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- From: loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 08:38:24 -0500
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- In-reply-to: orourke@sophia.smith.edu's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:01:30 GMT
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- orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
-
- 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?
-
- I suppose if being bored out of my wits counts as a withdrawal symptom,
- then yes.
-
- I've been aware that I sometimes am guilty of spending too much time
- on escapist reading material at the expense of "having a life" of my
- own. During a stressful period in my life couple of years back, I
- found myself devouring two or three genre novels every night in an
- attempt to forget about my other problems, for example.
-
- -Sandra
-