rating every book Lisa Simpson reads in The Simpsons on how inappropriate they are for an 8 year old

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    lisa simpson has been 8 years old for 32 years... and has the most refined taste in literature ever. so, i decided to rate every book she reads in the simpsons based on how child-appropriate they are. yes you are on youtube not mumsnet.
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  • @Jaruco2102
    @Jaruco2102 Pƙed 3 lety +3482

    “i dont mean to fatshame a book” is the funniest sentence i never thought i’d hear

  • @Clementine3107
    @Clementine3107 Pƙed 3 lety +4342

    It's not a Jack Edwards video if he doesn't remind you he has an english literature degree.

  • @AJ-uo5zl
    @AJ-uo5zl Pƙed 2 lety +2411

    'the russians had a lot to say' is a summary of russian literature in general, not just the one book

    • @astrida111
      @astrida111 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +14

      and not just books

    • @MeryKeit
      @MeryKeit Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci +18

      fat shaming a book I see ☕

    • @DomesticatedGoth
      @DomesticatedGoth Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +5

      To be fair, Russian is often far more efficient than English when it comes to how many words it takes to say things, but even considering that, Russian classic literature does tend to be weighty.

  • @bowenwangs
    @bowenwangs Pƙed 3 lety +3134

    Jack uses his degree to effortlessly weave pop culture references and corny jokes into his speech and I honestly admire that.

    • @jalebi_baby8
      @jalebi_baby8 Pƙed 2 lety +50

      Perfectly summed up. I mean he made me start reading books which was impooooossible.

    • @theambitiouslawstudent4828
      @theambitiouslawstudent4828 Pƙed 10 měsĂ­ci +5

      The lorelai gilmore effect 😂

  • @sceliocioli
    @sceliocioli Pƙed 3 lety +10066

    Please!: rating every book Matilda reads in Matilda the Movie!

  • @otherworldsthanthese
    @otherworldsthanthese Pƙed 3 lety +8356

    this is the content we subscribed for

  • @SkyeValentine6927
    @SkyeValentine6927 Pƙed 3 lety +1220

    "Imagine having that much to say about anything ever" and that's just one of many thick boys Dostoevsky has put out

  • @Isabelle-fm5do
    @Isabelle-fm5do Pƙed 3 lety +5484

    You should do "How many Books have I read off of the Rory Gilmore List"

  • @sarasolomon4812
    @sarasolomon4812 Pƙed 3 lety +2622

    Here's an interesting fact...
    The Telltale Heart is narratorated entirely in first person, and the gender of the speaker is never revealed. It's always assumed to be a man, but it COULD technically be a woman. Rereading the story from the perspective of a female narrator gives an interesting new perspective on the classic tale.

    • @Nat-fn4ou
      @Nat-fn4ou Pƙed 3 lety +141

      I've read it and assumed it was a woman. Lol

    • @jack_edwards
      @jack_edwards  Pƙed 3 lety +1031

      oooooohhhh how interesting! I think I listened to an audiobook once where it was narrated by a man so always thought it was a man in my head - looove this though and will definitely be rereading!!

    • @meganknight5262
      @meganknight5262 Pƙed 3 lety +210

      I brought this exact point up in my ap lit class and everybody was telling me I was thinking too much about it...

    • @whoami4534
      @whoami4534 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      True

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 Pƙed 3 lety +495

      @@meganknight5262 "You're thinking too much about a piece of literature" from people in an AP lit class sounds like a bad sign.

  • @brucie1275
    @brucie1275 Pƙed 3 lety +2806

    "i don't mean to fatshame a book, but look at her- she's a mammoth!" JACK I'M SCREAMING I NEARLY CHOKED ON MY TOAST

  • @july3817
    @july3817 Pƙed 2 lety +392

    "The Bell Jar is a book for mentally unstable people, I loved it" relatable

  • @neptunesedge9123
    @neptunesedge9123 Pƙed 3 lety +1961

    Now you’re tempting me to read “Gravity’s rainbow”.

    • @cosmic3045
      @cosmic3045 Pƙed 3 lety +348

      Same i really was like "i feel like this is a challenge"

    • @kati5243
      @kati5243 Pƙed 3 lety +112

      Challenge accepted

    • @agustinacastellano5784
      @agustinacastellano5784 Pƙed 3 lety +400

      am I going to do it? no. did I feel personally challenged? yes.

    • @anna.slays24
      @anna.slays24 Pƙed 3 lety +17

      Same hahaha

    • @SillyStokey92
      @SillyStokey92 Pƙed 3 lety +47

      Trust me, its not worth it lol

  • @kathaSchmei
    @kathaSchmei Pƙed 3 lety +2606

    Nobody:
    Jack: "you lucky sausage"
    me: Now THAT is a compliment I will take

  • @maarishasaraswat3633
    @maarishasaraswat3633 Pƙed 3 lety +893

    "my attention span is the length of a tik tok" jdjdjdj only the truth was spoken

    • @csCherry
      @csCherry Pƙed 3 lety +9

      Something to work on which is why I love insane book reading projects like that.

    • @maarishasaraswat3633
      @maarishasaraswat3633 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@csCherry I KNOW RIGHT

  • @ItsNicoleD
    @ItsNicoleD Pƙed 3 lety +426

    "I haven't read this book BUT I just read a wikipedia article on it SO ... i'm ready to mansplain it to you" đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„HONESTLY i love you for this lol.

    • @susanalfieri4487
      @susanalfieri4487 Pƙed měsĂ­cem

      Funny, yes. I love Jack! Great book though. I do hope he reviews it in the near future. I haven't read it in many years, but I remember it being very impactful. The movie too...

  • @anweshaberia4883
    @anweshaberia4883 Pƙed 3 lety +3700

    Lisa's overly developed taste in literature includes :
    1) The bell jar
    2) The brother's Karamazov
    3) The poetry of Emily Dickinson
    4)Leaves of Grass
    5) Anne of green Gables (5 Lisa heads/child appropriate)
    6) How to cook humans (maybe not a real book)
    7) The book of British smiles
    8) Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's cradle
    9) Gravity's rainbow
    10) The Salinger Collection
    11) Grimm's Fairytales (4Lisa heads)
    The telltale Heart
    *) Tintin in Paris (5 Lisa heads)
    12) Harry Potter (5 Lisa heads, 0 for transphobia)
    13) Jane Austen books (4 Lisa heads)
    14) Joy luck club
    15) Man and Superman
    16) Charolette's Web (5 Lisa heads)
    17) The rise and fall of the third Reich
    Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong 😊

    • @Mel-jr5cz
      @Mel-jr5cz Pƙed 3 lety +134

      Also reads "The Death of Ivan Illych" by Tolstoy, which I have read, and which I wouldn't give more than two Lisa heads

    • @devinstephans7969
      @devinstephans7969 Pƙed 2 lety +11

      mvp

    • @natyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
      @natyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Pƙed 2 lety +47

      aCtUaLLy
.. the Kurt Vonnegut book was Timequake, but Jack did say it was Cat’s Cradle. Sorry for being a stickler 😬 Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors

    • @myatlik
      @myatlik Pƙed 2 lety +23

      'The Brothers Karamazov'

    • @hannamaria6092
      @hannamaria6092 Pƙed 2 lety +16

      thank you very much stranger :)

  • @luannemonselywizard
    @luannemonselywizard Pƙed 3 lety +4148

    “if you thought that doing a degree in english literature would get you nowhere in life, you’re absolutely correct my friend” * nervously laughs in english literature undergrad *

    • @samuelusrestrepus
      @samuelusrestrepus Pƙed 3 lety +36

      Spanish degree here D:

    • @yinhannasjournal
      @yinhannasjournal Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Omg. đŸ„ș❀
      Good luck!

    • @DaughterDust
      @DaughterDust Pƙed 3 lety +12

      I did american literature, so that’s great

    • @aquariumgravel6683
      @aquariumgravel6683 Pƙed 3 lety +62

      @@samuelusrestrepus you can do medical translating! translating between doctors and patients. you can also do that for studies and all kinds of situation. you just have to take certifications and learn terms in the languages you speak!

    • @hritikabhatnagar1324
      @hritikabhatnagar1324 Pƙed 2 lety +7

      Me who is pursuing eng hons with a hope of writing something great 🙃😱

  • @veekativhu_
    @veekativhu_ Pƙed 3 lety +9175

    HOW are you real?????! You’re giving us the content we did not ask for but WE NEEEDED!!!! - not all heroes wear capes. Not all heroes đŸ’«đŸ’«đŸ„łđŸ„łđŸ„ł

  • @thehousespouse
    @thehousespouse Pƙed 3 lety +1014

    1:49 Lisa is definitely very traumatised by the books that she reads that neither of her parents have the intelligence, time, awareness, or wherewithal to realise are totally inappropriate for their child to read. Just because a child can read an adult book, that doesn’t mean that they should.

    • @princeza7030
      @princeza7030 Pƙed 2 lety +88

      the writters would have done it on purpose, not for the point your saying i dont think but bc the simpsons is inappropriate in general, they have always been contraversial and take risks to be seen as that. But i defs agree with your point if this was a real family!! and not written to make heads turn!

    • @wonderlaund
      @wonderlaund Pƙed 2 lety +27

      literally my life when I was 9-12😂

    • @N_IRL
      @N_IRL Pƙed rokem +29

      Yep... My friend read Fifty Shades of Grey when she was eleven because she heard it was an "adult book" and was like "well, kid's books are too easy, so I'll read the adult book". She wrote her college essay about how it traumatized her lol

    • @debleb166
      @debleb166 Pƙed 9 měsĂ­ci

      My favourite book as a six year old was White Fang and I'm sure that affected me somehow...

    • @skeletized
      @skeletized Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci

      the first book i read once i learned how to read was the amphigorey which i adore and would not take back but MAN i'm sure if affected me as a 5yo

  • @annelooney1090
    @annelooney1090 Pƙed 3 lety +468

    My dad tried to read Gravity's Rainbow and said he quit after a scene where somebody takes a dump in someone else's mouth. Negative Lisa Heads out of five.

    • @roopalijain2418
      @roopalijain2418 Pƙed 2 lety +58

      Ayo??💀😋

    • @Hale8R
      @Hale8R Pƙed 2 lety +22

      Omg *gagging*đŸ€ąđŸ€ź ☠

    • @jeremyhopkins577
      @jeremyhopkins577 Pƙed 2 lety +46

      I don't think that's even the most disturbing scene in the novel lol

    • @happyjellycatsquid
      @happyjellycatsquid Pƙed 2 lety +56

      I’d considered reading the book after feeling challenged by Jack’s comments but now hearing that I’ll just keep struggling through Jane Eyre

    • @akl2k7
      @akl2k7 Pƙed 2 lety +11

      After hearing the book mentioned in this video, I looked it up on TV Tropes out of curiosity. The summary on there as well as your comment make me want to stay well enough away.

  • @eguzkineferreiro8863
    @eguzkineferreiro8863 Pƙed 3 lety +2508

    Similar idea to this one, there's a series called criminal minds with a character called Reid who likes reading and reccommends a bunch of books

  • @sheliesawake
    @sheliesawake Pƙed 3 lety +582

    "my compliments to the chef, which was me" I’M DED

  • @caitlinscollin8721
    @caitlinscollin8721 Pƙed 3 lety +126

    emily dickinson did have a few poems published during her life, but it was against her will (she sent them to friends as gifts occasionally and they were so good that they put them in the newspaper)

  • @jess__rodriguez
    @jess__rodriguez Pƙed 2 lety +129

    Fun fact: Emily Dickinson’s sister, and I believe her publisher, took the poems they found wrapped in twine AND REARRANGED THEM. They did NOT leave her work in the original order that Emily wrote it in. From what I remember learning about her in university, it was a matter of how the public would like it and sell-ability that influenced this decision. So because of this if you read her work in book form there might be poems that feel like they match in theme but they aren’t back to back in order. Because they were rearranged to be mixed up.

    • @Kalani_Saiko
      @Kalani_Saiko Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +5

      That kind of makes me mad.

    • @jess__rodriguez
      @jess__rodriguez Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +6

      @@Kalani_Saiko oh don’t worry me too-my class was ENRAGED when out professor talked about this with us

    • @Kalani_Saiko
      @Kalani_Saiko Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci

      @@jess__rodriguez As you guys should be lol

  • @Snehaa04
    @Snehaa04 Pƙed 3 lety +2094

    The look on your face when it hits you
    "sHE's eiGHt" 😳

    • @cansadafernanda
      @cansadafernanda Pƙed 3 lety +43

      And she reads more (and better) than me

    • @neldormiveglia1312
      @neldormiveglia1312 Pƙed 3 lety +43

      i guess i never questioned her age, really, but for some reason i always presumed she was more like 12 or idk lol

    • @haliee
      @haliee Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@neldormiveglia1312 same

  • @dr.faustus4123
    @dr.faustus4123 Pƙed 3 lety +1869

    him: if you thought english literature degree would get you nowhere in life, you're absolutely correct
    me who is studying english literature: 👁👄👁

  • @auroradazed
    @auroradazed Pƙed 3 lety +180

    i just wanna say you're really changing the booktube game. i remember back in like 2013/2014 when booktube was THRIVING and on its come-up and there were so many hauls and unboxings and tags, and we all ate that up because it was new and exciting! but for the past few years i feel like booktube has sort of fell off due to there being a lack of new ideas and content /: but you're really mixing it up and bringing so many new things to the table and i can't thank you enough for it!

    • @vegangurly
      @vegangurly Pƙed 2 lety +4

      I have watched a few of his videos and this comment just convinced me to officially subscribe

  • @Kiwi_DeFruit
    @Kiwi_DeFruit Pƙed 3 lety +46

    The Brothers Karamazov I read not an 8 year old, but fairly young (like 13?) and I LOVED it! It went all Sherlock Holmes at the end, but had interesting characters, and... THE WISDOM THO. So I know it's a pain to read a book that long, but I can't reccommend it enough. Also there's good audiobooks on that book if you just want to listen to it. 10/10, It is my favourite of Dostoyevski.

    • @dearlolly2293
      @dearlolly2293 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      the wisdom YES. the whole speech of Ivan about god and suffering was so touching, it was literally all of my thoughts about religion summerized.

    • @graceface420
      @graceface420 Pƙed rokem

      I can't believe he "reviewed" it without reading it.

  • @lillith3201
    @lillith3201 Pƙed 3 lety +693

    I grew up in Germany. I didn't even know that there were alternative "more child-friendly" versions of the Grimms Fairytales until I was 19 years old

    • @elisedutcher4923
      @elisedutcher4923 Pƙed 3 lety +21

      so i heard that grimm fairy tales were not actually supposed to be fairy tales, but a record of every german word . . . ever.
      have you heard anything like that? do you know if its true?
      (not trying to assume that because your german you know everything. im an american, and i have no clue what the us involvement in ww1 was, even though we studied it for 2 weeks lol)

    • @Limonenmixgetraenk
      @Limonenmixgetraenk Pƙed 3 lety +78

      @@elisedutcher4923 The Brothers Grimm are mostly known for two projects, the fairy tales and also (but not as much) for a Dictionary of German ("Deutsches Wörterbuch") :) so its two separate things, but both by the Brothers Grimm.

    • @elisedutcher4923
      @elisedutcher4923 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      @@Limonenmixgetraenk oh okie thank u!!!!

    • @flame6454
      @flame6454 Pƙed 3 lety +51

      @@elisedutcher4923 The brothers Grimm didn't create the fairy tales, they merely collected old oral folk tales and wrote them down.

    • @mrcrabmoney
      @mrcrabmoney Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Translated and severely edited 😅😅😅

  • @jil8091
    @jil8091 Pƙed 3 lety +451

    "I couldn't tell you this much about myself and I've been me for 22 years"
    I felt that

  • @jessicalicker9600
    @jessicalicker9600 Pƙed 3 lety +56

    I've read every Jane Austen novel, and I completely agree with your assessment. Northanger Abbey was the first book she wrote, and the echoes of the epistolary style she wrote the first draft in are so interesting to read!

  • @hishighnessleefelix
    @hishighnessleefelix Pƙed 2 lety +382

    Jack: **stressing about Lisa reading The Bell Jar**
    Me, at age 11: **reading 50 Shades of Grey**
    I speak the truth.

    • @simayd.1771
      @simayd.1771 Pƙed 2 lety +132

      Reading 50 Shades oder Grey is just terrible for any age to read

    • @simayd.1771
      @simayd.1771 Pƙed 2 lety +4

      Reading 50 Shades oder Grey is just terrible for any age to read

    • @UmiChan358
      @UmiChan358 Pƙed 2 lety +9

      There are cooler books UwU

    • @hishighnessleefelix
      @hishighnessleefelix Pƙed 2 lety +8

      @@UmiChan358 there really are

    • @happyjellycatsquid
      @happyjellycatsquid Pƙed 2 lety +39

      At least my girl Lisa has taste yikes

  • @aditii1698
    @aditii1698 Pƙed 3 lety +4106

    Only Jack can have sense of humor that's cool and lame at the same time lol

  • @ellamae4809
    @ellamae4809 Pƙed 3 lety +912

    “i’m ready to mansplain it to you now” me whenever i read any wikipedia page

  • @HosannaRider
    @HosannaRider Pƙed 3 lety +95

    The Brothers Grimm didn't write the fairy tales. They collected different versions from different countries. There are plenty of clean versions of these lessons. Because that's what fairy tales were, lessons. The Grimm versions weren't the only ones out there, and Disney didn't clean up every one, they used different versions. If I'm remembering right the version of Cinderella they used was French, a much cleaner version where she gets glass slippers, a pumpkin carriage, mice who turned into horsemen, you get my point. Every culture has versions of these fairy tales, all at different degrees and with different messages. (Also fun fact I think one of the first Cinderella stories comes from Egypt? A woman's shoe went flying and hit the ruler of the area in the head. He searched for the owner of the shoe and they fell in love. Something like that.)

    • @ramona6644
      @ramona6644 Pƙed 3 lety +15

      very worrying that that book got 4 Lisa heads though, cause so many of the princesses in that get raped or characters get fed their own children. I read those stories a lot when I was around that age ( and many others) and lord, I am still scarred

    • @HosannaRider
      @HosannaRider Pƙed 3 lety +7

      @@ramona6644 yeah. The Grimm brothers really ran with the darkest tales. Just because something is a fairy tale doesn't mean it's kid friendly in a way. Fairy tales are primarily lessons, but still

    • @bellac6311
      @bellac6311 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      Tru, fairytales were just written to fearmonger kids into not doing something

    • @EmyN
      @EmyN Pƙed rokem

      OMG that makes so much more sense! I never understood why the stupid prince went about looking for her by people's foot

    • @clara_hp6254
      @clara_hp6254 Pƙed rokem +1

      But also the Grimm brothers were German and Germany had a history of disturbing children’s book. (I’m German)
      In two of the most iconic children’s books the main Charakters get either crushed to death or set on fire. A really well known songs is about a man shooting a fox who stole a geese. There are also many short stories where just all the children die.
      So in that context the Grimm stories do make sense haha

  • @HylianDan
    @HylianDan Pƙed 2 lety +18

    I went with an ebook version of the Karamazov Brothers and I think that helped because I never got too visceral a sense of how long it was... I tore through it fairly quickly. Worth giving it a chance seeing as you enjoyed Crime and Punishment! I really liked it.

  • @daisymurf4727
    @daisymurf4727 Pƙed 3 lety +915

    somebody once told me that I have Lisa Simpson energy and I will never forget it

    • @nahbruvv238
      @nahbruvv238 Pƙed 3 lety +63

      That must be the ultimate compliment!

    • @anikawagner3704
      @anikawagner3704 Pƙed 3 lety +77

      I started reading this comment as the beginning of all star by smashmouthđŸ€Ł

    • @nahbruvv238
      @nahbruvv238 Pƙed 3 lety +18

      @@anikawagner3704 Now I cant stop singing the comment 😂

    • @victoriacorreacruz5969
      @victoriacorreacruz5969 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      Same, I felt so proud 😂

    • @xkathygee
      @xkathygee Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@anikawagner3704 Me, too xD

  • @VanillaBoom
    @VanillaBoom Pƙed 3 lety +1175

    As a German, I can tell you that we actually read or get read the Grimm Fairytales at a fairly young age so the 4 Lisa heads seem about right :]

    • @bubblebubble7494
      @bubblebubble7494 Pƙed 3 lety +70

      The best moment in primary school was when my WTG teacher decided she would read random farytales to us
      She didn't knew them herself and to this day I dont know if I should think this was brave or naive

    • @mitzelim3044
      @mitzelim3044 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Yep.

    • @nurailidepaepe2783
      @nurailidepaepe2783 Pƙed 3 lety +22

      as a belgian i grew up with them from like 6 years old or younger

    • @jsalg6481
      @jsalg6481 Pƙed 3 lety +19

      As a Colombian we grew up watching the anime version of them and now that I think about it, it was wild how they thought it would be appropriate to put it in tv for children to watch it just because was animated

    • @nurailidepaepe2783
      @nurailidepaepe2783 Pƙed 3 lety +48

      @@jsalg6481 it is appropriate tho. people underestimate how much kids can take. they usually enjoy the traditional fairytales even when they're rlly morbid/brutal (ofc depends on the kid but this is what research says)

  • @rk_san
    @rk_san Pƙed 3 lety +28

    Jack: *I don't mean to fat shame a book but she's a MAMMOTH*
    Only you, Jack, only you.

  • @meghanpfeiffer
    @meghanpfeiffer Pƙed 3 lety +19

    I've read The Brothers Karamazov, and I think it's pretty appropriate for a child. The act of murder isn't described in great detail and there really isn't much else that could scar a child. Whether or not they would be interested in such a long book is a different story.

  • @zainabqureshi9334
    @zainabqureshi9334 Pƙed 3 lety +953

    "If I can cook it, it's quite literally idiot-proof."
    Ohmygod JACK

    • @zainab-uh8vf
      @zainab-uh8vf Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Idkw I literally always gotta do this but oMG SAME NAME

    • @zainabqureshi9334
      @zainabqureshi9334 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@zainab-uh8vf haha I get ittt 😂😂 it's always a little surreal to come across a person who shares my name... Even more so when they're the same AGE!?

    • @zainab-uh8vf
      @zainab-uh8vf Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@zainabqureshi9334 ure 14 ?!???!?!!!

    • @zainabqureshi9334
      @zainabqureshi9334 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@zainab-uh8vf hehe no. I'm 19! đŸ’„

    • @zainab-uh8vf
      @zainab-uh8vf Pƙed 3 lety

      @@zainabqureshi9334 ooo oki

  • @fatizio7778
    @fatizio7778 Pƙed 3 lety +371

    no one '
    jack : iM AN EdGaR EleN HoE

  • @sagecolvard9644
    @sagecolvard9644 Pƙed 2 lety +36

    I will say, in the complete works of Kurt Vonnegut, there is not one novel that doesn't contain some amount of weird sex stuff. Probably my favourite example of this is GalĂĄpagos, which contains the most sexual nuclear war ever put to paper.

    • @kirstenshute2729
      @kirstenshute2729 Pƙed 2 lety +12

      Ok, now I'm curious. "Most sexual nuclear war" was a phrase I never expected to read :P

  • @BianaBova
    @BianaBova Pƙed 3 lety +178

    The Joy Luck Club is AMAZING. It tells the story of 4 Chinese immigrant mothers and their 4 first gen daughters, and how both generations have gone through so much pain but don't understand each other because of the different cultures and struggles they grew up with. Each character's story is incredibly powerful and memorable. It's been a while since I last read it, but I'd give it 3 Lisa heads 👍

    • @sophiagonzales8974
      @sophiagonzales8974 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      The book is okayish (But I honestly didn’t enjoy the book that much since they didn’t wrap up the 3 other arcs of the women) there’s only one complete arc for me (perhaps maybe 2 Lisa heads)

    • @kythe8150
      @kythe8150 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@sophiagonzales8974 honestly that’s one of the reasons I liked it because it would be unrealistic if all the daughters had this happy ending where they could perfectly understand their culture/mom

    • @sophiagonzales8974
      @sophiagonzales8974 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@kythe8150 I’m not saying that having this ending is a bad thing or if it’s one just one girl but like the other girls don’t really have a conclusion eg: Waverly Jong and the mother pressuring off her chess tournaments, ying with the I threw baby in the water and one of the other girls which I don’t remember off. I’m not trying to say that it’s bad to have sad endings it’s just that the others don’t feel wrapped up or are open ended that isn’t done properly.

    • @kythe8150
      @kythe8150 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@sophiagonzales8974 yeah no I see what you mean because it did kinda annoy me how Waverly barely made any progress as a character

    • @sophiagonzales8974
      @sophiagonzales8974 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@kythe8150 Which is why I said that Joy Luck is okayish and something I don’t think I’d like to read again

  • @sarahreincastle8306
    @sarahreincastle8306 Pƙed 3 lety +298

    At first i was like "oh shit how did he have the time to read that book" and then 2 seconds later you clarified you havent actually read it AHAHA thankyou Jack

  • @Mariam.4445
    @Mariam.4445 Pƙed 3 lety +307

    Jack's videos are so precious, the most enjoyable thing I've ever watched.

  • @michellehanson984
    @michellehanson984 Pƙed 2 lety +24

    Someone has probably pointed this out, but Anne of Green Gables is about an 11 year old girl. Anne was aged up for Anne with an E and the Megan Follows adaptation to 13

  • @missallsunday5417
    @missallsunday5417 Pƙed 3 lety +15

    As someone whose mother made her read "The Rainbow" "The Lord of the Flies" as a child. I can relate.

  • @rameenfatima1210
    @rameenfatima1210 Pƙed 3 lety +201

    pls do a Rory Gilmore version!!

  • @lisag.215
    @lisag.215 Pƙed 3 lety +310

    Me, a German, when he thought 8 was too young to learn details about the nazis: đŸ‘ïžđŸ‘„đŸ‘ïž

    • @lillaaay4711
      @lillaaay4711 Pƙed 3 lety +18

      Well in Germany it‘s kinda the same. Some books that are about ww2 are written in the ‚old‘ German font so kids can‘t read it as easily. Also there‘s a reason why we only learn about ww2 in grade 9...

    • @lisag.215
      @lisag.215 Pƙed 3 lety +14

      @@lillaaay4711 I'm pretty sure I learned about it waay earlier but maybe I was teached different. And I didn't mean through books but school etc, I should have put it differently, my mistake

    • @lillaaay4711
      @lillaaay4711 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      @@lisag.215 yeah maybe it just differs from state to state

    • @KnilchTV
      @KnilchTV Pƙed 3 lety +39

      @@lisag.215 As a kid I read the diary of Anne Frank and also "when hitler stole the pink rabbit" which are both books about Nazi Germany from a child's perspective. This is a good way of learning and understanding important parts in history without being overwhelmed by it.

    • @osnats7898
      @osnats7898 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      same lamo but im not bc im german im jewishđŸ„Ž

  • @cloudmilla
    @cloudmilla Pƙed 3 lety +58

    Now you’ll have to go through Daria’s books đŸ˜‚đŸ€Ł

  • @tracymccarthy6696
    @tracymccarthy6696 Pƙed 3 lety +33

    Love Lisa’s book choices! I’m guessing the How to Cook Humans book is a spoof off of The Twilight Zone and the episode ‘To Serve Man’ where we get the horrible twist at the end of ‘it’s a cookbook’ 🧑‍🍳 so definitely child appropriate

  • @CagedTroll
    @CagedTroll Pƙed 3 lety +120

    “You can always tell British people by our teeth” *flashes beautiful smile*

  • @Anne-id2zt
    @Anne-id2zt Pƙed 3 lety +208

    I read Grimms fairytales when I was 8. I loved them but I also loved books like Struwwelpeter ("educational" German short stories where kids e.g. light themselves on fire, fall into a well and always die), so don't trust my taste.

    • @Serenity_yt
      @Serenity_yt Pƙed 3 lety +11

      I did as well (fellow German here) so Id go ahead and say dont trust any of our tastes there we have quite a strange relationship with child appropriate content (krampus yey 2nd Harry Potter the worst thing imagineable; Go real footage of literal corpse piles from KZs but you better not show pupils any film that is in the slightest rated above FSK 6

    • @nil.2713
      @nil.2713 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Yeah, I grew up with them too. But I think we all read a heavily censored and more child-appropriate version.

    • @melinakunzli6865
      @melinakunzli6865 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      omg I read the Strubelpeter too as a child (about 5 years old), and i have to say i'm still a little bit scared of that book 15 years later.

    • @aless.andra9620
      @aless.andra9620 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      As an adult I am a huge fan of Hannibal TV series, and I recently remembered that one of my favorite fairtales as a child had cannibalistic component to it (a boy and a dragon fly on a dangerous adventure, dragon gets exhausted and hungry (and landing is not an option for some reason), so the boy cuts off the piece his flesh and feeds it to the dragon).
      Like what?!

    • @recklessandjulia
      @recklessandjulia Pƙed 3 lety +5

      Funny how those stories didnt scar me for life same with Wilhelm Busch with his stories like Max & Moritz for example

  • @ines-xh4rs
    @ines-xh4rs Pƙed rokem +9

    I love how he never misses a chance to say how Wilbur shouldn't be given all the credit

  • @masonallen3961
    @masonallen3961 Pƙed 2 lety +20

    As someone who read The Joy Luck Club in High School, I promise you won’t regret reading it. It was probably one of my favorite books I read in High School.

  • @user-xq9st2zu4n
    @user-xq9st2zu4n Pƙed 3 lety +253

    I honestly don't know how you come up with your ideas, but it's so cool how unqiue your content is and how it's not limited for only Booktube people to enjoy.

  • @francescakyanda9182
    @francescakyanda9182 Pƙed 3 lety +189

    I'm both horrified and impressed with her taste, also we really need more nerd representation

  • @pandarouge91
    @pandarouge91 Pƙed 3 lety +77

    This is such a clever analysis. I always call my husband “Lisa Simpson.” Lisa is the dark, insightful, and socially awkward friend we all need ❀

  • @sassas4919
    @sassas4919 Pƙed rokem +11

    This just taught me that Jack has absolutely no idea whats Child appropriate 😂😂😂

  • @EmDoesNotExist
    @EmDoesNotExist Pƙed 3 lety +77

    Jack’s ability to write a hilarious script for these videos (I assume by how fluid it is) and still make it seem natural is honestly amazing.

  • @moonycanwatch
    @moonycanwatch Pƙed 3 lety +572

    Putting the inappropriateness aside, dare I say, Lisa is a girlboss?

  • @lindseylocker
    @lindseylocker Pƙed 3 lety +9

    The Brothers Karamazov translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is exquisite. I read it when I was about...18? and loved it so much that I re-started it a few seconds after finishing the last page. I highly, highly recommend you read it

  • @sarahriddle499
    @sarahriddle499 Pƙed 2 lety +14

    11:24
    Lisa’s eyes look like each one is reading a different page.
    Does she read books at 2x normal speed? No wonder she’s the queen of literature!

  • @alissah5595
    @alissah5595 Pƙed 3 lety +211

    Okay hear me out jack has the reading speed of a laser beam like it takes me forever to read a book...

    • @Mariam.4445
      @Mariam.4445 Pƙed 3 lety +25

      Well, you can say that his job requires him to read books, so he is kinda reading all the time💀

    • @alissah5595
      @alissah5595 Pƙed 3 lety +17

      @@Mariam.4445 hahah if had his job they would fire me because I couldn’t read the book fast enough😂

    • @Mariam.4445
      @Mariam.4445 Pƙed 3 lety +13

      @@alissah5595 damn relax it's not about finishing novels and books as fast as you can, the main thing is to enjoy what you readđŸ‘©đŸ»â€đŸŠŻ

    • @DaughterOfHelios
      @DaughterOfHelios Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Flipping same!

    • @pettywhite8124
      @pettywhite8124 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Omg same he can read a book a day and it takes me like a week and a half if I’m focusing đŸ˜©

  • @wiggybis
    @wiggybis Pƙed 3 lety +368

    "The Catcher in the Rye" is Salinger's most famous book but weirdly is the one I liked the least among the books he wrote. I highly recommand "Franny and Zooey".

    • @carlottamelfi
      @carlottamelfi Pƙed 3 lety +17

      Catcher will always be my favorite, and then probably For EsmĂ©, then Bananafish, then Du Damier-Smith’s Blue Period, but I also love Franny and Zooey, and pretty much everything he wrote. I’d probably have to give Salinger 2 Lisa Heads.

    • @karimabou8784
      @karimabou8784 Pƙed 3 lety +10

      The catcher in the Rye is one of my favorite classics. Holgan is one of my favorite characters

    • @faemac6502
      @faemac6502 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      yesssss

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      @@karimabou8784 "Holgan" sounds like a contraction of "Hulk Hogan".

    • @89cspell
      @89cspell Pƙed 2 lety

      Franny and zooey bored me to tears. I think I stopped reading it with less than 20 pages left.

  • @aryamadan9504
    @aryamadan9504 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    Sending you so much love Jack! Thank you for entertaining us with your crazy content.
    How do you get these ideas man!

  • @zoyasaqib8994
    @zoyasaqib8994 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    this is one of the most random best video on youtube. also the first thing i noticed was ur pearl necklace kbsadkjas i love it

  • @coffeeshop8675
    @coffeeshop8675 Pƙed 3 lety +316

    Not me wanting to read gravity’s rainbow now because the only validation I ever got as a child was for being intelligent and I feel like that’s the only thing that defines me as a personâœŒđŸŒ

    • @alexandrastirbescu6173
      @alexandrastirbescu6173 Pƙed 3 lety +10

      Haha same. I guess that makes the two of us

    • @agustinagimenez7347
      @agustinagimenez7347 Pƙed 3 lety +28

      Three, I'm failing at college and feeling like shit about it. Wish they had told me different things

    • @flapjackalopis711
      @flapjackalopis711 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      If you decide to do it, curious to hear how it goes

    • @marcialaur1825
      @marcialaur1825 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      Wait are you me?? Cus literally same

    • @crystaljeffbabeeey
      @crystaljeffbabeeey Pƙed 3 lety +3

      same 😭 as a kid i wanted to be a doctor and now I'm a high school dropout

  • @altheagilanne
    @altheagilanne Pƙed 3 lety +32

    "you know what, life isn't a fairy tale and the sooner that you learn than, the better." - well that took a turn

  • @crescentkirby1704
    @crescentkirby1704 Pƙed 14 dny +2

    If he thinks this is bad don't let him see the 11 year olds who read icebreaker

  • @kaitlynbryson
    @kaitlynbryson Pƙed 3 lety

    love how all your content is so informative but fun!

  • @corneliameiler6099
    @corneliameiler6099 Pƙed 3 lety +68

    🌾✹ petition to make Jack read 'the Brothers Karamazov' ✹🌾

  • @sumayamohammed1647
    @sumayamohammed1647 Pƙed 3 lety +106

    Petition for the original intro to come back (“on tonight’s show ladies and gentlemen we have something that’s gonna make you sick”)

  • @annacooper5563
    @annacooper5563 Pƙed 2 lety

    I have been making delicious lunch and watching one of ur videos and the vibes have been immaculate. each video is approximately the time it takes to eat my toast and ur voice and how you talk about these books just ugh so good.

  • @ariadnadorrego1535
    @ariadnadorrego1535 Pƙed 3 lety +13

    Hi jack! I was wondering if you could do a video based on some of the books that Rory Gilmore reads in Gilmore Girls. There are articles on the internet listing all of the books (339) referenced in the show.

  • @annehaussalo3593
    @annehaussalo3593 Pƙed 3 lety +252

    I remember reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak when I was eight years old and being so fascinated by it that I secretly woke up at 2 a.m. to finish it on a random Wednesday...
    Needless to say a lot of it I didn't really understand, but still, it left a lasting impression.

    • @anothing12
      @anothing12 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      same, I read it when I was 8/9 and it was my favorite book for a long time!

    • @una_10bananas
      @una_10bananas Pƙed 3 lety

      Have you read his other books, they're pretty different but I love them all

    • @annehaussalo3593
      @annehaussalo3593 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      @@una_10bananas I haven't actually! For some reason it never occured to me that he has written other stuff too lol

    • @hsanta5417
      @hsanta5417 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      His other books are really good. And not too long ago he announced that I am the Messenger is being turned into a TV Show. In Australia I believe.

  • @Iz_0707
    @Iz_0707 Pƙed 3 lety +68

    “Just blow the dust off of that!”
    Me every time i go back to my bookshelf😳

  • @1rainbowstrike426
    @1rainbowstrike426 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    You’re so charming in all of your videos

  • @ebrut1986
    @ebrut1986 Pƙed 3 lety

    It is really great to see these kind of different contents around here. I love it!

  • @cheyenneelle
    @cheyenneelle Pƙed 3 lety +212

    I would love to see a Rory Gilmore version of this!!

    • @nataliestevens6176
      @nataliestevens6176 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      I was thinking this too! There's so many characters you could do this type of video with and I would watch them all

    • @cheyenneelle
      @cheyenneelle Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @Natalie Stevens yeah i really hope he makes this a series!! đŸ„ș

    • @mayasagi1385
      @mayasagi1385 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Isn't her list like 300 books?

    • @cheyenneelle
      @cheyenneelle Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@mayasagi1385 yeah lmao it’d probably take him a year to read all of those

    • @mayasagi1385
      @mayasagi1385 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@cheyenneelle I'll gladly wait

  • @victoriabyers5161
    @victoriabyers5161 Pƙed 3 lety +988

    "Harry Potter get 5 Lisa heads, transphobia gets 0" iconic

    • @aspen2203
      @aspen2203 Pƙed 2 lety +24

      Absolutely. Possibly in my top five iconic lines said by a youtuber.

    • @cactus4509
      @cactus4509 Pƙed 2 lety

      Istgg

    • @koliakrasotkin6846
      @koliakrasotkin6846 Pƙed 2 lety +20

      Trans women are men. It is idiotic to think that aknowledging that is "transphobic".

    • @dariusstewart6887
      @dariusstewart6887 Pƙed 2 lety +42

      @@koliakrasotkin6846 you’re wrong đŸ€·đŸœâ€â™‚ïž

    • @koliakrasotkin6846
      @koliakrasotkin6846 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@dariusstewart6887 Why?

  • @almalangowski9569
    @almalangowski9569 Pƙed 2 lety

    Jack I really appreciate your videos. As someone with nobody to talk to, it's wonderful to watch your videos and feel like I have a friend. Thank you for being you

  • @fionahitchcock3178
    @fionahitchcock3178 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Amazing video! Love the ones where you read books celeb/characters have read or recommended😍
    Video suggestion: go into different (book) charity shops and ask one of the volunteers in each one for a book recommendation 🙏 Would encourage more 2nd hand book buyingâ˜ș

  • @eduardacruz7756
    @eduardacruz7756 Pƙed 3 lety +129

    The best thing about this video is finding out that Jack has a To Be Read list, like us mortal humans ❀

    • @eduardacruz7756
      @eduardacruz7756 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @Linny Lee Cecilia Crow I mean, damn... it was a simple joke, but I suppose it had a deeper meaning behind it đŸ€” now I'm intrigued also 😂

  • @arranfrommistmantle3814
    @arranfrommistmantle3814 Pƙed 3 lety +40

    “How to cook for forty humans” is the best book I’ve ever read! I loved it as an 8 year old!😍

  • @powerpuff4ever
    @powerpuff4ever Pƙed 2 lety

    Okay but can I say how much I appreciate the ad segway? Like to remember that reference so fully made me happy

  • @amelia-nz1tt
    @amelia-nz1tt Pƙed 2 lety

    joy luck club is one of my favorite books ever due to its dive into mother & daughter relationships and the way amy tan links all the stories together (and also immigration). i will never forget the first time i read it.

  • @janeyao9392
    @janeyao9392 Pƙed 3 lety +93

    once again jack delivered and served the most SUPREME content of all time 😌

  • @AmiraLeo
    @AmiraLeo Pƙed 3 lety +102

    Don't you just kinda wanna make him read “Gravity’s rainbow” now?
    Otherwise, we can do the mammoth one too.

    • @messinalyle4030
      @messinalyle4030 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Seeing as the title rang a bell for me, I immediately paused the video and went to look up the plot synopsis on Wikipedia as soon as he finished taking about it.
      The reason why the title rang a bell for me was probably that I have a masters degree in literature, too. I don't know if I lost a significant amount of intelligence since I graduated or what, but I had trouble even focusing on the Wikipedia article for this book.

    • @AmiraLeo
      @AmiraLeo Pƙed 3 lety +4

      @@messinalyle4030 Hahaha oh well. So maybe reading that will be enough then? đŸ€·â€â™€ïž

  • @RocketRoketto
    @RocketRoketto Pƙed 2 lety +15

    Ive had a lifelong fascination with WW2, in particular Nazi's so Lisa reading about the The Third Reich is actually not surprising to me, especially if she's into psychology. For this fascination I blame Ralph Fiennes

  • @hoz4782
    @hoz4782 Pƙed 3 lety +57

    His education is serving him so well. Wow.

    • @Shady_Nox
      @Shady_Nox Pƙed 3 lety +3

      i would want the same education because sucks to be me

  • @AnAwkwardHuman
    @AnAwkwardHuman Pƙed 3 lety +30

    "Not to fat-shame a book"
    So thoughtfully

  • @claudiajade624
    @claudiajade624 Pƙed 3 lety +3

    I read the Bell Jar when I was 17 and I fairly enjoyed it but listening to your review makes me think that a lot of it went over my head/that I don't remember it essentially at all. Making me think that I should do a re-read :)

  • @suphapatsangphokaew2271
    @suphapatsangphokaew2271 Pƙed 3 lety

    binge-watching your vids has become the relaxing part of my day

  • @Fe1AlR
    @Fe1AlR Pƙed 3 lety +39

    "One Lisa head, which is one LESS head than that man now has attached to his body" 👁👄👁

  • @arushigoel7643
    @arushigoel7643 Pƙed 3 lety +102

    "We are putting the simp in 'simpson' for Emily Dickinson" - now THIS is the content I signed up for 👌

  • @louvienne531
    @louvienne531 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    “Here it is, let’s shake the dust off of that” LOOOOL I screamed!

  • @lisahoshowsky4251
    @lisahoshowsky4251 Pƙed 2 lety +7

    I read The Da Vinci code in grade three (either 8 or 9 years old) because I was obsessed with Leonardo da Vinci. There’s most definitely, to put it politely, group adult fun time referenced in the book and I’ve never forgotten that😅😂 I think it was new and popular and my parents bought it but hadn’t read it yet, I just snuck it right back on the shelf when I was doneđŸ€Ł I don’t think I dabbled in that world again until grade 7 or 8 when I was recommend Anne Rice by a teacher that got annoyed with me reading Twilight.

  • @GwenM98
    @GwenM98 Pƙed 3 lety +45

    Jack showing us how good he is at adulting by having this video sponsored by Hello Fresh AND by having his laundry basket in the back and then reading books a fictional child has read