Sunday, February 2, 2014

Fourteen Books You Could Read in the Time it Takes to Watch the Superbowl-- PBS

This article is of little solace to Broncos fans..

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14 books you could read in the time it takes to watch the Super Bowl

BY Kristin Miller  February 2, 2014 at 4:49 PM EST
If you just watch the game, a conservative estimate of the running time of the Super Bowl is at least three and a half hours. Add in the pre-game and post-game analysis and the entire event could top six hours.
What else could you be doing with that time? Reading a book is one option.
According to Forbes magazine — which did the math in the article “Do You Read Fast Enough to be Successful?” — the average adult has a reading speed of about 300 words per minute. The book publishing standard runs to approximately 250 words per page.
So, an average adult should be able to read at least one 200-page book during the Super Bowl.
Access the full text or learn more about the 14 books below:
The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry
Casino Royale,” Ian Fleming
The Wasteland,” T.S. Eliot
We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” Shirley Jackson
The Hound of the Baskervilles,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Interpreter of Maladies,” Jhumpa Lahiri
Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time,” Dava Sobel
Into the Wild,” Jon Krakauer
Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus,” Mary Shelley
Animal Farm,” George Orwell
The War of the Worlds,” H.G. Wells
The Old Man and the Sea,” Ernest Hemingway

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