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- From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
- Subject: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.050130.24366@sophia.smith.edu>
- Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
- References: <1992Dec31.022551.17233@netcom.com> <1htpq3INN95b@agate.berkeley.edu> <1htqodINNbui@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:01:30 GMT
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- Seeing the astounding quantity of books some posters consumed in 1992
- makes me wonder if reading can be a type of (benign?) addiction. This
- may be an especially apt description of those who (compulsively?) read a
- hundred genre novels a year, mysteries or science fiction for example.
- Among those who are voracious readers, do you feel the
- equivalent of withdrawal symptoms when (for whatever reason) you cannot
- read for an extended period?
-