The Chuclopedia

For folks with Kindles or Kindle software, here’s an ebook that is currently free (not sure if that’s a permanent thing): Twelve Guys Named Charles: Valuable lessons and inspiration from a dozen of history’s “Chucks”. This is a set of brief biographies around people who happen to have the same first name, from Chaplin to, well, M. Schulz. And since it’s a specifically pro-Charles book, it’s all very hypy-happy, including the claim “Schulz assimilated over 1400 books from his cartoon strip.”

Assimilated, eh? In the words of the great Mr. I. Montoya, “I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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