like I’ve been reading it forever… Yay, The sense of an ending! :D I love Barnes (apart from Elizabeth Finch...) and feel like he’s not talked about enough. My fave of his is Flaubert’s Parrot. :)

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to read more of his work now. Will check out Flauberts parrot!

Such a wonderful list! If Not Winter is especially amazing. I haven’t yet read After Sappho, but it sounds like I must! If you haven’t seen it yet, you might enjoy some of the essays in Solnit’s Orwell’s Roses.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I think I have to thank you for getting me into sappho with your video series :)

@HannahsBooks

Жыл бұрын

@@doomantidote How wonderful! Thank you so much for telling me!

Ben, if you liked Nineteen Eighty-Four you'll probably enjoy reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which inspired Orwell for his novel.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'll check it out :)

Bear intro really made it for me

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

😁😄

Celery!!! 2:23

@ariannelg

Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe this is the third video I comment and laugh about a single word/vegetable 😂

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

CELERY

I just checked my StoryGraph stats and I read 81 books and 13 258 pages in 2022. (I have for the last few years read fewer books but more pages). This year was taken up from April onwards with my #1962project and "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" as it was published in 1962 is still on my list to read. Thank you for reminding me.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Congrats:p

@johncrwarner

Жыл бұрын

@@doomantidote I am retired from paid work and a full-time carer for my partner So I have quite a lot of time I naturally spend reading.

@johncrwarner

Жыл бұрын

@@doomantidote I have just added you and this video to my tiddlywiki of my reading notes. LOL

Where did you get your editions of In Search of Lost Time? I have never seen them before

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

They're out of print now but they are the old vintage classics editions (which are now the ones with big flowers on the cover). I got them all second hand, took some tracking down with some of them

I am sorry, but I can only repeat myself. 😳 Please go and read Augustus by John Williams. It's one of my favourite books of all times. And I think it will be more your cup of tea.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Oooo yes! Will check it out... 😊

Must get to Ivan Denisovich , I put in in storage in my cellar as, like you I was not ready for a depressing read, but it needs to be dug out !

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Oooo read it! You'll be surprised :)

Interesting that when doing a PhD course in English Literature (at a Brazilian university, as I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) I had the same reaction when reading Stoner, which I loved and hated, It has something boring and at the same time interesting, It is a book that someday I will have to reread. I also had the pleasure of reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time (A La Recherch du Temps Perdu) and it was an experience that took 3 months, and I must say that I enjoyed it a lot. I found your list of extremely good taste books, I started following your channel since today.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Same here, I'm gonna have to wait a couple years till I reread it again 😄

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I want the drama school 🎭 tea 😮

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

😄🙈

Oh dear. I truly disliked Stoner, both the book and the character. He was…self-absorbed? Annoying? Unwilling to try to brighten up his life in any way? Love A Room with a View and Ivan Denisovich. I read Midnight’s Children last year as well and found it to be a difficult read.

@doomantidote

Жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not alone haha