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To: epicure who wrote (51104)	12/7/2023 12:13:55 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (2) of 51710

I remember racing through War and Peace, but I was lucky in that when my eyes still worked properly I could read 1000 words per minute with excellent comprehension. You guys probably aren't old enough to have been affected, but during the mid-60s there was a real craze in Canada and the US for what was known as speed reading. We had special classes that were a breeze for me as by their tests I was already reading at university level in Grade 6. Those were the days when I used to finish at least a dozen books a week. Unfortunately too many of them were sf that in retrospect are crap, but I started switching to adult reading about that time. I think I read Catch-22 a dozen times during junior high. I only read War and Peace once though. By 1980 I had sold my collection of several thousand sf and fantasy books for under a thousand dollars, since most were paperbacks. I do still have my collection of J.G. Ballard's books, some of them first edition. I should look into whether those are worth anything these days. And I have to figure out what to do with the rest of the several thousand other books I can't read any more. LC

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