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As a child, he read straight through the sixteen-volume encyclopedia his parents gave him.
I don't think Marr necessarily meant it be read straight through.
"Even though I'm one of the most avid readers I know, I don't usually read straight news.
It's not a thing to read straight through so much as attentively skip around in, like a live double album.
These are absorbing volumes even if read straight through, and they make for a valuable reference work that will reward occasional dipping in.
But we've always been able to read straight books and see ourselves reflected there, even if from a slightly skewed angle.
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If you were going to read straight-faced newspaper accounts of the events in Kosovo (and chances are, you weren't), you might as well read Data-Entry Clerk Reapplies Carmexx at 17-Minute Intervals".
On one side it reads "Straight talk", the other says "Own it".
They are instructed to make their announcements by reading straight from the book.
Manuscripts arrived and I'd open them and start reading straight away.
For a start, Frances had a childhood that reads straight out of one of her tales of reversal of fortune.
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