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1. austinkleon.com › 2021/09/27 › if-a-book-can-beIf a book can be summarized, is it worth reading? - Austin Kleon

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   Sep 27, 2021 · It is my opinion that if a book’s contents can be adequately “summed up,” so that you really don’t miss anything by reading the summary, it is not actually a book worth reading. (Of course, there’s no way to tell whether a summary is adequate or not unless you have also read the book.)

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2. www.reddit.com › r › nonfictionbookclubDo you think it's better to read a books summary before ...

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   If my ‘why’ for reading a book needs more leverage, then yes, I’ll check out a summary. Otherwise I’ll read the book, highlight meaningful passages, mindmap the book, then commit to taking action on it.

3. www.reddit.com › r › booksr/books on Reddit: What's your opinion on reading a summary ...

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   A summary would’ve been good then…. I base most of my book purchases on summaries and reviews, usually look for spoiler free reviews on Reddit as well. If I can read a sample of except, I'll do that too. I want to be as sure as is reasonable that I will like a book before I spend money on it.

4. www.readingandthinking.com › 2021 › 08Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: Book Summary & Review

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   Sep 30, 2024 · The point of Outlier's book is that successful people are actually ordinary people, heroes created by the times. Let me summarize the content of this book: - If you want to do a special job, for example, you want to be an ice hockey player, the timing of your birth is very important.

5. fivebooks.com › best-books › best-biography-2021The Best Biographies: the 2021 NBCC Shortlist - Five Books

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   Mar 19, 2021 · The best biographies—as shortlisted by the National Book Critics Circle in 2021, discussed by author and critic Elizabeth Taylor.

6. fourminutebooks.com › best-books-2021The 21 Best Books of 2021 (Fiction & Nonfiction)

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   Oct 10, 2023 · At Four Minute Books, we’ve summarized over 1,000 books, including some of 2021’s top bestsellers. To help you find the right one for you, we used several data points (and our good old brains) to pick the #1 book of the year in the most common genres.

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   What is the best biography in 2021?

   • Elizabeth Taylor, the author, critic and chair of the National Book Critics' Circle biography committee, discusses their 2021 shortlist for the title of the best biography—including a revelatory new book about the life of Malcolm X, a group biography of artists in the 1960s, and a book built from a cache of letters written in Japan's shogun era.

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   Is a summary a book worth reading?

   • It is my opinion that if a book’s contents can be adequately “summed up,” so that you really don’t miss anything by reading the summary, it is not actually a book worth reading. (Of course, there’s no way to tell whether a summary is adequate or not unless you have also read the book.)

   If a book can be summarized, is it worth reading?

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   Is a book summary a good idea?

   • (Of course, there’s no way to tell whether a summary is adequate or not unless you have also read the book.) Also, I suspect that the harder you find it to summarize a book you have read, the more valuable it might be. The tricky thing here is that the more summarizable the book, the easier it is to market and sell.

   If a book can be summarized, is it worth reading?

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   What makes a good biography?

   • Biographers live with their subjects, and the shadows of their subjects. The subjects of all of these biographies, in some way were very much ahead of their times. In very different ways, they pushed boundaries and transcended their worlds. Shall we start off by discussing the first of your 2021 finalists for the title of best biography?

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8. www.litcharts.comLitCharts | From the creators of SparkNotes, something better.

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   Summary, themes, line-by-line analysis, poetic devices, form, meter, rhyme scheme, and more. Full definitions of each term with color-coded examples, followed by additional resources. The full play, poem, or sonnet alongside the modern English translation mapped by colors.