Obsessed? What? No. Yes. Fine. Now give me the books!
It's going to cost me a pretty penny to get the entire Darkover series in hardcover. But worth it, oh yes, precious. Some of the really old ones I'm not sure I can even get in hardcover, but I do actually have those in paperback. Of course those editions are older than I am, and so fragile I feel I should put gloves on before reading them. I've spent the last couple of days on the official MZB site going through the bibliography and finding non-library editions that I can afford. There are half a dozen sitting in my Amazon shopping cart waiting for my paycheck to come in.
I could, of course, just break down and buy a Kindle, and then I'm pretty sure I could have them all for less than a hundred bucks, but damned if the Kindle doesn't seem transitory. It's not that I object to e-books. It's just that a series like Darkover demands the complete sensory experience of bookness.
I'm still divided on whether I want to go back to reading the new ones. It's clear that Deborah Ross loves Darkover (and Lew Alton, heh) as much as I do and she's not doing a bad job, but the last one I picked up just didn't give me that Darkover thrill (plus I wanted to throttle the heroine; I will spare you a diatribe on how much I love MZB's female characters, but this one, wow, so did not make the cut).
I guess I'll decide after I've got all the old ones lined up on the shelf and have spent several hours looking at them and sighing happily because the knowledge that I have them is so awesome. Ha ha ha ha ha, I'm such a weirdo about books. I'll actually read them, too, I just have this thing about how wonderful a complete series looks on my shelves.
As a side note, I'm still really enjoying Outlander, but you know as soon as I get some Darkover action up in here it will be shamelessly tossed aside, to be picked up later when I've gotten my Lew Alton fix. LULZ.
I could, of course, just break down and buy a Kindle, and then I'm pretty sure I could have them all for less than a hundred bucks, but damned if the Kindle doesn't seem transitory. It's not that I object to e-books. It's just that a series like Darkover demands the complete sensory experience of bookness.
I'm still divided on whether I want to go back to reading the new ones. It's clear that Deborah Ross loves Darkover (and Lew Alton, heh) as much as I do and she's not doing a bad job, but the last one I picked up just didn't give me that Darkover thrill (plus I wanted to throttle the heroine; I will spare you a diatribe on how much I love MZB's female characters, but this one, wow, so did not make the cut).
I guess I'll decide after I've got all the old ones lined up on the shelf and have spent several hours looking at them and sighing happily because the knowledge that I have them is so awesome. Ha ha ha ha ha, I'm such a weirdo about books. I'll actually read them, too, I just have this thing about how wonderful a complete series looks on my shelves.
As a side note, I'm still really enjoying Outlander, but you know as soon as I get some Darkover action up in here it will be shamelessly tossed aside, to be picked up later when I've gotten my Lew Alton fix. LULZ.