HP Obsession - why?

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"alhewison" <Ali at z...> wrote:

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> So now I wonder about everyone else on this list. Is the HP 
obsession 
> new to others as well, or have you experienced this with other 
books, 
> bands/ Star Trek etc. Is there a cure? Right now, a think that 
> reading OoP might help, but I suspect I would then only want to 
read 
> Book 6.

I'm very obssessive generally, and if I get enthusiastic over 
something, it will be to extremes.  Some would say that's pretty 
typical of 30-something males, but I've always been like that. 

Especially with book series. I can't remember half the book series 
I've read in my life, but if I read a book a like, I'll go through 
the series, then anything else the author has written, then anything 
about that author, then (nowadays, with the internet) anything about 
the fans, and so on it spirals. 

However, I'm also quite dogmatic about it: as soon as the author 
comes up with something I don't enjoy, even partially, I lose 
interest completely and revert to any other things I'm obssessive 
about (there are at least 3, all of which are currently languishing 
in the dungeons of my brain because HP has taken me over, lock, stock 
and barrel).

Lots of HP fans appear to be also Pratchett fans. I've tried several 
Discworld books but haven't been able to get into them at all. Though 
strangely that's not true of his other stuff. If I ever should click 
and get into Discworld, I'd probably be worse than most. :-)

Oh, and talking of HP obssessions: for those who don't follow the 
usual HP news sites, a little announcement: a few weeks back, I put 
up some audio clips of Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Rickman getting 
their gongs from the Variety Club. I promised video and pictures in 
the future, and now they're up: http://plum.cream.org/HP/vc2002.htm

(the phrase "seriously cute" appears in every email I've had from 
females since I put those pictures up a couple of days back). :-)