This book has been a best seller for 70 years, ranking 35th on the Amazon bestseller list in the first half of 20 15, which lasts forever. In addition, the book received more than 20,000 comments on Douban, with a score of 8.6.
When writer Hao first read this book, he felt two strong feelings: shame and luck. To my shame, as a publisher, I didn't read this good book until I was 44 years old. After working in the publishing industry for more than 20 years, I still benefited a lot from reading this book. Such a complicated psychological change is enough to explain the important role of this book for readers.
Let's talk about its author, one is the famous Mortimer J. Ejdero, who is the editor-in-chief of the fifteenth edition of Encyclopedia Britannica; The other is the talented Charles van Doren.
In view of most people's reading problems, the two authors believe that many people's reading ability only stays at the average level of the sixth grade of primary school. There are two kinds of reading:
First of all, you can get some new information similar to what you knew before from reading, which is not difficult. For example, if a person knows something about the history of China, it is easy for him to understand as long as he casually flips through some books with relevant contents, only adding new materials without shaking the original framework of understanding things.
The second kind of reading is to start reading on the basis of understanding inequality from the beginning. In other words, in the understanding of a book, the author must be "higher" than the reader, and when writing a book, he must convey his opinions in a readable form that the reader does not have. Secondly, readers must overcome the inequality of understanding to a certain extent. Although they can't say that they have a comprehensive understanding, they must always reach the level of the author.
The second kind of reading is the most important study, which can improve our understanding. Most of us only stay in the initial reading stage, so it is not difficult to understand why many people's reading ability has been passed by PK but they are the best among primary school students.
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To get rid of the low level of reading ability, the author emphasizes that only by being a self-demanding active reader can we really gain something from reading. Active readers, that is, reading with questions. When reading a book, you should ask four main questions:
Generally speaking, what is this book about?
What exactly did the author say and how did he say it?
Is this book meaningful? Is it all reasonable or part of it?
What does this book have to do with you?
Of course, the goal of reading determines the way of reading, and the reading goal pursued by a reader-just for entertainment, obtaining information, or enhancing understanding-will determine the way of reading. If you just play, you can easily read Qiong Yao's book. If you are a scholar, if you want to study Qiong Yao's love novels and their themes, you may have to read them as carefully as you read academic works, and even take notes.
Therefore, according to your reading goal, you can read the same book quickly and briefly, or you can read it carefully. Liang Wendao thinks that the idea of distinguishing reading level is the most striking statement of how to read Mortimer Edlow and Charlie Van Doren's books.
Specifically, the author divides reading into four levels, namely, basic reading, investigation reading, analytical reading and thematic reading. Basic reading is mainly the reading skills learned in primary school. At this stage, readers mainly need to understand the meaning of Chu's article;
Checking reading emphasizes the overview and overall grasp of the book. At this level, we should focus on what this book is talking about, and then we can simply describe the contents of the book in our own words and distinguish how the author's views are formed;
Analytical reading focuses on understanding, and it is necessary to "accurately and impartially" explain the author's expression, that is, how you understand this book;
Theme reading is the highest level of reading, which requires a variety of skills to solve a problem and find ideas from many books. For example, if you are interested in fishing and want to study fishing, you must know the history of fishing, fishing methods, fishing experts and so on. At this time, you need to find many different books or materials. As long as it is related to the fishing theme, you should extract it and read it. In this way, your reading will be huge, which is considered as high-level reading by Ajdero and Van Duolun.
The relationship between these four levels: since it is downward, the previous reading level contains all the contents of the next level; It is also gradual. If you can't finish reading at a low level, you can't talk about reading at a high level. Of course, a high level of reading needs to be cultivated step by step.
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In this book, in addition to the four reading levels mentioned above, the author also points out the reading methods of different books, including practical books, imaginary literature, stories, plays and poems, history books, science and mathematics, philosophy books and social science books.
For different methods, for example, the difference between reading argumentative papers and literary works lies in "understanding" and "experiencing". The former focuses on acquiring knowledge; Reading the latter mainly lies in the emotional experience in the reading process.
Bacon said:
Reading history makes people wise, reading poems makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people deep, ethics makes people grave, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people able to contend. Everything you learn becomes a character.
The author hopes that reading different materials in different ways can promote people's mental growth. A good book may not help you get ahead, but a good book can definitely improve your reading ability. More importantly, a good book can teach you about the world and yourself.
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Recently, intensive reading conducted a "reading experiment" (can you read at least one book every month? ), the primary goal is to help readers develop the habit of reading a book and taking notes every week. To this end, intensive reading gives readers a list of books (is there such a book that will affect you for a lifetime? ), the first of which is how to read.
Why is this book the first recommended book? As a reference book, this book provides readers with an indispensable reading method. I hope this book can help readers complete high-quality reading.
There is a distance between "reading" and "reading" a book; There is also a distance between "reading" and "doing" This book tells you how to "read". Whether you can "do it" depends on yourself.
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