{"id":2067,"date":"2006-12-25T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2006-12-25T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T02:56:00","slug":"why-i-dont-typically-read-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/why-i-dont-typically-read-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t typically read much&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was once invited to a book club. So many books to choose from. I had no idea which ones to read.<\/p>\n<p><i>Join the Book Club!<br \/>\nAs an introductory offer, we&#8217;ll send you the following books absolutely free:<\/p>\n<p>Eat, Run, Stay Fit and Die Anyway; How to Seem Intelligent; There&#8217;s big money in Staying Put; Piece of Mind by Losing Complete Control for 16 Hours a Day; Your Thighs Control Your Life; How to Fillet a Panda; Rid Your Life of Doubt, Or Should You?; Chances are Your Sister&#8217;s Full of Shit; How to Give Yourself a Complete Physical Without Getting Undressed; 64 Good Reasons for Giving Up Hope; Why Jews Point; 100 Dead People Nobody Misses; Backpacking for Shut-Ins; My Dog is a Real Fruit; Your Shoes are Worth Money; Reorganizing Your Pockets; What to Where on the Toilet; One Hundred and Twenty-Four Simple Exercises for the Teeth; The Stains in Your Shorts Can Indicate Your Future; Tips on Getting Laid; Self Mutilation as an Attention Getter; 600 Ways to Give People the Shaft; Tremble Your Way to Fitness; You Give Me 6 Weeks and I&#8217;ll Give You Some Disease<\/p>\n<p>And if you join today; we&#8217;ll send the following books absolutely free:<\/p>\n<p>Poems for the Insane; A Treasury of Poorly Understood Ideas; Apartment Hunting for Devil Worshipers; A Complete List of All the Things That Are Still Pending<\/p>\n<p>And these Books on Food Are Yours:<\/p>\n<p>The Intervenes Cookbook: The Meaning of Corn; Fill Your Life with Croutons; The Food Coloring Diet; Cooking for the Paralyzed; Cooking with Heat<\/p>\n<p>And if you join today, we&#8217;ll send the following books absolutely free:<\/p>\n<p>Controlling Fear Without Getting Frightened; Things No One Can Help; Understanding People You&#8217;ll Never Meet; Six Ways to Fuck Up Before Breakfast; Marriage for One; I Suck, You Suck; Let&#8217;s Change the Alphabet; Famous Bullshit Stories; Sport Fishing with Power Saws; Why Hawaii and Norway are Not Near Each Other<\/p>\n<p>And if you join today, we&#8217;ll send the following books absolutely free:<\/p>\n<p>A List of People Who Mean Well; Don&#8217;t Throw Away Your Old Skin; Ten Things We Don&#8217;t Know Yet; Caring for the Seated; The Wrong Underwear Can Kill; Trotting Across Zaire; Why it Doesn&#8217;t Snow Anymore; The Complete List of Everyone&#8217;s Personal Effects; Six Cities No One Has Ever Been To; I Gave Up hope and Died and It Worked; Famous People who were Wiry; The Lives of Six Extremely Short Saints; Anna-Mae Wong&#8217;s Tits are Made of Aluminum <\/p>\n<p>And if you join today, we&#8217;ll send the following instruction books absolutely free:<\/p>\n<p>How to Do Everything at Once; How to Give People Your Best Regards; How to Spoil Other People&#8217;s Fun; How to Kill a Rat with an Oboe; How to Organize a Tupperware Gang Bang; How to Wave Goodbye Without Moving Your Arms; How to Spot Truly Vicious People in Church; How to Get Back from Boston; How to Lease out the Space inside Your Nose; How to get a Tan With a Flashlight; How to Start a Range War; How to Spot a Creep from a Distance; How to Give a King a Really Hard Time; How to Kill Your Nephew; How to Become a Greaseball; and How to Turn Unbearable Pain into Extra Income<\/p>\n<p>So Call Now, Right now. Join the Book Club Today! <\/i><\/p>\n<p>With all proper credit to George Carlin<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2067\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/why-i-dont-typically-read-much\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2067\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/why-i-dont-typically-read-much\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2067\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/why-i-dont-typically-read-much\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/why-i-dont-typically-read-much\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was once invited to a book club. 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