Here it is, video number 2 on the channel - woohoo! I hope you enjoy this review, let me know if it makes you want to read The Pearl :)
@SCHOOLOFLIGHT
Жыл бұрын
I’ve never managed an entire book in one sitting. I loved this and love the way Steinbeck writes, I felt connected. Thanks for the inspiration to pick up a book!
@ThePortlyRaven
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Yes, he does weave a spell! I definitely enjoyed coming back to the story many years after first reading it. So glad the video gave you a nudge towards the book :)
@werbergermertin
Жыл бұрын
You got me with the feel you evoked in the first review. This one you convinced me with your argument. Love your work. Thanks professor Raven.
@ThePortlyRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thought you might be swayed by this one ;)
@Deandorra
Жыл бұрын
"it's only 100 pages" that argument? 😆
@parsnip_
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I've read a couple of Steinbeck's books and will definitely be picking up The Pearl now. Thank you for making these reviews, they really capture the joy and wonder of reading books.
@ThePortlyRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, what a nice comment! Yes, The Pearl won’t take you long at all to read but it stays with you. I’ve read it twice, but with a twenty five-ish year gap in between and it was powerful both times
@dracomalfoy-h8s
Ай бұрын
I love your presentation... It feels like a breeze. 🌼
@ThePortlyRaven
Ай бұрын
That’s very kind! Thanks for watching :)
@chioowoo
4 ай бұрын
This video was amazing, a complete masterpiece
@ThePortlyRaven
4 ай бұрын
That is too kind! Thanks for watching and commenting :)
@SCHOOLOFLIGHT
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant mate! I need more of this type of reading in my life.
@ThePortlyRaven
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Denis - I hope you enjoy it!
@johnburston692
Жыл бұрын
That was fantastic Sam! Loved it😊 I read The Pearl decades ago, you've inspired me to have another look - I like your point about being reminded again of the fundamental truths in life.
@ThePortlyRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thank you John, lovely to have you on board! It had been a long gap between reads for me too. Luckily - if something is great, it’s great forever :)
@Nyazhr25
7 ай бұрын
This is so well made ❤
@ThePortlyRaven
7 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it
@azatt-973
5 ай бұрын
I 'am grateful, thanks a lot
@ThePortlyRaven
5 ай бұрын
My pleasure :)
@alistersandow
Жыл бұрын
Hey Sam, thanks for the recommendation, got alone in Berlin and the pearl. Keep up the videos
@ThePortlyRaven
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching mate! I really enjoyed our books conversation last week, and your encouragement to make more videos means a lot. Happy reading and I hope to see you soon 📚
@mattgallo9805
4 ай бұрын
I appreciate Steinbeck and the parable "campfire" "oral tradition" style of the book but I just read this for the first time and ---------------- spoiler coming -------------- the ending doesn't make sense to me. Why does the couple return to town at the end? Why are they allowed to? They spend half the book running away from a town where they're wanted for murder and then at the end they just go back. No confrontation, no explanation. How does that work? And why on earth would they go back to town when they were already so far from home and malnourished (and closer to the next city) AND they had just successfully killed the 3 men who were trailing them. I understand their son died and "the pearl is evil" etc but why turn around at that point? Did I miss something?
@ThePortlyRaven
4 ай бұрын
I might need to think about that one a bit, it’s not totally fresh in my mind! Thematically, it makes sense - (there is nowhere to go, no possible aspirations for people of their ‘station’), but perhaps you’re right - it might not completely stack up in terms of realism
@mattgallo9805
4 ай бұрын
@@ThePortlyRaven Thanks for the reply. I don't mean to nit-pick at the realism of a fictional story, I know that's low hanging fruit. I'm more curious if I missed part of the plot or maybe I misread something.
@ThePortlyRaven
4 ай бұрын
@@mattgallo9805 I don’t think you missed anything :) Next time I read it, I’ll look out for what you’re referring to - it didn’t strike me last time, but now that you’ve pointed it out…Thanks for commenting!
@waRr3nxx
3 ай бұрын
I always thought that once Coyotito gets killed, Kino has no reason to continue to sell the pearl, as the reason for selling it is now destroyed. The future for his family, a son who would read and have nice things is erased. My thought is they come home solely because realizing this they had nowhere else to go where the pearl wouldn’t haunt them. So they return to their old life and toss the evil pearl back to where it was found. I’m also sure that kino ends up in jail or killed, as he no longer has the pearl as a bargaining chip. But who knows. \
@cereal_qilla
2 ай бұрын
@@mattgallo9805the same thing occurred to me! I enjoyed the book but I didn’t get the ending. Why did it end that way and what purpose did it serve the story? What was the lesson or such great tragedy in the end? I don’t think Kino was being greedy I just think he was trying to get what was due to him based on his own merit and work of getting something of value. Yes society and systems are greedy and self serving but i don’t like how Kino got punished in the end for other people’s greed, he was an honest man. What was the song of evil he kept hearing? His own greed creeping up? Its not like he changed who he was bc of the pearl. It just illuminated other people’s functions more, but he got hurt in the end? And poor Juana too…why? The first half of the book was really good and I loved the institutional greed that was so well written, but the second half made me feel like I was supposed to feel that Kino deserved to be punished, but for what? For wanting a better life? It wasn’t self indulgent interest it was basic dreams for the benefit of those he loved. I really loved the first half especially when he wrote “…with the detachment of god” and how the characters were so ordinary but full of the current of life. The first half Reminded me of the healthcare system in the US today. And they made the whole town think they died and then just came back and no one freaked out. What was the moral of the Pearl? Don’t dream? Don’t hope? Don’t want for a better life? If it was don’t be greedy like the first half showed I would love it, but it really changed course in the end and I’m not sure I want to keep it on my bookshelf or donate it. I’ll have to read other Steinbeck bc I do like him a lot.
@xinyuzhu-u1i
2 ай бұрын
Fantastic video ❤❤❤I’m going to read it🎉🎉🎉🎉
@ThePortlyRaven
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching! Let me know what you think of the book 📕
@xinyuzhu-u1i
2 ай бұрын
@@ThePortlyRaven hi, I finished reading the first three chapters and love it. The first Steinbeck novel I read is The Red Pony which is also a tiny adorable book like this! I love Steinbeck writing for what people truly care about, and the humanity. As a second language learner, his language is much much easier to understand than Shakespeare or charlotte Brontë hahaha, therefore, Steinbeck also arouse my interest in reading more English classics!
@ThePortlyRaven
2 ай бұрын
Yes, The Red Pony is great too. And absolutely, the humanity in his writing js central - I think that’s something the best writers have, an understanding of human behaviour. What’s your first language?
@xinyuzhu-u1i
2 ай бұрын
@@ThePortlyRaven totally agree! I’m a Chinese college student majoring in English who decide to pursue a master degree in English literature further!
@ThePortlyRaven
2 ай бұрын
That’s great! Sometimes I dream about studying literature more…! I did a Bachelors degree in the UK about 20 years ago, but who knows what the future holds…. What are you reading via your studies at the moment?
@williamthomas2830
9 ай бұрын
After Wuthering Heights I am starting East of Eden.
@ThePortlyRaven
9 ай бұрын
I just finished East of Eden for the second time, and it might be my next video. What a great, great book that is! You have a treat ahead of you :)
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