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where is the guy on the right from?
He's an author. How many families has Stephen King butchered?
That one chapter where Patrick is having a panic attack and is freaking out In downtown was my favorite because of how it’s structured. It’s 4 pages with no paragraph breaks and barely any sentences, it’s written like you’re in the head of a person suffering a major major panic attack.
Hippy dippy kerouac😂😂😂
I am the same age as Ellis, grew up in SoCal, spent a lot of time in LA. This book is spot on. That’s what it was like in LA in 1980-81.
This review would be better if you did not constantly inject your obvious cultural opinion on this type of attraction. Apart from that Humbert really is a mix of Sociopathic issues ... and some ehhh attraction issues. These are separate things. One is root of his paranoia, frustrations, anti social issues. The other is the root of his love and desire. And then there is the loyalty - which I think is genuine. Excellent commentary on the hazards of love. So many of us marry our mothers/fathers - the early love - or ourselves. An endless theatre for many.
okay i do think that kubrick’s version does fail the story quite a bit, but i think it was part hays code and part kubrick viewing the story as a romance instead of a tragedy
Hilarious that all of these accusations against Houellebecq just prove his point that liberalism is gay and anti-human
Twenty-something middle class Anglos interpreting Bukowski with pop psychology, and disturbed by the dirtiness and poverty and meanness of Bukowski’s life. He should have been a nicer guy to satisfy such readers?
It’s so sad that you have such a small amount of views Your videos are amazing
Your conversations about books are great, I love your videos. Sad that you stoped doing them 😢 You are criminally underrated.
Wow what a clueless egomaniac the woman is
This girl’s views on guy stuff is no different than idiot guys who who are afraid of girly things
You guys didn’t get it. Marla made the narrator feel emasculated is why he created Tyler.
It's cute how you try to make a link between Houellebecq and the characters when he as said himself "the mistake is to think of me, in actual fact.” Also, 'minute' in terms of sizes it is pronounced "mine'oot."
Lolita, the novel, is an aesthetic experience par excellence, second to none. Beyond morality and even love itself.
The chick obviously did not read the book.
I'm a Christian and I LOVE the movie. It's actually in my Top 10 favorite Bible-based movies, I have the book, and I tried to read it, but it spends a lot of time being like "the desert is dry, the air is windy"- not those words but same idea. I might try it again with your guy's insights. :)
I highly recommend you to read the book carefully and try to appreciate its poetic language. There is also a very nice and helpful book that might help you understand it much better, which also includes a little essay written by Scorsese himself. The book is called: 'Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation Of Christ Fifty Years On'.
30:55 What page is this on? This isn't included in the movie?
The scene is included in the 7th chapter of the novel. The movie cannot include every single scene from a novel of 512 pages.
@@Manfred-nj8vz Thank you. I understand that, filming 2 naked kids would be even worse for Martin Scorsese :)
It's pages 93-94, although I don't see anything about clothes removal.
@@ZacharySiple Well, you have to bare in mind that whenever someone talks about a book, a movie, a poem, a story etc. may slightly modify what he thinks that he's read. It happens (unfortunately) all the time. I understand your objection (or ever your disappointment?) but so it is. However, well done that you did search in the book itself, in order to find the scene as the author wrote it. So must be done.
26:00-19 They show that in the movie and I think that's one of most beautiful pieces of dialogue in the movie.
12:06 Well, he has a moment of worry before He is arrested, and He asks God: "If it be possible, let this cup pass from me." Last Temptation is basically a whole story of "let this cup pass from me."
Wow what a trash pod this was. Were the two boring people stoned the entire pod? no insight, just vapid offerings and attempts at pithy commentary. Fail
When are you going to do the most banned book in history: Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses? Too scared of being massacred by the muslims? :-)) Yeah, I am sure you are!
hey! something worth knowing is that the discussions of "annabel lee" refer to the edgar allen poe poem of the same name, likely not to a love that humbert actually lost!
This person compared Flaubert to American Psycho. Seriously seems like they don’t have expansive reading credentials. Anytime a book is summarized as boring this way it seems like the style isn’t being considered enough or just isn’t effective for an individual but gd the way it’s stated seems the former. It’s also not thoughtful criticism to just say it’s boring and the book is also largely about boredom-the word is embedded in the novel many many times ostensibly with great intent.
I can’t help comparing American Psycho with Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground. Partially, because Ellis uses an excerpt from the novella to introduce the book, but also because we are stuck within the narrator’s head. I don’t think Ellis is trying to warn us. Bateman is a portrait of a type. There are people out there who are like Bateman, who think like Bateman but don’t kill people (assuming Bateman actually killed people). He’s manic, obsessed with status, materialistic, and completely self-interested. What makes matters worse is that Bateman lives in a culture that encourage selfish behavior. I believe in an innate human nature, but I also believe that the society that you live in can either lessen or enhance your darker impulses. Regarding the violence: Bateman’s violent acts are sadistic and reprehensible, but to be honest they were one of the main things that kept me reading. If Ellis wrote a book called Well Adjusted American Nice Guy, we just wouldn’t be interested. There’s something inside us that just can’t resist or are even attracted to gorey depictions of violence. It’s somehow cathartic…. Anyhow I liked the book. I’m not sure that I’d give it 5 stars, but I definitely wouldn’t give it one star.
What a refreshing take on this, in my view, the greatest novel ever. I would have liked more clarity about Nabokov's view of his work. He claimed repeatedly that yes, what Humbert does to Lo is terrible, but that it is also a love story. Interesting too is that he also calls it a mystery! Quilty's role is only hinted at throughout via sly clues, often in other languages, only revealed by Lo herself toward the end, where SHE sums up her feelings about Humbert: "you broke my life"! I recommend reading Lolita every year, especially an annotated version. Each time I delve into Humbert's "mad new dream world", I experience a different reaction, from disgust to pity. It's a masterpiece.
Nice review but what does Paul Owen aka Allen think
Does the guy have to constantly interrupt her!!!? Let her fucking speak
What a way to completely miss the point of the entire book.. 👏
Huh?
Why does the guy on the left KEEP! interrupting the woman?, really annoying.
very good analysis
I know I'm late to the conversation. Which level of school banned it? Because yeah, I could see Maus being a lot for an average eight year old to grasp. The images alone would be a lot for a grade schooler. But was it high school? Any high schooler should be able to grasp the face value message of Maus. Banning it for readers 14+ is just not wanting the message to be heard.
I really enjoyed your podcast, sad to see that you didn't upload for a long while !
A very good book it would be an excellent choice for a TV show kind of like a soap opera but the last three episodes are thrillers
I feel like this book is about a man who daybreams about committing heiness acts towards women in order to escape his monotonous lifestyle. He's definitely an unreliable narrator.
This is an awesome analysis.
Read WOMEN by Bukowski. That's His Magnum opus.
Excellent discussion and analysis.
We call this literature but then criticize rap and say how is hip hop music !
Excellent presentation, thanks! Your closing remarks were spot on: reading worthless books can ruin you life, just like it did in Emma’s case. Her demise parallels Cervantes’ Don Quixote who had gorged himself on worthless books about knightly chivalry. If you want to improve you lot in life read banned books instead of Harlequin Romances. Thanks for your podcast!
Also, while reading “Madame Bovary” I also read Rene Girard’s “Deceit, Desire & the Novel - Self and Other in Literary Structure.” Giard talks a lot about Flaubert’s characters especially Emma and it is a close study of this psychological illness (“chronic affective dissatisfaction). In 1892 Jules de Gaultier invented the term ‘Bovaryism’. It means escapist daydreaming instead of engaging directly with life. It reminds me of Walter Mitty. Thanks for your podcast!
I’ll wait for the movie to come out :b
idk why you guys dont have more subs? maybe have a clips channel?
Lolita obviously tackles a taboo subject but he handles it with extreme skill and talent, only the prurient and small-minded fail to understand its extraordinary skill and even wit, it's an extraordinary achievement irrespective of its subject matter
You guys should read “my absolute darling”
I really miss you guys
The comment he was taken to court over was something akin to "Of all the world's stupid religions Islam is the most idiotic" which, after all, is pretty hard to argue against (though the competition from Scientology is fierce, I must admit). Btw I disagree with the claim that Whatever and Atomised are vastly different books. They both deal with the same subject matter (as do many of the earlier Houellebecq novels). The latter is just far more elaborate than the former.
A so-called "red flag" I would proudly have on my bookshelf. If you can't appreciate Bukowski you're not someone worth knowing. Like the saying goes, 'Art should comfort disturbed and disturb the comfortable.' To reduce his work,. His struggles in life, the up the downs, the laughter, the pain, to simply work for "lonely boys", is incredibly reductive and dismissive. Motivating countless artists who work some soul-crushing job to keep working on your passion in the off hours you have. Someone simply saying "rise above all the past trauma and pain", oh gee thanks. As if it was that simple
I loved the discussion on this book. Ive never understood the people that read it and somehow came away thinking Lolita was anything other than an extreme victim. Ive also never heard any reader understand the sublime painting describing scene the way i did. This is one that i read when i was way too young- about 10 or so- i used to read through my very literary older sister's intense library. And re-read almost annually. I almost got a bit personally offended on the accusation that the prose could ever be seen as 'purple'. Its way too efficient of a book for that descriptor.