BETTER BOOK TITLES PRESENTS...HOW NOT TO READ

A wry yet good-natured humor book about all things reading, based on the author's popular website BetterBooksTitles.com

The Last Stupid Book You’ll Ever Need to Read Don’t want to slog through lengthy old books like A Tale of Two Cities or The Odyssey? Sick of being judged by your avid reader “friends” who talk about books you’ve never heard of? Want to sound smarter without the strain of actually bettering yourself? Never fear. In How Not to Read, you’ll find techniques to fake your way through literature so you never have to read another book—ever! Tips for getting through anything you have to read by reading faster: just read every third word. (One Hundred Years of Solitude becomes: - “Many as the Colonel was, that when him ice.” Wow! It’s like Gertrude Stein poem only more comprehensible!) - Entire genres summed up in a single page: Historical Fiction: “Guess who else had sex: Hitler!”. - Literary insults to make yourself seem smarter: “The only thing sadder than you is a Joycean epiphany!” “You’re as weak as a passive sentence written in negative form. And probably not considered by anyone to be worth more than an adverb.” It’s time to stop fearing those people who keep bringing up Ayn Rand. How Not to Read is here to liberate the world from ever needing to read a book again. Dan Wilbur is a comedian and bookseller in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been featured on Collegehumor.com, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and The Onion News Network. He is the creator of www.BetterBookTitles.com, which has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and Glamour magazine.