I really love the LOA - I want them all! Thanks for sharing. 😎📚👍

Never heard of LOA, but now it's on my radar. Spent many years in Salinas, California. "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck is an extraordinary novel - an absolute recommendation. Easily in my top 3 books.

O'Connor is one of the most fiercely original authors of the mid-20th Century. One of her most unusual and impressive stories is "Good Country People," Enjoy!

This video is really why I am still on KZread. Even during these negative periods we have got great and positive content creators like Brent. Really keep it up man❤

@brentstrykertalksalot

18 күн бұрын

There is so much joy in life, all I want is to help others feel that. Thank you for your kindness & remember to always keep your head up!

These are such wonderful editions, and I have a whole bunch of them. Most of them I bought new over many years as an early subscriber to Library of America. So many of these books have become so important to me. One of the first I got - decades ago - was the volume you show here of the works of Flannery O'Connor, who has ever since been one of my favorite writers. I have read and re-read her stories and the novel "The Violent Bear it Away." Some of them many times. They are very important. My favorite short story of all time is "Good Country People," which is, in my opinion, a parable about the peril of unbelief. Also, Light in August is a great book. A word about the paper: The paper in all my volumes, even the ones I have had for ages, has held up in like-new condition. Not a single tear. No yellowing whosoever. The paper is thinner than most standard books, but it is strong and opaque, so it is easy to read, and I appreciate how each volume contains so much. Whitman, Thoureau, Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, Douglas, H. (and W.) James, Jefferson, Paine, Franklin, Poe, Emerson, and many others, there are termendous treasures and pleasures in these volumes. I just recently acquired three volumes of Parkman from a used book store. Have been too busy to read more than a few pages so far, but what I read was fascinating.

Awesome video -- keep up the great work! I love LOA volumes, it's just a shame that they're harder to come by in the UK (it's often cheaper to get ex-library copies from the USA shipped here than getting them used/new here). Would definitely be interested in follow up videos if you get any more! I need to get that Collected Novels of John Williams edition!

@brentstrykertalksalot

9 күн бұрын

Howdy! Thanks for stopping by! I’ve watched a few of your vids in years past - I love the overlap some people have with both manga and literature. I started reading because of manga like berserk and vagabond & such. Both are such fantastic mediums. I wish you luck in getting these editions!

@NZAnimeManga

6 күн бұрын

@@brentstrykertalksalot ohh wow, small world (never would have expected recognition/cross-over line that)! It’s great that Berserk and Vagabond got you into reading more broadly outside the medium of manga! Thanks, I’m keeping an eye out - though on a bit of a self-imposed book buying ban as my wife and I are expecting a baby in the autumn (and I’ve got a mountain of unread books on the shelves) Really enjoying your style of videos, keep up the great work! Be interested to hear your takes on any more LOA volumes you happen to get!

Thank you for going into so many details of the way these editions are formatted and constructed, it's very helpful (and yes, super thin pages can be nerve wracking!). Library of America sound like lovely books and snail mail catalogues were so much fun, I miss them 😊

You've got a great way of talking about stuff. These are good listens. Keep going!

@brentstrykertalksalot

18 күн бұрын

Haha thank you! It’d be a shame if “talks a lot” was in my username & I wasn’t good at doin it🤣

These editions are the best. Faulkner can be difficult but he’s great. “The Sound and the Fury” and “Absalom,Absalom” are my favorites. Be warned that they are highly influenced by Joyce.

Bro! Where did you get that shirt??!! Looks sick. Nice vid

@brentstrykertalksalot

17 күн бұрын

It’s from a brand called Panhandle, I’d look up “Panhandle elk shirt” and see if you can track one down!