"I hope 2020 will be even stranger." No problem.

@ismalaz9448

3 жыл бұрын

That did not age well huh

@herrklamm1454

3 жыл бұрын

Wish granted!

@Skyscraper21

2 жыл бұрын

What about 22?

When you said you hoped 2020 would be even stranger than 2019... be careful with what you wish for.

@May-uh3mi

4 жыл бұрын

Didn’t age well

@bigriotjcounty

4 жыл бұрын

pinaplw catcake liveson what do you mean lol it aged beautifully..

@May-uh3mi

4 жыл бұрын

bigriotjcounty corona

"And 2020, i hope it will be even stranger." That was quite a nice prediction.

I think, over the years that I've followed you Cliff, the single best accomplishment of yours is when watching and listening to you, I, and I'm sure all your fans, feel that you are addressing us directly, intimately, as though you and I and all your followers are truly close friends. Your personality and intelligence and sense of humor come across the screen in a way few are able to convey. Thanks for all the years of great reviews, I always look forward each month to the next one.

@BetterThanFoodBookReviews

4 жыл бұрын

You *are* all my friends. I wish we were closer in proximity. I couldn't do this without any of you - there would be no reason. Thank you.

I'm so happy Machado's gotten an important position in your ranking. ❤️ Great job. Greetings from Brasil 🇧🇷

"2019 was a strange year for me. And 2020... I hope It to be more stranger" This guy reads so much he predicts the future

The bolo tie is an interesting choice😂

I love this channel, but I can't stop looking at Arthur Shelby from Peaky Blinders.

@VAARBLM

4 жыл бұрын

I was going to comment the same, I got this from my recommendations and I was like, is that Arthur Shelby? XD

@kimwicks5540

4 жыл бұрын

SAME SAME

@emymelodias

4 жыл бұрын

I was going to comment he same hahaha

@sarahtalone7031

3 жыл бұрын

SAME I was looking for this comment lmaoo

@ruanrodrigues3921

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

I've been subscribed to this channel since February 2019 and it feels like I found a hidden gem no one knows about. If it wasn't for you I would've never heard of Luigi Pirandello and many other great authors. Thank you, sir.

Thank you for another great video, I was looking for some good books to read during the lockdown. I love that you review books by authors that I have never heard of such as Assis and Marias.

Hey Cliff I dont read books in fact I left that during my school days and never went back but i really love your reviews and derive great inspiration from your genuine enthusiasm for reading.

When you said the name Bras it rang a bell and remembered that comic that was for more than five years on my shelf and decided to pick it up a month ago, Daytripper is a comic book published by Vertigo by brazilian writers, the protagonist is called Bras and the story it tells is very similar at what you described, I cried with that comics it is really strong, it is one of those gems it stays with you all your life. Now I look it up and the name Bras was given for the influenced that the book you spoke about had in the authors, there are many more and now I am really compelled to read The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, and I recommend to you Daytripper. Have a very nice day, and grettings from Chile (sorry my rusty english xd) :)

The title in Brazil is just: Posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas/ Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas

"Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas" is a brilliant title in portuguese, deal with it. Also, thank you for reviewing and liking Machado de Assis, it means a lot for us brazilian readers. Much love, peace.

Definitely going to pick up Hard Rain Falling, just for that cover alone. You should do a worst of 2019 too. You know, just to keep it brutal.

I just want to thank you for sharing these fucking brilliant books! Most of them I have not even heard of. This is the first video of yours that somehow I came across unwittingly two months ago. Since then, I have watched most of your reviews here and bought seven books online you've recommended and read three of them (Marias, Knausgaard and Bolano) and I'm obsessed!!!! Your videos and the books got me through this pandemic. Thank you ever so much. Much gratitude from a Filipino lady in England.

Gonna try to check a few of these out, thank you. I actually read "Stoner" twice in 2019 based on your review, it was just so good I had to read it again a few months later.

Such a great channel. Really inspires me to rescue the longtime dead habit of reading and absorving a great story. Better than food!

Best channel.... Thank you for what you're doing... Greetings from Yucatan, Mex

Great recommendations as always. Keep up the good work guruji 🙏🏼

Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of my favourites books ever. Thank you for your excellent reviews! I really enjoy listening you while I am working. :) (I need to read Javier Marias!!)

Ok, Javier Marias, Machado de Assis and Don Carpenter 's books seem sooooo good, I can't wait to get my hands on them ! Thank you for this video !

Cheers cliff! I’ve always enjoyed your videos

Your vids are inspirational. Thanks dude.

Love this channel, man

great video, I hope to read some of these in my lifetime.

Cliff: "I hope 2020 is stranger than 2019." 2020: "Hold my mug."

You, Sir, and Paul Anderson are the same person for me. Great channel, btw!

Anything by Machado de Assis was so hard for me to read in both elementary school and high school (it was mandatory reading). But after seeing your videos about "Dom Casmurro" and "Brás Cubas" it made me feel like I should give it another try now that I'm older.

Hard Rain Falling was amazing. I just ordered A Heart so White and One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand. I've already read the others.

That’s exactly what I need to do: carry a book everywhere. Marvellous looking list by the way.

Thanks for your work, Cliff! It's the most inspiring and wonderful stuff on YT. In no way have I read all of these books. (There's just too much to read!) But your passion is addictive. I love it. I think I'm gonna have to get a Patreon account after all. Greetings from Germany! Currently reading: My brilliant friend by Elena Ferrante.

keep doing what you do! you are VERY good in it.

Pacific Northwest authors always seem to deal life with a more realistic and sarcastic way. Never been there myself, but I always am fascinated by the way the rainy region made Brautigan, and so many authors deal their internal voices in such a very specific and interesting way.

Bom dia! Obrigada!

iam from brazil and iam so glad machado have been aprecieted in other countries cheers

@Pribiasi

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

When I see people talking about authors that I have never read about: Oh, man! I gotta read it all! But then I notice that I already have a lot of things on my desk waiting to be read: oh, noo!! ;(

I read Disgrace and Foe last year...loved them. Knausgard's first book, I read ,but I'm uncommitted to a follow up until I can pinpoint why I only hear "meh" when I think of venturing near it. A Heart So White is going on my list. Thanks for sharing.

1. Javier Marias - A Heart So White kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKt7rsWMpqeqdso.html 2. Machado de Assis -Epitaph of a Small Winner kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKt7rsWMpqeqdso.html 3. Don Carpenter - Hard Rain Failing kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKt7rsWMpqeqdso.html 4. JM Coetzee - Disgrace kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKt7rsWMpqeqdso.html 5A. Karl One Knausgard - My Struggle: Vol 2 kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKt7rsWMpqeqdso.html 5B. Luigi Pirandello - One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKt7rsWMpqeqdso.html

YO Cliff, I give you the idea to read Kalidasa, well something of his work, couse Herman Melville paraphrased him several times in The Moby Dick, and apparently was of high opinion of Kalidasa so it may be something ancient and mind-blowing. I haven't read Kalidasa yet. It's on my list for next few months. Wish u best

Five new books to check out, thanks mate!

I love your videos.

It would be interesting to see your views on top books published this decade, like what you'd view as future 'classics; of the decade

I came across a Pushkin edition of Hecate and Her Dogs in a charity shop very near to where I live last summer, £2.50!! I would visit the shop almost every day out of habit & to check out if anything else had been put out and no one would ever touch it, to the point where it started to frustrate me. I remember it being all water damaged and bent out of shape and I hated the sight of it. At the same time, however, I would always wonder how I was familiar with the title and after about a week and a half of not visiting the shop realised you had reviewed it & and that it was rare as fuck. I visited the shop the next morning to pick it up (literally one of the first people in the door) and it was gone. I barely got any sleep the night before thinking about it still being there/not being there anymore and the bastard that could have had it. You mentioning that at the start of the video has just reminded me of all that and it all still throbs intensely in my brain and chest.

I am not used to hear English-speaking readers talking about Italian literature, and I was so happy to see my fellow countryman Pirandello being mentioned by you. Pirandello (who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1935) wrote many interesting stuff and the book you read is not even his best! In fact, I prefer The Late Mattia Pascal, his true masterpiece. I think a lot of Italian writers do not get enough credit internationally. Italian literature is not just about "mafia and pasta", it is actually very existentialist and somehow even 'postmodernist'. If I understand which kind of books you like, you should definitely check Dino Buzzati's 'The Tartar Steppe' (one of Camus' favourite novels). You should also check Nicola Pugliese's 'Malacqua: Four days of rain in the city of Naples waiting for the occurrence of an extraordinary event'. This novel was a literary case in Italy in the end of the '70s, but then it went out of the catalogues and became impossible to find. Only recently a small publishing house has bought the rights of the book and published its long-awaited second printing. In the meanwhile, during the last few years, the novel has been finally translated in English, French, and German. The English edition even won the award for the best translation of the year! I do recommend these books to you. Thanks a lot for your videos. Nice mug, also.

Nice bolo. New here, love your work. Hard rain falling is great! Do you only read physical copies Of books, or do you use a kindle, for example? Just interested. Thanks.

00:36 Careful what you wish for dear sir!

you had me at "bom dia".

better than bacon/eggs/hash browns to a crisp....side of sourgough toast with fresh peach jelly? fresh orange juice of course, from the orchards outside Lisbon...

just read Disgrace for one of my courses in Post-Apartheid South African Literature, it was amazing

“Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí” is another great novel from Javier Marias.

Disgrace was good, but I think not as good as you say. Just offering my opinion. Didn’t know about the others, will check them out. Thanks!

I ll take a look at the Marias. But I was thinking this might actually have been books published in 2019. Im reading Serotonin at the moment. Give Houllebecq a whirl...start with "the elementary particles" or maybe "the map and the territory" because of its genre tie ins....I always finish his books in a day or two.

Hard Rain Falling was my favorite read of 2019...and 2019 was a great reading year for me that included Baldwin's Just above my head, Woolf's The Waves, Steinbeck's East of Eden, Bolano's The Savage Detectives, and Wallace's Infinite Jest. Best reread was Tom Kristensen's "Havoc," which you should give another chance, @Betterthanfood - I know you have a copy ;-) Knausgaard refers to it a couple of times during My Struggle...if I recall correctly, he stated it was the best novel to come out of Scandinavia.

I'm curious Cliff. How do you have your coffee, black, milk n sugar... what? Great great videos as always mate.

"And I hope 2020 will be even stranger". Your wish has been granted, my kind sir!

I started _Hard Rain Falling_ in Portland (yep!) but shit happened and I never finished it. Buying it from Thrift Books right now. I'll also read _A Heart So White_ sometime at the end of this year. Thanks Cliff!!!

Uau nosso machado de Assis em 2º lugar? Yes!

Ladies and gentleman, it's 14:12 of pure art

Cliff: 2020 will be even stranger... COV 19: Oh yea...

Awesome. Have been waiting for your video.

I wanted to start reading my struggle : vol 2 but I haven't read the first volume, Is it neccessary to read the first vol before starting the second or the second one would still hold its amazingness wothout the first?

Not gonna lie, I stayed to watch the mug, but, in the end, I also really appreciated the broad, global selection of your books

I definitely recommend reading the remaining books of My Struggle. In my opinion books 3 and 4 don't hit quite as hard emotionally as the first 2, but book 5 might be the mist devastating in the series. 6 is incredible aswell, even though the Hitler essay drags for a bit too long (at least in my opinion, although I understand the importance of it to the entire narrative)

If you liked the Machado de Assis, you should try the origin of it all, Laurence Sterne’s masterpiece, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

Can you please give me some more details about Hecate and Her Dogs, because I think I have the same edition. Is it really a rare book now?

Yo dude, big ups on the JM Coetzee. I'm from Cape Town, South Africa, and Disgrace was one of the books we did in matric. Can also recommend The Native Commissioner by Shaun Johnson if you want to check out another weighty South African novel (based on a true story about a guy who's 'forced' into complicity with the apartheid regime, despite his indiscriminate love for his fellow man). I preferred it to Disgrace actually, I'd say it's even heavier and yet more relatable? I'm not particularly fond of South African literature in general if I'm being honest, but those two are pretty fantastic.

Machado de Assis!!!! I'm brasilian and love Machado.... thanks

Everything seems to be tragic. How do you select the novels you read? Reviews or just picking things at random?

Hey man how do you keep track of your books that you've read and want to read?

That's a rad bolo tie

subbed!

I challenge you to read another book by Machado de Assis: Dom Casmurro. It is a book that shares a lot of opinion on the narrator's point of view of the story. Seriously, you're just going to love reading.

Film version of Disgrace with John Malkovitch as the academic was excellent .

Brazil is also in the west...

Does anyone have anymore information about Hecate and Her Dogs. I have the same copy and would appreciate any further information or if there is anyone who can give me an actual value.

I don't like the English title of "Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas". But I kind of like the original one, because it's like a description of what the book is: the posthumous memories of Brás Cubas (of course the book is more than that, but it is still made of posthumous memories). I don't think it's the best title ever, but I think it fits the book. I can't think of anything better. And I think Machado couldn't too. Otherwise, he would have given this book a better title.

ur one of the good ones Clifford

Disgrace - that petrol scene DAYYYYYM I got Heart So White for Crimbo, and am eager to devour this!

i like the Church of Satan look lol :P

If you’re starving to death & you’re offered either a book or food, which would you have? Which is better???

Do a book review of Gustavo Corção.

I know a chapter by heart of this book (Machado de Assis). Incredible indeed! But he has a book called Dom Casmurro that I think is even better ...

Hey man, I saw you have a copy of Scab Vendor. Make a Review for us plz.

Ive read two of those six books. oh well lets try doncarpenter first.

I love this channel Ok. That's it.

What's your Goodreads account?

“I hope 2020 will be much stranger” 2020:😏

Quote: "2019 was a strange year for me, and 2020... i hope it will be even stranger". Well done!

American Arthur Shelby??

0:39 😂😂

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand is the best book I read last year!

Ever had to put yoghurt in your coffee because you ran out of milk?

Absolute perfection. I am downloading it.

come for the books, stay for the fit

You: I hope 2020 will be even stranger God: Okie dokie

Whattt?! I have that same edition, cost about a fiver.

Do you have a goodreads account?

2020 i hope will be even stranger..well fy

Onward into 2020…. Ah, we were all so blissfully naive then 👍. Top recommendations.