Where is the vr Metaverse? This book is nothing like ready player one?

Fowles is pronounced Fouls Magus is pronounced Majus

I would love to read this book.

Good review of an excellent writer. Stories like that make us more empathic human beings.

I felt exactly the same as you. It was a huge amount of hype that resulted in a big "meh" for me. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars. It is the same as my reaction to LOTR after so many years of hearing people hype it up, then when I lamented reading dozens of pages of description a superfan replied "Yeah, wasn't it wonderful?" To each his own.

I loved the book RPO. The hunt, the nerdy knowledge, and the life of a poor 18 year old dyde.

I've adored this book since I first read it as a child. I would be interested in your thoughts on Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley.

Dodo is deaf. But not dumb. People treat him like he is. But I think one of the lessons in the book is that he isn't.

It's also incredibly predictable, i kept waiting for some other twist

Like half the book was his lil routine at the House. Like... okay 😶

Excellent review! I’m so glad I read this book. I agree that it was very uplifting.

I think this's the review I very much agree with..like godd I can understand why people might dislike it worse, hate it...but if u analyze it further you will see that characters like these exist in real life..maybe not that exaggerated as in the fiction, but I personally have people like them in my life so I can't reduce this book to be evil and make a comment like this book's disgusting!

If you're convinced this book is perfect why did you have to defend it so hard?

My thoughts: 1. Harold had been the most undervalued character. Jude basically never gave him what he deserved. Never called him dad, didn't let him hug or touch and worst the behaved irrationally with Harold. 2. Jude is the protagonist and antagonist at the same time. 3. Hanya made him suffer so much that it doesn't feel real sometimes, the abuse from Dr. Tylor was only to make his crippled 4. This is the best review of this book

Very good review!

13:00 regarding this thoughts about transcendence, leaving a mark in the world, etc, I think that, due to our cultural moment and situation, we have given up in God and religion, and embraced individualism. A religious frame of mind offers a suitable place for all ideal and transcendent impulses and longings. You understand you are a small thing in a magnificent universe ruled by a supreme being with a wisdom that is beyond our reach and responsibility. BUT, if we embrace an individualistic frame of mind, our precarious self is no place to put those ideals. We end up having unrealistic fantasies and dreams that mortgage our life and put a useless weight in our reality. This is culturally encouraged, because business feeds on dreams, fantasies and passion.

Loved hearing your thought out opinions. Thank you!

I'm glad to find someone who feels ambivalent about the Levy book. I tried hard to like it because I respect the quality of the writing but it just didn't do it for me. One big issue I think was that I didn't like and couldn't care about any of the characters. I also felt as if time and time again I had to leave the flow of the book to try to figure out what was happening. It is my bookclub book up for discussion tomorrow and I am very curious to know what the others have made of it.

Thanks for the review! I agree with others who are happy it was long and you took your time with it. Scarlett really is a fascinating character because we truly have sooo many reasons to despise her, yet we don’t. Maybe it reveals some of the shallowness and selfishness that exists inside all of us that we can’t help but like or relate to her in some way. The only thing I really don’t agree with in your review is that she learns nothing by the end. In the end I think Scarlet really does learn what Melanie really meant to her. That she was the only female friend she ever really had that meant anything. I think she also finally learns what everyone has been trying to tell her about the importance of being with someone who understands you. That her and Ashley don’t have in common the things that matter most. She learns the difference between Love and Lust. That Ashley only lusted for her, but nothing more. Rhett only ever acted out his lust with Belle, but really loved Scarlett. She basically learns all these lessons too late ha ha but she still learned them.

I just finished reading this novel. I wanted so badky to shake them loose from convention and compliance to the peer pressure of bending the arc of love to self denial. Love it! Truth ...the un-farnished and un-adulterated honest interpretation. Ty!

the "murder" is mentioned twice. Terrible book. Not worth your time.

I’d say Chapter 20 is the formal introduction, in-truth, of the Storm King in this story. He loomed incredibly large, immediately - very much at the scale of a fantasy Dark Lord such as Sauron from LOTR. I got chills, that he spoke directly to the protagonist: surprisingly this is rare early on, in High Fantasy narratives. Truthfully, high fantasy scantily employs the device of a Dark Lord antagonist. I have a difficult time, naming many. Ineluki therefore is a treat for me. He’s far-&-away the best I’ve read about, after Tolkien’s Sauron & Morgoth

You seem like a really weak person...

Beautifully explained. Thank you for all your hard work.❤

This is the best review of the book out there. Everytime someone I know who finishes ALL- I send them this link. Thank you for your deep reflection and brilliant perspective of one of the best books I’ve ever read!

thank you for this video man !

Thanks for posting this. I just did the audible version of the book while I drove across country. Apparently, it was the impetus for the song Hotel California.

I just finished and WOW! Thank you for your great review. I have a love for books about houses and the people that inhabit them over a period of time such as a couple of older books/series Sutton Place and the Townhouse. To name just two. Another the title escapes me about a house that begins as the home of a Roman officer in ancient Britain. But this is a first I believe with a setting in the USA. Phenomenal writing. I may revisit it in audio format but reading really allowed me to sink my teeth in it.

Scarlett is a prime example of an anti-hero. She's a morally corrupt character that makes selfish decisions for her own gain even if those decisions make her seem the villain to the other characters in the story. We see through that brash and non-conforming inner-dialogue she has that it is harnessed for her own and other's survival during the harshest of times. The novel has some of the richest descriptive elements, making settings so vivid and characters come alive so well it is almost like you are hearing their voices and seeing them in the pages.

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Very well done, sir. I am astounded by how many reviewers completely missed the mark on this book.

To look deep into what has happened in evangelism without not seeing the amazing work God has done is bad resurch. This book written to critique a few leaders failures over the nationals history falls short at best when there have been Hundreds of amazing Christian evangelicals preaching the true gospel. Jesus and John Wayne is so far off on the evangelical world i grew up with books like "Wild a Heart" and " Bringing up boys". They are fantastic books teaching Men to be Men. We as Christian men need masculine leaders that haven't pushovers but truly follow biblical masculinity.. We need men like Paul and Barnabas that stood up to athoritarian dictates. Jesus and John Wayne in no way represent thousands of strong Christian men that protect there familys from the crazy WOKE world we live in. Its good to see many Christian leaders finally standing up against books like this. We need to impowering men to love like Jesus and serve our country. Roman's 13

I would read a whole ass other book about JB, I do wish she expanded about him more

Go read annna Karenina jajajaja

Man, just didn't get it, extremely precious novel, time making, entertainment, your attacks reinforce its popularity, Miller grateful to you.

Thanks for this video <3 I had such a deeply personal experience reading the book, and it's been such a struggle to find any worthwhile discussion of it. Most of the critique on it feels very surface level, and I really appreciated hearing that validated XD I'd also never thought about the reaction to the book confirming Jude's worst fears, just awesome analysis!

Awwww. I love Brideshead. Maybe you would like Waugh's satire. The Loved One is funny funny.

To me the book is a psychological study of narcissism and survival!! And Margaret Mitchell never said Scarlett was a good person!! God I can't stand how we judge things of yesterday with today's wokeness!! It was a character study of a human first.

Pure magic.

Great review.

here from that one seinfeld episode!!

Rick, I just bought the book and have made the mistake (?) of looking up YT reviews/reactions to it. Naturally, everyone's talking about how emotionally heavy it is, but one video in particular went a bit far. To say this woman had a negative reaction is to put it mildly. She went on to deem the book beyond "trauma p*rn" and exploitative and even irresponsible, capping off their review saying over and over that it should not have been written. As someone who has personally experienced severe trauma and deals with PTSD, I began asking myself if I hadn't made a mistake picking up the book in the first place. Then I watched your review. You seem to have handled the book as a grown, mature, emotionally healthy individual and not a child with an aversion to learning about hard things. I don't see you behaving as a ****ing victim because you read a BOOK. Thank you for the mature review. Liked and subscribed. I shall proceed reading A Little Life. Someday. Not today. :|

'd like to recommend the Audiobook version of this wonderful book. With the exception of the opening chapter titled "Osgood's Wonder, Being the Reminiscences of an Apple-Man," the narration is excellent. Osgood's accent and enthusiasm is a bit grating. Keep going, don't stop!

One visit too many to this channel.

The thing is: Newland thinks condescendingly that May is vacuous. But surely she manipulates him and knows about his love for Ellen. She gets rid of Ellen by lying to her that she’s pregnant 2 weeks before she tells Newland. She’s not so dumb as she pretends. It’s a rat trap and he’s been caught. So sad.

Your reviews are so smart and insightful. I just finished the book for a book club, and your review solidified my understanding of the book, (and a part that I had actually forgotten about that was crucial to the plot). Thanks for taking the time to read and review this book. I am looking forward to more of your videos.

hey! just finished. nope! boring. 2 starts to be kind...

Brutally honest but brutally profound. Perfectly executed. Edith would be proud. 😊

You read some of the passages out loud ... yet, possibly, you overlooked the construction of metaphors and comparisons (which, in my opinion, are the stronghold of Miller's writing style). But hey, that is not the most important thing I have to question you on. I mean, look at our present times (6 years after you made the video): there are almost no publishers willing to publish manuscripts that have not passed through so-called "sensitivity readers". In that respect we are worse now then we were in the 1930s! So YES, I think there is a need not only to reproduce what Miller has done, but to go beyond, and I want to say WAAAAY beyond. Somewhat like French author Louis Aragon did in "Irene's Cunt" (1928).

i share this book with anyone who will listen