I am slowly and not so surely pushing my way through this list, working forward chronologically. William Hazlitt's On Common-Place Critics is, in fact, quite fantastic. Now reading the Fitzgerald, although because the list has been updated several times I've actually made more progress than...
reading strategies
This is from a while back, but for folks who might be interested in learning how to read a book in about an hour, this fellow claims to have mastered.