we're all great minds speed readers?

I heard great people like Tolstoy,teddie Roosevelt, JFK, harold bloom, etc.read thousands of words per minute? Does speed reading come with being a genius?

Could a moderator please edit the title to change we're to were? That was a mistake of the autocorrect of my kindle.

we're all great minds speed readers?

Aphorism #272 Sell Things by the Tariff of Courtesy.

Aphorism #272 Sell Things by the Tariff of Courtesy.

You oblige people most that way. The bid of an interested buyer will never equal the return gift of an honourable recipient of a favour. Courtesy does not really make presents, but really lays men under obligation, and generosity is the great obligation. To a right-minded man nothing costs more dear that what is given him: you sell it him twice

Aphorism #272 Sell Things by the Tariff of Courtesy.

Arnie Waiters

Arnie Waiters died with his secret.
Screeches shattered the silence,
a wailing, phantom and strident
and a hiss like water leaking
out of cracked pipes. Maybe
two, and maybe the people
with their red jackets, fighting
wintertime, saw a crackling bonfire.
a fireworks show.

Survey the scene.
And four wheels were still
four but the eighteen was
sixteen and two, and the snow
went bla

Arnie Waiters

Funny Names for Streets and Songs and People, Part 1--3669 words

Just joined the site--first post, first draft. I know it's a little long but I would love any sort of feedback. Part 2 coming soon. Cheers, SoCo


When it gets dark in our little town, when you’re driving over crevices and potholes on Sailor Street, on the very edge of our little slice of the state, in our smaller slice of the world, when the street lights are like scrap par

Funny Names for Streets and Songs and People, Part 1--3669 words

How many books do you usually read a year?

I have lots of free time, but I want to get an idea of how much I could read a year if I actually had a full time job, a family life, and a social life.

How many books do you usually read a year?

The Power of Lama

Samuel Lama was sitting back in his chair. He was hella cool. So cool that he didn’t even want to be in school. School wasn’t for the cool. But despite his coolness, there was no escape from the school’s schoolness. Schoolness is a word Samuel made up and it was synonymous with lameness. Only, Samuel didn’t actually know what ‘Synonymous’ meant because he never paid attention in school due to its

The Power of Lama

Robinson Crusoe and The Martian

I am quite enjoying Robinson Crusoe. At first I wondered whether it was going to be any good. Something dramatic would happen to Crusoe, then something else, then something else. I wondered whether its reputation was mainly the result of being first English novel. It got better after he was shipwrecked. Daniel Defoe based the story on the experiences of a Scottish castaway called Alexander Selkirk

Robinson Crusoe and The Martian