Hi, I started looking into the various websites originally around the time that darktower.net imploded. I got confused by all of them, thinking that there was a little more cooperation and overlap and had no idea of the strife.
At any rate, I took DT.org as my focus site, and I'm just making my way back here to meet some new folk, get new perspectives on news and what not. I don't spend a lot of time discussing the books themselves, but I do enjoy collecting at a hobbyist level, mainly S/L editions, though I've started to branch out to some flat-signed editions recently.
I started reading in the early 80s as a young teen. My first read was Salem's Lot which scared the **** out of me of course! My mom, perhaps misguidedly got me a subscription to Castle Rock (which I had a near complete set of until a landlord's bulldog was let into my room and made them into a chewtoy). She also got me my first collectible edition; the 1st Hardcover Trade edition of Drawing Of The Three as well as my first entry into the Signed/Limited Lottery.
Now, in hindsight, I should have bought a S/L of Drawing of the Three on the secondary market right then, but I had some strange idea that I HAD to "honorably"get onto the Dark Tower through the Lottery. So I put in for every Lottery from DT2 through DT7. I got the fantastic word from Grant on that "final" book and was so thrilled, even though I got copy #1482/1500! I was FINALLY done with Grant Lotteries after nearly 20 years!
We know where this story is headed and the heartbreak in store when SK/Grant announced the Revised Gunslinger/Little Sisters of Eluria.
So, ANOTHER Lottery process and I lucked out again, and this time, I got to a safe #1004/1250. I didn't need to worry about it again!
Grrr! This is getting OLD now! ANOTHER Lottery for The Wind Through The Keyhole, of course! LOL! I DO think I am finally safe though now that I am the owner of #180/800!
Now, I got the Artist Editions as well as they became available, though I wasn't lucky enough to get any of the remarqued copies. My original DT2 was a little worn, since it had been through many college/young adult moves, and had also been very carefully read once or twice when the understanding was that they weren't ever going to be mass published; so I got a new 1st Edition copy signed by Phil Hale a few years ago. I also managed to luck into getting a successful order through Hodder/Waterstones for the #52/200 of the UK Wind Through The Keyhole.
This is getting just a tad long, so I think I'll break this into a few parts. To go along with THIS post, I'll include a decent picture or two of my DT set. I'll add other pics in my next post(s).
Here are my DT books inside their various slipcovers.
Here's a look at the spines of the books themselves.
At any rate, I took DT.org as my focus site, and I'm just making my way back here to meet some new folk, get new perspectives on news and what not. I don't spend a lot of time discussing the books themselves, but I do enjoy collecting at a hobbyist level, mainly S/L editions, though I've started to branch out to some flat-signed editions recently.
I started reading in the early 80s as a young teen. My first read was Salem's Lot which scared the **** out of me of course! My mom, perhaps misguidedly got me a subscription to Castle Rock (which I had a near complete set of until a landlord's bulldog was let into my room and made them into a chewtoy). She also got me my first collectible edition; the 1st Hardcover Trade edition of Drawing Of The Three as well as my first entry into the Signed/Limited Lottery.
Now, in hindsight, I should have bought a S/L of Drawing of the Three on the secondary market right then, but I had some strange idea that I HAD to "honorably"get onto the Dark Tower through the Lottery. So I put in for every Lottery from DT2 through DT7. I got the fantastic word from Grant on that "final" book and was so thrilled, even though I got copy #1482/1500! I was FINALLY done with Grant Lotteries after nearly 20 years!
We know where this story is headed and the heartbreak in store when SK/Grant announced the Revised Gunslinger/Little Sisters of Eluria.
So, ANOTHER Lottery process and I lucked out again, and this time, I got to a safe #1004/1250. I didn't need to worry about it again! Grrr! This is getting OLD now! ANOTHER Lottery for The Wind Through The Keyhole, of course! LOL! I DO think I am finally safe though now that I am the owner of #180/800!
Now, I got the Artist Editions as well as they became available, though I wasn't lucky enough to get any of the remarqued copies. My original DT2 was a little worn, since it had been through many college/young adult moves, and had also been very carefully read once or twice when the understanding was that they weren't ever going to be mass published; so I got a new 1st Edition copy signed by Phil Hale a few years ago. I also managed to luck into getting a successful order through Hodder/Waterstones for the #52/200 of the UK Wind Through The Keyhole.
This is getting just a tad long, so I think I'll break this into a few parts. To go along with THIS post, I'll include a decent picture or two of my DT set. I'll add other pics in my next post(s).
Here are my DT books inside their various slipcovers.
Here's a look at the spines of the books themselves.
