First chapter: "The romantics will find this book too realistic. The Realists will find it too romantic, so no one will like it. But I'm dead so I don't care either way"
@newweaponsdc9 сағат бұрын
Great review! Jünger was one of the greatest writers of the XX century. This whole "was he a Nazi/was he not a Nazi" is a silly, he lived 102 years, was a 19 year old lieutenant in the Kaiser's army, lost a son to Nazi executioners, knew about the plot to kill Hitler and yet did nothing to stop it or to warn Hitler about it which would have been greatly beneficial to his military career, hung out and helped every artist and dissident in occupied Paris, and then lived on to write some of his best works after the wall went up. He saw the early days of German reunification and the birth of the EU, he was a maverick writer and lived more in one lifetime than most men live in a dozen lifetimes.
@PavanKrishna4113 сағат бұрын
I'm convinced nothing really happens in our lives apart from momentary bliss here and there....Rest is just pain
@rmlucas21 сағат бұрын
I can't believe how little of this was about the poem.
@ryanand15422 сағат бұрын
I sleep in luxury while your legs are wandering.
@Theexpectatior174522 сағат бұрын
I am loving the book. Read it when I was feeling down. In the wrong (or right) person could be suicidaly inducing, but I have no regrets
@billcook476822 сағат бұрын
“We just switched narrators with no warning so wh-wh-what the fuck.” Yep, he’s reviewing Faulkner.
@AlejandrocasabrancaКүн бұрын
É um livro dos tempos do Império será que a República não produziu algo melhor 💁♂️
@AlejandrocasabrancaКүн бұрын
Venham todos ao Brasil 😊
@pulp6588Күн бұрын
READ THE BORDER TRILOGY
@nos_a_sosКүн бұрын
"2 Por isso eu louvei os que já morreram, mais do que os que vivem ainda. / 3 E melhor que uns e outros é aquele que ainda não é; que não viu as más obras que se fazem debaixo do sol. / 7 Outra vez me voltei, e vi vaidade debaixo do sol." (Eclesiastes 4) Se as verdades que os escritores de hoje escrevem já eram escritas cem anos atrás, as verdades que os escritores de cem anos atrás escreviam já não eram escritas séculos, milênios antes? Verdades não são eternas, atemporais?
@nos_a_sosКүн бұрын
Vocês já ouviram falar de João Guimarães Rosa ou do seu romance "Grande Sertão: Veredas"?
@mermaid95xКүн бұрын
I love your reviews so much! I'm never bored listening to them! Keep up the good work 👍
@Insanemembrane93Күн бұрын
I don't like paradise lost. Because it makes satan look like a chump
@CaptainBasКүн бұрын
This is the third novel that I come across by Yukio where he describes a scene of a child witnessing his/her mother having an affair. In all three they were bothered by the scene, but one child wanted to get his revenge whereas the other ignored it. I feel like this scene has happened to Yukio and left a big scar in his life. He wouldnt be mentioning it like this and describing it almost the same way.
@tuleebird4637Күн бұрын
The photo of Eve & Duchamp playing chess is by JULIAN WASSER not Joseph Weller.
@jparks65442 күн бұрын
stupidity
@w4lker2 күн бұрын
Getting really interested in Threshold by Rob Doyle
@robertrasmussen56902 күн бұрын
I also didnt care for it. Evil being rewarded throughout the book was annoying to me.
@lightand43782 күн бұрын
Venho aqui pra ver comentários de gringos sobre o livro e so tem brasileiros escrevendo em inglês. Da pra notar pelo nome dos nick de nome de pessoas brasileiras
@theoneunder2 күн бұрын
It's a k-hole of a book.
@nothingoldcanstay122 күн бұрын
When you said “body to body, job to job” I said “Swans” aloud. Then you confirmed it hahaha
@Misserbi2 күн бұрын
Is it me or is it daft to rhyme in certain instances? Almost offensive. I think it is nicer and more to the point to say what you mean without using that format? Like a haiku or death poem? It just seems more sensible. But if you can rhyme and it works -- more power to you! Thanks!
@GuacamoleyNacho2 күн бұрын
After painfully ploughing a quarter of the book, disgusted and exhausted by the characters' nonscence and crazy ideas and self destructing life, i wanted to give up reading the book. So i look up review of Fight Club before i give it up for good, and when you give the spoiler that the narrator and Tyler are the same person, that caught me wow how's that? I had to continue to find out what happened that made you discover that? I feel that book review that refrain from going into spoilers, are not good review. Majority of spoiler avoiding book reviewers give a general book review that looks like it could be copy and paste on any books, like they just read a few pages here and there and then give their shallow review. Now i am halfway through the book, I think Chuck Palanik's idea of using violence (fights and pranks) to cure insomia, depression or the characters' sickness of living is irresponsible, antisocial and idiotic writing, just because Chuck suffered a punch and decided to use that idea for this book. There are better ways than a Fight Club to solve the characters' problems such as taking up martial arts class. I dont think Chuck Palanik's writing is any good nor anything about this Fight Club. Second, you said majority of the good writers had dad issues. Was reflection of their dad always written into their books? Or it just make them a more sensitive observant of life reflected in their writing? I hope that you would read my comment and give me a reply. Thanks! And oh! I appreciate you researching the writer's life, it gives us an idea how this book forms. This really helps because this book is so out of the norm like it is all coming out of a crazy person's head. You gave a lot more work into a book review than majority of book reviewers out there. However after this book it is unlikely i will read anymore of Chuck Palanik's books.
@GuacamoleyNachoКүн бұрын
Fight Club is a very sickening and dark book. Their self destruction is so violent and stupid, their thoughts are so dark and disturbing, it is so hard to push through the reading. i dont understand why nobody says the self beat up and gory messes up their head? Why are people trying to act cool by saying Fight Club is a cool/genius/etc (majority only had watched the movie but not read the book). it is not cool. it is stupid as hell. i feel like i am wasting my time trying to run through the book as fast as possible to save my sanity. i suspect the writer Chuck Palahniuk may have a mental illness to have conjured so much violence, bloody mess, self destruction and such sad lives. Only a person with a very dark mind can think of such and to write a bloody book of it! i would not suggest this book/movie for anyone with depression. Too much insanity and bloody gory in destroying their stupid sad lives, nonstop like a vertigo to make me want to vomit! To the book reviewers and people who watched the movie and say Fight Club is cool, i suspect they are the type that got bullied often and imagined themselves fighting someone. LOL!😂
@GuacamoleyNachoКүн бұрын
i just saw Chuck Palahniuk's interview, in which he said he enjoyed his past work cleaning up the warm human parts after surgical operation and plus he is very gay, now explained very well his books are sicko and kind of erotic!
@Melissa-sp1ud2 күн бұрын
Did no one else find this book incredibly pretentious and overwritten? I won’t even get into “The Snow Child” story, which covers topics I can’t mention in this comment. In this book at least, Carter seems to be showing off her extensive vocabulary and being shocking for the sake of being shocking. Feel free to flame away and disagree.
@jeanlucdiscard23822 күн бұрын
Kim Peek could read independently with each eye. If a man who couldn't dress himself can read two books at once, you can too.
@alf59483 күн бұрын
Great review. You nailed it. The quote that sums up a lot of what McCarthy’s stories drive home: “You think people was meaner then than they are now?” the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. “No” he said, “I don’t. I think people are the same from the day God first made one.”
@MilliePat3 күн бұрын
Am I the only person that noticed that newspapers and police never had pictures of Freddie or Dickie or Tom? The police also never used fingerprints.
@Karracks3 күн бұрын
2:40 i think you misunderstood "be drunk". It's not about not being "an alcoholic" as if he was arguing for moderation. I think rather it was a poem that argued that you shouldn't be bound by the shackles of time and industriousness, but rather embrace a life of boundless indulgence
@Dippedwithsweet3 күн бұрын
Omg steal that scarf too very cool
@mohdtalha85583 күн бұрын
I just completed the book. My heart breaks when Drogo was ordered to leave the fort when War is just going to start. His last moments in strange room on starnge bed was giving chills. Great book.I am a student and young right now so I am grateful I read this book at this stage in my life.
@wantedflybird95413 күн бұрын
i read this book years ago and recently read it again. i really resonated with the childish aspect of the beginning the first time around so reading it again i paid more attention and this time i resonated more with the lonely depressing aspect and i appreciated it a lot more. must read for anyone.
@GradyMayfield3 күн бұрын
You should review Bronze Age mindset
@kingfisher95533 күн бұрын
Dude, i'm not remotely southern but I totally get this Southern Gothic. Lived some of it, in the far north west.
@DeondreWaltenberger3 күн бұрын
GTASA Chinatown Triads: "F***head"
@merleleepugh9164 күн бұрын
I must read this again.
@merleleepugh9164 күн бұрын
Some WD40 should take care of that squeaky chair
@JamesSKessler4 күн бұрын
I feel like if you think the road is truly just sad and not hopeful and an almost beautiful and uplifting story then you didn’t pay any attention to it. Not really.
@d.b.40934 күн бұрын
Nothing is sexier than a man who is so moved by poetry.
@heraalltheway4 күн бұрын
thanks!!!
@patrickmcdonald69484 күн бұрын
so much despair of how people treat each other but yet full of deep beauty
@soekekkeke9904 күн бұрын
Stupid ass French accent
@susanburgess8205 күн бұрын
I love this book❤❤❤
@dillonhorner71105 күн бұрын
Dude... that last chapter
@harumi955 күн бұрын
2:16 Funny that you mentioned this change that he went through from admiring Western culture and then growing to appreciate his own culture more. I’m about to finish a short story of his that shows a similar idea!
@deborahshayne13875 күн бұрын
superb. A great lecture.
@user-kx1rd3hz5k5 күн бұрын
Think MH achieved the same horror of contemporaray society. His Last novel Anihilate will be my last one also. Europe and the US burn in 2024. 2 and a half years for the translation?? 😮 Blame it on Picador. Crap.
@fernandocastrovargas68435 күн бұрын
I agree with you about jason, he represents a sadists person according to the triad of personalities, according to me
@Dino_Medici5 күн бұрын
26:31 Hello sir. Who is baduoi? Idk how to spell the name of whoever you’re referencing to look them up. Do you mean Bataille?
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didn't he marry Marlyn Momroe at one time?
First chapter: "The romantics will find this book too realistic. The Realists will find it too romantic, so no one will like it. But I'm dead so I don't care either way"
Great review! Jünger was one of the greatest writers of the XX century. This whole "was he a Nazi/was he not a Nazi" is a silly, he lived 102 years, was a 19 year old lieutenant in the Kaiser's army, lost a son to Nazi executioners, knew about the plot to kill Hitler and yet did nothing to stop it or to warn Hitler about it which would have been greatly beneficial to his military career, hung out and helped every artist and dissident in occupied Paris, and then lived on to write some of his best works after the wall went up. He saw the early days of German reunification and the birth of the EU, he was a maverick writer and lived more in one lifetime than most men live in a dozen lifetimes.
I'm convinced nothing really happens in our lives apart from momentary bliss here and there....Rest is just pain
I can't believe how little of this was about the poem.
I sleep in luxury while your legs are wandering.
I am loving the book. Read it when I was feeling down. In the wrong (or right) person could be suicidaly inducing, but I have no regrets
“We just switched narrators with no warning so wh-wh-what the fuck.” Yep, he’s reviewing Faulkner.
É um livro dos tempos do Império será que a República não produziu algo melhor 💁♂️
Venham todos ao Brasil 😊
READ THE BORDER TRILOGY
"2 Por isso eu louvei os que já morreram, mais do que os que vivem ainda. / 3 E melhor que uns e outros é aquele que ainda não é; que não viu as más obras que se fazem debaixo do sol. / 7 Outra vez me voltei, e vi vaidade debaixo do sol." (Eclesiastes 4) Se as verdades que os escritores de hoje escrevem já eram escritas cem anos atrás, as verdades que os escritores de cem anos atrás escreviam já não eram escritas séculos, milênios antes? Verdades não são eternas, atemporais?
Vocês já ouviram falar de João Guimarães Rosa ou do seu romance "Grande Sertão: Veredas"?
I love your reviews so much! I'm never bored listening to them! Keep up the good work 👍
I don't like paradise lost. Because it makes satan look like a chump
This is the third novel that I come across by Yukio where he describes a scene of a child witnessing his/her mother having an affair. In all three they were bothered by the scene, but one child wanted to get his revenge whereas the other ignored it. I feel like this scene has happened to Yukio and left a big scar in his life. He wouldnt be mentioning it like this and describing it almost the same way.
The photo of Eve & Duchamp playing chess is by JULIAN WASSER not Joseph Weller.
stupidity
Getting really interested in Threshold by Rob Doyle
I also didnt care for it. Evil being rewarded throughout the book was annoying to me.
Venho aqui pra ver comentários de gringos sobre o livro e so tem brasileiros escrevendo em inglês. Da pra notar pelo nome dos nick de nome de pessoas brasileiras
It's a k-hole of a book.
When you said “body to body, job to job” I said “Swans” aloud. Then you confirmed it hahaha
Is it me or is it daft to rhyme in certain instances? Almost offensive. I think it is nicer and more to the point to say what you mean without using that format? Like a haiku or death poem? It just seems more sensible. But if you can rhyme and it works -- more power to you! Thanks!
After painfully ploughing a quarter of the book, disgusted and exhausted by the characters' nonscence and crazy ideas and self destructing life, i wanted to give up reading the book. So i look up review of Fight Club before i give it up for good, and when you give the spoiler that the narrator and Tyler are the same person, that caught me wow how's that? I had to continue to find out what happened that made you discover that? I feel that book review that refrain from going into spoilers, are not good review. Majority of spoiler avoiding book reviewers give a general book review that looks like it could be copy and paste on any books, like they just read a few pages here and there and then give their shallow review. Now i am halfway through the book, I think Chuck Palanik's idea of using violence (fights and pranks) to cure insomia, depression or the characters' sickness of living is irresponsible, antisocial and idiotic writing, just because Chuck suffered a punch and decided to use that idea for this book. There are better ways than a Fight Club to solve the characters' problems such as taking up martial arts class. I dont think Chuck Palanik's writing is any good nor anything about this Fight Club. Second, you said majority of the good writers had dad issues. Was reflection of their dad always written into their books? Or it just make them a more sensitive observant of life reflected in their writing? I hope that you would read my comment and give me a reply. Thanks! And oh! I appreciate you researching the writer's life, it gives us an idea how this book forms. This really helps because this book is so out of the norm like it is all coming out of a crazy person's head. You gave a lot more work into a book review than majority of book reviewers out there. However after this book it is unlikely i will read anymore of Chuck Palanik's books.
Fight Club is a very sickening and dark book. Their self destruction is so violent and stupid, their thoughts are so dark and disturbing, it is so hard to push through the reading. i dont understand why nobody says the self beat up and gory messes up their head? Why are people trying to act cool by saying Fight Club is a cool/genius/etc (majority only had watched the movie but not read the book). it is not cool. it is stupid as hell. i feel like i am wasting my time trying to run through the book as fast as possible to save my sanity. i suspect the writer Chuck Palahniuk may have a mental illness to have conjured so much violence, bloody mess, self destruction and such sad lives. Only a person with a very dark mind can think of such and to write a bloody book of it! i would not suggest this book/movie for anyone with depression. Too much insanity and bloody gory in destroying their stupid sad lives, nonstop like a vertigo to make me want to vomit! To the book reviewers and people who watched the movie and say Fight Club is cool, i suspect they are the type that got bullied often and imagined themselves fighting someone. LOL!😂
i just saw Chuck Palahniuk's interview, in which he said he enjoyed his past work cleaning up the warm human parts after surgical operation and plus he is very gay, now explained very well his books are sicko and kind of erotic!
Did no one else find this book incredibly pretentious and overwritten? I won’t even get into “The Snow Child” story, which covers topics I can’t mention in this comment. In this book at least, Carter seems to be showing off her extensive vocabulary and being shocking for the sake of being shocking. Feel free to flame away and disagree.
Kim Peek could read independently with each eye. If a man who couldn't dress himself can read two books at once, you can too.
Great review. You nailed it. The quote that sums up a lot of what McCarthy’s stories drive home: “You think people was meaner then than they are now?” the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. “No” he said, “I don’t. I think people are the same from the day God first made one.”
Am I the only person that noticed that newspapers and police never had pictures of Freddie or Dickie or Tom? The police also never used fingerprints.
2:40 i think you misunderstood "be drunk". It's not about not being "an alcoholic" as if he was arguing for moderation. I think rather it was a poem that argued that you shouldn't be bound by the shackles of time and industriousness, but rather embrace a life of boundless indulgence
Omg steal that scarf too very cool
I just completed the book. My heart breaks when Drogo was ordered to leave the fort when War is just going to start. His last moments in strange room on starnge bed was giving chills. Great book.I am a student and young right now so I am grateful I read this book at this stage in my life.
i read this book years ago and recently read it again. i really resonated with the childish aspect of the beginning the first time around so reading it again i paid more attention and this time i resonated more with the lonely depressing aspect and i appreciated it a lot more. must read for anyone.
You should review Bronze Age mindset
Dude, i'm not remotely southern but I totally get this Southern Gothic. Lived some of it, in the far north west.
GTASA Chinatown Triads: "F***head"
I must read this again.
Some WD40 should take care of that squeaky chair
I feel like if you think the road is truly just sad and not hopeful and an almost beautiful and uplifting story then you didn’t pay any attention to it. Not really.
Nothing is sexier than a man who is so moved by poetry.
thanks!!!
so much despair of how people treat each other but yet full of deep beauty
Stupid ass French accent
I love this book❤❤❤
Dude... that last chapter
2:16 Funny that you mentioned this change that he went through from admiring Western culture and then growing to appreciate his own culture more. I’m about to finish a short story of his that shows a similar idea!
superb. A great lecture.
Think MH achieved the same horror of contemporaray society. His Last novel Anihilate will be my last one also. Europe and the US burn in 2024. 2 and a half years for the translation?? 😮 Blame it on Picador. Crap.
I agree with you about jason, he represents a sadists person according to the triad of personalities, according to me
26:31 Hello sir. Who is baduoi? Idk how to spell the name of whoever you’re referencing to look them up. Do you mean Bataille?