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OK i haf a phobia, possibly related to being a writer, which is that when i hear [Writer A] has written abt [Topic B], i find it very hard to bring myself to even peek. This is not (always) to do with disliking [Writer A], and it is not always to do with being bored (or infuriated) by [Topic B]. More it seems to do with OK THIS ACT WITH PROVOKE THINKING AND DISTRACTION, but that may just be poncy rationalisation on my part.

― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it is also related i guess to being an OBSESSIVE READER: i probably spend 6-8 hours a day reading, after all.

no, not just ilx...

― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(i genuinely have a "completing things" phobia, like the last piece of bread or the last scrape of nutella'n'marmite, or books i am reading or pieces i am writing...) (but i don't necessarily think this is connected)

― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

6 to 8 hours?!? My! How can you even WRITE? I read books about one to two hours a day - other cyber and printed material eats away about 1,5 to 3 hours (so hahaha I am not that far off).
I inherited my ph34r-the-end phobia from my father, but my obsession with proving my dad wrong (in regard to not being able to finish books) wins most of the time though.
I am addicted to information. This unquenchable desire to know MORE. I can never focus on what I already know. :-(

― nathalie, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I read ilx about 1 and a half hours a day (altogether, probably more). I go through reading phases, I can have a week of reading three hours a day, and then a month of not reading at all. Not being a (good or skilled or inspired) writer, I guess I'm in no position to answer this question. I do spend at least 4 hours a day listening to music, I should try writing about music some day.

― some rambling fool, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s, do you mean that you must demolish the last piece of nutella, or that you must let it lie? If it's the latter I share it exactly; the last little bit of the sandwich, the part I've been hanging onto w/thumb etc I must always leave on the plate or I will be visited by ghosts in my sleep and my plans that week will fail.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is this anything like the case of my friend, a writer, who refuses to read 'white teeth' because zadie smith was younger than my friend when she wrote it, yet got lots of critical acclaim - and more importantly, published, just like my friend does not? maybe you are just jealous!?!! ;)

― minna, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh good grief! I was getting pretty close to a woman six months ago who was a mixed race part-Jamaican bisexual woman who brought out her second novel (with a 'colour noun' title!) at about the same time as White Teeth hit - exactly the same time in the French translation. She actually got better reviews in places, but White Teeth of course sold about a million times as many. I still think my friend's novel was magnificent (we're no longer in touch, so no bias left: it's Orange Laughter, by Leone Ross), whereas I only got about 25 pages into White Teeth before slinging it aside. Leone herself had never been able to read it, though she had been on panels and stuff alongside Zadie, and liked her.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah tracer i have to leave a bit (of in the case of a book i finish, skip a page or ten)

if it's jealousy, it's jealousy of ppl who actually finish things!

― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Six to eight hours, I approve. :-) Don't quite get that much myself, alas.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't quite get that much myself

I told you you dhould get a mullet.

― Graham, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I told you you should get a mullet.

I believe he's already got one. He'd get more reading done, if he wasn't so easily seduced by the use of technology;>

― Nichole Graham, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Regrettably, my answer has been hijacked by elfin sprites intent on wreaking damage upon my pure and innocent responses.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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