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David Mikics

Autor(a) de Slow Reading in a Hurried Age

9 Works 342 Membros 6 Reviews

About the Author

David Mikics is professor of English at the University of Houston.

Obras de David Mikics

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1961
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Houston, Texas, USA
Agente
Chris Calhoun

Membros

Resenhas

I'm not well-read enough for this book.
 
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MakebaT | outras 3 resenhas | Sep 3, 2022 |
Mikics uncovers thrilling associations, links Kubrick to larger cultural themes, and offers persuasive arguments for his movies.
 
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HandelmanLibraryTINR | Dec 29, 2020 |
I loved this book! It was an entirely enjoyable journey through the various modes of literature, prose, and poetry including a chapter on how to read drama. David Mikics provides a highly intelligent but accessible set of guidelines (he calls rules) that act more like heuristics for initiating careful, considered appreciation of an author's themes and ideas. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to savour their reading.
 
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mavaddat | outras 3 resenhas | Jul 11, 2017 |
Very enriching and practical look at the art, skill, and enjoyment of reading. The early chapter titled "The Problem" is a bit of a slog, and can likely be skipped if you picked up the book based on the title (hint: "Hurried Age" is the problem).

The rest of the book does an excellent job of showing by doing. Mikics does not just tell you to read deeply, he takes the time to walk through deep readings of the examples provided. In the end, the amount of information in the book is a bit overwhelming. I can't help but wonder if the rules (14 of them!) could not be distilled into just a few simple axioms. I ended up skipping the final chapters on reading poetry, drama, and essays, not for lack of enjoyment, but simply for information overload. I hope to come back to each of these chapters later. Each reading subject chapter (short stories, novels, and the above mentioned poetry, drama, and essays) could easily be expanded into a full book appropriate for a college level reading course. I would gladly read such a book on any of these if Mikics were to write it.… (mais)
 
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scott.bradley | outras 3 resenhas | Jul 24, 2014 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
9
Membros
342
Popularidade
#69,721
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
6
ISBNs
21
Idiomas
2

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