Rapid Reading in Five Days: The Quick-And-Easy Program

By J. Mininger

Book Overview

Rapid Reading in 5 Days offers a unique approach to reading and comprehension that is intellectual rather than mechanical. You can eliminate tedious finger pacing, eye exercises, and constant practice. You will read for ideas, not words. You can begin wherever your interest takes you, and take what you want and leave the rest. In just five days you will: Retrain your brain to unlearn slow reading habits Learn the basic structures of written materials so you can find what you want to know quickly and easily Make reading an active rather than passive skill to increase your involvement, pleasure, and understanding Learn to adapt your selection skills to highly technical, unstructured, or job-related materials Discover the value of different speeds for different needs Take control of words with these commonsense techniques for managing the mountains of magazines, journals, memos, reports, and newspapers that make up modern life.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399521313
• ISBN13: 9780399521317
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Perigee Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Comprehension only!

What the book mostly focuses on is comprehension, what readers have difficulty with, and how to escape from reading mind blocks. During each chapter the book offers small reading tests for you to find out how you're doing, which helped me a lot. It should have covered more on speed reading techniques than just on comprehension, but the book is worth a try anyway.