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In a post on The Guardian (UK), books writer Alison Flood writes about the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of books and how she would skip ahead to find out whether a prospective choice “led to the treasure in the cave or a horrible death, escape from the dungeon or a watery doom.”
She calls this cheating, but defends the practice.
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Roberto Bolaño’s überbook inspires a speed-read through literary history.
In perhaps the greatest blog idea of all time, The New Yorker has declared January National Reading 2666 Month. They’re posting a daily group blog and also publishing letters from readers also in the midst Bolano’s thousand-page-plus opus. Here’s what one reader had to say: