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rewatching this one and seeing the comments from right wingers getting angry and saying 'you should expand your horizons!' because you don't want to read Ayn Rand is utterly hilarious. these are the usually the same people who want to ban anything left leaning, and certainly wouldn't sit down to 'expand their horizons' by reading, say, Marxist, feminist or race theory.

It's brave of you to have Calvin and Hobbes as every choice.

The struggle of buying a beautiful book and never being able to read it is REAL

"There's a girl... on a train... for unknown reasons" I don't know why but this cracked me up.

It's funny watching this years later and hearing you say you're not into mysteries and thrillers when you've been reading a ton of noir recently.

This guy's fear of conservatives cracks me up

I have a irrational prejudice against Thriller/mystery. I've wasted a lot of time at thrift stores looking for horror, only to pull out something with a title like, "FACE RIPPER/VISCERA SNIPPER," get excited, then have my hopes dashed when I see, "A Detective Arthur T. Noodleborough Mystery" on the spine.

I don’t agree with not reading an author because of their political views. You cut yourself off from ideas. Also artists and works of art can often be separated.

Chaucer is "problematic?" To people who hate good literature?

The thumbnail made me chuckle because Gravity's Rainbow is near the top of my list. Everything I've heard about Pynchon makes it sound like his work is right up my alley.

Only good thing about Ayn Rand was this approximate line of hers: "He was so ugly, it was fascinating" 🤣

"I would read it only as a punishment to myself" 😂😂

"shipwrecked library" wait that.....ME!!!!! I am so excited, I saw this in my notifications and I SLAMMED that mf LIKe button, boys am I right?! Once I saw a tweet that said "Dickens doesn't even slap tho" and honestly I've never related more. I'm pretty glad we can bond over No Interest in Ayn Rand. In fact, Reddit Person who hated Faulkner with his hipster glasses and overpriced cake pops 100% reads Ayn Rand. Facts.

KDBooks sent me here, and your rant about "seeming smart on camera" while "watching twitch streams off it" is what's making me stay :')

Moby Dick is a classic book I just can't do.

I read Gravity's Rainbow at the worst possible time of the year: in the middle of Summer. A large chunk of it while I'd take lunchbreaks at my work. It's definitely not a Summer read, but I had a post-modernist phase where I read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, The Recognitions and JR by William Gaddis and Gravity's Rainbow back to back. Masochistic, I know. But though the time of year and my headspace weren't right and though Gravity's Rainbow isn't for everyone, it did conjure up a sort of early seventies type of melancholy you hear in Pink Floyd songs and can see in Kubrick's Clockwork Orange and other similar movies from the era. There's also some top-tier poetry by Pynchon that, though I'm not a poetry ready, found to be one of the best I've ever read. Also, the thing that stayed with me the most was the commentary about the role of the individual in major historical events and especially wars. All in all, it's dense, polarizing, not for everyone, but there's just something about it, a type of melancholia that evokes, which keeps one in it, even when the plot itself starts to slip away from you at times.

Did not know that BE Ellis is a conservative, and thinking about the criticism included in his books, I find that surprising. Anyway, he is a master of writing so that you cannot be sure what is real, and what is not. Recommend! The recommendation is based on American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park.

Only Pynchon novel I read was Inherent Vice but I definitely recommend it. It's a trip, and very funny.

im re-reading Gravitys Rainbow right now. you have to get past a certain undefined point, where you just accept you dont really understand everything going on, and thats okay. it was that way for me with The lluminatus! Triogy, which took me several false starts but ive read a dozen times now, and Infinite Jest was tough to get into, also. it takes a lot of faith to start a book that is nearly a 1000 pages, and you have no idea whats going on, or if youre gonna enjoy it. I would also like to mention, i started watching your channel from your short skits, so to find you started by reviewing books is pretty neat-o.