Robert Cottrell: The Secrets of Reading
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The One Hour Assessment of Biographies and Profiles
I want everything i read to be contained in a one sitting, so that i can sit down in one night and finish the entire thing. What has been fantastic has been both the long for essay, which is almost like a shorter e book. I was just reading a ted turner profile from 19 99, and those are fantastic. And when i read biographies, i'm reading the dream machine about licklider. Right now, i read titon about rockefeller, 11 hundred pages. There are six chapters in there that are six of the best chapters ever written about business. The rest of the book is about his father's pins on his coat when he was six years old
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