Strangers Convinced Me To Read Their Favorite Books...And I Read Them | Reading Vlog

In today's video, strangers convinced me to read their favorite books...and I read them! Go check out the original "Strangers Convinced Me To Read Their Favorite Books" video after this! What a good time. Thanks for stopping by!

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Hit me up on Goodreads: "Ian Gubeli" (link does not work)

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[BookNerd-jssl]

The strangers convince me to read their favorite book video is actually what got me to finally read Jurassic Park, and I loved it!

[hannahsutherland]

"It's even more unfortunate that he had to tell me about it" 😂😂😂

[nashyjr]

You gotta read Project Hail Mary. Don't look it up or read anything about it. Just pick it up and read. Audiobook recommended :D happy reading!

[livslibrary]

You have no idea how many times I laughed out loud at “BIG T”. 😂😂😂

[maeganellefsen]

You should read “The Radium Girls by Kate Moore.” It’s a non fiction book about when radium was first discovered, and how a lot of people got radium poisoning from their job. It was very interesting. It is considered a “true crime” book, but not because of murder or anything like that.

[DarthNathan_]

The video you made about asking people their favorite book was the first video I watched of yours! It started my obsession with booktube and I love your channel

[literaturejapan]

Maybe some more background on why Haruki Murakami reads so easy in translation. He actually taught at a university in Boston for a few years and is fluent in english (untypical for Japanese writers, even more his age) and with that partly helped translating his own books as well as having most likely developed a writing style fitted to be translated (which the Japanese language can be hard to translate especially since it's very open to interpretation which english or german, my mother tongue are not).

Because he knows english and lived in the US for years he was also able to promote himself and can be seen as a catalysator for so many Japanese contemporary literature to get picked out for translation and that a lot of the ones that are chosen have some kind of magical realism.

I'm currently writing a paper on the 'Japanese bestseller' in translation on the american/european market from a cultural studies perspective and he has his own chapter.

[scoundrel]

Found your channel randomly a few weeks ago and I’ve been loving the content! It’s just a nice refreshing channel and you seem very relaxed and wholesome so thanks for making videos for us to watch!

[knittenpurl]

Fahrenheit 451 was really good. Off topic but the scenes of you in front of the bed are an optical illusion. Your shirt blends in with the comforter at first glance and it makes you look like a floating talking head. :) Hahaha

[spotmotion]

My favourite Murakami is Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, it's an amazing display of his brand of magical realism and has all the major Murakami quirks: a parallel universe, an ennui-stricken man, a missing wife, a cat, etc. It's simply breathtaking in its storytelling. Kafka on the Shore is also great and a bit faster paced/easily engaging. It's probably his most adventurous novel in terms of strangeness, but a very enjoyable read. I do have to preface this by saying that Murakami is a superb storyteller, but his novels are not devoid of issues; there's quite a lot of male gaze and overall misogyny with his portrayal of female characters, which is, of course, upsetting. But I would reccomend those two mentioned above if you wanted to dive deeper into his works. A Wild Sheep Chase is very good as well, and doesn't really contain problematic elements as his others do.

[pip_a]

OMG please do a reading vlog on Something Wicked this Way Comes, it's also by Bradbury and it's my favorite

[OllieRaen]

Winnipeg is in Manitoba Canada, And It is a Provence not a Territory.

[Johanna_reads]

I was on the verge of ordering that Murakami book, especially with how that pedestrian pitched it, but Fahrenheit 451 sounds like a must-read! 😊

[LibrariesandLattes]

Laughing at “Big T” 😂😂 Enjoyed seeing this follow up video! I definitely need to check out Fahrenheit 451!

[EmilyTodicescu]

Haruki Murakami’s magnum opus is “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”. The best three days of my life were spent reading this book.

[jessicasquire]

Engaging with books has significantly elevated my perspective on investing. True wealth isn't built through mere savings; financial freedom stems from strategic investments. I've learned that accumulating wealth hinges on making prudent investment decisions

[sherribugd]

Haruki Murakami has such a beautifully translated writing style. I love Killing Commendatore. It’s a very good magical realism story.

[rebeccamoll]

I'm 62 years old and read Fahrenheit 451 in high school. I've been a Ray Bradbury fan since then. Another excellent one he wrote is "Martian Chronicles" that has a mind bending twist at the end. I think you'd like it.

[twiceborn_by_grace]

It was cool hearing you slip Jeremiah 17:9 in the video. Also, I’m gonna need a part 2. This video was really cool.

[AllisonMozingo]

You should read the Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Dorothy Gilman. The entire series (like 15 books) is such a treat! The books are pretty short, but fast paced. The premise is that a retired widow joins the CIA as a courier and all the shenanigans she finds herself in the middle of! Mrs. Polifax is so endearing and so are so many of the other characters you fall in love with as she gets into some pretty sticky situations.