I’m half way through *How to Read a Book* by Adler & van Doren. I’m very excited to learn about better techniques for reading and taking notes that the books promises to teach. And I was very happy with what it taught me so far. Many of those things may seem obvious in hindsight (like “look at the table of contents before reading” or “make marks on the margins”), but I somehow always neglected them until the book drew my attention to them.
I like the contents. But I can barely stand the overly verbose and unstructured language of the authors. They’d make a point, and then forever drag re-iterating it and showing examples, them more analogies and examples, and then re-iterating it again. I feel that the book should have been 3 times shorter. Once in 10 pages I get “interesting, I should write that down!”, while all in-between is “yes, yes, I got your point, let’s go to the next thing already”.
I understand that my problem with this writing style might be just a matter of personal preference. Or it could be historical, How to Read a Book was written in 1940s. But I still wanted to ask if any of you know some other books with similar aims, but more concise and structured. I like the style of *Atomic Habits* by James Clear, for an example.
Do any of you have a book of the similar genre that you can recommend?
by Big_Dick920