MUDs are for puds

Why on earth would anyone want to read text in probably the most boring interface ever. I understand it's like a story and such, but seriously, can't you just read a book? Sure a book doesn't have the sort of interactivity of a MUD, but after a while the command line just hurts the eyes. If I wanted to stare at a command line all day I would become a Linux programmer. Now I consider myself to be a computer nerd by default because I am a csc major, but the command line is just not fun. You can change the background color and the font of it, but that really doesn't make it any more exciting.