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Book Review of How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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Helpful Score: 8


This book was the primary text for a year's world literature course I took in high school. Adler's approach to reading had a profound impact upon me, and influenced the way I read (and often write and talk) about every book since then, 35 years ago. If only most people were trained in the thinking skills, and "associational" skills in reading and thinking that Adler proposes. This is a VERY IMPORTANT book, and easy reading as well.