Sleeplessly rolling through the increasingly personalized cable channels the other night, my attention was held by a “program” featuring 2 well-educated spinsters having a round table (or maybe that’s linear table, since it was just the two) about reading. One was touting a new way to peruse the pages that was even faster than speed reading; he deemed Evelyn Wood’s techniques worthless.
His friend listened, nodded, and mugged attentively while it was explained to him that it could increase reading speed to a page a second (picture books not included here). He then demonstrated by grabbing a book that he claimed to have never seen before, flip through a chapter in about 20 seconds, and correctly answer several questions in re. Flashy ads followed with 800 #s…
Please tell me someone out there fell for this so I can know the results (if any) of this technique! Must… control… im…pulse…to buy…
Oh yeah, the “and sex” part. Just seems ya get a lot more peepers if you spice up the title, no?