Read Classics. discussion

Just started reading The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had and am looking for a reading partner, as this guide suggests I should. Anybody interested?

I am.

Great! So you are reading the The Well-Educated Mind for the second time? I am on chapter 4 right now.

No sorry, my mistake, this is my first time reading it. I'll get it from the library very soon today.

I just started reading it right now.

I'm sorry but I changed my mind. I find that the book doesn't prove much use for me. Since I don't need any encouragement to read the classics.

No problem at all.

In addition to encouragement, she also suggests a method on how to read the classics, and has compiled a list of books to read in order.


As for the method, she suggests the trivium method, which is taking reading, taking notes, and summarising (the grammar stage), thinking about it critically (the logic stage), and talking about it or discussing it with others (the rhetoric stage). She also suggests a diary about the books and how to organise it, and suggests some questions to ask about each book.

As for the list of the book, it is available here:
http://greatbookstudy.blogspot.nl/p/b...

So the first book I'm going to read is according to the list is Don Quixote.

Would that work for you?

Yes I could start reading Don Quixote, but I rather not start reading any of the other books on the list. Since I have at a lot of other classics at my home. Some of which I started reading but did not finish. So I rather read them instead.

Great, thanks. So once Don Quixote read, we could discuss it.