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Title: How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer Jerome Adler ISBN: 0-684-84647-0 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Long on commentary
Comment: Adler is obviously a very learned man and a very successful teacher. I found his argument that listening and speaking were critical skills left ignored by most educational institutions to be very well structured, and, as confirmed by my own experiences, very accurate.
That said, I listened to the unabridged audio version of this book and found it a long treatise on oral communications in society rather than a practical book on self-improvement.
I did find parts of it valuable, but the aggregate of these parts were only a fraction of the 7+ running hours. I probably would have been more pleased with the paper book version that I could skim, pick and choose.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Fabulous Teacher
Comment: I was hoping that this would be the only book I would need as a guide to developing my knowledge and skill as a public speaker. Rather, the book is about the oral communication process in all contexts. Thus delivering prepared speeches, in particular the lecture, was just one element of it. There is considerable emphasis on the listening component--rightfully so, given that Adler argues that listening well is the component of verbal communication that is the most difficult to learn and teach, and hence the most lacking. The book is a companion to Adler's "How to Read a Book", and in fact there are numerous references to it. Although the book turned out to be something different than I had hoped, I nevertheless found it beneficial. It is packed with helpful ideas and guidelines on speaking and listening in various contexts. I also enjoyed reading the book because it helped me to improve my vocabulary, which is one of the side benefits of reading any book by Adler. He is truly a fine teacher.
A few of the key points include: Silent listening vs. active listening, Guidelines for note-taking, Several do's and don'ts of effective conversation, and Instructive speech vs. persuasive speech
Rating: 5
Summary: The first 90 pages are worth their weight in gold!
Comment: This is the best book, bar none, that I have ever seen on this subject. Adler takes some of the classical Greek writers ideas about persuasive speaking and "updates" them, makes them more understandable, and provides concrete illustrations of how it is done. He helps you to better grasp the process of outlining, and provides an example of a speech he had given that employs the "methodology" of the text. Very readable, very insightful
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Title: How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren, Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 0671212095 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1972 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization by Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 0812694120 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Six Great Ideas by Mortimer Jerome Adler ISBN: 068482681X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: TEN PHILOSOPHICAL MISTAKES by Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 068481868X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: HOW TO THINK ABOUT GOD by Mortimer J. Adler ISBN: 0020160224 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 16 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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