It's a perfect journal that has pages for 100 books, along with an index. This is perfect for me as someone who is just starting. It's big and has lots of room to write and gives you promts of what to write where. The page layout to help me focus on d...  Read More

Author expresses themselves very well throughout this literature. Good read for this interested in this genre. Highly recommend this book / author and seller.

It describes four levels of reading making a bigger emphasis on analytical reading and syntopical reading. It supplies fifteen rules which progress through the different stages of analytical reading.

Much of it is outdated with the onset of the internet, such as the point about skimming through the book to get an idea of what it is about - a task easily accomplished by a google search. It is even more useless for people such as myself who use eboo...  Read More

All mortimer does is to add lots and lots of padding and useless words to drive his point across. Writing is dated and far too detailed for most readers. Wish it were more concise.

The tone the author takes in the book is one of a snobbish literati. It takes simple ideas and elaborates on them with analogies and other stories that detract from the information that is imparted. The rambling is constant and a detriment to the purp...  Read More