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How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler

Books Are Great

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How Does the Author Lay Out Their Argument?

The way that he lays it out is in terms of the steps of evolution along the path of somebody who's trying to learn how to read. He starts with elementary, so Elementary is learning how to read and then is his next step, which is analytical reading. The last thing that he talks about is what he calls sentopical reading - combining several books on the same topic. And i'll talk about that in depth, cause he goes very, very deep with some of these ideas.

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