Definitely going to check out tree of smoke and tomorrow and tomorrow, you really brought me back to American literature with Cormac McCarthy. So thanks for that 👌🏻
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
Glad I put you on to some of McCarthy’s novels! T&T&T is truly great, I think you’ll like it
@Victoria-fs9jo
7 ай бұрын
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. SO much fun. Just so full of silliness while also being really well written. Definitely worth a shot
@doctorpretender4944
7 ай бұрын
The first modern novel was novel? Novel sentiment. lol
@robertbury3083
7 ай бұрын
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is excellent!
@robertluff6623
7 ай бұрын
I highly recommend PG Wodehouse! I read "The Inimitable Jeeves" at the end of a very painful, momentous day two years ago. When I started reading, I felt emotionally empty; after an hour or so I found myself convulsing with laughter, tears streaming from my eyes. It was exactly what I needed that evening.
@scrapsweetiepie
Ай бұрын
I recently started Don Quixote and it makes me literally LOL!
@adambnyc4875
7 ай бұрын
Kurt Vonnegut wrote playfully. He coaxed laughs out of prison camps, death marches, and the firebombing of Dresden in "Slaughterhouse Five." It makes a terrific companion read to "Catch 22." I wish more of the "great" writers were good at being funny. Dickens and Twain could be pretty good at balancing humor and darkness. About reading "Moby Dick" at the time it was published, reviews back then were decidedly mixed, and many contemporaneous readers were left as confounded as some of today's literature students. It wasn't until the 1920s that the novel became more appreciated. I love it, and I find it adventurous, but not so much rollicking or playful.
@chrisnawara1363
2 ай бұрын
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins is so much fun. Angel Maker by Nick Harkaway is another recent read that was just good plain fun to read.
@sollertiskhan3254
7 ай бұрын
I love bit about reading being fundementally playing. Never looked at it like that, but it makes so much sense!
@adambnyc4875
7 ай бұрын
Another crazy playful writer that comes to mind is Richard Brautigan, who was popular in the 1960s and 70s. Some would call him experimental and wildly inventive while others would just say that he was high a.f. Both things can be true. Try his short novel "Trout Fishing in America." (The "Sea, Sea Rider" chapter is the best thing that ever happened in a bookstore.) And search the web for his very short short story "The Scarlatti Tilt" to get a taste of his sensibilities.
@elmede2949
7 ай бұрын
A Confenderacy of the Dunces
@neekeeeyy
7 ай бұрын
from my recently read books: 1) the count of monte cristo 2) the old man and the sea i’ve been putting off these two for so long but i’m so glad i picked them up and read this year. they literally raised my standards on literature 😅 all-time faves because i really had a GREAT time reading them: 1) the heart is a lonely hunter - carson mccullers 2) extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathan safran foer 3) first love - ivan turgenev thank you for sharing these books to us! will add them to my tbr
@enchantingaudiobooks
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the recommendations ❤
@collinsceski605
7 ай бұрын
Catch-22 was that book for me. It is hilarious I laughed until I cried. I marveled at language (itself). I scratched my head at all the existential questions that surfaced. I love it. I’m going to check out the Tree of Life based off this video! Thanks!
@collinsceski605
7 ай бұрын
Tree of Smoke*
@folsomprisonblues5087
7 ай бұрын
Have you read Irvine Welsh? He's the author of Trainspotting which was adapted into film that features Ewan McGregor. One thing that interests me about his writing is he use of Scots Vernacular in his POV/Stream of consciousness novels. I've read some parts from his novels on Google, first pages of Skagboys and Filth, which includes some poetic writing and uses dialect. I heard that Irvine Welsh read Ulysses by J. Joyce six times, which is a pretty respectable achievement. But I don't know for sure. But my cons before reading him would be his themes of substance abuse/addiction, and not that they're too heavy but that I feel like it will get repetitive throughout each novel. But I could be wrong! (I'm half hopeful.) And I also heard how rich, funny, and great his characters are - though I heard that they are also not great people in terms of ethics.
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
I honestly hadn’t but now I’m intrigued
@andrewbaertlein
7 ай бұрын
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. Some of the characters were Dostoyevsky-level real to me and it just hummed for 600 pages. Lofty plot, so well executed.
@robertluff6623
7 ай бұрын
Yes, that really was a joy to read. And not silly at all.
@joeyq9953
6 ай бұрын
Please read and review Madeline Miller’s “Song of Achilles”! 🙏🏻
@hello1943
7 ай бұрын
“Anxious People” is the most hilarious book about a bank robbery you’ll ever read. According to the narrator, every character in the story is an idiot
@ttowntrekker5174
5 ай бұрын
I don't know if you've read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, but it's the funniest novel I've ever read. Toole was a native of NOLA and his novel is about some of the quirkiness characters you could hope to read. There's a great KZitem video about his life that's just under an hour long. But after being turned down by numerous publishers Toole took his own life. Years later his mother found the draft of his novel in her basement and knew it was a masterpiece. She took it to Walker Percy who read it and used his connections to get it published. Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel. It saddens me to think what we missed out on.
@QuietExplorations
7 ай бұрын
Going to suggest The Hike by Drew Magary here. It's short, whacky, and mildly thought provoking. The prose is quick and easy and a little snarky. Good fun!
@michaeldutson1043
5 ай бұрын
I could not agree with you more about Don Quixote! I remember the when I was about a quarter to half way saying to myself this is one of the funniest or silliest books yet so impactful.
@Panagiotireads
7 ай бұрын
Just finished this newly released, original collection of fairy tales, entitled 'Sillies, Fancies, and Trifles' - it was phenomenal and just perfect for this theme. You guys would love it if these books interest you! Keep up the beautiful videos :)
@jakeybwoi
7 ай бұрын
If I had to take one book to a desert island, it would be Don Quixote, there's a whole world within that book and I absolutely love Sancho Panza - easily one of my favourite fictional characters
@pietroperotto4642
7 ай бұрын
the pillars of the earth:) fun, engaging, fast-paced, and humorous in (mostly) all of its 1000(ish) pages
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
👀
@ryangriffith7772
7 ай бұрын
Reading and writing are fundamentally playing. Love this idea!! Fun reading recs: 1. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 2. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 3. The Mist by Stephen King 4. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
@QuirkyGirl10
4 ай бұрын
Very interesting take on reading! My spin on it is that I sometimes imagine people I know playing some of the parts in the novels I'm reading, or imagining certain celebrities portraying the different characters in the story. Re books that are fun - and this may be cheating - pretty much anything by Roald Dahl. His characters are such caricatures, that it's as if readers are in on his jokes, like he's winking at and nudging us while he's telling his tales.
@VexThrace
7 ай бұрын
based intro; love to hear about reading influences and your take brought me joy
@blakekroeze4390
7 ай бұрын
WATERSHIP DOWN yes it has dark moments but the way the main characters tell stories of old and imitate the bravery of their ancestors….. really reminds me of me and my siblings playing Narnia in our woods
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
The way you’re describing this has me sold
@DrewLytle
7 ай бұрын
Great recs go hoos
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
Wahoowa
@nush3723
7 ай бұрын
Leviathan (Paul auster)!
@bobprimeau2000
7 ай бұрын
Great idea for a video! Have you ever read anything by Robert Stone? I feel that he and Denis Johnson have some similarities.
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
I haven’t but if I get into Robert Stone in the future it’ll be because of you
@bio6588
7 ай бұрын
Catch-22!
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
Agreed. Very fun/great
@AvatarSoul
7 ай бұрын
I was gonna say!
@TheOnlyBanjo_Kablamjo
7 ай бұрын
You should do a vid on your childhood favorite books. Thats a vid I am going to do soon. 😁
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
💡
@TheOnlyBanjo_Kablamjo
7 ай бұрын
@@williampdozierHow long did it take to write your novel?
@williampdozier
7 ай бұрын
@@TheOnlyBanjo_Kablamjo I worked on Fumes off and on for about 9 years
@TheOnlyBanjo_Kablamjo
6 ай бұрын
Cool. I just wondered. I have been writing my own. How many time did you change something about the story?
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