Title: Bauer is a Charlatan
Product review: This book is pervaded by typos and poor diction. More significantly, it contains mostly plagiarism and shameless filler. Bauer surreptitiously regurgitates Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren's How to Read a Book; all of the "how to" parts of Bauer's book and the advice on better reading can be found in Adler and Van Doren's book, and they explain it better.Aside from a barrage of trivial tangents, most of the rest of this book is dedicated to brief bios of authors and summaries of their masterpieces (with spoilers)--there is no reason to read this if you have access to Wikipedia and a list of the people and books considered most important.Don't waste your time--just start reading the classics and keep at it.And to sum up all the advice on how to read: just don't kid yourself--if you can't explain to someone what you have read, you didn't understand it and should read again more carefully.
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