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The Book Club Q&A Show (Coffee: Episode XXV) (Patreon)

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2023-08-03 20:11:26
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Thank you all for your wonderful questions. They have, once again, resulted in a great bookish conversation for this episode of our Q&A Show.

Topics of discussion include: structuring your reading of poetry, least favourite books, literature as mental health lifeline, artificial intelligence, slow reading vs speed-reading the Great Books, and much more.

We will also be watching and reacting to clips of Mortimer Adler, David Foster Wallace, Harold Bloom, and Cormac McCarthy.

Feel free to jump to any topic/question you're interested in by using the timestamps below. And, as always, do let us know if you have any questions about reading great literature for these shows. 

Video Timestamps:

  • 0:00 watching bookish clips together
  • 2:30 our current reading experiences
  • 5:00 our upcoming read-throughs
  • 8:00 recommendations for poetry?
  • 14:55 your least favourite book? 
  • 18:38 motivation for starting the club?
  • 23:45 concerned about artificial intelligence?
  • 30:45 your favourite musicals?
  • 31:44 top recommended essays?
  • 33:45 Mortimer Adler on speed-reading
  • 40:45 David Foster Wallace on fiction
  • 48:00 solitary reading & embracing quiet
  • 52:12 Harold Bloom on young readers
  • 1:00:47 Cormac McCarthy on creativity
  • 1:06:39 expressing my gratitude for you

Mentioned in the Video:

Thank you all for your great questions, and let us know your thoughts on anything we discussed today.

  • Is it possible to speed-read the Great Books?
  • What books have you struggled with the most?
  • How do you think artificial intelligence will impact literature?

Happy reading, everybody!

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The Book Club Q&A Show (Coffee: Episode XXV)

0:00 watching bookish clips together 2:30 our current reading experiences 5:00 our upcoming read-throughs 8:00 recommendations for poetry? 14:55 your least favourite book? 18:38 motivation for starting the club? 23:45 concerned about artificial intelligence? 30:45 your favourite musicals? 31:44 top recommended essays? 33:45 Mortimer Adler on speed-reading 40:45 David Foster Wallace on fiction 48:00 solitary reading & embracing quiet 52:12 Harold Bloom on young readers 1:00:47 Cormac McCarthy on creativity 1:06:39 expressing my gratitude for you

Comments

David Stephens

Excellent Q&A show! Must confess that I have some difficulty with Ben's suggestion to "make the poetic practical"in some instances. For example I have tried reading the poetry of Emily Dickinson and to say it is oblique is an understatement. Most of the time I don't have a clue as to what she is trying to convey.Same applies-to a lesser extent - to the poetry of Wallace Stevens.Poetry , to my mind, loses its value when it becomes so obscure and elliptical that one feels more comfortable solving a complex partial fraction whilst doing calculus!!! Thankfully there are poets such as Auden, Larkin , Keats, Wordsworth and many others who enrich our lives.

Ralph Harris

I joined in January and loved war and peace but found myself getting bogged down with the amount of content that was being produced. I was putting myself under so much pressure. I left. Its October and I have realised how much I have missed you guys. I now understand I just need to go at my own pace and the lectures are there for me anyway. I know I’m late but I’m going to read paradise lost and invisible man and see how I get on! thanks Ralph