Devised by the man recorded in Guinness as the world's fastest reader--80 pages per minutes--this is the only program that combines the most up-to-date learning techniques and psychological discoveries with proven speed-reading methods and ancient tools like meditation to significantly improve both reading speed and comprehension.
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I am an undergraduate student in Electrical engineering in Purdue University and i bought this book a few weeks back. Although this book advertises itself as 'Super reading', but I think the title maybe more apt if it was 'Super Skimming and Test Question Spotting.' I do admit that skimming is one of the techniques the author discussed in his book, but those techniques are,in my opinion, only valid when: 1. You want to pass the exam ONLY, OR 2. You are reading for fun. With regard to reading technical stuff. I just tried the techniques he offered but all in vain. Technical, 'dry' materials cannot be learnt that way. Moreover even you manage to pass the exams by guessing/spotting questions, you land yourself on a very shakky ground when you do higher level course work since all those courses do depend on the material from previous courses.(And the lecturers expect you know the materials in the courses you have taken, even they were not tested in the exams.) So, Mr. Berg's 'superb' achievement by learning a subject in 7 hours, spotting the questions, ignoring materials he thought wouldn't be tested and got a B+ in that exam totally defeated the purpose of an examination. My final advice: Save your money.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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I fail to see why so many people are praising this book. I found the book very unhelpful as it lacks proper explanation of how to implement the suggestions for increasing your reading speed.
The book starts off well enough and gives some helpful, if fairly obvious, advice e.g. spend longer on the first sentence of a paragraph, pick out the verbs in a sentence, use your finger to regulate your reading speed. Up to this point the book is alright. The author then goes on to tell the reader that to increase your speed further, you must start reading from right to left, and then several lines at the same time but gives absolutely no advice on how to do this! He just says to start reading books like this. I found this lack of instruction totally unacceptable and so I cannot recommend this book past the first couple of chapters.
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This book is definitely worth the money, especially compared to the price of Howard's infomercial. I noticed that I was able to put into practice his techniques soon after I started reading. By the time I reached the end of the book, my reading speed had dramatically increased. I would definitely recomend this book to everyone.
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The best one in his kind
The best one in his kind, teaches you the techniques to read faster. It works, if you have the courage to practice daily for about a month. Read more
Published 21 months ago by queen lizzie
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Very poor
This book is very badly written and offers no advice on actually how to implement some of his techniques for improving your reading speed. Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2005 by A. Marshall
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A Laudable Introduction
The book is FANTASTIC, VERY, VERY easy to read, and an OUTSTANDING workout for the mind, which in my opinion makes you more intelligent, but with learning there is always one snag,... Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2002 by Simon
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A unique style of approach to speed reading
I didn't quite get to grips with this book it was a bit of a dismantled layout. I wouldn't consider this book a course to achieve faster reading but worth it for the price.
Published on 13 Jun 1999
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Loved it the first time Loving it again the second
I bought this book will stationed in German(in the Army). I loved it then and have no idea how anyone could call it hard to understand. Read more
Published on 19 Dec 1998
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can't go wrong with this book
the techniques here work pretty well, as long as you have the will power to actually do them on a consistant basis. I went from 800 to 1500 wpm in four days. pretty spiffy eh??
Published on 24 July 1998
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Compact & useful training guidelines
i read this book and immediately applied the techniques into practice - the result is that you don't really can remember everything you read, but you learn an efficient method how... Read more
Published on 18 April 1998
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This book's got the same info as Mega Speed Reading!!
I got the Mega Speed Reading program from the infomercial and basically it's Howard Berg reading off his book word for word. Does it really work? Read more
Published on 5 April 1998
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This Book Is Terrible!!!!
This book provide instructions which are hard to understand and are not clear and some not even complete. This book wasted my time!!!! And doesn't even work!!!
Published on 8 Mar 1998
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Great For Students!
This book shows you how you can read all kinds of different materials. It gives you great techniques for remembering what you read! Read more
Published on 13 Oct 1997
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