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542 reviews for:
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
3.81 AVERAGE
542 reviews for:
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
3.81 AVERAGE
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Seems like it should be out of date, but lots of good and relevant stuff in here... Prescient comments on fanfiction, social media, and the value of deep work abound. Very worth your time.
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Lo dejo para más adelante.
Por su contenido filosófico y educativo tengo que tomarlo en otro momento de mayor concentración.
Por su contenido filosófico y educativo tengo que tomarlo en otro momento de mayor concentración.
A very clear, exciting book that teaches how to read. Not just the "Elementary level" (i.e., the ability to read at all), but reading for analysis and for synthesis. This book formalizes the process of higher-level, engaged reading required for university and research - a process that is otherwise left completely to intuition and trail/error. You may not find all of it helpful, but will definitely find something in this gem. Something that stuck out to me was a great metaphor about how reading is like being a baseball catcher: receiving a message, yes, but far from passively.
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This is a helpful and interesting book, if a little dated in some of the assumptions it makes. But I’ll say, I still basically teach a version of the syntopical reading techniques to college students today, and this is a useful breakdown of what those techniques are.
That said, my lower review is primarily for the audiobook version, which I listened to. The reader is good, clear, easy to follow, but this is not a book that should exist as an audiobook. Around the third or fourth time he mentions — at the same speed as the rest of the book — that it is foolish and useless to read particularly dense books at the same speed, you can’t help but realize, oh, I’m the problem, it’s me.
That said, my lower review is primarily for the audiobook version, which I listened to. The reader is good, clear, easy to follow, but this is not a book that should exist as an audiobook. Around the third or fourth time he mentions — at the same speed as the rest of the book — that it is foolish and useless to read particularly dense books at the same speed, you can’t help but realize, oh, I’m the problem, it’s me.
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informative
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informative
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