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.

@timkjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, a wild-ass read.

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.

@BetterThanFoodBookReviews

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching.

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.

Love the reviews bro, keep doing what you're doing man.

I completely agree with point 6. Use regional dialect sparingly. Reading trainspotting was bloody exhausting for that reason.

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...

Great shoutout to Morphine man, love them to bits. Greetings from Greece!

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.

Elmore Leonard is my favorite author. Swag is my favorite book of his :)

Reading Swag right now as I am typing. And now back to the book.

What a great intro. Nicely done.

Love the shirt, and the hairdo.

You SHOULD do music reviews, review classic albums you love

I love Morphine...the band is also amazing

Man, you like Morphine too! I love that I share the same birthday as Mark Sandman,

Wow! It’s been YEARS since I’ve read this one. Leonard has some of the best dialogue of any author ever!

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.

Jackie Brown is still probably my favorite Tarantino movie, but I still haven't read one Leonard book. I guess now is the time.

@irena7777777

4 жыл бұрын

Just finished 52 Pickup. I recommend it

@1060michaelg

3 жыл бұрын

"STICK" is a great one to start with, bu you can't go wrong with Dutch---you are in the most capable hands.

Haha bro I totally read this on my 18hr flight. Loved it

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.

Do you review every book that you read? :)

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.

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

5 жыл бұрын

Love saramago, great writer

@nelmoreira5720

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@kaylemkerr6989

5 жыл бұрын

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).

will check!

do inherent vice cliff ! its a fn masterpiece!!!! your revolution is televised !!!

Love Morphine and Mark Sandman. His mother wrote a book called Four Minus There about her children’s life and lose of her 3 sons.

You should really review Walden sometime.

Also, the movie Friends Of Eddie Coyle is exactly like the book. Beat for beat, line for line. Both the book and movie are great.

@jimtreebob2096

5 жыл бұрын

It’s also impossible to not see Robert Mitchum as Eddie Coyle after watching the movie.

@timkjazz

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, a man made for the role.

Lil bit of love for my Greek fellas out there OPAAAA!!!! 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

Try reading Summer of the Ubume by Natsuhiko Kyogoku.

DEFINITELY review trainspotting

0:36 the switch

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.”

man you really shook that jar

Holy shit Morphine fucking rules! Please do music recommendations more!

If you liked this you should really check out B Traven.

Hello

In my life experience, most criminals are way too chatty

Just realized that Christopher lloyd and Steve buscemi's duo in the movie twenty bucks is totally inspired by this book.

@TheCheweeRevolutions

5 жыл бұрын

@littleswissarmyhouse yeah tbh I haven't even seen the film I've only seen that segment on KZread cos I love buscemi 😁.

Why am I questioning my sexuality?