Benjamin McEvoy | How to Live the Great Books (10 Deep-Reading Tactics) @BenjaminMcEvoy | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🎖️ War and Peace: cutt.ly/U3nzGma
🎭 Shakespeare Project: cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
🐳 Moby Dick: cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
☄️ Blood Meridian: cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
🍂 Wuthering Heights: cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
🇮🇪 Ulysses: cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: cutt.ly/J3YixoA
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: cutt.ly/9ToAybt
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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Happy reading!
Here's the speed-reading course I mentioned: benjaminmcevoy.com/oxford-student-reviews-mindvalleys-super-reading-jim-kwick

0:00 how to live the great books
0:30 the beating heart approach
1:20 my current rereading roster
2:00 how Nietzsche helped my Oxford interview
3:15 reading the characters' favourite books
4:00 how to get into opera and fine art
5:45 become the poet
6:50 reading is a collaborative activity
7:40 how to read a Shakespeare play
8:40 speed-reading vs deep-reading
9:10 the Proust Project
10:30 reading is a communal activity
11:10 rank, review, compare, measure, weigh
11:58 building writers up and savouring them
12:10 free your mind of academic cant
12:40 pick your books wisely