The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

One theme is constant throughout the book: association. You relate what you are trying to remember to something in the real world or between objects if you are trying to memorize a list. Helpful, yes, but I felt as though some chapters could have been much shorter or thrown out altogether with this concept running throughout the first 90 pages.

I bought this book in the hopes of finding some sort of system that'll help me remember things more effectively and efficiently. This book did that.

This book is very readable. It doesn't use heavy terminology nor does it get too deep on some concepts that merely need a few pages to discuss. It stays on focus and encourages you to take a break every now and then to practice what you learned. The practices can be skipped, but they are very good practices.

The systems discussed are very practical and can be silly at times. For example, Al likes to BAM (comic book sound effect) and Al likes to ska (term for a type of punk music). For me this is my substitution for Alabama and Alaska, and it helps me remember, in-order, the 50 states. The systems help me remember many things that I need to know for exams or a simple shopping list.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn techniques for remembering things in sequence and out of sequence, peoples names and faces, long lists of numbers, and almost anything else that you need to remember in your daily life.

It looks like an old hardcopy riprinted. The book has value per se but it looks and is very cheap (pages not cover)

This is an excellent book with so many effective, fun, and creative techniques to improving memorization of a huge variety of different types of information. This book has allowed me to memorize huge lists of items, long strings of random numbers, thousands of vocabulary words and definitions, and foreign language rules and vocabulary. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is looking for effective, FUN techniques to improve memory! The writing is casual, and the book is an enjoyable read! This is one of my all-time favorite books.

I first saw these two on public TV in Los Angeles (channel 28) in 1979. They gave a simple list of ten words and asked you to remember them. You can always remember the first and last word and strange ones in the middle, but that was it. And then they wanted you to remember it in order -- backwards order! Then they gave their technique and had us remember the list again. It was so easy! The list is actually glass, ceiling, Eiffel Tower, drapes, roses, door, tree, elephant, street, ashtray. I had not recalled that list since about 1982 yet I pulled it out of my head just now and will remember it forever, just like pi to a few thousand places, every phone number every person I know ever had, every address, every car license plate, you name it. They make it so very fun. I only wish losing weight was so easy!