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    <body><![CDATA[You can't pay me enough to take this book from me. It is, in the course of a few hundred pages, a replacement for *all* the time wasted in high school English classes. <br/><br/>This book is a fantastic introduction to the &quot;classical education&quot; method, a steady-as-she-goes education of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17764146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great read.  Indeed, it is the authoritative resource on classical education.  I've seen some other reviews that say this book is too ambitious, but the beauty of homeschooling is that you can tailor this style and method to your own circumstances.  In fact, any parent who wishes to be involv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14982861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm really enjoying this book, it has taken me awhile to pick it up, requires a fresh mind, which seems to only happen at 6 AM. Currently I'm learning about different reading approaches, how to speed read, scan a page for a general sense of information, and then about understanding-analysis-evaluati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38589649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For those of us who are interested in classical education for our children, it's important to educate ourselves first!  This book is a guide to achieving that, with tips for reading the five important genres of literature (novels, biographies, dramas, histories, and poetry) and analyzing the works i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66194814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A phenomenal book that gives you strategies on how to approach different materials to get the most out of fiction, poetry, autobiographies and so forth.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I probably won't read this cover to cover because I've already been exposed to a lot of it in undergrad and grad school. It's amazing how much of the classical canon I instantly forgot, though! I had no context to nest it into, but now as I dip into &quot;The Well-Trained Mind&quot; as a way to afte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75423250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have given this book a higher rating if I hadn't felt like it was a (thorough, and at times amusing) review of everything I studied in college.  I guess what I'm saying is that if you're an English major (specifically an English major whose schooling focused on classic literature), this book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69363398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Huh. This is another book I stumbled across somewhere and decided to give a try. I tried <em>Cultural Literacy</em> in audio, and that was a mistake: pretentious, prescriptivist, and about one-third list that does not make for good audio. That book was obvious; this one is juvenile.<br/><br/>I was doing wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33281788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read this before but I recently pulled it out for a second review. I have come to think of this a a good reference in my quest to read from the 'great conversation' of the Western World and it's proving helpful in some current reading. I like her suggestions for approaching and engaging in mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45056251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As far back as I can remember I have LOVED reading and like most people I have certain styles of books I enjoy more than others.  For a'while now, I have felt like it would be nice to expand my world and this book helped do just that.  I learned how to get the most out of reading each type of book a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48839800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice book. Great list of books and some great recs. But Bauer's overemphasis on the Western Canon limits her notion of what it means to be a &quot;well-educated&quot; person. She never even mentions Naguib Mahfouz, Kenzaburo Oe, Yasunari Kawabata, V.S. Naipaul,  or Gao Xingjian. Even if Western lit ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40019497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I didn't give five stars so often, because now I feel the need to give this book six stars because of inflation.<br/><br/>Bauer's guides to reading drama, poetry, novels, history, and non-fiction are accompanied by lists of suggested books.<br/>If you are or want to be an autodidact, this is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51033100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first small section of the book where the author talks about how a person can educate themselves by reading the classics.  I really enjoyed this and it inspired me.  The last good portion of the book is where the author takes the reader through different genres of literature, giving a lis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36037914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Basically, a how-to book for reading books, including concise introductions to several major literary movements and suggesting a handful of titles and accompanying summaries that will help you be a well-rounded reader.<br/><br/>Yes, I am a huge nerd for reading it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, I can't say I've finished this- I read part I and I'm getting ready to begin with Don Quixote. I think this program is going to fill in a lot of gaps in a very manageable, low-pressure way. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just trying to get through the novels for now...  So far, Don Quixote and Pilgrim's Progress, Moby Dick is up next, we'll see how it goes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine my &quot;it was okay&quot; in a very cheery, positive, approving tone of voice.  That it wasn't world rocking for me really isn't a reflection of how useful the book might be to anyone else.]]></body>
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