Let's see who can hold out the longest.
Now, the only rule is that you must be in a position to buy/read it before your count can begin.
So, anyone going on a cruise for the next two weeks, for example, can't start their suffering time until they get back.
Just buying it doesn't end your suffering time count though, you have to crack it open and begin to read it.
I added "buying" in the description because many might have a limited opportunity to actually buy the book and I don't expect anyone to hold back at that point. But if you live next to a bookstore try to tough it out and not buy it.
So at 9:00AM (the time most retail stores open for business) Eastern Standard time (hey, my contest my time zone) on Oct 9th (that is the day it goes on sale right?) the contest will begin!
If you get your greedy little hands on a copy before that and somehow manage to resist reading it then you can back credit your suffering time.
So if you get it this Sunday at 9:00 AM but don't read any of it until the next day at 9:00 AM put yourself down for 24 hours.
Does that make sense?
I'm assuming that like that episode in Seinfeld most of us won't last more than 2 hours!
And all you *losers* who already have a copy and have read it and have begun discussion and dissection, you all can just kiss my ass!!
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