Yes, keep doing the free videos. you are educating us young poor people, helping us to know more about literature and staying poor and... not young... Keep going!
Ever dipped your toes into Nigerian literature? I'm thinking Amos Tutuola's "The Palm-Wine Drinkard" - absolutely nuts, it's like a fever dream on LSD. It's definitely right up your alley.
I cannot thank you enough for your reviews, Clifford. I’m picking up and reading the books you’ve reviewed one by one and I’ve enjoyed every single one so far. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Great to see you reviewing a crime fiction writer like Elmore Leonard. He said Justified is his fav of all his adaptations which is also my most fav tv show. Would be interesting to see of you review more hardboiled novels.
Not related to this review, but I want to thank you for recommending Badlands, Cliff! I watched it this morning, and it has stuck with me the rest of the day. What a fantastic movie! The characters, the story, the soundtrack... everything is so beautiful, romantic, but brutal and sinister at the same time...
Elmore Leonard is one of my favorite authors of all time, and I've been reading him since I was twelve. Yes, twelve. I was around a lot of very rough characters; from the gangbangers I knew in school to a lot of the adults I was around. Reading Elmore helped me understand them. It also told me to wise up fast and make better friends. And it inspired me to become a writer myself. No writer could map the criminal mind like Leonard, and he didn't do it with wonky psychiatry or social science. He showed you the world they lived in and how they couldn't see their way out of it.
I found it very interesting you mentioned Bourdain. Upon revisiting some episode of Parts Unknown, in hindsight certain segments are absolutely heartbreaking.
Could you read "blindness" by José Saramago ? I think you'll love and in some ways, it remind me of "the road" by McCarthy Its dark, the writting is just so good and the style is so different
@@erbrady93 i love "blindness", one of my favorite books ever but when i study him, holy shit, in the beginning his style was just so annoying AF and im portuguese But when i reas blindness i realy apreciate his style
Nel Moreira I have that novel as well as Saramago’s novel ‘The Gospel according to Jesus Christ’ which I have read a bit of. I look forward to reading them both properly sometime (I think next year).
Seeing Morphine live was fucking life changing........I saw Wild Things recently and without that soundtrack they had no film, but i enjoyed the shit out of it! loving the work man.
Spoiler warning!!! Guys if anyone sees this, the ending wasn't clear to me, what was in the locker? And i cannot seem to find any info online. Be glad if someone can reply to this and explain, thanks.
Excellent video. You should read THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE. The dialogue in that book is incredible. Higgins was a lawyer and his books read like transcriptions of interviews with criminal types. Higgins' COGAN'S TRADE and THE RAT ON FIRE are equally as good.
Hey mate, got a recommendation for you I’d love to hear your take on: The Book of Mirdad by Mikahil Naimy. The mystic Osho (or Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh if you’re going Wild Wild Country with it) had this to say about this slim volume: “There are millions of books in the world, but The Book of Mirdad stands out far above any other book in existence. It is unfortunate that very few people are acquainted with The Book of Mirdad for the simple reason that it is not a religious scripture. It is a parable, a fiction, but containing oceanic truth. It is a small book, but the man who gave birth to this book... and mind my words, I am not saying "the man who wrote this book." Nobody wrote this book. I am saying the man who gave birth to this book - he was an unknown, a nobody. And because he was not a novelist, he never wrote again; just that single book contains his whole experience. The name of the man was Mikhail Naimy. Millions of people have tried to write books so that they can express the inexpressible, but they have utterly failed. I know only one book, The Book of Mirdad, which has not failed; and if you cannot get to the very essence of it, it will be your failure, not his.”
