Could you live without reading?

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Yes, I do.
Reading breathes my mind.
When I get some days without reading "real books", I mean deep and interesting books with some complex thoughts, all kinds....
I feel bad, my mind goes slowly, grows unhappy. I cannot control otherwise. It works as a medicine, also forest walks, or discovering new worlds.
I think my mind needs some kind of complex thoughts, often, not to get stuck.
It becomes hungry.

I suppose I could live without reading for a little while, but I wouldn't live long. Life would be very empty without books in it.

Yeah, I'd be far less than happy if I couldn't read anymore. I've always read a lot, both for entertainment/escape and for learning purposes. It'd be suicidal career-wise, too, to not be able to read anymore, since I want to be a lawyer, and at some point a writer as well. Just mostly it would suck because many things I do now involve reading in one form or another.

I never read books just for the hell of it. I would just forget everything by the time im finished anyway and plus i'm just not interested.

I always have an urge to read books, but most of the time I end up not doing it, ya know?

I know a few "candidates"...

Reading is second nature to me. I bring books and 'zines to everywhere I go, movies, stores, restraunts, etc.

Ooooh, no way!

I have a routine thing about reading: I cannot eat my lunch (or any other meal) if I'm not reading and lying in my bed while eating. Also, I need to get my dose of reading to calm myself sometimes. But I think now writing is the bigger addiction now. When in a writer's block state, I even scribble down automatic quotes or made-up words, just to write something, though I prefer not to be in that state and get creative with my 'anti-drug'. That's why I blog, more or less.

I would find it very difficult to live without reading. Apparently as a young child I used to ask why I couldnt read (and I dont remember ever not being able to read). We used to go to the library each week and I would take out all the books I could and read my sister's books too. I have less time now but I still love to read.

When I was 18 I was on some antipsychotic medication (older sort) that gave me blurred vision. I was chronically bored. I would sometimes spend ages with a magnifying glass trying to read something pressed up against my face. It was hell. More recently, with newer antipsychotics I have had a lack of concentration and short attention span, but I have still read avidly - short things like internet entries on websites (like wrongplanet).

I find that reading gives me this deep sense of relaxation that I dont get with anything else - the TV doesnt occupy my mind enough and I get bored, but reading uses my entire mind and relaxes it at the same time.

I looove to read.

Problem is, reading words is like drinking water, eventually the information will have left me... Can remember odd details of a novel, but not the plot, can remember names, but not a motive...

I probably could live, but I definitely wouldn't want to.
There were years of my life when the only solace I could find was in a book and they were my ONLY friends.
Books still are a huge part of my life and have always been my "shield" against the outside world since I can remember. I still carry a book EVERYWHERE I go, as its instant entertainment and anonymity.
I probably drop a couple hundred a month in bookstores and have no desire to quit. My preferences lie with research books, and non-fiction, but I'll read pretty much anything except for romance novels. I'v even resorted to reading the phone book when I was younger.

Not bloody likely.


M.

Dittoed.

Live without reading? Never! They'll have to grasp my books off my rotten carcass...

No I couldn't live without it.