Reading "How to read a book"

Its around 13:29 and I am on the first floor at Morris Library. I came after having a lunch. I had a class to teach in the morning which went well. I gave them a quiz and collected homework. There is a meeting for fencing around 18 hrs and I might go to check it out. I am midway through the Adler's "How to read a book". His three pronged approach to reading a book is incisive and makes perfect sense. The first is an overview. The second is constructing the author's argument and third is comprehending it so one can criticize the book. Some of the point he made about being an active reader. When one is reading a book its the duty of reader to ask questions and not get restless as the ultimate decision about the worth of the book rests with the reader. So he must have curiosity to ask question and also seek to find the answer. A good author usually anticipates the question before hand and arrange his book in such a order to answer his questions at a right time.

Towards the end of the book he mentioned about some books that have to be read many times struck a chord with me. He eloquently said that every time we read those books we find something new in it. It's not that when during previous readings those things were not there. Its just that as we read and inculcated the values the book begins to make sense at higher level.