How to Read a Book Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
206

How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren Book Summary

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.

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Book Name How to Read a Book
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 7.22 MB

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Boring. I just couldn’t enjoy reading this book. (kind of ironic) I genually couldn’t focus while reading hardly any pages and I usually can focus quite well while reading

This book did not help. This book did not help at all I did not know how to read it :/

A book worth reading once is worth reading twice (or four times!). The authors teach you how to read great books like you'll have them for a few days then never see them again--giving you the tools you need to make them your own and to remember them in a year or a decade. This includes learning to read on four different levels: analytically, synthetically, critically, and syntopically (more than one author on the same topic). Once you master the book, practice the techniques in a seminar or in a reading group. It's hard to read great books on your own (they are rarely easy to understand, or they would not be called great). It takes support and a few months to turn these reading techniques into habits.

A must read!. Adler does a great job breaking down the purpose and methodology of the reader.

Best book ever!. If you want To learn how to read better, then this is the book for you! Adler breaks reading down to four levels which can be mastered by anyone.

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Summary of How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren

The How to Read a Book book written by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren was published on 10 May 2011, Tuesday in the Language Arts & Disciplines category. A total of 206 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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