10 replies to this topic

[rafterman]

I now have all of his books, the collection is complete....I'm just wondering do many people have complete sets of the books or do people read and then move on? I keep all of mine no matter what....

[scaramanga]

I have the full set and I wouldn't give them up for anything (especially as it took me 3 years to complete).

[RossMan]

Yep, I've a complete set of Gardner, as with Fleming and Benson. It's unlikely that I'll part with them for some reason or another. Especially as I'm often rereading them.

[Bondpurist]

I get most of them out of the library - free and just the same as reading them when you actually own them.

[zencat]

Originally posted by Bondpurist
I get most of them out of the library - free and just the same as reading them when you actually own them.

So you've yet to be bitten by the collector bug, eh, Bondpurist?

Give it time.

[Bondpurist]

I don't understand the big deal about owning them all. I own some of them - I picked up a rare omnibus containing From Russia, With Love, Casino Royale, Live And Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, Dr No and Goldfinger for 50 pence at a boot sale (like a jumble sale where everybody sells their old unwanted stuff), and they're the only James Bond novels I own - I lent all the others from the library.

[Tim007]

Even if my library had them (they don't ), I wouldn't want to miss my own collection

[rafterman]

I love collecting books...I like having a nice library of books....

[General Koskov]

I only 'collect' (not very fervently) Bond books that are discards from the library or in rummage sales et cetera. No fun having a perfectly-matching set, if you ask me.

Other than that, I take Bondpurist's route and just 'borrow' them (though I like to think that the library borrows them from me when I don't need them... you see I am doing a public service!).

[Kronsteen]

I doing my best in collecting the books. I have all the Fleming, half of the Gardner and just two by Benson...

But it's quite difficult and sometimes very expensive to buy books. I live in Sweden and the shipping costs from USA is very high (god dammit) and as I study I don't get that much money - so you can't go around buying as many books you like...

Maybe I should say that I must buy the Gardner and Benson books from USA or England, because after Icebreaker no more books were translated into swedish.

[zencat]

There was a Swedish hardcover edition of LTK. I know this because I bought one in your home town of Stockholm, Kronsteen. Fantastic city, I might add! Why Bond has never been there, I don