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Electric Sheep
Ben Walker
96 episodes
1 week ago
Do you want to get everything you ever wanted & live your best life? Then you're going to have to read hard, wide & free. Together, let's learn how to read & write by analysing the best works ever written, and then some. How do writers do it - keep readers turning the page until they finish the book or throw it across the room? Each episode looks at one book, its first line and a standout section where there's a lesson to be learned about writing. Dissecting writers' language, genre and how their work fits into a greater context can help us understand other people and ourselves. x
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Do you want to get everything you ever wanted & live your best life? Then you're going to have to read hard, wide & free. Together, let's learn how to read & write by analysing the best works ever written, and then some. How do writers do it - keep readers turning the page until they finish the book or throw it across the room? Each episode looks at one book, its first line and a standout section where there's a lesson to be learned about writing. Dissecting writers' language, genre and how their work fits into a greater context can help us understand other people and ourselves. x
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Moby-Dick Or, The Whale
Electric Sheep
20 minutes 52 seconds
1 year ago
Moby-Dick Or, The Whale

Herman Melville takes us on a 625-page voyage that could have been 90. Maybe the greatest example of overwriting in history, Captain Ahab's monomaniacal quest is a sick example of pushing your story, themes and characters to breaking point and how it sometimes pays off. It's easy to criticise Melville's inaccuracies, scientific blunders and cultural insensitivity but if you can step forth critically, armed with context and good humour, there be gold in them hills. Or should I say spermaceti in them organs.


Electric Sheep
Do you want to get everything you ever wanted & live your best life? Then you're going to have to read hard, wide & free. Together, let's learn how to read & write by analysing the best works ever written, and then some. How do writers do it - keep readers turning the page until they finish the book or throw it across the room? Each episode looks at one book, its first line and a standout section where there's a lesson to be learned about writing. Dissecting writers' language, genre and how their work fits into a greater context can help us understand other people and ourselves. x