In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading …
Review of 'The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
A pleasant and refreshingly non-alarmist book to read. I've especially liked it's opposition to the stiflingly didactic, pleasure-draining approach of [b:How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading|567610|How to Read a Book The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading|Mortimer J. Adler|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1310993739s/567610.jpg|1633521] , and it's call to return pleasure back into reading.
However, this book hardly opens any new horizons. Plus there is something in the style, in the sentence structure that is off-putting to me. I'm not sure what it is exactly, but I've found myself having to re-read sentences several times in order to comprehend them, and normally I am a fairly competent reader.