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Title: ** for the book, * for the film
Review: Caught the programme on this book on BBC4 in Dalkey, sentimental rubbish, to be sure. Director /narrator, a speed reader, acted as if books are personal trophies. Most of us rush along while we read, eager to turn the page, conditioned to move in life as relentlessly as factory workers with a drone ethic. But the best readers are not stone readers. The best readers are the slowest. Speed reading, an American invention, turns out to be skimming, which is not reading at all. The book turns out to be unreadable rubbish. I give it two *s because it makes a great doorstop.
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