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How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
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2012
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Never Flirt with Puppy Killers: And Other Better Book Titles
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Fake titles for my book, How Not To Read
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I'm going to make fake covers for my own book until the end of the year. If you'd like a book with a custom cover (WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO SAY, I'LL WRITE!) check here to see where to order it:
http://betterbooktitles.com/post/3726...
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I'm going to make fake covers for my own book until the end of the year. If you'd like a book with a custom cover (WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO SAY, I'LL WRITE!) check here to see where to order it:
http://betterbooktitles.com/post/3726...
Thanks!
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“Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly overweight and depressed.”
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated deeply into the untouched and delicate flower that was psychosis. His strong, trunk-like stature as an analyst led to the cherry popping of many previously unthought theories on the mind. He also proved that people constantly think about sex even while not penis reading about it.”
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
“Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather pose more questions. And asking questions makes you look dumber, not smarter.
I thought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would be a delightful romp through a child's subconscious, but while reading it I started to ask questions like "How do you really speak to other humans when our language often means the opposite of what is intended?" and "How do I really know anyone?" And so on, until I was asking the question "Why even exist at all?"
That didn't make me smarter! That made me wish for death, and being dead looks way dumber than being alive.”
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
I thought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would be a delightful romp through a child's subconscious, but while reading it I started to ask questions like "How do you really speak to other humans when our language often means the opposite of what is intended?" and "How do I really know anyone?" And so on, until I was asking the question "Why even exist at all?"
That didn't make me smarter! That made me wish for death, and being dead looks way dumber than being alive.”
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated deeply into the untouched and delicate flower that was psychosis. His strong, trunk-like stature as an analyst led to the cherry popping of many previously unthought theories on the mind. He also proved that people constantly think about sex even while not penis reading about it.”
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
“Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly overweight and depressed.”
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
― How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
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Jul 26, 2011 11:32AM
Thank you for choosing my BBT for Patrick Suskind's "Perfume" as a reader submission!
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I knew sooner or later you'd come up with a BBT for "A Visit from the Goon Squad", oh and I laughed for about ten minutes over last week's reader's submission for the Sarah Palin book.
I read the first two chapters of "V" and promptly gave up.
Aimee wrote: "Let me know if and when you read/finish "The Crying of Lot 49" bc I find Pynchon to be a f---ing migraine to read"Will do! Couldn't get through V.
Let me know if and when you read/finish "The Crying of Lot 49" bc I find Pynchon to be a f---ing migraine to read