He had a great channel that focused on recommending books. Just giving you enough information to peak your interest. Now that he is trying to "analyze" the books he recommends it has all gone to shit.
Did /Cliff/ jump the shark?
Ayden Russell
Easton Lee
Any video of his in which this is most blatant?
Caleb Baker
Zachary Martin
>He had a great channel that focused on recommending books.
>Link is his first video
>Relatively short, 5 minute overview about other and his works
wot?
Ryan Mitchell
I think he meant that vid is the "short" style, but the thing is that he is running a Patreon now and has to create more content for his viewers, so I'm guessing this is his way of doing it. I agree his shorter videos were better, more personal and less rehersed. but whatever, putting your face and opinions out there along a personality is hard enough as it is, and now you got a bunch of Anons scrutinizing you, let him do whatever and watch his videos or not.
Samuel Baker
Will /Cliff/ survive?
Nathan Foster
>I think he meant that vid is the "short" style
Ah.. gotcha.
>I agree his shorter videos were better, more personal and less rehersed.
I prefer the older style as well, though I wouldn't necessarily call it less rehearsed.
I find the constant 'uhms' in his newer videos to be really annoying at times.
It's almost as though instead of formulating sentences to express himself he just inserts some uhhs and umms to create the appearance of something 'deep'.
RIP
Wyatt Parker
Thomas Flores
He's always been more obsessed with appearances than anything approaching actual criticism. That's why he spends a solid third of his videos talking about anything BUT the book. His "reviews" are rarely more than a synopsis with a couple tepid anecdotes that he manages to stretch into ten-minute videos with a lot of hemming and hawing.
I liked him early on when he at least tried to gesture toward something resembling literary analysis but lately it's become clear the entire channel is a monument to his own vanity.
That said I haven't seen anything he's posted since he did that tour of Europe or whatever. Right around the time he started accepting manuscripts for review (if you paid him enough) is when I fell off the wagon.
Nathaniel Johnson
> Right around the time he started accepting manuscripts for review (if you paid him enough) is when I fell off the wagon.
That did it for me as well. It just has a certain arrogance to it, even though the concept isn't bad.