The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

艾伦•雅各布斯（Alan Jacobs）美国贝勒大学荣誉项目人文学科杰出教授、宗教研究系常驻教师。著有：《纳尼亚传奇：C.S. 刘易斯传》、《原罪：文化史》和《阅读的神学》。他关于文学、文化的评论作品广泛刊登于《波士顿环球报》、《美国学者》、《牛津美国》等。

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Alan Jacobs

页数:176

出版时间:2011-5-26

价格:USD 19.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780199747498

图书标签:阅读关于书的书Reading英文原版美国杂文未知書話

Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. He offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.

读后感

五星推荐。 在读了“如何读懂书，如何快速阅读”一系列书后，再看这本书，有耳目一新的感觉。 作者告诉我们阅读的初心，应该仅仅是乐趣，才能让我们做到沉迷，抛弃功利的心态；阅读的随意可以让我们获得意外的惊喜和收获而无须书单；阅读的成就感，不应来自于在书单上划去一本...  

唐宁有一个书架叫阅读，多么有意思，我从一面书架中选了一本最薄最不有名的书，只不过觉得它轻松简单，毫无阅读的野心，也只是想随手翻翻。 有时就是因为这点运气，有了许多不错的体验。我刚看了几页，就发现它不是我预计的那种畅销书模式，也没那么学术，只不过...  

英文书名是《The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction》,看书的标题就知道，这本书要传达的两个主题是：pleasure （乐趣）和 distraction（分心，换言之，即注意力的难以集中） 。作者说到，不应该将人笼统地分为读书的人和不读书的人，而应当是喜爱阅读的人和不喜...  

英文书名是《The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction》,看书的标题就知道，这本书要传达的两个主题是：pleasure （乐趣）和 distraction（分心，换言之，即注意力的难以集中） 。作者说到，不应该将人笼统地分为读书的人和不读书的人，而应当是喜爱阅读的人和不喜...  

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用户评价

還是某種程度解答了我訊息爆炸下的困惑。問題在於，不能忽略的一件事是，不管hyper attention還是 deep attention，首先你得pay attention！（減一星）然後我從來不認為人有multitask的能力，多任務間切換實際是消耗精力和低效的。（減一星）

This is one of those books that book lovers will truly resonate with.

A book by an English professor, a change of pace from the more serious stuff I am reading. 读后觉得比预期要好。有共鸣。很可爱的一本小书。一个爱书人写给别的爱书人看的。

略水

批评布鲁姆有精英主义很对，慢速与重读也不错。不过对艾德勒和范多伦两人的批评，我只能说是瞎操心。不把阅读当做愉悦身心的人恐怕只有学术界的职业读者了，不读书的人从来都不读书。