i bought decorative "aesthetic books" on etsy... and actually read them
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Jack being able to say "yes i did read all of them" when guests come in and ask "did you actually read all of these" is the biggest flex i've ever imagined and i bow to you Mr Scholar.
It’s ultimate power in my *Book*
Staring at my tbr and crying
@@jazberrybear epic
@@jazberrybear you on a whole different wavelength big man.
I also read all the books I have, but I don't have that many. I don't understand the point of buying a book if not to read it.
i can't believe that the joke "let's see if these books are aesthetic or just pathetic" actually made me chuckle
Lol I figured I should comment
Same tho
😂
There's a song I like called "Aesthetic or just ass-pathetic"
He says the best puns LOL
The Victorian Christmas book is exactly why I love the Victorian era, it's all just suffering dressed in bows and lace.
Goth: The era.
Astute
Everything in my surroundings is literally poison, and not even "like poison" but outright poison: The Age.
@@danielawesome36 Nothing better than sitting in your arsenic-painted room while drinking radon water and watching little tommy play with toys made of lead.
if I remember correctly Christmas around that time wasn't exactly a *celebration* it was more a quiet day (time?) of reflection and prayers, etc. It wasn't really a food holiday either (I think... don't quote me on this). But, it changed around Dicken's A Christmas Carol
When I was a child, id used to pick up the books on IKEA shelves and when I couldn't read them because they were Swedish, I thought it was gibberish and thought it was for show purpose only.
That is so funny
@@chimominino5083 PLZ I DID THAT TOO😭😭 I once saw a book about horror stuff, i really wished i could read Swedish back then 😭
Just read swedish 🤷
The ikea near me has a example room that’s witch themed, the 2 display books are a potions guide and a history of goblins. They were the same book in different sizes, But they did have medieval drawings of goblins in them. Wish I knew Swedish
@@agendrairbendr1717 the history of making potions with and as goblins
I honestly thought every book was only going to be "Lorem ipsum dolor"
That's what I assumed. I don't really get why they need to have real content in them. That kind just makes them books lol
It’s actually cheaper to buy old books than to print new ones. So: more revenue 😂
@@Supvia it's even cheaper than just using paper in most cases
SAAAAME
@@Supvia Well I'm glad there's some incentive to recycle old books!
this really took ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’ to another level
🤣🤣🤣
in this case, do judge the book by its cover (when buying, because that's the whole purpose of their seller?)
lol yea
@Lyric Donald I like that you logged into your alt account to promote some scam lmao
@@zappymango2046 i was gonna say ive seen that comment somewhere else so I thought it was spam till I saw the reply but that makes sense LOL
Honestly this has just made me want to buy aesthetic books just to receive and read a collection of random books full of weird, fascinating and trivial information.
Me too! I love going to thrift stores and finding weird books. Now I'm going to try selecting random ones based on color and just see what happens
Same! I honestly get bored really easily with my phone so this might give me something to learn or do outside of scrolling all day.
Yes. I love this
IKR SAME!! I WISH I COULD DO THAT😭😭
It's like a book mystery box
To be honest, this just looks like a really specific way to resell old books. A lot of people are saying "wow, I'm surprised they are real books" but as someone who used to work for someone who sold used books online, used books are not difficult to come by and it would in fact be much more effort to create fake books than it would be to just find a bunch of old books all in similar color/sizes. I honestly like the idea.
Same. Judging by what libraries have been tossing out over the past few decades, we are going to want some of these back someday. Maybe this will help.
This video is the best piece of evidence I've ever seen for the argument "buying books and reading books are two different hobbies"
I have a hoard of drawing books. Filled shelves, under my bed and a pile next to my bed
As a person who reads books myself, a lot of the time, I don’t even buy them, because ✨l i b r a r i e s✨
Also "looking at books is not the same as actually reading them", plus "being saw looking at them" is way worse
@@lulusobel8643 I read online ✨Wattpad✨
I literally have so many books that I LOVED but don't own and so many books that I own but never read. they're literally so completely different and somehow over the years I kinda lost both hobbies :(
The thing about the watercolor book is that it's not a sketching/human figure book! It's only supposed to teach you watercolor painting techniques. Painting traditionally comes after sketching, so that's why it assumes that you can already sketch when you pick up the book
Yeah. I do a lot of art stuff, but I have hardly done anything with watercolor so it would be nice to have that book lol
I commented about the same thing (though much wordier bc I'm feeling tangential at the moment please someone help me) and I was a bit worried that I might be the only one who felt like it was poorly judged.
Was gonna say the same. I'd love to have that book too.
ikr, this guy is so d umb. he read the title and still complained that it didn't teach sketching. "I learned more from tiktok", lmao, yeah I see
Also. Just because it tells you to sketch a human doesn’t mean you have to be good at it. You could draw what might be in your opinion a shitty human because you are not skilled and still then practice the techniques. Like just have something down to practice with is basically the idea. The watercolor techniques will still apply. And if you your really “bad” just am more for getting the idea of a human body without it really being human. Gives you an abstract look. Which I mean just go circle or even just a random shape for a head. Makes something to represent lips and eyes. Draw something of a body. You know. Just get the parts in. Then play with watercolor paint. And maybe in the end it will be sorta a cool abstract artwork. 🤣
You do realise that the "water colour guide book" is supposed to teach you how to paint with water colours. That book is made for ppl who already know how draw/sketch. 😂😂
@@ania3187 because "water colour begginers" are about as skilled in art when they start as hydrofluidics engineers are when they get a job designig a blowout preventer (big, complicated machine used on oil rigs that is pain in the ass to make)
@@manfredrichtoften8848that’s such a wonderfully obscure analogy
@@ania3187 its for beginners in water color not for beginners in art
@@ania3187 Because not all artists are good at watercolors. It’s an entirely different medium with its own set of unique properties and rules. It’s like having a book titled “2D Animation for Beginners” but you obviously need to know how to draw in order to make any frame of hand-drawn animation.
Yeah, it makes no promises about teaching you how to draw. Why waste space for that, when they could probably sell you a different book altogether.
"it really said step 1: be good at art" as an artist who dabbled in watercolors I just feel the need to clarify - you will want to be good at art before you attempt watercolors. ohhh boy would you. they are so much to handle, from color theory to understanding the characteristics and physical properties of water pigments and how they interact, to just being able to draw up a sketch easy enough that you can just get to the coloring part... definitely start with a pencil 😂💀
In my country, watercolour painting is a part of the school art curriculum (because cheap watercolours are relatively light, cheap and easy to store and carry, and also water-solluble). Many kids hate it, because you have to actually become good at sketching to start making something more productive than stains and blobs with watercolours. Being good at sketching comes to many of us either after an art school or after a technical sketching course, which comes extracurricular along with the 3D geometry, later in the school program then art classes. the only useful thing for watercolours if you can't sketch well, is only a game of making random blobs and then drawing horns and tails to them to create monsters. Or just draw random spots, call it modernism. Gouache is way more beginner-friendly, despite being a mess.
@@annasolovyeva1013 ты на**я сочинение тут написала?
@@annasolovyeva1013 there's actually an old project we did in like 2nd grade or s/t (that I know is still done bc I now work for the school I went to) where we did a very basic autumn forest landscape-greens for grasses, brown trunks, and red/orange/yellow for leaves, and then just traced the slightly blobby shapes in sharpie. Lots of fun and still looks pretty good edit: I just remembered too in 5th grade the exercise is somewhat turned on it's head, where we draw cats w cool designs/markings in crayon and then color in the rest with watercolors to learn about how the crayon wax repels the water and how that can be used in art
As a kid I used to watercolor in coloring books. We had those cheap watercolor pallets and as long as you didn't use too much water, (which I did plenty of times) it was just like thin paint.
I just do water color for fun, and I'm learning art and sketching along the way😊
I was honestly surprised that these books even had words inside them at all.
Me 2
True lol
Same lmao
oh but that would be nice. i'd love to have aesthetically pleasing artbooks (^:
@@lobaloxrajobs9354 you could do so much with blank books with cool covers. I’d love to journal in them. You could make each book have a certain theme
In defence of the watercoloring book; sketching and watercoloring are two different art skills that need to be taught separately. So even though it says "for beginners," you aren't actually the target audience.
Exactly!
Watercolour is a medium (and a finicky one at that) while sketching is a technique which is part of the creative process used to put ideas and concepts on paper with the least amount of effort. Its indeed a completely different skill XD
Yup. One can be a master at oil painting but that doesn't mean they'll be good at watercolour. As someone who draws that part kinda irks me a little lol
Well he’s a complete beginner at art in general; how would he know? 😂
true, it still didn’t seem so beginner friendly tho
Ohhh, so they are actual published books written by real authors! I thought it's gonna be some blank books with invented quirky titles on them. Also, "His parents' relationship is so toxic, I think it might have inspired the song by Britney Spears" is such a brilliant review. I wanna read it now. I'm sold.
same. that book officially made my tbr and not just as a 'oo I'll write that down for if I get bored'.
The Victorian book made me finally understand why so many depictions of Sherlock Holmes make him so goddamn tired of Christmas, namely the Radio adaptation. I would be too
Lmao
oh look the dude that made the only SH canon vine comp hello
@@Randomela????
A lot of times "aesthetic books" or "books by the foot" are sourced by collecting books that would have otherwise ended up in a land fill.
Well that is kinda cool. I assumed they were empty cardboard things that were just book stand-ins
Like the Swedish books in Ikea displays
thats actually pretty cool, i might try this out at some point when im looking for new books and dont care what they are about (ive only found a few that thoroughly suck)
I used to work in a store that sold used books by the yard to decorators that were staging homes for sale. It was the only reason we accepted those highly decorative "The Great Classics" that people used buy through the mail.
That actually breaks my heart. My family has a full collection of the red Harvard Classics and they really are a wonderful thing to have around!
“Aesthetic or pathetic”: Jack’s KZhead channel
CALL ME OUT BESTIE
@@jack_edwards AAAHH I CAN DIE PEACEFULLY NOW 😌
me in one phrase
the sister of 'duke and i or puke and die'
a good name for a poetry collection tbh make it happen jack
Reading Adrian Mole books as a teenager and as an adult are two separate but absolutely amazing experiences. And I'm not even British.
I feel the same about The Catcher in the Rye
Green is a beautiful color and that specific shade of green on those "aesthetic" books are literally wonderful omg. I would kill to have them on my full of green shits of a room
The do, but especially with the Victorian one, it makes me think of arsenic paint.
This may be a dumb question but how do the sellers get books in the same colours?
@@RG_Ephthey copy the contents of a book and print it in a new cover probably
Ya know sometimes i forget that the average person doesn’t know just how batshit crazy the Victorians were
So true!
I’m obsessed with them (as well as the edwardians) and their batshit craziness is probably the best part
They were the first ever people to test-drive industrial capitalism, and it shows.
@Madhav Ignihir Sawdust in the bread? Yeah. Borax in the milk? Hell yeah, gimme ten. Arsenic in the cookies? Oh shit lol there goes the neighborhood. You silly confectioner, you didn't clearly label the barrel of poison which you store right next to the identical barrel of sugar! D'oh, pobody's nerfect!
Mainly the reason why i love their era
This is actually a fun idea; it's basically a book mystery box.
Totally!
Half priced books sells mystery book bags at their locations maybe online too not sure but it’s like $30 for 10-15 books of whatever genre you choose!! Hpb.com!
Well not really, you dont want to waste you time on topics which dont really interest you or are less intriging. Look you can probably do this, but you will realise that you are wasting your time on things that seems rather random. Instead you could read a famous novel, or a other book you always wanted to. There are tons of great books and more bad ones. Reading a book is not like watching a movie for 2 hours and it is done at least for me. So do u really want to spend your time on a random book you probably dont really like or lets say rather not like as much as other books.
@@essah4161 Bit of a negative way to look at it. I don't think it's a waste of time, honestly. For some people, this *is* their idea of interesting. Through something 'random' you could totally discover a new genre that you never knew you liked, or a topic you never knew about!
@@essah4161 but its funn bcuz its a supriseee lolss
I think the watercolor book was targeted at people who can draw but haven't done water color painting before. It wasn't saying it will teach you how to do art in general, just watercolor. There's a huge difference in how you approach art depending on the medium (pen and paper, paint on canvas, even different types of paint on canvas, etc) so having a guide on watercolor specifically could be useful for an artist who maybe works primarily with acrylic paint but wants to try something new.
Fun fact. growing pains of adrian mole series were quite a hit in korea over decades ago when they were first published. I remember as a bookish teenager, I emensely enjoyed the dry humor, identified with pathos and everyday gripings of a fictional boy from a very faraway land, and often laughed out loud. so imagine my suprise, to find out my old time friend on the list of non other than aesthetic books! really pleasant surprise indeed. thanks Jack! I am your new subscriber. sorry for poor punctuation, et cetra. my typing situation is not ideal.
It's tough to see other people living your dream 🙏
omg I LOVE U
I swear 💕
And if they weren't grateful🤐🤐🤐
Having the time to read a book 😢💖
@Pro Justice Yes, yes cz life is that much easy. You are absolutely genius 👏👏👏👏
THE FACT YOU ORDERED THESE FOR THE AESTHETIC AND ENDED UP RATING ONE 5 STARS
Well Growing Pains is actually really popular and is by no means a bad book
@@prussiaball1871 If you haven't read Growing Pains you can just skip my question, but if you have I was just wondering if you could read it without having read The Secret Diary or if they go together
@@brookepearson you can start at any point in the series but the further you get, the more references to past events in his life there are. i recommend starting from the beginning as the books are small and really good :)
hi can someone remember me randomly on buying this bookseries haha
@@albatraouz7748 sure if i can remember
I own quite a few books that were originally gifts to someone who later died- especially history books, for some reason- and I actually like it. It makes me feel like I have a tiny bond with this person and I'm honoring their life by continuing their interest.
I always write inscriptions in books I give as gifts for this reason, I have a book someone inscribed in the early 1900’s from a second hand shop
I remember going to Ikea and finding one of the decorative books to be Les Miserables. I was even more surprised to find words in it, young me did not expect it
thats my favorite book!!
the ones i get are just some swedish novels
Man Les Miserables are one of the most important book of all time
"How do you write a book about cars and still manage to be racist" Ford would be proud lol
Making cars for Nazis go brrrrrr
Does anyone here own the book? I want to know what the exact comment on Page 23 is. I can find it for sale for as low as $12 with shipping but I don't feel like spending $12 just to know what the comment is. Is it actually racist or British racism?
Just ignore the fact one of the books has the word oriental in the title
@@adrianllamas6487 So what? Is that word supposed to be racist?
@@iaz- he's confusing the way Oriental is being used, sometimes it can be a bit iffy if used improperly, he probably doesn't know that indo-china is the Orient
This actually sounds like a decent idea... My sister volunteers at a charity shop and the amount of books that are thrown away weekly is crazy. Most are frankly extremely boring content wise but they would make fantastic decorative pieces
Easy way to recycle books
@@Devin_Jazzberry precisely, I take some of the ones that are falling apart and make them into collages
Do they at least ask around to see if they're rare or valuable in some way? Do you know if all charity shops do this? I'll take some free books.
One of my local charity shops merchandises books by color. It seems effective...they are always out of yellow and blue
@@wheedler I worked in two different charity shops in the past, and both had the policy of throwing away any book that had slight yellowing of the page edges. It broke my heart, ngl
The watercolour book was for people that were new to watercolour, not new to art, that's why it assumed that the reader already knew how to sketch.
Just want to point out that the watercolor book is not meant to teach people how to draw but how to use watercolor. It’s probably part of a series which each teaches a part of art
These are actually serious books. The beer thing by Michael Jackson for example. That's not Micheal Jackson the singer. That's Michael Jackson the world famous beer critic. Different guy, but also famous.
Michael is a pretty common name after all.
@@jrpueyo7531 and so is Jackson
Unrelated but I went to school with a guy named Michael Jackson and every time his name was called over the intercom everybody would go “hee hee” over and over as he walked out.
@@YogoBites And yet his name ain't Jackson Michael...
@@crisapx I meant as a last name
The fact that he got sponsored by the actual British government lmao. Pop off I guess
i mean get the bag but also lmao
and released after the census deadline lol
@workingonit yeah it was due a few weeks ago, Scotland has an extra month or something but...
@@anti_fragile wdym??
@@PlaceboEllie UHM A FEW WEEKS AGO? MY MUM WAS DOING IT THIS MORNING-
I expected these to be fake books, but I’m pleasantly surprised that these decorative books actually serve dual purpose! Aesthetic value for those who just need a pretty prop, educational/entertainment value for readers, and both for people who are looking for both!
i had no idea these would actually be real books. the price for so many is amazing! its basically a book mystery bundle
Jack: Green was a random choice Me examining his colored bookshelf that's missing green books: mmhhhhhh
Unrelated but I have the same stuffed animal you have in your pfp, except mine is pink lol
@@maggotflesh YOOOOO, I've never heard that before, I wouldn't call them uncommon as I got mine at six flags, but no one has ever mentioned that even if they did, nice
@@LlamaLogic I GOT MINE AT SIX FLAGS TOO, HIS NAME IS MOE
@@maggotflesh YOO, MINES CALLED KIWI
logic kiwi is a glorious name
To be fair, the watercolor book was supposed to just teach you how to color, not to draw 🤣🤣
If you are good at colours you are good at drawing automatically.
@@theradraconia2083 that is definitely not right
@@iD3lia no person exists who can color but can't draw, many people who can draw can't color.
@@theradraconia2083 you can be terrible at drawing but understand how colours and shading works.
@@theradraconia2083 ???? Tell it to my colouring books ¬_¬ I can't draw for toffee, but I love me some colour palette building and shading XD
My grandmother used to make decorative books. As a kid me, and my sister would look through them. One was straight up an adult book, many were biology because those often had the right backs & could get many for cheapish
Tip: if you want pretty decorative books for cheap try your local antique shops!! Sometimes you’ll find really interesting reads (or decoration lol) for $2-$6. I recently scored a book from 1929 on English literature throughout history in near perfect condition for only $5 and it’s so pretty
It's also surprisingly easy to give old books a new cover, and most of the materials are readily available or that you might even already have (PVA glue, decorative paper or card for endpapers, and board harvested from used notepads/sketchpads or, for hardcovers, reused from the original cover providing it's in good enough shape). With a bit of practise, you can turn damaged old books into beautiful, classic, and functional volumes.
This has the same energy as me reading the books at Ikea instead of looking at the furniture
Oh my gosh! That’s what I did the one time I went to IKEA! Sat down in the living room section and started reading shellfish recipes.
@@BeczaBot I love going to IKEA. My friend and I want to go on an IKEA "date" (not really a date date), and basically just go around and eat there. The end. It's just the energy it gives off that is...yeah
ME
@@BeczaBot lol, the people who works there didn't say anything? I want to do it 🤣 I read books in the magazine section in the supermarket, but in the floor
The amount of times I've wanted steal several of those books😅
Reminds me that I once flipped through the decorative books in Ikea... they were just filled with random Swedish Ikea rules and instructions
I did that in my local furniture store once and was shocked to discover that there were actual books with perfectly good pages made into weird shapes ;(
I did that once too in an IKEA in Austria and they had random old books😂
oh LOL
In our Ikea they have weird colourful books in Swedish. I don’t speak Swedish so who knows what they were about 😅
@@ellagrundberg5496 I’ve always dreamed of doing this but I’ve never dared!
My work has a lot of "aesthetic" books to demo bookshelves, mostly browns and neutral colors, but they are all real and I definitely wanna read them sometime lol.
satay is south east asian street food, originally from indonesia but can also be found commonly in malaysia and singapore. the almonds are meant to be chunky and mixed with the peanut butter for a sauce you dip the chicken into (at least thats how i've been eating it my whole life). also the chicken is meant to be skewered on wooden sticks and grilled but eating with a fork works as well LOL i read that adrian mole book while i was in my early teens, good stuff ;)
‘Don’t be afraid to call me a genius’ sir you were trying to crush something with a GLASS bottle 😭✋
Lmao
A green bottle in symbol of the frustrations at the green books xD
IT STILL HAD GIN IN I HATE IT
That’s hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
This is the most amazing video idea *ever*
Ruby have you seen how many comments are saying you’d love the Victorian Christmas Book hahahaha you have been summoned
@@jack_edwards I was literally so jealous when I saw that one!!! I genuinely really want to read it! Don't be surprised if I end up stealing it 🙈
@@RubyGranger8 Ah we have summoned Ruby! I was just thinking about you when I saw this
i agree ruby u should maybe do it too
I just came here from Ruby's channel where everyone was commenting on this book, and now watching this vid I AGREE, Jack send her this book ASAP, it practically belongs to her by default hah!!
At first when reading the title of the video, I thought that someone was making blank books simply to fill bookshelves and I thought 'well, it's good practice for the book binder but they could just as easily sell them as journals to be used rather than filling space that could be taken up by books from 2nd hand shops that would otherwise be shredded.' then lo and behold, that's precisely what these are! I am all for using something second hand even if it's not it's original function rather than creating waste making something new.
I ran into these “aesthetic books” at a restaurant one time and one of them was an original printing of Lust for Life. Lust for Life is the most beautiful book I’ve ever read and I almost screamed when I realized that it was just for decoration and nobody will ever read that copy again.
I feel like this is how most men decorate houses: “I’m wearing green, so I guess... green?”
I was gonna complain but then i realized my room is mostly black furniture with silver decorations, and i mostly wear, black clothes with silver accesories...
Huh
a room is a person's inner reflection
I am sorry, but this is rather sexist.
@@BeanSpino not really, they used the word “most”
I get the misunderstanding but that watercoloring book was for people new to watercoloring not beginners. You don’t typically BEGIN with watercoloring to make watercolor art, you start with your line drawing. Unlike painting with oil or acrylic, watercoloring is at it’s root a COLORING technique. You need something to color and so it is almost always the second step of the art piece. The book wasn’t saying that to watercolor you must be talented, it was assuming you were already studying art and you’re now ready to begin coloring your drawings with a method you need information on. TLDR: No one is born with those natural art skills, you just started on book two on accident. Learn how to draw before you learn how to color that drawing. Buy the basket before buying the eggs, my dude.
Oh, how I'd love to scream "Vindication!" ala Holt in front of my 3rd grade art teacher. I remember her getting upset borderline angry at our class for using line art or sketching out our pieces in a watercolor activity when it was actually acceptable.
My art teacher would have taken offence to that notion. We started out by blocking out shapes, not with line art
@@Stettafire same
Second or even third step in a piece! I tend to do line art before filling in the sketch
@@Stettafire I guarantee they won’t be offended. I’m speaking as an illustrator so please believe me when I say that was not meant to teach watercoloring as a functioning skill. It’s just easier to have watercolor paint in public school because they can be used again when left out to dry, they’re relatively quick drying on the page, and they are water soluble so easiest to clean. You don’t need a book to teach you water+paint+page= cool color shapes that you can see kind of looks like a cat. But what if you don’t want to pain a cat?The book is sharing how to paint ANYTHING you want to paint, and that takes practice, patience, and planning.
2:59 Holy shit, I had that vintage car book growing up. It was one of my favourite things in the world, and I'd completely forgotten about it until just now. This is a very weird moment.
9:47 as a person who is from south america i have to admit that i laughed, here Christmas is in summer JAHDJAHDG
That watercolor book is intended for artists who already have experience in drawing. Each different medium (graphite, charcoal, ink, acrylic, oil, watercolor, etc) has its own learning curve. An experienced artist could be great at sketching and acrylic painting but have no idea how to do watercolor. They’re assuming you’re an artist who just doesn’t have watercolor experience, but has already gone through the basics of sketching.
I graduated from art uni yet never ever tried watercolors. But i spent 3 years painting with acrylics and drawing.
@@susabobus same. I've never attempted watercolor. It always seemed much more advanced in terms of painting.
@@celesteflenory4427 aw you should definitely try watercolour! It’s such a fun relaxing medium to use
@@susabobus I’m the opposite lol we used watercolor as our main medium for 4 years. I’m bad with other paint mediums tho
Mr Fancy art over here
I’m impressed with your ability to read multiple books in one day. You should brag about this on dates and job applications, lol. I’m sending this video to my fellow book nerd friends
Right?! I’m so envious he can just casually say he’ll read them all the same day. I can’t even read 1 book in a day, even if I spend the whole day on it. Spill your secrets, Jack! 😩
@@ClocksInMyPlace True. It's amazing how fast he can read 😊 However, I don't think it matters how much you read in a certain time. As long as you enjoy what you read, that what matters 😊
@@johannalehto9154 Exactly! There is no point in forcing yourself to read in a certain speed if you are actually loosing your information retention and your overall enjoyment!
@@johannalehto9154 wellllll .... Except when you're a literature student, then it is quite important lol. I didnt read fast enough so I would read like 3-4 books out of 8. I felt frustrated that I missed out so much in class. didnt made the reading fun but i guess its a uni problem.
@@sandrinelaberge8136 Oh...well I guess that's right 😅 Yet, it's still very impressive that you read that many books! 😊
Saint Nicholas is actually the biggest celebration of the year in the Netherlands, except here it’s not associated with Christmas, but with Saint Nicholas (who’s been ‘alive’ for almost 2000 years by now). It’s also celebrated on the 5th because it’s ‘pakjesavond’ (present’s eve), just like some people give their gifts on Christmas Eve.
5:01 this is so relatable it hurts
"Bob Ross if you're watching" *Whispers to himself*: "I think he might be dead"
no, ,,
R.I.P Bob
@@rauhasiltala3323 What ya mean no?! He died in 1995 😔 He was also only 52, he could probably still be alive if it wasn't for cancer 😢
Still in denial phase
666 likes so far, I don't want to ruin it
You could make this a series "Aesthetic or Pathetic?"
Yes please!!
I agree with this
The MOMENT he said that, I immediately thought that was an incredible series name and then I needed it
YES
Like pathethic aestetic
*I ONCE BOUGHT A BOOK* for the astonishingly beautiful cover - then years later I realised it was called "The N***r of the Narcissus" I read it - literally, nothing happened - its about a sick guy on a boat. People like it "This is one of Conrad's finest works, and its tight, succinct, and scathing effectiveness as a morality tale might even set it higher than "Heart of Darkness"."
3:07 WHAATT!?!? That’s a bit mind blowing how that actually was a Christmas book😳
FDSNMAFDMM I AUDIBLY GASPED AT THE CURSED PICTURES OF SANTA CLAUSE
wow WHAT a crossover
Levi lets do a booktube video 👁👄👁
wow you really are coming for the booktube world
LEVI HI OMG I LOVE U
not my fave youtuber commenting on my silly little video 😭😭😭
I love how his first thought about 10 years from now is that he could have a dog... same tho
Is that not everyone’s first thought?
I’m the 1000th like
6:32 so British Diary of a Wimpy Kid? 😂
the fact that he actually read a cook book is so funny to me idek why
" Bob Ross if you're watching this- I think he might be dead.." I laughed so hard at this part for some reason 😂
I was waiting to see at least one comment about the Bob Ross thing. I was laughing so hard
Omg yes this is what I came to the comments for, It really made me laugh
Lmao same
Yes I was looking for this comment lol
Is he... Dead?
Jack, buddy, you've already promised us the video of you making the meals from that cookbook, you can't backtrack now
Maybe he should make the most weird sounding recipes from the cook book 😂
Ok! There is so much effort and different layers to this video! Well done!
I'm honestly most shocked that 1. these were actual books, and 2. you hadn't read Adrian Mole yet! I feel like that's such a children's/teen classic!
Honestly, the fact that a person can read ONE book in one day is impressive to me. This person here read about 5 books fully in a DAY. Wild. I can only dream about being this good. Edit: To the people saying that these books are relatively short and that this isn't too bad, Holy cow, this is short for you? That's so wild! Maybe you don't even realise that you're pretty good at reading, 'cause those sure would take me a long time despite "being relatively small" books. Nice
Same I want his attention span ;(
Same. I could maybe read half a book in a day. Reading and textblocks aren't for me.
Ive been a fan of jack for years and he even made a video of reading lots of books in 24 hours. It's extremely admirable
When I was younger I tore through books the way I binge TV shows now XD
A lot of these were non-fiction though, they are easier to read than let's say a 20th century stream of consciousness work
Sometimes random youtube recommendations are surprisingly interesting.
I was just about to comment this😅
And it always happens before you have to do something important
@@g3mp1ec32 Exactly
I know! This is my first video from him and I subscribed
Yea facts
The best part is how much they cost in a bundle, cuz all those books r hardcover and one of cost could literally cost up to $15, just one single book. Crazy good deal 😩 I kinda want to go get a stack now
This feels a lot like the older books all over my grandparents house. For years, I never gave them a closer look- but taking that closer look, I realized they were all classical books like the Illiad, or a collection of civil war memoirs. It also reminds me of the shelf full of older leather bound engineering books I got at one point from my Dad. Will I ever read them? Probably not, but I still am glad to have them there and have the option to do so.
It's a book about cars! Obviously it'll be racist, every person that owns a car is racist, I'm racist too, I like racing.
LMAO, Good one 😂😂😂
Had me in the first half ngl
has my life been a lie the whole time?
@@pigeon582 Yes, yes it was
“Maybe I too am racist...”
ok but the other day i went to a secondhand bookstore and i got a ton of books that genuinely seemed interesting and were in somewhat similar genres and _only when i brought them home_ and laid them out on my shelf, the little darlings, did i realize that they all randomly were in a wonderful forest-and-gecko-green palette and that has been the highlight of my month so far
I don't why but that makes me very happy
That sounds so frickin lovely :,)
I thought the Victorian Christmas book would be so charming and sweet and nostalgic- it was not how disappointing!
Well welcome to Victorian England! It actually kinda sucked.
I just discovered your channel, and I love your enthusiastic approach to discovering books of all kinds. I am one of those nosy people who picks up the "aesthetic" books in hotels and wonders how they get there! So sorry to hear you didn't get to graduate in Durham Cathedral. We went there in the summer and it was honestly, so beautiful! Also, I got to stay in the university, and we got rooms at the top of the keep. So many stairs! We ate breakfast in the great hall in the morning. If that was your experience while you were there, you're so lucky! Big fan of Adrian Mole... But also very old cookbooks. The best ones are Good Housekeeping.
This is the equivalent of translating and reading all of the Swedish IKEA decorative books that they put in the staged bedrooms
As someone learning Swedish Ive actually been tempted to take one of those home 😂 since its super hard to find books in Swedish in general, outside sweden
@@marinaschulz3183 where I live, the books in IKEA have all their Pages glued together in order to stop people from Stealing them :D
@@ellagrundberg5496 haha thanks for the tip!! 😂
@@marinaschulz3183 You can try ordering from bokus.com! They deliver to 35 countries. There should be Swedish e-books or pdfs available online, but idk if they offer them on Amazon and such...
I'm Swedish and while I was living in paris I was craving Swedish books so I really used to go to ikea and steal some lol. Most of them sucked tho
omg you should buy books with the ugliest covers and read them for a week!
YES
i want to see his reaction to animorphs omg
Oh yes please! 😂👍🏼
YES PLEASE DO THAT
did you mean: movie tie-in covers 😔 i’ve yet to find a movie book cover that actually looks good 👀
Incredibly late to the party but the fact that this video is sponsored by the census is iconic I was so hyped to fill out my first census and that's when I knew I was a nerd at heart Love Adrian Mole, it always makes me think of my mum because she loved those books as a kid and then passed that down to me
i just watched one of your reel and now i’m here, totally in love with your content and vibe. KEEP IT UP
fun fact: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is actually the second part of a book series! So it might be interesting to look at the prequel and sequels :)
i'm so happy to see another adrian mole comment here - i love that it was the first book he saw when he opened the box, i remember them being such a delightful read when i was younger :^)
So which one should I read first?
@@7oyoko well that depends - you can start with the first one because it's the first in the series, OR you can pick one in which Adrian Mole's age matches yours most closely (in his first diary he's 13, in the last one he's 39), since they're more relatable when you're going through the same thing
Ooh I've read this book when I was about 13 years old😅 I got it from a secondhand bookstore and I remember it being really funny. But I didn't know it's a series! So I'll definitely read the other books.
Ooooh I love Adrian Mole so much!! The first one is my favorite, he should indeed read the other parts too :)
Jack: this might be the stupidest video I've ever done *Flashbacks to writing dissertation in a week*
Oh hell THAT was the stupidest one by far
That dissertation video went on repeat every day for the last two weeks I was writing my master's 😂
Yeah, i was thinking if this wasn’t the guy who did that lol
Love the premise of this video and your enthusiasm to read random topics. Would love to see more random book reviews!
This is my first time watching anything from this channel and I have to say I love his energy and how joyful and nice he seems
It's the way you told Bob Ross not to quit his day job and that man died in 1995 😭
Probably been dead for Jack's entire life.
HE DIED IN THE 90S?!?! I THOUGHT HE DIED LIKE A DECADE AGO??? 😰😰😰
@@catherinepoteat isn’t a decade like 10 years?
@@vyctoreadeath2941 yes. What’s your point?
@@jeremyc4811 yeah, let him retire
The best books for decoration are the books you've actually read. They reflect your tastes and can be a conversation starter.
So true, the intellectual snob in me cringes at the thought of choosing books based on my decor/color theme 🤦🏾♀️
@@sweetembrace6706 Tell me the point of doing that again?!? Really?!?
@@josephinebournes8212 In the context of Cordy's comment, I believe decorative books would not have any contents, as Cordy also mentioned 'real' books. Cordy could be talking about _purely_ decorative books being on display, i.e. books with no contents that match a decorative theme, and still have 'real' books around that you've read. Besides, the point of 'doing that' shouldn't matter to you, because it wouldn't be your house those books would be on display in. I can't imagine you'd really believe you have the agency to tell others how to live their lives.
@@dinkledankle Literally choosing books by their cover to match a decor theme is the most brainless thing that someone can do. Home decor used to have meaning, now it's based on copy and paste, cookie cutter social media trends.
Facts.
I just came across you channel for the first time, and my initial impression of this video after 5 minutes was: Jared, 21, finally learned how to read and is making the absolute best of it
Best comment 😭😭😭
I went from drawing stick figures to drawing realism with many mistakes.. so being an artist isn’t something your born with, it’s a skill that you learn and practice everyday
I feel like this was Jack's excuse to waste money on decorative books, "make it a video and it's worth it"
“Make it a video and I can get a tax deduction”
@@CagedTroll I came here to make that joke haha
video idea: reading only fan fiction for a week where you either read one fic per fandom or dedicate each day to a different fandom
That's everyday for me lol
THAT WOULD BE HILARIOUS
HE SHOULD READ YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL
@@ryanwolfxx lol same
I felt this on a spiritual level
9:35 fun fac in Ukraine St.Nicolas' Day is still celebrated (but in Dec 19th) and usually kids are gifted with small gifts (stationary, airpods, etc.)
Ooh this reminds me the time when I tried to read all the pink books of my local library. It was interesting indeed. There was books about makeup, cupcakes, poetry and fetishes etc.
Feti- In a library?!
@@elihasbeef yes, in a library. I read a good amount of books, but ofc. In the end I couldn't read every single one. Oh and it was a nearly 15 yrs ago so there wasn't quarantine like now, libraries were open. And there were no smartphones and I was poor student whose computer was broken, so I had time.
that's really interesting, i think i might do something like that when i visit my local library some time in the future
@@elihasbeef I found a book called Orgy about Ancient Greek orgies and sacrificies in junior library!
@@elihasbeef why do libraries have to be family friendly??
Your channel gives me very strong feelings of nostalgia of like early 2000s youtube, of stuff made for fun and just the sake of it. Really love how you present yourself and how bright your personality and uniqueness shines!
This is 2014-16 youtube.
Or mid-late 2000s since youtube didn't exist until 2005 lol
god i miss 2014-2016 era youtube
@@BananaPhoPhilly Zxxxxxxxx
I'm lowkey hoping for a part two because this is absolutely hilarious yet fascinating
“You’re telling me that people are worried about the Call Me By Your Name music video when THIS exists!!!!” Had me dead
It's the actual genuine interest in the books for me
Clearly I spoke too soon
😂 😂 😂
He can claim it as a tax deduction
It's a book about how to get good at watercolors specifically though, not a book about how to get good at art in general. You can't actually be good at watercolors without having the basics of art down first.
This reminds me of the Great Gatsby, where they come across a guy in Gatsby's huge library and he's so excited, because the books haven't even been read (I guess they didn't even cut the pages so they will turn, or something like that)
The owl man.
Hearing your response on seeing the Adrian Mole book made me feel very old. I'm pretty much the same age as Adrian Mole! I was so excited when The Growing Pains came out, I got up early in the middle of the summer holidays, in order to get to our nearest bookshop when it opened. I'm glad to hear that the humour hasn't aged too badly.
Damn this guy is so happy and energetic
I love it. I watch his channel when I'm sad because his happiness and energy is contagious and I catch it so his channel is really helpful.