CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Other Half
1.Most people like fiction books. As for the nonfiction book, the mainly readers like newspapers and magazines.
However, reading fiction is not easy. And there exists the paradox here. One is reading fiction is not easy to analyze; on the other, it seems to be a fact that such skill is more widely possessed than the art of reading science and philosophy, politics, economics, snd history.
Also we can give the reasons in two ways:fiction books can enhance readers' intelligencies; Imaginative literature can delight readers.
If you want to read imaginative literature, the author offers us two short cuts.
two short cuts
2.Firstly the author told us the differences between novels and other books.The most obvious difference is the purpose. Expository books try to convey experience the latter try to communicate an experience itself. What's more the author emphrases the importance of experience. Then we know some negative rules .They tell us what to do.
3.The author first recall us back three groups of rules for reading expository books. Then the structural rules for reading fiction is similar:
structural rules for reading fiction
structural rules for reading fiction
structural rules for reading fiction
After this what should we look for if we try to analyze fiction？
4.To read anything well, you must be able to answer these four questions about it.
four questions
four questions
These four questions summarize all the obligations of a reader. Knowing these questions is, of course, not enough. You must remember to ask themas you read and, most of all, you must be able to answer them precisely and accurately. The ability to do just that is the art of reading, in a nutshell.
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