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“This book brought up so many scientific possibilities that I had obviously no clue about they were never taught to me in school and to me they're just mind-blowing. I really don't want to sound like that one ninja tweet I can't stop thinking about Quantum fixes or whatever it is.”

“Afterwards I read In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon. This book is amazing.[...] I was super fascinated by this book. This is just a very selected part of it. I don't want to get into all of it. If you're interested in Buddhist teaching, this is a great book to start off with.”

“Today we're doing another book review, it's one that I've already discussed which is Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima. I adore Mishima's novels, this is no secret.”

“Everyone knows Don Quijote for its humour and for how silly it is and what a loveable character it is but, and yes it is, it is very humorous, but after reading it I realised that it is so much more than just that. And I'm so glad I read it. It's my favourite piece of classical literature that I have ever read. [...] It's the longest book I've read but it is also the longest book I've ever enjoyed and honestly, I can't wait to reread it. I could go on more, but there is really no point. It is quite hard at some points. I would be lying if I said that it was the easiest read I ever had but it is 100% worth it! Check it out! Don Quijote 5 out of 5. Beautiful, so glad I read it!”

One of my favourite quotes from a book, another great book I read actually, I recommend, Norwegian Wood by Murakami. - "Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives we nurture death."

“I absolutely loved reading this book. Dazai clearly is a phenomenal writer and this is everything I would want from a novel.”

“Any advice for people getting into Yukio Mishima? What would I advise? Just read it, it's great! Read the tetralogy. I want to reread Mishima. That was a comfy time just plowing through all this literature. Could read some Mishima. [...] they're all in japan my whole library but I love this book (The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea) so much I bought another copy of it. It's weird with a Japanese author because I love his writing style or his prose so much but it's obviously translated so what does that really say, you know, can I say that I like an author's style of writing even if it's translated?”

“In my opinion the beauty of fiction is when you have characters that are interesting and a story that really grips you in a way that the ideas behind it isn't as transparent and they have so much more impact - Dostoyevsky does this best ('Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot')”

“Right after reading the... The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, I loved it so much and I wanted more because it was so short. I read "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and I absolutely LOVED IT!”

“I read the sword and chrysanthemum, I don't know if that's how you say it. It was written by Ruth Benedict, an anthropologist that was hired by the American government during World War II as an attempt to understand the Japanese people and their mindset at the time [...] Some people say it's not accurate, some people say it is. I just found it really interesting.”

“Any advice for people getting into Yukio Mishima? What would I advise? Just read it, it's great! Read the tetralogy. I want to reread Mishima. That was a comfy time just plowing through all this literature. Could read some Mishima. [...] they're all in japan my whole library but I love this book (The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea) so much I bought another copy of it. It's weird with a Japanese author because I love his writing style or his prose so much but it's obviously translated so what does that really say, you know, can I say that I like an author's style of writing even if it's translated?”

“The Symposium that's sure that's always good”

“I really recommend reading it, even if you heard me spoil it because it is a really fun, nice read. I mean, come on, it even has pictures in it. What more can you ask for? The [...] I would give this a 4 out of 5. It's a really nice book.”

“I tweeted out on twitter asking if their were any recommendations for Japanese authors because I enjoy reading Murakami (After the Quake, Norwegian Wood, Killing Commendatore, 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore)”

“I read some of his [Yukio Mishima's] more weird stuff - 'The Sound of Waves', 'Sun and Steel', 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' -, his short stories - 'Death in Midsummer and Other Stories'. There is so much great work from him that I feel, I enjoy every page that I read.”

“Last but not least, the Inferno by August Strindberg, or [August Strindberg]. Again, this is not a good introduction to August Strindberg. [...] It's very fascinating but very bizarre to read, like reading the notes of a madman almost.”

“When I was younger I loved reading and I loved sharing, discussing books with my granddad. Obviously I was really young, I was like 10 or 12, so I don't know how much of a discussion it was. But he was so happy and fascinated that I was.. I liked reading and we read Sherlock Holmes because he loves Sherlock Holmes. He tried to get me into this private Sherlock Holmes group but I was too young to really understand. I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid.”

“I'm going to read, maybe I'll do Meditations of First Philosophy by René Descartes. I never read René. There's a couple philosophers that I just never touched and I want to, I just feel like I should read them.”

“I remember there was a book I read about an American soldier that crashed his plane over Vietnam during the war.”

“I'm going to read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I feel like I have to read Kant. I tried a while ago, I think I got a third in and I stopped for whatever reason. It is extremely dense literature like I do not necessarily recommend casual readers to pick this one up.”

“I'll say you have to read a classic. I think so many people don't want to read classic literature but that is just a huge mistake. I can never say it right Don Quijote, The Count of Monte Cristo, Moby Dick, actually I wasn't huge for Moby Dick. I read Catch 22 recently too which is another classic.”

“I will read The World as Will and Representation. I think I've already read it but I think I definitely need a refresher.”

“I'm going to read Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel because I never read Hegel and I feel like I should.”

“Finally after I don't know 300 days of drawing, I picked up an art book. I should have done this ages ago. So I picked up a couple art books, some more technical than others but I really enjoyed this one TACO because I enjoyed the style of it. Obviously everyone has different preferences I think if you were to be a professional artist you probably want to pick like a human anatomy book and really study it.”

“Obviously everyone has different preferences I think if you were to be a professional artist you probably want to pick like a human anatomy book and really study it. (book shown on screen)”

“Obviously everyone has different preferences I think if you were to be a professional artist you probably want to pick like a human anatomy book and really study it. (book shown on screen)”

“Everyone always talks about stoicism "Marcus Aurelius he was so cool he was like an emperor but also philosopher" okay sure absolutely but don't sleep on Epictetus! Wait a minute sleep on? Sleep on Epictetus? The Enchiridion by Epictetus, last name base name. On the very first page he describes stoicism perfectly it's almost like they came up with it!”

“Next book, this is the book that truly matters this is the book that changed my life ,okay, The Useful Knots book How to Tie the 25 Plus Most Practical Knots [...] I guess that's the thing with the book it tells you the philosophy of knots. You know any idiot can tie a knot but the goal is to tie a knot that is fast, strong and also easy to untie.”

“I actually wanted to make this video because I think you will really like Nietzsche as well. He's a german philosopher born in 1844 and before we dig too much into this I just want to preface by saying that you know I'm not an expert I'm just making this video to hopefully inspire you guys to dig into his readings as well because there's so many misconceptions about Nietzsche that sort of makes you wonder if anyone's ever actually read him? As someone who did read him and didn't understand anything but for me it was really fun to discover just how wrong I was. [...] What Nietzsche actually stood for was something really beautiful and that I think a lot of these teenagers could benefit from which is his life affirming philosophy.[...] Nietzsche wants you to recognize life and all its suffering and at the end of it say yes that was life, one more time please once more and that's life affirmation and that's to me it's the beauty of Nietzsche.”

“I read his other works the plague as well which is uh equally amazing”

“I got this 'I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream'. It's really good. Very short story, horror story.”

“Reading Twilight next? Hell yeah...”

“A few months ago our house is broken into [...] at the same time I was reading about Diogenes the ancient Greek philosopher who only lived with one item in his possession which was a wooden bowl even this he got rid of on the day when he saw a peasant boy drinking water by cupping his hands”

“I've been reading a lot of great literature. Book of Disquiet, amazing. Loved it.”

“House of the Dead, yeah it- it was... yeah.”

“I tweeted out on twitter asking if their were any recommendations for Japanese authors because I enjoy reading Murakami (After the Quake, Norwegian Wood, Killing Commendatore, 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore)”

“I tweeted out on twitter asking if their were any recommendations for Japanese authors because I enjoy reading Murakami (After the Quake, Norwegian Wood, Killing Commendatore, 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore)”

“Great book to learn about the samurai's impact on Japanese culture.”

“I read some of his [Yukio Mishima's] more weird stuff - 'The Sound of Waves', 'Sun and Steel', 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' -, his short stories - 'Death in Midsummer and Other Stories'. There is so much great work from him that I feel, I enjoy every page that I read.”

“The next book I want to talk about is Japanese Death Poems Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death [...] So the book starts off with zen buddhism which is actually my favourite part of the book. I didn't think I would enjoy it. I kind of wanted to just jump to the haikus but it just features incredible stories of zen buddhists or masters that died sitting upright and right after they finished their last brush strokes of their poem. I don't know if that is true or not, but it just sounds badass! [...] It's a great book. It features a lot of haikus that's never been translated before so I really, really loved it.”

“Bashō, world famous Japanese poet who defined this style of writing where you count the syllables of the poem. His death poem reads as: "Falling ill on a journey // My dreams go wandering // Over withered fields"”

“Mythos with Stephen Fry. I thought he was just a stand-up comedian, but apparently he's an author as well. This is probably not the book I wanted to read, but I enjoyed it very much, regardless. Stephen Fry being a comedian, you can tell he does an excellent job at retelling the ancient Greek myths.”

“Now I was reading this and I kept thinking "When is the punchline coming?" "When is the weed joke coming?". I was on page 420 and I realized, "I've just spent hours reading a boring book about a boring man's life!". It has nothing to do with weed. Not a single weed reference. I'm just kidding. Obviously. It's actually a really great book. I really enjoyed reading it”

“I thought as well if you maybe don't feel like reading something as long or something like that we would read a Murakami short story, so I thought we would read Toni Takitani, so maybe we can discuss some aeeh short stories where Murakami has amazing short stories, and I think that's probably one of his strengths.”

“Read it. It's good.”

“Last but not least, I read--uh, I was so fascinated by the whole Samurai and I wanted to learn more about Samurai so I read "Bushido: The Soul of Japan". For anyone that wants to learn more about Japanese culture and the history of it, I think Bushido is a great starting point.”

“I used to love Jules Verne & Sherlock Holmes as a kid.”