Books
I've said, to many of my friends on many occasions over the past couple of years, that I don't give a damn about things before they're ready. Movies, I can't get excited for until about a month before release. I'll be aware of them, but not particularly interested until there's something to be interested IN. Same with video games.
I just realized that's actually not true of books. Books, I'll go looking for release dates, I'll go digging to see what tidbits I can find about the upcoming titles from my favorite authors.
It's also pretty much the only medium where I'll go in whole hog on. If I have one book by a particular writer, in many cases I have most of their works. There's exceptions, but even in those cases where I don't own all of a given author's books, I'll probably have read them and be able to explain the gaps in my collection in terms of why I didn't like the particular books I'm missing enough to keep them.
I remember reading somewhere that the average person reads like a dozen books a year. I don't have any source for that. I know I've read more than that in the past two weeks. Admittedly those have not (for the most part) been new books, titles I haven't read before, but I don't think that is factored in either. Pretty sure the average person doesn't tend to read books more than once anyway...
So yeah. Books are good.
I just realized that's actually not true of books. Books, I'll go looking for release dates, I'll go digging to see what tidbits I can find about the upcoming titles from my favorite authors.
It's also pretty much the only medium where I'll go in whole hog on. If I have one book by a particular writer, in many cases I have most of their works. There's exceptions, but even in those cases where I don't own all of a given author's books, I'll probably have read them and be able to explain the gaps in my collection in terms of why I didn't like the particular books I'm missing enough to keep them.
I remember reading somewhere that the average person reads like a dozen books a year. I don't have any source for that. I know I've read more than that in the past two weeks. Admittedly those have not (for the most part) been new books, titles I haven't read before, but I don't think that is factored in either. Pretty sure the average person doesn't tend to read books more than once anyway...
So yeah. Books are good.