Literary Taste
How to Form It

"It is only in the stress of fine ideas and emotions that a man may be truly said to live" - Arnold Bennett Favorite book I have encountered so far on the contemplative discipline of reading. If Mortimer J. Adler's book is a "work of knowledge" meant to inform, this book is a "work of power" meant to......more

I took much away from this book. It's engaging, well thought-out, and there's so much fodder for thought. One of the main things I took away was this: Ideas are only as clear as the words expressing them. Think you have a brilliant idea but only lack the words to express it? Fiddlesticks, says Benne......more

I can't shake entirely a sense that it might be partially out of weakness that I keep listening to this book over and over on librivox.org. Part of the attraction is the excellent recording by Timothy Ferguson, who captures Bennett's humor well. But one thing I am sure of is the book offers a lot of......more