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- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 17:50 CST
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- >As I was told by a friend when I first got married, and started
- >complaining about the constant need for more bookshelves, "Would you
- >rather be married to a person who couldn't pass a bookstore without
- >going in, or one who couldn't pass a bar without going in?"
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- All the lasses out there have been spared the dilemma in my case; I can't
- pass either without investigation.
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- As far as `bizarre book behaviour,' I find that as a rule when travelling I
- cannot resist the urge to drive about any new town I'm passing through looking
- for its bookshops. Or, in extreme cases, going slightly out of my way in
- order to visit any nearby large towns with the intention of scouting them for
- bookshops.
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- Although my track record for refraining from purchasing books when in
- commercial bookstores (B. Dalton's, Waldenbooks u.s.w.) is generally pretty
- good, I can't recall the last time I've gone into a used book store and not
- walked out with a volume or two. I'd say it's been four or five years since I
- managed it, and I visit used book stores on (at least) a weekly basis. This
- means that I buy about 250 to 300 books a year, mimimum. In the last six
- months or so I'd estimate that I've bought around 150 or 175 books.
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- As far a reading habits, I'm afraid that I can only manage to read about half
- of the books I purchase in a year, which although an annual reading list of a
- paltry 150 or so books gives me the appearance of one neigh unlettered, it
- also gives me the happy distinction of possessing a library that is not
- composed exclusively of books I've already read.
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- [deletia]
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- >1. When you go to a bookstore with a friend, are you usually carrying
- >more books when you leave than your friend is?
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- [deletia]
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- >[Janice's note: I scored 17. Can anyone beat me?]
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- I think that the only questions on the quiz that I'd have been forced to
- answer `no' on would be due to the fact that I don't a) watch the
- carnivorous coaxial Thought Vampire or b) have a spouse, so I guess a qualify
- as being afflicted by whatever it was that the quiz was supposed to test for
- (literacy?).
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- I'm afraid that I can't feel guilty about my `reading addiction' when your
- average person spends 30 hours or more a week in front of the bloody
- television.
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- Yours etc.,
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- SubGenius
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