A full set!

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

My copy of The Players and the Rebels arrived from GGBP this morning, so now, for the first time ever,  I have a full set of Marlow stories.  Though I am missing a page from my copy of the Cricket Term.  It's my third copy (don't ask) and I can't really justify the money they're charging for it on ebay.  Someone really needs to reprint that one.

Anyway, I think I will celebrate by reading the entire series from the beginning. 

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[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

I got my copy a couple of weeks ago but haven't read it yet because I have an enormous to-read pile. Now I've got the complete Marlow stories too! Of course, since I'm such an obsessive collector, I now want a complete matching set, instead of my mismatch of Faber, Puffin and GGB. All different sizes on the shelf. *twitch twitch*

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Ha, my Cricket Term is missing half a crucial page, too!

[bananrama.livejournal.com]

Lucky you! I've been searching for any copy of Cricket Term, page missing or not, but everything I've seen is so expensive... desperately hoping for a GGB reprint!

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Which version do you have? I can take a photocopy from mine and pop it in the post if you like.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!

I used to have a hardback copy of The Cricket Term but it went missing in a move and I now have a rather unsatisfactory paperback instead. I wonder what it is about that book in particular that makes it so likely to run for the hills?

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

It's odd, isn't it? I had a copy as a child which got lost in some move or other. Then I found one for an absolute bargain price on ebay which I also managed to mislay. My current copy is a paperback which is falling apart, but is missing, as far as I know, just one page. I've only ever had paperback copies.

I think it's because it's the best of the school stories that it's the easiest to lose!

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

I have my shelves ordered by colour, so I don't mind having different editions, since they're all in different places anyway.

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

It must be catching!

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

It does seem to be the hardest one to find.

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

I have the Puffin paperback. But don't worry, it's the first page of the chapter where Ginty's standing on the diving board flaming amazement and I know exactly what happens anyway. Thanks, though.

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Also, just yesterday I was browsing my friends of friends list and someone was asking whether we knew if Draco's wife was blonde or not. My first thought was, 'Well, of course she's blonde. Everyone knows that all the Marlows have blonde hair and blue eyes.' Then I realised that isn't technically HP canon. Oh well.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I always think of the Greengrasses as dark, but I can't imagine why. In any case, Draco clearly has some mutant, dominant blond gene* inherited from his mother - I still have no idea how anyone with Narcissa's looks emerged from the Blacks - and Scorpius will come out blonde even if Draco marries Angelina.

* Not 'dominant blond' in the way of any of the 'Lucius gets creative with his cane' fics out there, I hasten to mention

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Maybe magical genes operate differently? Or perhaps Narcissa's father wasn't actually a Black but it was all hushed up?

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like that idea. Though I'm not sure who there is kicking around who's blond and not a Malfoy that it might be...

... oh dear. I think I may have discovered the root of Draco's occasional fits of 'He's mutilating my roots, professor!' prissiness, fondness for showing off, and general tendency to be what legionseagle so succinctly describes as 'all mouth and no trousers'.

He's secretly a quarter Lockhart. :)

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

LOL! I think you've got it.

[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

I bet that looks really cool. I'd quite like to do that, but I'm really a bit too anal not to have them in alphabetical order.

[richenda.livejournal.com]

My pb Cricket Term is in a poor state too - it must be the way that it was bound
I haven't got the Elizabethan books, and look forward to reading your review

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I must be slow, but what's the connection between the Marlows and HP?

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

ankaret.

Read her crossovers at rose_and_lizard. The particular one that deals with Draco's wife is 'From the Ashes', though there's also a brief oneshot of the HP epilogue called, I think, 'The Woman on the Platform' that will give you the general idea.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, new fic to read! Thank you!

Alas, I don't have any Marlow books at all, and even the library is missing one, and both Player books. Still, I was pleased to find and read as many as I did.

[owl]

*snigger*

[owl]

Multos grattas! :)

[lizarfau.livejournal.com]

I received my copy of The Players and the Rebels last week, and that means I too have a full set of AFs (including The Thursday Kidnapping). I'm actually rather reluctant to read The Players and the Rebels as it'll mean that for the first time in my life there won't be a Forest book out there that I haven't read ...

[sheep-noises.livejournal.com]

I haven't got the Players ones, but I've *had* all the Marlow ones - just never all at the same time :(

I had all the school ones in Puffin for years, plus Ready Made Family, Peter's Room and The Thuggery Affair in Faber; then when I discovered GGBP a few years ago I got The Marlows and the Traitor, which I'd never read *squee*, and Falconer's Lure and Run Away Home, which I'd read once each from the library.

They were fab :) but in the meantime my Autumn Term had fallen to bits from re-reading, and End of Term either disappeared or (more likely) also fell to bits. I recently got a copy of the Faber Fanfare Autumn Term. HATE the cover illustration - Tim looks a BOGAN! and it's obviously been re-edited, resulting in a few very strange changes from what I remember in the original Puffin edition - only very minor ones - a word here and there - but very WRONG! (I can describe them if anyone's interested).

So I still haven't got a full set :'(. I've looked for a new End of Term, but there's nothing at a reasonable price. I really want to read that again! My Cricket Term's also looking a bit fragile; not sure if I dare to read it again, lest it also fall to bits :(

[sheep-noises.livejournal.com]

Meant to wish you joy, Girlyswot, of your project to "celebrate by reading the entire series from the beginning".

The thought of it will keep me going through the next few weeks of boring work crap and life's little irritations:

You've a couple of weeks off work, and no other commitments. You've got all the AF (or Hornblower ;) ) books piled (or lined) up on the table. Beside that table is your favourite armchair/sofa/beanbag (What a shame beanbags went out of fashion. I LOVED 'em. I had a big fat red corduroy one :) I wonder where the hell it went :/) Just you, AF, and days of uninterrupted glorious reading :)

Enjoy!