In the article, he quotes one friend of his who told him: "I can't read War and Peace anymore.

“I can’t read War and Peace anymore,” he admitted. “I’ve lost the ability to do that.

He read War and Peace in its entirety when he was only 10.

Mobile phone users who send 10 texts a day type out the equivalent of the epic novel War and Peace every five and a half years, new research has found.

“I am supposed to lay back and come in with ‘War and Peace’ or be considered a bum, ” he said.