For someone who thinks of himself as soooooo clever and an amazing wordsmith, surely he has more ways to express dislike other than 'dog tit'.
Stop trying to look cool, Jack/Jacques.
Stop trying to look cool, Jack/Jacques.
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16/17 of his latest videos have been ADs... Also, it should be illegal to make the text the same colour as the background, and in a stupidly small size.
He literally couldn't have made that AD text less noticeable. 
I don't really care about his looks but what annoyed me is his "tier-ranking every classic book" yes jack, because you've read *every* classic that exists. Also not even mentioning one Shakespeare play? or Orlando? To the Light House? So many others? more books not originally in English? I know I'm being pedantic but how does he not specify "English" classics? The video obviously isn't even every English (language) classic but I feel like for someone who constantly tries to talk about "diversifying his reading" calling a video about (some) English-language classics "every classic" doesn't seem very culturally aware? There are so many classics in other languages and also diverse voices within English classics (although I am aware the English literary canon is very white and male, doesn't mean we can't make an effort to include diverse voices when possible). I'm glad he included *checks video* Beloved and like 2 non-English books but there are so many other English-language classics by authors of color and a ton of non-English language classics by white and non-white authors. Idk I might be taking this too far but I feel like it says a lot about his world view to title the video "every classic".
Also not sure I'd consider The Book Thief a classic? Not that it isn't great but future classic is more like it imo but I know "classic" can mean a lot of things, so I'll let it slide ig
edit: went and checked, he does mention at least The Illiad, Around the World in 80 Days and The Alchemist and Crime and Punsihmens so at least 4 not originally in English (maybe more, only skipped through the video but still, definitely not *every* classic)
Also not sure I'd consider The Book Thief a classic? Not that it isn't great but future classic is more like it imo but I know "classic" can mean a lot of things, so I'll let it slide ig
edit: went and checked, he does mention at least The Illiad, Around the World in 80 Days and The Alchemist and Crime and Punsihmens so at least 4 not originally in English (maybe more, only skipped through the video but still, definitely not *every* classic)
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He did point out in the video that it's the literary canon, which is white and male, and he also said all the books he has read from the canon.
yeah but still, the title is kind of misleading (also I am fairly certain there are a couple that he has read and hasn't mentioned like The Stranger and Metamorphosis, did he?) Like I said, I didn't pay super close attention, just got a bit annoyed at the title
On his story he wrote "so many books, so little time". Stop binge watching Waterloo Road then!
I’ve always gotten the vibe that he might be into her just based on comments but I feel like he’s not her type and she’s just a friendly person, and starting something when she’ll go back to the us in a few months & still has a year or so of uni left wouldn’t be the best move anyway
They could just be hanging out because he was prob one of the only people in the uk she knew before moving though (and I’m sure there some kind of mutual benefit for YouTube). Idk
the literary canon also includes people like George Eliot, Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters so I think he's just picking and choosing certain books that he's already read - aka ones by white male authors. speaks more about his own reading choices (at least outside of his videos) than the actual canon (which, as a broad term, could contain titles like Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable which I studied at undergrad, or Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, or even more modern novels like Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie). canon is a broad enough term as it is and every scholar would pick books differently based on their preferences - which jack has done. white, male authors, because he's a white middle class man that doesn't think of diversity unless prompted beforehand.
edit: also i realised he may have used a pre-made tier list - which isn't really an excuse either because that's just him putting the bare minimum effort into his videos.
Just getting through the new video.
It really bugs me that he doesn't really give reasons as to why a book is so good. Like with Akala, he just says the most generic things like "it's so important, so poignant" what do you mean? Just because you're white and read a black person's account of growing up in the UK means that you automatically give 5 stars? I'd like to know what is in the book or themes mentioned, what have you learnt? Saying "this is SUCH an important book" is meaningless. Yet he does provide a decent review of books he rated low as opposed to avg rating on goodreads. Like with Educated.
That Educated part made me laugh. Of course he would be interested in how exactly a person with no educational background or quote an oppressed background got a place at Cambridge when HE - Jack Edwards - failed to get into Oxbridge
can't believe he rated a book low because it didn't explicitly explain this lol also rated anither book low because he got confused as to who was the narrator was at times. That's kind of the point, though, you read and try to understand what's going on. Where's his detective cap
It really bugs me that he doesn't really give reasons as to why a book is so good. Like with Akala, he just says the most generic things like "it's so important, so poignant" what do you mean? Just because you're white and read a black person's account of growing up in the UK means that you automatically give 5 stars? I'd like to know what is in the book or themes mentioned, what have you learnt? Saying "this is SUCH an important book" is meaningless. Yet he does provide a decent review of books he rated low as opposed to avg rating on goodreads. Like with Educated.
That Educated part made me laugh. Of course he would be interested in how exactly a person with no educational background or quote an oppressed background got a place at Cambridge when HE - Jack Edwards - failed to get into Oxbridge
can't believe he rated a book low because it didn't explicitly explain this lol also rated anither book low because he got confused as to who was the narrator was at times. That's kind of the point, though, you read and try to understand what's going on. Where's his detective cap Yeah, that kind of generic review makes sense in some circumstances - like if you're just recommending a book to a friend - but when an English grad booktuber does it
TBH im sorry to say I agree with him on Educated.. I enjoyed it a lot more than him but I did really wonder about how much of the story was missing.. ie she makes so much of how uneducated she was that the natural question in any reader surely is .. well in that case how did she manage to get into all those good schools? There's so much not covered.That Educated part made me laugh. Of course he would be interested in how exactly a person with no educational background or quote an oppressed background got a place at Cambridge when HE - Jack Edwards - failed to get into Oxbridge
It's also a massive red flag giveaway that he doesn't read the overwhelming majority of the books he claims to. I've said it before about Ruby, but if someone reviews books for a living and it's just generic adjectives and no more information than you'd glean from a back cover, it's pretty damning. And if they did read them, and after years of studying English Lit and reviewing books professionally, they still can't engage with, critique or even just describe a book to an audience on any level beyond meaningless, vague descriptors like "powerful and moving" with no further details, that's even worse in a way.Yeah, that kind of generic review makes sense in some circumstances - like if you're just recommending a book to a friend - but when an English grad booktuber does it
I made it 45 seconds into his new video.
"I've not posted in a while, I've let both my channels go stagnant. But all that's going to change! Anyway, I'm not going to combine my identical channels to avoid spreading my already sparse content too thin. And here's another video idea I took from another booktuber because I can't come up with any ideas for myself despite this being my job. Enjoy!"
Am I meant to believe the exact day he reads the heartstopper books he magically gets invited to the premiere? I mean sure, he doesn't have much of a reason to lie about that but what a coincidence that just as he's making a video about reading the books, holding the book in his hands, he gets the invitation? On easter sunday nonetheless (not sure when agency people or whoever calls to tell him he's been invited work but I'd imagine it's not necessarily on easter sunday - at least for non-urgent matters?). Idk it's not a big deal but it sort of bugged me because I felt like he's being dishonest (or maybe it really was a coincidence, idk he might've just been reading them in anticipation for the show, wanting to make a video about it as the show is released, that'd make sense but it just felt like too much of a coincidence)
He's 100% lying.
I'd believe that he picked up the books because he was aware that the TV show was coming out, because it's firmly in Jack's wheelhouse to transparently leap onto a popularity bandwagon at the last minute for content, and a lot of booktubers were hyped for the show so he was probably aware that it was ripe for exploiting for likes.
But his story doesn't add up, and he lies about the vast majority of things. This is the Jack who pretended he'd accidentally stumbled into one of the filming locations for Emily in Paris when going for lunch, when he'd clearly Googled the location and sought it out. He pretended that he'd coincidentally bumped into old friend Jade and invited her to the Baftas with him and gushed about the "casual magic" kismet of it all, when it had all been planned days prior.
That pathetic "the universe is designed around me, look at all the casual magic coming my way!", "main character energy" fabricated bull to make themselves feel and look special is totally one of the tricks in his playbook.
He's one of Sixteenth's most followed "talents", compared to the very small audiences of the rest of their pool of creators. There's no way they weren't asking him to attend first and early. And this was the last of multiple Netflix promotional events that week that he attended. It's a big brand deal, and there's no way Sixteenth were leaving it until the last minute on an Easter Bank Holiday to invite their most-followed talents and risking them not being able to attend, especially since Jack is staying in Paris.
He also frames it like he read the books on the Sunday, then the next day he was at the premiere, when it was actually three days later and he had two other Netflix events prior. He very clearly wanted to create the impression that by simply reading the books, he'd conjured up the will of the universe and coincidentally he was at the premiere 24 hours later, which isn't what happened.
And he's raving about how much he loves Alice Oseman as an author and stans her for life, and that his entire fanbase have been supposedly crying out for him to read the series, but then says he has no clue what Heartstopper is about prior to reading it other than it's a romance. If you're gonna proclaim you're YouTube's resident librarian, you'd think you'd do a tiny amount of research or be aware of the general plot of a fan-favourite series.
I'd wager what actually happened is that he had no awareness of or interest in the books until a couple of weeks before the premiere, when his management said, "Hey, you're attending some Netflix premieres, one's for Heartstopper. At least pretend to read the books; you'll be expected to run ad content." He bought and read them with the awareness that the premiere was on the horizon and made up some nonsense to make himself seem special and the centre of the universe, when he's just a dishonest cog in a marketing machine.
Who pays Deliveroo for a hot dog?!! How much disposable income does this twit have??
also re previous comments on here.. erm Lilac suit and little girls necklace and really hoping for Asexual representation... how did he think he was fooling with this girlfriend he was supposed to have had?
also re previous comments on here.. erm Lilac suit and little girls necklace and really hoping for Asexual representation... how did he think he was fooling with this girlfriend he was supposed to have had?
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I'm obsessed with books - writer and editor by trade. Literature is my favourite thing to talk about and think about. However, I would rather drink a jug of piss than watch Jack's book content. So unappealing.
I can believe it- they're comics. Took me only a few hours to get through the whole series on Webtoon. I'm more angry that it was billed as a LGBT event for an LGBT show and tons of influencers were invited (like Ruby, Jack and Jade) who have never indicated that they're LGBT in any way.
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