Oh my goodness, I forgot how good it feels to hear a sane voice in this world. I had students in my university literature classes call eclecticism elitist and Lolita a glorification of abuse. Thanks for your sound opinions.

@patternsofdisorder1695

2 ай бұрын

Calling eclecticism elitist seems a very short step from saying education in any more than one field is ... . Students these days are often a reflection of the culture at large, and that culture seems to have lost the ability to appreciate or put up with nuance, of accessing more than one perspective at once, and to be skeptical (of one's own beliefs, most of all).

@ManiacMayhem7256

2 ай бұрын

How many those students partook in critical theory classes and those like it

Nice video. The main message for me: 1) Go outside 2) Talk to people 3) Touch grass 4) Read here and there a book

The irony lies in disliking the elitism depicted in "The Great Gatsby" while simultaneously holding an elitist perspective on which book should be deemed someone's favorite. It’s very interesting to say the least.

Cant understand that the controversy around Lolita still goes on. Art is allowed to do everything. One of the greatest novels.

@WriteConscious

9 ай бұрын

Well, it seems that in an odd twist of fortunes that adults who like younger people are gaining acceptance for their "preferences" now 🤣

@ManiacMayhem7256

2 ай бұрын

​@@WriteConscious By the very same political group that condemned Lolita! The irony

The Catcher in the Rye made me want to move on in life despite what my family thought.

What’s that term you used? Logical Insanity? Can you break that down for me?

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Modern civilizations set up a world where you could survive and thrive with a pure logical framing of reality. All classes can follow set logical paths laid out for them and never have to innovate their own life. With technology a class of logical berserkers has taken over our society. To become a modern expert in technology or science you need to spent tens of thousands of hours functioning in a logical reality. All your colleagues will be also. Most develop a God like mentality toward the world. They then use reductive logic to a high degree to define their inter-personal relationships, reality, art, God, and everything else. Those areas of life should have a minimum amount of logic involved. Most common people view the logical framing as the most successful and start engaging in logical insanity where they try and frame any situation they can through logic. This creates huge problems lol.

i'm an adult and i read a lot and i loved catcher in the rye. i suffered through his rants about society until the very end with his sister, then i realized i judged him too harshly, he's just a teenager and we were all like that at that age. it's easy to dismiss it as sad boy novel or whatever. it's harder to look through and see the pain in his character and how adults around him failed him. remember the holden who danced with his sister and did everything so she would be happy and took her to the carousel, not the holden that complained about phonies

Just came across this video and ended up subscribing. I enjoy hearing your points even when we don't agree, and that's quite rare for me lol. It was really nice hearing some passionate praise for The Stranger! During uni a fellow student stuck a love letter in a copy of that book and gave it to me. Didn't work out but I loved the book.

Where would you put books by David Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLilllo, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth

Watched the whole thing, love the humor and the controversial opinions. You earned a sub.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

AYeeeeee. Thank you! LETS GO! Honestly want to do this again to trash some of the classics. So fun.

hey, i normally don't comment, but man did I enjoy this video. A lot of things you say are like a breath of fresh air!

what do you think of clarissa and where would you rank it?

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Lol, haven't had time for 1500 page slog yet! Where would you rank it?

@dandelves

Жыл бұрын

@Write Conscious Probably a high B. It's one of those books which were very influential but has sadly fallen away over the years. People seem intimidated by its sheer volume. Shame

Been listening to some Star Wars novels on audible always been interested on taking reading more serious. Have you made a video on books non readers would love if they read them or a beginners list hey to be honest a response with one or two recommendations will suffice. My interest seem to go towards the stories where the protagonist isn’t the boy scout type for instance I keep going through the Darth Bane trilogy and the Darth Plagueis novel on audible both are revolved around “villains” in Star Wars. But I would read just about anything if it jump started my love for literature. Moby Dick based on your story sounds like its worth a try.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Moby Dick may be too hard. You may like "Blood Meridian" if you like violence and darkness. Also, I will be making a whole series taking readers from beginning literature to harder literature this year!

@TruthJuice

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious awesome please do already looking forward for that video.

love the energy

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!

Yo do you like Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Thanks for posting. It will be a really useful guide for my future reading list. Can you do another one with selections from Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century not included in this post? I really enjoyed your point about people camping on books they were forced to read in high school. For a long time 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, etc. were my favorites but it wasn't until I forced myself to read Lawrence, Nabokov, Steinbeck, Melville, etc. that I truly began to marvel at the power and beauty of the written word. Also, can you show Grapes of Wrath a little more love? It was a book I had always avoided because I was judging it by its cover. Having finally read it at age 53, I thought it was a damn near perfect novel that I probably wouldn't have enjoyed as much had I read it when I was younger.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Yes, for sure! I just looked at the list and I'll do it at some point! Glad you kept moving and started to touch better authors. It only gets better from here! You got three or four more decades of good reading! Haha, yeah I probably need to read Grapes of Wrath again. Looking back a C was a bit harsh. Probably a B. This was someone else's list so I tried to have a genuine reaction with how I felt. Now, looking back I'd change a couple picks but I can't lol.

Frankenstein is an S for me. I might sound crazy but I found it just as impactful if not more so than Crime and Punishment.

The only thing I would say is I would not recommend watching either of the Lolita movies. The whole point of it is how it's written, should never have been made into a film.

@WriteConscious

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, the were pretty underwhelming

I want to see an author tier list now. I also really liked your review on Never Let Me Go and I would love if you went back in time a few years and did a review of The Book of Disquiet. thanks for all the work.

I was blown away by your rating of War and Peace. I’m new to the classics, and I’ve yet to read it, but every other review I’ve seen of it has it as one of the greatest novels ever.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Read it and tell me if you disagree!

@dandelves

Жыл бұрын

25% of the way through War and Peace and enjoying it so far

@isaacm4159

8 ай бұрын

It's great

Another great classic is Middle March what do you think of it

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Never read it! Adding it to the Quandale list after the histories!

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious you know who George Elliot is right

Amazed nobody ever seems to mention H.E.Bates. He was writing mid 20th century in the UK, and wrote novels, short stories, novellas and 2 gardening books. I am in absolutely in awe of his art! He was a master of the short story and novella. At least 25 published collections of short stories were under his belt. His novels, "Love for Lydia", and "Fair Stood the Wind for France" are critically acclaimed, some people saying the latter was the best novel published about World War two. "Love for Lydia" is in my top five books ever. Henry Miller loved his stories and noted how his descriptions of nature and flowers are a marvel. His dialogue is excellent too. He wrote lots of other good novels, like "The Flaming Sword". Definitely an under rated author.

keep up this great content

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tommy!

really enjoyed your tier list. Mainly because of proper substantial subjectivity vs societal objectivity mix. But also loved you ranting about current cultural mentality and lunacy :D

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Thanks l4qs! I am trying to bring a different ENERGY to BookTube! Next I'm trying to give a proper dose of substantial infinity! LETS GO!!!!

@sethrakes1991

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious Keep up the great work 🔥

Alright, you had me at--fired from job for reading a book. Hell yeah.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Lol! Multiple times! My favorite was at a ski resort when I was working as a lifty. Some snobby people knocked on the booth and said "Put the book down and start paying attention." I said "your job is to get off this lift, and if you mess up your end and are dying I will save you." The man I told that to was the cousin of the resort owner 🤣

The way you pronounced Dostoyevsky was hilarious 😭😭

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Been getting it right and wrong for 16 years now. Honestly don't care lol. Actually love messing of his name and others to make people cringe.

@dmitrijssitkovskis4110

Ай бұрын

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский. Probably, the greatest Russian author/writer of all time. Love his work. Apart from Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment also great are Demons (Бесы), Idiot (Идиот) etc. Enjoyed this video a lot 👌

You should really explain your criteria for ranking the books; it seems to be not related to how 'good' a book it is, but rather based on the impact of the book on literature, and whether you can get anything "actionable" out of the book. I would like to see a video on this topic (how you are judging your books, and the criteria for doing so).

@WriteConscious

5 ай бұрын

I will have to return to this video or one like it. I made this when I had under 100 subs and was just messing around!

I’ve read a bunch on the list. The only one I disagree with is Brave New World. I think it definitely deserves a B. I think you ranked it a C only because it is widely read amongst the classics and you let your feelings about Huxley effect your placement. Which early in this ranking you declared people shouldn’t let an author personality effect their judgement on their works. I thought it was visionary.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for letting you down :(

Homie, I agree with this list almost verbatim. Keep grinding.

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

aayyyyyeeeee. You a real oneee

The example about nuking Peru assumes that no one involved, let alone the person pushing the button, is subjected to propaganda and thought control like the citizens of 1984. Imagine this happened in North korea, do you think anyone would just say 'no' or do you think they would have a plethora of reasons why Peru is a threat?

1984 it's quite good. The paper weight, the room upsteairs... it was a good novel for it's construction over the objects and places.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Not saying it's bad! But, if we scale it against the best classic novels of all time it looks pretty average!

@sarahhavillamelooliveira5825

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious Yeah, but politics aside I find myself almost smelling the gin covered streets and the stuffy feeling liguering in every corner of the apartment upstairs or feeling the paperweight pulling down in my pocket. It's not the best, but I find the way it comunicates space is (for me) a good one. Of couse It's no "Memorias Póstumas" (One of the best books of Brasil), but I find it well made. Just like homemade food or a cup of tea. Enjoyable, memorable, but maybe not restaurant worty. I agree with you critics, just making a point.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! When I read it in high school it changed my life! For sure felt like something home made. When they went it the upstairs room I had a major pit in my stomach. Crazy story and honestly helped a lot of people wake up to the control system.

@sarahhavillamelooliveira5825

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious If I may, maybe recomend me some books. You might have already read it but "The aestetic" from Eugene Veron is a good one. It's a philosophy book on aestetic value. Very sassy and flavorful. I found it by chance in a library overflow donation (when there are more books than the local library can handle they just give them away, usually things they found a better copy, a new edition or just replacion the books no one read for more popular ones). It is perfect. My copy is localy translated and printed in 1980. Leatherbound in red leather with black embelishments. Another one I enjoyed when I was younger was a second world was autobiography called "Quando Hitler robo el conejo rosa". I read it when I was about 10, so there's a lot of sentimental value and might not be as good as I remember.

@sarahhavillamelooliveira5825

Жыл бұрын

For context sake I'm 19, austistic, second year med student in summer break, I like romances, fantasy, philosophy and political fiction. I enjoy things from varius parts of the world from chinese novels (Yes, I've read Tian Gu Ci Fu and yes I did liked it's), to Judith Buttler's work, to Sophia's World, to Brazilian authors, children's brazilian "manga", to spanish poetry, to Sherlock Holmes all the way to Green Gables. I'm a beginner in reading and want to expand. I have Frankenstein, Emma, Howls Moving Castle and Heidi just waiting and a few poems to go through, but if I want to survive summer break and whitout going crazyvI need more content. You can't go from reading 100+ pages a day to reading just about nothing and expect your brain to accept it. Currently surviving on fanfiction (god bless Ao3) and podcast. Espinoza and Diogenes are my favorite philosophers. Anyway, I'm a young hatchling just having free time to explore a bit and asking for help in every book you may think I'll ever like.

Your honesty is contagious. I love a person who knows what they know because they know that they are right! Yes...... Mad Respect my Guy..mm

J. D. Salinger actually wrote two books: being the Catcher in the Rye (1955) and Franny and Zoeey (1961). And after the publication of those books, he then continued publishing short stories and collections until around the mid 1990s to early 2000s when his health started taking a rapid decline.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Should have said "novel." Everything after Catcher was a novella or short story. Thanks for the insightful comment and for watching! Best wishes Camron!

@wyattcalcote5867

10 ай бұрын

Franny and Zooey is a composite novel. “Franny” and “Zooey” are 2 seperate short stories originally published separately, which were then jammed together into “Franny and Zooey”

@josephnunes868

2 ай бұрын

What about 9 stories , salinger wrote excellent short stories.

I read The Trial when I got jury duty. No one commented on my joke, but I enjoyed it very much.

@WriteConscious

4 ай бұрын

Lol, why did you even show up???

If the adults still harping on about 1984 read The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz their heads would pop from how hard it would make them spiral out. The High School books are right where they should be man. So many people I know have stayed on a juvenile level of understanding because they never read anything past those books. Speaking of Huxley any thoughts on the elementary particles by Michel houllebecq?

I don't mind the CITR hate as long as we recognise 'Franny & Zooey' is dope af

I do love your content (especially on Cormac McCarthy content) and I am admittedly young, but I just can’t agree with your Take on Catcher in the Rye.

@WriteConscious

10 ай бұрын

Haha, all good!

The picture of Dorian Gray?

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

The Picture of Melky Duran

@kullerbees323

Жыл бұрын

I wanted to know where you would rank it 😭😭 lol

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Low B! How about you?

"The Divine Comedy? Eh, a C."

@WriteConscious

5 ай бұрын

lol, it's funny 700 years later I can just give a C to one of the most canonical books in history

Completely agree the wind-up bird chronicle being S

@WriteConscious

8 ай бұрын

Lets go!

I personally rank the stranger by Albert Camus an A because of its commentary on existentialism and how the common man can’t face a human mind that seems to be abnormal and inhuman due to a lack of moral empathy. However a lot of the scenes drag on and do serve meaning and analysis on different harsh living styles but sometimes do not need to go as long as they end up being. So I like that you put it in B but I respectfully disagree and don’t think it should be all the way down in the C or D range. But I do need to read more books so if there are any classics or books you would recommend to the average reader please inform me. Nice list.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Hey, I love "The Stranger." It's one of the five books I'd give a new reader in the classics. But, compared to some of the other heavyweights I couldn't throw it on the top!

I’m really surprised the picture of Dorian gray isn’t here

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Yep! Didn't make this list haha! Probably should have added a bunch more! Whoever made this had books from the 80's in here lol.

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious I know it’s not your list but this guy really didn’t put the picture of Dorian gray if it was on the list what would you give it

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious I also think the inferno is like an A or B but the rest is a C

clicked on another list and this guy ranked CIR decently high. starting mumbling on about a random tv show. then he mentioned his distaste for capitalism. so i turned it off and disliked the video. came here and immediately was interested in ur approach to lit, as well as a real understanding of CIR. Glad i didn’t continue that video after hearing he also ranked Dune an F. Pathetic. I later found out the previously video was jack edwards.

@ManiacMayhem7256

Жыл бұрын

He has the right to his opinion on capitalism, I have some critiques of the system albeit of a different nature from his leftist leanings, but him judging a book based off it is stupid. Art doesn't have to follow political beliefs. I love Dirty Harry yet I despise authoritarianism. I love Top Gun Maverick yet I don't think we should go to war with Iran. I love Braveheart despite any and all issues behind the scenes. I love Apocalypto despite Mel Gibsons beliefs. Art MUST be separated from ones own political beliefs.

I was surprised you ranked this book so low: i read 'Lord of the Flies' at high school in 1968 and recall the writing was excellent, and that I felt it was an accurate portrayal of the deepest emotions within humans, even as children we have these. And at that time in the 1960s when I read the book we were still shaking from the near-nuclear -holocaust of the Cuba Missile Crisis, a scenario which this book took one step further. The book was considered a classic for many years, and maybe still is. Of course the book is not so relevant to today's world and to the younger generations, but, to my Baby-boomer generation it was one of the greatest books of the 1960s especially during and after The Cuba Missile Crisis. After Russia acquired nuclear weapons in 1949, the world went through a series of stand-offs between the USA(The West)and Russia, and most people felt that nuclear war was quite likely. What would it be like? Who would survive? The Lord of the Flies offers a possible scenario of what would happen during a nuclear war, and also then shows how somewhat pointless and ironic it would be to save some children from the holocaust so they can rebuild humanity again, when those children have all the killer instincts which created the situation they were saved from, and are in fact soon forming competing groups and killing each other off. There are some complex issues raised in the book about human behaviour, politics, emotions, and rationale.

@dpo8bwee

4 ай бұрын

You should try Golding's The Inheritors. It's not allegorical or topical as far as current events (at the time) and it's basically inaccurate given the dearth and inaccuracy of information in 1954 in the field of paleoanthropology, but as far as language and prose goes, it's spectacular. It's challenging and very rewarding once you find your footing while reading.

@WriteConscious

4 ай бұрын

Actually reread it last semester with my class and I would rank it higher now!

@gregoryross.303

4 ай бұрын

Ha, amazing that you should mention The Inheritors, as I have actually been trying to read my copy of 'The Inheritors' during these past few weeks, but, it is just not grabbing me. It's basically a very watered-down version of the same theme that powers Lord of the Flies; how humans have always been savages, and The Inheritors is about a tribe of Stone-Age humans doing their primordial stuff. Very watered down Lord of The Flies, and I could not read much of it before shunting it aside to make way for something with more bite to it, such as Conan Doyle's writing. Golding published The Inheritors one year after Lord of the Flies was published, and this ties in with my take, which is that Golding was rehashing the 'savage humans' theme from Lord of The Flies, to try to cash in on the great impression Lord of the Flies made on literature just one year eariler.

@dpo8bwee

4 ай бұрын

@@gregoryross.303 it took me three tries (false starts of varying lengths) before it spoke to me! I felt like I just needed to be more open to his attempt at the nebulous imagery that signified a kind of consciousness-pidgin, if you will. I'd never tell anyone they HAVE to read something because tastes are so different and in the end it doesn't really matter, but I highly recommend it as a more experimental novel. And I agree, humans as savages is certainly a central theme but I think it's still more than that.

No tale of two cities? :(

@WriteConscious

9 ай бұрын

Read enough and talked about enough Dickens for a lifetime!

Glad you gave Moby Dick a high rating. Moby Dick was based on an incredible true event which happened in the 1800s at the time that Melville was working on a whaling ship. A huge white whale actually did attack and sink a whaling ship named The Essex, in the Pacific. it was world news at the time, went viral, especially because the few surviving crew lived for many days in a lifeboat and survived due mainly to their cannibalism, which shocked the mainly Christian world at that time. It's a great book and a solid piece of our literary heritage. '1984' was much more relevant to the world when it was first published in 1949, at a time when the Great Depression and WWII had recently turned the world and politics inside out. And The Russian Revolution and the Chinese Revolution and the Spanish Civil War, and the Russian posy-war takeover of eastern Europe, all made the novel quite fitting at that time. Glad you gave Austen a C. Bronte gets a B.

@WriteConscious

4 ай бұрын

Lol, glad you aren't too mad like others in the comments! Love Moby Dick though.

@gregoryross.303

4 ай бұрын

I recall going to see a newly-made movie version of Moby Dick when I was eight in the late 1950s in Montreal. It was the 1956 movie starring Gregory Peck as Cpt. Ahab. I'm guessing that about eight different movie versions of the story have been made over the past 100 years. It's a magnificent tale of adventure and survival in our world where the saying is: fact is stranger than fiction. And indeed the true story of Moby Dick is far more morbid than Melville's interpretation in Moby Dick. Please keep up your excellent and inspiring reviews and analyses of the world's literature.

Ok but where is all the dark fantasy spice bro 🌶🌶🌶 Jokes asides this was a great video, you can tell that you are both very knowledgeable and passionate about the classics.

I would like to hear someone review the book Satan in Goray by Nobel Prize winner, the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer. I've searched for this book review and aside from a couple in Polish, nothing. This was singer's first novel published. It is a masterpiece. I think people are afraid of this book because it contains the word Satan frankly. Which is ridiculous! It is a historical novel about a wave of messianism in the Lublin area of Poland after Cossacks murdered Jews during the 17th century

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

Will look into it

I'm confused by your rationale: Some books you judge based on its historical and cultural impact and influence and then some based on their content. Don Quijote is the first modern novel, most influential and one of the most acclaimed in history. Epitome of Spanish literature. And only a B? But Faulkner who did the same but for south american literature, only way more recent than Cervantes, in an unnecessarily complicated way as well, is ranked as S? Same goes for Pride and Prejudice (even tho i dont like it much). I enjoyed the video and you gained a follower but couldn't relate to your logic.

Ah ok, now I get how I ended up here, and connect with so much of what you say. The Stranger also radicalized me as an adolescent. Absurdity without reason can certainly do that.

@carlosfarina3665

Ай бұрын

Reading your comment and other people's comments makes me glad I read The Stranger in my mid 30s and not my teen years. As an atheist and recently recovered from depression, the absurd has given me a new lease on life. It has made me more grateful and I see so much more beauty in the simple things. Had I read this as a teen, I probably would've been radicalized as well thinking "what's the point" and bordering nihilism instead.

The most insightful hot take on WW1 is 'Hitler, Born at Versailles' by Leon Degrelle. Oughta be mandatory reading, imo

I haven't read the comments, although under me is a reference complimenting your sanity and I strongly agree with the knight. Cancel culture is narrow minded and makes me think of the burning of books. We need to be challenged mentally, imaginatively, morally and a great writer uplifts, even if we disapprove of the subject matter.

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

Yes, thank you. for the kind words!

"catcher in the rye - F" FUCK YES DUDE! subscribed. Would love to hear you talk about Gene Wolfe and Book of the New Sun at some point.

@WriteConscious

3 ай бұрын

Love Gene Wolfe! Soldier of Sidion is beautiful historical fiction.

Ok i was about to subscribe

My favorite novel (not series) is the Lord of the Rings, so obviously agree that it is a "S". NB: It is one novel that was published in 3 volumes. I would rate War and Peace as an "S" as well.

@WriteConscious

5 ай бұрын

Just reread War and Peace in anticipation of the Napoleon movie and I agree it is an S. Very beautiful

@joe.h-7322

4 ай бұрын

@@WriteConsciousyes, the way he describes such a huge variety of people and their mannerisms is beautiful

I know this is an old video and your views and opinions may have changed. However, I want to say two things. First, is that I find it interesting that you draw the line of tainted perspective at eugenics for Huxley. Rightfully so, eugenics is a horrid and nonsensical practice, but for Nabokov the actual exploration of disgusting predilections do not seem to affect the work for you when they're both equally as skilled writers, in my opinion. Secondly I so wholeheartedly disagree with obviously the placement of Lolita it's not important to read that filth, but also Lord of the Flies. It is my favorite book to this day and it's what got me into reading in the first place.

You were stoned when reading Madame Bovary in college 😂😂😂

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Read every book from 18-23 stoned lol

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious every book on the tier list😂😂😂

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious what do you think of the sequel to all quiet on the western front

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious what would you rate House of leaves out of 10

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Yup. So, take this video with a grain of salt lol. I never read the sequel! What do you think? I would rate it an 8.5. But, that's in the re-read list. I have a feeling it could score lower!

Let’s go

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

You already know!

Huckleberry Finn is a profound read. S-tier for sure. when was the last time you read it because if it was high school, read it again. Slaughterhouse 5 is S-tier, too.

very nuanced to rank these works not just for their obviously skilled structure and prose, but for their greater ideological impact on the world as a whole haha

@WriteConscious

25 күн бұрын

Thanks brotha!

Master of the game by Sidney Sheldon #1 Book of all time

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

lmao.

Rip my boy Catch-22

@WriteConscious

4 ай бұрын

lol

Why does Emma not get the spotlight the Pride and Prejudice does?

Kafka was a body made of literature.

43:00 it's acceptance

Moby Dick was perfect except the length cause of all the whaling information

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Lol! Glad you liked it! Wish they had a really good Moby Dick movie! All the decent ones are too old and the new ones are always to stacked with weird love stories. A short Netflix series with a ton of freedom to stick to the story would be pretty sick.

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious yeah that would be cool Moby dick got one of the best ending in a book no movie can make it better than that

I think adolescents should read The Adolescent by Dostoevsky and not Catcher in the rye. :D Other than Tolstoy I agree with everything, I'd put Anna Karenina in S honestly. One of the most beautiful piece of art ever created.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support Marton! Looking back a B was probably a tad too low for "Anna Karenina" haha.

@zzz8630

Жыл бұрын

i just finished reading a clockwork orange thats a real horrorshow profile picture droogie

@ginalmarton2002

Жыл бұрын

@@zzz8630 Kubricks done a great job with that book!

I loved this review but the background music was horrible. Gave me a headache.

@WriteConscious

5 ай бұрын

Yup! Don't use it anymore.

Great Gatsby was a complete slog. Fuck that book. I’d give it a D. The Beautiful & Damned was pretty fun. IMO, anything under A on this list is BORING. Love Camus, but his novels were kinda dry. Same w/ Sartre. I can’t with a lot of the French writers. Virginia Woolf is B for me. She is a big part of why I don’t care for British writing. Boring, unnecessarily wordy (also Dickens), and kinda mid.

Pride and Prejudice Meh But WTF does campy mean?

@WriteConscious

4 ай бұрын

Something that is completely cliche and artificial and exaggerated

@thethikboy

4 ай бұрын

@@WriteConscious The way you use it, sounds like something literary and canonic.

" Just a single man, Fyodor Dostoevsky, is enough to defeat all the creative novelists of the world. If one has to decide on 10 great novels in all the languages of the world, one will have to choose at least 3 novels of Dostoevsky in those 10. Dostoevsky’s insight into human beings and their problems is greater than your so-called psychoanalysts, and there are moments where he reaches the heights of great mystics. His book BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is so great in its insights that no BIBLE or KORAN or GITA comes close. I cannot conceive of how you can live beautifully if you don’t know Dostoevsky’s books… BROTHERS KARAMAZOV to me is more important than any BIBLE. It has such great insights, that THE BIBLE should not be counted at all, even for comparison. But THE BIBLE will be read - and who is going to bother about BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, in which Dostoevsky has poured his whole soul? or ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy, or FATHERS AND SONS by Turgenev..."

@WriteConscious

8 ай бұрын

Osho is correct.

@willieluncheonette5843

8 ай бұрын

@@WriteConscious Yes, I think so too.

Catcher in the rye is interesting to me because it welcomes the audience to listen past the boring sad unreliable narrator to see a sexually abused boy in a mental institution. I love the story of getting fired to read btw.

@WriteConscious

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Well, I'm glad you like Catcher in the Rye! I liked it when I first read it too.

KaramAzov. The Brothers KaramAzov. The stress is on the third A.

@dmitrijssitkovskis4110

Ай бұрын

Братья КарамАзовы

The praise that 1984 gets in the Dystopian fandom is absolutely laughable. I’ve never understood it.

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

The ignorant need a totem to worship too!

Dos-to-yo-v-s-ki

@WriteConscious

10 ай бұрын

😴🥱

@dmitrijssitkovskis4110

Ай бұрын

DostoyEvskiY ДостоЕвскиЙ

Lolita i didn’t like because it was hard to read

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Not the easiest read. Put it down in high school also and didn't pick up for another 7 years.

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious I mean it has the greatest unreliable narrator

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious what do you think of a clockwork orange book

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Clockwork orange was low C tier. Could go D. What do you think?

@quandalebingletonda3rd957

Жыл бұрын

@@WriteConscious the ending isn’t good though

Nah pride and prejudice rules

@WriteConscious

4 ай бұрын

Meh.

I have read most of these novels (90%) and I want to thank you for exposing some overrated books. For me, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, and Lord of the Flies are the three most overrated books in literature. Also, 100 years of solitude is D, for sure.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, thank you!!! The Catcher in the Rye fans have been hating hard 😂 I just can't imagine defending Catcher or Gatsby. It would be like me defending N'Sync albums as great works of music. I like plenty of crappy bands and books, but I wouldn't except other people to think they're good.

your review is far better than jack edwards, unlike him u are deep and critical

Downvoted because Pride and Predjudice only got a C. Every single novelist in the world is standing on Jane Austen's shoulders. Because she got there first! Before her, novels were novel all right. Make believe, sensational, and melodramatic. Nothing to do with real life.

No offence but your Anna Karenina ranking is ridiculous

@WriteConscious

9 ай бұрын

Lol, probably could be an A

@TheEndermanNestGPage

9 ай бұрын

@@WriteConscious that's fair

Absolutely love the Orwell 1984 take, couldn’t agree more

People on the left want to cancel all the classics ?!? 😂 what did you smoke ??😂

@WriteConscious

8 ай бұрын

Ummmm. What are you smoking? Are you living in a box? The canon has been canceled hard since the 90's... It gets worse every year. For instance, when Russia invaded Ukraine, many professors stopped teaching Tolstoy and Dostoevsky lmao... All of whom were on the left... Even better, most aren't taught anymore because of the insistence on teaching diverse literature. To take it even further, the left dismantling classical education almost a century ago led to a populace now that is too dumb to even read the classics. I am also an anarchist, and I know the right is just as guilty of killing our educational standards. But, sounds like you're biased and nescient (or ignorant) about the educational wars of the last 30 years.

As much as I love Lewis and Tolkien, they are not the authorities in Christian philosophy. That belongs to Dr. Cornelius Van Til and Dr. Greg Bahnsen.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

No, Josh, that title belongs to JIM JONES 😂

ulysses at b is fucking mental

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

lol

Of all the classics and dystopian books I’ve read, Brave New World is the worst.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

To be fair, Dante’s concept of Christianity is not true Christianity.

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

What is true Christianity?

Lord of the Rings 🤗🤗🤗

@WriteConscious

Жыл бұрын

😃

YOU DID CATCHER IN THE RYE DIRTY, jk, but I feel Moby Dick should be in S tier. The book holds so much to my heart.

@summerwachtel6448

2 жыл бұрын

You liked catcher in the rye?

@MichaelHickman3D

2 жыл бұрын

@@summerwachtel6448 To an extent, the narrative is nice, aka the setting and theme. But the rest is a little bland. It's one of the best examples I've scene of establishing a setting.

@WriteConscious

2 жыл бұрын

Salinger did us dirty by even writing it!