Guide:
Do you have many doubts about reading, such as what books to read in the vast sea of books? How can you read a book quickly with your busy life work? After reading so many books, why is it always difficult to come in handy? ......
In this regard, Intensive Reader Jun has previously introduced the importance of book screening, the necessity of being an active reader, and the balance between the demand for knowledge and reading methods in today's society. These are all indispensable parts of cultivating a person's reading ability. But to systematically improve your reading ability, you have to read the following 7 books well. The following recommended books are sorted according to the Douban score.
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How to Read a Book
Douban score: 8.6 20929 reviews
About the Author:
Mortimer J． Adler is known as a scholar, educator, editor, and more. In addition to writing How to Read a Book, he is best known for editing Classics of the Western World and as editor of the fifteenth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1974. Charles Van Doron was a professor at Columbia University. On the one hand, he assisted Adler in editing the Encyclopedia Britannica, and on the other hand, he greatly supplemented and rewrote the contents of the first edition of the book in 1940.
Introduction:
"How to Read a Book" is a reading guide that introduces the methods and techniques of reading, and the broad vision that reading should have. People who don't know how to read, people who are looking at reading for the first time, reading this book can take less wrong roads. People who have experienced reading can have a deeper confirmation and understanding by reading this book.
Recommended for:
Writer Liang Wendao believes: The same book, I can read very quickly, very briefly, I can also be very serious, very meticulous to read. So this idea of distinguishing the levels of reading is one of the most remarkable statements in the book "How to Read a Book". Of course, it is not surprising that such a statement has been said by many people from ancient times to the present. But I think the good thing about this book is that it's full of details and very clearly written. This book, I think, is a good tool book that everyone wants to learn how to read.
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Maugham's Reading Essay
Douban score: 8.6 4230 reviews
Maugham, one of the greatest British writers of the 20th century. During his lifetime, he created a lot of works, and his popular works such as "The Shackles of Human Nature", "The Moon and Sixpence", and "Blade" were widely circulated all over the world like his name.
"Maugham's Reading Essays" is mainly selected from Maugham's three important prose works, namely "Summary", "Ten Long Pieces and Their Authors" and "Books and You", mostly for Maugham's reading experience and feelings, and written more casually and eclectically, so it is called "Reading Essay".
Maugham used the special talents of novelists to paint realistic portraits of his great writers, outlining the personality traits of the geniuses—they were no longer idols to worship, but flesh-and-blood, personalities, and flaws. He allows us to rediscover those great writers and the great value of their work. And his narration is so concise and clear, so euphemistic and moving, as if a loving elder is talking to you on your knees. Reading his books can once again arouse our desire to read — people who love to read are happy. This book has Maugham's views on some literary works, and you may feel empathy in the process of reading it.
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"The Book Is Finished"
Douban score: 8.4 1207 reviews
Jin Kemu is a well-known contemporary scholar. Since the 1970s, Jin Kemu has reprinted and published more than 30 kinds of works such as "Collection of Treatises on Indian Culture", "Collection of Comparative Culture", "Collection of Old Learning and New Knowledge", "Cultural Hunting", etc., and translated works such as "Selected Texts of Ancient Indian Literature and Art Theory", "Three Hundred Verses of Vajrayāna", "Selected Sayings of Mahabharata" and so on.
This book selects more than 50 articles on the method of reading and learning from about 30 published works by Jin Kemu during his lifetime, which are divided into "What books are finished", "What books to read, Sherlock Holmes's reading method", and "How to read books?" Reading? The third series of "Readers", its literary and rational narratives, are all beautiful and fluent, there is no obscure and difficult to understand, ordinary readers step by step, or you can get a glimpse of the mysteries of everyone's reading.
This is a great book guide for readers. Jin Lao's skills are profound, he has studied both Chinese and Western, and has both horizontal contrasts and vertical discussions of Buddhism, philosophy, religion, Confucianism, astronomy, and ethics. From reading to reading people and reading materials, it is full of intelligent interpretation.
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Woolf's Reading Essay
Douban score: 8.3 2007 reviews
Virginia Woolf was born in London to a famous family of scholars. Her main literary achievements lie in the novel—she was one of the pioneers of "stream-of-consciousness" literature, and her representative works in this regard include Jacob's Room, Madame Deloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves.
This book is mainly selected from three important collections of essays by Virginia Woolf, namely "Ordinary Reader", "Ordinary Reader II" and "Own Room", mostly for Woolf's reading experience and impressions. The main contents include: how to read books, how books have to do with women's lives, how to look at famous works, and how to evaluate contemporary literature.
How to read a novel? How to read poetry? What is the value of reading? What are the two kinds of women in the book? Is there a female Shakespeare? What's so good about Tolstoy's novels? What are the flaws of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights? ...... If you're interested in these questions, listen to what Virginia Woolf — "the best female writer of the 20th century" — had to say.
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The Story of Reading
Douban score: 8.2 1470 reviews
Tang Nuo, whose real name is Xie Caijun, is a native of Yilan, Taiwan, who was the editor-in-chief of Facebook Publishing House and is now a freelance reader. He is the author of "Selected Introduction to Donno's Speculative Fiction" (I, II), "The Age of Readers", "The Story of Words", "The Story of Reading" and other books.
"The Story of Reading" is a collection of essays by Taiwanese veteran publisher and writer Tang Nuo on the reflections and discussions on reading. The author opens the topic of each chapter with a fragment of García Márquez's "The General in the Labyrinth", bringing up the essential questions of books and reading. Fourteen essays deal with all aspects of book and human reading—the confusion of reading, the time, the beginning, the cost, the manner, and so on—in an attempt to "persuade people to read" and help solve common problems that a very practical reading process may encounter, and to point out the problems faced by modern writers and the publishing industry.
The book was rated as one of the top ten Chinese good books by Asia Weekly: Donno's "strength" is not in memory, but in the "arbitrariness" of talking about the world, although the main line of narration does not depart from the book, reading and writing, but also talk about current politics, but only its eloquent tranquility, deeply shocking, in order to talk about creativity and wonderfulness, to tell the truth.
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How to Read a Novel
Douban score: 8.1 872 reviews
Thomas Foster is a professor at the University of Michigan, specializing in 20th-century English, Irish and American literature. Author of several scholarly research books and best-selling literary reading guideshow to Read Literature Like a Professor.
Of all the literary forms, the novel is the undisputed one that is most discussed. In this interesting and practical novel reading guide, Professor Thomas Foster will take us through more than 200 novel works, including tried and tested masterpieces and popular best-selling works, explain the historical origins of novels, let us understand the joy of reading novels, and let us understand the titles and codes of novels.
Thomas Lynch, winner of the National Book Award, believes that Professor Foster uses clear eyes, sensitive ears, and simple words to make literature and art vivid. In addition, the book has also been on the New York Times and Amazon best-seller lists.
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Super Quick Reading
Douban score: 8.0 875 reviews
Christian Gruning, who worked in the legal profession. Later, he founded the German Gröning Academy and the Gröning Publishing House, and devoted himself to the training and publishing industry, with the dual identity of writer and training lecturer. He has developed a set of "Logic K calligraphy" that has swept the world.
In the book, the author's set of methods is embodied in the "four stages of the learning process": broadening your horizons and reading quickly; advanced training in visual reading; using the five senses together, super memory; and applying the method to your study, work and life.
The book is the top book in the learning category of the German Amazon online bookstore. As a book for training reading, it mainly provides many techniques and methods for reading speed, comprehension, memory, and construction. Extremely inspiring and practical, it is worth learning from all those who have no clue and no efficiency in reading books.
After introducing today's reading list, which book are you most interested in? Previously, Intensive Reader Jun has interpreted "How to Read a Book", and subsequent Intensive Reader jun will give priority to reading books based on your voting results. For good books that are not in the list, you can also leave a comment in the comments section.
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