Ridiculous book collections

[cupcake_goth]

No, I'm not talking about my (only slightly bonkers) tendency to buy 1st edition hardbacks of Anne Rice books at thrift stores. I also collect copies of Dracula. (Go on, look surprised. I'll wait.) I've been trying to find a really battered paperback of it for a while now, for a project I have in mind. Have I been able to find any at the thrift stores lately? Ha, no.

So yesterday, I found a paperback copy with a tie-in cover for the Coppola movie. "Hey!" I say to myself, "I've already got a copy of this, so sacrificing this one for the craft project is a no-brainer! Easy!"

Except that the version I bought yesterday is not the same as the other Coppola movie tie-in I have. The previous one is the Official Movie Novelization. Yesterday's find is the actual novel of Dracula, but with a movie-themed cover and "8 pages of photos from the movie!".

(You see where this is going, don't you?)

I now find myself unwilling to sacrifice yesterday's find for the craft project. ::sigh::

(I also have a paperback with a tie-in cover for the Langella version of Dracula, with photos from that movie. Plus the Edward Gorey illustrated hardback, The Annotated Dracula, a smaller-than-paperback -sized hardback, and some abridged illustrated versions. Look, it's a thing, okay. I am incapable of passing up a copy of Dracula. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT, IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL.)

(I do the same thing with editions of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Someday I will be rewarded with finding a 1st edition of it at a thrift store. I cling to this dream.)

Comments

[noisedesign.livejournal.com]

You will never get my autographed copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes, though you may admire it.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Eeee!

Well, I have an autographed copy, too. When I met Mr. Bradbury at DragonCon in '97, I was lucky enough to have him sign my copy I'd had since childhood.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

For some reason I had the Coppola novelization when I was a kid, and I read it even though I hadn't seen the movie, nor have I read the Stoker novel (still haven't). I'm not sure where it is now. Somewhere at home, I guess.

[mimi-monsterr.livejournal.com]

I shall keep an eye out for you :) although I could never quite bring myself to 'sacrifice' a book! curious to see what the craft project is though :)

[marc17.livejournal.com]

On the topic of books, I started picking up the Gail Carriger books at Powell's last weekend on your recommendation and have not been disappointed.

[smu.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way. I do that with Oscar Wilde, though. I may have nine or ten versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[caleidescopeyes.livejournal.com]

I belong to a very similar branch of Crazy, remember. I carry around my paperback copy wherever I go. It's always in my bag. The cover is like cotton at this point.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I stopped carrying a bound book in my purse once I downloaded a digital copy for the Kindle for iPhone app.

[caleidescopeyes.livejournal.com]

Fancypants technology! That's much less destructive.

[ladymairwen.livejournal.com]

You know, I find myself unable to make my surprised face.

It's totally normal. Really.

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

That's ok, I have over thirty versions of Beauty and the Beast in five or six languages. It happens.

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

...8 pages of movie stills...

Y'know, a setup like that is just plain begging to get used for some truly horrible decoupage project.

Sacrifice it unto the altar of art supplies! The Art Gods Command it!

[bork.livejournal.com]

Cheesy vampire book + decoupage + lunchbox = win. On my home planet, at least.

[mahariel.livejournal.com]

I have 4 copies each of various editions of Watership Downs and Robin McKinley's Beauty, plus multiple other duplicates of first editions to squee over and later editions to read of several other favorites, so I can hardly quibble.

[kibarika.livejournal.com]

I'd probably be this way with The Phantom of the Opera, if I saw it in used bookstores more often. (For some reason new books don't have the same attraction to me.) I only have the Gorey illustrated Dracula.

Your collections seem not strange to me.

Also, re: your icon, I wanted to be a vampire ballerina.

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I realized this about you or I might have offered you one of my copies of Dracula back from when I was moving. I'm limited to 2 bookcases so I don't have the luxury of keeping more than one. If it helps, though, I put the spare in a books for youth donation box...

[jjbrozenske.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad. I have three copies of "Jane Eyre" and four copies of "Cyrano". Sometimes you just need to have multiple copies of the books you love. :)

[10pm.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine actually collects copies of "waiting for godot" haha
i collect books too, but nothing specific like you :(