How to Read a Book
The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

How do you read a book? Look at the cover, probably glance at the blurb; run your eye down the table of contents, perhaps; possibly rifle through the book... then plunge right in into Chapter One. Right? Wrong! According to Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, the authors of How to Read a Book. Acco......more

"A mind not agitated by good questions cannot appreciate the significance of even the best answers." Probably like the majority, I picked up this book because of the sheer curiosity the title sparkled in me when I first noticed it. I wasn't quite sure whether this was a book of academic nature, o......more

Have you ever read a book and immediately thought, “I have no idea what that was about?” That’s why I picked up this book, but it didn’t go beyond what I already know. Originally published in 1940 and updated in 1972, How to Read a Book is extremely dated. It also focused more on non-fiction work (whi......more

Un manual de lectură care a avut un ecou imens. Americanii îl venerează și îl predau în școli și astăzi. Nu-mi explic de ce și nici nu vreau să-mi bat capul cu pasiunile lor. Mă îndoiesc, totuși, că bieții cititorii urmează întocmai toate cele 15 reguli de aur ale „lecturii analitice”. Principiul lu......more

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. I had a lot of fun holding this book upside-down on the subway with a puzzled look on my face. For much of his remarkably long life, Mortimer Adler was the leading proponent of the ‘Great Book......more