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- From: rcrowley@donne.zso.dec.com (Rebecca Crowley)
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:23:32 GMT
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- Joseph O'Rourke (orourke@sophia.smith.edu) wrote:
- : ...makes me wonder if reading can be a type of (benign?) addiction.
-
- An addiction, a habit, I'd say those are fair. I'm as hooked on reading as
- I am on food.
-
- Other times this question has come up, I've heard stories from people
- who, when children, sneaked flashlights into bed with them so they
- could read under the covers. Most of the times I got into trouble,
- it was because I was caught reading by the hall light long after my bedtime.
- It seems it starts young with most of us.
-
- I discovered earlier this year that I was running out of mind candy (genre
- fiction -- for me, sf) -- hadn't read any new authors in a while, didn't
- know which of the new ones were good. I started reading this (and
- r.a.sf.written) largely in an effort to find neat new stuff to read. It's
- worked pretty well: I doubt I'd have read _The Stars My Destination_, I know
- I wouldn't have recognized Florence King when I read an excerpt from _With
- Charity Toward None_ in Utne Reader, not to mention another dozen books I've
- read, and who knows how many on the list of interesting stuff to look into
- that I'll read one-of-these-days.
-
- And, of course, reading r.a.b. is *reading*, which is just fine, all by
- itself.
- --
- Rebecca Crowley -- spreading memes in .sigs -- Standard Disclaimers Apply
- Curiosity never killed anything except a few hours.
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