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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Mar 2014

    Sign of a really good book: you try to read slower to make it last longer.

    9:49 AM - 4 Mar 2014
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      2. uSoma-Technology‏ @ImNotRio 4 Mar 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Any reccommendations for young adults,sir?

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 5 Mar 2014
        Replying to @ImNotRio

        @ImNotRio The Lord of the Rings

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      2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Mar 2014
        Replying to @Jason

        @Jason At the moment, The Fry Chronicles.

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      1. Chaitanya Mehta‏ @cmehta85 5 Mar 2014
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        @paulg or go faster because you just can't wait to find out what happens next!

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      1. Ellen Petry Leanse‏ @chep2m 4 Mar 2014
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        Nice. @paulg Had that response w/Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume earlier this year. First fiction in a while that elicited the "savor" reflex

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      1. Craig Lauer‏ @craiglauer 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg tweet from yesterday suggests that it’s Fry’s book.

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      1. Michael Mac Lean‏ @macleanme 4 Mar 2014
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        Agreed @paulg and re-read parts so that it really sinks in

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      1. Anand Chandrasekaran‏Verified account @anandc 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg that happened to me w the Steve jobs book (day before my wedding, no less!) :)

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      1. Jan van den Berg‏ @loginn 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg Im reading this book now called Hackers & Painters. It's just like that!

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      2. Jason McCay‏ @jasonmccay 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg I did that with "Born to Run" by @McDougallChris. Then, I decided ... "What the heck, I'll just read it again."

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      3. Jason Shen‏ @JasonShen 4 Mar 2014
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        @jasonmccay @paulg @McDougallChris with B2R, I wanted to stop every chapter and do a 10 miler out of sheer excitement

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      1. Liad Shababo‏ @L1AD 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg not just slow down. ration pages per day.

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      1. Priyanka Sharma‏ @pritianka 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg I try to read a good book slower so I absorb all the emotional elements deeper.

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      1. Greg Blome‏ @Greg_Blome 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg I've only experienced this a few times - one with @nntaleb's Antifragile

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      1. Kurt Braget‏ @kurtybot 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg or you stop reading it half way through and idealize it for over a decade.

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      1. Joachim Nolten‏ @stiller 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg What are you reading? Hackers & Painters? ;-)

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      1. Dave Paola‏ @dpaola2 4 Mar 2014
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        @paulg The derivative of my reading velocity indicates whether or not I will finish it.

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