How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1

Cant believe some so many people watched a video about reading.

did he just transition from an open letter to authorial intent to an open letter to the reader?

It would be great if the CrashCourse team would make a course about art.

Here's another reason to read:
You (can) have fun doing it

This is amazing! Would you considering doing some episodes on the Graphic Novel as literature? And perhaps do some critiques on a few like Watchmen, Sandman, Dark Knight Returns, Saga, Lazarus. These books are full of depth and commentary on the human condition and drama and is definitely literature. Literature and film all wrapped into one :-)

Hello 😍😍 I lovvvve crash course I even wish that it’s a Netflix series that I can binge watch ahaha ,,, I can’t seem to access the books ? Is the website still valid and working ? Thanks for your help

So, now they finally have a back catalogs about their show.. Is it worth watching?

Are you kin to Giuseppi Verdi?

Nerdwriter reference?

Please do Oliver twist!!!
Thanks!

How would you cite this video correctly, MLA style?

OMG how could he speak so fast

nice

Thank you for these hilarious and informative videos! This series helped me so much with passing the American Literature CLEP test! :)

Crash course is not designed for students with learning challenges who have difficulty understanding information due to the speed it's presented in. This man needs to slow down! Hard to learn when info is being presented that quickly. Not a good learning tool for so many students that need to learn this info.

I read Fault in our Stars and found out the author is on this channel

Does anybody know what that Gallifreyan says?

First open letter against authorial intent? I'm so down

I love the way how John Green is dissing his ex-girlfriend through this video.

don'y really like this one

My literature teacher told us to come here. I now understand why and that literature goes beyond being entertained by a book or for the sake of pleasure. I now see reading is a 'tool' that will help us in our lives, experiences, feelings (good or bad ones but still feelings) and so much more but it would be a very long list. Greetings from Argentina.

Amazing what you do John; make us reflect on why we need to read. It's just great what you offer us :)

The fangirl inside of me was screeching the whole time because of the circular gallifreyan

I wanna translate what you wrote in Gallifreyan on your chalkboard.

I SCREAMED WHEN I SAW CIRCULAR GALLIFREYAN.

this is like trying to read and understand the worlds most complex poetry in a diffrent language that you dont know
did not dislike though

i still believe in treasure hunting though

2018 ??

I once heard some one explain reading as a way that humans download software

"THE AUTHOR DOES NOT MATTER. all that matters is that the book is there!" yu sure john the author is extremely important for the book (MAYBE) might not have existed WITHOUT them, take this as an example: JK Rowling could not have made that book(harry potter) if not for her creative personality same goes for Rick Riordan. (Every mythical book that he made)
Take Homer the mysterious author that nobody knows for sure who he really is. Well he was SUPER CREATIVE, more creative than rick and jk combined. these types of writers 3 examples of really amazing creative ONE OF A KIND work especially homer, who made everyones mind BLOW who read the the Odyssey because not many people an make poetry and a story SO WELL to homers level. you must have been Einstein genius levels to make this story. im no Albert Einstein but still, this is what i think. cya.

What the Shakespeare!

love love love

Dear John, please do something on Faulkner.. I'm a Lit major and I don't get him at all.

You are the best john green

This is the best serives ever

When John doesn't call the video description section the doobly
Doo😵 but seriously love this video

Nice

Please start a discussion on Gone with the wind John???? 😁😁😁

Don't forget to be awesome 😀

God, how much I hate the word 'problematic'.

Hi, want to see the entire movie for this video clip. Well then search in Google as: "CineHub4U" to discover the whole film.

Keep it up, john green☺

صحيييت

John Green is the only person who could survive easily the Weeping Angels

Nice Gallifrian

Can you guys please tackle War and Peace?

I am an ESL Teacher and I can't love you more!

can you please do the house of mirth

I'm watching this and there's only 6 words constantly flying around my head. Make John Green find the thing.

It would be amazing for me if you could do a video or two on, King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table.

bad vampire fiction? twilight?

Am I the only teen here purely for enjoyment?

please do a video on crime & punishment

Romeo and Juliet derivative of west side story. LOL

I AM FANGIRLING LIKE OMG IT'S JOHN MICHAEL GREEN PPL
WHY THE HECK DID I DISCOVER ABOUT CRASHCOURSE JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO DAMMIT.

Finally, I can see the point of all this. Thank you very much.

I think the links are broken in the description. It directs me to some social media boosting site. Is it only me?

Please do the House of Mirth

Using you to teach you and your content, which also helps me teach our content - to my 8th graders. Brilliant and appreciated.

whhaaaatttttt? I need a summary...

I want you to share some of your thoughts and your analysis on Robinson Crusoe. plz :)

Green is "white" enough without the polo t

Bad Vampire fiction.....?😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

this is even more interesting when you are native to another language

Hope there will be one on Inferno.

why the hell do you not blink?!

@CrashCourse I've just started watching this playlist and I'm confused. Why are the videos numbered like this: #1, #2, ..., 304,....401, although there are only 36 videos in the playlist??
Are there any CrashCourse-Literature videos that have not been added to the playlist, although they have been posted on TVclip? I'd love to watch everything you have on Literature, so please let me know whether these 36 videos are all that I can watch or there are more. Thanks

Cyka blyat

Best video on TVclip.

dude, you're so weird

booo raul

COEDGE ISYOBIGESFCLUDHNDDY A

Unless you of are wait for it. The Monguls.

Cool! My teacher is making us watch this! I love CrashCourse!

Imagine having our teachers bring this intense and passionate, we'd be on the edge of our seats

CC, COuld u do a MACBETH VIDEO?

I don't care for literature at all
Only came here for John
And I really miss the History series

How to read?> With an open mind and often
Why?> Intelligence. History. KNOWLEDGE. Passion. Curiosity. Also, Odyssey is a story, actually was a verbal oration…. not a “book”
3. I like your books, I have one on my shelf, still I do not care for your videos. They are like watching a hyperactive child on a manic trip which was pretty much my childhood. Not to mention way over generalized “lessons” here for what has many obviously highschool viewers cramming at the last minute. This could’ve easily just been a 30 second PSA for Reading.

Does it count as a book if i write a book that says WTF for 2 billion pages?

They should go over The Awakening by Kate Chopin. It’s a really good book that has a bunch of figurative language that could be analyzed.

And also he should have told about his book too.

did anyone else see gallifrain written on the chalkboard next thing you know is that the doctor will show up lol

Would you please do The Scarlet Letter?

Fascists were dead decades Lol

5 years have passed since this video was posted. In some way...that's pretty cool.

By The Way... love it Green

The general sound/video quality of this compared to episodes from 2017 is CRAZY.

"bad vampire fiction"

The fact that he wrote TFIOS still doesn't let me focus.

"Bad vampire fiction?" XD

My teachers are exactly torturing me with grammars. but seems everyone else in the class kinda enjoy it. WTH, I am the only werido?

Do Anne Of Green Gables

John, please do a video on "In search of lost time" by Proust, pleeeeease

This is what the gallifrayan says btw: rjmej quth bulith
It's a sting of nonsense.

WHY DON'T SPOIL IT!!! RELY WHY!! I AM CURRENTLY READING AND I AM HATING IT IT IS POETIC but it has a lot of curse words

Ha! Romeo and Juliet!

Please do crash course series on grammar.

dtf.ba links don't work any more. Can you update the links?

Can we do a Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep episode?

can you do last of the mohicans