5 GREAT CLASSICS - HAUL FROM A CHARITY SHOP
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- 5 great classic books is what we look at in this video. All 5 of these classic novels aer highly regarded in their respective genres. I managed to pick them up as a thrift book haul for £2.50
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I can't for the life of me fathom why you're not the brightest star in the BookTube firmament. Your knowledge, charisma and endearing style warrants you ought to be. But when it comes to unduly unsung book-folk, I feel the same way about Iain Pears, William Hazlitt, Edward Gibbon and (Jacobean playwright) Thomas Middleton, so you're in good company. Every single one of your book recommendations (or rather inspiring mini-lectures) in every single video is a gem - whether they prompt a reread or a new bookish encounter. Thank you so much!
I enjoy your videos, your enthusiasm is contagious. ❤
Oh, what a fantastic book haul. Starting with "Cold Comfort Farm", it's so brilliant and so funny (an efficient young modern woman finding herself in the middle of a Breugel and setting about sorting everyone out) that we just accept and love it, but when it was first published in the 1930s it was such a bombshell that a lot of people (Evelyn Waugh for instance) simply didn't believe it could be a first novel, and Stella Gibbons herself felt it overshadowed all she wrote later. Skipping to Daphne du Maurier, I would love you to do an entire video about her work, because her range and her ability to terrify was astounding. "Frenchman's Creek" was very well written, but "Rebecca" was amazing (and re the comment about the television version starring Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, etc. - there was an earlier television version starring Jeremy Brett as Maxim and Joanna David as the girl which was so riveting I cannot understand why no tape or dvd of it was ever made available). But it is du Maurier's short stories that are truly incredible - "The Birds", made into a film by Hitchcock, but also "Don't Look Now"! Who in Heaven's name would have thought she could have written that - yet everything but the first death, of the little girl, is in that short story. I absolutely love your videos, and thank you so much for them.
Hi Tristan, I only recently discovered your channel. I love your passion for books and your intelligent, sensitive reviews. Here in Australia, we call charity shops “op shops” (opportunity shops), where I’ve bought many brilliant books, including most of Daphne Du Maurier, who I discovered about 30 years ago. I still have them as I loved her work - the novels and Not After Midnight, a book of short stories, one of which is called Don’t Look Now - this story chilled me to the bone. I’d love to see you do a Daphne du Maurier video. Thank you, Theresa
Op shops! I love to buy used books.
I love Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day is a tremendous achievement. Just simply marvelous.
Great video. I have just bought The Great Gatsby, ( your recommendation) Penguin Library from a charity shop. It was 79p! Loving it already. Fancy Cold Comfort Farm and Never Let Me Go. Love it when you read the first paragraph. ❤❤❤❤❤
I've just been recommended your channel by a few of my subscribers and now I'm obsessed! What a brilliant haul 📚 Can't beat a charity shop for great classic finds!
Hi Claire! So pleased to meet a fellow classic lover. I've just subscribed to your channel, too. I am looking forward to watching your videos 😀
Just found your channel. Brilliant! So glad you highlighted Cold Comfort Farm. One of my all time favorites 😊
I have given up going into charity shops; too many books piling up to be read.
Now, once a week I go into a proper book shop and buy 1 book, and damn-well read it, it makes me appreciate them more.
Again, you're talking about some of my favorite books. Never Let Me Go (and Remains of the Day) are incredible. Frenchman's Creek sounds fascinating. I recently read The King's General by her, set just decades before the Restoration, so FC would be a nice follow-up.
Lovely haul, thank you. I miss the free book library where i used to live. All the books you could carry in a box or bag, all for free. Beautiful selection, i loved going there. Miss that place so much.
You've inspired me to move forward with my ideas to share books. Thank you for your comment! It made a difference. Curious did you find a source of affordable books near your new home.Hope so!!
PLEASE DO! Create a whole episode on D du Maurier!!!!!!!
I love the sound of them all!
Would've liked to have heard more about which charity shop, photo of it maybe, and what took you in there. I often shop in charity places myself. Much admire you reading the first para of the books, which can be key to whether or not I buy. Also liking the focus on classics, also love a good cover. Do love a good haul though... watch several booktubers, hope to catch you again 🙂🤔
Thank you, Tristan. It would be wonderful if you could rank some of du Maurier’s books. I start a new year with one of her books. So far, my favourite is House on the Strand. Currently, I’m reading My Cousin Rachel.
Fun to imagine exactly what was the "something nasty in the wood shed," might have been, as well as I remember we never find out. I loved Cold Comfort Farm and I loved Frenchman's Creek. I read The Warden last October and I'll read Barchester Towers next October, i'll read another Gaskell also in October. Never Let Me Go is my favorite by him, Buried Giants, my least favorite by him. Oops, I forgot Klara and the Sun, that's my most favorite, what a great writer.
Tristan, I absolutely love listening to you!
First book I’m going to read is Never Let Me Go, that first paragraph just got a hook in me. Then Cold Comfort Farm. And then the rest in random. Thank you again for great video 🎉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I am bingeing your videos right now! A video dedicated to Du Mauriers works would be awesome! I just read 2 of her works (Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel) and don't know much about the other ones 😊 if you ever have the interest a video about angela carter and her works would also be awesome! I really look forward to your analysis videos!
You've inspired me to go forward with my book sharing ideas! Thank you so much for sharing! Your comment made a difference. Did you find a source for books in your new place?
Never Let Me Go had a huge impact on me as a reader. I really enjoyed it.
Great recommendations! I volunteer at our library's thrift shop where i found Crime & Punishment and The Idiot for $4. VERY 😊
Recently read Barchester Towers and loved it. Then went on to read The Small House at Arlington, also loved. I don't waste my time on junk reading.
Trollope is a fantastic writer, and prolific. There's so much more of him I want to read. Ove his style of writing.
Patty-I'm a big Daphne du Maurier fan. My first book of hers was The Kings General. Then, Frenchman's Creek, Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, I'll Never Be Young Again, and Hungry Hill. These are the ones I've read.
Damn...theres only ever trash in my charity shops....why does Katie Price have so many autobiographies anyway. 💀
That's hilarious 😂 Modern biographies have become a bit of a blight to the shelves.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538especially celebrities...
Oh, you must read Remains of the Day- such a memorable one! As for Frenchman's Creek, not my favorite. I just didn't like the main character's parental negligence- just grow up, lady. However, Daphne du Maurier is one of my favorite authors and she does tell the story well. I have Cold Comfort Farm, so I need to get to that one and I plan on reading Barchester Towers this fall. Yes, I love the classics and your channel! Thanks!
Hey Mitzi, great to hear from you. Cold Comfort Farm is a hoot.
This channel became my favorite in 24 hours!!
Love Mr Slope & Signora Neroni! Remains of the Day is absolutely fantastic; memory and time are themes here as well.
Love Daphne du Maurier. I have an old set of 7 books. So far have read Frenchman’s Creek, Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. My favourite Rebecca TV series was made in 1997 with all my favourites, Diana Rigg, Charles Dance and Emilia Fox
You can’t have a cathedral unless you’re a city. Hence Barchester is a city. Size doesn’t matter.
You are quite right. Also universities now qualify as city makers, or so I have been told.
I read Never let me go not knowing anything about it and found it very disturbing!
Yes, I had the sense it might unravel when she used the word Donor.
I love Lorna Doone. I come from Tiverton where Blundells School still stands and I have been lucky enough to visit the church where she was shot in the doone valley.
I love Daphne Du Maurier’s writing style. (But can’t stand Trollop’s!) To each his own, I guess.
Love your videos. I’m amazed you can remember character’s names like you do.
Cheers from New York.
Barchester Towers and Cold Comfort Farm are funny in different ways.
Definitely
Love them all. I have read Ishikuro books and i do agree that remains of the day is his best work.
I will have to read him soon.
I’ve read Never Let Me Go. It is quite dark. I didn’t enjoy it probably for that reason but it is thought provoking.
I love classics. ❤ Just found your channel today and subscribed. 🙂 Frenchman's Creek in on my tbr to read this summer. 🙂
Barchester Towers is my favorite in the series so far. Never Let me Go is a great read, but I haven't read Remains of Day yet. I have the adaptation with Anthony Hopkins, though. It often happens to me that I come across the adaptation first, but the past few years I have tried not to do that as much, because, depending on the adaptation, it can make me less inclined to read the book if I have watched the adaptation first. I just went to Barnes and Noble, a chain bookstore in America, where I bought Dostoyevsky's Demons in an edition that only that bookstore sells. I had to choose between that one and a certain edition of MacBeth, because I'm trying to stick to a budget and I was more interested in Demons at the moment.
Wow that was a delicious choice to make 😋 Love Dostoevsky, love Shakespeare.
I have read a few Ishiguro's works. I was both attracted and displeased with them. I cannot quite point out what it was that displeased me, probably my own emotions that were hard to bear, because those books touch a little bit too deep. That would make me reaction a pro rather than a con, would it not... However I would very much like to hear your deep review of this one. And I am most curious, how did you react, when you actually realised, what "donor" mean... I remember how I reacted and I believe that feeling will stay with me forever.
Purple people are everywhere
Wow, what a haul. I can usually only get Dan Brown at mine lol. No actually I picked up The Dubliners and Moby Dick the other day.
Iris playing on Joyce’s Dubliner’s…another Araby 😊😊
Never let me go is really important to go in knowing nothing at all 😅, I have to finish still The Remains of the day but I know when I will restarted I will read it in one sitting.
I was very intrigued reading the opening.
Never let me go is well written for sure. But, I wanted to me more interested as it went along.
have you read The Brothers Karamazov? think that's the spelling. I got it from the library (had no idea it was that big!) but in the intro I saw The Grand Inquisitor and I htink that's what I'd heard about before that wasn't that big of a book. It sounds like something I'd like but sooo long and I'm afraid I'll get lost in it
I really enjoyed The Remains of the Day, but it's the only one from the author that I've read. I am now going to go down the rabbit hole of trying to find the Penguin Modern Classic edition of Cold Comfort Farm, it's one I've been wanting to read. Love Trollope and need to carry on with the Barchester series (I've only read The Warden and Barchester Towers). Thank you, as always for your insight, Tristan! 📚
I will have to read Ishiguro very soon. I hope you find the Penguin edition of Cold Comfort Farm.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Yes, I'll be curious to hear what you think about Ishiguro! Ordered Cold Comfort Farm from Blackwell's (they have free shipping to the US). 🤓
I read never let me go and got through it very quickly for me. I found it disturbing and it had an effect on me for a while.
I have watched Anthony Hopkins adaptation a few times but I tried reading the book buf found it hard going.
I'd love to know what you think of Never let me go when you have finished it.
Everytime you share I book I want it in my collection.
I too, prefer classics but sometimes dabble in the modern. Have you read anything by Khaled Hosseini?
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns, along with The Kite Runner. I thought both were wonderful reads.
The Kite Runner was SO sad!
So many books, not enough time! I have not read Hosseini, though I'm aware of them. My sister in law loved the Kite Runner.
@@Yesica1993 It was a sad story about life, but told in a beautiful way.
If Never Let Me Go is what the movie of the same name is about, the word donor is not a goid thing
Yes, I suspected it would mean something dark.