How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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.
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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Community Reviews
This book has described how to criticise and dissect pretty useful books and the instructions were clear and meaningful. Next, the authors introduced 3 levels of reading and IMO Analytical reading was the best among them.
Now to the point where they described reading books on different subject matters and various literary structures, where they mostly talk about what to expect while reading a particular subject. I think his points on -History, biography, philosophy, theology and social sciences were solid although their points on history and biography seemed kind of the same. For science, they only discussed the history of science, which was not that much helpful. Overall his lecture on philosophy was thorough albeit a little bit draggy to read.
I would recommend it to anyone who is looking to charge up their reading game
P.s- I didn't read it cover to cover
Now to the point where they described reading books on different subject matters and various literary structures, where they mostly talk about what to expect while reading a particular subject. I think his points on -History, biography, philosophy, theology and social sciences were solid although their points on history and biography seemed kind of the same. For science, they only discussed the history of science, which was not that much helpful. Overall his lecture on philosophy was thorough albeit a little bit draggy to read.
I would recommend it to anyone who is looking to charge up their reading game
P.s- I didn't read it cover to cover
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