Does any one I know read anymore?

Yes, I finished it. (A day or so ago) No. I won't tell you how it ends. Read the damn book. It's not that hard.

I have had this particular conversation with the people in my office. I am not kidding. I only wish I was.

However, I agree with Michael Duff. I feel like I did at the end of the first Spiderman movie. How interesting.

The whole situation reminds me of the working at Borders. In the last two weeks of summer, we were inundated with teenagers begging for the cliffs notes of the books on their summer reading list.

It was fairly common to hear the following exchange

Bookseller: "I am sorry. We seem to have sold out of the Cliff's Notes for (insert title here). However we do have 20 copies of the book in stock.

Teenager: "No thanks. Is there a movie?"

After playing out that exchange about 500 times a day on the phone and in person, you might also begin to hear:

Bookseller: Try the book. It won't hurt you.

The last one was always delivered with the unspoken ending of "You fucking moron".

More later.