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August 18, 2010

Speed-reading

By Spear's

A while ago somebody posted a list of fifteen books they had liked on the Internet, the rule being that it had to be put together in fifteen minutes.

A while ago somebody posted a list of fifteen books they had liked on the Internet, the rule being that it had to be put together in fifteen minutes.

Others followed suit. I thought what a great idea and did the same, my rules being no Mona Lisa equivalents, like Hamlet, and thry didn’t have to be “great,” just to have had a great effect on me.

And I forgot to post it. I just came across it. Here it is. Perhaps others would like to do the same?

And let us salute the inventor who was NOT me. Will somebody please tell me who it was?

Anthony Haden-Guest

Top fifteen

In A Free State by V S Naipaul

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