Friday, November 14, 2014
The Art of Reading
In Lewis Carolls Four Rules of Digesting Information and Mastering the Art of Reading, two of the four main points really caught my attention and caused me to dwell on the subject even more. The first point was do not skip around a book looking for spoilers. This point is very relevant in todays time of t.v shows and movies. Take the movie the Sixth Sense if you knew the whole time that Bruce Willis was dead it would of ruined the sense of mystery and the shock of that final scene. I am very guilty of this, many times I have read the last few pages of the book very early on. They may seem totally out of context when I first read them, but by the end of the novel I start to realize what I just read and it ruins the ending for me. The other point that stuck out to me was do not read the next chapter with out understanding the last one. I am very guilty of this. In my rush to finish the book i will totally miss major plot points or even get the characters mixed around leaving me dumbfound later in the novel as the story progresses.
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Ryan, I completely agree that finding out the big mystery in he book or movie ruins the fun or reading for watching (note: I think this is related to our American culture). But, in a book, reading the last sentence seems to me personally, to be ok and even fun. Reading the last sentence doesn't usually have so much detail that it gives away everything, but enough that one could try to guess the ending or infer how the everything ended up at that sentence. Sometimes I'm right, and other times I'm wrong. Trying to figure out how everything in the story gets to the ending point seems to be one of my favorite parts of a book or movie.
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