Many reviewers here and at Amazon do not like chapter seven on loving the long sentence, but I appreciated that and all the others. This is my second reading, and I am still finding things to underline (like these comments, p. 68, 71: “Consider, for instance, how good reading involves attitudes and predispositions: consent, permission, forgiveness, relinquishment, empathy, resistance, compromise. What do you have to forgive Hemingway to get the gift that he offers? His machismo? His anti-Semitism? What do you need to consent to in order to read The Sound and the Fury on its terms? . . . to make ready to receive precisely the gift one needs in precisely this moment of reading”). Originally a series of lectures at Princeton Seminary, this is a rewarding book.