The Wait Goes On
It started a long time ago. I started reading Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My friend had most of the books. Eventually I finished reading all but one of the series. The missing one was The Valley of Fear. It was then I started searching for the book and had to wait for almost a year to find the book (I could have bought the whole series that is being published in 2 volumes, but there were no book store which was close to my place and I was also too lazy to go to the other shops :D ) This sparked the Fire called Wait.
It was after the release of Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix that I started reading the Harry Potter series. Frankly I was hooked on to it. By the time I finished the five books, I was eagerly awaiting the sixth book. Let me say I was fortunate that I started reading the series late, due to which this wait of mine was cut down to just over a year. But then this added fuel to the Fire, and ever since the release of The Half-blood Prince I have been waiting for the seventh book like the other Harry Potter fans.
Then I was desperate to forget my wait and started searching for other books that would help keeping control of the Fire. Unfortunately I started reading the Inheritance Trilogy. This too had two of its three books published, Eragon and Eldest. This increased the fire instead of controlling it.
Fortunately after this, I came upon the Bartimaeus Trilogy which had all its three books published - The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye and Ptolemy's Gate. This didn't soothe the fire much, as at that time I was idly wiling away time at home and hence could finish the books quite fast. I also read the Earthsea trilogy (this is a really old series and so it was obviously complete) and other books by JRR Tolkien (i.e. other than The Lord of the Rings which I had read before starting with Harry Potter).
I decided to take a break and leave the fire as it was so that I could avoid fuelling it further. One day while surfing channels on television I stumbled across this animated series called Avatar on Nickelodeon. Here in India, they aired the first 13 episodes continuously for about 3 times and then started using a random number generator to generate numbers from 1 to 13 and started airing the episodes with that number. I checked online about Avatar and got to know that in the US they are done with the first season and now the second season of the series being telecast. Now I have to wait for Nickelodeon India to stop their random number generator and continue telecasting further episodes.
The fire is roaring. The Wait goes on.....
Comments
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That's all okay,but y would anyone wanna read an article abt a guy waiting fr the release of a book,or a series.It isn't dramatic or doesn't involve any action of desparation,so I guess a person like me,to have read this at all,has to be a TARR
Posted by Girish on Tuesday 29th of August 2006 04:34:39 AM
Me laughs
Thats a pitiable state indeed.. :-D
Fortunately for me, the last of these kind of books was also the first one: The lord of the rings and the hobbit. :-)
Posted by Rajesh Goli on Wednesday 06th of September 2006 02:00:38 PM
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