Bazza Posted January 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Want a bite (of a sandwich)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word No, thanks. My teeth still kinda hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Tim, may have to smite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Here in Seattle, the best brick-and-mortar bookstore in town, without any ghost of real competition, is the University of Washington Bookstore in the U District. Their only downside is parking. I have never, ever, been in another bookstore that was in the same league. That said, the bookstore I was referring to above was not the U of W one, because I not with the U of W now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Even better than Powell's in Portland? *drool* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word I haven't been to Powell's. Heard good things about it, but I haven't spent enough time in Portland to have made it there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ah, one of us needs to go to the other bookstore then. Powell's is pretty awesome. Takes up a block and then it's got satellite stores with specialties in cooking at one, and tech in the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word That's a much bigger store than UW's. I should probably confess up front that I have odd criteria for my assessment scale, things that give high weight to technical nonfiction, and definite negative weight to cheap paperback trade fiction. Many, many places never get above water purely due to their shelfspace spent on Danielle Steele volumes alone, for example. And if I find a book on horoscopes in the astronomy section, well, the place is not a bookstore, it is a satanic propaganda outpost for whom the firebombing of Dresden is inadequate retribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Then you'll want to check Powell's Technical store. About 1/2 the size of a Border's, but devoted to Technical Subjects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Here in Seattle' date=' the best brick-and-mortar bookstore in town, without any ghost of real competition, is the University of Washington Bookstore in the U District. Their only downside is parking. I have never, ever, been in another bookstore that was in the same league.[/quote'] re parking, good or bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word UW Bookstore's parking situation is not very good. They have their own lot, but it's small, and getting into and out of it can be ugly with U District traffic as it is. Most of the time I go there, I have gone to the District via bus (this was especially true when I worked in the U District) and sidestepped the parking issue entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Here in Seattle, the best brick-and-mortar bookstore in town, without any ghost of real competition, is the University of Washington Bookstore in the U District. Their only downside is parking. I have never, ever, been in another bookstore that was in the same league. That said, the bookstore I was referring to above was not the U of W one, because I not with the U of W now. Probably similar to that bookstore near Harvard. (It might well be the Harvard bookstore, but I haven't been in years, and have forgotten.) But Boston has a lot of good shopping, so it's hard to say whether that's the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ah' date=' one of us needs to go to the other bookstore then. Powell's is pretty awesome. Takes up a block and then it's got satellite stores with specialties in cooking at one, and tech in the other.[/quote']. . . ! Sounds like heaven to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word My version of Hell, actually. Retail stores are an exercise in gratification delay and self-discipline, for me. Neither of those are my strong points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word My version of Hell' date=' actually. Retail stores are an exercise in gratification delay and self-discipline, for me. Neither of those are my strong points.[/quote'] Ah, not much for browsing then? Did I mention the coffee shop and plenty of places to just sit and read? They also have a good selection of used books that they put right next to the new ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Oooo . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word * Cancer watches lemming do his Mephistopheles schtick * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word *whimpers* This is also why Josh won't let me step foot in a pet shelter, and he keeps a close eye on me at PetSmart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word * Cancer watches lemming do his Mephistopheles schtick * Well, Alice would have to go to the opposite coast, so there's only so much I can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word *checks out prices on trans-atlantic flights* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Of course, there's always the online store Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . Sweet baby Jeebus on rye! *collapses in a frothing bibliophiliac heap* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Stop that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Not gonna! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Re: The Last Word Do I have to get out the whip again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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