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It’s a good question. I’m not dyslexic, and I don’t know enough about it to speak with confidence. It maybe that my advice on handwriting etc. actually makes things less effective for the dyslexic person rather than more effective. Something I didn’t talk about in this video is diagramming, which requires a very good understanding of text to be able to condense it to imagery. Maybe this would be a better approach for you

I have a copy, haven't read it yet but looking forward to it!

Thank you for your feedback, I will do!

That sounds like exactly the sort of thing I need to read

Are you by yourself?

@@HildaDeerfox Yep, just myself and my wonderful Labrador Meg.

I think your criticism is valid of many books, but I don't think these three qualify - have you read them? I do read, and recommend literature, but I didn't in this video. Maybe you could suggest some books you've read that you think were worthwhile, and if I read them, I'll be sure to discuss them!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoy what I have to say!

I'm not familiar with the term 'nurospicy', would you define it for me?

@@pagestopractice I'm dyslexic, ADHD and autism spectrum level 1. I should use neurodiverse I guess then there's neurodiversity, and there's a third one but I can't remember that one and people get upset if they see the wrong word used so I get around it all by just saying neurospicy.

@@Tim_G_Bennett As someone who has dyslexia, autism and ADHD, do you find this expanded taxonomy of terms such as neurodiversity etc. helpful or harmful?

@@pagestopractice I think having the different words adds even more complexity to something that's already very complex (I never know how to spell them anyway) and most people haven't heard of them and if they have it's just the neurodiversity one. I feel like communicating is already hard enough without extra hurdles to get right. But then I don't think of myself as autistic, (wasn't diagnosed until I was 40) I'm me, that just happens to have autism and that's very much not politically correct so I don't visit any autism community's now. I think the politically correctness of the not neurotypical (there's all different words for that as well) community's are tearing them apart.

I really like blood meridian!

Thanks! Though I spoke about it much less, it's the better of the two works and a short but fruitful read.

@@pagestopractice Dumbing Us Down also sounds like an interesting read, have added it to my list.

Thank you for your thoughtful response, I'll be sure to look into that ten volume set, sounds like it could be quite helpful. Do you read greek or latin?

That’s exactly right. I found Russel’s take on this in his History of Western Philosophy interesting - that the glorification of these early philosophers due to the dogma of the church has been an impediment to progress overall. It will be interesting to analyse if a certain arrogance has infected the western canon, because it does not take proper credence of right speech.

Yes, you probably wouldn´t have liked him if you`d met him. Hardly anybody would have. When i first heard about Caro`s book i had no idea who Moses was and i thought wow, this sounds boring. I somehow still ended up reading it and it was absolutely fascinating. You have to be a past master to be able to write a doorstopper so good that even people who couldn`t care less about Robert Moses are spellbound.

@@francoisjohannson139 I haven’t heard that title before, I’ll have to check it out - what was it that left an impression for you?

@@pagestopractice it's a short nonsensic story that is told in 99 differnet styles, like walking through a mirror cabinet - it shows HOW you could tell a story

@ Fascinating!

@@pagestopractice The book it's actually inspired by the musical form called Theme and Variations.

What's most remarkable about 'The Plague' is that, at least for my reading, it was so much more banal and mundane in the horror than it was depressing. The book captures the disconnect between something happening 'to you' and something happening 'to someone else'. But yes, a book better suited to the summer months. The heat of summer is a key plot device at times, so it might even enhance your reading. Thank you for your recommendations. I'll be sure to check those out.

@@pagestopractice I read Dostoevsky by the pool last summer... some things aren't enhanced by that environment! Haha

No I haven’t, is there a work you would particularly recommend?

@@pagestopractice Actually, everything he has written. His most famous book is "Zorba the Greek" of course. Another famous book is "The Last Temptation" -you probably know it from the Scorsese film. Both are must reads. But I would recommend to start with "The Greek Passion" (or "Christ Recrucified" -the title depends on the edition you will find. Nevertheless the translation by Jonathan Griffin is the same). Then there is also an incredible book, the "Report to Greco", something like an autobiography, but not in the strict sense of the genre. Since you liked so much "The Plague", Albert Camus wrote the following letter to Kazantzakis's widow after he'd heard the news of Kazantzakis's death. The letter can be found in Helen Kazantzakis's biography of her husband: «Nikos Kazantzakis, A Biography Based on his Letters», p. 469: «Madame, I was very sorry not to be able to take advantage of your invitation. I have always nurtured much admiration and, if you permit me, a sort of affection for your husband's work. I had the pleasure of being able to give public testimony of my admiration in Athens, at a period when official Greece was frowning upon her greatest writer. The welcome given my testimony by my student audience constituted the finest homage your husband's work and acts could have been granted. I also do not forget that the very day when I was regretfully receiving a distinction [i.e. the Nobel Prize] that Kazantzakis deserved a hundred times more, I got the most generous of telegrams from him. Later on, I discovered with consternation that this message had been drafted a few days before his death. With him, one of our last great artists vanished. I am one of those who feel and will go on feeling the void that he has left . . .»

What a wonderful reply, thank you for taking the time. This is an excellent recommendation and I’ve ordered a copy of Christ Recrucified, which I shall put at the top of my reading list

@@pagestopractice Yours is also a wonderful reply. I would love to hear what you've thought of the book after you've read it. As Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů read Christ Recrucified he composed his last opera based on this book, arguably his operatic masterpiece. He visited Kazantzakis in Antibes and we are lucky to have there mutual correspondence. Well, as you can see I am pretty well informed about this author. However I try to be objective 🙂.

Noted! Probably a good idea to

In the last few months!

Thank you for your comment. The Nobel prize reading list is just a resource for a reading list that I couldn’t otherwise find in a form that I thought was useful. Every reading list has its flaws, and it’s up to the individual to decide if they’d like to pursue it or not. As to the criticism of the GBWW and the Harvard classics, I think it’s an interesting topic in its own right, and may be worth an extended discussion on this channel at some other time. Before selecting these works I did take the time to seek a variety of opinions from a broad set of cultural and political viewpoints, and am aware of some of the cultural and gender biases going into the work. Many of these concerns are addressed in the foreword to volume one. Thank your sharing your feedback, and I hope you stick around and share some of your alternative resources for people to look at in the comment sections of these videos.

@@pagestopractice People should focus on studying Logic, the real foundations of liberal arts and the most important of the Trivium by far. All the problems we've today are direct result of shifting from pure and honest logic to artificial eristic narratives based on lies and emotions. Reading is great but it's not as important as meditation. I'd also recommend the oldest sacred books, from Nag Hammadi's library to the Vedas and from the Avesta to Buddhist texts. In your list I only saw the OT which is a completely twisted version of everything but it's worth reading for comparison and the same goes for Marx, Churchill and Freud. Just imagine including Freud and not Jung, what a scam. I think my first suggestion would be a couple of books that you can find online for free. Dumbing Us Down, the hidden agenda of compulsory education, by John Taylor Gatto, and Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy Sayers. You need to first understand the programming you've been subjected to in order to fix it. I'd follow with Aristotle's Organon, which your collection are lacking too.

Thank you for taking the time to reply in detail, I’ll be sure to investigate some of those works, as a counterpoint to the main thrust of my study, and it’ll be a useful resource for others to explore as well.

​@ I appreciate your gratitude. I hope you realize how big of an issue the partisanship in GBWW actually is, it has nothing to do with gender bias if that even makes any sense when talking about classics. It's a collection carefully designed to instruct soldiers for the culture war aligning them with marxists. It mixes western classics with authors that dedicated their whole lives to destroy the West, making a lot of people believe that by destroying our homeland, we are saving it! Peak Hegelian dialectic and manipulation. Prepare for extreme cognitive dissonance. People love the term liberal arts because it reminds of progressive (towards the abyss) liberalism when it's the opposite: perennialism, i was going to say traditionalism but this word's also been coopted. The collection is full of literature for entertainment, don't get me wrong, there're many great books too, but the problem is that it leaves out (on purpose) a lot of the most important ones for the study of genuine liberal arts and factual western culture.

@@pagestopractice I appreciate your gratitude. I hope you realize how big of an issue the partisanship in GBWW actually is, it has nothing to do with gender bias if that even makes any sense when talking about classics. It's a collection carefully designed to instruct soldiers for the culture war aligning them with marxists. It mixes western classics with authors that dedicated their whole lives to destroy the West, making a lot of people believe that by destroying our homeland, we are saving it! Peak Hegelian dialectic and manipulation. Prepare for extreme cognitive dissonance. People love the term liberal arts because it reminds of progressive (towards the abyss) liberalism when it's the opposite: perennialism, i was going to say traditionalism but this word's also been coopted. The collection is full of literature for entertainment, don't get me wrong, there're many great books too, but the problem is that it leaves out (on purpose) a lot of the most important ones for the study of genuine liberal arts and factual western culture.

Thank you for the vote of confidence, if I can have some small part in encouraging a return to some of these values I will be immensely satisfied

Thank you so much, I'm really excited to dive in as well.

@@ziff_1 thank you!