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LITERATURE ABUSE: AMERICA'S HIDDEN AFFLICTION
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:05 am    Post subject: France is afflicted too. Reply with quote
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Someone in France has given me proof that the French were also afflicted.

This is from a website called La Bibliotèque d'Allie-- for the moment only for the reading of the bilingual among our afflicted BT members.


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LCA: Lecteurs Compulsifs Anonymes

LCA_4Le LCA (Lecteurs Compulsifs Anonymes) est né d'un commentaire innocemment lancé chez Flo suite à un de ses billets. L'idée a fait boule de neige et Flo a écrit un billet sur "comment améliorer son cas" en tant que LCA. D'autres billets ont vu le jour sur la blogosphère. Entre autres, toujours chez Flo, une mise en garde sur le danger d'être LCA. Hilde, notre porte-parole, a lancé quant à elle une grande enquête sur l'âge des LCA. Lou et Caro[line] ont aussi fait un billet sur cette pathologie qui nous affecte.

Qu'est-ce que le syndrôme du LCA? C'est toute une panoplie de symptômes... en voici quelques uns:

1- Le LCA ne peut s'empêcher de noter TOUS les titres qui lui font envie. Cette manie s'accompagne régulièrement d'une passion pour les listes en tout genre: listes papier, liste informatisées, listes sous logiciel spécial ou sous excel, en vue de ne pas perdre de vue la liste faramineuse de titres qui lui font envie.

2- Le LCA devrait, par principe, ne plus être admis dans les librairies. Il y vide régulièrement son portefeuille et ne peut s'empêcher d'être attiré par la grande majorité des livres qui s'offrent à lui. Il ressort rarement de la dite librairie les mains vides. Il fait la joie des libraires.

3- Le LCA parle de son blog, de ses lectures, de ses copains de la blogosphères à tous ses amis. Certains le croient toqué et se posent des questions sur son état mental. Le LCA s'en fout.

4- Le LCA achète et note plus de livres qu'il ne pourra jamais lire dans toute sa vie.




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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
So does being an LA mean that I should just let my fiance finance my 'habit' while I grow more and more rabid? j 0_o That would be nice, but I don't see that happening. And anyway...I prefer movies with no ties to books. The first Harry Potter movie was the only one that followed any sort of 'near-the-book' accuracy. Of course, this is Hollywood, so they're gonna focus more on the 'hero' of the story and not the developing relationship between Ron and Hermione like the books do, now will they? (As I have seen from movie five, there's no chance for that relationship to ever be settled into the series. and they're doing a two part-movie seven. What's the second part going to be called? Harry Potter and The Death of Voldemort?)

Yes, I'm a very serious LA, the only one that didn't apply was number 20. My libraries limit books to no more than 20 and I take about 30-45 depending on their thickness, level of difficulty, and how close the nearest book store is.
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