Twilight - William Gay BOOK REVIEW
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William Gay is absurdly underestimated. Such a great writer. Twilight isn't my favourite of his, but I devoured in a couple of sittings just the same. Horror (High) Literature done correctly. From the first time I've read William Gay, I knew he wrote in an antiquated fashion, you can hear it while reading: he wrote longhand, of course; I'm yet to read a Great Novel written directly in a word processor running in a multi-core computer. William gay was a true artist. And he seemed like a very genuine and interesting man. Absolutely great choice for reviewing.
Gay's short story The Paperhanger will haunt me until my last breath.
William Gay is/was a great novelist, a very worthy heir to the lineage of southern gothic writers like Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Conner, etc. Another spectacular review by Cliff, if you're new to his site go back into his other reviews and prepare to be astounded, he's that damn good and that damn entertaining.
My old creative writing teacher gave me a copy of Gay’s “Provinces of Night”, I have yet to read it but I think I might because of this review! Cheers Cliff!
I can see why you would admire this author, Cliff. He has a refreshing perspective from where he stood in life. Great review, as always.
He wrote a more pace-y novel, Provinces of Night, in 2000. “I have a lot of books and books are better if you can share them.” Yep.
This book has been on my radar for some time now. After reading all of Donald Ray Pollocks books (which is how i found your channel) I then took a deep dive into Southern Goth grit lit I read all David Joy book and alot of the Ronald Rash So now I NEED this book great review IM SOLD. LOVE the Misfits shirt too
Got to talk to Ron Rash when he came to uni forever ago. He’s so soft spoken. Saints at the River is my favorite by him. But the ending of Serena is epic. David Joy has a great Instagram (lol) and I prefer The Line that Held Us/When These Mountains Burn to his earlier stuff
Great review! If you like William Gay, you might want to check out Daniel Woodrell. He has recieved quite a bit of critical acclaim. Daniel Woodrell has been frequently compared to William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. He writes what he coined as hillbilly or rural noir. Most of his stories are set in the backwoods of the Missouri Ozarks. The first novel I read by him was 'Winter's Bone'. Cool novel, worth a read.
When I saw you for the first time I thought to myself "This guy has got to have some skeletons in his closet", so let me utter a triumphant - I knew it!
Glad you reviewed this one, William Gay didn't get the notice he deserved!
I actually got this book as a gift last Christmas! :D I really love William Gay; he was a master of prose. The Long Home was one of the most gorgeously written things I think I've read. Can't wait to get to this one now! :)
Please do a review of Cormac McCarthy's "The Passenger".
I missed William in the title of the video and was thrown back to 14 years ago
I thought about reading this so I could tell my girlfriend I finally read Twilight.
I suppose that would make it a gay book review.
Oh I have to read this. I love "Provinces of Night"
We need a review of The Passenger, insanely good.
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Do you still critique the writing that people send to you?
I have a finished poetry collection, that is quite philosopical in nature and i`m trying to get it published, which is a challenge
but it is a sort of work that is more geared towards people with a good understandings of classics, some greek and existentialist philosophy(mainly Nietzsche)
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*Danzig only* 💯 Recently finished The Island of Dr. Moreau, currently reading The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, & Civil Society.
Happy Halloween, Cliff.
All of William Gay's novels are great. Check'em out!!
Currently reading The Passion According to G.H, and Autoportrait by Édouard Levé
The Long Home by Gay had some mindblowing prose.
I like your shirt! Just a heads up: For some reason it became very difficult for me to find your Werewolf by Montague Summers review. "better than food werewolf" no longer works for example, I only found bc it was in a playlist. Now I can still find it searching the exact name. Would be great if it got fixed (can you really ever fix RUclips?) as thats my favourite review of yours and I wish more people could find it! I rewatch it every Halloween
I was unfamiliar with this author. Will give it a listen. Sound promising
Great review! Been meaning to read this one for a bit. Happy Halloween Cliff!
Just saw your community post about the Halloween Patron-only reviews and am gutted to no longer be in a position to support. Another fantastic review, keep up God’s work Cliff!
Awesome video man
I haven't read Twilight (yet) but maybe the town's name is more a reference to Huracan the god of wind, storm, and fire, one of the creators of man. Not sure, but just throwing it out there until I can give it a read.
I’m looking forward to your review of McCarthy’s latest novels. I’m about one hundred pages into The Passenger. It’s quite good. Mysterious, sad, profound, and surreal, classic Cormac thus far.
Have you ever heard of Cox: Or, the course of time. ? It's a book about an english clock maker who gets an invitation to come to china to build different kinds of clocks for the emperor. In the book the clash between those two cultures as well as the healing process of cox from traumatic experiences through his art is shown through the symbolic of different themed clocks. I originally read it in german but there is an english version as well. Seeing your general taste in books it was something i wanted to recommend. ^^
nice
Sick misfits shirt man
Quick question from a new-ish subscriber (forgive me if you’ve already answered this question before): how do you choose what to read next? Thank you!
I heard that Barthelme was a good author
Seems like I’ve read this story in an old EC Tales From The Crypt comic book.
now do a video on the other twilight
I almost fainted when I saw Twilight on the title
If I were in that position, I would anonymously go to the police with all the photos.
Sick sick sick, as if perversity hadn’t sunk to its lowest ebb, but hey wonderful review I guess, as I did not have the stomach to hang in there to the end …the few morbid details I heard might never leave my mind…
Still a better love story than...
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wait a minute.
lol
Love the misfits shirt :)
Hi. Hey.
Great review, but personally I’m team Jacob
You were joking about that money thing werent ya?
What an unfortunate name to have.
And to have your book share the same name as one of most infamous ones of all time.
That you think so says a lot about you.
This book sounds like it sucks
This day anything goes 🎃
This sounds like an underwhelming read to me. I feel Southern Gothic is a bit of a black hole once you've read the greats
Yeah because that’s what you WANT it to be. Missing out
Dude, I feel the same way. It’s like, he’s right there, picking away at something truly great with his fingernails and then it just kind of crumbles and turns to dust. Good stuff, but just right on the cusp… like… you can see the finish line and then you pass out exhausted.