Hi everyone, so I found this tag.
It's called the First Date Book Tag
Or the First Date Tag
And I really thought that the questions were very interesting and I liked them a lot
so it was very easy for me to find answers for most of these
so I thought it would be interesting for me to answer them.
And the first one -I actually have it printed-
The first one is the "Awkward First Date"
A book where something felt off. It wasn't a bad book, but it lacked that spark for you.
I feel like I might offend some people here because -I think most of this are kinda negative questions but-
this book in particular seems to be well-respected
And it is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
So this, like the question says, I don't think this is a bad book or anything but
there's something about it that is just
I think it's the fact that it starts with a set of characters that seem to be the main ones
and there's another character that's introduced like
2/3 of the way in the story [kind of an exaggeration, it's more like a third of the way in]
and he becomes the main character and it's kinda like "what". I think that's...
I think that's kinda hard to pull off and I don't think that this book did it
and it general the book seems very detached from reality
so it was hard for me to feel seriously concerned for this book in relation to
how the world seems to me in the present times.
So I didn't find it scary in any way
or felt that it was even realistic or
I don't think I could even say what the author was trying to propose
with this book, so I think that's what made me
kind of dislike it. I don't think it's bad, again,
but I probably should wait some years before I re-read it
So the next question is The Cheap First Date: a book that...
[fixing chair]
So the next question is "The Cheap First Date": a book that turned out less than you expected
and for this I am choosing Dracula.
So this book is of course a classic, quite long.
Basically I just thought that it would be scary and
and least kinda mysterious, but it wasn't. It was actually pretty boring
and I've seen plays, adaptations of this book that are much more entertaining
and interesting than the actual book. It was a chore to finish reading this because
at a point it just didn't seem interesting because of how slow it was.
And with the format of the diary entries and stuff it kinda needed to go slow
but it just didn't work for me, but I do understand why some people like it.
Still, it was slightly disappointing so that's why it was the answer for that question.
So the next one is a "Well Prepared First Date", which is a
book that is better than you expected.
This one was difficult because I don't tend to have
I don't tend to have low expectations when I go into a book
but this one, there's actually two answers for this one.
One is One Hundred Years of Solitude. I have already talked about this in my previous video
I actually had to read this for school, when I was in middle school
and I don't know what I expected from it but I didn't expect it to be this good
I knew it was a classic and all, but I don't think I had read many classics.
I think I was [also] reading Dracula at the time
but I just didn't expect it to be that good [because it was one of the first "great" books I ever read]
While I was reading it, even from the start I was like
"this is nice but I don't think it's very interesting" and then it became extremely so
and then when the end came I was like "this is the best thing that I've ever read".
It's not my favorite book now but at the time I think it was.
So yes, very impressed with this one.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez if I didn't say that
The second answer for this question is
"Nothing" by Janne Teller
I don't have a copy of that, but it's...
I also had to read that one for school, very recently,
and since it was a sort of YA, or supposed to be,
I just thought that it would be some random book, you know?
but I was very impressed by it again.
Not as much as with the previous book but it was much darker than I expected
Knowing that it was YA, and much more philosophical really.
I don't expect,
I mean, maybe I'm coming off snobbish
but I don't expect YA to have that much depth [I can expect it to be dark though, just not thought-provoking]
Next one is "Hot but Dumb"
and it's a book that's pretty on the outside but not so hot on the inside
This is one of the only hardcovers that I own
"Go Set A Watchman"
This is not that great, it's actually very mediocre
as a book, but I bought and read it knowing that
it was not going to be that good, but it was still very intriguing so
and it has this pretty print that's kinda similar to the first/second one TKAM
so yes, it's pretty but I pretty much just keep it because
it's a hardcover, and it's kinda hard to get rid of them I think.
So the next one is "Blind Date" which is a book you picked up not knowing anything about it.
and this one is "Chinese Cinderella" by Adeline Yen Mah
This I mostly bought as a souvenir, and it was among the Children's Books
I'm not sure what it is exactly, I would say it's a middle grade or YA
But it's like a memoir
Of this Chinese woman that basically has a difficult life
and she suffers a lot. And there's even a sequel[ish] that I also read
but this one I just bought knowing that it was a book about a young woman
and I read it. At the time I liked it, now it seems a bit more...
I don't know, I don't want to talk shit about memoirs because it seems kinda wrong
but it's not among the best books I've read.
And the next one is "Speed Dating" which is
a book that you read super fast.
I'm kind of ashamed to say that I read this fast, actually, this is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
This I mostly read fast because
I had to make a report of it for school, for college, right?
but I forgot the end date, the last date to send it,
and when I realized, it had already been the last day.
So I just read it on that day [day I noticed] really fast out of guilt
I think it was just guilt that I was like "I need to finish this now" because I hadn't even started
reading when it was the end date so that was kind of shameful.
But you know, it's actually kinda funny now.
But whatever. "The Rebound"
is a book that you read too soon after a book hangover
and it kinda ruined the book for you.
Initially I didn't know exactly what was a [book] hangover
or what would make me not enjoy a book after reading another one
but then I realized what it meant, and I understood that maybe the reason why
I didn't like "Fahrenheit 451" so much
was because I read it too soon after "1984"
and I probably expected it to be too much like it.
and of course it's not, it's completely different, they're just dystopians
and ever since then I think I just try to not read books that are too similar
one after the other
There's other issues that I have with this book, especially the fact that
to me the characters seemed really shallow
and the whole book just seems really bland to me.
Again, maybe that's because I read "1984" just before this
but it just seemed bland and kind of like the characters
weren't very interesting, the storyline wasn't very interesting
the whole thing was just not enough for me.
So the next one is "Overly Enthusiastic Date"
a book that felt that it was trying too hard.
Again, I feel like I'm going to insult some people here but
Haruki Murakami's "Kafka On The Shore"
was
it was pretty bad for me
this book was pretty terrible in my opinion
Mainly because -okay- there seemed to be
I think this book is #1 in a goodreads list for surrealist novels
I mean people actually voted for this book as #1 of a surrealist novel, okay?
My issue with this, I have many issues actually,
I have several issues with this book. Pretty much every area that could go well goes wrong
The characters are not very interesting. They're actually pretty much the same one over and over
the main ones at least.
the other characters are either strawmen for the [political, but really general] ideas of the author
He tries to put his ideas directly into the character's mouths
and it's not even a book that's supposed to be about that
so it's kind of annoying, to be honest
The writing style is very difficult to like because
there's a lot of details that don't matter
at all, like, he goes to great detail just talking about the things that the main character had for breakfast
and there's a lot of things that just don't matter
and then there's things like -Okay-
supposedly the issue with this
is that the author is trying to mix the [mundane] with the surreal
and I do like surrealism, and I like magical realism, but
this to me, was something else.
To me this was just random
and I think that random is another category that's something that I don't like
It's something that is trying too hard.
Trying too hard to be interesting, to be different, but
it fails because it's either boring or it
it doesn't make sense, and not in the good way
the usual way of surrealism. It just doesn't make sense in a way that it actually
adds nothing to the story [or characters, setting, etc]
it doesn't mean anything. It's just trying to seem interesting, to be honest,
I didn't even finish reading, okay? Like I read 2/3 of this book
and I just gave up, I was like "Oh my God", honestly I don't even care about the characters that much which is a huge flaw
in itself. Not caring about them is something that shouldn't happen [at that point it makes the story itself boring]
but aside from that. The whole details thing
I mean, when he tells you why he's having eggs for breakfast and how he likes his eggs
and why, and this and that and the other,
I wouldn't even care about that if you told me that about Wolverine
like if you told me what Wolverine has for breakfast even I wouldn't care [it's unrelated to someone's person as a whole]
and I love him but seriously, a story has to be interesting.
It doesn't have to be interesting sometimes or at some points
It has to constantly have something to do with the rest of the things that are going on
don't have just pointless, meaningless sentences that just add length
to the book. That's just a huge flaw, the biggest flaw. At first it was
kind of cute, and then it seemed pretentious
and as it went on it was just [unbearable]
and it wasn't even enjoyable, it was
it wasn't even entertaining to read this book, okay?
it wasn't.even.entertaining.
So this book fails in all possible areas for me.
So yeah, that was a big rant, but
I don't like this book you guys, I'm sorry.
So yeah, let's go for something completely different.
The next one is "The Perfect First Date" which is a book that did everything right for you.
Now this is actually not my [all time] favorite book.
It's "All You Need Is Kill" by Hirashi -Hiroshi- Sakurazaka
I always get that first name wrong.
So Hiroshi Sakurazaka
and this is a science fiction book [surprise, surprise]
quite short, I think it's a Light Novel
So it's meant for -Well I'm not sure- but I think it's meant for teenagers
or young adults, I don't know, but it's not the same thing as YA [it's somewhat of a Japanese equivalent though, according to my later research]
So the point is that I like this book a lot. I like it...
but it's not my favorite one.
It's more like it doesn't have anything wrong with it.
But there's books that I like more than this one that do have flaws.
but it's just that I prefer to look over them because
I think that the things they offer as books are much higher than the flaws [what I struggled so much to say]
but this is a book that just doesn't have anything wrong with it. And I don't mean that it's average, like
it's a really great read. If you guys have seen Edge of Tomorrow
that book is based on this novel.
So, for example, this book starts out really strong, which some of my favorites don't.
This starts out really entertaining and strong from the very start.
and all of the characters are really interesting,
it only focuses on a couple of ones, but
they're very interesting, and you're very entertained while you're reading this
There's no parts, to me, in which the writing feels weak
or that it's just going too slow,
or anything like that.
The length feels appropriate for the things that go on
and it doesn't go into too many details that are unnecessary or whatever
and it has a great ending, which I think is the strongest point
of this book, especially in comparison to the movie, but just by itself,
the ending is really what makes it so good.
what I mean is that it doesn't necessarily give you a good [nice] ending,
it just gives you the ending that it's supposed to have, that makes sense for this story to have
and I really respect that for a book like this.
So yes, this is really good.
The next one is pretty difficult because it's the "Humiliating First Date"
and it is a book that you're embarrassed to admit that you liked or to be seen reading in public
for whatever reason.
and my answer for this one is "Twilight"
I don't like it anymore, but when I read it, I liked it.
I mean granted, I was like thirteen or twelve
but at some point I did like it, and it's kinda hard to admit it because
it's pretty bad. I mean its a pretty bad book.
So yeah.
So those were my answers for the First Date book tag.
I hope you liked this video, and if you want to do this tag then you are tagged.
There's none in particular that I would tag, I think, because they either don't do tags or they have already done it.
or they don't even know who I am, actually,
that's the main reason, they don't even know who I am.
Because you know, it's my second video, nobody knows at this point.
and needless to say I wasn't even tagged by anyone
but if I do think of someone I will put it down in the description box
Everything will be in the desc box, like the books that I mention and everything
and I'll put timestamps so yes.
I hope you guys enjoyed it, again, and
definitely tell me anything you think about this books
or what I said down below.
Thanks for watching, and bye until the next video.
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