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.

Hello and welcome back.

How are you doing today?

I hope you're keeping well and I hope your reading is going well. And indeed, if you've been reading with us at the Hardcore Literature Book Club, then I know your reading has been going incredibly well. Because at time of recording, we have just worked through our first big read of the year together we rode through the sweeping saga that is larry mcmurtry's lonesome da vans not only that

that but we've also recently been enjoying a curated appreciation of ancient Greek tragedy, pitting the three great

tragedians, Escalis, Sophocles, and Erepides against one another at patreon.com forward slash

hardcore literature, and at time of recording, the next leg of our reading journey our great adventure

is going to be a really profound one and it's going to offer us some unique challenges and some

unique rewards because we're just about to scale some serious mountains we've got got Dostoevsky's The Idiot on the Horizon.

We'll be kicking that big read off this coming weekend with our introductory How to Read

Video and then the week after that we've got a deep dive into Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Exclusively at Patreon. And in the same month, the month of

March, we're also kicking off an appreciation of the poetry of William Blake. So I thought it

would be a good idea for us to catch our breath and have a little decompress and go back to

the basics and talk about the art of reading, the how and the why of

deep reading great literature. How do you consistently reap great rewards from your reading

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