Reddit reviews How to Read and Why
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Reddit reviews How to Read and WhyWe found 7 Reddit comments about How to Read and Why. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
People of the Book is almost pornography for bibliophiles. This book had me seriously considering going back to school to learn about document preservation.
I went through a period of wanting to read a lot of books about books about a year ago. I think I even have an old submission in r/books on the same subject. Here are a bunch of books I still have on my amazon wishlist that date to around that time. This will be a shotgun blast of suggestions, and some may be only tangentially related, but I figure more is better. If I can think of even more than this, I'll edit later:
The Man who Loved Books Too Much
Books that Changed the World
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
How to Read and Why
The New Lifetime Reading Plan
Classics for Pleasure
An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books
The Library at Night
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Time Was Soft There
I have even more around here somewhere...
Edit: Ok, found a couple more....
Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
Candida Hofer
Libraries in the Ancient World
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read
A Short History of the Printed Word
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work
The Book on the Bookshelf
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production
Library: An Unquiet History
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms
A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
And yet I still can't find the one I'm thinking of. Will get back to you...
Fuck yeah, I found it!
That last is more about the woman who own the store than about books, but it's awash in anecdotes about writers and stories we all know and love. Check it out.
This is an excellent book by Harold Bloom, "How to Read and Why."
Thanks, good response. I've read Homer and Virgil a couple of times, and Genesis once. Mythology has been on my reading list for a while.
I read How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom a few months ago, and he raves about Paradise Lost.
harold bloom--how to read and why
Books You May Not Know
Myself When I Am Real
A well-written and -constructed biography of one of my favorite jazz musicians
How to Read and Why
Where would literary criticism be without him?
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Where would music criticism be without him?
Love, Poverty, and War
Anything by Hitchens really
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
My favorite book by any of the Brontes.
Need some help reading?
I suggest this as a starter. PM me if you need more material :)
PS I can help you with your math too ;)
Another good book is How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom. He is a well known literary critic and analyzes books in a way that is normally accessible to anyone.