{"id":6300,"date":"2004-09-23T22:13:01","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T05:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/23\/book-a-minute.html"},"modified":"2004-09-23T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T05:13:01","slug":"book_a_minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/book_a_minute.html","title":{"rendered":"Book-a-Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not enough time in the day to read all those SF\/F books your friends keep pressing on you? Fear not.<\/a><\/p>\n

We here at Book-A-Minute SF\/F<\/em> have come up with a solution. We’ve taken several great speculative fiction novels and extracted the important stuff, cutting out all the filler. (You’d be surprised how much filler there is sometimes.) With our ultra-condensed versions of your favorite speculative fiction, you can read entire books — entire series, even — in just one minute! You can have your books and read them too! And it costs nothing!<\/p>\n

Worth looking at in small doses (so to speak), but, in that context, mostly side-splitting.<\/p>\n

(via the Flea<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not enough time in the day to read all those SF\/F books your friends keep pressing on you? Fear not. 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