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Not exactly a useful comment,but your channel is my favorite book channel in RU-vid and is really important for my mental health/changed my life in the sense of presenting some authors I did not know. Thank you very much and keep the great work in both channels
You're definitely the best book reviewer on RU-vid. I don't trust those other guys, most of them don't seem to have great taste. You definately have taste, and I respect that.
Seriously, Cliff isn't just unique for the quality of fiction he reviews,but, for the quality of the video he post overall. Over the course of the channel, the videos have gotten better and better.
I appreciate your honest book reviews. They are delicate, watchable and enlightening. It is clear that you are thoroughly passionate about reviewing and "deciphering" high-class litterature. You are a talented person. I am a huge fan of yours. -andy. keep it up my man
you mentioned Moroccan mint tea, i am from Morocco and i would be glad to meet you in case you came sometime. Just discovered your channel lately, and you succeeded by putting your touch on it, truly it's a very noble job you do. Thank you !
Has great taste in literature + listens (used to?) to black metal & experimental music + watches Greg Sadler + drinks mint tea (our national drink, not tea bags though) ... the coolest reviewer on yt. Keep up the good content, it is appreciated.
I picked up 'Story of the Eye' late one evening recently, thought I would read a few pages and hit the sack.. Wrong! With fevered brow and sweaty palms I finished it in one sitting, savoring every word. Most Excellent! Many Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Will be reading more Georges Bataille and soon. Also, want to read Nick Land's 'The Thirst for Annihilation' after I rob a bank to purchase it. Yukio Mishima's 'Sun and Steel' is next. I was lucky enough to obtain an old paperback copy online. There is a superb doc. on here that I thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks again for all Your recommendations and reviews. And Fuck Yes 'Birthday Party' especially LIVE. 'Drunk On The Pope's Blood' scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
well, youtube could be summarized in your channel for books, fantano's for music (still...), and stuckman's for films. we like your film reviews too, but they are not as frequent as we would like them to be. cheers!
Horrible Reviews is a much less known movie review channel but IMO beats every other movie review channel on RU-vid. He talks a lot about older horror movies, so if that's not your thing maybe he wouldn't be for you, but he also talks about many, many other genres and is a really funny, informative guy, highly recommended
Well, having just caught a coupla of these vid-diaries, I'm shocked! This chap vibes pretty hard with my own private enthusiasms! (Like Favourite Author: J G Ballard (and,, for me, also William S Burroughs) ..........Most, special beloved bands *The Birthday Party* and the mighty *The Fall* etc WOW! '@.@' Deffo be watching more of these.....See if I can find some special secret-squirrel hot-tips for fresh cultural fun-times that I haven't found myself yet! Niiiiice! Cheers, man! :D
I've seen a fair few book review videos on youtube, but other than yours none have really grabbed my attention. Though I predict/hope as you gain popularity it might encourage readers of heavier novels to do something similar to this channel.
This guy is my favorite. I've got a man crush on him, he's the best. He's introduced to me so many great books, that I never would have discovered otherwise, like "Epitaph of a Small Winner" which I am reading now, and my God, incredible.
It is amazing. In this video you noted movies that were even better than the books and two that you noted, A Clockwork Orange and Fight Club were exactly two novels I suggested to two young, and in that manner, naively pedantic readers when they suggested that the book is always better than the movie. It is not to criticize them for this approach since it is a cliche understanding and therefore gets traded about like foregone conclusions, but I just loved that you came to the same conclusions that I had. I would add another two novels (although of course illimitably more could be added) to this list, which I did that night, Children of Men and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, in that vein. You said in your Ligotti Conspiracy review that you were on your way to China following the publication of the video. I currently reside in China and have done so for the past 4.5 years. I am curious as to where you went and to what purpose? You also noted, with more than a good bit of sadness, that you were helping your father in his last days with Stage 4 Cancer, which is also something that dovetails with my own personal narrative. But instead of reading at that time, I had given it up for a spell in lieu of listening incessantly to Radiohead albums. Albeit, there was one book that my father, being more a newspaper reader than a novel reader, spoke about with glowing regard. That book held a magical charm for me and I believed at the time that my father would live until the leaves of that book closed on its final page on my first read, its aged binding all but holding its threadbare skeleton in place. Well, the charm that held my father's life in check, I finished late on a moonlit night only hours before his final repose, while a feverish delirium of pain rendered him senseless to the outside world in the adjacent room with no longer any recourse to lessen his suffering. I unbeknownst, fell asleep in my anguish, and woke, in what felt like only moments later, to the terrible quiet of my father's room and the fog of sadness at finding a discarded mortal shell with the morning buzz of bees knocking themselves senseless against the mirror picture-window beside my father's hospice bed. The white-noise show was the only channel available in my head that day, though with the staticky backtrack of an incessant song on loop faintly, though clearly defined, in the background that played like a eulogy for my desolation. I am also curious about doing literary reviews and all that you say resonates with my own thinking, with the exclusion of your love of metal. By no means a criticism, but I digress. Thank you for the video and your time if you endeavored to read this longish comment. And btw, I have been watching RU-vid videos forever but your's is the first that I have ever commented on.
Cliff, 29:02 through 29:13 is to my fragile eggshell mind, one of Your Finest moments among the plethora of Fine moments I have experienced here at the only Book Reviews that matter (w/ apologies to whomever created the catch phrase for THE CLASH that I stole & slightly modified that from). I will now play 'Chainsaw Gutsfuck' in Your honor Good Sir while I lift and fantasize that a perfect morph of Camille Paglia and Mercedes Carrera is my spotter.. Salute!
Based on your taste of books (which is somewhat similar to mine), I can recommend Lize Spit 'it melts'. I don't know if it is already translated in English, but if it is, you should definitely check it out. Love to hear your thoughts about it.
Have you ever read James purdy? Judging by your taste and overall video feed I think you would really enjoy him. He is one of our “quickly ignored” American gothic writers. I would love if you reviewed “Malcolm” or “the house of the solitary maggot”. It would be miraculous to get him some notoriety even post death.
Finally! You've been a mystery man, man. Have you seen The Neon Demon? Thoughts on Refn? Love that bit on Werner Herzog, staring into the abyss of death ahahah
A sincere thanks back to you! I look forward to every video and appreciate all the time and effort you put into sharing your passions with others. It's rad as fuck. Do you have any thoughts on John Barth or Rainer Maria Rilke? They both seem like they'd be right up your alley.
I don't know if you're a fan, but when I saw St. Vincent on her Strange Mercy tour, she surprised me with a cover of She's Beyond Good and Evil that blew my socks off. So. Good.
“It” was (is) my favorite King novel. Still affects me years after reading the novel. However, I’d say the most important novels in my life are Siddhartha (of which I’ve read different translations), and Candide. Slim novels, but deep.
You're amazing and we know it :) Have you read Julian Barnes' England England? it's about "everything is a copy of a copy" :p Maybe you should tell us what are difficult books according to you? any contemporary ones? some recommendations?
used to be big into stuff like Bestial Warlust, Revenge and Blasphemy until i heard My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and got into drone, you should definitely dig a few of your old tacklists/radio shows up.
I have no idea what it is about this video. Something just really struck me, it hit a chord or some shit, I don't know... Completely unrelated but would you consider reviewing Azzerad's Our Band Could Be Your Life?
I’ve only recently discovered your channel. From what I can tell, you seem to prefer dark literature, tragic or perhaps tragi-comic. You may have already answered this- do you have a single favorite ?
Man..ur reviews r just great......i just wish u may do more film reviews....because other than stuckmann i haven't seen a reviewer worth referring to for films.......anyway would u pls review Hermann Hesse or Philip k dick or Haruki Murakami.......?......
Have you ever seen "Black Robe"? In one seen a Jesuit explains and demonstrates reading to an Algonquin in the 18th c. The Algonquin assumes sorcery in awe. It's a most powerful demonstration. Good but sad movie.
Has Cliff ever reviewed a Stephen King book, or does he stick to authors with more literary merit? I think books like Different Seasons and IT are worthy of an in-depth review by him.
I watch a few _trendy_ book reviewers on YT, and boy do they read a lot of crap. So much of what they read is nothing short of empty contemporary rubbish. That's why you're the best. You review actual literature, not kitsch kindle written to sell.
Kinda guessed you were a filmmaker. Someone doesn't just pick up there camera after doing straight into the camera vlogs and create those really quite beautiful videos you've made when traveling.
So basically you were a fan of Anthony Fantano before he turned himself into a meme. Makes sense. Unbelievable Nirvana story! I started playing bass because I wanted to be Krist. I don't know if you know this but Kurt's favourite book was Perfume by Patrick Süskind, wondering if you've read it? My ex introduced me to Nick Cave's music and yeah, The Birthday Party, along with Scott Walker, changed my music taste overnight.
Also, speaking of The Needle Drop, are you aware of the RU-vidr Myke C-Town? He does the occasional album review, but his channel consists mostly of Vinyl Update videos and most of the records he collects are Black Metal.
I've watched Needle Drop since. 2009. I wouldn't say that much have changed. It could've changed much more. The meme-parts are not really part of the reviews themselves.
Damn, great video! I'm commenting as it goes, but I'm definitely going to check out Story of the eye. If you want, check out my short film on my channel titled Snip. Made it a year ago. Also, I'm planning on moving to L.A. after four years of college to become a filmmaker as well. Hope your project works out!! Also, last thing. Thanks for introducing me to all of these wonderful pieces of art, whether that be music, film or the books you've mentioned.
