Watch the video lecture and start reading the first chapter.
COMMENT: How hard is the book? Did the suggestions in the video help at all? What else should be mentioned to help readers approaching this text?
REPLY: what suggestion in the comments do you agree or disagree with?
This book was very difficult to read. I found myself reading a paragraph and not being able to understand what it's about. The suggestions did help such as slowing down and paying attention to the words. Whenever I found I didn't understand something, I went back and re-read it out loud and I found that it helped me to understand the material better.
ReplyDeletei agree. I also had to re read to better understand. I will try to read out loud as well to see if that helps me too.
DeleteI also had to reread lines just to make sure my interpretation of the material was accurate, so I agree that it definitely helped to understand the novel better.
DeleteI didn’t find the reading as difficult as I thought. However, I did need to constantly re read certain paragraphs to try to understand the context. I also used the notes the professor provided and I understood better.
ReplyDeleteI did the same thing. Rereading certain parts helped me to understand the chapter better.
DeleteI also had to constantly reread lines in order to understand the chapter and believe the professor notes helped with following the reading.
DeleteThe book was pretty difficult to read. I went back a couple of times and read it over again to make sure I got the right points. I also read it out loud to help myself understand it better. Everything the professor provided was great and really helped me to better read the book better and understand.
ReplyDeleteI haven't found the reading to be extremely difficult to comprehend. However I did find myself going back over lines just to make sure I understood what was actually happening, almost painting a mental picture to refer back too as I read further. The notes provided by the prof. helped me along the way as well as taking some of my own notes.
ReplyDeleteI found the book difficult to read because of the choice of words and because of the different style of writing that I am no used to. But once I got the hang of it I did not find it difficult to follow what was going on and I was able to connect the dots to understand what was going on. I also agree that reading out loud truly makes a difference when trying to understand the reading.
ReplyDeleteI didn’t fully enjoy the book because it was so difficult for me to read. The language and the style of it were so hard to understand. I had to re-read out loud certain parts of each chapter but still couldn’t fully comprehend the whole thing. The suggestions in the video were very helpful. However, I still had a hard time to understand each sentence so that is why I had to skip few words and phrases which didn’t make any sense to me.
ReplyDeleteI found the book enjoyable a little hard at some points, sometimes I did find myself re-read. what I did find a little helpful was reading the other copy the one that as the buildings on the cover it is a little smaller easier to carry page numbers are off but I was able to take it everywhere with ease.
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