Painful Reading Assignments

"Pages 1 through the end"
"Only the odd-numbered lines"
"Skip the words that end in Y"
"All the books by Smith"
"Read it backwards"
"Lexis Cases 4D5Y812 through 4D6SZ127"
"Just the footnotes"
"The entire Internet"
"Everything ever written by that guy who wrote the Bible, I forget his name"