How to Read a Book
How to Read a Book – by Mortimer J. Adler
Selected Reader Reviews:
Sooo not easie! By Richard Wright
Man i trie to read this book 3 time but i cant do it.
Brilliant. By A reader
This book is one of the best books I have read, and it has exerted immense influence on me. I now read actively — I mean, as much as possible — and can feel how much more I am gaining from reading. The book has shown me the way to life-long learning.
Read this book…please! By Bradley Morehouse
This book should be required reading before writing an Amazon book review. Don’t just read it…digest it.
Huh? By Conan the Librarian
I might not be a Fulbright Scholar, but it seems to me that a book titled ‘How to Read a Book’ has serious retailing problems. Anyone who can read doesn’t need to buy it, and those who can’t read wouldn’t understand a single word of it.
Help! By J. Deighton
I never could bring mice elf to finish this book. Does anyone know if there are cliff notes?
Informative and Insightfull…..For readers of 1940s By A Agarwal
Mortimer’s “How to read a book” is a 400 page saga on rules of reading literature, science, maths, history and poetry. I am sure that when it was first published in 1940s, it was the ground breaking first book ever that taught people how to read.
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Proving the viability of the “long tale” as a marketing concept. Conan the Librarian is a complete wanker.
Mark
February 5, 2008 at 9:55 am
Wow. Fuck, I really need to write a book. I’m pretty sure at this point I could take a huge steamer on a piece of paper and it would get published. This is regoddamneddiculous.
keywork.
February 5, 2008 at 10:05 am
h-h-horse
ok, no one else will get it, but i’m amused.
LOL Heathen
February 5, 2008 at 10:08 am
As an Iron Workers apprentice I had to study every weekend for 2 years. Some of the books were very technical and detailed.
One chapter was about different methods of loading iron on to buildings.
It showed a picture of a helicopter. And the caption under it said ” helicopter”
I figured at this point that if anyone in this class did not know what a helicopter was at that point in their life they had no business operating heavy machinery or welding equipment.
micky2
February 5, 2008 at 1:35 pm
At first glance, it does seem pretty silly, but if you think about it, it’s probably more about how to critically read a book, as in properly understanding the concepts and themes.
At least, I hope that’s what it’s about.
Cody
February 5, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Obama is running on hope !
micky2
February 5, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I think there’s a disconnect in the author’s logic, here.
Soylent Ape
February 5, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Mark: Just calling himself that is wankerish enough, he doesn’t even need to say anything.
Key: You should write a book, and title it Regoddamneddiculous.
LolHeath: You’re absolutly right :)
Micky: OMG it’s a big metal bug! SAVE ME!
Cody: Yeah, thanks for ruining it for us ;b
Soy: I’m pretending that was aimed at micky.
The Bagel of Everything
February 5, 2008 at 11:20 pm
In college, I had to take an Intro level music class. No big deal, I’d had tons of musical instruction up to that point. Anyways, the course came with 3 cassettes with different songs/compositions in different styles. The j-cards said “How to Listen to Music”. Whenever someone saw them in my truck or apartment, I got shit for it. “You need instructions for that?”, etc…
Soylent Ape
February 6, 2008 at 7:24 am
My freshman year, we had to take an ‘introduction to college’ course. I forget what it was really called, but we learned about the ways college is different from highschool and how to succeed.
One chapter in our textbook was ‘how to study’. There was a test.
The Bagel of Everything
February 24, 2008 at 6:11 pm