Here it is, video number 2 on the channel - woohoo! I hope you enjoy this review, let me know if it makes you want to read The Pearl :)

I’ve never managed an entire book in one sitting. I loved this and love the way Steinbeck writes, I felt connected. Thanks for the inspiration to pick up a book!

@ThePortlyRaven

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Yes, he does weave a spell! I definitely enjoyed coming back to the story many years after first reading it. So glad the video gave you a nudge towards the book :)

You got me with the feel you evoked in the first review. This one you convinced me with your argument. Love your work. Thanks professor Raven.

@ThePortlyRaven

Жыл бұрын

Thought you might be swayed by this one ;)

@Deandorra

Жыл бұрын

"it's only 100 pages" that argument? 😆

Fantastic! I've read a couple of Steinbeck's books and will definitely be picking up The Pearl now. Thank you for making these reviews, they really capture the joy and wonder of reading books.

@ThePortlyRaven

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, what a nice comment! Yes, The Pearl won’t take you long at all to read but it stays with you. I’ve read it twice, but with a twenty five-ish year gap in between and it was powerful both times

I 'am grateful, thanks a lot

@ThePortlyRaven

Ай бұрын

My pleasure :)

That was fantastic Sam! Loved it😊 I read The Pearl decades ago, you've inspired me to have another look - I like your point about being reminded again of the fundamental truths in life.

@ThePortlyRaven

11 ай бұрын

Thank you John, lovely to have you on board! It had been a long gap between reads for me too. Luckily - if something is great, it’s great forever :)

This video was amazing, a complete masterpiece

@ThePortlyRaven

Ай бұрын

That is too kind! Thanks for watching and commenting :)

This is so well made ❤

@ThePortlyRaven

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it

Brilliant mate! I need more of this type of reading in my life.

@ThePortlyRaven

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Denis - I hope you enjoy it!

Hey Sam, thanks for the recommendation, got alone in Berlin and the pearl. Keep up the videos

@ThePortlyRaven

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching mate! I really enjoyed our books conversation last week, and your encouragement to make more videos means a lot. Happy reading and I hope to see you soon 📚

After Wuthering Heights I am starting East of Eden.

@ThePortlyRaven

5 ай бұрын

I just finished East of Eden for the second time, and it might be my next video. What a great, great book that is! You have a treat ahead of you :)

I appreciate Steinbeck and the parable "campfire" "oral tradition" style of the book but I just read this for the first time and ---------------- spoiler coming -------------- the ending doesn't make sense to me. Why does the couple return to town at the end? Why are they allowed to? They spend half the book running away from a town where they're wanted for murder and then at the end they just go back. No confrontation, no explanation. How does that work? And why on earth would they go back to town when they were already so far from home and malnourished (and closer to the next city) AND they had just successfully killed the 3 men who were trailing them. I understand their son died and "the pearl is evil" etc but why turn around at that point? Did I miss something?

@ThePortlyRaven

Ай бұрын

I might need to think about that one a bit, it’s not totally fresh in my mind! Thematically, it makes sense - (there is nowhere to go, no possible aspirations for people of their ‘station’), but perhaps you’re right - it might not completely stack up in terms of realism

@mattgallo9805

Ай бұрын

@@ThePortlyRaven Thanks for the reply. I don't mean to nit-pick at the realism of a fictional story, I know that's low hanging fruit. I'm more curious if I missed part of the plot or maybe I misread something.

@ThePortlyRaven

Ай бұрын

@@mattgallo9805 I don’t think you missed anything :) Next time I read it, I’ll look out for what you’re referring to - it didn’t strike me last time, but now that you’ve pointed it out…Thanks for commenting!