Useless Numbers – the 2008 version
In 2008 I bought 30 CDs, 103 DVDs, and 14 Blu-Ray discs. Quite a bit more than during the previous year, partly due to a lot of sales at Play and HMV, and partly due to watching a lot more TV series on DVD. I think I’ve watched all of The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Band of Brothers, The Lone Gunmen, Red Dwarf, MASH, Black Adder, Black Books, and The West Wing this year, and I’ve just started on The Fast Show, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I also bought more books than I care to count, and dipped my toes into the world of graphic novels which looks like it could become an expensive habit.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
HOLY COW! 103 DVDs is a crazy amount, are box sets counted as #of discs or just number of boxes?
I bought
0cds 0dvds 0books last year.. infact I bought very little :)
January 4th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Box sets count as a single DVD, otherwise It’d be several hundred higher.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Are ‘Graphic novels’ like picture story books?
January 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I’d go with “like the Beano”
January 5th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Tom, shurrit.
Rich, whatchabought, apart from Preacher?
/looks at shelves bending under the weight….
January 5th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Without wandering upstairs to check, it think there’s…
Preacher
the first few Sin City books
LoEG
From Hell
Watchmen
V for Vendetta
and a few Batman books like Year One, and Dark Knight Returns
Batman: Cacophony should arrive in a few months
Things are on hold while I work through a huge pile of other books.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
So they aren’t comics?
Watchmen doesn’t seem to know if it’s a book or a comic as there are book bits and comic bits.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I liked Watchmen a lot, but I gather it was fairly pivotal in the genre, so I’ve decided that everything that preceded it was rubbish and everything after it was derivative and can therefore not read any more :-)