How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler
Books Are Great
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The Art of Reading
When i read a book, i actually take things away from it. To pass from understanding less to understanding more by your own intellectual effort in reading is something like pulling yourself up by your boot straps. It is a major exertion. The books that change your understanding are the hardest to read and they're the most important to read. There's a lot of really hard books in there. Res a lot of long, drawn out, old ideas that he talks about needing to read as an individual.
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