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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
How ironic that the classic book on how to read books is so tedious to read. The suggestions on structured reading are sound and smart and while the majority of them are basic skills for most researchers, it's nice to see them summed up in a logical sequence - but I'm not sure it all makes the three hundred pages of boring reading around it worth it. The writing style is repetitive, uncomfortably patronising and the examples used are constantly picked from a narrow and outdated pool, assuming only books from the classical curriculum are worth reading.
As far as I'm concerned, this book could easily be summed up in a few nice, clear pages with a few tweaks for modern times, and we could leave out the majority of the text that makes the reader feel like they are listening to an extremely boring lecture from an octogenarian professor who thinks books don't go beyond Aristotle and Dostoyevsky .
As far as I'm concerned, this book could easily be summed up in a few nice, clear pages with a few tweaks for modern times, and we could leave out the majority of the text that makes the reader feel like they are listening to an extremely boring lecture from an octogenarian professor who thinks books don't go beyond Aristotle and Dostoyevsky .