Your favourite bookshops

[GOLLUM]

Hi all.

Not sure if there's a post for pics of your favourite bookshop.

Here's some of mine from yesterday at Minotaurs, Melbourne's specialist SFF shop and the best in the country for all round stock incl. toys, graphic novels, comics, books, DVDs etc... Only Sydney's Galaxy bookshop is better for books in paticular.

Minotaurs of Melbourne​

 

[GOLLUM]

* Sadly I can only load 5 images per post....

Minotaur's continued.....

 

[GOLLUM]

Final pics of Minotaurs of Melbourne....

 

[Ridque]

It's somewhat of a treasure trove for some of us beings, eh? I too am partail to the Minotaur, a close second to my beloved Chimera

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Perhaps I should go take some snaps of Sydney's Galaxy, seeing as I work only a few blocks away from it.

 

[gully_foyle]

Where's the pics of the gruff little guy behind the counter?

 

[DeepThought]

God almighty! wish I could Teleport to Minotaurs right this instant , seriously, I've only been to Australia (Sydney) once (spent 1998 there) and stayed in kingswood...The only other place that I got to visit was Cambara and Queensland, which was rather unfortunately, strictly a tour, so no opportunity for private excursions there.

The closest that I could remember of visiting a place like that is the shopping maul (Penrith plaza or some such) and I remember checking out the flimsy little bookshops and being disappointed plus this odd one week trip to India (Bangalore in particular), a bookstore called Landmark (inside the huge plaza; Forum) which is just barely comparable to this...to this...NERD HEAVEN! I've just goggled at, in GOLLUM's pictures.

Cheers, DeepThought

 

[Nesacat]

Now all we need is to fast forward to 2010. It's a gorgeous bookstore GOLLUM. Lots of envy headed your way here.

 

[Joel007]

That looks awesome, all I get here is Waterstone

 

[Lucien21]

There are 2 speciality Sci-Fi shops in Edinburgh.

Forbidden Planet which used to be good, but now blows. They have too much space for the toys and Figures and next to no space for books.

My favourite is a small bookshop in the Grassmarket area (Transreal Transreal Home) that just sells Sci-Fi books. It's a small pokey place, but has all my book reaing needs.

Otherwise it is Amazon or Waterstones.

Completely jealous about the shop above though.

 

[Overread]

sigh -- all I have is a waterstones (way too small one) and a boarders (little bigger) but nothing on the the scale of minator! If I want bigger its off to Forbidden Planet in London proper - and that costs a book to get thier and back again (plus my biggest irke is that you spend 1 hour on the train and no one checks your ticket!!)

Amazon is nice, but browsing there is just not the same as going to a bookshop!

 

[Ridque]

There's hardly a bookstore around here, I live off ordering online and the (largely Understocked) local library.

 

[Nightmare]

When I lived in San Diego, my favorite was Mysterious Galaxy. A fairly small shop, but as the name suggests, they only sell sci-fi/fantasy and mysteries.

 

[MontyCircus]

 

[Pyan]

Although we have a Borders, two Waterstones, a Forbidden Planet and a WHS in Southampton, my all-time favourite is in Morecambe, up in north Lancashire.
It's exactly as I imagine the Library at Unseen University is.....

Doing it by the book - Morecambe Today

 

[GOLLUM]

Where's the pics of the gruff little guy behind the counter?

Actually it was a very cute girl who knows me from being a regular customer. She actually took the photos of me and Gaza...

 

[HoopyFrood]

Oh...my....

Gollum, I was very envious, that shop looks absolutely amazing. In Exeter I've only seen the usual Waterstones (two of them within about three hundred metres of each other ) and W.H Smiths. There is a great little second hand bookshop, though, which I love. Back in t'Midlands, I can always go to Birmingham and visit the Forbidden Planet there; I like that shop a lot, it's from there that I bought furry Cthulhu.

 

[GOLLUM]

Oh...my....

Gollum, I was very envious, that shop looks absolutely amazing.

It is. If it had the sheer number and range of books that the Sydney shop Galaxy stocks it would definitely be one of the best shops of its kind in the world, I have no hesitation in saying that. As it is it's stilll very good..

 

[Razorback]

I'm also very jealous. Minotaurs looks like a really cool shop. There's lots of bookstores in the Seattle area where I live, both new and used. But I'm not aware of any that are as interesting or cool as Minotaurs appears.

 

[GOLLUM]

The cool factor is indeed high....