Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson BOOK REVIEW

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Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson BOOK REVIEW

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@zenape619 Жыл бұрын

My junkie aunt said this book's style was what her brain was like for her drug decade. She was always trying to piece together disjointed memories into a sensible picture.

@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Жыл бұрын

Mark Lanegan wrote a autobiography of his drug/music years, but it was a true story. Is this book of this video based off true stories?

@zabe428 Жыл бұрын

Please don’t refer to her as your junkie aunt. Unless you think she wouldn’t mind. But I think it’s not kind.

@zenape619 Жыл бұрын

@@zabe428 she calls herself my junkie aunt. She's very open about her drug years. Her stories about hunting pills around Las Vegas are hilarious.

@rishabhaniket1952 Жыл бұрын

I love Denis Johnson’s work so much, from Train Dreams to Jesus’s Son and feel a strong affinity with anyone who reads and likes his work. Reading Jesus’s Son was like walking through a fog where things seem so real but disappear as soon as you try to reach out for them.

@williampdozier Жыл бұрын

Hell yes! Glad you made a review about this collection. This notification made my day

@nikkivenable73 Жыл бұрын

Your review of Jesus’Son and Tree of Smoke made me snag both for myself. I really love your channel❤.

@williampdozier Жыл бұрын

@@nikkivenable73 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@timkjazz Жыл бұрын

Holy, Holy, Holy!!! Writing up a proposal/bid for a roof job and Cliff's review popped up. Immediately put the bid off to watch the review, "Jesus' Son" is the one book I always carry with me, tucked in my backpack. Bought this masterpiece after a review in Esquire magazine and was gobsmacked reading it, a prose masterwork on the same level as "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" by Elizabeth Smart. Humor, tragedy, hallucinatory imagery, "Jesus' Son" is the book that I read at the perfect age and it became embedded in my psyche and has remained ever since. I never tire of reading it and recommend it to only readers that I think will be as impressed with it as I am. Thanks Cliff for the review, brilliant as always.

@cfor1950 Жыл бұрын

ChatGPT much?

@BigPhilly15 Жыл бұрын

Your channel is incredible. I’ve been desperately mining KZfaq for REAL book channels and, after years of YA “booktubers,” I’ve found yours and 1 other adult, serious literary channels. Thanks.

@WilliamsReptiles Жыл бұрын

Cliff the last three books you've reviewed are books I've just finished. You're either a mind reader or I'm on the right track lol

@bighardbooks770 Жыл бұрын

I met Denis a few times at AZ State University and he was very cool; indeed, a great GREAT writer. I really like his poetry, too. His "Incognito Lounge" was written in the bar on Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ. The bar that has no windows ... ♠️🤠♦️

@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Жыл бұрын

So this is a fiction book he's talking about?

@bighardbooks770 Жыл бұрын

@@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Clifford's referring to a collection of short stories

@boogieboots Жыл бұрын

Nice shirt, Cliff. Always happy to see more Denis Johnson :)

@marcelhidalgo1076 Жыл бұрын

So glad you finally read/reviewed this

@derkaderkamohamadallaackbarnut Жыл бұрын

I highly reccomend the movie. It is probably my favorite movie ever. They takes good quotes and combine the stories in a nice flow for a story told by an addict that may hae not been remembering his own stories correctly.

@hihi6666hihittt Жыл бұрын

I'm 4 min in and you've already got me convinced to read it. Thank you, sir.

@pisy183 Жыл бұрын

You don't even understand the influence you had on me. I always loved to read as a kid but lost it in the years. This month i read six book, it would have been unthinkable a year ago. Thank you. P.S. : Just finished The talented mr ripley, truly better than food. P.P.S: I'm sure you'd love the skin by curzio malaparte : rape, misery, poverty,war and the loss of dignity with the backdrop of a marvelous nature that couldn't care less for human actions. Sorry if my english is weird. Have a good coffee.

@hbaird7258 Жыл бұрын

4:20 this is one of my absolute favorite passages from any book, ever!

@ywhistlee Жыл бұрын

For the love of God please continue making videos..

@liamwhalen Жыл бұрын

I wonder if Denis Johnson was extremely cautious in the tales he wrote? Having descended beyond rock bottom and surfaced again, he may have been hesitant to present his lessons too directly. I could see that caution stemming from a protective ethic to not communicate lessons only those who have been where he has need to learn or from a sense of responsibility towards seekers who have their own paths to travel. There are many paths to journey on and guiding someone down a narrow but dangerous road they were not meant to travel could have been too much peril for him to speak more coherently to his audience. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about communicating a theory via literature. I may have done that as a matter of course at one point in my life, but I had definitely forgotten about it.

@Skeptic2006 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Loved this book.

@FreyaVal Жыл бұрын

Nice evening (my time) to listen to your review! Thanks for uploading! ❤

@mjau65 Жыл бұрын

Love this writer. Angels and Nobody Move are great as well. Did not manage to finish Tree of Smoke though.

@FisherKing9633 Жыл бұрын

Just finished the last book in James Ellroy’s LA Quartet, White Jazz. Highly, highly recommended, the whole series. Seems stylistically similar to Dennis Johnson’s books to me. More staccato. Maybe. Hope ya’ll are having a good day.

@Mikeypem Жыл бұрын

LA Quartet is so so good

@alex-gs5kr Жыл бұрын

awesome collection of short stories

@royrose_ Жыл бұрын

This is the book that made me switch from almost exclusively non fiction to mostly fiction

@AngryNegativeHistoryProject Жыл бұрын

Why is that? I read only nonfiction

@royrose_ Жыл бұрын

@@AngryNegativeHistoryProject I guess I thought fiction could only be the certain things that I had read up to that point. This book didn’t fit into that mold and made me obsessively curious about what else I’d been missing out on.

@TimDownsAnimation 10 ай бұрын

I read this book in college for a class on literature-to-film adaptations, and I was surprised to find both the book and film pretty close in quality. It's funny 'cause it's such a confusing book and yet all the sequences of events and dialogue and narration are pretty much just transferred straight to the screenplay and it carries with it the weirdness without making the movie completely inaccessible.

@BookBuds Жыл бұрын

New subscriber here. Just read Train Dreams and have this one on my list to get to next. Looking forward to it. Great video!

@Lugbyz Жыл бұрын

Cliff’s collared t-shirts always look like they were hand picked from a surfer who happens to be a blacksmith’s closet.

@VinnyContiello Жыл бұрын

I can't remember the last review where Cliff didn't mention being on your death bed lmao

@fawzy76 7 ай бұрын

It’s a beautifully written book. Train Dreams was great too. Gotta read his other stuff like Tree of Smoke.

@TheChur Жыл бұрын

Yes, I love this book!

@SammyOrb Жыл бұрын

Mr. Food, have you read Steppenwolf? Please do

@jaredfernandez5849 Жыл бұрын

Any chance you gonna be reviewing Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried?

@ChrisFGoad Жыл бұрын

I was visiting my cousin. My uncle woke us up to take the dog to the vet. She was in labor. We sat and watched as my uncle named each one after books in the Bible. In sequence. At 1 a.m. there was a quiz

@cyclonasaurusrex1525 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@intertel_agent Жыл бұрын

one of my favorite books

@benreadsgood Жыл бұрын

A thumbnail for the ages.

@donaldkelly3983 Жыл бұрын

Jesus's Son has million scenes burned in my brain, including the protagonist seeing the naked woman hand gliding as he removes copper wiring from an abandoned house. I think his fiction works better at short length, including novels like Angels, The Stars at Noon, and Fiskadoro. Long live Denis Johnson!

@geordiejones5618 8 ай бұрын

Fiskadoro is so underrated. It's a very well constructed story that I think gets overlooked when talking about great post apocalypse. One of my favorite protagonists ever

@MatthaiosVaf Жыл бұрын

In past videos I’ve seen a Jim Jarmusch book on your shelves. Just wondering what book is it that you have about him?

@acht2849 Жыл бұрын

Good voice, man. You can sing!

@Sthemingway Жыл бұрын

Watch the film adaptation. I'm curious to know how well you think Billy Crudup portrayed the protagonist.

@hopefullyhigh Жыл бұрын

Also a dynamite lou reed song

@v.cackerman8749 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if his indecision throughout life had anything to do with his drug use. Even if he was indecisive before doing drugs, the substance abuse wouldn’t have made him think any clearer.

@bobcabot Жыл бұрын

i didnt know! and i should, i know...

@JarrodButali 4 ай бұрын

In the movie? The guy with the knife in his eye is a cameo by the author Denis Johnson.

@Chatterjee995 Жыл бұрын

Please do a review of Cain's Jawbone

@nielsdeleeuw2477 Жыл бұрын

Cliff, after watching you for years I was wondering and maybe this doesn't add anything to the video and is totally random, but do you like Irvine Welsh as a writer? It was a question I wanted to ask for so long, because you also dig Easton Ellis and I haven't seen a review of that writer yet. I know Easton Ellis and Welsh are friends and like each others work very much. I am curious.