Terrasse à Rome (A Terrace in Rome) - Pascal Quignard BOOK REVIEW

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 41

  • @eradish2
    @eradish2 4 місяці тому +44

    Would you ever consider uploading just the audio to Spotify or something as a podcast?

    • @jaredtaylor9775
      @jaredtaylor9775 4 місяці тому +5

      I'm Clifford's agent and he asked me to give you his response: 🖕🖕

    • @ambroseallen5027
      @ambroseallen5027 4 місяці тому +7

      We’re all here for Cliff’s good looks. I watch on mute

    • @yohanessaputra9274
      @yohanessaputra9274 4 місяці тому

      @@ambroseallen5027 What do you mean you watch on mute? Isn't he always lyp-syncing all the time

    • @felipejose5982
      @felipejose5982 4 місяці тому

      I would like that, but still, I have to agree with the fella up here, Cliff has the best looks!

    • @dakotahrivers6640
      @dakotahrivers6640 2 місяці тому

      @@ambroseallen5027for real bro some guys just get it all lolol not fair

  • @juneeliott809
    @juneeliott809 4 місяці тому +3

    I couldn't help but notice your "Look Homeward, Angel" copy on your shelf. I cannot wait for you to read and review it. That's a great one!

  • @cindyo6298
    @cindyo6298 4 місяці тому +6

    Ooh, Benjamin Labatut is obsessed with Pascal Quignard and I'm obsessed with Benjamin Labatut, so I should read this

    • @BetterThanFoodBookReviews
      @BetterThanFoodBookReviews  4 місяці тому +2

      Oh no kiddin? I didn’t know that - I’ve been meaning to read Labatut. Thanks for watching and the info 👍

    • @cindyo6298
      @cindyo6298 4 місяці тому +1

      @@BetterThanFoodBookReviews his books are about mathematicians and scientists, but I find them very readable and engaging, I recommend!

  • @ichirofakename
    @ichirofakename 4 місяці тому +7

    Thanks for this review. Happily my local library has a copy in French, which I just reserved. I like to read contemporary French literature and appreciate learning about interesting-sounding novelists new to me.

  • @spazthespasticcolonel1054
    @spazthespasticcolonel1054 4 місяці тому +3

    Thank you! The book and the author both sound fascinating. Also, great to hear some love for Peter Greenaway.
    Cheers!

  • @joejs7659
    @joejs7659 4 місяці тому +1

    One of the best authors of our time, in my view, were Dambudzo Marechera. His “the house of hunger” is no less than genius. Died too early and deserves more praise and recognition.

  • @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
    @ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk 4 місяці тому +3

    Pretty new to this book tube business and finding my way around. I hope you get some great reads this year. Best wishes to you.

    • @BetterThanFoodBookReviews
      @BetterThanFoodBookReviews  4 місяці тому +1

      Thanks for stopping by, wishing you the same! Hope you get some great reads too.

  • @laurenskloosterman7566
    @laurenskloosterman7566 4 місяці тому +2

    I’m gonna read this, great review thanks

  • @paulbrumberg6415
    @paulbrumberg6415 4 місяці тому +3

    the book you pick are always so good

  • @allesvergaengliche
    @allesvergaengliche 4 місяці тому +2

    Loved his Tous les matins du monde. Great movie too.

  • @birdmanstrength
    @birdmanstrength 4 місяці тому +1

    Great vid as always, brother.

  • @WillShakes423
    @WillShakes423 Місяць тому

    I found out about Wakefield Press from this review and with the selections I found there, now I can't get enough of it. I even bought my own copy of A Terrace in Rome.
    I bought a few selections from Wakefield and if you get the chance, I'd like to know what you think about them. You don't have to, of course. It's alright either way.
    Curl by T. O. Bobe
    Sens Plastique by Malcolm de Chazal
    Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel by Paul Scheerbert
    The Massacre of the Innocents by Giambattista Marino

  • @d.b.4093
    @d.b.4093 4 місяці тому +2

    Love your channel! You should read "GRIME" the first English translation of iconic Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg. ;-) Ein abartig gutes Buch! Lol

  • @onyxseal24
    @onyxseal24 4 місяці тому +3

    oh, hello Mr Bookman

  • @slavetothepages-reviewingt9464
    @slavetothepages-reviewingt9464 4 місяці тому +2

    Cliff, I seriously love your channel, and I have been watching it for many years. You have influenced me towards great writers - many I am familiar with already. I started a book tube channel many years ago which I am returning to. I would like to make just one suggestion you talk rather quickly in a sort of a run or maybe I just need to listen more - anyway warmest regards from the bottom of the world (not a metaphor) Melbourne Australia. MICHAEL

    • @journeyofsound397
      @journeyofsound397 4 місяці тому

      I love his rapid fire approach to his reviews personally

  • @brynleyjones3635
    @brynleyjones3635 4 місяці тому +2

    I would love to hear some reviews of Lovecraft stories. You did that Lovecraft/Houellebecq review a while ago, but never any of his actual stories. I've just gotten into them recently, so hearing your thoughts on them would be better than food for me.

    • @BetterThanFoodBookReviews
      @BetterThanFoodBookReviews  4 місяці тому +1

      Thanks for watching and your suggestion - I did a patron-only review of "The Call of Cthulhu" a couple of Halloweens ago.
      www.patreon.com/posts/call-of-cthulhu-74055549?Link&

  • @lionstandingII
    @lionstandingII 4 місяці тому +1

    You're just a Good Man......would give ya money if Ah had it...

  • @RagingHamster8330
    @RagingHamster8330 3 місяці тому

    Just finished this anomalous novel!! Thanks for the suggestion!

  • @user-sg6vb3tk9k
    @user-sg6vb3tk9k 4 місяці тому

    Curious, what were Kit’s other two recommendations?

  • @Ivxnrxjxs
    @Ivxnrxjxs 4 місяці тому

    I haven't read it but why does this plot sound convoluted to me. Is it the manner in which he switches his narrative from poetry to prose or is it your review that leaves me reading between the lines of events... I will say that I can appreciate an author's suggestion to slow down and linger on phrases line you said about this novella.

  • @mulefa1
    @mulefa1 4 місяці тому +6

    Thanks for recommending Wise Blood.. One of the best books I’ve ever read. I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on A Clockwork Orange. I’m reading it at the moment, it’s like satanic clown poetry

    • @journeyofsound397
      @journeyofsound397 4 місяці тому

      I couldn't enjoy it. I tried and tried but Clockwork sadly just isn't for me 🫣

  • @wallysls
    @wallysls 4 місяці тому +2

    Does someone know if he's ever reviewed a horror book?

    • @thebasedgodmax1163
      @thebasedgodmax1163 4 місяці тому

      he did a few in October, namely The Hellbound Heart, but he's done others too. you could argue some of the southern gothic stuff can be counted as horror too.

    • @Michael-Esparza
      @Michael-Esparza 4 місяці тому

      He reviewed The Stand.

  • @steinwellsmitters9291
    @steinwellsmitters9291 22 дні тому

    Just wait until Cliff finds out about Pierre Michon.

  • @Liisa3139
    @Liisa3139 4 місяці тому

    So, this is probably Georges Perec type of writing.

  • @ryanand154
    @ryanand154 4 місяці тому

    Bradley Cooper has really let himself go.

  • @meesalikeu
    @meesalikeu 4 місяці тому +1

    OK KEEP DANCING AROUND INFINITE JEST