I'm starting to pack books for our family vacation...The Strain by del Toro and Hogan, Killing Floor by Lee Child, the last two Paul Dini Batman collections, a bunch of magazines (The New Republic, Wired)...and as I was going through my "not read yet" pile by my side of the bed I found Essential Power Man & Iron Fist. Now, I had completely forgotten I had this, but I was actually thinking about buying it a few days ago after reading some cool Iron Fist stuff in Brubaker's last Daredevil collection. I'm an impulse book buyer (worse now with Amazon), so sometimes I buy stuff twice because I completely blank that I've alread purchased it (I've done that with the Dark Horse Conan collections twice now, I think). So, I was very happy to find this Essential volume as it will be PERFECT for the beach.
Anyone else had a pleasant discovery in your piles of reading material?
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Not in my reading material. I don't buy a lot of books, so I can keep track of what I have. I do discover in my iTunes songs that i forgot I downloaded or that my brother downloaded.
I also like discovering in my wallet a $10 when I thought I had less.
I have the same problem with music purchases once in awhile. I recently downloaded an ud recording by a player I like...thought it sounded familiar...then hunted through my CD collection and found I already had it on CD! Not a particularly pleasant surprise in this case.
When I was in London there was a great second hand comics shop that I passed often on my road home from work. I slowly put together a lot of collections and arcs for as little as 50p each issue.
So when I picked up an issue of Secret Six a few months ago and loved it, I was able to dig out the complete 6-issue follow-up to Villains United and read it for the first time. That was good. I now just have to get the first trade and I'm up to speed with those loveable homicidal rogues.
I have a strange attitude to my comics though. Especially back-issues & trades of old stories. When I buy them first they have a glamour and I love the thought of reading them, but if they sit around the house awhile without being read, then I lose interest. It's not as if the story, art or merit of them changes in the meanwhile. You'd be amazed at some of the books I have sitting unread in my longboxes or shelves - classic collections of 2000AD stories, Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X, Straczinski's Spider-man, even loads of Grant Morrison comics, though I'm proportedly a great fan!
(I had WE3 sitting beside my bed for years before I read it.)
In my "To Read" box earlier this year I found the first Adam Strange archive. Which I don't remember buying.
When I was entering my collection into my database (was that 2 years ago already?) I rediscovered a bunch of old favorites.
I just read Grant Morrison's Flash last week on the beach, Doc! (Emergency Stop and The Human Race...both books still have sand in them.)
I often find books that I forget I've bought and still haven't read...like the last volume of Loveless, and the last couple Exterminators books come to mind right now.
This is a slightly different kind of pleasant discovery, but I went to my mailbox at work today and picked up my new issue of the Illinois Library Association's Reporter, which featured this cover:
That's Jill Thompson art, if you can't tell. She's providing art for the 2010 Read campaign, "Scare up a good book," and they interview her in this issue, too.
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I also like discovering in my wallet a $10 when I thought I had less.
So when I picked up an issue of Secret Six a few months ago and loved it, I was able to dig out the complete 6-issue follow-up to Villains United and read it for the first time. That was good. I now just have to get the first trade and I'm up to speed with those loveable homicidal rogues.
I have a strange attitude to my comics though. Especially back-issues & trades of old stories. When I buy them first they have a glamour and I love the thought of reading them, but if they sit around the house awhile without being read, then I lose interest. It's not as if the story, art or merit of them changes in the meanwhile. You'd be amazed at some of the books I have sitting unread in my longboxes or shelves - classic collections of 2000AD stories, Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X, Straczinski's Spider-man, even loads of Grant Morrison comics, though I'm proportedly a great fan!
(I had WE3 sitting beside my bed for years before I read it.)
Weird, no?
When I was entering my collection into my database (was that 2 years ago already?) I rediscovered a bunch of old favorites.
I often find books that I forget I've bought and still haven't read...like the last volume of Loveless, and the last couple Exterminators books come to mind right now.
That's Jill Thompson art, if you can't tell. She's providing art for the 2010 Read campaign, "Scare up a good book," and they interview her in this issue, too.