Yes!!!! Love your review of Uno, Nessuno e Centomila! I remember reading this book at my summer house in Sicily...I was reading in the veranda facing the sea and I paused for a while to think about the concept of personal identity and how our own personality gets projected, reflected and deformed in so many different ways, colors and forms by our contemporary society....really deep shit, I thought I was unveiling the deepest meanings of our life as social animals ...and then my mom yelled at me “Giulia, stop staring at nothing you lazy potato, come help me with the cannoli” LOL Mai ‘na goia
I've said this before but I just wanted to say it again. Thanks so much for all the work you've done and all the effort you've put into this channel. I'm sure it has become somewhat of a necessary stage in your consumption of certain books, allowing you to delve deeper and chew harder on them, but no doubt it has spurred and inspired and reinspired many people to start, restart, or continue their habit of reading. Not only that, but your selection of books to review is fucking exquisite. I love that it's really off the mainstream path and gives some love to all sorts of different writers I would have likely taken much longer to discover. Even the introduction to this where you speak about the essentially infinite iterations of your identity to everyone you meet was enough brain-food to chew on for a week. I sincerely appreciate the love and passion you have put into this channel, and I'll always come back for more man. Also as soon as I have some disposable income, I think you deserve some. Cheers.
There's literally tears flowing out through my eyes since the author expeienced the exact same philosophical depression which i has to go through for almost one and half years and still now surprised many peoplle had to go through it.
I definitely need to read this book. It has a lot in common with Serial Experiments Lain, a show about someone basically becoming the internet/universal unconscious. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this book was a direct inspiration because the show makes multiple literary references including one to In Search of Lost Time. Here is a quote from the show to illustrate "Identity only exists within the memories of other people."
This is precisely what I was thinking. Lain is like a modernization of this book where we create personas online. It follows her loss sense of self kind of like this book
The universe works in mysteries ways. I had an episode with two of my friends last night and I work up to this book that led me to this video. Thank you for explaining things I didn't even understand about myself. I am definetly picking up this book as soon and many more. Much respect to you.
Amazing book, but do not read if you're not ready to have your reality shattered permanently. If you do, keep in mind a possible truth that I read somewhere else, that we are all actually one being and our bodies and minds are only separate temporarily. It's the only possible truth I am left with since this book shattered everything else I thought to be true. I'm glad I'm reading it, but I'm honestly terrified to continue. Also great review and I love his content!
Greatings from an old follower from Morocco. I've seen now almost all your vids. i know big readers they not always show their enthusiasm to the courtesies from people, coz it seems to them like just a result of an excessive excitement in the moment. But anyway I found your channel one of the fabulous channels for the way you're reviewing books, note that read some books based on your recommendation.
Saw this video a few years ago and bought the book. Today I finally finished it. Amazing book, very appropriate with the timing of social media etc. next up, the book of disquiet.
I have my own list of to-read books, I've bought some of your recommendations and a couple of your reads i had already read, in any case, i stick around here mainly to learn more vocabulary from your reviews, i think it'd really help me improve my essay writing.
Indeed! I was always curious which book it was he mentioned, where a man's existential crises was set off by his wife pointing out that his nose was slightly asymmetric. I lost my copy of Ligottis book but thankfully managed to find the book with a few keywords in an online search. And of course, I was not surprised to see that Cliff had already reviewed it. Go figure, am I right? I just finished this book and absolutely loved it.
One of the best , if not the best, book review channel out there. Thank you for your continued good work. I wish you the best in your endeavors good sir. Cheers brother.
Cliff, I recently read a book which I thing you would enjoy: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat. It has a weird, dreamlike atmosphere and reminded me of Kafka, Bataille (especially Madame Edwarda) and Blanchot. It's short, should be under a hundred pages in English.
Wow, you are amazing. This was the best book review I have yet seen. Thank you very much. I do wonder though, do we really need to know who we are? It maybe impossible to even know, so maybe we can just skip the question as once we put ourselves into a limited definition.....it just limits our identity anyway. I really enjoyed listening to you and I shall do so more often and read some of your marvelously reviewed books. Thanks again Sir.🌻
Book is written beautifully, reminds me of the Joker film. Moscarda is lead down a similar path filled with life questioning conclusions and concepts. Lead to the downfall in others eyes but the truest version of himself in his own eyes; which makes this book so special.
Everyone must read ¨The Three Body problem¨, the first part of the trilogy of ¨Remembrance of the Earth´s Past¨ by Liu Cixin. Is not just the best science fiction novel I have ever read but one of the best novels from my top five. I just read the three books and I think it will be difficult to find another novel that blow my mind at the same level this one did.
Hey man, just found your videos.. glad for it! nice job. Now, importante stuff: you must read Maria Gabriela Llansol. Trust me. I believe the 1st trilogy is available in English. She was a genius. (i mean it). The evolution of her production is tremendous, different phases etc, but you can have a small idea by reading the 1st trilogy. There nothing compared to it. (in a lot of way). Please, don't die until you read Maria Gabriela Llansol.
A lot of the books I'm reading now are as a result of your excellent and authentic reviews, and I'm particulary drawn to the pessimists as they speak to the constant struggle I have with my spirit.
thanks clif for inspiring me to read more and more . it's been a big help . Oh and you introduced me to Devil all the time one of my all time favs. if I could make a recommendation for a book that is better than food , I would check out Shot in the heart by Mikal Gilmore . it's a family memoir. Mikal was the brother of infamous Gary Gilmore, the first guy to be executed by firing squad after the death penalty was reinstated in the state of Utah . truly shocking story , also heartbreaking . their father reminds one very much of Fyodor Karamazov, the drunken brute who fathers the Brothers Karamazov. but the book is also incredibly well written to the point of being poetic .
This is fucking crazy. I was literally experiencing all these thoughts this past summer! a series of events lead me to question who I was, and whether reality or any of this was real. I had lost touch with reality and this drove me to a really dark place. I have only recently been piecing myself back together, but after seeing this review somethings telling me I need to read this book, maybe it has some answers I'm looking for? idk man what do y'all think?
I do wonder if we really need to know who we are? It maybe impossible to even know, so I believe we can just skip the question as once we put ourselves into a limited definition.....it just limits our identity anyway. I guess we can just try to be the best of the one, no one and 100000 that we are at anytime, even when no one is looking :)
I just copy-and-past the same comment I left on your 'Best of 2019' video, as I think it is more fitting for THIS video. Here it is: 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.
Noor ur rehman haha, no I’m unfortunately not. If you’re speaking of the Miguel Hernandez I’m thinking of, then you’ve got good taste. And I’m not just saying that because we have the same name :P
Have you read “the collector” by John Fowles , you might like it! It’s about obsession. ( by the way, you mentioned in a video about Marquis de Sade, that you have not read “Justine”, well I have and it is very very disturbing, disgusting and shocking - you would enjoy it :D ) /
Every person you know having a different version of you in their head also ties back to George's Worlds Colliding theory. A george divided against himself!
I was really intetested in what you were saying until you started with "f.....", "f....". You lost me there. I was looking for an intelligent opinion, but found trashy street language. Che peccato!
One might think that you yourself are the most dependant of a positive answer on the ''who are you question''. So considering you know yourself most you're probably also most biased.. disqualifying yourself from the panel :D Could you do ''Viktor Frankl - Man's search for meaning ? It's a pretty awesome book (and it's also relatively short considering you ''only have time for 150 pages'' (ref to the The fall video :D ))
This channel has gotten me to turn off Netflix and pick up more books. Thanks
Me too! I only watch the occasional documentary now and odd movie. Reading is life
always a good thing
Same to me ...
Same for me
you inspired me to start reading again after 5 years of no reading. finished my first book this week, thanks!
Stopped everything I was doing to watch as soon as I got the notification.
Yes!!!! Love your review of Uno, Nessuno e Centomila! I remember reading this book at my summer house in Sicily...I was reading in the veranda facing the sea and I paused for a while to think about the concept of personal identity and how our own personality gets projected, reflected and deformed in so many different ways, colors and forms by our contemporary society....really deep shit, I thought I was unveiling the deepest meanings of our life as social animals ...and then my mom yelled at me “Giulia, stop staring at nothing you lazy potato, come help me with the cannoli” LOL Mai ‘na goia
Hahaha great story - thanks so much for the recommendation!
Stai fuori zia ahaha
Cannoli, yum.
to ho invidiato😌
This is great😂😂
I've said this before but I just wanted to say it again. Thanks so much for all the work you've done and all the effort you've put into this channel. I'm sure it has become somewhat of a necessary stage in your consumption of certain books, allowing you to delve deeper and chew harder on them, but no doubt it has spurred and inspired and reinspired many people to start, restart, or continue their habit of reading.
Not only that, but your selection of books to review is fucking exquisite. I love that it's really off the mainstream path and gives some love to all sorts of different writers I would have likely taken much longer to discover. Even the introduction to this where you speak about the essentially infinite iterations of your identity to everyone you meet was enough brain-food to chew on for a week.
I sincerely appreciate the love and passion you have put into this channel, and I'll always come back for more man. Also as soon as I have some disposable income, I think you deserve some. Cheers.
There's literally tears flowing out through my eyes since the author expeienced the exact same philosophical depression which i has to go through for almost one and half years and still now surprised many peoplle had to go through it.
I definitely need to read this book. It has a lot in common with Serial Experiments Lain, a show about someone basically becoming the internet/universal unconscious. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this book was a direct inspiration because the show makes multiple literary references including one to In Search of Lost Time. Here is a quote from the show to illustrate
"Identity only exists within the memories of other people."
This is precisely what I was thinking. Lain is like a modernization of this book where we create personas online. It follows her loss sense of self kind of like this book
The universe works in mysteries ways. I had an episode with two of my friends last night and I work up to this book that led me to this video. Thank you for explaining things I didn't even understand about myself. I am definetly picking up this book as soon and many more. Much respect to you.
Amazing book, but do not read if you're not ready to have your reality shattered permanently. If you do, keep in mind a possible truth that I read somewhere else, that we are all actually one being and our bodies and minds are only separate temporarily. It's the only possible truth I am left with since this book shattered everything else I thought to be true. I'm glad I'm reading it, but I'm honestly terrified to continue. Also great review and I love his content!
What a comment ! I thought i should read it but you make me doubt...
Your “truth” is self evident. What else could you possibly be ? every living thing is “I”. You simply can’t be anything else.
Greatings from an old follower from Morocco. I've seen now almost all your vids. i know big readers they not always show their enthusiasm to the courtesies from people, coz it seems to them like just a result of an excessive excitement in the moment. But anyway I found your channel one of the fabulous channels for the way you're reviewing books, note that read some books based on your recommendation.
Hes my favorite book youtuber as well 🇲🇦🇲🇦
تحية للمغاربة 🇲🇦
Reading is life. Thank you for another incredible review, I'll be picking this up for sure
Saw this video a few years ago and bought the book. Today I finally finished it. Amazing book, very appropriate with the timing of social media etc.
next up, the book of disquiet.
Thanks cliff, for offering your work to the world.
I have my own list of to-read books, I've bought some of your recommendations and a couple of your reads i had already read, in any case, i stick around here mainly to learn more vocabulary from your reviews, i think it'd really help me improve my essay writing.
Man, this book was also mentioned in Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Indeed! I was always curious which book it was he mentioned, where a man's existential crises was set off by his wife pointing out that his nose was slightly asymmetric. I lost my copy of Ligottis book but thankfully managed to find the book with a few keywords in an online search. And of course, I was not surprised to see that Cliff had already reviewed it. Go figure, am I right? I just finished this book and absolutely loved it.
That outro was very contemplative, thank you for that. I've been chewing on the idea of the self all year
One of the best , if not the best, book review channel out there. Thank you for your continued good work. I wish you the best in your endeavors good sir. Cheers brother.
The only channel I have turned notifications on.
There was this person named Ramana maharshi.
His book name was
Who am i?
He was literally a god in that subject.
And
I admire you my man.
Thumbs up.
Cliff, I recently read a book which I thing you would enjoy: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat. It has a weird, dreamlike atmosphere and reminded me of Kafka, Bataille (especially Madame Edwarda) and Blanchot. It's short, should be under a hundred pages in English.
Yes. Book is amazing. Very influenced by Kafka(Hedayat translated most of his stuff), but I personally think it's better than most Kafka.
Book of my life.
Wow, you are amazing. This was the best book review I have yet seen. Thank you very much. I do wonder though, do we really need to know who we are? It maybe impossible to even know, so maybe we can just skip the question as once we put ourselves into a limited definition.....it just limits our identity anyway. I really enjoyed listening to you and I shall do so more often and read some of your marvelously reviewed books. Thanks again Sir.🌻
Il fu Mattia Pascal is also a great book.
today is a good day, for Cliff has blessed us with his presence
I like this version of you, you know, the guy that reviews and recommends awesome books. Thank you.
Brilliant. As always. So glad this channel exists
Love this book! It's such an essential read. It's as deep as any philosophical book, and so sharply written 😍
Thanks for making such a useful video on the book... enjoyed it and felt it as you explained ☺️🙏
This was such a great book! I just finished it
I didn't know Bradley Cooper was so bookish...
Book is written beautifully, reminds me of the Joker film. Moscarda is lead down a similar path filled with life questioning conclusions and concepts. Lead to the downfall in others eyes but the truest version of himself in his own eyes; which makes this book so special.
Everyone must read ¨The Three Body problem¨, the first part of the trilogy of ¨Remembrance of the Earth´s Past¨ by Liu Cixin. Is not just the best science fiction novel I have ever read but one of the best novels from my top five. I just read the three books and I think it will be difficult to find another novel that blow my mind at the same level this one did.
6:26 is a special moment
Hey man, just found your videos.. glad for it! nice job. Now, importante stuff: you must read Maria Gabriela Llansol. Trust me. I believe the 1st trilogy is available in English. She was a genius. (i mean it). The evolution of her production is tremendous, different phases etc, but you can have a small idea by reading the 1st trilogy. There nothing compared to it. (in a lot of way). Please, don't die until you read Maria Gabriela Llansol.
the breaking of expectations of what you would do is the george premise of a seinfeld episode, good stuff
A lot of the books I'm reading now are as a result of your excellent and authentic reviews, and I'm particulary drawn to the pessimists as they speak to the constant struggle I have with my spirit.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people who "go crazy" experience this but don't have the words to explain it.
I actually raccomend you "Il fu Mattia Pascal" and his novellas....
How do you spell the names of the authors suggested at 11:24 in the video?
Any updates on story of the eye?
Pirandello’s short story “War” is so good.
Check out his "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
thanks clif for inspiring me to read more and more . it's been a big help . Oh and you introduced me to Devil all the time one of my all time favs.
if I could make a recommendation for a book that is better than food , I would check out Shot in the heart by Mikal Gilmore . it's a family memoir. Mikal was the brother of infamous Gary Gilmore, the first guy to be executed by firing squad after the death penalty was reinstated in the state of Utah . truly shocking story , also heartbreaking . their father reminds one very much of Fyodor Karamazov, the drunken brute who fathers the Brothers Karamazov. but the book is also incredibly well written to the point of being poetic .
Sounds like this book might be more relevant than ever what with social media becoming more and more a central point in many people's lives.
Good review sir.
Seems pretty interesting as side read.. I will go through this book soon.
This has blown my mind 🤯🤯🤯
This is fucking crazy. I was literally experiencing all these thoughts this past summer! a series of events lead me to question who I was, and whether reality or any of this was real. I had lost touch with reality and this drove me to a really dark place. I have only recently been piecing myself back together, but after seeing this review somethings telling me I need to read this book, maybe it has some answers I'm looking for? idk man what do y'all think?
I do wonder if we really need to know who we are? It maybe impossible to even know, so I believe we can just skip the question as once we put ourselves into a limited definition.....it just limits our identity anyway. I guess we can just try to be the best of the one, no one and 100000 that we are at anytime, even when no one is looking :)
How'd it go?
Omg I'm reading this book. I better skip this video i want no spoilers
Yes, Bronson is such a great movie! The Walker Brothers song near the beginning gives me chills every time.
I just copy-and-past the same comment I left on your 'Best of 2019' video, as I think it is more fitting for THIS video. Here it is: 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.
and when are you doing Roberto Calasso?
Read something from Ivo Andrić.
Or sandor marai. Hungarian authors are deadshit gooood
Best review of this book, ever.
the intro about this theme reminds me a lot of the last two episodes of neon genesis evangelion
huh
Oh, so this explains why i get uncomfortable when i see my self in a video.
What is the best english translation of this novel? Houser or weaver?
"Who the fuck are you!?" (Who Are You, The Who, often censured verse)
Have you read Jean Baudrillard?
Marlon brando once said "we're all actors"
Dude, check out The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Good stuff.
Noor ur rehman haha, no I’m unfortunately not. If you’re speaking of the Miguel Hernandez I’m thinking of, then you’ve got good taste. And I’m not just saying that because we have the same name :P
Hell yeah! Just read some Pirandello for a class!
Henry the v by him is a masterpiece
I'm currently a third through this masterpiece 📖
the cover is fuckin amazing
I think you may like Il Fu Mattia Pascal by Pirandello
you should do a podcast or just something where you talk more..
Have you read “the collector” by John Fowles , you might like it! It’s about obsession. ( by the way, you mentioned in a video about Marquis de Sade, that you have not read “Justine”, well I have and it is very very disturbing, disgusting and shocking - you would enjoy it :D ) /
Yet another TBR!¡!
5:33 - 5:49 Seinfeld Season 5 Episode 22
Every person you know having a different version of you in their head also ties back to George's Worlds Colliding theory. A george divided against himself!
Pirandello is a genius
I create and sell bookmarks and you have inspired me to create my newest styles, would you like me to send you some bookmarks to see what you think?
Lots of fucks given out here I love it
Stop posting videos! I can't keep up. The more books I read the more my reading list grows. Better go order this off eBay now
Ah, “Better Than Food” should be “Better than Food”, in English, titles are capitalized, except for articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
It's a decent book but it's hard to read.
He is me on social media 😭😂😂😂
To this i can only say:
Detetragrammatizzazzione
(Mortebianca fans will understand, lode al re del sud)
Non credo che ce ne siano altri in giro
* sad boi hours *
Self-dilusion maybe essential to living...
Hi 😀
Hi 😬
It is so great to find people who still appreciate books in our "dumbed down" American culture. I love Better Than Food!
It sounds like a great book, but I could never bring myself to read anything by a dago greaseball.
I keep thinking of that old Strangers with Candy episode when I hear that question
"Who are you?"
"jErRi bLaNknNnNk"
god i need to be more cultured 😂
Review Knut Hamsun's The Hunger
He already has.
Sounds quite like stepphenwolf by hesse
Comment 100
1st ❤
No I was.
First comment
I was really intetested in what you were saying until you started with "f.....", "f....". You lost me there. I was looking for an intelligent opinion, but found trashy street language. Che peccato!
One might think that you yourself are the most dependant of a positive answer on the ''who are you question''. So considering you know yourself most you're probably also most biased.. disqualifying yourself from the panel :D
Could you do ''Viktor Frankl - Man's search for meaning ? It's a pretty awesome book (and it's also relatively short considering you ''only have time for 150 pages'' (ref to the The fall video :D ))
do Pentti Linkola - Can Life Prevail.
If I could say 1 thing to Luigi Pirandello it would be: no YOU are fat >:-| !!!!!
haha jk great book :D
and Anthony Ludovici - Confessions Of Anti-Feminist.