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This is the best review of the book out there. Everytime someone I know who finishes ALL- I send them this link. Thank you for your deep reflection and brilliant perspective of one of the best books I’ve ever read!
thank you for this video man !
Thanks for posting this. I just did the audible version of the book while I drove across country. Apparently, it was the impetus for the song Hotel California.
I just finished and WOW! Thank you for your great review. I have a love for books about houses and the people that inhabit them over a period of time such as a couple of older books/series Sutton Place and the Townhouse. To name just two. Another the title escapes me about a house that begins as the home of a Roman officer in ancient Britain. But this is a first I believe with a setting in the USA. Phenomenal writing. I may revisit it in audio format but reading really allowed me to sink my teeth in it.
Scarlett is a prime example of an anti-hero. She's a morally corrupt character that makes selfish decisions for her own gain even if those decisions make her seem the villain to the other characters in the story. We see through that brash and non-conforming inner-dialogue she has that it is harnessed for her own and other's survival during the harshest of times. The novel has some of the richest descriptive elements, making settings so vivid and characters come alive so well it is almost like you are hearing their voices and seeing them in the pages.
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Very well done, sir. I am astounded by how many reviewers completely missed the mark on this book.
To look deep into what has happened in evangelism without not seeing the amazing work God has done is bad resurch. This book written to critique a few leaders failures over the nationals history falls short at best when there have been Hundreds of amazing Christian evangelicals preaching the true gospel. Jesus and John Wayne is so far off on the evangelical world i grew up with books like "Wild a Heart" and " Bringing up boys". They are fantastic books teaching Men to be Men. We as Christian men need masculine leaders that haven't pushovers but truly follow biblical masculinity.. We need men like Paul and Barnabas that stood up to athoritarian dictates. Jesus and John Wayne in no way represent thousands of strong Christian men that protect there familys from the crazy WOKE world we live in. Its good to see many Christian leaders finally standing up against books like this. We need to impowering men to love like Jesus and serve our country. Roman's 13
I would read a whole ass other book about JB, I do wish she expanded about him more
Go read annna Karenina jajajaja
Man, just didn't get it, extremely precious novel, time making, entertainment, your attacks reinforce its popularity, Miller grateful to you.
Thanks for this video <3 I had such a deeply personal experience reading the book, and it's been such a struggle to find any worthwhile discussion of it. Most of the critique on it feels very surface level, and I really appreciated hearing that validated XD I'd also never thought about the reaction to the book confirming Jude's worst fears, just awesome analysis!
Awwww. I love Brideshead. Maybe you would like Waugh's satire. The Loved One is funny funny.
To me the book is a psychological study of narcissism and survival!! And Margaret Mitchell never said Scarlett was a good person!! God I can't stand how we judge things of yesterday with today's wokeness!! It was a character study of a human first.
Pure magic.
Great review.
here from that one seinfeld episode!!
Rick, I just bought the book and have made the mistake (?) of looking up YT reviews/reactions to it. Naturally, everyone's talking about how emotionally heavy it is, but one video in particular went a bit far. To say this woman had a negative reaction is to put it mildly. She went on to deem the book beyond "trauma p*rn" and exploitative and even irresponsible, capping off their review saying over and over that it should not have been written. As someone who has personally experienced severe trauma and deals with PTSD, I began asking myself if I hadn't made a mistake picking up the book in the first place. Then I watched your review. You seem to have handled the book as a grown, mature, emotionally healthy individual and not a child with an aversion to learning about hard things. I don't see you behaving as a ****ing victim because you read a BOOK. Thank you for the mature review. Liked and subscribed. I shall proceed reading A Little Life. Someday. Not today. :|
'd like to recommend the Audiobook version of this wonderful book. With the exception of the opening chapter titled "Osgood's Wonder, Being the Reminiscences of an Apple-Man," the narration is excellent. Osgood's accent and enthusiasm is a bit grating. Keep going, don't stop!
One visit too many to this channel.
The thing is: Newland thinks condescendingly that May is vacuous. But surely she manipulates him and knows about his love for Ellen. She gets rid of Ellen by lying to her that she’s pregnant 2 weeks before she tells Newland. She’s not so dumb as she pretends. It’s a rat trap and he’s been caught. So sad.
Your reviews are so smart and insightful. I just finished the book for a book club, and your review solidified my understanding of the book, (and a part that I had actually forgotten about that was crucial to the plot). Thanks for taking the time to read and review this book. I am looking forward to more of your videos.
hey! just finished. nope! boring. 2 starts to be kind...
Brutally honest but brutally profound. Perfectly executed. Edith would be proud. 😊
You read some of the passages out loud ... yet, possibly, you overlooked the construction of metaphors and comparisons (which, in my opinion, are the stronghold of Miller's writing style). But hey, that is not the most important thing I have to question you on. I mean, look at our present times (6 years after you made the video): there are almost no publishers willing to publish manuscripts that have not passed through so-called "sensitivity readers". In that respect we are worse now then we were in the 1930s! So YES, I think there is a need not only to reproduce what Miller has done, but to go beyond, and I want to say WAAAAY beyond. Somewhat like French author Louis Aragon did in "Irene's Cunt" (1928).
i share this book with anyone who will listen
Shikasta the first because I was into sci-fi and the grey cover stood out. Lessing said it wasn’t sci-fi and used the term space fiction or something like. But for me sci-fi is anything which casts the human condition in an alien context and Canopus in Argos series did that in spades. Golden Notebook I read afterwards. Bit of a ramble. Working out ideas that later appeared in other novels. Good Terrorist is her best work. This wasn’t alien to me at all. I was a very active very leftie person. She hit every nail on the head. Well deserved Nobel, and her reaction when being told confirmed my love for her.
I won't say I disliked the book, but I kept wanting warmth and an exit from the setting. I pictured a bank building with classical architecture and apparently seafood. Old knowledge or magic or whatever that humanity has lost being distilled into massive marble rooms populated by massive statues lapped by tides. I can't imagine anyone coming to love that; it sounds oppressive. I would've had massive libraries with books in forgotten languages, mossy old growth forrests, jungles, sand dunes, structures that evoked other civilizations other than Greece or Rome, like The Forbidden City, Amritsar or Angkor Wat. I think it would've added to the mystery. Also, why are there birds and aquatic life, but no other creatures like mammals or reptiles?
Don't you love it when a feminist lectures men on masculinity. The willingness to critique books that promote God centered Christianity with a twist of new age wokeness is on the rise. As a man that is very interseted in rasing young men to be in love with Jesus and still know there place as leaders. The biblical values of Dr. Dobson and others through the years has given great guidance to me and many others on raising children. Men need to be told how to be men and in an era of destructive feminist misguiding young children. A dont accept progressive Christianity that turns men into wimps. Jesus was and is a perfect reflection of what we should look like act like and portray to this world.
I know it’s a review but half a dozen cuts to excerpts of some of the more explicit and perverse material later and I’m like: Jesus man, we get it😂 but the obscenities were not the only part or point of the book and the fact that 100% of your readings from it seem only an attempt to prove how obscene it was is a disservice to the book. Reality is, you don’t like the very idea of the kind of person who could write some of those dirty passages and so much so that your own squeamishness around this made it impossible for you to see any of the really beautiful writing in the book. But, hey, at least *you’ll* be on the right side of history, amirite? 😂 your loss, not ours.
Rick! I finished “North Woods” about a week ago if that and stumbled upon your fantastic review. I agree with every single word you said. Thank you for posting. I will now check out your other reviews because you obviously have good taste in books 😊
Thank you I love your thinking.
I enjoyed listening to your thoughts about The Golden Notebook and Doris Lessing. I am an old woman and discovered her writings in the early 1970s. I loved The Golden Notebook! It felt revolutionary somehow, it was complex as one's relationship with one's self and others is and I too thought of it as a feminist novel. I didn't transfer that thought to thinking that Doris Lessing was herself a feminist though. I have read all of her books over the past OMG 50 years and found them all to be thought provoking and sometimes rather difficult. Interesting to hear a male perspective. So glad you think well of the book! cheers
Don't read books, just become the characters in the books you want to read.
Thank you🙏☺️☀️
Yes! This is the discussion I needed upon finishing A Little Life. Thank you!
Yes! This is the discussion I needed upon finishing A Little Life. Thank you!
My god man this book is from the 1700s. Save us the liberal virtue signalling bullshit.
If he had actually married Ellen I am sure he would soon be bored with her as well. Man who doesn't know what he wants or doesn't have courage to not buckle to pressure from others before committing to important life decision like marriage can't be trusted. Imagine May`s suffering knowing that her husband of few months wanted to break up and be with another woman but stayed back only for the sake of the baby.
What absolute rubbish. a brilliant book. "Cras amet, qui nunquam amavit Et qui nunquam amavit, cras amet'.
This is my favorite book of all time ❤
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I don’t know! It started fine but the development was cheesy. Good for simple minds. Superficial, no spirit!
I am very confused didn't stoner basically r*pe his wife or am i misreading that. He came to her when she was sleeping and was too tired to resist him and forced himself on her. She very clearly doesn't enjoy it. I don't get it, how is this man a stoic hero? This book has very good prose and I don't think that martial r*pe is something that should never be depicted in literature but this is never explored at all.
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Lucky to find this beautiful channel.
I was completely caught off guard by how gripping this book was. This was the most amazing book I've read. the writing is impeccable! It is imaginative and solid. It is both clear and complex. It is both happy and sad. It is the hope we see and long for. I walked past this book several times, and it kept calling my name. I'm so glad God led me to this book and I feel blessed to be one of the many who enjoyed it. I'm humbled and thankful for James McBride.
Im disgusted, by your justification of lusting for another woman and no loyalty.
I loved the book, it really is stunningly beautiful in all its sadness. I can't get this part out of my mind, it's stuck like some sort of catharsis, like maybe things would be better if he could try again (but probably not): "Then he thinks: Why did I never give Willem what I should have? Why did I make him go elsewhere for sex? Why couldn’t I have been braver? Why couldn’t I have done my duty? Why did he stay with me anyway?"