Books are an expensive habit. Which is why I've stopped. I think ciggaretes are STILL cheaper than books. Granted, books can be re-read, but smoking cuts half your life span so you don't have time to re-smoke anyways.
A box of ciggarettes costs almost 10 bucks nowadays but it can last you a 2-3 hours, if you chain smoke. Books on the other hand costs awhopping 30 bucks, and that's the small tiny ones - with big letterings any semi-blind old man can read through without his glasses. And those takes me an hour or so to finish (the books. Old men takes me longer to finish). Remember the tiny "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone"? That was pretty much a less than an hour read. The movie lasted longer.
The bigger books lasts me longer - 2, 3 hour tops but then they cost more too.
So I don't smoke neither do I buy books anymore. Which is why I am hooked to Wikipedia - to support my reading habit. This is also why I know what Bauhaus means (House of Building) and that it didn't have architecture in it's first semester. It's also why I know who's Maxwell's demon (boring) a brief history of the light saber (awesome) and the etymology of "etymology" is from the Greek etumon (true sense) + logia (study of).
I somehow feel that I should end this post with a vulgar gesture.
,..|.. ^_^ ..|.., (It was either this or a picture of my ass)
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What I learnt from Wikipedia: that the word 'Mamak' is from the Tamil term for maternal uncle.
Gotta love the Wiki...
Go to the library, they got many books. You don't have to pay RM30+. RM1 for the library card is enough.
And how to read sorcerer's stone in one hour? 1 hour = 60mins. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stones = 320 pages. You need to read about 5 pages in 1 minute to finish reading Harry Potter in 1 hour. You liar. You skipped. That is not fast-reading. That is skipping words and paragraph. :p
That's funny - I remember something around a 200 page with big fonts for the first Harry Potter book...
As for the fast reading bit - what can I say? It's embedded in my mums side of the family. ^_^ Well most of us anyways.
3 pages in 1 minutes is still considered as too fast. :p
He is Superman! Believe it or not, he is a super duper fast reader. I'd agree on the super fast reader in his family too. Geniuses!
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