Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Welcome :D
Hello fellow classmates, my name is Jaime Martinez and I am a 19 year old kid who goes to college and lives life one day at a time. If you want to know more or have any questions, just let me know.
Goog Readers and Good Writers
Vladimir Nabokov. In the short story Good Readers and Good Writers, Nabokov states that a good reader should posses many different characteristics. Some examples that Nabokov gives are a good imagination, memory, a dictionary, and artistic sense. I would definitely have to agree with him because a good imagination is an open mind that has no limits and can relate in a well manner, memory to remember everything that has/is occurring, a dictionary to have a better understanding of a word or to look up an unknown word, and an artistic sense to appreciate any piece of literature. Before reading the story I had not thought of any of the characteristics mentioned, but now that I have read through it, I would have to concede with Nabokov in that possessing all those characteristics one can improve and enjoy reading in several different ways.
I personally think I am a poor reader because I sometimes have a really hard time grasping on to the material and or what the material means, and other times I grasp it right away. The occasions when I grasp the material right away are when I am really interested in the material or when I already am similar with material being discussed. I would say that to be a good reader one has to grasp the material whether he or she likes it or not, but that is just my opinion on what I consider a good reader. It is for those reasons that I don’t consider myself a “good reader.” Here is a link on tips to becoming a good reader.
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