After spending a little more time with the speed-reading book I recently purchased, I started to get suspicious. The main focus of the book seemed to be primer on studying. Useful — but not what I was looking for.

What’s more is the fact that the author kept bringing up “stunning successes” — tales of people who had mastered the program, much to everyone’s surprise; why is the book trying to sell me on the book? I’ve already bought it, after all.

Doing a little more research on the web brought me to this Wikipedia entry.

So, it seems I was taken in by a fraud. I allowed wishful thinking to get in the way of sound judgement, and I’m out five bucks. Every time something like this happens, I always hope that I’ve learned something from the experience. But then again, I’m an idiot.