Miracle Screening Tool

[NOIRTRASH]

Last night I brought a stack of Jim Thompson novels to bed with me, to screen them, and discovered a quick & easy tool to do it: Read till my mind wanders.

Man O Man! It works! Six of the 8 books were tossed in no time, the 2 that remained are worthy.

With Thompson his prose either hits the target bulls-eye with the first arrow or wanders about like TEX-RED crawling home at 3am. There's no middle road with Thompson.

Just read till the end or till youre thinking about how you gotta insulate the water pipes outside before it gets cold.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I used my new tool on 6 books by Cornell Woolrich. As a rule I don't like Woolrich's writing tho he has a great reputation, but 4 of the 6 met my standards.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Last night I brought a stack of Jim Thompson novels to bed with me, to screen them, and discovered a quick & easy tool to do it: Read till my mind wanders.

Man O Man! It works! Six of the 8 books were tossed in no time, the 2 that remained are worthy.

With Thompson his prose either hits the target bulls-eye with the first arrow or wanders about like TEX-RED crawling home at 3am. There's no middle road with Thompson.

Just read till the end or till youre thinking about how you gotta insulate the water pipes outside before it gets cold.

You are just amazing. How do you do it? How do you read that many books? Wow!

Feeling a bit like John Travolta in Phenomenon, I thought I read a lot in college when I was earning my degree in English. Back then, I was averaging 2 books a day, sometimes, 3 if I counted how much I had to read from my texts.

Your lips must have been so tired and your finger so very sore from all of that reading. Instead of using Vasoline, try Superglue. It works best, especially for you and in your case.

Good luck.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

You are just amazing. How do you do it? How do you read that many books? Wow!

Feeling a bit like John Travolta in Phenomenon, I thought I read a lot in college when I was earning my degree in English. Back then, I was averaging 2 books a day, sometimes, 3 if I counted how much I had to read from my texts.

Your lips must have been so tired and your finger so very sore from all of that reading. Instead of using Vasoline, try Superglue. It works best, especially for you and in your case.

Good luck.

I speed read.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I speed read.

Truly, that's even more impressive.

While speed reading, you must drool all over yourself and burn the skin off of your finger from the friction on the page.

When I speed read like that and in that way, somehow I always manage to poke myself in the eye with my finger.

Not very coordinated, you should see me trying to eat an ice cream cone. I get more ice cream on my chin and on my forehead than I do in my mouth.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Truly, that's even more impressive.

While speed reading, you must drool all over yourself and burn the skin off of your finger from the friction on the page.

When I speed read like that and in that way, somehow I always manage to poke myself in the eye with my finger.

Not very coordinated, you should see me trying to eat an ice cream cone. I get more ice cream on my chin and on my forehead than I do in my mouth.

Speed reading isn't difficult. It mostly involves knowing what our eyes do and how we waste time. Like eyes scan text, left and right, but we see much less when we scan left. So I don't scan to the left. I don't vocalize or move my lips. I hear the text with my eyes. Plenty of people do the same with listening, especially when we 'know' where things are going.