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How to Read a Book

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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How to Read a Book

By: Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Narrated by: Edward Holland
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With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.

A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done.” –Farheed Zakaria

Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text.

Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works.

Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed. Education Words, Language & Grammar
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Overall a very interesting book to read, and one I'd recommend to anyone wishing to learn to read well or tries to do so frequently. Both very theoretical while simultaneously practical in what it tries to convey. Very well structured too. I'd recommend using the audio as a first pass of this text, and to then read it a second time, perhaps in text or combined, to get the most out of this text. Very glad I saw this as a recommendation and decided to give it a go, I'll be returning to this atleast once more before I think I've fully gotten everything out of it.

Read it twice, and then again...

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Ich bin mir unter diesem Buch etwas völlig anders vorgestellt. Kürzer und prägnant zusammengefasst wäre mir lieber gewesen,

Sehr langweilig und ausschweifend

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