So I have tried that and I kind of like it, even though I have been very firm in print about the virtues of reading the book first.
Carrying this book around recently I've caught more than a little flak, not least from my kids, who once thought of me as a literary intellectual, or at the very least as a guy who espoused the virtues of reading.
AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile.
The virtue of reading, they say, lies in the communion between writer and reader, the ability to pause, to reread a sentence, and yes, read it out loud -- to yourself.
But the pleasure of reading "Sovereign Virtue" is that although few of Dworkin's conclusions are self-evident, his arguments are dazzlingly clever.
The implicit advice of "The Virtues of Poetry" — always read for maximum complexity, and with maximum patience — is as valuable as it is frequently ignored.
What Rosenbaum writes seems to undercut what the next four and half chapters of his text achieve, as they summarize the content and extol the virtues of the memoirs read in club meetings.
But Englander runs the risk of making the whole feel a little too slivered: most readers like to settle with characters, and would, in any case, surely claim decent attention spans by happy virtue of their reading at all.
After all, how many new terrorist groups have, by virtue of this reading of the statute, been determined to be among the groups against which military force may be used?
Literacy provides the individual with common social virtue of writing, reading and cultivation of health ethics which has a bearing on improving life expectancy.
Hence the Man Booker, whose judges don't pretend to represent the man on the Clapham Omnibus, though the latter continues to protest the virtues of a "good read", as witness an attack on this year's winner, Marlon James, by one Laura Freeman writing in the Daily Mail.
