It s just a cereal box. Little did I know that those innocent cereal boxes were leading me down the road to a horrid addiction. On morning, I had finished reading the cereal box for the second time, when I saw a Playboy magazine that my Dad had left by his chair. I snuck over and opened it up, expecting to find pictures of naked women. I had a reader s high, and I was hooked.
Experts disagree about the best way to handle people who are reading junkies.
At first, they will resist, but eventually, they will be ground down by the TV shows and they will be over their addiction. Dr. Howard, with the Institute for Reading Addiction, however, feels that gradual tapering off is best. Move them from literature to Agatha Christie mysteries. From there, you can expose them to coffee table books, People magazine, and eventually get them down to a comic book once a month. There are those who wonder what the fuss is all about.