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Күн бұрынI received the Longlist for the International Booker Prize 2021. Here is the plan, and join us here: / discord
The reading plan is as followed:
The War of the Poor
Wretchedness
The Pear Field
We Cease to Understand The World
The Perfect Nine
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
All Night All Blood is Black
I Live in the Slums
An Inventory of Loss
Summer Brother
Minor Detail
In Memory of Memory
The Employees
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@user-iu4ws6vh5s 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant review of a difficult book. I think it bore the weight of having fascinating facts and less fascinating fiction. The beginning two sections were certainly the strongest and yet had me re-reading the jacket to make sure this was in the fiction category. Labatut is certainly making a case for questioning the limitations of our imagination and how far we should go before we destroy ourselves. He aptly questions the beauty of destruction and the pain of limitations yet does not have the prodigious imagination required to elevate the ideas beyond mere fascination with outcomes that flow from human curiosity with science, and technology when untethered from own humanity.
@BobTheBookerer 3 жыл бұрын
When We Cease To Apprehend The Moth. (Loved this, by the way- this is one of the books I've been most looking forward to, and I really enjoyed how you describe it, even if every time you say 'in The Night Gardener', my mind jumps in before the final syllable, and I just think of that creepy kids' programme)
@fmenesessalgado 3 жыл бұрын
I waited to finish the book to check your review. I absolutely feel you! I had the same reaction with Tokarczuk’s Flights. This one was a solid turn pager for me and I hated physics and chemistry classes in high school.
@kimswhims8435 3 жыл бұрын
It's a mind-blowing set of short stories, it was hard at times to figure out where fact swerved into fiction and visa versa. Very clever, only one of the prize that was available at my local library, it will be interesting to see if it's the winning goods. BTW any ideas when they are announcing The 2021 Booker longlist? I can't find anything about dates online.
@kitschannette3052 3 жыл бұрын
This was a far out read and I loved it. Even if you can’t make it through the whole book. Just read Prussian Blue and the last story about Heisenberg and quantum physics.
@MilenaReads 3 жыл бұрын
This was such an interesting review! I don’t think I would enjoy the book, but it does sounds fascinating.
@SM-vr8dz 3 жыл бұрын
A great review once again.
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
😀
@jeanchampollin9906 3 жыл бұрын
Wonderfully done review,
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jean 🙏
@jeanchampollin9906 3 жыл бұрын
@@KDbooks What is the secret to your reading speed.
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
@@jeanchampollin9906 I think when you’re enthusiastic about a book you read faster. With Booker I love it all so I come with that pent-up enthusiam
@bookishtopics 3 жыл бұрын
I thought it sounded interesting but now I doubt 😅 probably won't be buying it. Great review! 📚 I'm looking forward to you reading At Night All Blood is Black. That book sounds wonderful
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
Everyone is hyping Diop’s novel but I’m ready for it! It’ll be coming soooooon
@bookishtopics 3 жыл бұрын
@@KDbooks yes, Jenny in Discord said today that she loved it too, so it made me even more excited! I really really hope you'll enjoy it
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
In Jenny we trust 🙏
@louise1174 3 жыл бұрын
I gave up on this at about the 100 page mark 🙃
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
You’ve got a fair gist of the novel by that point. I’d recommend reading the last section though 😃
@drawyourbook876 3 жыл бұрын
I am so pumped for this book, and at the same time so afraid that is going to let me down...
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
I honestly don’t know how you’ll feel about it
@CartonManetteDarnay 3 жыл бұрын
The moth is clearly the star of this video 😂
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
I nearly cried
@CartonManetteDarnay 3 жыл бұрын
@@KDbooks Hey, if that moth is interested in the International Booker then you should welcome him. Maybe he wants in on the discord 🤷🏼♀️😅
@Gagging4Lit 3 жыл бұрын
Firstly, don't like the book's title. Secondly, a non-fiction novel sounds so silly lol. Great review as always.
@KDbooks 3 жыл бұрын
I am a sucker for a long worded book title 😬
@Gagging4Lit 3 жыл бұрын
@@KDbooks Enjoy a good long title too, but am repulsed by titles that use words like 'We' and try to say something for everyone without actually saying anything at all lmaooooo.
@victoranolu4376 3 жыл бұрын
This is my next read so imma stop watching till I am done with the book
@victoranolu4376 3 жыл бұрын
Ok I am done. I am so impressed! Like this book leaves me out of my wits! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Maybe because I am familiar with these men talked about in the book but what a nonfiction novel! One of the most impressive aspects of the book is the wonderfully intricate web of associations that it weaves for the scientists even though it is a fictionalized account of most of their dealings but ahhhhhhhhhhh!
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