BOOKSTORES: The Lost Brazil Chapter

[@priharumi]

The sad part is that bookstores here in Brazil are closing and most of these places you went doesnt exist anymore! Cultura and Saraiva went bankrupt...

[@rolanddeschain6089]

I know it's much easier said than done but get involved! Try to save these shops. Open new ones. Do not resign and turn away. Contribute and engage.

[@glopesmartins]

@@rolanddeschain6089 There're not much we can do, because the problem isn't in the physical aspect, there is other companies and places selling books, the problem here is cultural. Most people in Brazil don't read much (aside for school or work). And, although "we" try to change that, it will take years(!) to raise the total average of readers in Brazil.

[@laiperissinotto5567]

And most of brazilian cities dont have bookstores :( são paulo is a beautiful place but it's also sad that other parts of the country don't have half of what são paulo has.

[@rolanddeschain6089]

@@glopesmartins i can well imagine that it takes a lot of time. But there are not many readers in every country. Let's all fight that. Education and beeing well-read is the key to almost everything. I wish your country all the best!

[@juliacamposfrasao1048]

@@glopesmartins thats not true at all! i love reading books but i end up downloading it for free lol since buying a book here is so expensive now :/ and i bet this is what a lot of people are facing now

[@JamieMcEwanOfficial]

Even the deleted portions of the film are awesome. Also, I bet when he broke the glasses by sitting on them, he was sitting down to read.

[@derkarlotto]

Brand new sub here. Just found your bookstore video this morning. Love your channel

[@spencer6207]

Same

[@cutie229401]

I am living here in São Paulo for a year and I have been several times to these bookstores. It's such a weird thing to see the places you go so often to from another perspective hahahaha

[@ivoneray1472]

I am originally from Brazil and growing up I used to go to Saraiva bookstore to buy books and hang out with my friends! I didn't know they had closed.That's sad!

[@Laslus_]

there is a Livraria Cultura in são paulo that has a dragon and is 4 stores tall, if you (or anyone really) ever visits again são paulo they should go there!! (it's in Av Paulista)

[@DanielleMMTorres]

omg totally, it's a magical place

[@arianejimenez7170]

luisa ferreira vc sabe o endereço exato?

[@cintiadg]

@@arianejimenez7170 é na Avenida Paulista, se eu não me engano

[@brunanaianmlg1107]

Acho que era essa que ele esperava encontrar inclusive, mas deve ter se perdido um pouco

[@katherinecaspersz3580]

Omg I need more of this. A whole series on bookstores pls

[@AndrewMadeAFilm]

I love to read (so much so that I made my own film all about it) but rarely make time for it. As soon as I finished Max’s film I picked up a Kafka that’s been on my shelf for weeks and read almost 50 pages. Such a great feeling. I’ll definitely keep it up with the half an hour method.

[@koense]

Nice! The trick that made me read more consistent: write down you are going to read 5 pages of a book, with a checkbox next to it. If you wanna get real advanced write down a 'why' next to it. The task has to be so simple you can't not do it.

[@mrklausjonza]

Man, it's sad =( ever since I moved out of Brazil 10 yrs ago, they've been closing down a shit ton of bookstores there. And books got quite expensive there as well.

[@xtreamchance]

Hands down, Max, this is your best work, including WAYF. It's tight, yet it conveys the emotionalism, the passions of reading as well, without belaboring the point. I get that you are spinning your wheels with Catfish and other projects but if you could bring this sensibility to projects like WAYF, dude, I would watch that as much as I watch On Golden Pond or Tinker Tailor...or even the Matrix movies! Maybe it's the finding of these spaces that is like finding lost civilizations before they were lost (with the exception of this store that was closed before you got to it), or maybe it's the frenetic pace you edited this piece...but like the original star wars or the original star trek movies (1 & 2) you have made us want to wander left when you panned right...or go beyond the back rack of books as you stayed in the foreground...you made us want to explore these worlds, making them so tantalizing. Great Job, man!

[@VampFaye]

Why don't we have gorgeous bookstores like this in the US? I see myself curled up in a corner with a great book and never leaving. Thanks, Max!

[@hewie7338]

Probably because chain bookstores i.e barnes and Noble drive smaller stores outta business

[@QuinnPixel]

cthshooter i mean both saraiva and livraria cultura are chain bookstores but i see ur point! The ones he showed were gorgeous but most of the time they are just normal looking lol

[@scifikoala]

Oh there are. Not quite the same style as this, more in the style of the small European ones though. The Last Bookstore in LA, the Tattered Cover in Denver, The Boulder Bookstore in Boulder (the section that used to be an old bank esp), are all ones I love, but I know there are plenty more out there

[@HuesingProductions]

Amazon

[@carlover4239]

VampFaye - The Strand in NYC

[@Sarah-tl8cd]

Your video on visiting bookstores has persuaded me to pick up a book (and finish it!) and I just wanted to thank you for the push. It’s weird that a youtube video I watched 8 months ago has inspired such drastic change in my life but it’s a welcomed change nonetheless. With it’s amazing cinematography and meaningful narration, it definitely a video I will rewatch in time.

[@booch...]

Great video as always, thanks for what you do.

[@ademiltonsegundo3280]

You should have visited the livraria Cultura from Avenida Paulista. It's like a mall, but it only has bookstores which sell different genres.

[@GrilledTofu]

I just love these book episodes. Thank you!

[@jonasrla]

you are a genius for using old classical music with synth. Classy and free

[@JoshWalkerVlogs]

Had to show my wife this video..she absolutely loves book stores and the vibe that comes from them👍

[@renatcm]

I'm Brazilian. Last week I was actually talking to someone about our bookstores. We have some big companies with a bunch of stores around the country (like Livraria cultura, Livraria da vila and Saraiva), but we don't have little ones. That way, the bookstores are enormous - I literally used the same term "the Apple store of bookstores". And everyone of them are this big. So they can't sell all the books they have in stock and they and up broke. Also, a normal place for this stores is in a shopping mall. They rent this giant spaces which can't be filled up with sellable books. 2 of this 3 companies are almost closing their doors. Saraiva, for example, bought the French store "Fnac" and broke it as well. It's a huge problem!

[@Buu__uuB]

your video made we want to read an hour everyday

[@alejamclean]

i was just saw the 2 book videos, and i was wondering why didn't you visit Brazil? Its an amazing book country. I think you need to visit Mexico city. you will love Librería Educal Alejandro Rossi, Centro Cultural Elena Garro and Librería del Fondo Rosario Castellanos, Centro Cultural Bella Época, and Cafebreria El Péndulo.. i love the Roma one :P ... if you love libraries, i´ll recomend you in Bogotá, Colombia, Biblioteca Pública Virgilio Barco.. its an amazing library and a wonderfull space, and Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, its one with the biggers collection of books in latinamerica! :D

[@laramilan8710]

There’s this other AMAZING book store in São Paulo another “livraria cultura” it’s the most beautiful place it’s in avenida paulista

[@gabriel-yuri]

Ele perdeu a melhor.

[@annaibanez2499]

No, it’s not. Wtf.

[@m.ay.]

Rio has many amazing bookstores as well. There is a Cultura in Rio that is like a maze that goes up and around the center of the store.

[@Laslus_]

meu qual o nome dela? quero

[@jcravenclaw]

Yaaaay. Don't live near any of these libraries but I'm so happy you came to Brasil

[@familiablackoficial]

As a Brazilian I can say that we have a lot of bookstores and excellent ones but the main problem it's with our lack of culture and most of parents don't incentivate our kids to read also our politician give a lot of money to the university but the money invested in the high school or earlier years of our students it's not enough and that's where we are solidify the base to raise good readers.

[@lillyrey5727]

Live it, love it, be it. As always a great video Max.

[@nicolethomygentil4360]

livraria da vila is my personal fave!! It has the best selection out of all three and the company is not AS shady as the others lol

[@buckisnice]

Max, how come you went all the way to Brazil and didn't show the Paulista Avenue Livraria Cultura!? Its one of the biggest most amazing things to see around here!! The mall one is modern and all but THAT is flawless

[@Laslus_]

IT HAS A DRAGON

[@Sinkinson_]

Max your content consistently is some of the best on youtube, keep doing you my man

[@alexjames7144]

Organising books by colour in a shop surely must make finding anything an absolute nightmare

[@russianvoodoo]

Before I watch this, let me tell you that after your video about books I've started reading every day.

[@SG-gf1uv]

I used to live right next to the livraria da vila (the one in the thumbnail); used to go there a lot as a kid and read for hours; it brings back good memories. Great movie you made :)

[@nasserrafael]

Come here more often, would love to show you around more of our culture and nature!

[@KingKing-bo5yf]

I spent countleaa times After dinner in Borders which was the biggest bookstore In CBD of Auckland New Zealand. It went bankruptcy a decade ago. Its different feeling sitting inside. Oh man, I missed it. When I was young, backhome in China, We had some huge bookstores and they all closed down around 2008 to 2010. However there are some minibookstores appear in shopping centres These days in China.

[@mariemargaret8201]

Since your last video I already finished a book. Don’t stop creating!!

[@martinorozcoph]

Man, you're my favorite story teller in KZbin, do more videos!

[@VeroVerito-to4eb]

Es genial Max te ves tan apuesto!!!! Pero... es increible ver como hay cantidad de libros interesantes por leer😘😘😘

[@fastrack4408]

You know you are Early when it says that the video has no views

[@isrocket]

من طرف محمود اسماعيل Your job is so good Max 👍

[@lucas5893]

A lot of bookstores here in Brazil are closing, that's a problem. I'll translate the BOOKSTORES video to Portuguese when I get home. Great content, actually youtube doesn't deserve it.

[@TheGreensIndoorGolf]

The man! Love your stuff!

[@JasperTordilla]

Glad you’re now uploading again 😁

[@guscar7]

Wow Sos un Capo!! La mejor edición de videos!! Ya se cual es mi meta en la edición. Editar como tu🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@LeoFtravels]

I"m a big fan of your work, great vid, as always

[@Jaeno311]

I need more of this lol

[@abdelrahmankoossy8997]

keep up the good work !

[@notinuse926]

Okay so, can we talk about how you said Livraria da Vila perfectly at 1:41 ? This comes from a native speaker.

[@rsoubiea]

I miss all our book stores, Daytons, Waltons, then the Jonny come lately’s which are both closed now too. (Borders, Barnes and Noble) We have one left. One. Now pathetic is that? 😡

[@rohannabendiola9897]

I LOVE YOUR CONTENT !!!

[@bebitter]

The music is very a clockwork orange, love it

[@SandboxerOfficial]

very Bachy

[@yondemon]

Livraria da Vila is THE bookstore I am in love with. And now it is more than 3000km from where I live. Is a long distance relationship. Thank you for transporting me there again. PS: I think you went to the wrong Livaria Cultura. Ath just 1km from Livraria da Vila, in Conjunto Nacional is a bigger one than the one you went to, with the floor on a ramp in the middel and a floating dragon over it.

[@raphaelsalles580]

In Rio de Janeiro there are these amazing bookstores called Travessa and despite not being gigantic they are very beautiful

[@adryelleazevedo4287]

aaaaaaa, I'm glad that you liked our bookstores

[@jayshukla450]

Thank you for the video 😎😎😎

[@clararf723]

2 things: 1. I love the way you pronounce the words, it's as close as most Americans get haha and 2. I got very nervous for you because you're waking around vlogging and well, sao paulo (Brazil as whole unfortunately) is not the safest place. But happy to know you went to Brazil!

[@ADSImagens]

So cool Max! If you come to brazil again, hit me up. I was born in Brazil, went to São Paulo couple of times. I would love to help you out with your project. I am living in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, know to have a huge national event called Oktoberfest. Anyway, nice project you have. A shame that the Saraiva store close down. Probably because the avarage rent on malls are impossible to actually pay.

[@anaflaviadamasceno57]

The closed Saraiva you went to see is not even in the same state that you were lol

[@maxjosephdirector]

Ana Flávia hahaha. I know. That was a horrible discover

[@isabellebogari6060]

I cannot believe you didn’t go to livraria cultura in Paulista 😱

[@gabriel-yuri]

Exatamente isso que eu pensei!

[@luizero99]

I am from Brazil, and I really want to open a bookstore. I want to rescue this love from the brazilians.

[@Loogiemistress]

Beautiful!

[@SherazShahzad]

welcome back legend ❤️

[@ana-ne3ov]

hahahah you pronounce the names so perfectly

[@enrolledagent1246]

cant wait for this new video

[@alexeimakes]

great video Max!

[@ClaraMarcela]

The Livraria Cultura in Avenida Paulista in São Paulo is really beautiful too :)

[@maymayyyy]

"is it from reading too much?" "nah dude, my ass did that"

[@InfectiousLaugh]

Hope there’s more of these deleted scenss

[@beatrizsampaioaucelio8704]

Go to Livraria Cultura on Av.Paulista here in SP ! It’s really good

[@Kmaia.art1]

we just have amazon now (greetings from Brazil) ;)

[@MasochisticMaiden]

Ahh bookstores, I’ve avoided them the last year in fear of spending too much money.

[@amoonip4010]

SOSOSOSO EXCITED

[@jackleah3259]

[@MrAwesomestar7]

I started reading again after the previous video

[@LeeCurrid]

Recommendation for the best bookshop in New York? (I'm visiting this month)

[@maxjosephdirector]

Lee Currid the Strand is probably the most famous and also Books are Magic in Brooklyn

[@let_it_sin_kin]

great video

[@karimabou8784]

I wish we have cool bookstores in my city 😥

[@_isaacs0585]

in Australia go to the Melbourne uni library.

[@SyriusJupiter]

Livraria da vila - perfect accent

[@Trideente]

parabéns pela pronúncia do R

[@danicadou3534]

It's from sitting on them!!!

[@stoicfloor]

Please release more footage from your book tour!

[@yasminribeiro1324]

Espera até ele saber do escândalo da livraria cultura

[@guilhermescbl]

tava procurando esse comentário por aqui kkk

[@anonymouse903]

Max, have you heard about the things that have happened in livraria cultura and how they treated their employees? there's a whole article about it with testimonials and stuff

[@cienfuegos9583]

looks promising

[@augustojose4624]

Come to Belo Horizonte please!!!

[@Barbistoria]

I wonder why you didn't put too much atention to the 1st one, at the final cut, El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Argentina. Perhaps was it something about the Argentinians? I absolutely loved the video anyways

[@renanneresc.dossantos5595]

BRO, did you come to brazil to visit only the private libraries? You should've gone to Mario de Andrade library, that place is amazing!

[@KingKing-bo5yf]

It's hard to run a bookstore These days when you can get a bargain online.

[@rtrm77]

Brasil

[@CLSEdward]

Why did the big savaira shut down?

[@Lestrangitta]

I don't know about this one specifically, but the bookstore and publishing business are undergoing a huge crisis right now in Brazil

[@juaocamelo]

bankruptcy, they closing some big stores in the whole county

[@gabriel-yuri]

AMAZON

[@Fish-wg1ve]

He went to Brazil

[@aires120]

COME TO SALVADOR

[@voigtjessica]

How did you go to SARAIVA AND NOT to livraria cultura in Paulista Avenue? This is the most important book store in the city.

[@yuzhuhiko]

Okay, I’m watching this because I ran out of good content to watch on this app.

[@valentinakraiselburd6343]

You missed the livraria cultura in avenida paulista! its even bigger!

[@rnzdnyr]

Well, someone is the new Casey Neistat...

[@thebookwasbetter3650]

Next he's going to take his family to Wally World.

[@biricicleta]

You didn't visit Brazil´s bookstores if you didn´t see the dragon´s skeleton that some Cultura´s have

[@rodrigomelo8830]

you needed go in the livraria cultura of shopping curitiba in curitiba

[@micamyself]

ele falando em português é maravilhosoo

[@ryushogun9890]

"We don't do books here" welcome to Brazil, where being poor can be even more poor.