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I want to go travel guidebook shopping in person this evening. (Like an animal, as they say.) Blackwells or Waterstones? Have a feeling Blackwells has the more better selection, but it's been a wee while.
Obviously other, better, independent, bookshops are available but for books about ferry times, places to stay & bear density they are usually less helpful.
Blackwells
the one on St Stephen's St got anything ?
It is on my "must go to list", but its close to the Bailie & Antiquary, so I've never made it.
@Iain McR: The Golden Hare? That's a great wee shop.
Blackwells better at keeping things in the right place. They also have loads of maps and things near the travel books.
Golden Hare is great for other than travel guides. Also no maps. Suggest you go there then pub?
Golden hare has lots of groovy events. Not good even on hare density, never mind bear density
@unhurt, you should have mentioned the other day, I could have lent you that very map.
Oh, hmm! I suppose I could take it back to the shop - but it will probably end up getting wet or torn or something so maybe better I do that to my own copy?
at work image sites are blocked so i can only assume from the Bears and Maps your are going to either Canada, or Chicago.
The density of bears in Cairngorm and Aviemore is...reasonably high. There are three in Kingussie.
You're in charge of navigation on the Glen Feshie outing then? Take a pencil and you can add in the actual course of the river and the remaining paths after the 2015 Rain Event.
The density of Bears very high in central station Glasgow this morning. In both meanings of density. In fairness same densities of the other tribe too. And a very good chanty rassler outside, I gave her a pound and she broke off the song to say thank you in stagey American accent I liked.
If you are down in that part of town you could visit Homer in Howe Street. They have furniture and Scandi crockery etc. but also a nice (I think the word might be "curated") selection of books about the countryside, cycling etc.
You'll know Tills near Summerhall on the segregated cycle path? Coal fire in the back.
Is were American guy still in tills? I have very many paperbacks from there from years 1987-1989-90 ( back west in early 1990, Voltaire and Rousseau now there was a damp bookshop run by people who really hated their customers
tills got my brautigan picadors, drove a hard bargain
compendium in camden town, now there was a book shop
@bax why give your brautigan picadors to tills for a low price only for them to sell them for a high price? I suppose we all got to eat
well i remember in the 80s when locating an out of print brautigan picador was such a real find in those days of cultural waste ground
i thought i'd pass the full set on, to a bookshop that might understand
no regrets
i'm a full time kindle man now
You're in charge of navigation on the Glen Feshie outing then?
Well, I'm in charge of my own navigation, at least. If anyone follows me and is eaten by a Caledonian bear (or even a Calydonian boar?) it's not my fault.
Never been inside Tills. Been to Lighthouse for free wine and readings (maybe not as radical as they think they are but it's a nice shop).
If ever in Belfast and keen on crime and/or American studies, No Alibis is worth a visit.
@bax no kindle books but you might feel at home in Seattle's Left Bank Books. All SORTS of things lurking on their shelves...
@unhurt - Lighthouse has a dog too.
Oh! I'm sold.
@Iain McR Golden Hare always has lovely kids' books in the section in back. Free (? I think) storytelling on Sundays too but not sure for what age range of weans.
@gembo Golden Hare graphic novels mini-section is A++ if you like that sort of thing.
Ah @bax kindle, if I liked that sort of device I could have saved ten pounds on the novel Karoo by Steve Tesich. A very good book, huge in France in 2012? Maybe ten years after Tesich died aged 53. Just after he finished the novel about Saul Karoo a Hollywood script doctor aged 53
Steve Tesich also won an Oscar in 1980 for his screenplay for a film I may have bored about in the past which we are hoping to put on at edfoc this June. It is called Breaking Away. It is in my Edinburgh press now in DVD format.
Armchair on West Port used to have a dog if you like that sort of thing, but it hasn't been there recently. If you're ever in Lincoln the Readers' Rest combines bookshoppiness with piggledy internal construction.
I've bought more than a few books from Armchair in days past. Mostly I would go to Waterstons but was recently reacquainted with Blackwell's when I went to Doug Corrance's book signing.
Of course for second hand books, I would recommend popping down to Barter Books in Alnwick. It occupies the old train shed, so is both enormous and has model trains running around. I bought an original copy of Vivian Fuchs' account of the 1956-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
my favourite novel is galactic pot healer by philip k dick
whats yours
I don't think I believe in favourite novels. A bit like having a favourite body part? Many are necessary. Some you grow to appreciate more with time.
@unhurt, which novel have you read the most? Me 1. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) 2. Ulysses (James Joyce) 3. gate of Angels (Penelope Fitzgeald)
the novel i most often return to is Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
groundbreaking work, still relevant almost 90 years later
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