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- From: jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joann Zimmerman)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <86052@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 20:13:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.081101.12857@csusac.csus.edu>
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- In article <31DEC199217501608@rigel.tamu.edu> SubGenius,
- spb0457@rigel.tamu.edu writes:
- >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
-
- I've noticed one other interesting phenomenon. I'm unable to be in a new
- town without opening up the Yellow Pages to the "book dealer" section.
- Points assigned on proportion of proper book shops to those "Christian"
- places that sell more prayer books and fishy bumper stickers than
- anything else. Oh, the terror of being in a place with five Bible Book
- Stores and no Den of Novels. I start feeling very itchy, and become
- desirous of leaving. I also begin to suspect, rightly, the quality of the
- cuisine.
- --
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- "They like sitting around reading all the books there are. And then they
- love arguing about them. Some of those arguments go on for millenium
- after millenium. It just seems to keep them young, for some reason,
- arguing about books." -- Julian Barnes
-
- Joann Zimmerman (jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
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