Most of us can read this or most of it

[Allen]

I wouldn't call it having a strong mind though. As you write something you know what you are thinking so the script left on your notes may not be perfect.

Along with short cutting text messages I would say this is why we type so many errors, even when after we spell check and proof read.

[Oyaji]

This message
serves to prove
how your mind can
do amazing things!
Impressive things!
In the beginning
it was hard but
now, on this line
your mind is
reading it
automatically
with out even
thinking about it,
be proud! Only
certain people can
read this
please share if
you can read this

[Phloating Phlasher]

Its Pattern Recognition. Your brain fills in the gaps & builds the associations.
I've always been a fast reader, never took a course, its just something I can do.
I constantly got berated for it in school.
"You have 45 minutes to read this section."
20 minutes later, I'm sitting there staring into space!
I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO READ THE ENTIRE SECTION!
I did.
READ IT ALL AGAIN! YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY READ AND UNDERSTAND AT THAT SPEED, YOU JUST SKIMMED IT.
Yes I can, ask me any question about it.
(Q&A follows I pass)
HAVE DEMERIT FOR BEING CHEEKY"
But I just proved I understood it.
YOU! 1 HOUR'S DETENTION.
A good sized paperback book takes me about 2~3 hours.

[Allen]

Because of school and school teachers I hate books to this day. I don't even care to read long articles.

Text books is one thing.

Novels, poetry, and long made up stories is another. One persons attempt to make money off of his works does not interest me.

Taming of the shrew, Lord of the flies. C'mon, kids that age have enough to put up with w/o absolute B/S like this thrown at them. Even the Cliffs Notes are too long and boring.

Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe stole my childhood as far as I'm concerned. Didn't like the chit then---never used it nor had a need for it throughout life either as I knew I wouldn't back then when it was forced upon us.

While I appreciate the "arts", a painting or statue can be studied or quickly glimpsed over where a book always has to be studied and occupy time having to read and remember about every single word. I never had a test on a painting or a statue.

[PWC]

I'm a reader. Mostly military type stuff. WEB Griffin (better before his son and others "co-authored". Eisenhower and Patton's accounts of the war at their level. Any of the books from the people at the pointy end of Viet Nam, Korea, WW II, and the 'Stan's. Air war, war in the mud, not so much on he sea. "Alone At Dawn" and "Robert's Ridge" contrast the Navy's and USAF investigations of Operation Anaconda, and the battle for Takur Gahr in Afganastan.

EVERYONE has a story to tell whether to their kids or to a wider audience.

[Phloating Phlasher]

Most people hate Shakespeare because of the way it's taught.
Mindless, endless dissection of every nuance, of every single sentence, one at a time is a great way to make anything horrible.
I felt just like you till I found an LP of Edward Woodward doing the voices of Julius Caesar.
It suddenly came to life, because it had feeling, expression & so on.

[Former Cav]

damned near flunked "english lit" because of that chit.

[JB White]

You can tell who flunked out of English lit sometimes when people use the Elizabethan words while making a point.
Most often they emphasize “THEE” in place of “the”. They sound so…special.
Dey don’t know no good English ��

[Phloating Phlasher]

Iffn' dese cassnt clat the kings lingo gert lush, shut yer gert gob then, eh?

[Allen]

Iffn' dese cassnt clat the kings lingo gert lush, shut yer gert gob then, eh?

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