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[imthefoolonthehill]

maybe I am being ignorant... but we haven't been blessed with a new book for a while.... Can I ask for one for Christmas??? (just for the sake of something new to see on the list of new books)

:D

[fayefaye]

I'd like to buy a whole load of new books, but I'm pretty broke...

[fayefaye]

oh! that reminds me of something I really wanted to come here and gripe about. I can never find good literature in book stores! Do you have any idea how FRUSTRATING that is? All they sell are the typical things: all the bestsellers, etc. Not that much really good stuff. It's soooo annoying!!! :(

[crisaor]

I know what you mean. It happens to me also. Finding a good bookstore is a joyful event.
Bestsellers can be bought at supermarkets. I don't know why they bother.

[Stanislaw]

It is next to impossible to find good books. Bookstores are out to make money, not enlighten people. When I am Done school I plan to open a bookstore that will sell odd books, other languages and off the beaten to death path books

[fayefaye]

the problem is that people are mostly interested in bestsellers. Which SUCKS. I find it so hard to find books sometimes. Good books too, not just obscure ones. It's really annoying. And then you ask if they can order it in, and find out the company itself (bookstore chains) don't even order them.

[MacBeth]

A true deja vu. Trying to find an untranslated copy of Beowulf is even more difficult than finding someone (aside from yourself) who can read it. However, if you're in dire straits for a novel composed in sentences that have more than two words in them, try the second-hand shops; sometimes you'll find something interesting that's in relativley good condition.

[Aesopone]

my AP teacher could read some pretty convincing old english, from beowulf that is

[den]

Oh I'm sorry to all you peeps who can't find GOOD book(stores) ...

Where I live, my favourite bookstore is a used bookstore, it's amazing, they will get anything I want if I ask, even though they usually have it, and they're hooked up with a few other stores and have a network for getting out of print , rare, classic, or just hard to find books. USED bookstores are highly underrated imo....

I can't stand all the big box NEW stores around here, Chapters and Indigo, I never go in there. They're for intellectual pseud poseurs who imagine they have to be SEEN there to be cool. They sell more DVD's and CD's than books I bet. :p

[fayefaye]

ohhhh... I wish there were some book stores like that here. :(

[Stanislaw]

There is a book store called wee book inn, it is a used book store, they beat me to my idea. They have an awesome selection. if anyone lives in a city where they have one, I recommend visiting it.

[fayefaye]

:( :(:( no. *cry*

[fayefaye]

:( :(:( no. *cry* :( :( there aren't any bookstores like that around here at all. What's worse is when I ask for really obscure books and the sales assistants are like: 'Oh wait? What? No.. don't think I've heard of that....' then they give me this really weird look 'oh? is that something you're studying?' 'no...' 'well, sorry we don't have it.' *scream* I'm going to search the whole city for a good bookstore. :mad: :mad:

[crisaor]

Originally posted by den
Oh I'm sorry to all you peeps who can't find GOOD book(stores) ...

Where I live, my favourite bookstore is a used bookstore, it's amazing, they will get anything I want if I ask, even though they usually have it, and they're hooked up with a few other stores and have a network for getting out of print , rare, classic, or just hard to find books.
Living in Canada will do that to you. Around here that is very rare, and I live in a capital city.


Originally posted by fayefaye
no. *cry* there aren't any bookstores like that around here at all. What's worse is when I ask for really obscure books and the sales assistants are like: 'Oh wait? What? No.. don't think I've heard of that....' then they give me this really weird look 'oh? is that something you're studying?' 'no...' 'well, sorry we don't have it.' *scream* I'm going to search the whole city for a good bookstore.
That reminds me of someone...;)

[fayefaye]

george right? i've become frighteningly george-esque lately. Actually, I did scour the city, and found a bookstore. But it's a lot like the one den described, only with a wider selection. Sells all the books at rip-off prices, too. there i'll be, paying through the nose for a copy of Marx' Communist Manifesto. IRONIC OR WHAT. Oh, and the only Beowulf I saw was translated. wasn't it originally written in old ENGLISH anyway?

[nicholasburrus]

In America Borders is a good place

[nicholasburrus]

fayefaye what country are you in


The Bestseller list changes too often

[Stanislaw]

Bewolf was in old english originall?

I am not 100% but I think it was, my english teacher made us read a version that was in ancient old english, It was very hard to understand, it was like a german latin cross.

[fayefaye]

I'm not sure, I remember reading somewhere it was in Old English, but I might be wrong.

[Isagel]

A nice link to readings on Beowulf -even pictures if the old manuscript.

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/english016/beowulf/beowulf.html

[azmuse]

here's another :) link for beowulf with tons of info; i started to read it online one year and don't remember the site, but the aforementioned (what a nice excuse for using that word) link doesn't connect to the old english version, though it says :( it does...phoo.

http://www.legends.dm.net/beowulf/

[Dr Cynic]

Originally posted by fayefaye
I can never find good literature in book stores.... All they sell are the typical things: all the bestsellers, ...:(

Originally posted by crisaor
It happens to me also. Finding a good bookstore is a joyful event.


Oh come off it, lads. For all your moans and groans, you should be thankful that you are living in places where books (good and bad ones) ARE available.
I live in a country where there are less than a handful of bookstores where you can get English and French literature in the original.:( :( So just count your blessings and enjoy life, will you?:)

[surf boy]

Originally posted by Dr Cynic
So just count your blessings and enjoy life, will you?:)

Learn this or die.

[crisaor]

Originally posted by Dr Cynic
Oh come off it, lads. For all your moans and groans, you should be thankful that you are living in places where books (good and bad ones) ARE available.
I live in a country where there are less than a handful of bookstores where you can get English and French literature in the original.:( :( So just count your blessings and enjoy life, will you?:)
I do that, occasionally ;) .

[fayefaye]

I can't count.

[subterranean]

Originally posted by Dr Cynic
Oh come off it, lads. For all your moans and groans, you should be thankful that you are living in places where books (good and bad ones) ARE available.
I live in a country where there are less than a handful of bookstores where you can get English and French literature in the original.:( :( So just count your blessings and enjoy life, will you?:)

It's nice to know that there's someone here who share the same mis-fortune like me ;). I guess the majority of people here get books they want quite easily.
I have to go to the "Imported Book" section to get the good books :mad: :mad: :mad:
There are some places like Den said in here (sell used books), but good books are still hard too find. The book sellers even smiled akwardly when I asked books about English Poetry.