My Classic Literature Collection

hello everybody welcome to the channel my name is mark today we'll be talking about my bookshelf and uh the books that i buy why i buy them what i'm into uh when it comes to books and so that's what you'll be learning about me today so to give you a little background about my reading habits what i read uh what are defined as classics that's predominantly what i what i go for i like to read non-fiction and some contemporary novels but for the most part i you know sort of stay in the past in regards to my reading so i got a lot of books here really excited to talk about them i'm not going to like talk about each single one in depth or anything like that i'll probably talk about ones that either mean a lot to me or uh i have an interesting you know experience when i went to go you know buy them or find them and so the way i'm going to structure this video is i'm going to talk about why i read the classics then i'm going to sort of hopefully encourage you to like read the classics or you know try out a few classic works and just see what you think and so then i'm going to talk about my book buying habits you know what i go for where i'm looking for these these books and uh yeah let's let's do this so why do i read the classics well i think what really gets me excited when it comes to reading is reading what has influenced a lot of people uh i do the same thing whenever it comes to movies i love movies and i i like to watch you know you know whatever's on like the top 10 list top 100 lists or like you know what are martin scorsese's top 10 movies his personal favorites like what has influenced him so i like to know what influences people and you know when you think of like most influential works you think of like i guess like shakespeare when it comes to books like shakespeare and uh plato and uh cervantes and tolstoy and dostoyevsky you know i could just you know stand here for like an hour and just list names but um that's what gets me excited just knowing what influences people and what what did they get out of this book or this movie or what have you and so it sort of elevates my reading experience when not only am i enjoying the story but i'm also trying to pick up on themes that you know has influenced other authors that i like and you know seeing any uh comparisons between that author's work and the book i'm currently reading or same goes for movies is there any shots in this movie that look like a scorsese movie or you know a christopher nolan movie or ingmar bergman movie and so um so that's what gets me excited that's why i read the classics and i don't only read the classics i i like to stay in the modern day read some non-fiction but this is predominantly what i do uh in my in my reading i think uh well i should probably say that when i was in high school i i hated reading i spark noted everything uh i was forced to read the great gatsby frankenstein shakespeare and i resented all of it i just wasn't into it i'm sure this is a experience that a lot of people had uh with their english classes in high school and i want to sort of uh bring people back to the classics because i was able to come back and find a lot of value in them and i think it's a great experience that you know uh i want to share with everyone because it's very exciting it gets me really excited to talk about this and um so what changed in my mind what was the turning point where i went from i hate reading and i hate classics and i don't want to do anything have anything to do with them and to like completely loving them and like devoting like you know 70 of my spare time to reading these books um it just took one book for me to change my mind and i actually a year ago on a whim i decided to read frankenstein again i had as i said spark noted it in high school retained and none of it i was just memorizing it for a quiz and so i totally forgot about the story so i read it a year about a year ago and i got like hooked in mary shelley's writing just totally consumed me from the first chapter and i sat there for an entire day and i read the whole story and it was just it blew my mind because you know for one thing i think we also have this idea of frankenstein as being this like green monster with bolts in his neck he's going like this and um you know just you know from those movies in the 40s and the 50s you know that are sort of ingrained in pop culture and you know that's what we associate with frankenstein the book frankenstein by mary shelley totally different totally different um i'm sure many of you have read it um but maybe you have the same experiences as me where you're like you know well this story is completely different where the monster is actually a very complex character and you get to you know dive into the mind of frankenstein's monster and see things through his eyes and it just blew my mind in every sense of the word and so it sent me on this path of like hey the classics can be pretty good i should probably check out some more and so it sent me down this path where here i am standing you know a year later looking at like i have i don't know i just have this uh whenever i'm in a thrift store i'm like you know i have to like buy at least five classics it's kind of a problem i discovered this book this past year called the penguin classics book published by penguin random house and it covers the history of uh penguin classics from like the 40s and the 50s to the modern day and the different covers and the different titles in their collection and it is this is an absolute treasure trove because for me this book introduced me to a lot of classics that i didn't know exist like a lot of weird and obscure books that are defined as classics that i had never heard before and it got me like really excited i'm like what else is out there and it's you know sent me on this wild goose chase for you know rare obscure books you know that are under the titleist classic that have influenced a lot of people but you know isn't exactly talked a lot about today and so this book covers different areas of the world different cultures and like the great works that you know came out of those cultures and time periods and it's just unbelievable and so what i would like to encourage you is is to maybe check this book out or you know just like look up uh classic book lists online because you can charter your own path into the classics your shelf could be all classics and look nothing like mine and so that's the sort of message i wanna i wanna put out is the the old you know old books are worth checking out that are defined as classics and you know there are certain books that you know some people feel you know you should feel obligated to read like homer zilliat like that's like one of the defining you know the starting points of literature like that's a book that is sort of like a must-have but um there's just you know you can you can see all these different cultures and uh time periods throughout human history and you can just read these great books that came out of them and it's just an unparalleled experience and i it's so exciting it's so exciting and i want to just get people motivated about it because i've had an absolute blast reading these books i haven't read all of them obviously i'm not you know a maniac but um it is just it is such a joy you know like if you want to like do like i guess it's called a dopamine detox now where you don't want to be on your phone i encourage you just just check out a classic book you'll you'll have you'll you could surprise yourself with how much uh fun you can have and so yeah i've talked long enough you get the point so my book buying habits what are they so when it comes the good thing about being into the classics is they've been printed over and over again and so they're like dirt cheap and you know they're everywhere and so you don't really have to spend too much money it's not really an expensive hobby so that's the good good part and so my principle now is well i've stopped buying books because i have way too much to go through i've read a lot a lot of these but i haven't gone through all of them and so um but i don't spend more than five dollars and also the more dilapidated and like ripped up the cover is and you know worn out the more i want it because unless it has mold i don't want any moldy books obviously but i think the part that adds to the experience of reading a classic is you know reading like a book that's been beat up and has like you know the pillow the the pages are like almost like yellowed like it enhances the reading experience because you feel like you're reading this old book because it's about an old story so it's like i don't know it's i guess it's an aesthetic thing i guess but like generally like i go for like older publications of these these books because i feel like it adds to the experience of reading a classic like it's like i'm wiping off the dust of a treasure chest and like opening it up and um like the insides are rubies and diamonds and gold and whatever but the outside the chest itself is you know grimy and covered in you know dust and what have you but the insides are still extremely valuable weird analogy but i hope that makes sense so i'm just gonna start uh you know knocking my way through this so let's see so you can't really start a classics bookshelf tour without talking about homer ziliad um so okay well for the sake of time i'm not going to talk too much but ziliad early greek philosophy um haven't read this yet i've read uh the first part of bertrand russell's the history of western philosophy where it covers the ancient era of philosophy where i think this book talks about pythagoras democritus um failies uh you know the pre-socratic philosophers prometheus bound the supplements seven against thebes the persians by escalate escalus and the reason i got this was because of prometheus bound i wanted to read the play that's the main selling point i have read the other ones yet so sophocles the theban plays i have two copies of the histories by herodotus um why do i have two copies i don't know they're both thrifted so there you go the last days of socrates by plato this was a important book to me because this is the book that sort of changed my mind on philosophy i always thought that it was like oh philosophy's you know stupid or something uh some dumb opinion that i had i read this because i i think i just found it in my house i was like i had nothing else to read i was like okay i'll just check this out see what's up and totally changed the way i look at philosophy and sort of really was my uh entry point into the the field of philosophy and um it introduced me to like the art of rhetoric and argument and you know just socrates uh arguing with people which is just always fun to listen to or read and um so yeah i think this is a great book to read i would recommend this to a lot of people uh anyone who's sort of interested in you know antiquity or philosophy in general uh if you're into philosophy you've already probably read this but uh this is a great book definitely recommend so some more plato uh republic that's an essential that's an essential book to have the symposium aristotle's politics um i got this book because i i'm really into politics or there's a well not so much as i was before but there was a time period where i was really into politics and so um i was like okay i need to be a well-rounded you know when it comes to politics and political discussion i need to have like a good foundation you know uh i need to know what i'm talking about if i want to have good political discussions so i was like i gotta go i gotta start from the beginning i gotta go what's the first you know political text and it's i believe it's this book um aristotle's politics um and so i've read sections of this the parts where he's arguing for different forms of uh governments and so i haven't read it in full yet but we'll get there poetics and rhetoric by aristotle this is uh this collection is from barnes noble um uh yeah i think this is the only collection i could find of both poetics and rhetoric together i mostly bought it for rhetoric but um making my way through this so we're still in antiquity here um still with the you know big boys aristotle nicomachi and ethics diogenes the cynic sayings and anecdotes published by oxford world classics um i've read a lot of this uh diogenes is quite the character so now we're sort of getting into the roman empire meditations by marcus aurelius i read this earlier this year uh i mean it's what an invaluable book i mean you're appearing into the mind of a roman emperor isn't that i mean that's just weird i'm like i just can't believe i'm reading something that roman emperor wrote kind of blows my mind um i got to read the conquest of gaul by julius caesar to stay stick with that trend of roman emperors but anyway um great read stoicism is not the philosophy i'm into for sure twelve caesars the twelve caesars by suetonius i have not read this yet thrifted it for like three bucks so that was pretty cool so we got seneca dialogues and essays seneca was the tutor to nero i believe the emperor nero um i'm ashamed to say i haven't read this yet but i am looking forward to reading it so here's a good example of uh what i like to go for when i when i thrift books um so we got this here roman poets of the early empire this is a collection of poetry uh selections from uh ovid ovid i don't really know the correct pronunciation he wrote the metamorphosis um and so we got seneca as well uh let's see oops asmr book turn page turning um yeah this is this is just a collection of you know poetry selections of it and this is out of print um this i in that penguin classics book that i mentioned at the beginning of the video uh they have a section of the book uh called the vault or the vaults i believe and it's where it they keep all like the uh out of print titles that you know they weren't selling well enough or what have you and so penguin classic stopped uh publishing them and i was able to pick this up um i think off thriftbooks.com i i love books.com holy crap anyway uh this one i go for i really like the out of print penguin classics i think this is printed in the 90s or something um but this is a good example of what i like to go for the metamorphoses by ovid uh again i don't know if i'm pronouncing it right avid ovid somebody correct me uh this is a prose translation so the original was written in in verse i want to say i mean it was a it's a it's a poem uh but this this right here is a prose translation um i haven't read this yet i fee i'm a little intimidated by it i drifted it for like you know two bucks or something like that so i'm looking forward to reading this gonna you know gonna hype myself up before i do so i have one book from the era of classic uh catholic philosophy so you know right after uh the fall of the roman emperor empire um i believe so we got saint augustine confessions um haven't read this i thrifted it that tends to happen when i go to thrift stores i just you know get a lot of classics and then you know sort of sit on my shelf for a bit until i get to get around to them but uh definitely looking forward to reading this so we got beowulf that's a that's a must-have i read this in high school i i remember this being like the one thing that i liked him reading in high school this and grendel sargawan and the green knight a24 is actually adapting this uh to making a new movie of of this story and i think it comes out in july really looking forward to that this is a book that i am so excited to have uh the quest of the holy grail written by i believe an anonymous author we don't know who wrote this uh the canterbury tales by chaucer i am not brave enough for this yet so we got the portable machiavelli this has the prince probably his most famous work uh the discourses on livy i think the first ten books of livy where he analyzes these books uh these history books on the roman republic by the roman historian livy and he sort of analyzes their political structure and uh i can't say i have i haven't read the discourses yet i have read the prince twice um and then there's and here is uh the art of war by machiavelli as well as i think uh some i think he wrote one work of fiction a tiny work of fiction that's in here as well um but i saw this in a thrift store and i just had to have it um so yeah i actually missed a book here we're going to go back in time a few hundred years uh another example of what the books that i go for uh the weird stuff this is called the cloud of unknowing uh as well as some other works and we don't know who wrote this so i'll read you the back here so it was written during the it was written during the age of european mysticism um you know we haven't exactly entered the renaissance quite yet so it's sort of the dark ages and so the main theme of this book is that god cannot be reached by human intellect but only by a love that can pierce the quote-unquote cloud of the unknowing um i did not pick this book up for religious reasons or anything like that i just wanted to read it because let's you know let's peer into the mind of someone who lived in you know the 12th century and see what they thought and what were their ideas of the world and religion you know that's you know again that's what really interests me on the topic of you know having resentment towards classics and uh you know english class in high school and like having to read shakespeare and uh the great gatsby and just hating it you know that's something i definitely went through uh i really did not like shakespeare um really did not like him and it even took me a long time even being into the classics before i even harbored the idea of considering reading shakespeare and but my mind has totally changed on shakespeare um one of the what convinced me was i have a copy of the norton anthology of english literature and i i heard about this guy dr samuel johnson um i think he is probably more famous today for that meme picture i'll put it up right now that mean picture of him where he's like holding the book and he's looking confused you know and at least that's how i knew him but turns out he was probably one of the greatest literary critics who ever lived and he wrote the dictionary or like the first iteration of the english dictionary so i have his collected works here and samuel johnson in i don't know a year it was and it was sometime in the 1700s he wrote a preface to a collection of shakespeare plays and sonnets and i read this this preface um about shakespeare because i wasn't brave enough to read shakespeare but i wanted to read about him because you know oh why does everybody cherish him so much my idea of shakespeare's completely changed so in samuel johnson's preface he talks about shakespeare and his genius and his invention of the distincts his how his characters are so different and so human and i was just reading the preface and i was like holy crap i gotta read shakespeare i gotta read you know i gotta experience this i can't believe i've been missing out um and so my me going from hating shakespeare to like being curious to like absolutely loving him uh to get to that final stage of loving shakespeare i read i reread hamlet i read it in high school high school i probably spark noted half of it let's be honest here um and high school everything went over my head i read it again it blew my mind blew my mind i mean you know hot take here hamlet's pretty good um but i i get it shakespeare's the goat the greatest of all time i mean there's no other way of putting it his his writing is i mean he was he mastered the english prose or english you know uh anything written in english shakespeare was top dog um and then i read some uh you know some of some of harold bloom and his ideas of shakespeare you know his works sorry his uh comments and not criticisms but commentary on on shakespeare and so i'm big into shakespeare now basically so anyway let's get into this introduction introducing shakespeare this is a book by or it's a pelican original so this was a division of penguin classics up until like this it was between like up from the 40s to the 70s they were a division of penguin random house and then they merged with penguin classics in like the 80s and so pelican classics covered non-fiction you know great works of non-fiction and these this book was printed in like 1972 this copy i'm holding here so i'm really lucky to have a copy that's in good condition and this what this book is is it sort of sets the stage in context sets the stage pun intended i guess uh of uh shakespeare's time and era his theater uh you know the other playwrights at the time like christopher marlowe and ben johnson and it's sort of like a it's a prep book before you get into shakespeare you need the context going in um so very interesting book um there it is again got this off thriftbooks.com i cannot recommend them enough so okay let's just blow through these fast because i got a lot of these so the portable shakespeare another division of the viking portable library was a division of penguin uh penguin classics and then they merged in like the 70s or 80s or so or something like that i don't know if i have the history right um but this has hamlet uh macbeth julius caesar romeo and juliet the tempest as you like it and a midsummer night's dream and then as well as the sonnets and uh some excerpts from like the the history plays like henry the fourth and fifth um and this is why this one i'm reading right now king lear the three roman plays by shakespeare and then four comedies by shakespeare okay so now uh we're still in 1600s don quixote um i read this earlier this year this book made me laugh so hard i cried probably on like maybe nine or ten occasions i mean i cannot praise praise this book enough uh it's considered to be the first novel like the first modern novel um it is voted the greatest book of all time by the noble nobel ins institute uh so that's really saying something here can't recommend this enough i really i just cannot this is actually the second classic i read after frankenstein so i'm from frankenstein to this and that was kind of a big leap for me um because there's a lot of this that went over my head but hilarious tragic it's just this the the entire range of human emotions uh can be experienced through this book all right well we got another big one here uh paradise lost john milton uh this is a big one sort of getting back in the territory of uh philosophy we have the critique of pure reason by kant um i've tried to read this and it's like i'm trying to read latin it is it's going to take me a long time to break into this thing because boy oh boy uh what was he on about i'm not a philosophy major by the way i'm a mechanical engineering major so uh i don't have any teachers to help me uh trying to go and try to going trying to go into this thing you know solo was uh not the smartest thing to do plus i think you need like the context of his other works to even begin to understand what he's going on about in this book so yeah now we're entering france we got of the social contact of the social contract and other political writings by rousseau um i have read the social contract i read it a few years ago i haven't read his other political writing so that's why i have this gotta get into those other writings um but uh i'm sort of fascinated with uh pre-revolution france the reign of terror and then you know into the napoleonic wars that era of history absolutely fascinates me so this was an essential part of essential you know addition to my bookshelf the red and the black by stendahl the charterhouse of parma by stendahl i i guess you could define this as a classic i mean it's in the barnes noble uh library of essential reading so we'll we'll for this video we'll define it as a classic napoleon's art of napoleon's art of war um this is a set of military maxims that napoleon wrote when he was on mount st helena um so aft that this is during his second exile i believe it was not his first exile when he wrote this but um but yeah this is a short read just maxim's you know how to fight war um it's interesting the uh the military dispatches of the duke of wellington i guess this can be considered a classic it's not any classic series except for maybe oxford world classics but we got barry lyndon here now barry lyndon is one of my favorite films ever at least one of the most the most beautiful films i've ever seen but directed by stanley kubrick it came out in 1975 and i watched the film and i loved it and i didn't know there was a book and then i was in a used bookstore and i saw this i saw barry lyndon sitting in a shelf and that just about knocked the wind out of me too because i was like there's a book on this and turns out it's written by william make peace thackery and he is most known for vanity fair probably his most famous book um it would be his most famous book i believe yeah um and so shame to say i haven't read either of them but i do own them and they are in my they're down the reading pipeline for me on war um this is an abridged version of the book and it's sort of this analysis on warfare and i think the famous line from this is um war is just an extension of politics it war achieves what uh what politics cannot i think that's one of the famous lines from this um so very interesting read i haven't read all of it but i've read different portions of this book so we got victor hugo the last day of a condemned man and other prison writings we have selected poems of victor hugo i don't think this is in print anymore so we got notre dame of paris there's my uh my very american pronunciation of the story because i'm too embarrassed to say in french um and it's probably more well known as the hunchback of notre dame for uh american readers um but this is the original title in france two uh copies of les mis um the reason why i have two is well the first one i thrifted on a whim um and i got the second book here the one on the bottom the bigger one this is the penguin classics deluxe edition and um i got this because i heard praises about this new translation these are two different translations here this is the new translation for penguin classics and i've heard so much about it and so i haven't read i haven't read les mis yet but um when i do it's going to be the bottom one and i'll have this the top one here for collection reasons i guess so we got 93 by victor hugo um as far as i'm aware of this book is out of print like across the board except for like independent publishers i think um this edition i had i had to go to thriftbooks to get uh this was printed in 1962 and there's an introduction and there's an introduction by ayn rand i have no idea why i haven't read the book yet but why is iron rand on this thing it bothers me the toilers of the sea uh by victor hugo this was written when he was in exile pretty interesting the idiot by dostoyevsky notes from underground by dostoyevsky um it was hard reading the the underground no surrender ground because the underground man is uh oh man he's a character okay crime and punishment dostoevsky the brothers karamazov by dostoyevsky we have childhood boyhood youth by leo tolstoy we have the big one here we got war and peace by leo tolstoy i finished this about a month and a half ago the my first video on this channel is actually about uh war and peace it's advice on or tips i have on reading it um i would recommend the video if you're if you want to read war and peace i think i gave some good tips anyway uh we have anna karenina by leo tolstoy how much land does a man need and other stories by leo tolstoy we have master and man and other stories by leo tolstoy uh we have the kritzer sonata and other stories by leo tolstoy fathers and sons by yvonne tergenyev i have eugene wunjin by alexander pushkin um i believe he's called the russian shakespeare i haven't read this book yet but uh very excited i get very intimidated by uh you know epic poems and you know things written in verse um not exactly a literary format i'm comfortable with yet but i'm working on it uh the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas if i were to recommend one book to get you into the classics i'd probably recommend this uh you know this this book just has it all revenge deceit uh buried treasure uh you know scoundrels uh it's just like it's just one of the greatest adventure stories ever written greatest greatest revenge story ever written i mean i can't recommend this enough i know this is a big book very daunting this is an unabridged translation of the french classic but uh there are abridged versions out there that are half the size that still tell you know the story in its depth um the reason why the unabridged is 600 pages longer than the the uh the abridged version is because uh this was originally serialized in london in france and so you know it's published you know weekly or monthly in the newspaper so writers at the time had a financial incentive to extend things out but this book is amazing through and through even though it's super long it's just incredible the three musketeers by alexandre dumas the black tulip by alexandra dumas we have wuthering heights by emily bronte sense and sensibility by jane austen we have middlemarch by george eliot uh let's go a few hundred years back sorry uh the selected essays of michelle dimonten montaigne um i'm still getting the pronunciation down uh absolutely fascinated with montane his i think his original essays like uh unabridged in full is like 1400 pages um but i hope to make a video on montaigne one day war number six and other stories by anton chekhov i don't think it's chekhov i think it's chekhov i think i'm pronouncing that right so hopefully that's the one pronunciation i get correctly we have the civilization of the renaissance in italy by jacob burkhardt i picked this book up because i read lena the leonardo da vinci biography by walter isaacson earlier this year and i loved it and getting wrapped up in florence in the 14 you know 1400s 1500s just that time period of you know the renaissance it's just incredible to read about it was just this hubbub of you know progressive ideals and you know these incredible paintings and sculptures i mean it was just you know just all the art that came out of it just it just it's such such a joy to read about and so that's what this book is about just the the forces that sort of caused the renaissance and analyzing what was going on during the renaissance in italy and uh haven't finished it yet but i i would still recommend it selected short stories by mal passant the story that inspired helped inspire moby dick the loss of the ship essex sunk by a whale the first hand accounts um this is basically what herman melville read before he had them you know the idea of moby dick completed in his head i guess here we have moby dick um i finished this a few weeks ago this is my favorite book i've ever read um no i'm not kidding i know there's a lot of uh you know there's a lot of memes about this book because it's like it's just herman melville like half the time he's just talking about whale facts and uh facts about ships um and you know i guess so you know those are valid criticisms but uh those are like those chapters on the whale facts and everything were some of my favorite chapters i plan on making a video on this soon um but moby dick is like my favorite book up here um not my favorite edition obviously there's a lot more rare books on here but this is my favorite you know uh work of fiction narrative the narrative of arthur gordon pym of nantucket nantucket by edgar allan poe we have the communist manifesto by karl marx and frederick eigels we have little women by louise malcott narrative of the life of frederick douglass and incidents in the life of a slave girl we have walden by henry david thoreau this copy is from the franklin library so it's very nice but the title's only on the spine madame bovary by gustav flaubert currently halfway through this right now we have thus spoke zarathustra by frederick nietzsche we have the basic writings of nietzsche there's the birth of tragedy which i have read there's beyond good and evil haven't read that um 75 aphorisms and the case of wagner as as well as a few other uh works by by nietzsche we have the octopus by frank norris this is published in 1901 um two reasons why i got this one out of print uh by penguin classics so uh you know you don't see copies like this anymore um so that's why i had to have one for my collection two the story of it reminded me of the movie chinatown um the 1974 book or 1974 movie with jack nicholson and um oh my god i forgot her name i always forget her name i don't know why um which is a movie i love and so this book reminded me of that and it's about the expansion of the railroad in the late 1800s in california and the conflicts with the railroad companies and the farmers and so that's why i picked up this book we have the gods will have blood uh by anatoly france france not exactly sure what the pronunciation is um the the cover is a very famous painting it's the death of marat um and so this is about the reign of terror in france the trial by kafka a little bit unnerving that that that cover a portrait of the arses young man and dubliners by james joyce we have ulysses by james joyce boy am i intimidated by this book uh i have not made my first attempt yet and i say first attempt because i know i'm not gonna you know get this on my first try but um this is on my literary bucket list one day i'll get it done but uh i don't know if it's happening anytime soon we'll see of human bondage by w somerset melham uh i know how the title sounds if you are unfamiliar with the author of the book um but the story is about an an orphan boy you know going from you know childhood to you know manhood i guess you could say and that the transition and the trials and tribulations that he has and this is really up there with moby dick for me is like one of my favorite books ever um it really helped me deal with some things that were going on my life at the time that i read it it just came to my life at the perfect moment sort of felt like destiny basically because it was like i was reading the pages and it was just like oh like it just it really spoke to me and so um i'm forever indebted to this book essentially uh we have the collective stories of w somerset mohamed um he's probably my favorite writer to be honest or one of my favorite writers but he's definitely up there we have heart of darkness and select selected short fiction by joseph conrad we have dr zhivago by boris pasternak we have the third man in the fallen idol haven't quite read this one yet um very short i don't i could not imagine taking very much time but the third man is one of my favorite movies the 1949 carol reed film with orson welles and joseph cotton um love love love that film so very excited to read the book here we have east of eden by john steinbeck we have the moon is down by john steinbeck uh the collective stories of f scott fitzgerald um i believe it has all of flappers and philosophers and tales of the jazz age in here so and i got this for like four bucks on thrift books so it was quite this deal uh the beautiful and damned by f scott fitzgerald this is one of my favorite books really love this one the final paragraph final sentence is like burned into my brain i can still see it right now um and uh definitely a book i plan on rereading in the future so earlier i talked about books high school not liking them well on that topic the great gatsby by f scott fitzgerald i actually i read it and i finished it yesterday it didn't start yesterday but i finished yesterday um and i had to read this for high school and i spark noted it and retained none of it so coming back to it and rereading it i guess you could say rereading it not really rereading it but reading it for the first time basically in full you know i understand why this is taught you know uh in the school curriculum it's it's it's kind of just you know a simple story but com so many layers to it and um it's just phenomenal you know another hot take shakespeare's a good writer you know great gatsby's a good book hey anyway so we got a movable feast by ernest hemingway finished this recently you can probably expect a video on this coming soon um yeah we have a farewell to arms by ernest hemingway the old man in the sea by ernest hemingway uh for whom the bell tolls by hemingway and there he is there's the man uh the master my the master in margarita by mikhail bolgakov one of my favorite books and if i were to try if i had to like you know had to convince someone to read this book i would tell them that in this book a talking cat wielding a shotgun gets into a shootout with a swat team basically um if that doesn't say on the book then i can't help you gravity's rainbow by thomas pinchen pinchon not exactly i don't know the exact pronunciation but uh you know this and ulysses and infinite jest uh you know the truth the trifecta of impenetrable impenetrable books um i will be reading this hopefully this year if i have the courage it's going to take me a long time it's probably particularly like 5-10 pages a day just taking it in slowly but intimidated but very curious to read this and see what all the hype is about so hopefully i read it and make a video on it later this year uh we have on the road by jack kerouac uh the plague by albert camus we have the stranger and the fall by albert camus the myth of sisyphus by albert camus two years before the mass by richard henry donna jr we have thomas hobbes leviathan and then basically to cap it all off we have the a collection of french poetry 1820 1950 this is under the uh under penguin classics so i guess you can call it a classic um and so that basically wraps up my bookshelf um so let me know what you think of the video uh let me know if any of these books pique your interest if you want me to you know you know make a specific video in any one of these books just let me know be more than happy to do it um let me know if i convinced you about you know trying any new classics or uh harboring the idea of maybe picking up a classic the next time you're in a bookstore um because that was the real intent of this video is i just wanted to just show my enthusiasm for uh you know classic literature of any culture or any nation any time period um you know i it just gets me so excited and all i want to do is i want to share that enthusiasm with all of you and so you know hopefully i was successful my mission and i would love to hear your feedback and um if you think there's any books on this shelf that are missing that i should add let me know in the comments uh if you just want to say hi to say hi you know just let me know uh in the you know in the comments down below so uh thank you for watching the video uh i appreciate you and uh i'll see in the next one hopefully subscribe make sure to subscribe because i have more videos coming and uh have a good day and i'll talk to you later

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Length: 45min 25sec (2725 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 17 2021