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I was never all that impressed with either the store or the selection, but I was in the area last night so decided to check it out.
Here's what I found:
- Decent but small section of hardcover history, all of them beyond my budget until I pay off the timing belt on Sapphy.
- Godawful selection of mysteries, most of which were not actually mysteries but airport thrillers that I wouldn't pick up at the airport.
- One shelf of feminist books in the "Social Sciences" section, all of which I had read years ago.
- Five books of GLBT books in the same area, all of them targeting lesbians.
- A very large section of sex manuals, including several on female orgasms.
- A children's area that looked like the destroyed fields after the locust attack in The Good Earth. It was across the store from the sex manuals.
- Several bookcases of SF, fantasy, and horror, almost all of which either a) I'd read, b) were second or third books of series, not the first book that would make the rest intelligible, or c) concerned vampires.
- A tiny, tiny, tiny rack of CDs, almost all of which were either ZZ Top's Fandango, a 1960s era Dylan concert, or a single lonely Violent Femmes album.
So despite the discounts, I walked out with exactly one book, which I bought because my original copy is so trashed after being repeatedly loaned out and dropped in the bathtub that both covers have fallen off and the paper is sort of disintegrating into its component pulp.
I wonder if this would have been different if I'd come in last Saturday...?
Here's what I found:
- Decent but small section of hardcover history, all of them beyond my budget until I pay off the timing belt on Sapphy.
- Godawful selection of mysteries, most of which were not actually mysteries but airport thrillers that I wouldn't pick up at the airport.
- One shelf of feminist books in the "Social Sciences" section, all of which I had read years ago.
- Five books of GLBT books in the same area, all of them targeting lesbians.
- A very large section of sex manuals, including several on female orgasms.
- A children's area that looked like the destroyed fields after the locust attack in The Good Earth. It was across the store from the sex manuals.
- Several bookcases of SF, fantasy, and horror, almost all of which either a) I'd read, b) were second or third books of series, not the first book that would make the rest intelligible, or c) concerned vampires.
- A tiny, tiny, tiny rack of CDs, almost all of which were either ZZ Top's Fandango, a 1960s era Dylan concert, or a single lonely Violent Femmes album.
So despite the discounts, I walked out with exactly one book, which I bought because my original copy is so trashed after being repeatedly loaned out and dropped in the bathtub that both covers have fallen off and the paper is sort of disintegrating into its component pulp.
I wonder if this would have been different if I'd come in last Saturday...?
