Welcome back to Hardcore Literature, your favourite book club.

Deep dives into the greatest books ever written, provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses.

We don't just read the great books, we live them.

Together we'll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, Tolstoy and many more.

We'll relish the most moving art ever committed

to the page and stage from every age. Join us and me, your host, Benjamin McAvoy, on the reading

adventure of a lifetime with hardcore literature. I'd like to begin this podcast with a thank

you, a giveaway and a request. Thank you because the

episodes on the first five virtues, courage, temperance, generosity, magnificence and pride have been

at time of recording downloaded thousands of times. That means you're finding these episodes

valuable. Now that's where my request and the

giveaway comes in. I'd love to hear from you if you've been enjoying these episodes. While you're

listening right now, I'd really appreciate it if you just take a couple of seconds to go to iTunes

and leave a review because that lets me know that you want me to keep doing them. It also helps

push the podcast up

in the algorithm and recommend it to more people. And here's the giveaway. I've got three

brand new copies of my favorite translation of Aristotle's Nicomacian Ethics, and I'll be sending

them to three people who leave a written review of the podcast on iTunes. It doesn't have to be a long

review. One sentence is absolutely fine.

Maybe say which episode you've enjoyed so far

and make a recommendation for books you'd like to discuss in the future.

As people listen to the podcast at different times,

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