Required Reading for Readers

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	• How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book) Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren Touchstone, 1972 - 426 pages average customer review:based on 103 reviews view larger image
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Required Reading for Readers

As someone who reads about a book a week, I wish I had been introduced to this work when I was in high school. The book teaches the very basic and fundamental steps that need to be taken to get the most out of reading a book. It's not just a matter of mechanically going through the book and getting the most you can via your recollection and knowledge; it requires more rigorous application of steps such as understanding the author's terms, propositions and conclusions and then deciding for yourself whether and why and to what extent you agree with the author or not. The discussion on syntopical reading is invaluable: the authors encourage and motivate readers to add their own insights and possibly expand the discussion and even add new knowledge to a field of experise via the reading and analysis of many books on the same topic. I think many casual readers feel that they are only receptors of the information and, because they are not certified on or in some way credentialed in a particular field, they have nothing to offer to the evolution of the discussion. The book also offers a humbling reminder to avid readers: you can read a lot and still not be well read; that is, if you are not in some way satisfying your reading appetite with some of the world's great works, you may be filling yourself but not getting all the intellectual nutrition you need.

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Good book for students

Recently started grad school and this book has given me good tips on getting through the 400+ pages of reading that has to be done each week. Well worth the money.

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The book arrived in a timely manner and I was satisfied with my purchase and the efficient service.

Worth reading

The author makes many good points about reading skillfully, including how to determine if you should bother reading a particular book.

The main point is that different books should be read differently. If you agree with that premise, this book will train you how to do it. If, on the other hand, you read the USA Today the same way you would read the Communist Manifesto or a technical journal, then you may have no use for the book.

Unfortunately, Adler is a little wordy at times, but the book contains instructions on how to deal with verbose authors too!

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