I usually tear through books, and if I'm motivated I can finish 1,000 pages in less than a week. Even at 250 pages though, Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men is clearly the exception to the rule. I made a note on my website five months ago that I was starting the thing. Granted, I have picked up and read 32 books since then, but still, I read through this thing like a snail crawling across an ice cube. Why, you may be asking? It's because this book demands careful attention[…]<\/a> I usually tear through books, and if I'm motivated I can finish 1,000 pages in less than a week. Even at 250 pages though, Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men is clearly the exception to the rule. I made a note on my website five months ago that I was starting the thing. Granted, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2474,2540,2479,2483,2569,2486,2535,2471,2646,2636,2491,2531,2492,2581,2467,2493,2521,2578,2560,2466,2497,2548,2470,2500,2501,2556,2503,2506,2558,2554,2496,2512,2580,2561,2523,2524,2526,2463,2527,2498,2528,2476,2571,2566,2547,2509,2534,2513,2502,2542,2583,2514,2464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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