huh! I walked to school once while reading got yelled at by friends to watch out where I was going or Id hit a car so now ususlly only do that if Im with someone who I can latch onto and rely to steer me past obsticles.
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huh! I walked to school once while reading got yelled at by friends to watch out where I was going or Id hit a car so now ususlly only do that if Im with someone who I can latch onto and rely to steer me past obsticles.
Lol. Awww. I've done that, but got hit by a ball not a car, so I try not to anymore!
Does it have to be 12 steps?? cant it be nine or seven?
Anyway so far we have what 2?
1-Take Den Literture abuse test
2- Accept that you have a problem
3- Talk about your 'habit' ;)
4a- Burn books?
4b-get the number of books a day down (by book burning??)
we have more steps than I thought
It HAS to have 12 steps! That's critical for it to be a successful 12-step program!!
The number 12 step can be a group hug! That should do nicely. And book burning shouldn't be #4. It should come later, after most of the desperation is gone. Maybe #9 or 10... (And I think burning text books is good enough... no need to burn the good stuff.)
OOOOR! Instead, maybe people could work rotations in a book store on the days when the paperbacks have to have their covers torn off. That's a depressing job, but at least it's putting the destruction of books to good use! (And mostly you get to do Harlequins and the like. :D)
My name is Snukes, and although I have a problem, I'm currently suffering through a temporary recovery. My dependency can't be as bad as I thought, as I've managed to stick to the "no new books may be started until thesis is 100% drafted" rule without breaking into any nervous sweats or unexpected gales of tears.
However, I think I'll need to stick around and finish out my 12 steps, since I can feel a panic-driven need to recover for this wasteful bit of literary abstinence as soon as I get the chance...
Me so not destroying a book other than maybe a textbook! No, no game :D
geez, destroying a book while I have troubles even opening a paperback all the way in order not to break the back, lol
Maybe if we just burned stuff like Harlequin romances?
0h dear I but it as 4a as it is still in question maybe we should just skip that step. surley if we succeed we would not need to burn books??
I used to be a readaholic. I used to read everything including cereal box and washing powder cans, and that's also how my biggest passion, languages, developed...I still read the ingredients in all the languages and get all excited if a particularly exotic one is there. I've never read more than one book at once but during my first 15 years of life (well since the age of four and a half when I learnt to read) I could read up to 4 or 5 per week... and re-read the same ones many times. I used to calculate amounts of money in 'how many books and cds could I buy with it'.
And then... i don't know. I started to avoid reading when school is involved. That is, I only read stuff for school which i dont consider reading (if it's essays...if it's novels, then it's reading even if it's for study purposes). That's because I would find myself reading stuff for fun and neglecting shool work. Lately I've been reading some stuff in more relaxed school periods, but the sad truth is, even when i have free time, I end up not spending it all in reading... and the internet is the main reason of it. I'm internetholic.
Even on the bus lately I prefer to listen to music rather than reading, it relaxes me more, it's easier when the bus is packed and you need a balance, and I can do it also on the way back if my eyes are tired.
I've resumed reading addiction for some short periods like for example some 3 weeks last summer, and it felt so good. It had been ages since I last read something that caught me a lot, also because in these years my ability of concentration seems to be gone. I realised in these days that my mind won't be free before next December at least, so I will have to cut some space for reading within a lot of other stuff and thoughts...which is not the same as the relaxed, absorbing way of reading I used to have.
So how do you get out of readingholicness? Just get another time-consuming addiction like the internet, and get your brain cells to die one by one. Then you'll be healed and probably won't relapse even if you try.
Well I never read or enjoy reading somthing I have to read for school. It just spoils it somehow! Actually thats not true I rather enjoy Keats and Pamels by Samuel Richardson wasnt that bad ( then again I choose that book)
I havent finished reading Othello yet and the exams in a week and a half!
When I dont have time to concentrate I read whta my mother calls soppy rubbish ( chick- books) amusing and they take hardly any concentration!
Also I dont think killing off brain cells is quite the kind of step we are looking for!! ;) :lol:
Hello.
Our name is Taliesin and we are a readaholic.
We heard of this program in a IQ loss camp (similar to a weight-losing camp, when you feel that your too big oversized IQ is giving you problems, it is a great solution, you get stars and stuff for losing IQ)
We hope that this program here can help us out of our terrible habit of reading.
humm Ok Tailsin Why do you feel that reading is terrible?
Is it because it has left you bankrupt and about to face the world without preparation Like yours truley? Has it destroyed your life, your hopes your dreams? ;)
*will join the RA on Monday*
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....amen brother......know that you are not alone..... ( :
I'm definitely a readaholic! But I'm not gonna admit I read too much! But I do read a lot indeed. I'm just crazy about books. I write down the author, titel, amount of pages and the day/days I read the book... Have done this since summer of 2000! AND since last spring I have written a review on most books I read in a Swedish bookforum. I don't think I will ever be able to stop doing any of this! And anyway, last month I read 16 books and 5272 pages, and counted them... Well, well, well..., and now on top of all I'm wanting to study literature at the university next fall.
Would it be THIS Monday (ie today :p) or a Monday 100 years in the future? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade