I have thousands of comics that I haven't gotten around to reading.
I have tended to buy back issues in big stacks, which means that many of them get put away in boxes and never gotten around to. Twenty years ago, I made a trade with a friend where I got something like 300 random comics he had in exchange for two dozen of mine that he wanted. This lot included numerous issues of Marvel Two-in-One, Micronauts, Powerman/Iron Fist and other stuff that I never got the energy to plow through, even after so many years.
I guess it's just my collector mentality. For example, I have almost every issue of Master of Kung Fu but I've only gotten around to reading one or two issues of it. Sometimes I think about sitting down and reading them all, but I never get too far. I trust that they are good, though, and wish I had more time to enjoy them.
Sometimes I get enjoyment out of the essence of the thing rather than actually sitting down and reading it. I like having almost every issue of titles like Super-Villain Team-Up and The Champions even if I haven't read more than one or two issues of them. Perhaps if I read them, instead of looking at the covers, I'd be disappointed by them.
I have been making a solid effort to read every new comic (as opposed to back issues) that I buy. I have a "To Be Read" stack and a place on my bookshelf to put them after they've been read. Some comics keep sliding to the bottom of the pile, however, until I get in the right mood to read them. For instance, I buy Gemstone's Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse series every month, but I usually don't get around to reading them for a few months, and then I'll sit down and read three months' worth in a row. And that binge will make me want to read more of them, but somehow the next few issues end up on the bottom of my "To Be Read" pile again.
Sometimes I wonder if I should stop buying books because I won't have time to read them. Just mathmatically, there can't be enough years remaining in my lifetime to get them all read, which is a depressing thought.
But then the collector mentality takes over again and I'm surrounded by unread books that I probably won't have time to read. I recently let an eBay auction go, after it hit a certain price (although still a bargain at that price) because in the back of my mind I knew that I'd never get around to reading them if I did win the auction.
Nonetheless, I recently have been buying huge amounts of "Nick Carter" novels on eBay. Between 1986 and last month, I only had 13 of them. I fondly remember reading one of them in one sitting when I was home sick from school, back in the 1980s. Within the past month, though, I won a bunch of eBay auctions of them. So, now I have 99 of them, not counting duplicate copies. And I'm looking to complete the collection, get all 261 novels. But in the back of my mind, I know that there's no way that I'll ever get a chance to read them all, not even half of them, in the years I have left on this earth, knowing how slowly I get things read.
I have tended to buy back issues in big stacks, which means that many of them get put away in boxes and never gotten around to. Twenty years ago, I made a trade with a friend where I got something like 300 random comics he had in exchange for two dozen of mine that he wanted. This lot included numerous issues of Marvel Two-in-One, Micronauts, Powerman/Iron Fist and other stuff that I never got the energy to plow through, even after so many years.
I guess it's just my collector mentality. For example, I have almost every issue of Master of Kung Fu but I've only gotten around to reading one or two issues of it. Sometimes I think about sitting down and reading them all, but I never get too far. I trust that they are good, though, and wish I had more time to enjoy them.
Sometimes I get enjoyment out of the essence of the thing rather than actually sitting down and reading it. I like having almost every issue of titles like Super-Villain Team-Up and The Champions even if I haven't read more than one or two issues of them. Perhaps if I read them, instead of looking at the covers, I'd be disappointed by them.
I have been making a solid effort to read every new comic (as opposed to back issues) that I buy. I have a "To Be Read" stack and a place on my bookshelf to put them after they've been read. Some comics keep sliding to the bottom of the pile, however, until I get in the right mood to read them. For instance, I buy Gemstone's Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse series every month, but I usually don't get around to reading them for a few months, and then I'll sit down and read three months' worth in a row. And that binge will make me want to read more of them, but somehow the next few issues end up on the bottom of my "To Be Read" pile again.
Sometimes I wonder if I should stop buying books because I won't have time to read them. Just mathmatically, there can't be enough years remaining in my lifetime to get them all read, which is a depressing thought.
But then the collector mentality takes over again and I'm surrounded by unread books that I probably won't have time to read. I recently let an eBay auction go, after it hit a certain price (although still a bargain at that price) because in the back of my mind I knew that I'd never get around to reading them if I did win the auction.
Nonetheless, I recently have been buying huge amounts of "Nick Carter" novels on eBay. Between 1986 and last month, I only had 13 of them. I fondly remember reading one of them in one sitting when I was home sick from school, back in the 1980s. Within the past month, though, I won a bunch of eBay auctions of them. So, now I have 99 of them, not counting duplicate copies. And I'm looking to complete the collection, get all 261 novels. But in the back of my mind, I know that there's no way that I'll ever get a chance to read them all, not even half of them, in the years I have left on this earth, knowing how slowly I get things read.
Posted by rimes12
at 12:25 AM EDT
