i bought the audiobook cuz i thought it was gonna be like literary theory like "is there a text in this class?" by fish but instead it was actually for people who can't read

First section or two were interesting, but then it gets repetitive (how to take notes while reading... fiction! now, how to take notes while reading... science!)

How To Mark A Book:

https://catholicliberaleducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/How-to-Mark-a-Book-by-Mortimer-Adler-.pdf

Has most of the practical advice, though not all of his educational philosophy type stuff, which I thought was somewhat interesting.

>>25057162
just look at the page and read it

It's pretty good but if you write in a book you are a degenerate mongrel and should be whipped in the street. Use a notebook.

the title is so off-putting to me
it's like reading one of those 500 pages books titled "How to get things done" instead of actually doing whatever it is that needs to be done, why would anyone ever do that

>>25057182
There is such a thing

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/beginning-theory-an-introduction-to-literary-and-cultural-theory-peter-barry-2/

>>25057162
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>>25057162
300+ pages to tell you there are different types of reading. no shit.
very repetitive and I don't understand how it's praised so much
>tfw reading slower and taking notes increases comprehension

>>25057182
Lol...

Prefer Leland Ryken's book over Adlers. Leland is Christian, Mortimer was Jewish.

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>>25059625
The Lost Art of Reading

It was the greatest book I've read in my life, although I was disappointed it was book #999,969. I which I had saved it for the million mark (which went to a book I regret)

>>25059625
>Leland is Christian, Mortimer was Jewish.
utterly irrelevant

>>25059646
Oh, ok

>>25057162
never read it. Bit of a catch 22.

>>25059625
Mortimer converted to Christianity before he died.

>>25057162
how are you meant to read it?

>>25057162
It’s quite annoying and I dropped it right before all the ‘how to read a history/philosophy/fiction/mathematics/etc book’ chapters.

It feels like their way of reading books is heavily catering to the academic crowd, who want to become a scolar in a certajn field/author. I don’t read for a living, I’ll probably never be arsed to skim a book, read through it, read through it throughly once again and then turn back to it every once in a while to connect certain thoughts.

I did like the note-taking strategies they showed but I’m really opposed to scribbling my book full of lines, asterisks and stars. That’s, once again, something for scholars to do.

>>25060778
Catholicism isn't Christianity, Adler was just a philosopher into Thomism. Many such cases.

>>25062862
>Catholicism isn't Christianity
Retard alert.

>>25062875
>There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ.

Idk I couldn't read it :/

>>25062896
So your church doesn't have a leader? good to know, retard.

>>25062909
all you spamming retards can fuck off

>>25062925
>Christ just isn't enough for me

Catholicism in a nutshell

>>25062934
ie you don't go to church, you're just a larper, makes sense

>>25062847.
>It feels like their way of reading books is heavily catering to the academic crowd, who want to become a scolar in a certajn field/author. I don’t read for a living,
You are not wrong. That's the public for this book, they didn't say so in the front matter? It can be infered that this is not a book for the general public

>>25062942
>>25062942
You failed to comprehend my point. The exceprt I quoted was from the confession of faith the church I belong to adheres to.

>>25057162
It's worth being familiar with and everyone getting into reading should probably read it at least once.
Will avoid a ton of wasted effort and just has lots of small tidbits that still heavily impact how i read a decade after I've read it.
Gives a good perspective, good practical tips, good basic things to avoid to make it easier.
Everyone I talk to who has attempted to read hard books and ran into issues would have completely avoided those issues as adler specifically points out that issue and how to avoid it.

It's not the best thing ever but the cost/benefit of reading it earlier is so high you are kind obliged to.
The Online Great Books program that used to run seminars trying to get normies to read great books used it as a filter so you had to read it the first period just to give people a frame of reference and filter out people not capable of actually reading great books anyway.
https://youtu.be/9xYi_NQU3lY here's them talking about it

>>25062928
What the helly did I do?

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>>25057162
No joke I use this book to prop my gaming laptop on my chest when I play videogames in bed my days off. I read it and liked the idea of taking notes from multiple books of the same topic and distilling the nature of what your reading. Yeah there's some dried cum on the pages

>>25062959
>head of the church
>not the head of the religion
Go to your cult.

>>25062909
You're supposed to get your mom to read it to you before bed dumbass

>>25057162
Mostly useless and could be summarized in a few pages at no great loss.

>>25062909
Simp spotted.