How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C. Foster

[inverarity]

Quests, flowers, rain, meals, Christ figures, sex and vampires, going south and going blind, it all means something.

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[inverarity]

Want my copy? I was going to just put it back on PaperBackSwap.com. :)

PaperBackSwap.com

[inverarity]

Well, you can go to the web site to learn more, but basically it's what the name implies: people post books they are willing to give away, and wish lists of books they'd like to receive. It's free (except for mailing costs) and works on a credit system (mail a book: get 1 credit, receive a book: use 1 credit).

I highly recommend it, though keep in mind that popular books tend to have long waiting lists.

bookmooch.com is similar.

Begging the question

[ed_rex]

I haven't read the book or even (yet) your review. But the title of the book alone forced me to ask, "Why in the world would you want to?"

(Presumably, to better your GPA, but I might be way off base.)

Re: Begging the question

[ed_rex]

on having now read your review, the book sounds like something I would have liked quite a lot a quarter century ago, but not so much now. Pattern recognition has its place, but sometimes a story is no more (and no less!) than what it is.

And modern and post-modern literature which deliberately places clues for the decoding doesn't much interest me.

[flamycakes]

Yeah, you said it, light and entertaining, but not super informative. It's a great book to glean future awesome reads from. I had a list of about a hundred, and the just-under-twenty I've read have been phenomenal for the most part.