your bookshelf is far more interesting than everyone else's. Other book tubers pretty much only own YA.

I really like the fact that you do read classics, most of the bookshelf tours i've seen are young adults. Good tour.

I'm really happy about your introduction. Like, really really happy that that's how you chose to do this. I love how you did this, man! The wonderful focusing and peeking the books out to see the covers, lovely! JANE AUSTEN IS NOT AN AWFUL WRITER, YOU HORRIBLE BOY. You literally own 6 YA books. You are anomaly. I love that your reviews here were just "This is one of the most phenomenal pieces of literature ever to grace this planet," or "This was horrific."

Subscribing because you're the first person i've seen on youtube who doesn't only own YA novels.

YOUR BOOKS AND BOOKSHELVES ARE SO GORGEOUS!

@Bazpierce

10 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

I love the fact that you read classics and that you're not just hooked up on YA. subscribed

*Allllll* the Brontes! Allll the Orwell! And the Dickens! And the Vonnegut!

I love how Ha-Joon Chang was harder to pronounce than Dostoyevsky. BTW, that "She" cover was gorgeous. A lovely collection to be sure, and that 2001 opening foreshadowing your Kubrick love. :)

I love the sound the book make when you put them back where they belong and they slide over the wood :)

I'm all for these bookshelf tours that have books other than the same YA ones from the same series. I need more of these in my life.

I am extremely jealous of your book collection.

your bookshelf is absolutely stunning! I loved the way you've organized it! thanks for sharing!

When the music played at the beginning I was literally just sat there with this huge grin on my face and I couldn't stop haha:D Your books are beautiful, feel free to give them all to me.

OH MY GOD!!! I'm in love with your bookshelf!!

Agreed on Robinson Crusoe. About the way your books are organized: I tried to put my books in alphabetical order once, but it pissed me off so much to have Hornby's books next to Homer's, or Dostoievsky's next to Donohue's (like your have, haha). George R. R. Martin and Marx, together??? Organizing them by genre and period makes me sleep better. I know, it's stupid.

Have you ever picked up a book by Haruki Murakami? I think you should!

@therealfirelord3359

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Murakami is so strange and so good, it would fit in with the other strange books on his shelf.

Such a cool selection of books! I really liked how you filmed this too.

I love your bookshelf tour!!!

I want that little Poe collection. Beautiful.

Excellent video and excellent choice of music! I just love that your bookshelf has so many books that you normally don't see people of your age reading. It's so refreshing and interesting. And above all, I love that you only made comments like "this is a masterpiece" "this is awfull". I didn't see any Donna Tartt though, and that made me sad :(

I've just found your channel and I'm your new fan! Excellent books. I loved your accent. Thanks for sharing!

Your covers are literally the most beautiful thing ever. And your book-taste is just brilliant. I'm in love. Please give me your bookshelf.

You have such an amazing book collection!!

Have you read a clockwork Orange yet? If not, read it now!

Wow I totally forgot about The Giggler Treatment! I must've read that years ago as a kid. Awesome collection you've got here!

I love your shelves!!

your collection is perfect

I've been raving all year about Just My Type! Everyone just dismisses as it sounds ultra nerdy but it's just fascinating

I'm glad to finally come across someone who organises alphabetically. I was beginning to think I was the only one!

Your bookshelf is amazing!!! :)

If I want to get into Dickens, what book would you suggest I start with?

Great tour!

You choose the best covers.

I'm so glad someone besides myself LOVES the Scarlet letter.

Thanks for teaching me how to pronounce Toibin. He's coming to Edmonton later this year and I'll just feel better about it if I meet him :)

It took me way too long to realize these were alphabetically organized. I was so focused on what classics you have i didn't realize the organization until the last shelf lol

Waw great book shelf tour. Well done 👍

We have many of the same classics. I need to get some of these though. Agh!

Love it thanks

Also loving how your bookshelf is alphabetized!

I think your book taste s amazing ! Your shelf isnt full of fantasy books and you have classics..Idk but ur shelf kinda looks like mine! You're pretty relatableto me so... Loved it ! :) ♥♥♥

Can't wait to find out what you think about 'A Tale for the Time Being'. I quite liked it...

You should do a DVD one

Oh you like Starter for Ten? It's one of my favorite books ^-^ Really nice video. Glad to see you around.

Where do you pick up those wee biographies? They are so cute!

I feel so stupid for only realising towards the end that this was in alphabetical order... Oh dear. Great bookshelf! So many great books!

What did you think of lord of the flies? I tried to read it but I could my get into it!

OMG!Chronicles of NARNIA!!!!!AND YOU ALSO HAVE ROALD DAHL BOOOKS!

So many books, I'm jealous :D

I've not read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas since I was about 9 but I remember quite liking it but that was before I got into reading. I would love a review on it?

me encantan tus libros. son geniales.

I'm about halfway through the catcher in the rye and although I love the writing style I'm not sure I totally get what the story is trying to convey? Am I missing something?

I am just finish The Sign of Four I really liked it but i thought it was kind of confusing what do you think?

Alphabetical order yesssssss.

Macbeth may or may not be my favorite Shakespeare play, even though I had to study it in school.

Whoah. Lots of classical books.

So many good books! Our reading taste is quite similar. What have you read from the Beat Generation? Also looking forward to your thoughts on "portrait of an artist as a young man" apparently the character Stephen dedalus is in both that book and ulysses. Quite fascinating. Those penguin modern classics are amazing! And so agree about wodsworth (puke! 😣😷) great bookshelf tour man.

I am lusting over your editions of Agatha Christies

Your Agatha Christie novels are absolutely beautiful :o. If you've read it, what do you think of Bill Bryson's Shakespeare? (Oh, and which Beckett work is your favourite?)

I really recommend "Our Mutual Friend" by Dickens. (but sadly the last one he wrote!) At the moment I'm reading "Barnaby Rudge" which should be the next one if you are going in chronological order! I think you will like it, great videos btw

Why on gods green earth am I only subscribing to you now? :D

you've inspired me to sort my bookshelf. it's a mess.

I know you loved Jane Eyre, but have you read Villette yet? I got really excited that it was on your shelf, as most people don't really think of it. Jane Eyre is my favorite book, but Villette is my second and if I had to be unbiased I might tell you that it's better.

Interesting collection :)

May I suggest some Chabon? (Yiddish Policemen's Union especially)

What happens to the books that get of the shelves?

Shelf number five has 18 of my favourite books lol

Ooh, you're a Kubrick fan. I took a class on him. Is 2001 your favorite? I go back and forth between Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange. I also really like Dr. Strangelove. I quite envy your editions of Salinger. And if you'd like a rec for something to add between now and next year, I suggest Fates Worse Than Death by Vonnegut :)

What did you think about empire of the sun?

You might hate it as well, but you should try Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Forget about Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park by her though.

You've a lot of Irish writers which is always nice to see. You should get more Roddy Doyle though. He's awesome.

Never expected a book by a korean writer. He became kinda famous in politics a few yrs ago Overall very impressive!

I saw the Narnia books. Have you read The Space Trilogy?

@Bazpierce

10 жыл бұрын

I haven't sadly

Strongly recommend "Island" by Aldous Huxley and "The Brothers K" by David James Duncan

@JoshuaHaveman

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel McCoy I haven't read A River Why. I haven't read much of anything recently. Have you read it? I've heard that there are similar elements to Brothers K with regard to familial interaction.

you need some bukowski!

First of all, that intro might have been the most epic intro in all of booktube. Secondly, how is White Teeth? I read On Beauty and quite liked it. Finally, All The Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren is the da bomb. It has all the great things. Metaphors using cows. A little stream of consciousness. And complicated southern men.

Omg, you have Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens and Shakespeare 😱😱😱😱😱 My favorite authors of all time.. A tale of two cities one of the best Dickens novels you should check it out.

Have you ever read anything without first reading reviews?

White Teeth is amazing! I loved it so much, but I've been reading NW recently and it is not as good... On Beauty was pretty good too though, I'd recommend it. Eugenides is one of my favorite authors, but you are missing Middlesex, which is by far his best. Marriage plot is the weakest, it was just okay.

I haven't read any Agatha Christie yet ... but one day. Read quite a bit of Dahl and the Harry Potter Series. Douglas Adams, yet. No Austen yet. Read Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale" (chilling). Lots of Bradbury. "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" my only Bronte so far. Some Burgess. No Burroughs (except Edgar Rice). "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is on my to-read bookshelves. Carroll, yes. Read "Crusoe." Got Dickens, haven't read most of them (but yes to "Tale"). Read all of Holmes. No Ellis. Eliot: "Silas Marner" and currently reading "Middlemarch." Read "Great Gatsby" a couple of times. No Ian Fleming yes, but enjoyed Stephen Fry. Got the fonts book and enjoyed it. "She" and many other Haggard novels, yes. No Hardy (yet). Heller yes. Not much Hemingway ("Old Man," yes). James Joyce inspired my most recent manuscript (but he mustn't be blamed for it). "Confederacy" is amazing. I've ready most of Lewis, including Narnia and apologetics and the "Perelandra" trilogy (allegory applied with a spatula). "Gravity's Rainbow" left me high and dry. Whew! I'm impressed by your collection.

Try reading Rohinton Mistry his books are depressing like hell but tender and humane

Get more Atwood, I love her dystopian works

I always catch your videos really early. How odd. I HATE THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS SO MUCH! YAY! Also, from that tour I've further ascertained how great Everyman Library editions are. They stand out.

@Bazpierce

10 жыл бұрын

That bloody book was literally all hype and no substance. Yeah, the Everyman's are FAB

@PninianPnin

10 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, in terms of emotional manipulation and propoganda, it shares striking similarities to Triumph of The Will. Both are idolising the brilliance of a particular individual. One, Hitler, the other, the author himself, John Fucking Boyne.

@bethos3

10 жыл бұрын

May I ask why you dislike it? I was going to buy it because I felt like I was missing out on something, having not read it, but then I watched this video and saw your comment and I am no longer sure that I want to do so:/

@bethos3

10 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thank you for taking so much time and effort to help me. I will not be buying this book now because it sounds pretty bad. I watched the film in an English lesson a few years ago and felt that the characters were portrayed pretty weirdly compared to actual documentaries I have watched about the holocaust. I hoped this would not be the case with the novel and, instead, just down to bad directing. However, judging from your comment, I'm guessing that is not the case. Thank you. I will be not wasting my money on this novel and, instead, will spend it on something that is not awful.

Wow, amazing bookshelf! I haven't read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, I've only seen a movie and I didn't really like it. But then! The Absolutist... Oh, it's just so brilliant! Read it, this book is fucking masterpiece.

My collection have 70% of the titles you have. Amazing. But i shelve by genre as much as possible. Alphabetical does not seem rjght to me. Haha.

Come back to KZread!

>Not liking Robinson Crusoe. I... Uhm.. Well, I've never!

Please read Misery by Stephen King! It is very good

Why do you think Austen is awful?

I thought I was the only person who keeps books that I don't even like (I'm a book hoarder lol)

Yes!! I hate The Boy in the Striped Pajamas as well.

My bible (The Book Thief) is beside your bible (The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats)

You need some Erdrich and more Eugenides.

@Bazpierce

10 жыл бұрын

Haven't read any Erdrich, need to change that! And by more Eugenides you mean his one other book? I'll get Middlesex when I've read The Marriage Plot :)

@FleurPillager

10 жыл бұрын

Bazpierce The Marriage Plot is not his best so please don't be dissuaded from reading Middlesex based on The Marriage Plot.

@FleurPillager

10 жыл бұрын

Bazpierce I think you would like Erdrich. What did you think of White Teeth? That's on my list to read and I trust your taste in fiction since you're such a fan of The Scarlet Letter. Probably one of my favorite books.

@Bazpierce

10 жыл бұрын

Haven't got around to White Teeth yet, or any Zadie Smith for that matter. Need to get on it soon.

Just out of interest, why do you keep books you think are terrible? I like getting rid when I don't like them to make more room on my shelves for others (It's an excellent excuse for book shopping!) & I like just seeing ones I love when perusing my bookcase.

@Bazpierce

10 жыл бұрын

Because I'm a hoarder, plain and simple.

@marney7080

9 жыл бұрын

You can't just get rid of books! A limb or two maybe but books are preciousssss...

Every time i watch book reviews, i ALWAYS spot the harry potter books! My godness... why! Lol Do you ever annotate your books...? I love the movie little women. 🙂 Jeez why would you read the boy in the stripped pajamas.... sooo depressing!

I own an original copy of othello

Thank you for saying that Jane Austin is an awful writer. Finally , someone.

i just want to raid your bookshelf

@n6i9k4a

10 жыл бұрын

You are not alone in that regard. :D

If all these novels are so bad why do you keep them?

Tsk, The Magician's Nephew is not the first book of the Chronicles of Narnia! Publication order is the best and I will stick to that argument haha. I am jealous of your shelves though, I love it when you come across a YA title LOL. "Oh look what we have here, a rogue YA novel..." But seriously though, your shelves make me feel a little dumb because there's so much good literature. I love how polarized your book opinions are, they're either "this book is better than Jesus" or "this book was utter shit". I need to review like that!