HELP… it kind of isn’t … vladimir is vova and ivan is vanya. still love you though 🤞

ofc king!!!

@@eli-pi5mz he was joking 😂

oh it will be in history books…. right next to January 6

@@shawnmccomb and ur yt channel

@@willitskovich8304 i can only hope 🥹

literally was wondering why u didn’t reenact the baskin robbins scene and then u delivered

yuppp

I was looking for this comment

OMG IM SIGNING THAT PETITION

Sunday……..

(i did too and i once met her at a candy shop in NYC and it was fully the most star struck i’ve ever been)

@@SallyThames that's insane, she literally follows me on instagram for the funniest reason ever

@@shawnmccomb I NEED TO KNOW THE REASON

I’ve read it and think it’s great!!

😁😁😁

Have you ever read If We Were Villains? I have read that and loved it, I hear it has similarities to the secret history but I am yet to read that one

​@@arimcphail4124 I liked the secret history more than If We Were Villains but they are extremely similar with the narrators themselves being similar. I think the reason I didn't like If We Were Villains as much was just because of how soon I read it after The Secret History, like I needed more of a pallet cleanser to effectively separate the stories.

I nearly bought her book the other day then said “hmm no!”

waitttt i have it on my shelf rn

@@shawnmccomb read it!! I'll be expecting a video 🤣

hey, is the virgin suicides really hard to read and/or heavy? i am tempted to read it but not sure :)

@@samanthaleaf hey! it might be different for everyone, but for me, the way that the writing can be 'cruel' is because of the male objectification lens that narrates the story. the narrator is unreliable because everything about the girls are romanticized to the point of seeing them as not human beings anymore, as opposed to some kind of divine angels being put on a pedestal. other than that i didnt find it too disturbing (in terms of sexual/physical violence for example)! if anything it's just really sad

@@blue---monday good to know, thanks so much!

That book (and the original movie) used to be everywhere when I was a teen. Love to see it have a comeback

this is seriously the first time someone other than a family member of mine has talked about this book somewhere where I've seen it lol. but that's like one of my all time favourite books. i read it for the first time when i was fourteen, i think, after my mum recommeded it to me, and haven't been able to forget about it since. and same with me, it really changed how i view everything. it seems dull to even call it a great book, but it really is in the most genuine sense. i wish more people knew about it.

my mother read this book back in the 90s and gave it to me to read recently, literally cannot describe the emotions of the book or of me reading it

Omg I just realised that you're talking about die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, I read the book in german and I completely agree with you, it's so good

I remember reading it as a teen in the 90s in Polish, glad it's finally been translated from German into English

I don’t believe in the wedding industrial complex but thank you!!!

i'm not sure i'm looking for that rn. this is shawn btw from my spam acc, send me $1 USD pls thx

Oh god, so glad I'm not the only one who is in love with Shawn🫣

I HEART YOUR COMMENT!!!!!

You and i have very similar tastes! Put 4.48 psychosis on my tbr after seeing this. Thanks, and do lemme know your all time faves if you wish!

I picked up A Gentleman in Moscow without knowing anything about it and my goodness!! It was so lovely and wholesome and I loved it so much

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i was thinking this

I’m stealing concept creator

incredible choice

IM COMINGGGG

Started listening to this on audiobook (it's free with the audible subscription), and it's REALLY good. Beautiful language

i really want to read just kids (i just finished M train) but i'm scared it'll be really sad and i just couldn't handle that rn :') is it?

@@f4wneyes oh I just got M train! Was it good? And I’m not going to lie to you, Just Kids was actually sad. But it’s kind of a bittersweet sadness. I would recommend it but if you absolutely don’t want to read anything sad maybe wait a little while with it?

@@alice-uh6sv thank you! i'm fine with a bittersweet sadness, but i just read a sad one so i'll have to read something happier in between 💀 M train was.. interesting? it's scattered moments from Patti Smiths life, not necessarily in order (some are dreams- and it can be unclear where one starts and the other ends. sometimes they intertwine). that being said, it's very much so like being in someoned head and following their stream of thoughts, never ending. it all tends to go back to coffee, litterature and the memory of her husband who passed. i haven't fully decided what i think.. it felt very poetic, but i'm afraid i'm not smart or well-read enough to understand it fully. it was different from what i usually read though. sorry for the long (and vauge?) answer. i hope i didn't completely discourage you from reading it because at the root of it, i did enjoy it! 😅🤗