How fortunate for me that KZread decided to put your video on my homepage. These are great. The ones I’ve watched are very funny. I agree with all your points on Libra. Great sentences, great paragraphs, but I was done before the book was. - a former student, once wrecked by your son in Guitar Hero

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Hey Nathan. I just saw this. Thanks for dropping by the bathtub! s

His best work by far in my view.

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

It is one of his best novels, but the last hundred pages sort of wore me down... s

I read Libra in the book club edition when it was released. It was my first DeLillo book. It was a well reviewed books I remember and provoked much discussion. I revisited the book last year and enjoyed it much more. I bought Mao II as soon as it hit the bookstores. When you mentioned the "moonies" I imagine younger readers may not fully appreciate the historical context of the book. The cult of personality aspect in Mao II is very relevant today. I did not like Underworld. The first chapter was excerpted in Harper's Magazine which I subscribed to at the time and it was very well recieved. I don't like baseball so maybe that's why I was bored by it. I still bought the book but couldn't get through it. I knew people that raved about it, including one guy who carried the heavy tome with him. I've enjoyed his latest and books or novellas very much. There is a detachment to his writing that doesn't put me off. Interesting writer.

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, Libro! Yeah I actually liked first chapter of UNDERWORLD but after that it just wears me down! Stay safe in PARADISO! S

Still haven't got a round-tooit. Don't know where to get one neither. Been reading Fred Chappell's (rip homeboy) novel Dagon, a peculiar book with dynamite prose. From the sixties it was Chappell's first. Chappell, who died about two weeks ago, taught creative writing at my alma mater, big yellow mater sandwich with mayo university, or UNCG if you want to be fastidious. Also, MB, I watched a good short doc on the Duck Man in the desert you told us about before. Just out yesterday on a KZread channel about comics, forget the name.

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Interesting guy, Chappell, but haven't read him... yet! s

im one of those bathing buddies who Loved Libra...it came out the year i finished university....and i read it in the fall of 88...also enjoyed Mao II but would put in 2nd tier delillo...btw...have you read The Names Scott, or reviewed it?...i read it in high school (my first delillo) and it opened my eyes to contemporary lit (when i was in high school, i was still reading only classic lit)....highly recommend--fabulous bathtub book....stay safe....bb

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

I never finished NAMES but loved WHITE NOISE first time I read it, and not so much the second time... take care, BOB!

@bluewordsme2

4 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield had same reaction about White Noise--first time, i really enjoyed it...and the second time I tried to read it (around 8 years ago), i couldnt finish it...felt dated...or too insistent on a 'premise'....at least Peanuts comics continue to hold up with time....be well Scott!

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Every single one of the fifty thousand Peanuts strips has something DeLillo doesn't care about-a middle and an end! S

What you said about Delillo being great on New York reminded me of some of the passages in Underworld where the characters are so beautifully presented and the writing has such a moving realism as they move backward through their lives. The first one third of the book almost made me give up but the rest was fantastic. Still on New York, I have become addicted to Lawrence Block, the Matthew Scudder books but this is probably an escape from finishing Vineland. I wonder should I abandon it and reread Underworld. I hate giving up on books. Only Ulysses and The Recognitions have temporarily got the better of me.

@larrycarr4562

4 ай бұрын

I like Block’s Scudder series too, have 5 or so, and have another 5 or 6 sitting unread in my kindle… should pick a month and take a deep binge dive in the 🛁… Vineland? Finish what you start. 👍👍on Libra, one of the most empathetic work I’ve read, and not just LeeHarvey, the whole deluded cast of characters. Haven’t read Mao, should -at least the 1st 1/2.

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Welcome to the bathtub, Tadhg! I haven't read the Scudder books myself, but interviewed Block a few years ago about Ross Thomas and he's a great guy! Maybe try VINELAND again some day, it's one of my favorites, but there's a LOT going on in those sentences! s

Cool video

I loved Libra as a youngster. I wonder whether I should revisit it?

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Interesting. I find it fun/not fun revisiting books I loved as a kid. If you do, let us know what you thought the second time through! And welcome to the bathtub! s

@boq780_2.0

4 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield thanks,I may just do that!

Getting some of my stuff put in an anthology. Getting paid.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Great news, Stephen! s

@user-ok2gr2vw9r

4 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield thank you. They want between 30k to 35k. Am sending about 32k of words. Cottage/garage industry level...but they do lots of ebook. Important thing - not vanity publisher. Not crappola. Thanks again.

I listened to Dellilo on audio book but man I didn't get that guy I'm still debating if i should read Underworld or not

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

Maybe try WHITE NOISE first? I've sort of given up on him and I used to really like him if only for his great prose...s

This is the episode about the Duck Man in the desert, creator of Scrroge McDuck et al. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pquuo7OcdpqulKw.htmlsi=27JsUa9GT8uTg5vh

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Carl Barks is all bathtub for all ages!

Hey there! I just discovered your channel. Love your set up, and I'm curious if you can tell me how you transformed your closet into another bookshelf space? I want to convert my unused office closet into another bookshelf home, but I do not know how to go about it. Cheers!

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Welcome! There were shelves in the closet when we moved in and I just added more. Basically I put up book shelves anywhere there's space and my wife lets me! s

@TheHistoryShelf

2 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield Same here! Lol. I'm a new subscriber and look forward to catching up on your many videos. :)

Sounds like his editor should have got him to write short stories and essays rather than combining both into a novel.