Area eccentric reads entire book (Onion)
January 22nd, 2008 | Published in Books & Reading, Links, Quotes
Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there’s more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently finished reading a book.
Yes, the whole thing.
“It was great,” said the peculiar Indiana native, who, despite owning a television set and having an active social life, read every single page of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee….
Even more bizarre, Meyer is believed to have done most of his reading during his spare time—time when the outwardly healthy and stable resident could have literally been doing anything else, be it aimlessly surfing the Internet, taking a nap, or simply just staring at his bedroom wall.
“It’d be nice to read it again at some point,” Meyer continued, as if that were a perfectly natural thing to say.
–The Onion, “Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book,” January 19, 2008.