December 2009
I want to read the entire Great Books of the Western World Britannica.
The first book is complete and it only took me one hour to do.
Now this was by far the easiest book. The great conversation is a series of three Introductory volumes. This book really only tells you how they set up the criteria for choosing the books and the authors. It also gives you a suggestion for how to read them. It's not in chronological order but that is the way that I'm reading them.
From book one the great conversation all the way to book 54 Freud. And it will most likely take my entire life to complete this. Which is why at the end of each book I read I will in some way get it out of my possession.
I threw away this first book as you can see in the next blog post picture. These books have been through so much. They have survived a flood, a drive across the entire US. I've watched these books my entire childhood in Germany wanting to read them but not having the confidence to even start the books. I didn't even get them until a few years after I had graduated college.
I'm hoping this blog will be a type of flowers for Algernon thing where I'm able to get smarter and smarter after I complete each great work of the western world I complete. These posts are horrible I know this. Believe you me I know how horribly written theses posts are. The great books of the western world reflect the greatest 74 minds of western thought. I care for these books and want to finish this odyssey.
These are the actual books that I tried to sell three times before reading them.
