READ TO LEAD

Let me start by asking you a simple question.

What is so special or rather unusual about the following statement?

Eg. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

What’s unusual about this statement?

You’re absolutely correct if you said “This is a Pangram”

What is a Pangram? It is a written text deliberately composed of words with all the alphabets.

Now here’s the challenge: Can you write five sentences without using the letter ‘E’ which is the most common letter in the English language.

In 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright, wrote a novel “Gaudsby: Champion of Youth” with 50,000 words not using the letter “E”.

By the way, Have you noticed anything spectacular about these words? 

When someone says Hurry, have you ever realised this word was coined or invented by William Shakespeare? Similarly, words like boredom, disgraceful, hostile, money’s worth, obscene, puke, perplex, on purpose, these words were also invented by William Shakespeare. Until his time, people were talking without these words, can you imagine?

Just to tickle your grey matter little more…

Do you know which is the most boring book in the world?

Yeah… I could hear some of my boys telling it is the book I teach everyday.

Perhaps the most uninteresting book ever written is The calculation of pi to two million places, in 800 pages.

Which is the most expensive book ever purchased?

The world's most expensive book ever purchased was bought by Bill Gates at auction for $30.8 million dollars.

The title of the book is Codex Leicester by Leonard da Vinci.

Which is the most expensive book in the world?

The most expensive book is The Task by Tomas Alexander Hartmann. It has a value by the author for 153 million euros. That's about 213 million U.S. dollars. And the kicker, it's only 13 pages long.

Isn’t it interesting to talk about books?

But a recent survey in 2012 tells that 54% of children said they preferred watching TV for reading.

It is really saddening to watch children fall prey to

-          TV which is just 89 years old

-          Internet which is just 32 years old

-          Facebook is still a minor celebrated its 11^th birthday Feb 4^th

Facebook is like a Fridge. Even if you know there’s nothing inside, you still open it every five minutes.

Yes, I find TV very educating, when someone switches on the TV, I go to my room shut myself and start reading a book, says Groucho Marx. TV is called an Idiot box not because it is an idiot but it makes us idiots. It doesn’t allow us to think, imagine, construct but only watch it with mouth wide open.

As I leave you, I leave this message with you:

The worst crime is to burn a book but still worst is not reading them.

Without Books, we have No History and No Future.

Have a wonderful day and happy Reading.

Thanks for all the books which I referred regarding the interesting facts. I owe everything to the books which I read through to get here.