any booktubers worth their salt?

[Anonymous No.15989513]

booktube is a laughably idiotic shithole most of the time but there has to be a couple of them that are halfway decent? right?

[Anonymous No.15989526]

i only watch underage female booktubers

[Anonymous No.15989570]

>>15989513
Leaf by Leaf. PaperBird books

[Anonymous No.15989578]

>>15989570
Leaf by leaf is pretty great. He reads a fucking metric fuckton

[Anonymous No.15989584]

>>15989570
Paperbird is indeed pretty good. Doesn’t really go into detail on specific books from what I’ve seen but is good at presenting the merits of authors he likes.

[Anonymous No.15989717]

>>15989578
Yea he definitely seems to spend most of his life reading. Nothing wrong with that though. I just watched his review of Anna Kavan's short stories Machines in the Head and it was great. He really does have good insights and perspectives on the authors he reads. I had no idea Anna Kavan was a heroin addict till his vid and it definitely moved her up my list to read that, being an addict myself.

[Anonymous No.15989771]

Orpheus, Paperbird, Leaf by leaf

[Anonymous No.15989793]

>>15989513
i like Scott Bradfield

[Anonymous No.15989858]

>>15989513
Honestly that dude is okay.
You can tell he's not the smartest guy in the world, and would be pretty pompous IRL, but his videos are comfy and he at leasts reccs some okay things from time to time.

[Anonymous No.15989871]

>>15989513
I know a guy at college that looks and acts very similar to Cliff and he's genuinely a great guy

[Anonymous No.15989926]

>>15989513
If you're into ya/shitty fiction then yea there are a million good ones. Just pick the girl you find the most attractive.
Also Clif gets too much hate
>>15989570
also this

[Anonymous No.15989948]

>>15989926
I actually like cliff. He reads and recommends a lot of good shit. I just thought it would be funny to use his picture.

[Anonymous No.15990122]

>>15989570
>>15989578
Just watched Leaf by Leaf for the first time and he just sucks Vollmann's dick wtf

[Anonymous No.15990134]

Steve Donoghue is literally the modern Samuel Johnson. His personal beiliefs are pretty silly and pompous, but he’s one of the great readers of all time, up there with Bloom, Woolf, and Johnson

[Anonymous No.15990155]

Just hunt around for old dudes with 5 subscribers talking about books they have enjoyed in their life

[Anonymous No.15990168]

>>15989513
It's really sad that the best /lit/ youtuber I can think of just dissects Hideo Kojima games.

[Anonymous No.15990364]

>>15990134
yo i just started watching his videos this week for the first time. i agree partly re: his personal beliefs (he despises proust and joyce) but his strong opinions are refreshing. he mentioned in a video that he averages 150 pages per hour and reads 8-12 hours a day. fuckin respect

[Anonymous No.15990385]

>>15990364
I hate his generic pop atheist views. He fellates Dawkins and Hitchens, while, you guessed it, dismissing philosophy and theology as ‘nonsense’ because ‘me no see god’. I don’t get that, but he’s a gay Irish Catholic so there’s probably resentment buried in there

[Anonymous No.15990405]

>>15990385
So Thats why he reads gay erotica?

[Anonymous No.15990423]

>>15989513
Chad A Haag talks a lot of philosophy and has written quit a few books himself. really good stuff on environmentalism philosophy

[Anonymous No.15990716]

>>15990405
yeah and why he always "jokes" about teenage bodybuilders

[Anonymous No.15990744]

>>15990155
This, there’s a ton of old men and ladies sperging out about really niche books they love and it’s great. You can start finding them by combing through Steve Donoghues comment section. And Steve’s great too, a fucking monster of a reader.

[Anonymous No.15990854]

>>15990385
>he's a gay Irish Catholic
based
>hear American accent
droppéd

[Anonymous No.15991354]

>mutts are sleeping
>actual recommendations instead of commer memes
Imagine my shock

[Anonymous No.15991487]

The one that looks like she identifies as he/they

[Anonymous No.15991491]

>>15991354
Umm sweaty

[Anonymous No.15991494]

i know an amazing one but i would never tell /lit/ lest they pile in and leave werid comments about the QT presenter

[Anonymous No.15991612]

>>15989513
There is this guy called Jonny Keen, kinda looks like Dumbledore. He is a good christian booktuber but he also reads a lot of secular books. I follow him because he practices diary writing as a way to stay accountable to God, just like I do.

[Anonymous No.15991661]

>>15990385
But what is going on with Deb?

[Anonymous No.15991691]

I wouldn't know I only watch reviews for nerdy girls with glasses acting all nerdy

[Anonymous No.15991919]

>>15989513
>there has to be a couple of them that are halfway decent? right?
Fuck no.

[Anonymous No.15992007]

[Anonymous No.15992025]

>>15991612
Based

[Anonymous No.15992038]

>>15990385
yeah, his opinion on nonfiction outside of history i completely disregard. it's amazing actually how wide the gap is between him speaking on literature and philosophy. not an ounce of depth there.

[Anonymous No.15992078]

>>15989513
Cliff reminds me of those Americans in the early 20th century who wholeheartedly went in Europe to find foreign ways of life, culture and themselves. That, even if it starts as a hipster impulse, somewhat heals eternal Anglo and can ultimately become something great.

That openness among Americans, seems to lack nowadays, they've became insular, self-satisfied and parochial. But you cannot blame them, considering the rate of gentrification of everything on the global level and how everyone is basically aping American culture.

[Anonymous No.15992081]

Literatur ist alles

[Anonymous No.15992281]

>>15991487
lol I reverse image searched and it said 'boy'

[Anonymous No.15992304]

>>15992078
Really? All I see is an American desperately attempting to grasp the European spirit and ultimately failing, retaining all the materialism and vanity thinly veiled by a faux-intellectualism.

[Anonymous No.15992313]

>>15990385
>gay Catholic
a larper, then.

[Anonymous No.15992352]

>>15990385
Yeah, his views about philosophy are kinda confusing to me. He says it's all nonsense, yet he has also said that he likes Plato, Augustine, Hume, and recently he said he was enjoying a book on Hegel. Maybe he just be trollin.

[Anonymous No.15992366]

>>15992352
I watched a few of his videos and he doesn't seem to talk about the content of the books. Mostly talks about Penguin Classics as an institution and a bit about the author's life and the receptions of his work. I don't think he mentioned a single character by name or quoted a line of poetry in any of the videos I watched. Does he do so in other videos?

[Anonymous No.15992370]

>>15989526
based coomer

[Anonymous No.15992379]

[Anonymous No.15992526]

>>15992366
he doesn't. he's just an old faggoty boomer with a hoarding problem and too much time on his hands. he orders books incessantly and does generic unboxing videos where he drops a line or two about whatever books he bought. he's undeservedly smug, pretentious, and worst of all he thinks he's funny.

[Anonymous No.15992551]

>>15992379
her smile makes me more glad and serene than the any book could

[Anonymous No.15992561]

>>15992366
He doesn't usually go into much detail on his daily penguin series, but that's to be expected considering it's not a book review, but a continuation of his bookshelf tour. His more in depth discussions are dispersed in read alongs, written reviews, and random videos.

[Anonymous No.15992568]

>>15992526
Lmao, no. He barely orders any books, he is sent them by publishers because he is a professional reviewer. Seethe harder.

[Anonymous No.15992572]

>>15990168
who? dissections of Kojima sound pretty kino desu

[Anonymous No.15992579]

>>15992561
Recommend one video

>>15992568
Who does he write for?

[Anonymous No.15993205]

>>15990716
Yeah I miss the plot on that as well. Is it just a joke because he’s gay and it’s really just some old Boston society cunt he hangs out with? I really doubt he has teenage bodybuilders following him around. Deb is just a friend of his. He is an old school gay guy, like Baldwin or Vidal, who actively hates feminity instead of embracing it like modern flamboyant gays do

[Anonymous No.15993228]

>>15992038
Yeah it’s actually depressing. He’s a fantastic reader of fiction and biography, but his appraisals of history and humanistic thought is garbage.
>unironically would rather read a gay regency romance novel than any work of philosophy or theology
>unironically believes the Victorian era, with frigid historical paintings and convoluted, melodramatic 1000 page comic novels, is the greatest period of human creative achievement ever
>unironicallly called Hillary Clinton ‘the most qualified politician in American history’

I love him all the same though

[Anonymous No.15993242]

>>15992579
Various pubs. I’ve seen his reviews on the back of a few modern scholarly histories I’ve read.

[Anonymous No.15993253]

>>15991612
He reads only like 5% of what he buys, though, which irritates me.

[Anonymous No.15993255]

>>15989513
i like cliff

[Anonymous No.15993259]

>>15993205
Has he study anything at all or is he talking out of his ass?

[Anonymous No.15993265]

>>15991487

[Anonymous No.15993274]

It kind of fucks with my head how much the Internet has basically reverted to oral culture with YouTube, streaming, and podcasts. Droves of people getting the majority of their information and opinion from droning YouTube videos whose actual content, if written, could be read in fractions of the time it takes these midwits to mumble it out.

But then again, most people in generations past got their information from television or radio. So perhaps the Internet is just regressing to the human mean.

[Anonymous No.15993278]

>>15993228
Can you show me an example of him being a "fantastic reader of fiction and biography"?

[Anonymous No.15993285]

>>15991661
Yeah where the hell is she? The videos with her are super cute.

[Anonymous No.15993312]

>>15989513
I don't really watch booktubers. I checked a paperbackdreams video recently because this board memes her a lot, once I did I honestly hated her immediately, should have figured it's just simps shilling her without good reason. Today I came across a booktuber that I like already, his name is The_Bookchemist and so far I've only watched his review of Foucault's Pendulum and another video where he talks about why his channel is the way it is. He seems pretty good. Does anyone else know him? Links below for anyone who cares.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhFP9_B0ptk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8gYGuniIto
In the second video he says he's interested in actually generating discussions rather than getting easy attention for controversy, and that he doesn't review certain things if it's not his area of expertise, which I feel at least in principle keeps it real and ensures quality. And apparently he has a PhD in literature. I liked his Foucault's Pendulum review for what it's worth.

[Anonymous No.15993320]

>>15993274
>oral culture is bad
someone would like to have a word with you...

[Anonymous No.15993359]

>>15993274
>when you find out that oral culture doesn't actually means deep throating

[Anonymous No.15993396]

Love this guy called Jonny Keen, his videos are super comfy and whenever he talks about his life it is super interesting.
>>15990155
This

[Anonymous No.15993611]

>>15993259
He has so many videos so idk where you’d find it, but I’m sure he mentions if he went to school or not. He
Got a Boston Jesuit education, so I doubt he just didn’t go to college.

[Anonymous No.15993619]

>>15993278
His appraisals of fiction and biography is far better and more measured when you actually hear him
Speak about it. He has like 3500 videos, I’ve seen maybe 200 over a 3 year period. Idk where his autism when it comes to religion and philosophy comes from but like I said, he’s a gay repressed Boston Irish ex-Catholic, so that’s probabsky what it is.

[Anonymous No.15993641]

>>15993619
With regards to religion Steve mentions some books here and there that had a great impact on his for example Paul and the faithfulness of god by N.T.Wright

[Anonymous No.15993663]

>>15993619
I welcome someone who has the guts to be an atheist in 2020, if that's what he is, and if he dismisses most philosophy for the nonsense it is, all the better, but I still haven't seen one concrete example and so I give up.

[Anonymous No.15993694]

>>15993663
>I welcome someone who has the guts to be an atheist in 2020, if that's what he is
>and if he dismisses most philosophy for the nonsense it is, all the better,
How can one post be so cringe

[Anonymous No.15993880]

>>15993663
It doesn’t take guts to an atheist in 2020, but it takes BALLS to be a priest, A Nun and a Rabbi in 2020

[Anonymous No.15993952]

>>15993312
He’s really solid

[Anonymous No.15993967]

>>15993253
Yeah that's true, says he is a "book collector", but still reads a lot of books desu