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(Edited by Paris at 10:30 pm on Dec. 30, 2001)
I agree with this, I try to avoid them when I can.
As a side not I went into WHSmiths one lunch time to try and buy Orwell's Homage to Catolonia, and you know what? There wasn't a single book by him, not one, just a load of pulp fiction. This is an insult, they don't have the books of one of the UK's best ever authors, what a joke!
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Im gonna colect a database of leftwing bookstores
in aid of spewing the revolution to all our comrades
el-comandante, there are fuck loads of lefty book stores in london
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Yeah I know about the book stores, but they are all near to universities and it was a lunch time in school so I had a look. I'll be getting after christmas when I go into London, so no corporate book shop will be getting my cash!
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I've got an Olsson's right across the street. There are a few of them in the area, but it's the only store that sells new books within 10 blocks of here besides Barnes & Noble. Also, they order Dario Fo and Alfred Jarry for me all the time so I don't have to buy them off Amazon.com.
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i don't get it. i work at a corporate bookstore and i don't see anything wrong with it. there is everything from that hoffman book "steal this book," to many chomsky books, several copies of the comm manifesto as well as other books on marx, books on guevara, orwell, etc. and whatever isn't in stock can be ordered. what's the fuss? if there really is a problem, i'll quit, but i don't see it.
true they are "corporations" but i don't see the harm in them. they aren't harming anyone. in fact i think they help because it is somewhere where you can get anything and everything - right wing, left wing, neutral, whatever.
(Edited by pce at 5:54 pm on Dec. 26, 2001)
\"One murder makes a villain...millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my friend.\" -Charlie Chaplin
The picture in my avatar is taken from Hoffman's "autobiography." He ran an independent store and borrowed the Diggers' idea of a Free Store. He would hate what Barnes & Noble has become. My local Barnes & Noble has a big display for that new book calling (who Hoffman referred to as) the Actor-in-Chief an "American hero."
Huge bookstores like Borders put independent stores out of business. My local giant bookstore is probably ten times larger than the used bookstore down the street, literally. The used bookstore still manages to have original copies of Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, two copies of the Jezer biography and 2 copies of Run, Run, Run and it probably has 5 times as much Chomsky. I stole the one and only book on/by Hoffman a few years ago, and they never replaced it.
No offense pce, but the people at the independent stores and especially the used book stores just seem to know more and are nicer as a generalization. They're more helpful. The person who scoops ice cream for me doesn't have to know ice cream, the person who sells me groceries doesn't have to know groceries, but the person who sells me books better hope for their own good that they know books.
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"the people at the independent stores and especially the used book stores just seem to know more and are nicer as a generalization"
you're probably right for obvious reasons: people who start independent stores do so because they have a passion for books and they sell the books they like or know about. also, their stores are smaller. whereas people who work at corporate stores are merely employees who may or may not care about books.
(*sidenote - if you had to deal with all the asses that walk into those stores all day, you'd feel a little down-trodden as well)
what i'm saying is that the books are there for anyone who wants to buy them (they may not be prominently displayed simply because they don't sell, but they are there nevertheless). if some aren't there, then they can easily be ordered. and there are enough leftist books to get people who actually go to the "political science" or "philosophy" sections interested. this is how i became aware of politics and philosophy.
anyone who is trully interested in learning and expanding can get everything they need from corporate bookstores (all in one place too). those who aren't interested won't be walking into any independent stores in the first place.
dispite all that, when i'm older, one of my biggest goals is to start my own bookstore with free soup, cookies with milk, and coffee/tea. i don't know how i'm gonna do it, buy i will.
(Edited by pce at 9:38 pm on Dec. 26, 2001)
\"One murder makes a villain...millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my friend.\" -Charlie Chaplin
I buy 2nd hand because there are no independant new books stores I know of.
The shop I usually go to isn't particularly left (they do have 2 che posters up however) it's just a very large general 2nd hand bookstore.
I can spend hours in there plus the price is about 10-20% of what borders sell at.
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I don't now of any second-hand bookstores in the Belfast area, which is unfortunate as I've been looking for "On Another Man's Wound" for ages for my Dad and it's been out of print for a while.
There are only two real bookstores that I know of in my area - Watertone's and a recnelty-opened WHSmith. WHSmith is a joke, but I happen to like Waterstone's; I was recently able to get Noam Chomsky's "Necessary Illusions" from the place, thought they did have to order it in. I wondered why they didn't have a book on Political and Media science as popular as that in the place.
I suppose it could have been sold out, but for some reason I doubt it.
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