The phrase "a distorted reading of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an interpretation or understanding of something that is inaccurate or misrepresented.
Example: "The article presents a distorted reading of the events that transpired during the meeting."
Alternatives: "a skewed interpretation of" or "a misrepresented view of".
The first is a terribly distorted reading of various biblical passages, and the second is the fear that acknowledging who/how non-heteros love will lead to the cessation of procreation.
They are driven, she argues, not by empiricism but by ideology, and by a highly selective and distorted reading of school experiments abroad, particularly those of the Swedish school system and the US Charter school movement.
Moreover, under her Draconian and distorted reading of the Bible, she should have denied herself the right to a marriage license since she divorced not one, but three husbands.
Nowadays, when a Web site wishes to verify that you are human, it asks you to read a distorted image of numbers and letters, called a CAPTCHA, which stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
'Since the dawn of humanity, people have tried to ease sadness and break conventions by showing human beings their personality in a distorted mirror,' read the blurb.
Traditionally in audio captchas, a distorted voice reads numbers and the user types them in.
Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father's decades of rant-pamphleteering.
I suggest reading 'One Hundred Years' as a distorted version of Colombian history".
The many people who read these journals because they think that they are reading what is most important are actually being presented with a distorted view of science.
