Another reason i admire Sec Pete. Not just because he honors Joyce and Dylan Thomas, but because he is honest enough to share that few of us can “read” Finnegan’s Wake (and he speaks more languages than any of us, as that helps with Joyce’s multilingual puns and plays on words). Respect, Mr Secretary
I think he ended up in government because of his real desire to serve the public. As a privileged person, certainly in terms of his education, I think he wants to give back to people who haven't had his chances.
The dirty little secret is there are countless Republicans who go to ivy league colleges and enjoy culture, art, and reading/literature but they won't admit it for paradoxical reasons. The reason is they don't want to turn off their blue collar base so they pretend to be working class, and also they're selfish elitists that think that only rich people should go to college so in a sick twisted way it's a feedback loop where they encourage their constituents to be illiterate and yet also require literate elite leaders. They're a lot like British Tories who all go to Cambridge and Oxford but then completely exploit and encourage the sort of parochial ignorance and anti-intellectualism that led to Brexit. Anyway, I'm glad Democrats are more open to admit that they like to read books.
Could not love this man more. Read “Heart of Darkness” years ago, now have “Season of Migration to the North” on hold at the library! YES! Thanks Pete!
“The Heart of Darkness” was the first book that actually fell from my hands as I was reading it (and I drifted into sleep). Some decades later this seemed to happen regularly. (I usually read at bedtime, often when extremely tired.) I reread “The Heart of Darkness”, along with some other Conrad stories, more recently and managed to stay awake-because it was afternoon. My favorite Conrad novel is “Secret Agent”.
Pete is so charismatic and super-smart! Training for a triathlon too?.. damn! If we don't elect this guy as President within the next 8 years we are missing a golden opportunity to improve things greatly!🇺🇸
Secretary Pete is a brilliant and kind hearted individual ❤️❤️💕 l love this segment. Gave me more book titles to add to the ridiculously high pile of books on my nightstand and bookcase. Reading is Fun!
This is the first time I’ve ever heard a public figure talk about “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”. We listened to Dylan Thomas reading it, on vinyl, every year. My grandfather moved to Wales from England in the early 1970s. The last project he worked on before retiring as a construction manager was the restoration of Dylan Thomas’ boathouse in Wales.
@@Dayandcounting In high school, I averaged four books a week. Got and award at the end of year that I hadn't ever heard about. I still work through at least two or three a month, not counting time listening to audible books.
@@babyteano1977 Yeah. Remember his pilgrimage to the church across the street and how he wanted to help all those sinners get right with God by blowing them up? Good times...
I doubt Mr Rogers was in the pocket of Big Pharma and holding upscale wine cave fundraisers with billionaire donors to make sure nodody can have healthcare or access affordable, generic prescription drugs, though.
@kd1s So weird! I just tried to buy those books online (i say "tried" cuz the screen froze & my order didn't go through, which I see as a sign from the angels: "Buy local!") Your comment is confirmation that it's not the books. 😋
Stranger In A Strange Land has been my favorite book since I first read it around 1970 when I was twelve years old. It was the first book I ordered from the Science Fiction Book Club (along with Robert Silverberg's The World Inside.) I have read it at least a dozen times, and was thrilled when his widow allowed the uncut version to be released in the early nineties. Never got around to The Hitchhiker's Guide. And since I had a couple strokes six years ago, my ability to sit and concentrate on a book is almost nonexistent, so I'll probably never be able to enjoy it, although I have seen the movie a few times, so that's something. But nothing can ever replace the joy of immersing ones self in a good book, with music playing in the background and your favorite beverage (strawberry smoothie) at your elbow.
@@11cabadger I believe they're available on Amazon. Might need to be a Prime member though. Let me check - yep you can purchase on there. Both of the titles I referenced are available in print and Kindle E-Reader.
I'm a Scot, but one of my favourite books is A Child's Christmas in Wales. My Dad was Welsh and he would read it to us. Beautiful. I have a recording of him reading it. The book that made me fall for reading at 11 yrs old is To Kill A Mockingbird. It's still in my top 5. I read 3 to 4 books a week. Love it.
@@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively If you follow his Facebook, or Instagram or Twitter accounts, he always posts them there. (He actually just shared a summer reading list this week…and shared another list s few months ago.) As you know he is a voracious reader, and always loves to share a few faves. Many libraries, and independent bookstores also post his list. 😊
@@babyteano1977, you could be right, but he probably knows it wasn't actually written by "Sam I Am", whereas Betsy would probably double down and go on record stating good old "Sam" was her favorite author.
Another favorite first line: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". A familiar feeling anyone else? Blessings of Every Goodness unto One & All✨
@@tomfurgas2844 Let it be a screaming release of the past and the old ways ~ to be, to know and to flow with love and in divine freedom ~ My heartfelt wish for us all. ✨✌✨
@@alwaysuseless From the inside cover of a used Commentaries trot. "Latin is a dead language from way across the sea. First it killed the Romans and now it's killing me."
I actually did read "Finnegan's Wake" from beginning to end, although it took over a year, reading it in small doses. On the other hand I have not yet been able to finish "Ulysses", but now I think I'll dive in and give it a go.
I think the first time I've heard an American politician, or any for that matter, that has read James Joyce's Ulysses. A beautiful, but challenging book. And Yes, I can't blame him for not getting through Finnegan's Wake, even though I had Joseph Campbell's book on it handy.
I am so glad he came back and admitted he hadn't read all of Finnegan's Wake, which is impossible for a mere mortal to understand (Ulysses is hard enough!) There are so few honest US politicians that I would have hated removing Mayor Pete from my very short list.
Ha, yes, Ulysses is beautiful but challenging, whereas Finnegans Wake is too challenging for me to have any idea whether it's beautiful or not. I do know it doesn't have an apostrophe in the title, though. I learned that from... Jonathan Creek.
Read Ulysses at uni, and it is really beautiful. Gave Finnegans Wake a serious try more than once but just got lost. I always assume people who say they have read Finnegans Wake are lying, unless they specialize in Joyce. I’m glad Pete told us straight up he actually hadn’t.
He’s such a fricken nerd. I love watching him get excited over books. Obama said in an interview with Conan how all his favorite presidents were also great orators- and the one thing they all had in common was that they were voracious readers. I’d love to hear a President Mayor Pete speech.
I really like the opening line from A Christmas Tale by Dickens: "Marley was dead to begin with." And also from Catcher in the Rye by Salinger (it's very long so I won't quote it.) But you're right. The only reason I remember the opening lines is because I have a cup with famous opening sentences and the only ending I can think of is "All was well." From Harry Potter 😅
@@xanderfulton3186 *"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."* ...would be my opening line. But a closing line? Hm,...tough question. Maybe I would simply go with the same book: *"He never saw Molly again."*
A lot of lines come to mind, but I can only paraphrase: I dreamed of Mannerly last night; I was born; the whole last bit from Gatsby about the green light and fighting against the current...Deiter, you did good to remember it exactly! Secretary Pete is so cool 😎
@@andi12270 Hey, genius... the fact that his voice is calm says absolutely nothing about his character, or his capability as a politician. Your opinion is based in emotion.
@@camolive3727 Nobody but you said anything about his voice being calm. The concept, as I understand it is that it's a calming relief to find intelligent, competent people holding serious offices in this current administration.
My favourite 1st line: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit; not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." -Tolkien, The Hobbit. Also, the music in this video was simply fantastique!
Just reading the Hobbit right now and enjoying it! I am more the classical literature kind o‘ gal… but then I want to keep up with some cultural phenomena ☺️ Plus after some extended Colbert-fandom it was about time 🙂 It’s so sweet to read how Bilbo misses his domestic comforts while adventuring with the dwarfs…
Omg The Hobbit and then the Lord of the Ring trilogy was what trained me to read “big books” when I was barely 11-I think it took me a year to read all four book but I was absolutely riveted. I can close my eyes still and be transported back to my reading “seat” in front of our big windows and sliding glass door to our patio. I was usually joined by one of our cats 😽
I was actually put off reading it earlier than now in my late 40s by the gruesome battlescenes in the movies. A friend told me the books were less graphic with that and I am planning to start LOTR after the Hobbit now...
@@macareuxmoine Classical literature, you say? Interesting you should say that! Some Tolkien scholars have pointed out the reluctance of many literary officianadoes in considering Professor Tolkien's works -or the fantasy genre in general- as serious literature. It appears things may be changing. If you enjoyed Homer's Illiad or Beowolf, you will indeed enjoy the Lord of the Rings, after you've finished the Hobbit. I emplore you, though: PLEASE read the Silmarillian!!! You will not be disappointed.
“Season of Migration to the North” is really underrated. My masters degree is on comparative literature and i made a presentation about this book. So glad that Sec. Pete mentioned it!
Every time I see him I am reminded of how important education is and how grateful he must be to his educator parents. This is a great new segment, Stephen. Just don't bother asking Sarah Palin and that crowd.
The more well read the more intelligent (typically) a person is, therefore the more terrifying to those that prey on ignorance. If we were ALL educated there would never be another Republican voted into public office.
@@bridgetcollins7969 it was never this bad the last 50 years. Reagan and Tip O’Neil would have drinks together regularly to see who things can work out. Tom Delay and Newt changed everything and started the redisctricting when they realized that will never have a chance with the popular vote with the way America was progressing. The GOP is now is truly RINO.
A Christmas Carol, my all time favorite story. Right now studying the Civil War and the Revolution. Pete is wonderful. If there's justice in the world, make him our president.
Watching this I couldn't help.to wonder what my answers would be to these same questions...and I realized almost all of them would be answered with the same book: 'something wicked this way comes' by ray Bradbury
I love Joyce but making Ulysses seem relatable to average readers is hilarious to me. At least he didn't claim the same for Finnegan's Wake lol. As an English teacher I'm impressed with what he read in high school. Must have been a good school/teacher.
Those of us who are products of Catholic secondary and collegiate institutions were given bibliographies from which to select....and what spectra they were.
"Well, you know, my coloring is the greatest - some say of all time - so I sat down, and I colored in a map of a HURRICANE that was going to HIT - to HIT - Alabama. I probably saved, oh, about 3 MiLLion lives from that hurricane, that, frankly, nobody else was talking about."
"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault" will always be the best opening line for a book. It's still refreshing to have functioning literate adults in positions of power...it shouldn't be but alas...it be.
@@susancampbell2349 👍🏻he is my favorite author. I hate to admit it but I don’t read books much anymore. I’m addicted to the internet and cable news. Please give my comment a thumbs up
@@snowyminnesota6028 I agree with your assessment. Owen Meany was un-film able and someone tried with a rip off and they were sued to remove his name. You must know John Irving wrote the screenplay for Cider House Rules and won the Oscar (I wonder if that’s a ‘first time’ for that). It was very well done but for the film, he toned down the ‘better an abortion than an orphan’ theme. I remember when Owen Meany was published, some critics complained the book was just a backstory to make ‘The Shot’ work. Whatever… Lol Also love The World According To Garp and even The Hotel New Hampshire (both had comedy and tragedy as well)
- Could you name one or two of your most favorite Bible verses? - I wouldn't want to get into it because to me that's very personal. You know, when I talk about the Bible, it's very personal, so I don't want to get into verses. The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics. - So are you more of an Old Testament guy or a New Testament guy? - Ummmmm… probably equal.
I was looking to support him in his run for the White House, but now I'm glad I didn't. We can't have a president training for triathlons and inhaling books the whole time! Get it out of your system while you're young! I give you 4 years.
My favorite book is one no one has ever heard of by an author you all know: Roald Dahl of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fame but a very adult book from 1979 about a young man going to college the next fall so sent on a European trip as a 17 year old and getting in to all sorts of mischief. Really randy, really hilarious and not at all what you would expect from Charlie’s creator. Title: My Uncle Oswald. I read it at least twice a year, and I don’t do that with any of the other books in my fairly extensive library. Enjoy!
@@joeclement737 Hello Joe! Thanks for taking the time to reply-this is truly my very favorite book , and I have probably read at least 500 books if not a thousand or more ! I have to go to my favorite used book store in Novato at least once a year to donate! How do you know Yabette? Her son was at our super cool creative arts school the same time as my older son.
Wow that list make me feel very inadequate! Im more of a romance novel reader myself🤣 I find life is just to heavy at the moment and just what a little bit of escapism right now.
And not everything that Sec'y Pete mentioned is all that heavy. I find it very much an escapist sort of feeling, to get absorbed in something that's actually worth my time. You might like it too -
An entertaining and informative read is Fake History but Otto English. It's s non fiction history about the history we get wrong, often knowingly. His writing style is what makes entertaining, he's British and it's got a touch of Douglas Adams wit about it. He also narrates the audiobook.
I love this segment. Please do more of this! Love Secretary Pete!
Another reason i admire Sec Pete. Not just because he honors Joyce and Dylan Thomas, but because he is honest enough to share that few of us can “read” Finnegan’s Wake (and he speaks more languages than any of us, as that helps with Joyce’s multilingual puns and plays on words). Respect, Mr Secretary
I read about 5 pages of that before I quit and I had finished War and Peace and Crime and Punishment
Loved this!
Mr Buttigieg, i don’t how you ended up in government but I am most happy you did.
Such a human man, you are.
I think he ended up in government because of his real desire to serve the public. As a privileged person, certainly in terms of his education, I think he wants to give back to people who haven't had his chances.
The dirty little secret is there are countless Republicans who go to ivy league colleges and enjoy culture, art, and reading/literature but they won't admit it for paradoxical reasons. The reason is they don't want to turn off their blue collar base so they pretend to be working class, and also they're selfish elitists that think that only rich people should go to college so in a sick twisted way it's a feedback loop where they encourage their constituents to be illiterate and yet also require literate elite leaders. They're a lot like British Tories who all go to Cambridge and Oxford but then completely exploit and encourage the sort of parochial ignorance and anti-intellectualism that led to Brexit.
Anyway, I'm glad Democrats are more open to admit that they like to read books.
Well damn, that was classy. I enjoyed that.
Now that is an intelligent man. Admire, love and respect him, and Chasten too
Agreed 👍, Hi how are you doing Mary ?
@@udayverma6120 OMG
@@udayverma6120
His husband. It’s likely information you could find out on your own...
@Jeff Jernstedt Whatever's on your mind, my friend. Your mind it is, better enjoy what you got.
Could not love this man more. Read “Heart of Darkness” years ago, now have “Season of Migration to the North” on hold at the library! YES! Thanks Pete!
shes a man ?
“The Heart of Darkness” was the first book that actually fell from my hands as I was reading it (and I drifted into sleep). Some decades later this seemed to happen regularly. (I usually read at bedtime, often when extremely tired.) I reread “The Heart of Darkness”, along with some other Conrad stories, more recently and managed to stay awake-because it was afternoon. My favorite Conrad novel is “Secret Agent”.
Pete is so charismatic and super-smart! Training for a triathlon too?.. damn!
If we don't elect this guy as President within the next 8 years we are missing a golden opportunity to improve things greatly!🇺🇸
Fortunately, he is young. The country won't accept his love life any time soon.
@@Maja-Danmark Too true. Sad.
So, brains as well as beauty. Sir, you rock!
Any time there's a book club fundraiser with Secretary, I will sign up
Secretary Pete is a brilliant and kind hearted individual ❤️❤️💕 l love this segment. Gave me more book titles to add to the ridiculously high pile of books on my nightstand and bookcase. Reading is Fun!
This is the first time I’ve ever heard a public figure talk about “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”. We listened to Dylan Thomas reading it, on vinyl, every year. My grandfather moved to Wales from England in the early 1970s. The last project he worked on before retiring as a construction manager was the restoration of Dylan Thomas’ boathouse in Wales.
That is a wonderful memory
What a lovely and wonderful thing to retire on! How pleased he must have been. Bless
Marcus Leech We wish you a Welshy Christmas,we wish you a Welshy Christmas, we wish you a Welshy Christmas,
and a happy blwyddyn newydd.
Me: oh, a book I can't wait to read...
*looks at bedside pile*
Also me: .....
*buys more books to add to pile*
ENTP?
That was me before audible, with audiobooks it's a book or so a week.
@@Dayandcounting In high school, I averaged four books a week. Got and award at the end of year that I hadn't ever heard about. I still work through at least two or three a month, not counting time listening to audible books.
Very much like my son.
@@KC-bv9kf Pete? Yes.
I love segments like this. Well done Secretary Pete!
thank you Pete and Steve and all!!!!!❤️
Hey everyone remember how the last president couldn't (or maybe just didn't) actually read...!!!???!!!
I hear he'd pay attention if you put his name and threw in pictures and graphs, though!
He read the Bible, its his favorite book.. can't ask him his favorite verse because it's very personal to him.
@@babyteano1977 Yeah. Remember his pilgrimage to the church across the street and how he wanted to help all those sinners get right with God by blowing them up? Good times...
@@11cabadger 😁
@@leok7193 yep. But you had to make sure the pictures had him in them or at least no black-and-white stuff, EVAH (kinda like Joan & wire hangers).
He's the spitting image of Mr. Rogers! Even the gentle way he talks. 💙
I doubt Mr Rogers was in the pocket of Big Pharma and holding upscale wine cave fundraisers with billionaire donors to make sure nodody can have healthcare or access affordable, generic prescription drugs, though.
Another reason why Pete isn’t a light weight, and we’re so fortunate to have him serve in the current cabinet.
Hello mayor Pete's PR team. Dude cannot repair a pothole.
He can read and think , I didn’t see anything like that for four years Lol
No, he's not a lightweight...just light in the loafers
@@patrickdroney4443 ugh, really!? Shame on you for the homophobic comment.
i'm italian-American - my two favorite books are the HItchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Stranger in a Strange Land.
Hitchhikers yes
Heinlein no
And Hitchhikers is in the running for great first line
@kd1s So weird! I just tried to buy those books online (i say "tried" cuz the screen froze & my order didn't go through, which I see as a sign from the angels: "Buy local!") Your comment is confirmation that it's not the books. 😋
Stranger In A Strange Land has been my favorite book since I first read it around 1970 when I was twelve years old. It was the first book I ordered from the Science Fiction Book Club (along with Robert Silverberg's The World Inside.)
I have read it at least a dozen times, and was thrilled when his widow allowed the uncut version to be released in the early nineties.
Never got around to The Hitchhiker's Guide. And since I had a couple strokes six years ago, my ability to sit and concentrate on a book is almost nonexistent, so I'll probably never be able to enjoy it, although I have seen the movie a few times, so that's something. But nothing can ever replace the joy of immersing ones self in a good book, with music playing in the background and your favorite beverage (strawberry smoothie) at your elbow.
@@Drummingvulture i wonder if audio books might help for you.
@@11cabadger I believe they're available on Amazon. Might need to be a Prime member though. Let me check - yep you can purchase on there. Both of the titles I referenced are available in print and Kindle E-Reader.
I'm a Scot, but one of my favourite books is A Child's Christmas in Wales. My Dad was Welsh and he would read it to us. Beautiful. I have a recording of him reading it. The book that made me fall for reading at 11 yrs old is To Kill A Mockingbird. It's still in my top 5. I read 3 to 4 books a week. Love it.
I am welsh living in texas did ya see the film, a welsh child’s Christmas? So funny!
And there are such nice illustrations for this too. Btw. I am reading this for Christmas in Germany 🎄
@@cocorees5 no! I haven't seen that! It's good? Who's in it? I will def look that up. Thank you!
@Kcid Deah Forgiven? Please explain?!
@Kcid Deah ok 👌🏻 thank you!
What a delight! Loved when Obama shared his reading.
This needs to be a more regular segment. Reading literature needs to be in style again!
I agree, Nancy! Fortunately, he still does continue to share his reading list. ☮️ 🧡 📚
@@LauraRodriguez-Peace thank you. Any place extra good?
@@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively
If you follow his Facebook, or Instagram or Twitter accounts, he always posts them there. (He actually just shared a summer reading list this week…and shared another list s few months ago.)
As you know he is a voracious reader, and always loves to share a few faves. Many libraries, and independent bookstores also post his list. 😊
@@LauraRodriguez-Peace oh i like that bit about the libraries posting the lists 🤓
Imagine this with DeVos
Read?
Book?
Davos: My favorite book is "Green Eggs and Ham", by Sam I Am.
@@robertglass3944 I believe that's Cancun Cruzs' favorite..he read that on the Senate floor.
@@babyteano1977, you could be right, but he probably knows it wasn't actually written by "Sam I Am", whereas Betsy would probably double down and go on record stating good old "Sam" was her favorite author.
@@robertglass3944 😁
Another favorite first line:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times".
A familiar feeling anyone else? Blessings of Every Goodness unto One & All✨
That's the first line I thought of, because it's so famous. Then there's Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. :-)
My favorite first line comes from "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon.
"A screaming comes across the sky."
@@tomfurgas2844
Let it be a screaming release of the past and the old ways ~ to be, to know and to flow with love and in divine freedom ~
My heartfelt wish for us all.
✨✌✨
@@alwaysuseless Et tu...?
@@alwaysuseless From the inside cover of a used Commentaries trot. "Latin is a dead language from way across the sea. First it killed the Romans and now it's killing me."
Loved this segment. And, the literary, intelligent, inspirational, comment section! Yay, more books 📚 !
I actually did read "Finnegan's Wake" from beginning to end, although it took over a year, reading it in small doses. On the other hand I have not yet been able to finish "Ulysses", but now I think I'll dive in and give it a go.
I couldn't get in Finnegan's Wake. I found Ulysses much more accessible.
But if you're going to try it, reread Dubliners.
I read “Ulysses”. Haven’t had the guts to take on “Finnegan’s Wake” yet.
My Uncle dedicated about 20 years to reading and understanding the first 3 pages.
@@CP-tn6vl Dubliners is a collection of short stories. Amazing book.
Good stuff, Mr. Secretary. Glad to have you in office.
I think the first time I've heard an American politician, or any for that matter, that has read James Joyce's Ulysses. A beautiful, but challenging book. And Yes, I can't blame him for not getting through Finnegan's Wake, even though I had Joseph Campbell's book on it handy.
I am so glad he came back and admitted he hadn't read all of Finnegan's Wake, which is impossible for a mere mortal to understand (Ulysses is hard enough!) There are so few honest US politicians that I would have hated removing Mayor Pete from my very short list.
Ha, yes, Ulysses is beautiful but challenging, whereas Finnegans Wake is too challenging for me to have any idea whether it's beautiful or not.
I do know it doesn't have an apostrophe in the title, though. I learned that from... Jonathan Creek.
Bobby Kennedy read it.
Actually, I've read a lot of Gore Vidal's fiction and nonfiction.
Finnegans Wake is punishment even for lit majors. That and Middlemarch.
Read Ulysses at uni, and it is really beautiful. Gave Finnegans Wake a serious try more than once but just got lost. I always assume people who say they have read Finnegans Wake are lying, unless they specialize in Joyce. I’m glad Pete told us straight up he actually hadn’t.
He’s such a fricken nerd. I love watching him get excited over books. Obama said in an interview with Conan how all his favorite presidents were also great orators- and the one thing they all had in common was that they were voracious readers. I’d love to hear a President Mayor Pete speech.
He's not ONLY a nerd, he's also an athlete. You go, Mayor Pete!
[hear]
Anyone else get a Mr. Rogers vibe from this?
I'd bet a thousand dollars confidently that Pete is going to be a democratic presidential nominee in the next 10 years easy.
I won't take that bet. He already did it once. He will probably do it again in 2024 if Biden doesn't get his shit together.
He was already a pretty successful candidate, so it's not really a stretch.
As an Irish tour director for 30 years! Finnigans wake is among my top 5. Cheers to you my brother.
These questions are sooooo specific. I love reading but I could not for the life of me tell you what my favorite opening/closing line is
I really like the opening line from A Christmas Tale by Dickens: "Marley was dead to begin with." And also from Catcher in the Rye by Salinger (it's very long so I won't quote it.) But you're right. The only reason I remember the opening lines is because I have a cup with famous opening sentences and the only ending I can think of is "All was well." From Harry Potter 😅
@@ninaturovskiy5319 right? Like it sounds like an easy question but then you think about it and it becomes soooo hard
"Call me Ishmael" is the (my) lame answer.
@@xanderfulton3186
*"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."*
...would be my opening line.
But a closing line? Hm,...tough question. Maybe I would simply go with the same book: *"He never saw Molly again."*
A lot of lines come to mind, but I can only paraphrase: I dreamed of Mannerly last night; I was born; the whole last bit from Gatsby about the green light and fighting against the current...Deiter, you did good to remember it exactly!
Secretary Pete is so cool 😎
We hold out hope the Secretary will become President in the nearest future.
God I hope not.
@@MeinPillowGuy entirely noted, and for all the reasons you feel that way...
Peter Butt! Our first gay president🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please please please keep doing this segment, Stephen and all at Late Night 💚📚
Popular Opinion: Every single one of ya'll agrees that Butigiegg made our day CALM:
@@andi12270 So what
@@andi12270 Hey, genius... the fact that his voice is calm says absolutely nothing about his character, or his capability as a politician. Your opinion is based in emotion.
@@andi12270 If you talk about mansplaining, your opinion is worthless. You’re clearly not an intellectual.
@@camolive3727 Nobody but you said anything about his voice being calm. The concept, as I understand it is that it's a calming relief to find intelligent, competent people holding serious offices in this current administration.
@@JoRake1 I was obviously replying to someone who deleted their comments.
Wow heavy and heady stuff. Ulysses was so tough for me; I forced myself to finish but can’t say I really enjoyed it. Admire Pete the bibliophile!!
I made it about 170 pages in and then bailed.
@@ahorrell Me too. The misogyny was hard to bear. I might have to give it another try (sigh, dammit).
I didn't get through the first 20 pages. Lol
I love Pete Buttigieg and also Stephen Colbert. I hope I'm still alive when "Mayor Pete" is the President of the United States!!
I think we’re seeing a future president in the making. Sec Pete will go far
Love Buttigeig, not so sure about Colbert.
I wish. But I don't see it happening.
My favourite 1st line: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit; not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." -Tolkien, The Hobbit.
Also, the music in this video was simply fantastique!
Just reading the Hobbit right now and enjoying it! I am more the classical literature kind o‘ gal… but then I want to keep up with some cultural phenomena ☺️ Plus after some extended Colbert-fandom it was about time 🙂 It’s so sweet to read how Bilbo misses his domestic comforts while adventuring with the dwarfs…
That was the line I thought of, also. It brings to mind such a picture of a different type of home.
Omg The Hobbit and then the Lord of the Ring trilogy was what trained me to read “big books” when I was barely 11-I think it took me a year to read all four book but I was absolutely riveted. I can close my eyes still and be transported back to my reading “seat” in front of our big windows and sliding glass door to our patio. I was usually joined by one of our cats 😽
I was actually put off reading it earlier than now in my late 40s by the gruesome battlescenes in the movies. A friend told me the books were less graphic with that and I am planning to start LOTR after the Hobbit now...
@@macareuxmoine Classical literature, you say? Interesting you should say that! Some Tolkien scholars have pointed out the reluctance of many literary officianadoes in considering Professor Tolkien's works -or the fantasy genre in general- as serious literature. It appears things may be changing. If you enjoyed Homer's Illiad or Beowolf, you will indeed enjoy the Lord of the Rings, after you've finished the Hobbit. I emplore you, though: PLEASE read the Silmarillian!!! You will not be disappointed.
How lovely to hear of reading as a desire and a norm...
Love this, more please
I agree more please.. Hi how are you doing Julie ?
you can tell by the way he talks about books that he's someone who takes great pleasure in reading!
Brilliant! The man is very smart! Who thought Secretary Mayor Pete's choices would be frivolous or boring?
#VoteBlue2022
Loved his genuine honesty
On top of listing all the very smart books he’s read, he casually mentions he’s training for a triathlon 🥵🥵🥵
Pretty jealous that he's somehow figured out a way to make his days 36 hours long.
Great segment! I’d love to hear more celebrities talk about what they’re reading.
More like this please!
I love that Pete ratted himself out on Finnegan's Wake at the end.
Go Pete! Minnesota loves you!
This was awesome!👍🏽
I can't help it but I like this guy. I only became aware of him last year
Cacaty, why should you "help it"? You sound as if you like him against your will!
@@michelez715 I'm from the UK, so there's no need to be aware of him.
Dylan Thomas, great Welsh poet. Thanks for reminding us. I worked in Wales for 6 years . Pete is a Great transportation secretary and a well read man.
Agreed 👍, Hi how are you doing Louis ?
@@joeclement737 great ,thanks for your comment.
@@louisguthrie7286 You're welcome, so where are you chatting from if I may ?
@@joeclement737 Hampton Virginia
@@louisguthrie7286 Oh interesting, I am originally from Ohio but currently In Syria. Nice to meet you here Louis!!
So how's the weather over there ?
Pete Buttigieg will one day be President, Vice President, and/or a late night talk show host.
Would have been funny if he only named traffic related books.
Or transportation related, but ya. That would have been great.
would have been great. regardless, i admire him for being sincere and honest. that's rare these days.
Or "Firmer Buns In Thirty Days".
On the Road
_To Kill a Mockingbird [That Flew Into Your Windshield]_
“Season of Migration to the North” is really underrated. My masters degree is on comparative literature and i made a presentation about this book. So glad that Sec. Pete mentioned it!
Pete seems like such a great guy!
It's unusual to have a sincere, good spirit, and sane person like you working for the government.
I can guess why they don't have Republicans on this segment. Mein Kampf probably wouldn't be appropriate.
And they usually don't read, just watch Faux News.
They all claim to have read Ayn Rand or was it so last century?
@jaxavs you made me snort my tea thru my nose -- thank goodness it's iced😁
@@ernestyip7315 Ayn was Paul Ryan's fav author (or so he said). Last I heard he's gone from Golden Boy to RINO ☠
Yeah. Was pondering something similar. Was asking myself what Republican would come on here with such a nice list …
Joseph Buttigieg was an intellectual giant and a very good father.
Well, the was just 10000% wholesome
wholesome! I agree 10000% x
@@MrAdamAdam83 yes absolutely! Stupid autocorrect and fat fingers!
Popular Opinion: Every single one of ya'll agrees that Dr.Colbert what ya' Readin? made our day:
Yes! I loved it.
Intelligent and well read… Superb! As you would expect from a Rhodes Scholar.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It would have been so funny to have this same segment with Donald Trump 🤣🤣🤣
As though he would have told the Truth about what he's read.
Hustler and Playboy....The Wall Street Journal...
More books than most Americans have read in their entire adult lives.
And he can tell us what they're about.
My, how sad a commentary that is.
I don't have cable TV; much prefer curling up in bed with a good book.
@@tomfurgas2844 Who's a good book?
Sorry! Just couldn't let that go! 😆🥴🙄
@@mztee8107 I'd like to curl up with Mr. Buttigieg, but I am sure his husband Chasten would object!
These days, most people just read Twitter...
Sad..
Every time I see him I am reminded of how important education is and how grateful he must be to his educator parents. This is a great new segment, Stephen. Just don't bother asking Sarah Palin and that crowd.
This man MUST be President one day soon.
In another 40 years … 😏
So what’s wrong with being thoughtful and well read?
Makes you a liberal and we can't have that now can we?
The more well read the more intelligent (typically) a person is, therefore the more terrifying to those that prey on ignorance. If we were ALL educated there would never be another Republican voted into public office.
@@emeraldblue5291 And somewhere Bill Buckley is spinning in his grave.
@@bridgetcollins7969 it was never this bad the last 50 years.
Reagan and Tip O’Neil would have drinks together regularly to see who things can work out.
Tom Delay and Newt changed everything and started the redisctricting when they realized that will never have a chance with the popular vote with the way America was progressing.
The GOP is now is truly RINO.
A Christmas Carol, my all time favorite story.
Right now studying the Civil War and the Revolution.
Pete is wonderful. If there's justice in the world, make him our president.
Watching this I couldn't help.to wonder what my answers would be to these same questions...and I realized almost all of them would be answered with the same book: 'something wicked this way comes' by ray Bradbury
I love Joyce but making Ulysses seem relatable to average readers is hilarious to me. At least he didn't claim the same for Finnegan's Wake lol.
As an English teacher I'm impressed with what he read in high school. Must have been a good school/teacher.
Those of us who are products of Catholic secondary and collegiate institutions were given bibliographies from which to select....and what spectra they were.
I thought the same thing.
This is AWESOME 🤓
Love me some Pete!!
What are you coloring in? with president tr*mp
"This picture of a wall"
"Well, you know, my coloring is the greatest - some say of all time - so I sat down, and I colored in a map of a HURRICANE that was going to HIT - to HIT - Alabama. I probably saved, oh, about 3 MiLLion lives from that hurricane, that, frankly, nobody else was talking about."
@@ojtheaviator1795 THAT WAS THE GREATEST!
Sharpie doodle specialist! I say, he can alter the paths of hurricanes! 🤪
Love that! Now I need to read a book.
Me too, hi how are you doing Karen ?
Very cool admission there about Finnegans Wake.
0:45 I love seeing people get excited about things
"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault" will always be the best opening line for a book. It's still refreshing to have functioning literate adults in positions of power...it shouldn't be but alas...it be.
My favorite book is A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
One of my favourite authors. So many wonderful books!
@@susancampbell2349 👍🏻he is my favorite author. I hate to admit it but I don’t read books much anymore. I’m addicted to the internet and cable news. Please give my comment a thumbs up
That book made me sad. But it was entrancing, and moving.
The Cider House Rules, same. I just think Owen Meany was more tragic. To me, anyway.
@@snowyminnesota6028 I agree with your assessment. Owen Meany was un-film able and someone tried with a rip off and they were sued to remove his name.
You must know John Irving wrote the screenplay for Cider House Rules and won the Oscar (I wonder if that’s a ‘first time’ for that). It was very well done but for the film, he toned down the ‘better an abortion than an orphan’ theme.
I remember when Owen Meany was published, some critics complained the book was just a backstory to make ‘The Shot’ work. Whatever… Lol
Also love The World According To Garp
and even The Hotel New Hampshire (both had comedy and tragedy as well)
Thank you… best wishes, health, joy and wellbeing… 🖖🏽✌🏻
- Could you name one or two of your most favorite Bible verses?
- I wouldn't want to get into it because to me that's very personal. You know, when I talk about the Bible, it's very personal, so I don't want to get into verses. The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics.
- So are you more of an Old Testament guy or a New Testament guy?
- Ummmmm… probably equal.
Love Pete
My favorite book is Rise of the Oathbreakers. Very informative.
GREEN EGGS AND HAM. THATS MY GO TO
Okay. NOW I can vote for him for sure. If he hadn't dropped out before my state's primary I was definitely considering it. Now I know.
Thank you, Pete! I tried to read Finnegan’s Wake and just couldn’t… Thank you for making me feel better about myself!
Love you 💕
Does it count that I went to a forum with Jill Lepore instead of reading the book?
His list puts the dime store paperbacks on my nightstand to shame.
I was looking to support him in his run for the White House, but now I'm glad I didn't. We can't have a president training for triathlons and inhaling books the whole time!
Get it out of your system while you're young! I give you 4 years.
I'm re-reading Time and Again by Jack Finney.
That's an excellent book.
I am decimating my library by the re-reading method. I don't expect my grandchildren to pursue my interests.
My favorite book is one no one has ever heard of by an author you all know: Roald Dahl of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fame but a very adult book from 1979 about a young man going to college the next fall so sent on a European trip as a 17 year old and getting in to all sorts of mischief. Really randy, really hilarious and not at all what you would expect from Charlie’s creator. Title: My Uncle Oswald. I read it at least twice a year, and I don’t do that with any of the other books in my fairly extensive library.
Enjoy!
That's interesting, hi how are you doing Joan ?
@@joeclement737
Hello Joe! Thanks for taking the time to reply-this is truly my very favorite book , and I have probably read at least 500 books if not a thousand or more ! I have to go to my favorite used book store in Novato at least once a year to donate!
How do you know Yabette? Her son was at our super cool creative arts school the same time as my older son.
@@joanlivingston3769 Oh cool, i don't kno her i just decided gp to say hi.
So where are you chatting from if I may ?
Wow that list make me feel very inadequate! Im more of a romance novel reader myself🤣 I find life is just to heavy at the moment and just what a little bit of escapism right now.
You're still reading.
And not everything that Sec'y Pete mentioned is all that heavy. I find it very much an escapist sort of feeling, to get absorbed in something that's actually worth my time. You might like it too -
I love this!
Pete is clearly well read. I'm guessing that Trump has read three or four books in his entire lifetime.
I don't want to be rude, but you might have a distorted sense of reality if you believe Trump has ever read a book.
I think the word you're looking for is menus. I sure trump has read the KFC, McDonald's, burger king and Wendy's. Others were read to him.
A Taco Bell menu is not a book.
Otto you were ahead of me!
@@r11h57 Funniest comment of the day! 😂
Future president?
He's just too precious!
He's fantastic.
my favorite book is "Watership Down" by Richard Adams, also "The Plague Dogs" also by Richard Adams
Fave book is Ulysses???? I'm in love
An entertaining and informative read is Fake History but Otto English. It's s non fiction history about the history we get wrong, often knowingly. His writing style is what makes entertaining, he's British and it's got a touch of Douglas Adams wit about it. He also narrates the audiobook.
Slayer Pete!
who's boat is this boat