Thanks Kati

My blogging friend Kati came up with a real good topic that made me think. You can see her original topic here its about buying a WHOLE series just to have the whole collection. Even when you didn’t particularly care for one book or another you still end up buying the WHOLE series. One author I have that I have never read is Kelley Armstrong and yet I own every single one of her Otherworld books in paperback. Why? b/c I had to have the whole series before I started reading them.

And here I thought I was finally getting over that.

As you may recall I recently moved and in order to do that I had to cull the books (my friends refused to move 15 boxes of books again. I either had to clean out the shelves or they weren’t moving them.) Anyway I managed to do it (it was hard, very hard) so how did I do that you ask? Well I culled out series I don’t read anymore or better the books in the series that I just didn’t care for.

For example I had EVERY SINGLE Carpthian novel ever written by Christine Feehan EVERY ONE. And yet the only ones I enjoyed were far and few in between. So I picked the ones I loved and the ones I haven’t read and donated the rest back to the library annual book sale. I did the same with the Sookie books (although I did mainly so I could buy those in hardback) I’ve done it with my beloved Harry Dresdan series although I regret that decision. I wish I had those back b/c the series is so good (but wait I didn’t care for a few of the books. Crap!) See that’s the problem.

As I was thinking about this I realized that Kati was right I also do it with DVD’s OMG and those are way more expensive then books. HOLY CRAP I have like 1,000 dollars worth of TV shows just chillin’ out at home. And I will justify this b/c I don’t have cable or the digital box. So for me to buy the TV shows I feel like its okay. But let’s take a quick glance of the shows I own…

1. Stargate Atlantis: I own seasons 1, 2, 3, 4 and plan to buy 5
2. Burn Notice: I own seasons 1 and 2 when 3 is released I will be buying it
3. Supernatural: I own seasons 1, 2, and 3 plan to buy 4 ASAP
4. Eureka: I only own season 3.0 but season 1 and 2 are on the must buy when I have extra money list
5. How I Met Your Mother: I own season 1, 2, and 3 I will probably get 4 for Christmas this is a gift tradition for my mom
6. I will buy all 10 seasons of Stargate (yes I’m addicted and I’m only on season 3 but I MUST HAVE all 10)
7. Fireflies (but it was only one season)
8. Pushing Daisies: I own both seasons
9. NCIS: I’ve seen every season but the latest one and I own season 5 so I will be collecting the previous seasons as well
10. Criminal Minds I own season 1 and 2 but I personally think season 3 was the best so I will be buying that as well as season 4

You tell me do I have a problem with buying serialitis? Yeah I think so…

Do you have this issue? Do you suffer from serialitis? Should we form a serialitis anonymous club?