Over a year and a half ago I made this for no reason and I still love every comment I get. I'm not youtubing to be ""famous"" but no one wants to entertain ~no~ audience. Supposedly I'm the 3rd/4th result if you just search "The Familiar" and that's exactly where I want to be. The people who want to find this video will find it, and I needn't bother anyone else. Thank you for your time.
@bybabeful
4 жыл бұрын
I got here from a House of Leaves review. Please do keep at it, I'm enjoying all of the videos on your channel!
@micraan1579
3 жыл бұрын
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@onwardsaoshima5119
5 жыл бұрын
Uh. "Medium famous" sound like a very useful term.
@danielle3918
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I adored House of Leaves and have had the Familiar part 1 sitting on my shelf for a while. Little know fact, the singer Poe, is the author's sister and her album Haunted was inspired by HoL.
@drumfan83
5 жыл бұрын
I think to some degree the greatness of “house of leaves” created the demise of a solid danielewski audience. I used to read. I had two teachers for parents and was always encouraged to read and would’ve considered myself an avid reader until I completed HOL. I came away from that book with the understanding that nothing could ever meet or surpass it. I’ve heard heroin users describe how the first hit was so amazing that they spend the rest of their entire lives trying to get to that level again and to some degree this experience is similar. I don’t read anymore because there is no papa could ever give me the same level of satisfaction. HOL is literature perfected.
@JesusHComedy
4 жыл бұрын
That book was so funny and scary and Familiar emits none of those emotions well. I only read the first one. but the fact the heart rate goes nowhere and the detective story went nowhere. And a weird resurrection thing by Hopi feels like it was going to go in some weird fantastical resurrection theme, That can bring that back. but the asian thing and the armenian thing lost me too much.
@pghDavid66
6 жыл бұрын
This was great for a first video! Nice work, good analysis.
@whalesong813
4 жыл бұрын
I just discovered this video, very interesting. Well done and your explanation clear and thought provoking. Thank you.
@bjwnashe5589
3 жыл бұрын
Just getting into this fascinating work. Thanks for your clear and concise introduction.
@babbymonke
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this. A lot of your thoughts have crossed my mind before, in the conclusion part especially. The Familiar is my favorite book and its (likely) fate feels so wrong.
@drumfan83
5 жыл бұрын
Дмитрий Городин so I have not read this yet although I really should. My kiddo really liked “50 yr sord” and I know this isn’t a kids book like 5YS but is it tame enough for a 10 yr old? Like no Ludes list or thumper type stuff ... i don’t mind cursing really but I would like to avoid him reading sexual stuff.
@vetechgrl2000
3 жыл бұрын
I'm about to embark on HOL but with your description this will be my next!
@bedet
5 жыл бұрын
Great video! I, too, think this series suffered by (perhaps overzealous) fans exaggerating its "difficulty" of form. It's too bad more readers didn't talk about it with the same thoughtful tone of your review. I really hope we get "season two." But I'm actually fine if this is all we get. Not every storyline gets a completely satisfying ending, but that's life. I think it works great as not only a slice of these character's lives, but as a glimpse into an odd and fantastic world, perhaps not all that different from our own. The way we found them in Vol. 1, the way MZD throws us into the middle of their lives and makes us do a bit of work to catch up, and then the way we're (possibly) leaving them at the end of Vol. 5, feels oddly satisfying. "Life is all middle." And I'm cool with it.
@stylishrodent
3 жыл бұрын
2 years late to the party here but excellent points made in this video dude! Danielweski's other works seem vastly overshadowed by his debut, and it's refreshing and encouraging to see someone take the time to address why the familiar is more than worth a fair shake.
@stephenbrown2266
4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I'll bite, reading The Familiar now. Thanks.
@DreebsThornhill
6 жыл бұрын
Best. Explanation. Ever. #Beahymnforgood
@brianwright6134
4 жыл бұрын
I just recently started reading House of Leaves and immediately wanted to read other works from Danielewski. I know which one I'm going to read next! Great video!
@w8681
5 жыл бұрын
Abso-lutely lovely review. I hope you see this because I want you to know its comprehensiveness was both incredibly enlightening and incredibly entertaining. Thank you.
@bradley4615
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much :D
@nathancroft
4 жыл бұрын
Nice review and video. Just finished House of Leaves (utterly adored it) and immediately purchased The Familiar vol 1. Can't wait for it to arrive.
@bradley4615
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, hope you enjoy it!
@rabidvulture
6 жыл бұрын
Great explanation!
@Sara_London
3 жыл бұрын
I bought this book at The Dollartree in the US for $1. They had books 1-4! By the time I realized I had found a gem the store had quit selling them or had sold out! Talk about underrated!!! Soooo good MZD is an amazing author. I'm lost in the House of Leaves at the moment 🥺🤯😱
@Justme_247
4 жыл бұрын
Just found this video and I feel like I could learn alot from you.
@BerryCran420
4 жыл бұрын
Well dude you sold me on it. Will give it a try. Sounds intriguing.
@BAKIXAN
5 жыл бұрын
Great analysis, will you do a full spoiler analysis of the Familiar books in the future?
@bradley4615
5 жыл бұрын
I would love to. But finding time for youtube since I got a job is hard. I certainly would love to do more about TF but we'll have to see.
@mariahwilliams4220
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis. I just finished HOL and am interested in reading more from Danielewski. His format just kind of "works" for me. I don't find it terribly complicated at all. But I grew up reading (and adoring) EE Cummings, so maybe I am a bit predisposed to innovative form.
@matt1023
3 жыл бұрын
great video! im going to check out the book
@KeybladeSpirit
4 жыл бұрын
I'm nearly done with Volume 5 of The Familiar and loving it. I think you're spot on when you say that this is supposed to be MZD's masterpiece. It didn't really catch its stride until Volume 3 for me, but I guess that's why it's a good thing I come from anime where the 3 episode test is so common. Also, betcha thought nobody would catch that Katawa Shoujo music at the end.
@ooohsexy846
4 жыл бұрын
i totally agree, although i just started the familiar series it has really hooked me, it was sad when i figured out there was no concrete community for house of leaves, the familar and MZDs other works, its actually why i made a discord server not too long ago discord.gg/QyTTpaP its not too big yet, but its certainly expanding
@ArthurDLittle
4 жыл бұрын
@Bradley, what's it called your novella??
@LoonyWriter
4 жыл бұрын
Whoa! Thank you so much for making this vid. After 'House of Leaves,' I wasn't sure if I would be interested in 'The Familiar' of not (I loved 'HoL'). I definitely want to read it now, for sure.
@stephenfrug6882
6 жыл бұрын
How well do the 5 volumes so-far published work as a unit? My understanding is it was to be 27 (or was it 29?) volumes. Is this like jumping on a TV show canceled after 5 episodes, where you get the start of lots of things that will never pay off because it was, well, canceled?
@bradley4615
6 жыл бұрын
It's not as bad as that, but there are a handful of lingering threads. Mark referred to 1-5 as a "season" and that's the best analogy. It's like the end of a season that was expecting another: a majority but not all of the questions get answered.
@stephenfrug6882
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@JN-ht5hx
3 жыл бұрын
Great vid. The numbers of sold books blew me away. And I kinda would like to add two things. 1) He's a bit late. Superlong US-American po-mo fiction by white men whose main trademarks are wits and endurance have been around since the 1950s and his contribution to the genre isn't really that fresh. Especially since 2) his prose - compared to DFW or Pynchon for example - is pretty weak. The idea of "a monumantal masterpiece" is thankfully disappearing.
@SFKelvin
4 жыл бұрын
I've read it! It's about a girl who finds a kitten.
@theworm826
5 жыл бұрын
I read the first couple chapters and it didn't hook me. I'll have to try again to finish the first book!
@mikebarnes7441
4 жыл бұрын
No point
@johnhestand5577
5 жыл бұрын
Sold!
@deborah3709
16 күн бұрын
I almost don't want to like the video because it's got 333 likes now. Found this book in a shop and didn't know it was a series. Don't remember which number I found, but I didn't buy it. Now I might.
@lightning860
5 жыл бұрын
Needs more views
@bradley4615
5 жыл бұрын
KZitem is hard
@lightning860
5 жыл бұрын
Bradley KZitem killed itself when it started to commercialize and cater to late night TV hosts rather than creative everyday people
@EntertainmentBreeze
3 жыл бұрын
You should make more videos 😭
@rawvid9065
4 жыл бұрын
Why did you have that footage?
@bradley4615
4 жыл бұрын
In case of sudden need of Big Brain time.
@isamekailmahmud9302
5 жыл бұрын
heh
@isamekailmahmud9302
5 жыл бұрын
why
@bradley4615
5 жыл бұрын
I ask myself every day
@dennislillie8047
4 жыл бұрын
Look, you're a literate guy. How can you stand there and repeatedly say "exact same". It is redundant ! The phrase is "exactly the same" !!! PLEASE !
@bradley4615
4 жыл бұрын
Miriam-Webster, Oxford, and Cambridge dictionaries all allow "exact same" as a valid UK colloquialism of "exactly the same", with the US version being "same exact".
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