I'm sure the readers in my audience will understand the following scenario: You read a book series when you're young (I was 7, maybe 8), forgettable at the time, that makes a great impression on you. It's your first real exposure to a particular genre (in this case, real science fiction, not just kids-build-a-rocket-in-the-backyard stuff). However, you don't understand that impression until you're much older, at which point you've forgotten most of the books, save for a few half-formed impressions. You didn't really understand it at the time. Even worse, you didn't finish the series because your source of the books (a Sunday school class) ceased to be a part of your life, and you can't find the books anywhere. (They weren't exactly mass-market best-sellers.) And then one day you idly Google the series, expecting nothing, same as always happens.
And you find them.
All four books are on Amazon crazy cheap (see above comment about mass-marketability). The only reason I didn't buy them on the spot is that I'm afraid of spoiling a pleasant childhood memory. (That and the shipping.) *le sigh* If I group them in with some Christmas shopping, I could get free shipping, so there's that.
What would you do?
3 comments:
I have taken more or less that exact plunge myself many, many times over the years, and I'm only disappointed about one time in three, so I'd vote that the odds are in your favor. :)
go for it
Yep, do it.
If not now, when? :)
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