Smith mimicked the endless, generation-counting longueurs of the Old Testament so skillfully that he rendered the book dead as literature while giving it credibility as a sacred text: a book as boring as this could have been inspired only by the breath of God.

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You should also look to own lots of different companies, (20-30), then read a book a month on boring investing.

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The sixth Harry Potter movie, for instance, took the incredibly dramatic ending of the book and turned it into a rather boring, anti-climactic, and wholly unremarkable fight scene for the movie.

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"A historical account of the US economy sounds boring, but I found the book an easy read, " said Ghodsi.

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