I love what you said about the PC sensitivity of things invading fiction. I HATE when authors write PC-perfect characters. It's too much caricature. People are flawed. And a lot of ideas are nuanced.
Yes!!! And I’m sick of people (especially on BookTok) equating flawed characters with flaws of the author. (I’ve seen this A LOT with Harry Potter. Obviously there are many valid criticisms out there about JK Rowling as a person, but for example I’m tired of people saying she has internalized misogyny because of the way Lavender Brown was written when the book is FROM Harry’s perspective and he was a dumb teenage boy so of course it’s not going to paint Lavender in the best light!!!) There’s a really distinct lack of critical thinking going on with literary discourse on the internet.
@@maddiebeth_o yup. I hate reviews where reviewers takes all statements from the book as personal statements of the author, detached from any context of the story. As usual, a number of loud voices are often senseless.
Why did you cut parts where you giggled? We need it. I don't mind longer videos but shorter videos and more frequent posting are also great. We need a book club or live streams, sounds fun.
This video convinced me to stop being so pretentious by only reading classics even if they are slogs and to pick up the fantasy romance books my friends have been recommending me for months (even years).
I always write some guffy comments but I'll be honest. I really like your videos. Reading was just fun for me and I never thought I liked it that much, but last 2 or 3 years I started to read different varieties of books, from romantic fiction novels to nonfiction scientific works. And it helped me with my struggles with mental health, finding meaning in life and stop denying that I'm gay, which I haven't fully accepted it... So books became something more than just fun. I've never thought that I'd be able to get so much from reading. You help me to look at books from different perspectives. I can't wait to get my hands on the books you recommended in your videos. So thank you. Love you always, your fan 😁
"we're all fake bitches with real feelings" -- PERIODT glad you got a lot out of Death In Her Hands! i feel like it's the sleeper of Moshfegh's novels, but it's really her looking at herself as a writer and the job of a writer. the turns it takes and the spirals we undergo all in a single mind from 4 simple lines that start the book.
For real though I am SO happy to have found your channel. I love booktube videos but they’re all drowning in romance/YA/colleen frigging hoover and I have been seriously thinking of no longer consuming this content, because even if I love the format and the creators, I’m just not at all interested in the actual books. And then your channel popped up! Love your sense of humor and ability to think critically and discuss the books you read and love the fact that you read all types of books 🫶
I will definitely keep an eye out for the Ferrante book. I also wanted to let you know that I read my first E.M. Forster book! A Passage to India! It was beautifully written and the story totally surprised me. I really enjoyed it! Thank you for recommending him.
I absolutely have to add Otessa Moshfegh's collection to my list after seeing this content!!! Another stellar video!!! Purple and green are my favorite colors, and your tshirt looks lovely!!! 💜 Here's wishing you a beautiful week and until next time, sensational. Charles!!!!! 🎉
I love Tolstoï, but for me Flaubert is a a better author. Maybe it's because i read it in french. Idk but really i love so much Madame Bovary and the irony of Flaubert. But i understand. Thx for the video 💕
It's ok with me whatever length you decide to film. I have an attention span, and when you decide to speak I will listen, I may not agree, but I will follow through with listening because, something you speak may give me new thoughts, or ideas to contemplate.
I adore you! Please do the Newbie Booktuber Tag video and share your social media, I'm dying to know more about you, please! I'm gonna read all three books you covered, even if you didn't like Flaubert. I appreciate your negative reviews soooo much. 🖤 Your Greek fan.
Thank you! TH-cam is the only social media I use anymore ! I might make more in the future, but rn it’s just my YT babies and me. Tell me what you think of the books ;)
3 books i really like (Days of Abandonment and Madame Bovary are both on a list of all-time faves i’ve been making for a potential future vid, and also Anna Karenina). heartily feel yr comment that you have to mete out reading Moshfegh - i read My Year, Death in Her Hands and the first part of Eileen in immediate succession and got burnt the fuck out. Bovary is def boring at times, but i find it a useful boringness.
Talk about the translators as well. It's a hard job without next to nothing in the name of recognition. The Days of Abandonment has been translated by Ann Goldstein. Your edition of Madame Bovary has been translated by Adam Thorpe.
i don’t know if you have read drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk but if you haven’t, absolutely read it. books of jacob is my favorite of her works, but moshfegh definitely takes inspiration (cough blatant plagiarism cough) from drive your plow.
Perfect ❤ I Just began The Days of Abandonment, devoured the first five chapters, and I'm HOOKED. Stopped reading just cuz I felt the need to say thank you for the recommendation. Now I'm going back to the book, I'm in love, or should I say, I'm unhinged 😍
Why am I getting the feeling that most of the books Charles likes could easily be titled "Girl Interrupted"? Like, if Winona Ryder was a novel he'd read her over and over. lol
I like it, but I don't know if it'd change your opinion of the novel. Flaubert was so obsessed with language that probably the only way fully to grasp his project is to read it in French, which unfortunately I don't speak.@@cs0p
for a long time i put off translated fic bc i was so worried about not getting the true experience! it probably wouldnt change my experience. a lot of my critiques were substantive, not stylistic
Charles! Have you read Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults? I haven’t read any of her books and can’t decide if I should start with that one or My Brilliant Friend
I haven’t! It’s on the tbr though. I think my brilliant friend is a great intro into her work, but I’ve only read that and Days. The lying life sounds like a banger though
The great god pan/the white people/the hill of dreams by Arthur machen The king of elfland’s daughter by lord dunsany Heart of darkness by Joseph conrad Arthur Rimbaud in general The divine comedy Are really good
Your videos are a drug and call me an addict the way I’m having withdrawals. This is the last video of yours I have left to watch… Side note: have you ever read White Oleander by Janet Fitch? Curious to hear your thoughts about it :)
not you reading my favorite paragraph from the days of abandonment! please read the queen of all unhinged women, annie ernaux. start off by sampling, simple passion and if you're really a hoe for unrequited love, you must read the full length- getting lost, the most holy of texts in my eyes.
also i just met and spoke to moshfegh in person at a signing and solidified to me why she is one of the greatest writers of the past decade. she’s mother to me
My favorite misogynist fr
😏
charles saving us unhinged women from going sane. thank you charles. i will read these and finally reach my full unhinged potential
This is a safe space for crazy broads
@@cs0p 🥰🥰🥰 thousand times!
true fans love longer videos! don't cut anything king
Ok ok good ;) thank yoo
I love what you said about the PC sensitivity of things invading fiction. I HATE when authors write PC-perfect characters. It's too much caricature. People are flawed. And a lot of ideas are nuanced.
Thank you thank you and amen
Yes!!! And I’m sick of people (especially on BookTok) equating flawed characters with flaws of the author. (I’ve seen this A LOT with Harry Potter. Obviously there are many valid criticisms out there about JK Rowling as a person, but for example I’m tired of people saying she has internalized misogyny because of the way Lavender Brown was written when the book is FROM Harry’s perspective and he was a dumb teenage boy so of course it’s not going to paint Lavender in the best light!!!) There’s a really distinct lack of critical thinking going on with literary discourse on the internet.
@@maddiebeth_o yup. I hate reviews where reviewers takes all statements from the book as personal statements of the author, detached from any context of the story. As usual, a number of loud voices are often senseless.
we need another 50 minute book haul take this comment as an excuse to buy more books and rant about consumerism and grow a curly tail
🐖 LOL
OINK OINK 😼
You have given me a book buying addiction. I now have 66 unread books on my shelf 😭
You need more… ;)
@@cs0p I want more 😈
Babe don’t stress I have 100+ it’s a *problem*
Why did you cut parts where you giggled? We need it. I don't mind longer videos but shorter videos and more frequent posting are also great. We need a book club or live streams, sounds fun.
Deal deal! I’ll cut less I promise 🫣
You give so much wisdom while joking around is so enjoyable after a bad day. Tbh I love the longer videos!
aww thank you! im glad you like the long vids ;)
@@cs0p I'm your biggest fan! :P
This video convinced me to stop being so pretentious by only reading classics even if they are slogs and to pick up the fantasy romance books my friends have been recommending me for months (even years).
DAMN RIGHT pick up fun books!! 😤
ur long videos are amazing!! keep making them
Ok ok ok thank you ;)) I will
Proud of you for finishing Madame Bovary. Charles of a few months ago would have given it a scathing review before admitting he didn’t finish it
HAHAHA AMEN-I’m sure I’ll be back on brand soon
I always write some guffy comments but I'll be honest. I really like your videos. Reading was just fun for me and I never thought I liked it that much, but last 2 or 3 years I started to read different varieties of books, from romantic fiction novels to nonfiction scientific works. And it helped me with my struggles with mental health, finding meaning in life and stop denying that I'm gay, which I haven't fully accepted it... So books became something more than just fun. I've never thought that I'd be able to get so much from reading. You help me to look at books from different perspectives. I can't wait to get my hands on the books you recommended in your videos. So thank you. Love you always, your fan 😁
Damn thank you!! I’m glad you enjoy reading as much as I do. And I’m glad you enjoy the vids ;)
I found the person I will be watching while inhaling my lunch for 5 minutes
you're right about the PC lens in literature, and you should say it
Amen 😤😤
I love all the quotes! That is what really sells me on a book 👍🏻
Good good 🫣 I loooooove a quote, I’ll keep ‘em coming
"we're all fake bitches with real feelings" -- PERIODT
glad you got a lot out of Death In Her Hands! i feel like it's the sleeper of Moshfegh's novels, but it's really her looking at herself as a writer and the job of a writer. the turns it takes and the spirals we undergo all in a single mind from 4 simple lines that start the book.
Amen on moshfegh, I think I can officially call her one of my favorite authors
wake up babe a new csop episode just dropped
I’m up I’m up, he’s low key doing something …
a minute in and already...a phenomenon
Thank you, sexy 🤭
Dude I love your hair. It seems so anti gravity.
Thanks ;))
This is my favorite booktube video
For real though I am SO happy to have found your channel. I love booktube videos but they’re all drowning in romance/YA/colleen frigging hoover and I have been seriously thinking of no longer consuming this content, because even if I love the format and the creators, I’m just not at all interested in the actual books. And then your channel popped up! Love your sense of humor and ability to think critically and discuss the books you read and love the fact that you read all types of books 🫶
🥺🥺 damn thank you. I’m glad you enjoy the books and the vids
You never fail to make me want to add books to my tbr 🤣
it's my duty as a famous youtuber🫡
@@cs0p Literally spotted a E. M. Forster book at the bookstore and thought about you 😂
I will definitely keep an eye out for the Ferrante book. I also wanted to let you know that I read my first E.M. Forster book! A Passage to India! It was beautifully written and the story totally surprised me. I really enjoyed it! Thank you for recommending him.
!!!! I’m glad you like Forster 😁🤭-tell me when you read the ferrante ;)
A Passage to India is one of my favourite books and the movie is good as well. A Painted Veil (Somerset Maugham) is also really nice.
Ooh yes this vid was MADE for me, an unhinged woman with unhinged woman taste
All unhinged women have superior taste ;)
@@cs0p truth 💚💚
I absolutely have to add Otessa Moshfegh's collection to my list after seeing this content!!! Another stellar video!!! Purple and green are my favorite colors, and your tshirt looks lovely!!! 💜 Here's wishing you a beautiful week and until next time, sensational. Charles!!!!! 🎉
Thank you 😛😛 purple is awesome and moshfegh is too. I recommend both ;)
me wondering if he asked our favorite books just to collect the answers from women and make this
HAHAHA PLEASE no no no I promise there’s a vid on the horizon 🫣🤫😏
20:12 lives rent free in my head
Shut up is that the last clip. That shit geeks me
"We are all fake bitches with real feelings" - Charles 2023
amen.
I love Tolstoï, but for me Flaubert is a a better author. Maybe it's because i read it in french. Idk but really i love so much Madame Bovary and the irony of Flaubert. But i understand. Thx for the video 💕
I get it I get it. I really liked parts of bovary. Thanks for watching ;)
just finished days of abandonment and i will never be the same
also the way i immediately knew what quote you were going to include because i highlighted, annotated, and tabbed the shit out of that same page
shut up ITS SO GOOD I'm glad you enjoyed too ;))
It's ok with me whatever length you decide to film. I have an attention span, and when you decide to speak I will listen, I may not agree, but I will follow through with listening because, something you speak may give me new thoughts, or ideas to contemplate.
Damn thank you! I will keep making longer videos 😛
Omg I totally agree with you on Madame Bovary! Diet Anna Karenina🤣🤣
Good good good…we need to spread the gospel so ppl read AK instead
I adore you! Please do the Newbie Booktuber Tag video and share your social media, I'm dying to know more about you, please!
I'm gonna read all three books you covered, even if you didn't like Flaubert. I appreciate your negative reviews soooo much. 🖤
Your Greek fan.
Thank you! TH-cam is the only social media I use anymore ! I might make more in the future, but rn it’s just my YT babies and me. Tell me what you think of the books ;)
3 books i really like (Days of Abandonment and Madame Bovary are both on a list of all-time faves i’ve been making for a potential future vid, and also Anna Karenina). heartily feel yr comment that you have to mete out reading Moshfegh - i read My Year, Death in Her Hands and the first part of Eileen in immediate succession and got burnt the fuck out. Bovary is def boring at times, but i find it a useful boringness.
I can’t wait for you all time favs video 👀👀
I wish I could be a fly on the wall during your filming. 🤣10/10
😩😩 it’s an absolute ape fest when I film
that acting was a lil bit tooooo good🤨🤨🤨
What acting?
I'm late to the party but just have to respond to this video. So good and so much fun to watch.
baby you're never late to the party if you show up
I love it here 🙂
🤭🤭😏 stick around I dare you
Talk about the translators as well. It's a hard job without next to nothing in the name of recognition. The Days of Abandonment has been translated by Ann Goldstein. Your edition of Madame Bovary has been translated by Adam Thorpe.
Amen
Your videos make my day
Damn thank you-I’m glad you enjoy them 🥺🫶
Charles: 0:42
Me: Blushing and Giggling
😘
i don’t know if you have read drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk but if you haven’t, absolutely read it. books of jacob is my favorite of her works, but moshfegh definitely takes inspiration (cough blatant plagiarism cough) from drive your plow.
Oof! Added to tbr 😛😛🤝
u r MY unhinged woman ❤️
🤭🤭 and you’re my sexy fan!
Perfect ❤
I Just began The Days of Abandonment, devoured the first five chapters, and I'm HOOKED. Stopped reading just cuz I felt the need to say thank you for the recommendation. Now I'm going back to the book, I'm in love, or should I say, I'm unhinged 😍
i'm unhinged. and i won't pretend otherwise! you can't make me.
You are the best type of unhinged
i'm actually down for a bookclub
We might have to start one some time🤭🤭
ahhhhhh........... Charles, Charles, Charles........ You are nuts...... I love you!
I love you more 🤭😘
@@cs0p 💋
You are all kinds of insane!! WHERE DO I JOIN THE CLUB????
You’re in the right place baby ;))
yo welcome back
Baby I’m always here for you 😘
this guy looks like melman the madagascan giraffe
HAHAHAH this comment was so good I showed it to my brother and we giggled together
Why would I ever read another book when I can just regurgitate what you say when I write my goodreads reviews
HAHAHA BYE
These are the exact books I was planning to read
Tell me what you think of them 👀👀
Why am I getting the feeling that most of the books Charles likes could easily be titled "Girl Interrupted"? Like, if Winona Ryder was a novel he'd read her over and over. lol
Clocked honestly. I love a crazy broad
its you, my favourite ♡
i'll make sure to check these books out !^^
🫣🤭😁🫶
you’ve already got the unhinged part down
thank u 😏
Your facial expressions are priceless........yea baby.....😊😜
Hahah thank you ;)
Have you tried Lydia Davis' translation of Madame Bovary?
i havent is it good?
I like it, but I don't know if it'd change your opinion of the novel. Flaubert was so obsessed with language that probably the only way fully to grasp his project is to read it in French, which unfortunately I don't speak.@@cs0p
for a long time i put off translated fic bc i was so worried about not getting the true experience! it probably wouldnt change my experience. a lot of my critiques were substantive, not stylistic
Charles! Have you read Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults? I haven’t read any of her books and can’t decide if I should start with that one or My Brilliant Friend
I haven’t! It’s on the tbr though. I think my brilliant friend is a great intro into her work, but I’ve only read that and Days. The lying life sounds like a banger though
Do you read any sci-fi or romance books? What is your go-to book genre?
Not really, I’m not opposed, I just reach more for general fiction. I’m down to read anything
CHARLES LOVES MASSAGE A KNEE 🤪
HAHA
is this video about me?
Women always make everything about themselves 🙄
The great god pan/the white people/the hill of dreams by Arthur machen
The king of elfland’s daughter by lord dunsany
Heart of darkness by Joseph conrad
Arthur Rimbaud in general
The divine comedy
Are really good
I will add to tbr 👀 I’ve been meaning to read the divine comedy for years
welcome back, i thought you died somewhere in a hole
HAHAHA I was in hole withering but alive
Let's talk about books, baby. Let's talk about you and me.
😏😏🤭
In ur opinion do u think "My Brilliant Friend" should be read before "Days of Abandonment" ??
Hmmmmm if you can only read one, I say Days. If you think you’ll read both eventually, start with my brilliant friend ;)
how does it feel to be the hottest booktuber im curious
no it's kind of cool
Your videos are a drug and call me an addict the way I’m having withdrawals. This is the last video of yours I have left to watch…
Side note: have you ever read White Oleander by Janet Fitch? Curious to hear your thoughts about it :)
lol thank you ;) i havent even heard of white oleander! it has a ton of good reviews tho, I have added to my list
@@cs0p yay!
not you reading my favorite paragraph from the days of abandonment! please read the queen of all unhinged women, annie ernaux. start off by sampling, simple passion and if you're really a hoe for unrequited love, you must read the full length- getting lost, the most holy of texts in my eyes.
that passage really is a banger. i will look into the queen... hahaha i love some good unrequited love ;)
not me looking up "the queen of all unhinged women by annie ernaux" on amazon 😭
Misogynist gang rise
Here and ready 🤚✊🤝
Why cant french guys be like that :( sorry, Charles my crush will pass…
Bold of you to assume that i like purple even bolder of u to assume that i like pink
Did I lie 😌
@@cs0p nope , not at all almost all the thing I own are pink
your voice reminds me of drew gooden
He’s famous just like me 🤭
I am Dante
NO I am Dante
hi charles…when u stared into my eyes my stomach did somersaults and i swear the moon and stars aligned…just saying…
also i just met and spoke to moshfegh in person at a signing and solidified to me why she is one of the greatest writers of the past decade. she’s mother to me
Lmaoo - shut the hell up! I would kill to meet her
I just want my comment to be liked
Baby I’ll do more than like your comment, I’ll give you the world 😘🤫😏
My favourite part about this video was when he acts like how he thinks heterosexual men act
😹
'PromoSM' 🙌
totally
do you have ig?
I dont 🫣