I Flew To Paris Just To Buy Books - A Book Haul

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  • @DrWhaThaHell
    @DrWhaThaHell Рік тому +156

    I honestly love how similar and plain those books look.

    • @ноэми-в6л
      @ноэми-в6л Рік тому +7

      As a French person, we hate it here lol

    • @ThelouwseFD
      @ThelouwseFD Рік тому +11

      ​@@ноэми-в6лd'où ??? On adore, c'est littéralement une spécificité des bouquins français

    • @somniaque
      @somniaque Рік тому +8

      @@ноэми-в6л c'est TRÈS apprécié, les livres neutres comme les éditions Grasset ou Gallimard sont TRÈS chers et c'est pas pour rien !
      C'est les éditions poches avec couverture photo-stock qui me donne envie de m'énucléer plutôt

    • @ноэми-в6л
      @ноэми-в6л Рік тому +7

      @@somniaque C'est très apprécié et très critiqué également, on salue l'effort de vouloir mettre tous les livres sur le même banc avec ce style épuré mais d'un autre on ne peut pas s'empêcher de comparer avec nos voisins anglophones qui ont de très belles couvertures pensées exprès pour leur livre, des petites oeuvres d'arts qui aident, avant même de choisir le livre, à avoir un aperçu de son univers. C'est vrai que beaucoup de gens apprécient, mais il faut être objectif et se rendre compte que c'est quand même une manière de faire qui est vivement critiquée dans le monde de l'édition.

    • @JV-ee1mc
      @JV-ee1mc Рік тому +2

      Agreed. It’s also why I love the Fitzcarraldo Editions. The covers look so elegant and allows the text to speak for itself.

  • @gloryfire1098
    @gloryfire1098 Рік тому +123

    Lesson learned dress like Professor when you buy books next time

    • @AMAli-ct5df
      @AMAli-ct5df Рік тому +4

      Now I know why People call me that. I have the same bag.

  • @wendyvancamp1738
    @wendyvancamp1738 Рік тому +33

    Going to Paris to buy books. Such a dream! I look forward to your recorded explorations. :)

  • @sisyphus.paradox
    @sisyphus.paradox Рік тому +64

    That's called dedication Robin. You've chosen the right destination.
    Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, Weil 💙

    • @tictac2therevenge291
      @tictac2therevenge291 Рік тому +3

      "L'enfer, c'est Sartre."
      Signé : les autres

    • @ayaelbarazi7818
      @ayaelbarazi7818 Рік тому +1

      Sartre*

    • @sisyphus.paradox
      @sisyphus.paradox Рік тому

      @@ayaelbarazi7818, fixed 🙂

    • @YourSocksRock
      @YourSocksRock Рік тому

      ah yes pretentious pedophiles that found it important to fight for the lowering of the age of consent , it can't get more enlightened :D

  • @marleneroth1389
    @marleneroth1389 Рік тому +10

    What a great book haul :) I live near the french border and i am fluent in french so i often go to France and buy books :) Now i can't wait my next visit to France!

  • @lisa-ie7xf
    @lisa-ie7xf Рік тому +8

    0:50 the way i instantly recognize that stand 😂pass in front of it every day

  • @AliceLouiseJulie
    @AliceLouiseJulie Рік тому +11

    the vibes in this video are SO joyous

  • @danielintheantipodes6741
    @danielintheantipodes6741 Рік тому +4

    Congratulations on the lovely book haul. Thank you for the video!

  • @JayTheAuthor
    @JayTheAuthor Рік тому +3

    I am loving your energy Robin! Reminds me of our mad days on the street

  • @rhysmagill-nn6et
    @rhysmagill-nn6et Рік тому +11

    Love that Ulysses edition. I’ve been getting into James Joyce recently. I finished Dubliners last week and I’m a chapter into portrait and I’m loving it.

  • @septemtriofilia
    @septemtriofilia Рік тому +6

    Je suis trop contente de tes découvertes, ta passion pour la littérature et le français est très inspirante ! Les librairies à Paris sont magnifiques et j'adore les quais pour les bouquins ❤

  • @Harpoq
    @Harpoq Рік тому +5

    Hey buddy! Great excursion. Just wanted to say that I hope you're safe out there as Paris is in a bit of an upheaval at the moment. I suggest for your next travels abroad to two places in Wales, England - Hay on Wye in Wales, and Gladstone Library in Hawarden, North Wales. They are both a literary paradise.

  • @aneash482
    @aneash482 Рік тому +4

    Those books made of paper of good quality, and Gallimard is just the most prestigious publisher In France, They also have a collectors' version of selected authors called Pléiade, authors both French and foreign, such as Camus, Mondiano, Hemingway, all with old school binding and their signature font. Or, the Soleil edition, cloth cover and "reliure'" binding, but they're kinda hard to find right now.

  • @jagmuyco4843
    @jagmuyco4843 Рік тому +1

    Ohhhhhh I remember going to Paris a few years back. Only bought poetry books at a comic book of The Stranger. Really good place.

  • @dr.gaosclassroom
    @dr.gaosclassroom Рік тому

    It is so funny that your friend keep on saying for decoration!! Wow, it is so wonderful you can read French!! I would love to be able read French poetry!

  • @ThelouwseFD
    @ThelouwseFD Рік тому +3

    You need to come to Lyon now !
    We have great libraries here and you'll love the beauty of the city !
    People are also way nicer than in Paris haha

  • @jasnoor33
    @jasnoor33 Рік тому +2

    Stay safe, Robin. Love ya! Keep up the good work.
    :)

  • @ThusIt_sReviewed
    @ThusIt_sReviewed Рік тому +21

    Bit of a rough time for moving to France fine sir

    • @bread6052
      @bread6052 Рік тому

      I don’t know the full story of what’s happening (discussions about it seem to be very complicated and you fall on one of two extreme ends of a spectrum) but I hope everyone in France is doing well and is safe 👍

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 Рік тому +4

      For real! I hope he's far from the insanity going on. Freaking savages.

    • @ThelouwseFD
      @ThelouwseFD Рік тому

      The media make it seem so much worse than it truly is
      For random people like you and I, riots just mean you wake up and like 3 downtown stores have a broken glass window, it's not stopping us from living our normal life.
      The really shocking thing is knowing that the police killed a 17 year old kid.

  • @gokhanozmen7491
    @gokhanozmen7491 Рік тому +1

    Cool decoration books! :D

  • @ddHex-yy2cu
    @ddHex-yy2cu Рік тому

    Je suis trop contente que tu sois à Paris!! Et en plus tu es dans mon quartier🌺

  • @KatLim7778
    @KatLim7778 Рік тому

    Going to Paris to buy books . . . Awesome!!!! Le dumagu is now on my bucket list so thanks.

  • @suzilahlah
    @suzilahlah Рік тому +1

    I ship stuff home. I pack light because I hate carrying things. Go to the post office and pack em up and ship em home.

  • @isab680
    @isab680 Рік тому +1

    Going to Paris next week!

  • @jasminegold6890
    @jasminegold6890 Рік тому +1

    I want to go to a bookshop in Korea and do the same thing. I have a few books in Korean, but being in a Korean bookstore would be awesome.

  • @karmadikibhutia5419
    @karmadikibhutia5419 Рік тому

    That's a dream! Not Paris but definitely somewhere.😮❤😊

  • @pouetpouetdaddy5
    @pouetpouetdaddy5 Рік тому

    you should make a video about Paris bookstore...I went once in Paris, with "Paris Litteraires", book I recommend if you can read in french, a lot of little stories about famous writer, their address...the book is from Francois Busnel, a book about all the bookstore in Paris, and I spend the week visiting the differents bookstore ( L'écume des pages is a must) ...and discover a lot of little neighborhood in Paris I wouldn't without this book

  • @theotheratticus
    @theotheratticus Рік тому

    Hey Robin!
    I love your videos and I'd just like to share that I too am on a vacation to France, and came across a bookshop ran by an ex professor in Philosophy (David Aiken) and bought some books, Camus, Kierkegaard and one about the Presocratics, ''as a gift'' he said, because I'll study philosophy next year.
    Just a funny little thing, I thought.
    Oh yeah, my name is Vic as well, like your crew member at 1:50 :)
    Kind regards !👋

  • @annegiii3446
    @annegiii3446 Рік тому +2

    Si la littérature française t'intéresse (et je crois que c'est le cas), alors je te recommande grandement le roman de Leila Slimani, "Chanson douce".

  • @עמיתשובל-נ8מ
    @עמיתשובל-נ8מ Рік тому +1

    Robin, are you also interested in Sartre's literary work? I'm talking about works like the Age of Reason (from his famous trilogy), his short stories, plays and novels?

  • @cleopatrickk
    @cleopatrickk Рік тому +20

    So so impressive that you're going to attempt Ulysses in a second language 🙌 keep living the dream Robin!

  • @anna7276
    @anna7276 Рік тому +1

    Living the dream Robin!!!

  • @EyeLean5280
    @EyeLean5280 9 місяців тому

    Does the Left Bank still have book stalls?

  • @iyousef46
    @iyousef46 Рік тому +1

    'So, for decoration' hahaha

  • @pauoliver
    @pauoliver Рік тому +3

    For a higher CTR, if that's something you want to optimize for, I would change the title to "Why I Flew to Paris to Buy Books" and also cut the "A book haul" thing.

    • @RCWaldun
      @RCWaldun  Рік тому +2

      Thanks man! Noted.

    • @av8213
      @av8213 Рік тому +1

      what's CTR?

  • @gabrielhacker9526
    @gabrielhacker9526 Рік тому

    Mate, I'm glad i studied english, having the pleasure of understanding your videos. It is a flower in a vast and dry desert of pure ignorance.

  • @edboss36
    @edboss36 Рік тому +1

    Bro’s living the life

  • @tobiaspostma4870
    @tobiaspostma4870 Рік тому +2

    I hated bookshopping in Paris, the offer is great but everything is sooo expensive

  • @t.j.johnsonthewriter
    @t.j.johnsonthewriter Рік тому +1

    Looks great. Have you ever read bonjour tristesse by Francois Sagan ?

  • @informalliteraryexperiments

    If I were in Paris, I would try to spend a whole day in Shakespeare and Company, weather permitting.

  • @imiikhan
    @imiikhan Рік тому +1

    I want that card coz I waited so much for your video 😢

  • @nanli8136
    @nanli8136 Рік тому

    I love hardcover books

  • @anthonyskrobul3726
    @anthonyskrobul3726 Рік тому

    Hi, Robin. I love your posts, but I haven't seen too many lately for some reason. Please refresh my memory. Are you in college or graduate school? You mentioned studying French. What are your majors? Are you an Australian citizen, or do you just go to school there? I am very impressed by your breadth of interests. I look forward to your reply. Regards from an old retired organic chemist who is interested in many things.

    • @RCWaldun
      @RCWaldun  Рік тому +1

      Hi Anthony! I’m currently completing my honours year in Literature before a PhD. My schedule’s a bit crammed at the moment but new videos are on their way in video essay forms (they’re longer and more thoroughly researched so that’s why I haven’t been posting consistently). And yes I’ve been an Australian ever since I moved to Melbourne when I was 12. :)

    • @anthonyskrobul3726
      @anthonyskrobul3726 Рік тому

      @@RCWaldun Congratulations on your academic success. I think you will love working on a Ph.D. I earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (Purdue University) many years ago. My graduate school years were some of the best years of my life.

  • @killumantiiOfficial
    @killumantiiOfficial Рік тому

    love your content !!

  • @williamneal9076
    @williamneal9076 Рік тому

    When will Michel Houellebecq's aneantir be released in ENGLISH?!!!

  • @onyejefuanyebe5314
    @onyejefuanyebe5314 Рік тому +1

    Things we do for books. #bibliophilia

  • @briancoveney3080
    @briancoveney3080 Рік тому

    NO Robin! NO! You may NOT get "sick" of Ulysses. That's where I draw the line. How dare you! That's Saint J Joyce you"re talking about! (just kidding.)
    love, Bra.

  • @Forceprincess
    @Forceprincess Рік тому

    So jealous!😂

  • @ricardocima
    @ricardocima Місяць тому

    Veil or Weil? 2 different Simones.

  • @thomasbradley2225
    @thomasbradley2225 Рік тому

    Robin, your accent is American yet you're Melbourne based. Interesting. However, why buy books for decoration? And did you visit Wilde's grave for inspiration? Simone de Beauvoir didn't know her classmate Simone Weil yet became Nelson Algren's lover, quite ironic
    n'est ce pas?

  • @DP12356
    @DP12356 Рік тому +1

    Thank goodness. I was giving up hope on UA-cam. You have restored my faith that there are actually some intelligent people making videos that don’t just pander to the lowest common denominator. Thank you. And enjoy your trip.

  • @angryfk
    @angryfk Рік тому +1

    absolutely insufferable. loved it

  • @xv_2046
    @xv_2046 Рік тому +1

    Love your videos. But the audio is really low. Pls do something abt it. Thanks!❤

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 Рік тому

      I thought it was just me! I've got my earbuds in and it's still very low.

  • @oldbookchannel
    @oldbookchannel Рік тому

    Good

  • @RachaelsLibrary
    @RachaelsLibrary Рік тому

    I hate Paris but I love French literature. I bought books in Milan and Venice instead.

    • @depotemkin
      @depotemkin Рік тому

      Why you hate Paris?

    • @RachaelsLibrary
      @RachaelsLibrary Рік тому +2

      @@depotemkin dirty, stinky, people smoke everywhere I had sinus everyday. I enjoyed Paris when cruising around Seine. I left Paris one day before the riots.
      Meanwhile Amsterdam, Milan and Venice the vibes are differrent.

  • @existential_o
    @existential_o Рік тому +7

    Unpopular opinion: Sartre’s Nausea is so much better than anything Camus has ever cooked up

  • @РоманПаляниця-к5э

    Дякую за це відео!
    Дуже цікаво!
    Привіт з України!

  • @zepulchre2453
    @zepulchre2453 Рік тому

    Ok you’re my crush🙃💕

  • @johnmanole4779
    @johnmanole4779 Рік тому +4

    How are the "protesters"?

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 Рік тому +1

      They're having a grand time. The poor people living in the places they're destroying, not so much.

    • @user-2210rh
      @user-2210rh Рік тому

      it will never compare to the institutionalized torture programs, mass colonial prostitution and raping, the extraction of natural resources for french capitalist development, the exploitation, the destruction, the barbarism, and unadulterated atrocities committed by france.

    • @itsmaxhhheadr00m73
      @itsmaxhhheadr00m73 Рік тому

      ​@@user-2210rhAll of which were orchestrated by the working class?

  • @starzenno
    @starzenno Рік тому

    Based

  • @barbararuiz1525
    @barbararuiz1525 Рік тому

    Looking forward to walking around Paris with you!

  • @oddball_oddity
    @oddball_oddity Рік тому +1

    MrBeast?? 🧐

  • @rajchaudhary2795
    @rajchaudhary2795 Рік тому +4

    Second, love from India 🇮🇳🙏🚩💓

  • @cosmobilling1749
    @cosmobilling1749 Рік тому +1

    I'm so jealous

  • @potaternator8265
    @potaternator8265 Рік тому

    based

    • @ocin7917
      @ocin7917 Рік тому +2

      I’m old. What does based mean? About three of you have it in the comments so far 😂

    • @leonidlenko
      @leonidlenko Рік тому +1

      @@ocin7917thought I was the only one wondering what the word means in this context

    • @dayshawna
      @dayshawna Рік тому +1

      ⁠@@ocin7917i’m bad at explained but based just means cool or something like it in my eyes.
      an example sentence: “you got 8 book in paris? based”

  • @kanakkumari3197
    @kanakkumari3197 Рік тому +1

    First

  • @yasserradi8625
    @yasserradi8625 Рік тому

    👓📚

  • @LudovicCarceles
    @LudovicCarceles Рік тому +1

    The Gallimard editions, including Sartre's one, are very good one, most are also available as a Pléiade édition, owned by Gallimard, with sheep's leather cover, bible paper and gold, they are great books but too pricey to write in them... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_de_la_Pl%C3%A9iade

  • @ProseAndPetticoats
    @ProseAndPetticoats Рік тому +1

    I loooove strolling by the Seine. Those little bookstalls are one of the best things ever. 🥹

  • @26.saileeprakash36
    @26.saileeprakash36 Рік тому

    based