WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.880 *doki doki literature club music plays* 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:05.820 πŸ‘πŸ‘ 00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:07.660 Book review 00:00:07.720 --> 00:00:08.880 doki-doki 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.560 Hello everybody. I'm back. Did you think I forgot? 00:00:11.760 --> 00:00:12.780 No, I didn't. 00:00:12.780 --> 00:00:15.060 I just been not doing my homework. 00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:16.040 すみません Sumi Masen (excuse me in japanese) 00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:18.900 I am sorry. When I was in Japan last month, 00:00:18.900 --> 00:00:22.000 i didn't really have much chance to read I 00:00:22.020 --> 00:00:25.040 I knew my time there was limited. So I really just wanted to focus on 00:00:25.689 --> 00:00:29.249 Being in Japan. There's been a lot of news articles about book club. 00:00:29.250 --> 00:00:32.300 I don't know if you read them. But so- some of them are great. 00:00:32.300 --> 00:00:34.000 Just praising the idea that 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.350 uhhhh.. 00:00:35.350 --> 00:00:41.940 Obviously getting more people into reading a British bookstore a very very big British bookstore 00:00:41.940 --> 00:00:46.169 they had a select table of books and there were all books that I had reviewed and 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:48.960 It made me think wow, it 00:00:49.059 --> 00:00:51.320 definitely had an influence on sales if they 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.389 feature these books in in a specific way 00:00:54.390 --> 00:00:56.300 It's not like they'd said Pewdiepie Isle 00:00:56.300 --> 00:00:57.493 or anything like that, 00:00:57.493 --> 00:01:01.289 but it's cool. Should I force anything else positive into this before 00:01:01.289 --> 00:01:03.620 I begin? I don't think we need to do that. Thank you. 00:01:03.620 --> 00:01:04.320 πŸ‘πŸ‘ 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:06.720 Now, first book I read was the "Dice Man." 00:01:07.450 --> 00:01:10.470 Written by Luke Rhinehart this was suggestion by Brad 00:01:10.470 --> 00:01:12.620 Hooray for Brad Thank You Brad for suggesting 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:18.680 A lot of you guys suggested this book as well and I can definitely see why. I think Brad told me that he read it 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:20.580 when he was younger and I 00:01:20.580 --> 00:01:22.640 Think it's the kind of book I would probably appreciate 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:27.280 If I was younger as well not saying that it's stupid or anything like that 00:01:27.299 --> 00:01:31.679 It's just it has a lot of flaws that I thought was a bit hard to 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:38.400 Over- oversee is that how they say it (overlook) doesn't matter. The book is written by Luke Rhinehart who is also 00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:45.540 Conveniently the protagonist. Mmm how strange. It follows a story of Luke who is a 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:50.060 Psychiatrist he's very successful. He earns a lot of money. He has his wife 00:01:50.070 --> 00:01:54.540 He has his kids, but he just doesn't feel happy where he is in life 00:01:54.540 --> 00:01:59.999 His best friend is advancing before him even though he's not as clever as he is 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.599 He just feels stuck in a rut basically so in a drunken idea 00:02:04.630 --> 00:02:10.920 Late at night. He decides that he's going to roll a dice and if it lands on a six 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:12.920 I think it was a six. It doesn't matter 00:02:13.610 --> 00:02:19.990 he is going to rape his best friend's wife who has been sort of flirting with him a little bit and 00:02:21.470 --> 00:02:26.919 Here it sort of shows how amateurish the writer is or maybe just needs a better editor. I don't know 00:02:26.920 --> 00:02:29.740 There's really no reason for him to want to rape his 00:02:30.530 --> 00:02:38.229 Best friend's wife. I understand that he needs to undergo this drastic change of character, but they justify it as "Oh well 00:02:38.230 --> 00:02:40.230 "she- she liked it more than I did" *weird noise* 00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:44.439 I feel weird i've been talking about it and it's not like I'm prude or anything like that 00:02:44.440 --> 00:02:51.669 But nevertheless this event has such a drastic change of his character that he becomes the dice man 00:02:51.670 --> 00:02:54.970 And he decides to live his life by the roll of the dice 00:02:55.040 --> 00:03:00.189 he will write down a couple things that he wants to do and a couple of things that he doesn't want to do and he 00:03:00.190 --> 00:03:02.290 place them on the number of the dice 00:03:02.290 --> 00:03:07.419 So if it rolls a 1 or a 2, he'll do this two to three or four he'll do this 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:14.260 five or six he'll do this, so that determines his life and it's interesting in a way how that makes him break free from his 00:03:15.980 --> 00:03:20.260 Rut essentially his character that's just too comfortable. A lot of times 00:03:20.260 --> 00:03:24.519 it's obvious what you want to do and you always go for the obvious choice and 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:28.239 he explains that the dice man as 00:03:30.050 --> 00:03:33.820 You there's so many things that you miss out on by not doing and 00:03:34.010 --> 00:03:37.929 that never gets to live because you always go with the obvious choice and by 00:03:38.030 --> 00:03:43.989 Constantly going with the obvious choice you may end up too comfortable and in the way that Luke was in the beginning of the novel 00:03:44.090 --> 00:03:47.709 Luke really decides that he's going to push this for 00:03:48.530 --> 00:03:53.019 Scientific purposes or for his studies. He's going to push the limit of the dice and 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:59.859 Following the dice as a godly figure to its very limits. It's not like the whole idea of flipping a coin is anything new 00:03:59.860 --> 00:04:01.860 it's not like there's anything that 00:04:02.690 --> 00:04:10.540 Special about it, but it becomes a cult and he becomes a cult leader of that of the dice. It's an interesting concept of 00:04:11.450 --> 00:04:18.100 self-control also letting go of that control to something else and while reading it I was feeling 00:04:18.380 --> 00:04:21.820 Like I want to try this out when I was in Japan, for example 00:04:21.820 --> 00:04:26.279 Me and Marzia a lot of times the things that we enjoyed the most were not the we had planned for 00:04:26.530 --> 00:04:33.360 but things that we just happened to stumble upon which I think is why what it's trying to get at. The book very 00:04:34.420 --> 00:04:37.920 Confidently says on the cover. This book will change your life 00:04:38.200 --> 00:04:42.929 It won't. I really enjoyed it at the first half but the second half was just 00:04:43.690 --> 00:04:47.279 Unnecessary, I think it tried too hard to be commercialized 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:51.570 The story takes almost like a movie like plot 00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:56.369 The FBI is after him and there's just so many sex scenes in this book 00:04:56.370 --> 00:05:00.720 I think there's like 30 sex scenes in it and it just became cringe-worthy after a while 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.390 I'm like, this is just ridiculous. At the end of it 00:05:03.390 --> 00:05:05.699 it sort of made me question the 00:05:06.130 --> 00:05:12.299 the skill of the author and if the concept of the dice was even that great to begin with. It just seems so like some sort 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:14.300 of pseudo-psychiatry and 00:05:15.190 --> 00:05:20.130 who knows? maybe that's what it was trying to mock anyway. Next! I read "Stoner" by John Williams. 00:05:20.260 --> 00:05:25.859 This was a book that when he came out it barely sold anything, but then later- fifty years later 00:05:25.860 --> 00:05:30.390 It got translated and it picked up in popularity. Now, 00:05:30.390 --> 00:05:32.400 it's very highly regarded. 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:38.700 When I explain my favorite novel to people, or at least a novel that I really enjoyed, a lot of times I met with 00:05:38.860 --> 00:05:40.860 a skeptic look like: 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:48.209 "That doesn't sound interesting at all!" What are you talking about? A good testimony of a good writer is that if you can tell a 00:05:48.729 --> 00:05:52.709 seemingly uninteresting story and captivate your your reader 00:05:52.900 --> 00:05:54.600 That's a great way to test it 00:05:54.600 --> 00:06:00.959 And I think Stoner is exactly that. Now I was reading this and I kept thinking 00:06:01.540 --> 00:06:04.739 "When is the punchline coming?" "When is the weed joke coming?" 00:06:04.740 --> 00:06:06.310 I was on page 00:06:06.310 --> 00:06:11.940 420 and I realized, "I've just spent hours reading a boring book about a boring man's life!" 00:06:11.940 --> 00:06:18.239 It has nothing to do with weed. Not a single weed reference. I'm just kidding. Obviously. It's actually a really great book 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.240 I really enjoyed reading it 00:06:20.520 --> 00:06:27.040 It follows a story a William Stoner, which can be summarized as "Life sucks, and then you die." 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:34.160 "So fuck the world and let's get high! 420 everybody!" It's so cringe-worthy jokes. I'm sorry. 00:06:35.140 --> 00:06:39.780 William Stoner grows up on a farm. He goes to study agriculture and 00:06:40.630 --> 00:06:42.840 a part of his study 00:06:42.850 --> 00:06:49.680 he- it's obligatory to study English literature and he completely falls in love with it and he loves- and he switch 00:06:49.990 --> 00:06:53.819 his studies completely to literature instead of agriculture and 00:06:54.430 --> 00:06:57.569 At the day of his graduation, he very selfishly 00:06:58.090 --> 00:07:03.929 Tells his parents, "I'm not coming back to help at the farm. I'm going to keep studying to become a teacher." 00:07:03.930 --> 00:07:05.930 I can't relate to that at all. 00:07:06.520 --> 00:07:09.900 I escaped to Italy to become a youtuber and abandon my studies 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:15.240 so maybe I can't fault Stoner too much in this. It sets the swing of 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:21.840 The story in of Stoner's life whenever something positive happens to Stoner so- it's met with something negative. 00:07:21.840 --> 00:07:25.079 he falls in love with literature, but at the cost of 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.249 Disappointing his parents. He falls in love with a woman and they get married very quickly 00:07:29.830 --> 00:07:35.669 But then he discovers that she's actually very horrible to him and they don't match at all. 00:07:35.980 --> 00:07:39.569 So anytime something positive happens to Stoner, it's met with something negative. 00:07:39.610 --> 00:07:44.249 He loves teaching his students at school, but it becomes very hard for him to do so 00:07:44.250 --> 00:07:49.590 because of the department. He gets a daughter that he loves very much and care for but the daughter 00:07:49.780 --> 00:07:52.859 After a while sort of turns against him because of his wife 00:07:52.860 --> 00:07:59.640 It just keeps on rocking back and forth for Stoner and you just have to, when reading it, you can't help but appreciate his immense 00:08:00.460 --> 00:08:02.400 stoicism and 00:08:02.660 --> 00:08:05.040 How much he endures of 00:08:05.860 --> 00:08:08.400 bad behavior from other people that just 00:08:09.460 --> 00:08:15.600 brings him down. You just want to pat Stoner on the back and say "It's okay you did your best, man". 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:18.580 I always try and find some sort of 00:08:18.940 --> 00:08:21.120 ideas in there. I don't know if I'm right or wrong 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:25.199 But the way I saw it is that there's two sides of the coin in life. 00:08:26.020 --> 00:08:28.919 You're gonna be happy sometime and you're gonna be 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:31.060 unhappy sometime and you can 00:08:31.060 --> 00:08:36.959 just hope that you end up on one side more than the other just because you endure a lot of pain and a lot of 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:43.739 Bad behavior and just because you're a good person and work really hard for the things you love that doesn't necessarily mean 00:08:44.020 --> 00:08:49.309 Happiness is some sort of reward or something that's owed to you. It just- doesn't work like that. 00:08:49.470 --> 00:08:50.899 That's just a state of life 00:08:50.899 --> 00:08:56.628 And that's the balance that we all have to go through. Stoner dusted in such grace and the way he endures it all 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:01.999 You just- you can't help but look up to him and his character. In a lot of ways 00:09:01.999 --> 00:09:06.199 he's a hero and I think that's how the author described him as, as an angel in the end. 00:09:06.199 --> 00:09:09.769 It's a fantastic read. I really enjoyed it. From start to finish, 00:09:09.769 --> 00:09:12.948 I think this was a novel that I found the easiest to read and 00:09:13.620 --> 00:09:18.840 flow through so if it sounded interesting give it a go. Next up, we have "Crime and Punishment." 00:09:19.020 --> 00:09:27.000 It's a classic, you've definitely heard about this... Have you heard about this? It's written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1866. 00:09:27.520 --> 00:09:30.000 It was the longest one I read, and I- I mean that. 00:09:30.660 --> 00:09:34.940 Sometimes this book was very hard to get through, but the parts that 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.019 shines in this novel 00:09:37.019 --> 00:09:38.429 truly shines. And I do 00:09:38.429 --> 00:09:43.900 Understand why it's a classic and I want to just focus on the bits that I really really enjoyed which is the bits 00:09:44.160 --> 00:09:46.780 revolving around the main character, Raskolnikov. 00:09:46.860 --> 00:09:52.600 Raskolnikov is a young man who lives in St. Petersburg. He is, like I said, young, 00:09:53.279 --> 00:10:00.888 attractive, intelligent and since his father died, his mother and sister had focused on him a lot more 00:10:01.499 --> 00:10:04.668 which led him to come up with the 00:10:05.300 --> 00:10:10.120 Insane idea that he is going to murder and rob an elderly 00:10:10.280 --> 00:10:13.720 pawn-broker named Ivanovna. He sees 00:10:14.060 --> 00:10:21.640 Ivanovna as a lesser human, a bad human, and she has the only thing that Raskolnikov doesn't have which is wealth. 00:10:21.640 --> 00:10:22.259 00:10:22.259 --> 00:10:25.789 Raskolnikov is very poor and he sees it almost as an injustice 00:10:26.429 --> 00:10:27.569 following 00:10:27.569 --> 00:10:33.079 Raskolnikov's ideas around why he wants to commit this murder is the bits where I really really enjoyed. 00:10:33.079 --> 00:10:36.948 I don't know what it is about following someone's internal thoughts about something 00:10:36.949 --> 00:10:44.659 that's just bizarre and insane, the truest honest thoughts about someone. And I think that's why I really like Japanese literature as well 00:10:45.540 --> 00:10:46.709 nevertheless 00:10:46.709 --> 00:10:51.378 Raskolnikov doesn't see anything wrong with murdering this woman. He thinks is it's justified and 00:10:51.959 --> 00:10:55.969 He almost sees it as a practice of: Can he commit this crime? 00:10:55.970 --> 00:11:01.039 Is he able to commit the perfect crime even? And he sort of sneers at other people that it hasn't 00:11:01.160 --> 00:11:06.740 been able to commit the perfect crime. So he sneaks into Ivanovna's apartment and he murders her with an axe. 00:11:07.560 --> 00:11:11.629 Unfortunately, Ivanovna's stepsister enters the scene of the crime and 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.240 Raskolnikov is forced to murder her as well 00:11:14.370 --> 00:11:18.799 Now obviously this wasn't part of the plan and he sort of very clumsily 00:11:19.050 --> 00:11:26.870 Escapes the the murder scene and he only gets a little bit of gold from the apartment, but still somehow he managed to escape 00:11:27.660 --> 00:11:29.459 without anyone 00:11:29.459 --> 00:11:33.529 Seeing him commit the crime. He hides all the gold and the murder weapon and 00:11:34.560 --> 00:11:42.049 Then we're followed with the second part of the book, The Punishment. We get to follow Raskolnikov's internal struggle 00:11:42.569 --> 00:11:45.139 with- through conversations with other people of 00:11:46.079 --> 00:11:48.079 why he committed this crime and 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:51.860 What made him want to actually do it. If he didn't take the gold, 00:11:52.170 --> 00:11:56.060 what was the reason- true reason behind it and the guilt with it? 00:11:56.209 --> 00:12:02.599 The bits I especially enjoyed was the last third of the book. Raskolnikov wants to confess to his love, Sonya, 00:12:02.970 --> 00:12:10.910 that he committed this murder and he stumble upon his words and he stumbles upon his reasoning that before was so clear to himself 00:12:11.040 --> 00:12:14.509 But when explaining it to someone else he just can't get the right 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:21.620 Reason and words out and I really enjoyed this bit. I don't know. It's just it's so interesting following these thoughts and 00:12:22.560 --> 00:12:30.289 The change of Raskolnikov. Eventually, he turns himself in despite the fact that he- there was no real evidence against him. 00:12:30.290 --> 00:12:35.420 I think he was just so tired of dealing with this internal struggle and conflict and 00:12:35.819 --> 00:12:39.139 Even though he doesn't necessarily think that what he did was wrong, 00:12:39.139 --> 00:12:45.709 he compares his- his murder with what other- what other people have done in the past and 00:12:46.259 --> 00:12:51.199 Not received any punishment for people doing even worse things than him and getting away with it 00:12:51.199 --> 00:12:56.599 So why should he have to feel bad but he turns himself in because of Sonya, the one he loves, and he wants to 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:01.040 serve his punishment and I think the epilogue where they explained this was a bit forced. These 00:13:01.740 --> 00:13:05.629 classic novels, they always have the a very strict conclusion to them, 00:13:05.629 --> 00:13:11.269 at least what I read so far, so maybe that's why the reason why. The reason why Raskolnikov struggled so much 00:13:11.339 --> 00:13:18.249 Maybe he had found logic behind what he but he put himself above society and that was his demise 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:21.849 What do you think? Have you read it? What what do you think? Personally, 00:13:21.850 --> 00:13:27.190 I was extremely bored with the family conflict that was going on throughout this book 00:13:27.260 --> 00:13:34.179 It didn't interest me at all. But nevertheless, I really enjoyed it. I would love to read more from Dostoevsky in the future 00:13:34.180 --> 00:13:41.200 I'm told that "The Idiot" is even better. Are you still with me? Next up, we have "No Longer Human" with Osamu Dazai 00:13:41.420 --> 00:13:43.750 I feel my voice is just different 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:49.750 Talking about this. It's just such a sad story. It follows a story of 00:13:50.839 --> 00:13:52.220 Oba and 00:13:52.220 --> 00:13:57.880 We follow it through some notebooks that he has left behind. I love Japanese literature. I 00:13:58.490 --> 00:14:01.450 Really enjoyed reading Murakami, but I love reading 00:14:02.899 --> 00:14:07.149 Yukio Mishima and now Dazai. They so beautifully 00:14:07.580 --> 00:14:13.809 describe the internal monologue in it where the protagonist is so extremely self aware of the 00:14:14.029 --> 00:14:18.219 Interaction and ideas that they have... I'm explaining this really poorly, 00:14:18.220 --> 00:14:24.640 but essentially, the way Japanese culture are so polite, It's hard to understand the true character behind a person and 00:14:26.180 --> 00:14:33.940 To then read a Japanese novel by- by these authors so- so brilliantly described, 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:42.060 I just feel so immersed into it. Funnily enough, that's exactly- well, there's nothing funny about it, but that's exactly what No Longer 00:14:42.070 --> 00:14:46.179 Human is all about. The main character, Oba, can't present 00:14:46.400 --> 00:14:48.789 his true self to other people. 00:14:48.790 --> 00:14:50.790 He has this facade that 00:14:50.900 --> 00:14:52.190 he hides behind 00:14:52.190 --> 00:14:58.749 and he makes jokes to other people to hide his true self and he's extremely self aware of this fact 00:14:58.750 --> 00:15:03.669 And we don't- we don't get to follow the jokes that he makes other people instead 00:15:03.669 --> 00:15:09.600 we get to follow his ideas of how he thinks other people perceive his jokes and 00:15:10.280 --> 00:15:16.080 It doesn't sound interesting at all. I says I just wanted to give you an idea how it's written, basically. 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:23.020 Something that I've really grown to appreciate over the years is honesty. If I noticed that someone isn't being 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.400 really themself or being honest, I 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:33.840 always wonder if you're not honest, then who are you? What are you? I don't want to play along with your facade and 00:15:34.420 --> 00:15:36.420 Sometimes in this novel, 00:15:36.709 --> 00:15:39.818 someone calls out Oba for not being genuine 00:15:39.819 --> 00:15:42.969 Maybe he laughed in a way that they didn't think was really 00:15:43.249 --> 00:15:47.168 Authentic and he recollects on these moments in his life where he did get called out 00:15:47.869 --> 00:15:52.659 for his facade and he he describes that in such immense pain that 00:15:53.480 --> 00:16:00.420 Someone is discovering that he isn't actually human. The story of no longer human is an incredibly sad story, especially 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.380 Afterwards finding out about the author himself 00:16:04.540 --> 00:16:08.139 Dazai, who shares so much with the main character 00:16:08.139 --> 00:16:12.758 He was sexually assaulted as a child which is most likely what led to him 00:16:13.939 --> 00:16:16.389 protect himself behind this facade. The 00:16:17.029 --> 00:16:20.798 double attempt of suicide with his wife where the wife died 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:22.839 but he survived, and the guilt of 00:16:23.149 --> 00:16:29.108 keep on living, problem with alcoholism and drugs, all these things that the character Oba, 00:16:30.019 --> 00:16:36.219 Goes through has happened to Dazai at some point in his life as well, the author. At the end of the book 00:16:36.220 --> 00:16:38.220 There's a very chilling moment 00:16:38.269 --> 00:16:39.619 where 00:16:39.619 --> 00:16:41.329 Oba is 00:16:41.329 --> 00:16:42.769 talking to 00:16:42.769 --> 00:16:50.078 his friend Hokiki (it's Horiki btw) I think his name was, I don't remember and Hokiki is sort of his character opposite 00:16:50.269 --> 00:16:53.618 It's his friend, but almost so sort of his enemy 00:16:53.619 --> 00:16:55.619 He's very direct and very straightforward 00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:01.329 Unlike Oba who hides behind a facade. Hokiki- and whenever Hokiki is involved in his life 00:17:01.569 --> 00:17:08.648 It sort of triggers these bad behaviors, you know where he turns to alcohol and all these things. In this moment, they're both drinking and 00:17:10.100 --> 00:17:16.269 they're discussing the "Crime and Punishment" funnily, and discussing what the antonym of crime is and 00:17:17.059 --> 00:17:21.819 Oba sort of goes off as he usually does in his analytic way of 00:17:22.520 --> 00:17:25.380 What it actually is while Hokiki is just sort of 00:17:25.580 --> 00:17:31.320 not really following and making these really dumb assumptions. Hokiki then leaves the room and 00:17:32.700 --> 00:17:34.700 Commits adultery with Oba's wife 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:39.820 Oba doesn't do anything to interfere with this and it's at this moment 00:17:40.340 --> 00:17:42.340 when you read the novel it's because 00:17:42.710 --> 00:17:44.710 he's no longer human and 00:17:45.710 --> 00:17:48.039 this happened to Dazai as well and 00:17:49.190 --> 00:17:51.549 It's clearly a very personal tale 00:17:52.190 --> 00:17:56.769 Reading it at almost in retrospect, it almost feels like a goodbye and 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:04.539 The same year 1948 Dazai's novel came out. Dasai, you know, he had multiple suicide attempts 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.350 Finally he succeeded 00:18:06.350 --> 00:18:13.180 To commit suicide by drowning himself in the river and his body was found on the day of his 49th birthday 00:18:14.450 --> 00:18:18.909 I feel like I didn't do it justice by reading this book first 00:18:19.010 --> 00:18:24.099 this is clearly the final chapter and I want to try and be more careful in the future when I 00:18:24.290 --> 00:18:26.499 I pick a new author to make sure that I read 00:18:27.230 --> 00:18:31.030 Read in the right order. I absolutely loved reading 00:18:31.030 --> 00:18:37.989 This book. Dazai clearly is a phenomenal writer and this is everything I would want from a novel. Next up, 00:18:37.990 --> 00:18:45.070 I read Yukio Mishima's "Sun and Steel." I'm not gonna discuss this book because I'm think- I want to save you Mishima for another time 00:18:45.070 --> 00:18:51.609 I just want to give a quick thanks to blue D on Twitter for sending me their copy of the book 00:18:51.610 --> 00:18:55.360 I couldn't find one before I left to Japan and I really really wanted to read it 00:18:56.270 --> 00:19:03.489 It was funny. I- I walked around with a book. Long story short, I needed to put a paper in something without crinkling it and 00:19:04.220 --> 00:19:08.680 So I was using the book because it's very big. It's already becoming too long 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:15.489 A lot of other people saw me holding this book in Japan and they were all, "Oh! Yuki Mi- Yukio Mishima!" 00:19:16.220 --> 00:19:23.860 I don't know if it's- I get I didn't realize how popular it was. I wonder who looks up to Yukio 00:19:23.860 --> 00:19:25.270 Mishima in Japan. 00:19:25.270 --> 00:19:30.869 Super fascinated by Mishima, but we'll save that for another time. Next up for next week, 00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:35.220 We're going to read "Inferno" by August Strindberg. I want to read as- 00:19:36.250 --> 00:19:39.359 "Spring Snow," I think it's called, by Yukio Mishima and 00:19:40.450 --> 00:19:42.330 "Runaway Horses" by Yukio Mishima 00:19:42.330 --> 00:19:45.900 I'm gonna be a little bit selfish and just read books that I genuinely just want to read 00:19:45.910 --> 00:19:52.800 I'm sorry, but other than that, I just want to say thanks for all the support on the book review. 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:58.499 It's been fantastic. I always doubt myself if it's really worth it or not 00:19:59.740 --> 00:20:05.520 To make these but all the positive support and all the comments has been great. So, thank you very much 00:20:05.890 --> 00:20:08.759 That's it for me for now. I'll see you by the end of the month 00:20:09.429 --> 00:20:12.419 With another book review you can read all of them or none of them 00:20:13.390 --> 00:20:15.390 But I'll see you then. Goodbye.