This is not the must-have book that some of the reviewers might have you believe. The book is out of print and it really isn't worth all the effort of tracking it down.

The one serious flaw of the book is that it doen't contain any drill exercises. The author just basically tells you to practice his methods and that with time you will become a faster reader. It would have been nice if he mentioned exactly how you are supposed to practice his methods. A better introduction to speed reading might be "Triple Your Reading Speed" by Wade E. Cutler -- a book that contains a lot of excellent eye exercises that will make it easier for the beginner to increase his reading speed.

This book covers all the basic information to help you start reading faster and it emphasizes that after reading that information speed reading can be accomplished just by pushing yourself. It also gives tips on helping comprehension, but I didn't really think they were very helpful. The book isn't very clear on how to fix the problems it's showed you you have, but just reading fixed my problem. I haven't looked at any of the other books on speed reading, but this book helps without the stupid claims of making you a genius or anything like that. If you do decide to get this book you should do exactly what the author says and don't skip any of the book because the boring parts are perfect for practicing your speed reading.

Zorn's book is a great book and it has really put me on the road to further improvement of my reading rate and comprehension. He makes no absurd promises, but he tells you from the start that if you practice the methods he presents, you will get results, and that it's all up to you to keep at it.

I started at a pitifully slow reading rate of 169 words per minute with 60% comprehension and progressed to 468 wpm with 100% comp. by the end of the book. I found that my results were much better when I worked through complete chapters at a time (and every day), rather than stopping in the middle of a chapter, since the information presented in each chapter serves as a reading warm-up for the tests presented later in the chapter.

Throughout the book, Zorn encourages the reader to keep practicing and to not give-up. I actually bought this book many years ago, and put it down, just certain that it would never help me. I was wrong, this book has definitely helped and I hope to further improve.

Dr. Zorn , wherever you are, thank you!!!