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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 16, 2018 16:14:07 GMT -5
 Not so much a "Whatcha reading?"-thread as one devoted to listing any and all places/distributors where you locate interesting reading material. Of course, Amazon is there at the click of a button. It's beautifully simple, and a huge variety of reads can be found there nowadays. Sometimes too, a diligent visitor to thrifts and even yard sales can discover coveted reads. Most everybody here is probably at least vaguely familiar with Edward R. Hamilton Booksellers. They are a great place for mostly mainstream books at decent discounts. I've noticed they seem to have a lot of books from the UK, for whatever reason, which is fine by me. There's eBay, although I have to admit, I haven't been by there in a while. There's also always Barnes & Noble we also have a Books-a-Million here. Sadly, most of the used book sellers here are fading or gone. I haven't checked in on them in a long time, but Last Gasp out of California was always a great place for underground comix and a variety of graphic novels and posters and stuff. Also out of California was Amok Books, who used to publish these incredible compendiums of books devoted to fringe and outre topics. There was also a quirky venue out of Baltimore who even used to produce their own crazy VHS mix-tapes. Their name escapes me at the moment. They were/are a favorite of John Waters. Some of those in the preceding paragraph might or might not be familiar to ZAQBians. Here are two more that you might or might not be familiar with: Health Research BooksFeral HouseI welcome any and all further suggestions fellow quilters wish to proffer. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Feb 17, 2018 6:02:00 GMT -5
I have a wonderful hole-in-the-wall place on St. Mark's Place (although further east than the blocks people generally think of when they think of St. Mark's) called East Village Books. They're exclusively used. The place is quite thin but also pretty deep, and along with a healthy selection of fiction and all sorts of subsections, including new age-y stuff (natch) and a big philosophy section that, I'm happy to say, is right by the entrance, they also have one section dedicated to obscure collectibles, with an emphasis on the downtown Manhattan underground/music/art scene (double natch).
PS: We do need an actual reading thread, but I haven't been able to come up with a snarky title yet. |
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 17, 2018 11:43:03 GMT -5
I used to work for Half Price Books, which - though it gradually stopped being a great place to work during my four-year tenure - is still a pretty great store, even if it is a national chain. As their name suggests, most of the used material in the store is half the marked price or less; they sell dead media (from CDs to VHS to laserdiscs to 8-tracks); and since they have a tendency to hire nerds - or at least the one where I worked did - there's a fair chance of finding obscure material or just flat-out weird shit on any given visit.
Iowa City also has a great little store called the Haunted Bookshop. They have friendly cats, they're set up in a really nice little house on the edge of downtown, and the staff is all really cool and really friendly.
In Santa Cruz, the only notable bookstore is Bookshop Santa Cruz, which is an independent store, but mostly has new stuff (used material is there, but not as easy to find). There used to be one a few blocks away called Logos that was much more about used books, but they closed within, like, a month of my getting here.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 19, 2018 15:40:04 GMT -5
I could spend a week at a time here:
www.rarebooklink.com/cgi-bin/kingbooks/index.html
They will search their enormous collection for you if you are looking for something specific, and mail you what they find. If they don't have what you want -- which is unlikely -- you might try their branch office in fashionable Ferndale:
www.kingbooksdetroit.com/king-north/
In other similar places, there's this place in Royal Oak:
www.classicbookshop.dawntreaderbooks.com/
The collection is tiny compared to King's, but many of Dave's books are breathtakingly rare, and every book is in wonderful condition.
They are a branch office of this place: www.dawntreaderbooks.com/index.html -- mention my name, my brother works there. This is a more shambolic operation than the Classic Book Shop, but there are more books to choose from.
Online, I strongly favor www.addALL.com. They encompass common, rare and in-between and include the contents of big-a$$ sellers like Amazon and Alibris, allowing you to find the exact copy you want at the best price, more or less worldwide. Just check to make sure you aren't buying a 1-cent copy of something that has to be shipped at a cost exceeding the national debt of Lower Slobovia.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 19, 2018 19:56:49 GMT -5
I could spend a week at a time here:
www.rarebooklink.com/cgi-bin/kingbooks/index.html
They will search their enormous collection for you if you are looking for something specific, and mail you what they find. If they don't have what you want -- which is unlikely -- you might try their branch office in fashionable Ferndale:
www.kingbooksdetroit.com/king-north/
In other similar places, there's this place in Royal Oak:
www.classicbookshop.dawntreaderbooks.com/
The collection is tiny compared to King's, but many of Dave's books are breathtakingly rare, and every book is in wonderful condition.
They are a branch office of this place: www.dawntreaderbooks.com/index.html -- mention my name, my brother works there. This is a more shambolic operation than the Classic Book Shop, but there are more books to choose from.
Online, I strongly favor www.addALL.com. They encompass common, rare and in-between and include the contents of big-a$$ seller like Amazon and Alibris, allowing you to find the exact copy you want at the best price, more or less worldwide. Just check to make sure you aren't buying a 1-cent copy of something that has to be shipped at a cost exceeding the national debt of Lower Slobovia.
There's a SECOND King Books?!?!? Last time I was in the Metro Detroit area, nobody told me this... Oh, sweet baby Jeebus. There are THREE of 'em www.kingbooksdetroit.com/big-book-store/Next time I go visit my in-laws.... |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 20, 2018 13:18:37 GMT -5
Life is just good to us sometimes. It's hard to remember that lately, but it does happen.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 20, 2018 13:20:37 GMT -5
And I don't know if a single person here even shares my taste in books, but this is a great source for true crime: www.cliffordelmerbooks.com/ |
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Post by Deeky on Feb 20, 2018 13:24:40 GMT -5
I enjoyed this true crime book.  |
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Post by Deeky on Feb 20, 2018 13:33:58 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 20, 2018 14:16:39 GMT -5
OMG, I forgot www.auntagathas.com/ !!! They carry nothing at all but mysteries and true crime. Some of the titles are quite unusual and hard to find. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Feb 21, 2018 6:11:04 GMT -5
I own most if not all issues of Weirdo, most if not all issues of HUP, one issue of Commies from Mars, one issue of Horny Biker Sluts, Robert Williams' Coochy Cooty Comics, and maybe a few more, but there is sooooo much more there I'd like to read. |
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Post by Mayzshon on Feb 21, 2018 7:48:13 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 21, 2018 15:09:55 GMT -5
I enjoyed this true crime book. That's a good read. A friend of mine from work was best friends with the brother of one of the victims (Michelle Guse) at the time it happened. I have meant to get to the other book on that case to see if there is any more information to be had. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 22, 2018 0:56:04 GMT -5
I enjoyed this true crime book. That's a good read. A friend of mine from work was best friends with the brother of one of the victims (Michelle Guse) at the time it happened. I have meant to get to the other book on that case to see if there is any more information to be had. Out of curiosity: Since I know you love true crime - have you ever considered writing your own true crime book? You've got the writing chops for it. Are there any cases out there that you know of that ought to be covered? |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 29, 2018 15:49:09 GMT -5
That's a good read. A friend of mine from work was best friends with the brother of one of the victims (Michelle Guse) at the time it happened. I have meant to get to the other book on that case to see if there is any more information to be had. Out of curiosity: Since I know you love true crime - have you ever considered writing your own true crime book? You've got the writing chops for it. Are there any cases out there that you know of that ought to be covered? Sooooo many I want to see a book written about. But I just don't have the stamina to do all the legwork and interviews and so forth that it would take to really do a good job. And I have to admit I've never tried to do anything at all that was book-length without getting all snarled up and confused about what I want to say and and then just quitting in disgust. |
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