oh no , a bookaholic , you need a 12 step program ... fast

it could get pretty filthy, just think what would happen if there was a
reading list?

We all know what happens to Bookoholics when you take the source away.

yea , they relapse on alpha bits and scrabble ,
but relapses are part of the process ,
with good support and intervention ,
we can have them abstaining again in no time ,
and eventually they become ... read free ,
just look at the millions out there that can't read already

Agreed, for e.g. if there's one thing that's dangerous, it's a president who
can spell another countries name, because that's when "they" turn up. We
should get to them first. The radio says time seems to be of an essence.

Korya, no that's not it. Koreeeeearrhhh. No that's not it either.

In message
<pan.2003.12.15.01.12.13.744135@ID-107770.user.uni-berlin.de>, Whiskers
<catwheezel@operamail.com> writes

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:18:26 -0800, Kirby Cook <kirby_cook@yahoo.com>
wrote:

snip

If you ever get a chance to see the movie, "84 Charing Cross Road", you
might like it.

It's a book too ;))

A good one, at that.

Charing Cross Rd (in London) is full of book shops. Foyles is both
Heaven and Hell for a book-lover. I'm sure the doors move while you
aren't looking, I'm not sure that the number of floors is always the same
either, and sometimes it feels as though there should be sparks from some
of the shelves, and a large Orang-Utang in charge (Terry Pratchett
reference, for the uninitiated).

When I last went in there, fifteen years ago, it still had little crannies
that looked as though they hadn't changed since the Fifties.

At least they updated their purchasing system - can you remember the
days when you queued for a ticket from the local assistant, then went
down to the cash-desk and queued to pay, then went back to the assistant
and queued to get your book? For each purchase. That lasted into the
Seventies!

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:29:47 -0800, Kirby Cook <kirby_cook@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Whiskers wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:13:50 -0800, Kirby Cook <kirby_cook@yahoo.com>
wrote:

snip

I discovered and joined my first book club when I was in the sixth
grade (11 years old-- sounds about the same as you). It was a mystery
book club. I got six Perry Mason books for a dollar or so, then, of
course, had to buy another book a month. I had no regular income, so
that went away pretty soon, and I've never joined another. But, as I
recall it now, that was one of the most fun times I ever had in my young
life. Much akin to my longer stint in the Record Club of America! WOW
it was fun poring over those album lists! And buying and receiving
albums that were like... See's Candies to a chocoholic!

Kirby

I think it only fair to ROT 13 the trigger-words for our addiction, to
protect the innocent! ;))

My first obbx-pyho was to get a complete set of R L Stevenson's works,
when I was about the same age as that; they still have pride of place on
my obbx-furyirf (and they get read; a very good investment). Most of my
fiction stuff is by living authors, in cncre-onpx - stacked two or three
rows deep on the shelves! I have no idea how many there are, must be well
into the 1000s (and still increasing, of course).

My father is just as much a obbx-jbez, I blame his example - he even
passed on all his 'Penguin' P G Wodehouse collection when I showed an
interest (at the age of about 6 - I was voracious as soon as I finally
learned to read; used to get through the 'Daily Telegraph' [broadsheet
'heavyweight' right-of-centre daily] and 'Observer' [big weekly
'heavyweight', slightly left-of-centre] after Dad had finished them, and
without too much difficulty - the Concise Oxford Dictionary was also an
early discovery!). (The "Suez crisis" was my initiation into
International politics). We didn't have TV, which probably helped my
literary adventures.