Efficiency of Extensive and Repetitive Rereading?

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Re: Efficiency of Extensive and Repetitive Rereading?

Postby luke » Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:27 pm

rdearman wrote:Narrow reading, you say? Stephen King, I say.
Why?
  1. Just one book will take ages, only 6 of his books are less than 200 pages. The average is 500+ pages.
  2. One of the most prolific authors alive. So lots of books to choose from (narrow reading) 60+ books

You convinced me. I've just bought my first Stephen King novel, El Resplanador (The Shining) at the local bookstore.

Also did you do a presentation on Listen/Reading for the Polyglot Gathering? I watched it yesterday. Very interesting.

einzelne wrote:It's good to return to the book you've read after a couple of years: you'll see how much you archived in that time (provided you worked hard, of course). Audiobooks is a nice review tool, as already been mentioned.

And you've just cast the deciding vote for me moving on, instead of re-reading Quijote and Cien años de soledad again in the near future.
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Re: Efficiency of Extensive and Repetitive Rereading?

Postby rdearman » Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:28 pm

Yes. I confess, that was me.
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