> The idea is that when I started reading Harry
>Potter, book four was already out. Rather than
>read one, two, three, and four all at once and
>wait however long for book five, I've spread out
>my reading of the first four books with about
>six months between each.

See, this is where we differ. I couldn't do this at all. When I read a series, if it is good at all, (and the HP books are definitely good in my opinion) when I finish one book, the only thing I want to do is start in on the next one. If that book is available I won't be able to stop myself from reading it. When I finished the first Harry Potter book, the first thing I did the next day was go out and buy the next one. When I finished that, the next day I bought the third one. I *did* wait between the time I read the third one and the time I read the fourth one, however, but only because the fourth one was not out in paperback yet, and I was still unemployed and could not justify the purchase of a hardcover. Thankfully, Mousie was kind enough to send me her copy in hardcover, so I read it not long after finishing the third one in any case.

It doesn't even have to be a series of novels for me to do this. I'll just get on a kick of reading a certain author's work and not want to switch to something else for awhile. Around November I got on a Stephen King kick, and went back and read a couple of his early books that I had never read (The Shining and Salem's Lot). I had intended after that to go right to The Dead Zone but instead I listened to the audio book Blood and Smoke that Leen lent me and have since moved on to Everything's Eventual. I will probably then go on to the other books Leen gave me and eventually read The Dead Zone too before finally tiring of King again and moving on to something else. Before King, I was on a brief Robert Heinlein kick, and read three or four of his books in quick succession (Tunnel in the Sky, The Puppet Masters, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and I think one other that I'm forgetting).

So, in short, you suck, I rule.

-- Dave