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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 21, 2014 6:35:34 GMT -5
Last night I went into a comic shop that's a little far from my home and picked up 15 books for 10 bucks. I have added them to my 74 books that I bought last Sunday. Is it like hoarding if you don't actually read the books that you buy?
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 21, 2014 6:45:36 GMT -5
Yeah, kinda, if you ask me (which you just did). I don't buy comics unless I know I'm going to read them and only keep those I know I'll re-read. That's physical comics, natch. I've got thousands of old comics in electronic form I haven't got to but that's for research, not pleasure.
Cei-U!
But that's just me!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 8:17:15 GMT -5
"Collecting or hoarding?"
Yes.
Next?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 9:41:17 GMT -5
Collecting has a purpose. Hoarding doesn't.
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Post by mrc1214 on Sept 21, 2014 10:10:05 GMT -5
I buy stuff with the intent to read it but I honestly don't know when I'll get around to it. Sometimes I see a series mentioned on here and buy it almost right away.
At one point I was going to go the collecting route like getting all the Avengers titles or whatever but I really don't need books like Solo Avengers and most of West Coast was terrible and tons of Avengers in the 300s.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 10:22:04 GMT -5
Collecting has a purpose. Hoarding doesn't. Well, it has a psychological purpose. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 21, 2014 10:51:12 GMT -5
Collecting has a purpose. Hoarding doesn't. Well, it has a psychological purpose. Like all the shoes I've bought for my wife over the years whether it's possible she will actually wear them or not? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 11:29:06 GMT -5
Not quite the same ...
Or so I hope. For my own hoarding-prone-in-some-ways self.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 21, 2014 11:58:13 GMT -5
There certainly is a psychological component to gathering many books together. And unlike shoes, there is an order and structure that draws then books together. I have acquired 84 books over the last week and maybe will read , tops, 21 during the week.
Makes me ask the question , how many books have you read in one sitting?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 12:16:55 GMT -5
Makes me ask the question , how many books have you read in one sitting? Comics or prose? The former, I presume. If so, I don't know what the number was, but it had to be in the dozens in a single session one Sunday back when I was, IIRC, a senior in high school. For whatever reason I'd gotten really far behind on keeping up with however-many titles I was buying (probably close to a couple dozen), so I decided to catch up in one fell swoop. As I've mentioned before, the result was really bizarre. That night I had the closest thing I've ever had (never having taken any sort of hallucinogens) to a drug trip. Hard to describe, but it's as if I was immersed in nonstop, colorful imagery, & I couldn't quite tell the difference between that experience & reality. This wasn't a dream per se; it really was, or seemed to be, some sort of altered consciousness. Undoubtedly the direct result of pure, prolonged sensory overload. Possibly the damnedest thing I've ever experienced. (As for prose, I read 4 novels on 12/14/77. [Don't ask me how I recall the date. I've got a weird memory.] Two of those, though, were the halves of an Ace Double -- Phil Dick's Dr. Futurity & The Unteleported Man. Don't recall what the other two were, though I suspect one was PKD's The Simulacra, but regardless I suspect they fell far short of being epic in length.) |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 21, 2014 13:31:38 GMT -5
I've read every comic I've ever bought.
I guess you collect those comics you pull out and reread on occasion. (Astro City, JLA etc.)
You hoard those you own, but they will never see the light of day again. (Countdown, Genesis etc.)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 13:45:23 GMT -5
Makes me ask the question , how many books have you read in one sitting? I'm not sure, but it varies by era. Yesterday I got the first Pretty Deadly trade and read it in one sitting, and if there were more I'd have kept going, and I read Preacher and Transmet (the first time) in probably no more than five or six sittings. With Bronze and earlier, I average maybe three or four issues. |
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Post by The Captain on Sept 21, 2014 14:24:22 GMT -5
For me, it comes down to what is your relationship with the comics that provides the line between collecting and hoarding.
For me, I catalog every one of my purchases as well as everything I read, organize them in numeric order within the specific title, and have them stored in a neat and orderly system (two specially-built cabinets and about 8 long boxes). If I gave you a list of the 8500 books in my collection and you asked me to get any single one of them out for you to read, I would be able to go directly to its location and hand it to you within 30 seconds.
Hoarding, OTOH, would be chaos, just piles and piles of issues with no way of knowing where anything is specifically, what condition any of it is in, or what has been read or not.
Just my two cents. Could be worth more, but probably worthless.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 21, 2014 14:25:55 GMT -5
I think the most that I've ever read in one sitting has to be around 6 or so. Too many things to do around the house to devote more time. And sometimes sleep overcomes me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 16:15:00 GMT -5
Six is basically a TPB. So I've done that, god, dozens & dozens of times.
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