My uncle was a world-renowned scientist and theoretician in the field of electromagnetics. He was also the most well-read person I’ve ever met. When he died in December 2010, I inherited his book collection.
All the great medieval epics, the classics of Ancient Rome and Greece, Euclid’s Elements, Newton’s Principia, the complete works of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and much more, all in antique volumes collected one at a time over the course of a lifetime…I inherited it all and decided I wanted to read it.
I created a new Facebook Page called Deep Thinking About Great Books to share what I was learning as I read.
It’s turned into something bigger than I imagined it would be.
At its height, Deep Thinking About Great Books had more than 12,000 actively engaged readers diving deep into Shakespeare, Euclid, Tolstoy, Aristotle, and more.
In 2019 I let go of my role as chief essayist for the club and allowed it to become an entirely self governing Facebook group, which it still is to this day.
Maybe I’ll see you in there.
Deep Thinking About Great Books.
