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Pros
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.
Cons
Much of it is outdated with the onset of the internet, such as the point about skimming through the book to get an idea of what it is about - a task easily accomplished by a google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
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He outlines 4 levels of reading elementary inspectional analytical and synoptical and how each level builds upon the previous
Its one of the better books ive read and the bestmost useful practical book i can recall reading
B is exercises and tests on select authors from a teaching and testing your comprehension of the reading skills taught in the book
There are parts where i got tired of long arguments—but i did learn valuable things about life and knowledge in general
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This should be required to read in high school at least once
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Towards the end of the book there is appendix a and b
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I think im required to write something here in order to give the book a review
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Honestly theres too much to write and generally when i write things particular in the manner of trying to persuade someone i like to be thorough and i really dont have time for that and honestly neither do you
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It might be a book about reading but youll gain so much more
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I distinctly recall seeing this book years ago and thinking 34how stupid who would ever buy such a thing lead alone read it34 and boy was i mistaken that fool is i
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In summation the material in this book is that which should have been taught in school to all never was and were all now worse off for it
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Hard to give a review on something like this
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