End of one saga...
Jul. 8th, 2006 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearerWhich started long ago (1999) and far away (Camden school for girls). Many years ago I changed secondary schools due to events that have absolutely no bearing here, in the library of my new school I discovered a gamebook, Lone Wolf- Flight from the Dark. Now, being a great fan of gamebooks, I took it out, despite not having a library card yet.
I never gave it back.
I read it, and discovered that unlike most gamebooks, this one was not a stand-alone. So, impatient to continue the adventure, I went looking for the next book. There wasn't one. Lone Wolf had been out of print for so long that there were no more to be had for love or money. For more than six years I looked, turning up books 3, 5, 23, 25, 27 and 28 (the last four having been stolen), a graphic novel (also nicked) and a handful of Lone Wolf novels (ditto).
As you can see I wasn't about to let a little thing like ownership (they were all taken from libraries, and I did pay the back for the 'lost' books so don't look at me like that!) get in the way of my collection, but still, it was a pitiful haul. Being the contray person I am, the harder it was to get the books, the more stubborn I became.
Then last year, I looked on Ebay.
Ah, joy and trumpets. I must have spent hundreds of pounds on Lone Wolf books there, they were all there, and I went a little... crazy. I bought so many I ended up having doubles! Before the end of the year, I had almost all of them. The first five were the easiest, as I already had three of them, then books 6-12 (6 was the hardest), then books 13-20 (getting a little difficult) and finally books 21-27. These last ones were the hardest, and I was so lucky to start off with four to being with. Book 22 alone cost me more than £60! And finally, today, it arrived. My collection is complete!
I never gave it back.
I read it, and discovered that unlike most gamebooks, this one was not a stand-alone. So, impatient to continue the adventure, I went looking for the next book. There wasn't one. Lone Wolf had been out of print for so long that there were no more to be had for love or money. For more than six years I looked, turning up books 3, 5, 23, 25, 27 and 28 (the last four having been stolen), a graphic novel (also nicked) and a handful of Lone Wolf novels (ditto).
As you can see I wasn't about to let a little thing like ownership (they were all taken from libraries, and I did pay the back for the 'lost' books so don't look at me like that!) get in the way of my collection, but still, it was a pitiful haul. Being the contray person I am, the harder it was to get the books, the more stubborn I became.
Then last year, I looked on Ebay.
Ah, joy and trumpets. I must have spent hundreds of pounds on Lone Wolf books there, they were all there, and I went a little... crazy. I bought so many I ended up having doubles! Before the end of the year, I had almost all of them. The first five were the easiest, as I already had three of them, then books 6-12 (6 was the hardest), then books 13-20 (getting a little difficult) and finally books 21-27. These last ones were the hardest, and I was so lucky to start off with four to being with. Book 22 alone cost me more than £60! And finally, today, it arrived. My collection is complete!
