A Conversation with Chris Via of Leaf by Leaf
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2021
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Sombrero Fallout. A Japanese Novel. Richard Brautigan. An absurd shortbook. I cannot find it in me to wax lyrical or praise anyone or anything so I shall say only this. This book isn't shite.
"To experience the joys of people while actively avoiding them." That is brilliant.
Definitely the highlight of the video. (I like your (presumably) Kafka-inspired name!)
Thanks very much ya'll.
Amen
Not to be a snoot but that’s basically DFW’s definition of espying in terms of viewership and then also readership, how it’s a kind of consensual voyeurism.
Imagine they had a weekly podcast 👌🤯
so true
No. Chris via talks too much about stuff that's beyond him.
The crème de la crème of booktube together in one video
I thought the same thing..just awesome
💯
The crossover event I've been waiting for my whole life!!!
I'm heartened by your admissions of reading speed. When I'm really breezing through a book, I can read 20 pages an hour. Most books read closer to 10-12, and very dense texts will slow me down to 5-6 pages an hour. Knowing that you both read as slowly as I do makes me feel less alone. Cheers!
Which minute?
The concept of speed reading, when it comes to fiction, is really strange. If you enjoy what you read, why read it quickly in the first place?
@@khadimndiaye7730 Yes!! Wish more people would talk about this.
@@trinityanthony2151 I don’t really mind. What to read and how to read are personal choices. For me and, I think, for most that appreciate the classics, the major concern is what you get out of the book and not how quick you are through with it
@@crikkopepe07 43:30
Great conversation. I would listen to you doing a regular podcast together.
“To experience the joys of people while actively avoiding them.” Nailed it!!!
Only halfway through the video, but I feel compelled to thank you both for fostering my interest in literature. Cliff, I discovered your channel in high school, and the books
I read at your suggestion helped influenced my decision to study English in college. Chris, I discovered your channel in college, and your insights pushed me further down the rabbit hole of literary studies. I graduated with my BA in English earlier this year, and now you guys have finally collaborated, combining two major pillars of my literary life. Much appreciation to you both for the great influence you’ve had on my development as a reader.
Waoooo!
🙏🙏
Like eavesdropping on two well articulated minds. What a joy!
One of the most ambitious crossover between booktubers ever. Great advice and insight guys!
Chris has the most beautiful bookshelves I wish I had one of those in my house.
🙏
YES
Looks like a post office in there
demais, muito bonito e organizado. todo vídeo dele fico só olhando as prateleiras e tentando reconhecer ou identificar os volumes que ele tem.
What's even more beautiful is putting all the work on to get there.
When conversations become events. Thank you for doing this!
Well, finding Cliff's channel was a godsend. And then I leart from Cliff about Chris's Leaf By Leaf channel. Thank you both for putting out such wonderful materiel in you channels. I am very grateful.
After dealing with brain cancer, I had lost my passion for reading. But Cliff and Chris have rekindled in me the desire to read and to write again. Sort of like Cliff said, their videos have kindles a visceral reaction within me, and have made me want to read and write again.
It is so wonderful to see two of my favorite book reviewers on youtube together. I hope you do more of these chats.
War and Peace is a real page-turner, honest, guys.
Agreed. The fairly recent BBC series is also awesome.
It's a spiritual experience!
@@davidnorris166 meh. the Soviet movie was better.
Totally agree 👨🏻🌾🦾🐝✨
Indeed!! Agree. I'm reading it at the moment.
Two of my most favorite BookTubers! Excellent idea, Cliff 🤓📚😎
This happened. This happened. Sometimes, sometimes, the beautiful convergence can happen.
This was so good that I watched it 3 times, back to back, while driving my truck....Best two book review channels on youtube....Looking forward to your future collaborations!
You two are my absolute favorite "booktubers" (hate that term but it is what it is haha). I look forward to your future collaborations!
Leaf by Leaf is the best in the game
I love the metaphor that re-reading a book is like having multiple relationships with a person throughout time because you change.
Watched this interview and promptly went to a library book sale and got a beautiful Webster’s dictionary and a copy of The Sound and the Fury, among other books. Thanks for this! I learned a lot!
Thank you both for this!
I have been waiting for this collaboration my entire life.
Soooo great fellas...awesome that you did this.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.― Heraclitus
Fantastic conversation! Thanks a lot 😁
Just a brilliant conversation! Thanks guys
My two favorite channels just joined forces, thanks for this! Do a part 2!
This is one of my favorite videos, I've rewatched it a few times already. Great conversation
Thanks guys. What a wonderful and interesting conversation.
This was an incredible episode! Both of you are truly learned Gentlemen and I'm looking forward to your future collaborations!
I'm one of those guys who loves everything you do for years and says nothing. Was blind but now I see.. Thankyou both. What you do is so important.
The crossover we needed! 💞 Absolutely brilliant! Love you both! Wish this was a regular thing.
Learnt something new. Thank you guys for the conversation.
Brilliant conversation guys
Listening to this conversation brought back my brain from the horrible barely conscious brain haze state that I had been living in for many days. Truly thanks. Right now I remember myself.
Such an insightful conversation! Thank you both ♥️🙏
Great conversation - looking forward to more. And thanks for the intro to Sherdstube
Oh my god, I'm so excited! Two of my favourite reviewer together.
A very fruitful conversation, thanks for sharing it.
I love both channels, great interview!
this was so so nourishing to hear
Fantastic conversation! Thank you to both of you gentlemen
Love you Cliff. You’ve introduced me to some of the best books I’ve ever read in my entire life. Take care man ❤️
I’ve been watching Better Than Food for a couple of years, and discovered Leaf by Leaf a few months ago. Seeing my two favorite UA-cam book reviewers collaborate made my day.
Thanks so much for this great video guys. I really enjoy your passion for what you love, and your openness and honesty. You both rock!
Great conversation! Thank you .
I'm grateful that I made the time to watch this. Great stuff! 👍
Love both of these dudes. Could listen to them talk for hours.
You guys need to read War and Peace! And check out Clarissa too...
What an absolutely amazing video; you guys are absolutely brilliant to listen to talking to one another; no hubris, yet profound discussion. Feel like I'm sitting at a cafe in Paris in the 1920s or something listening to great writers shooting the shit with one another unafraid to be totally authentic and without the need to cover everything they say with irony or some other cheap trick
This is definitely the good side of booktube. Hope more collabs with Chris will happen in the future. Great stuff!
Hey, its been a year, time for a reunion! Love you both.
I've been waiting for this
Wasn’t this just grand 🙌
Cliff, if I may, when you write your own novel (one day, down the road a bit) it will be profoundly amazing. Who am I? Not a youngster at all. Nam vet. Worked many blue collar type jobs over the years to buy time to write. So, my conclusion? For a young dude of 32, man, you are inordinately sharp, yet devoid of pretense. You're real, you're brainy, you're a lover of good writing. Exactly why people like me appreciate your channel.
Even though am fairly well read, you make me aware of books I may have overlooked in the past and perhaps ought to give a concerted try. Thank you and Chris Via for the hard work that you both put into your podcasts. You guys make this crazy world (that we all struggle to survive & live in) a better place. Thank you kindly, gentlemen.
Wow, can’t believe I’m just now watching this. Great interview! Very insightful, Chris just got a new subscriber
What a crossover... What a Video.... Thanks!
to hear these two intelligent human beings agree fervently that you're not going to understand the fullness of whatever lengthy tome you've just read, that absolutely makes me breathe a huge sigh of relief.
I enjoyed every bit of this interview/crossover.
This reminded me of a film called My Dinner with Andre.
Especially when you converse on why today's literature, films, or music suck so much, maybe because we all turned into walking robots, thinking nothing, feeling nothing, consuming garbage (a generation of plastics with junk values and junk food).
Great episode. A big fan of both of you guys. Take Care. 😔
This is like when I teamed up with Hulk Hogan. Unbelievable collaboration
How's the afterlife workin' out for you, Bro?
Im so happy I’m even leaving a comment today! Thank you!
Better Than Food guy. You got me to read Gravity's Rainbow. I did finish it but had to buy a companion to understand the more technical parts and I don't speak German. Now I understand it a little more and realize what Pynchon was trying to do. Quite the book!
This was such a good interview. Thanks, Cliff, here's to monogamous first 50 pages
what a delightful surprise!
So glad 'Leaving the Atocha Station' got a shoutout. Its my favourite book and feel its so underrated in literary conversations. Without sounding pretentious, that book completley opened my mind to what prose can do.
I look forward to checking it out!
If you haven’t read 10:04, I would suggest doing so. I thought it was better than Atocha. It might be my all time favorite book or at least the most life altering. The Hatred of Poetry is worth a read as well
Oh yes I have consumed all of Lerner’s fiction! I agree 10:04 is fantastic and builds on the meta foundations from Atocha. Atocha will always be my fav book in the same way I’m sure 10:04 is for you, I read it at the perfect time in my life and connected instantly.
Very meaningful. I’m 57. I like your comments on the changing times. It is over. Mass consumption habits dictate changes in writing, production. Thanks for saying there isn’t much coming from your generation. .. I’m loving these channels. Great conversation.
I really enjoyed this interview. It was very inspiring. I am going to buy myself a dictionary. I used to love dictionaries too but no longer own one. I never find enough time to read but I find so deeply fulfilling when I do. A mix of pleasure and contentment and curiosity all at the same time. ❤
Great chemistry. Awesome conversation!
This video is what UA-cam needs 🙏
Great interview with the two best book channels on the UA-cams.
damn, this was a great conversation! (:
so cool hearing the back and fourths of these two gentelmen
Genius conversations. Enjoyable!
In relation to funny books, Beckett's Murphy made me laugh like hell. Gonna have to re-read that one.
This was a great episode! Please read Tolstoy's fiction and Montaigne!
If you two don't create a podcast that would be a crime against the public good!
:)
Enjoyed very much😊
Great video!!
thankful for this
We need another one of these guys, and soon.
This is a really good conversation. Enjoyable. I hope that guys like this, Cliff in particular, find their way into a career of literary criticism.
I’d buy his serious critical work, and I imagine he’d make a great lecturer.
Wonderful interview! You've earned a sub.
My new favourite video
Amazing conversation - two intellectual literary heavyweights. More collabs needed!
wow this was amazing to watch... so much serotonin feels! If only I could meet such interesting people in real life, but then again, if I did there would be less reading haha :)
I bit of a pedantic point but Nietzsche's concept of Eternal Return was actually to reinforce the notion of "you can't live multiple lives". The Eternal Return was not like reincarnation where you would get the opportunity to redo life again, but rather your life would repeat in the exact same way as it had for all of eternity. No ability to change your decisions or for you to even understand that things were repeating. The point was to see whether or not that would make the person who discovered this Eternal Return would affirm their life or despair over it. It actually is more similar to the concept of "you only have one life" than "what if you could do things over again"
Regardless, really enjoyed the conversation and it was nice to discover a new book channel. Thanks for the great videos Cliff
Ahhhh, thanks for your pedantry!
It was actually very relieving to hear that I have to read big books several times. I used to read them once and I thought I was a bad reader for not understanding everything at once.
I really struggle with my phone sometimes - it’s so difficult to put a cap on how much we let ourselves be stimulated by it. I know this may not be for everyone, but I now lock my phone into a timed digital lock box for hours at a time - there’s no override function, and the timer just pauses if you take out the batteries and resumes once they’re back in. My brain might itch for the distraction but there’s simply nothing I can to do to access what I want - bliss!
No one is more well read than Chris!
This was fantastic .
How can two people dislike this video?
I contend that writers like Coover, Hawkes or Gaddis couldn't find a publisher today, as the system has changed so much since they were published in the sixties.
This was refreshing. Cliff, just wanted to put on your radar the latest release from Fernando Flores, called 'Tears of the Trifflepig'. An absolute monster, comical, terrifying, and my favorite book of last year. It seems like you don't repeat authors often, yet since you had introduced me to him, I thought you should know, his latest is totally brilliant. No one has seemingly reviewed it yet.
My own technique for big books is to get the audiobook to supplement the physical (or ebook), listening to it at 1.5 speed as I follow on the page. It improves my concentration and enables me to read books more quickly than I normally would, allowing me to continue “reading” while taking a walk or working out.
Great talk. Clifford, you should read and make a video on Lonesome Dove.
What a treat 😁🤓🤓
Something so cool listening to buddies talk about books.
God damn this is a good conversation. My favorite book tubers really deliver. Hey what was the channel you mention and recommend in the beginning? Something shirts?
SherdsTube
I hope you are both able to have another round of this kind of dialog.