Reviews

Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, by Blake Morrison, Carmen Callil, Maryanne Wolf, Jane Davis, Mark Haddon, Zadie Smith, Nicholas Carr, Michael Rosen, Tim Parks, Jeanette Winterson

anneacker17's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.5

s0meone_strange's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

happy_introvert's review against another edition

informative reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.75

fionasfiction's review

3.0

I think the subject matter and some of the stronger essays (Jeanette Winterson, Zadie Smith) make me give this a higher rating than what I was left with. I loved reading about how reading changes lives. I love the discussion surrounding our ideas about literature. However, one gripe I take with a couple of the writers in this book probably stems from it being a product of its time, which is to say published in 2011. Ebooks were still a fairly new product and there is a lot of techophobic hostility at the mere idea of technology destroying precious, beloved, obviously superior physical books. But the text is alive and evolving as we do and now more accessible to everyone, and if we followed that ideology we would still be relying on monks to hand write our books.

stardewluna's review against another edition

4.0

i really enjoy reading about reading. i started this because of zadie smith, but her essay (which was the first one) was pretty underwhelming, while there were others that i actually really enjoyed, especially mark haddon's, jeanette winterson's etc. michael rosen's was so bad i had to skip it

fluentinsilence's review against another edition

3.0

lovely collection. toch wel een echte aanrader voor iedereen die 'serieus' van lezen/boeken houdt. het gekke is echter wel dat dit boek niet-lezers wil overtuigen, terwijl de echte liefhebbers het waarschijnlijk zullen lezen en niet andersom.

nouja.
Jeanette Winterson, Tim Parks, Jane Davis, Carmen Callil, Michael Rosen: dank voor de woorden.

kate_in_a_book's review against another edition

3.0

A collection of essays by various authors, some brilliant and insightful, others dull or even infuriating.

My full review: http://www.noseinabook.co.uk/?p=2090

pinkcait's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

kaitlin89's review against another edition

3.0

An interesting collection of essays from several authors about the importance and future of reading. More sentimental than informative but a quick and enjoyable read which had me nodding in agreement throughout the book.

laura_dreams_of_literature's review against another edition

2.0

A series of short musings on what the act of reading meant, or how it was experienced by the various authors included in this book.