Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

Mickey Spillane
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
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There is no way to get to the middle of a book without having read the whole thing all the way through. You can’t even get to the middle of a chapter unless you have read the whole thing. Someone who never gets beyond Chapter One might be intelligent, but he is not reading for information.

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