Product Details

• Actors: Pat Bean
• Directors: Park University Enterprises Inc.
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics
• DVD Release Date: September 1, 2003
• Run Time: 145 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007U1YGM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,188 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Learn to read almost as fast as you can flip the page with astounding comprehension! Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics® works like magic. Presidents Kennedy and Carter profited from the course so much they insisted that their top staff members take it. CEO's of Fortune 500 companies, college professors, members of Congress, and over two million other achievers are also Evelyn Wood graduates. Double Your Reading Speed Guaranteed! You ll learn how to determine your current reading rate, then increase it immediately. Your reading speed will double guaranteed! Finish the newspaper in five or ten minutes. Rifle through magazines, reports, and trade publications in record time. Polish off entire books in one sitting. Plus, there s an advanced comprehension and retention system that will help you understand more. Program Highlights: * Read even the most complex material at increased speeds move from the average reader s 250 words per minute to speeds exceeding 1,000 words per minute * Remember ideas, concepts, information retain what you ve read for months instead of just days or hours * Understand what you read with remarkable depth and clarity without long, laborious notes, without slow reading and continuously going back to the material * Absorb verbal information meetings, presentations, conversations and recall accurately what was said or discussed * Manage the stacks of information you face every day without the usual frustration and fatigue even financial and legal documents, periodicals, and more. * Help your children improve their grades and prepare for tests or college entrance exams (Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics is appropriate for anyone who reads at a 6th grade level or higher) * Stay on top of your coursework as you pursue your own graduate degree!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Overpriced Introduction to Speed Reading, February 5, 2009

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Wing Fat - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics (DVD)

I read slowly, and because I have stacks of books that I intended to read "someday" I decided to look into speed reading. I did some research to try and figure out what would be best, and chose the Evelyn Wood program because of my familiarity with the name.

First off let me say that I purchased the VHS tapes, not the DVD. I am writing this review under the DVD section because that's where I think it will be of most use to people. I did some research before purchasing and discovered the VHS tapes contain the same content as the DVD but can be had for much less. The VHS tapes I received did not come with a workbook, but you can purchase that from the Fred Pryor website for a few bucks which I did.

The video consists of a classroom lecture broken into three parts. Part one (about 45 minutes) advises using your hand as a guide while reading. Part two (about 55 minutes) is about scanning a document before reading it to improve memory and comprehension. Part three (about 25 minutes) is review and advises you to keep practicing. That's basically all there is to it; the instructor gives examples and exercises but there are no "secrets" or breakthrough techniques, and some of the concepts that intrigued me (like eliminating "subvocalization") are glossed over so quickly that I wondered why they bothered presenting them in the first place.

I did some research on the history of Evelyn Wood and learned that the original courses were 21 hours of classroom instruction over a period of three weeks. This video is about 2 hours. So what you have is basically an introduction to speed reading--not a full course. Although the information is good (just using my hand as a guild while reading helped increase my speed instantly), in my opinion the price they are asking for the DVD is unreasonable for what you are getting.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have a 3.94 GPA and only read 1 hour a week, April 8, 2009

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Michael J. Wroblewski - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics (DVD)

This program works great. Quadrupled my reading speed and more than doubled my comprehension. I have family member who didn't finish the program (laziness) and they still doubled their reading speed.

If you're a slow reader, reading makes you tired, or just has a heavy work load this program works very well.