Benjamin McEvoy | Reading YOUR Comments to Celebrate 1,000 Subscribers (Thank You) @BenjaminMcEvoy | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
As we've just hit 1k subs, I want to say a big THANK YOU for supporting this channel. I've picked a few of your bookish comments, and ended up talking about a wide variety of things: my thoughts on "BookTube", the state of academia today, culture shock living in America, my Dickens collection, reading slumps, and much more. Timestamps, personal thank yous, and links below:
📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature
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🎙️ open.spotify.com/show/70IZA248yNVkrjqzDNm6Lt (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify)
🏫 hardcore-university.teachable.com (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses)
👕 hardcore-literature.creator-spring.com Hardcore Literature Merch
✍🏼 benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website
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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🚂 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
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Happy reading!
0:00 thank you + why I started making videos
2:00 “a good book on the journey of life”
3:19 expansive reading, and tarot
5:40 poems that haunt me, synchronicity, sexuality, and the state of academia today
10:54 difficult writers, Cervantes, Don Quixote translations, and “meeting” me
13:30 poetry for beginners, what I think of Edgar Allen Poe
15:00 how to read short stories, what I think of “BookTube”
18:00 which country has the best literature in the world?
18:22 Herman Hesse and Marcel Proust
19:10 Les Misérables
19:20 Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet
19:50 literature and culture
20:30 culture shock living in America vs living in Japan
22:22 reading slumps and my Dickens Collection
24:53 competitive reading, and reading being like travelling
27:05 slow reading pace, literature as a gift
28:20 thank you - next milestone?
Thank you to everyone for your lovely comments, and to those mentioned in this video: Jack, Beatrice, Ryan, Rut, Cody, Lucius, James, Sharon, George, Sara.
Videos mentioned:
How to Read Great Literature: youtube.com/watch?v=u3ogESSHbqg
How to Get into Poetry as a Beginner: youtube.com/watch?v=G5GUUgHVruQ
How to Read Short Stories: youtube.com/watch?v=HA8Q-ECwk70
Which country has the best literature in the world? youtube.com/watch?v=4XBqmhGVhXU
How to Rekindle Your Love of Reading: youtube.com/watch?v=Pcxn99gngjE
Poems that Haunt Me: youtube.com/watch?v=oOAn_7c_y1A
The Most Difficult Writers: youtube.com/watch?v=JXkGiaAeV9w
If you enjoy this content, you'd love the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature
As we've just hit 1k subs, I want to say a big THANK YOU for supporting this channel. I've picked a few of your bookish comments, and ended up talking about a wide variety of things: my thoughts on "BookTube", the state of academia today, culture shock living in America, my Dickens collection, reading slumps, and much more. Timestamps, personal thank yous, and links below:
📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature
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🎙️ open.spotify.com/show/70IZA248yNVkrjqzDNm6Lt (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify)
🏫 hardcore-university.teachable.com (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses)
👕 hardcore-literature.creator-spring.com Hardcore Literature Merch
✍🏼 benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website
————————————
Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
————————————
📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🚂 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
————————————
Happy reading!
0:00 thank you + why I started making videos
2:00 “a good book on the journey of life”
3:19 expansive reading, and tarot
5:40 poems that haunt me, synchronicity, sexuality, and the state of academia today
10:54 difficult writers, Cervantes, Don Quixote translations, and “meeting” me
13:30 poetry for beginners, what I think of Edgar Allen Poe
15:00 how to read short stories, what I think of “BookTube”
18:00 which country has the best literature in the world?
18:22 Herman Hesse and Marcel Proust
19:10 Les Misérables
19:20 Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet
19:50 literature and culture
20:30 culture shock living in America vs living in Japan
22:22 reading slumps and my Dickens Collection
24:53 competitive reading, and reading being like travelling
27:05 slow reading pace, literature as a gift
28:20 thank you - next milestone?
Thank you to everyone for your lovely comments, and to those mentioned in this video: Jack, Beatrice, Ryan, Rut, Cody, Lucius, James, Sharon, George, Sara.
Videos mentioned:
How to Read Great Literature: youtube.com/watch?v=u3ogESSHbqg
How to Get into Poetry as a Beginner: youtube.com/watch?v=G5GUUgHVruQ
How to Read Short Stories: youtube.com/watch?v=HA8Q-ECwk70
Which country has the best literature in the world? youtube.com/watch?v=4XBqmhGVhXU
How to Rekindle Your Love of Reading: youtube.com/watch?v=Pcxn99gngjE
Poems that Haunt Me: youtube.com/watch?v=oOAn_7c_y1A
The Most Difficult Writers: youtube.com/watch?v=JXkGiaAeV9w
If you enjoy this content, you'd love the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature
