The Most Highlighted Kindle Passages of All Time
Amazon keeps track of how many times Kindle readers highlight a passage in a book.
The all-time highlight-frequency winners are . . . (drum roll) . . .
1. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (You’re supposed to know who this is. Answers are at the bottom of the post.)
2. The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
3. Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
4. Rule #1: Avoid “white” carbohydrates (or anything that can be white). Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again. Rule #3: Don’t drink calories. Rule #4: Don’t eat fruit. Rule #5: Take one day off per week and go nuts.
White carbohydrates?
Passive Guy notes a distinct decline-and-fall thing going on here. It’s obvious the wrong sort of people have been highlighting passages on their Kindles.
Where is “Call me Ishmael,” “You don’t know me without you have read a book,” and “best of times?” PG would even be mollified by “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again,” but white carbohydrates?
PG can’t take it any more, so here’s a link to the rest at Amazon
You’re supposed to guess first without looking down for the answers.
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1. The Magnificent Jane, of course, in Pride and Prejudice
2. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
3. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (I know it’s non-fiction and it’s not Tolstoy.)
4. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss
It’s weird how many people I run into who haven’t read Moby Dick or a Tale of Two Cities. Such sigh-worthy opening lines…
It is true you should watch your ‘white’ intake.:P
Julia – I’m 100% black rice and am looking for a good black mashed potato recipe.:)
And where is the black french fry when we need it?
Ah…go with orange. I love me some oven-baked sweet potato fries. Oh so yum with cayenne and ketchup. I do purple mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving, but the truth is if anyone ever told me my next meal would be my last, it would consist of good old French fries with tons of Heinz Ketchup. Not Hunts, Heinz. And that’s all. Maybe an old fashioned chocolate coke. Pure junk. Delish!
Julia – You’re on a slippery slope. First, your next meal is your last, then it’s the next-to-last and pretty soon you find yourself waking up in a cheap hotel room covered with salt with french fries strewn across the floor.
I’m eating black french fries right now! It counts if you forgot and left them in the oven right?
And who wants to highlight the first line in a book anyway? For popularity on Amazon? I do it because I read on my phone and my big fat fingers occasionally go all Homer on it and strange things happen when I’m trying to turn the page.
Judd – Leave it to the Aussies to invent black french fries before any of the rest of us even thought of them.
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