Great review , Thank you. I’ve recently been revisiting Steinbeck. I read him as a younger man and now decades later I am getting a great deal of from his work with more life experience. Steinbeck is a master of developing characters, dialogue and more. Excellent discussion thank you!

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Thank you so much for taking the time, to time travel! (Oh, I don't know if you're wanting to do this or not but a recommendation I would have is Steinbeck's stellar short story collection "The Long Valley"; what a wealth of material that has! And so diverse. There's a story in that I just read that is *every bit* as zany and wild as anything in "Sweet Thursday"!!!)

Thank you so much for giving a spotlight to this underappreciated work! Please read and review "Cannery Row", the prequel to this book!

Great review. In The Republic, Plato explains how Socrates wanted to ban all actors, poets, and artists from his ideal state because mimetic art, which is twice removed from truth, has a bigger influence on humans than reality itself.

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This book has only symbolic value of esoteric value.It is a manual of multidimensional value- similar to the Inferno but very technical .It is only a manual so I think you could only rate it low as you would a mechanics manual.It is a manual to disassemble ones habitual beliefs about the nature of reality.You have said as much in the intro to your lecture.

He was never a communist. Not in the way many and you are probably using it. He was a democratic socialist with libertarian socialist (anarchist) sympathies. He saw how the Communist party of Russia destroyed what he considered socialism before losing the war in Spain. They were more concerned about destroying the left and purging dissidents than they were about destroying Franco's army. What he saw for those few years in Catalonia, when the working class ran things, is what he was fighting for.

I read this as a high schooler and never forgot how wistful, brave, and human the characters were. Teaching the baby, racing the fastest cars left….. submarines converging and also investigating…. And how much of coping is just Carry On.

You didn't really summarize anything. All you basically said was "Some people will like it, some won't."

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I haven’t read this book, I’ve read “El túnel”. It’s shorter and its also about an obsession and a complicated relationship. It’s written like a confession. It’s pretty cool. As someone from LatAm I’m impressed you’ve read this in spanish. It seems hard even for me.

I am just starting g to read this book myself. It is pretty dense and rambles which makes it a hard read. What has struck me in reading this book is that Mr. Solomon doesn’t really seem to have a grip on his depression. It is like a bird that landed on him one day and then inexplicably flew away. Not even the fact that he was in psychoanalysis seems to have provided him with any insight as to why he was impacted by depression. I just do t buy that attitude. So his focus is on biological psychiatry on medications etc. which statistics have demonstrated aren’t that effective. So it is as if Mr. Solomon fails to learn and grow or develop any coping skills. He just soldiers his way through it with the help of some remarkably good friends. He comes across as fairly static so maybe that’s why I have found it boring so far.

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Dharma means the universal law of nature, which is applicable to everyone. The Buddha nature is your self-nature. Buddha is everywhere; wherever you think the Buddha is, he is there. Buddha's enlightened mind. From meditation springs wisdom. There is no ice which does not return to water. So you understand there is no difference between ordinary beings and Buddha except for one thing - delusion. ❤🙏

He was very clearly anti government. So he was critical of every ideology that supported government intervention. Communism is the ideology that wanted the government to own everything. So clearly he is an anti communist.

**SPOILER ALERT: THIS GIVES AWAY THE ENDING** wow I took a totally different approach to this - much less critical - I think I read it as a romance with a gorgeous almost perfect heart-throb of a man and a head strong captivating woman - so I was suspending disbelief much more than you were She writes so vividly it never lapses into stereotypes and is psychologically so knowing that every crisis of the relationship is engaging and realistic so I was on her side all the way through Which is why I was **gutted** at the end when she didn't marry him!! and I'm not at all convinced by her lofty high minded reasons for rejecting him So although I can totally understand why it's such a classic - I couldn't put it down - I felt the ending was a downer I also didn't buy it their not getting hitched was far fetched and didn't really make any sense and left me feeling a bit cheated I'd highly recommmend anyone reading though - beautiful book Hi from London xx

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I have read a fair amount of Dostoyevsky since reading Crime and Punishment (my favorite Novel) 4 years ago, and am slowly collecting and reading his books. I finished The Double last night and it was by far the most difficult for me to get through. I like the story but Mr. Goliadkins manner of speech is tedious "my dear, my sweet, yes Anton Antonovich, I agree Anton Antonovich" but near the end I concluded that this only further solidifies his insanity. This was one of Dostoyevskys first novels so I don't hold it against him. Starting The Gambler tonight. Great video!

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Thank you for the recommendation. I didn't know about this author and it's time period is definitely interesting for me.

I loved the book.

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i have to read this for my english class! this is a great review!

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Kyrin! The length of this video misled me, I thought you loved the book (as much as i did) and had a lot to say! :)))) Now i know what the issue probably was. I listened to it on audible, it was read by multiple actors, and i loved it so much that i decided to watch the play on youtube (which if you want, you can do as well, maybe you will like it more). As i already said, I love it! And I think the main difference in our perception of the story lies in the understanding of that scene when Biff comes to see his dad after failing the exam. First of all this scene is shown rather towards the end and as to me it is explaining why the boy got so traumatized by what he witnessed, and this trauma broke him for life, and this trauma is the reason for their bad relations, and for all his failures. But Willy does not realized that up until the end. And if you look at the story with that lens, then Willy is the cause and the reason for all wrong in his life and his sons' lives. But that is not why i loved the play so much. To me this whole talking to himself part, where the real and his 'crazy' dialogues with intertwined was a new feature in literature, i never read anything like that, and it was replayed by actors so well! It really 'pierced' me, as you called it. Also the whole idea of a story about falling of an ordinary man - I think added the value to me, i appreciated it a lot. The whole family drama, the dynamics between the man, his wife, and his sons - i found it very realistic and so true, i am giving all the credit to the author's talent for it! Also the dynamics between Willy and his neighbor - i think Athur Miller nailed it! So to me this play became really the top of my list :)

The Prophet can be considered an epic poem, so it helps to read passages twice and think about what Gibran was trying to communicate.

A kind man becomes ruthless and anither ruthless man becomes kind. God does to the human as whenever his heart desires. If you seek you shall find. Seek dollars above everyone else i imagine you'll get it. If you lose your life for the sake of God trust me you will find what you wanted. Free will still stands humans surely aren't as hackable as people think

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I think that it's worth pointing out that this book is also critiquing Capitalism itself as a system that incentivizes this behavior. This is likely something you found evident in it's content, but perhaps that being the main point might color this book a bit different. Chomsky is a socialist (I'm not sure about Herman), and that can explain the very critical tone that is taken with individuals and corporations who both promote and perpetuate these systems for the sake of capital. There's a great deal of political agitprop that is intentional in this book, but it's also done in a very thorough manner that seeks to prove it's thesis at the crux of it all. I'm sure that the authors view this Propaganda Model as a product of Capitalism reproducing itself - the capitalist interest in intentionally framing stories for the sake of PR in imperialist campaigns are pretty clear, and even the more passive elements such as the internalized biases of the journalists and audience are still informed by the conditions produced by a capitalist society. There's a sort of mixed approach here, where the authors have both instrumental and structural explanations, which might muddy the purpose of the book. However, I think we can say that the book is mostly political agitprop with academic sourcing to bolster the credibility of their claims, as opposed to simply describing and proving a sociological phenomenon. To be clear, I don't mean any of this pejoratively; I don't find anything wrong with motivating folks toward a solution, so long as the analysis is sound, the proposed solutions are meant to address the problems being pointed out, and that they're effective solutions.

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Regarding political science book, I find it interesting with American authors that there's so many self-repeats in their books, and surface level personal stuff, even when books are written by professionals and not just semi-random people. Kind of sad seeing stuff like that when someone of such prominence writes that kind of a book, you expect deeper insights and less personal jabs and insfluence. I've recently read "The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia" by Vladimr Gelman, was very dry but really illuminating because it covered an area which is not really known to me, and covered topics that are not covered that much

Really, the book is a collection of smaller stories that could be read on their own. All offer a moral morsal and collectively work together to be more impactful. I didn't find the book to be engaging enough to really recommend on the whole, but chapter 7 and 14 stand out as clear winners to me.

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hey first time watcher here i really liked this stream. I would really like to see your opinions on Patrick Süskinds "Das Parfüm". While thats my favourite book of all time i didnt see the movie, since i feel like movie adaptations very often disappoint for changing essentials of the source material or just the problems of visualising the written word. Would like your opinions on that too (maybe u have a book dear to your heart which adaptations disappointed you?).

"Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media" by Michael Parenti is on the same topic (predates this book by a bit) and I found it an easy read. From what I hear of those who read both, they generally prefer Parenti's book.

Propaganda is a powerful tool. I don't understand people that start wars. I think they're just bored...