{"id":1213,"date":"2014-12-08T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T05:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2015-01-07T20:29:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T04:29:29","slug":"how-to-read-a-book-the-classic-guide-to-intelligent-reading-by-mortimer-j-adler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/2595\/book\/113605509\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0671212095.01._SX140_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was disappointed in this book, it seemed to have promise.  It approached reading in a dictatorial style, there are things you must do or you don&#8217;t have a right to judge the book.  It feels pedagogic and somewhat demeaning, like a teacher instructing young kids.  There is no discussion of alternative opinions or ideas, very little argument even in support of its positions.  <\/p>\n<p>Most of the book is just common sense.  It is slow, the writing is tedious.  I won&#8217;t say its advice is bad, but if you&#8217;ve read much, you already know it.  <\/p>\n<p>Will you enjoy it?  Many comments are quite favorable, people seem to like it or hate it.  I think if you&#8217;ve read much, you probably won&#8217;t get anything from the book.  If you don&#8217;t read, why would you be interested?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was disappointed in this book, it seemed to have promise. It approached reading in a dictatorial style, there are things you must do or you don&#8217;t have a right to judge the book. It feels pedagogic and somewhat demeaning, like a teacher instructing young kids. There is no discussion of alternative opinions or ideas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-self-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}