Hello, everybody. Today we're going to do a bit of an informal, fun show. We're going to talk about

different ways to approach your reading, fun literary experiments. And some of these suggestions

for how to read books, and we're going to get into specific books, specific big books, specific

classics, the sort of books that people always say they want to read, but never

get around to reading. These ideas are going to sound a little bit out there, and some people

might think, hey man, why don't you just read a book, just open it and read it? Okay, well,

that's one approach, but this style of reading, and I've probably got easily more than 10 different ideas for how you

can approach reading in a really fun way, this is about living the great books. And I think you're

going to get a lot out of it. I don't think you can read every book the same way. You can't even

read every author the same way. You can't read every author's work the same way. You need

different tool sets and skill sets for unlocking different works. And I mean, it's actually kind of

intuitive when you think about it a little bit. You wouldn't read a poem the same way as a short

story. And you wouldn't read either of those the same way as a short story, and you wouldn't read either of those

the same way as a very long novel, a Bildungs Romain, but you can get much more into the weeds

with this. So I'm going to tell you some cool, fun things that I personally do that I would like

to invite you to do, and it's going to be a bit of an informal show. I'll be honest.

The book club, the hardcore literature book club, has been taking so much of my time. I don't want to

say, you know, I'm exhausted, but because I love it. And it's actually, I would call it a very

successful book club, a very successful enterprise. There was a reason why

people were asking me for a book club for a couple of years and I kept kind of putting it to the

back of my mind because I kind of thought it's going to be a bit demanding on the time because

when I do something, I do it. So we've got some really high-level lectures. I bring my

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