Half-price Books
Went there yesterday with the family
IT'S SUPER FREAKISHLY CHEAP, MAN
It's like... Intellectual Heaven
I've decided in my mind it's one of the best for used anything around ANYWHERE
Like if you want used parts, those are shitty
Used books, those are usually just as shitty (Yellow grimey pages = rusted sluged up engine in my mind with my usual reasoning)
USUALLY just as shitty...
Until I went to the HALF-PRICE BOOKSTORE!! WOOO!!!!
I'm super amazed by what they have over there. They have very good percentages. :D
80% of the books are NOT YELLOW TO THE MAX (I mean the color of their pages)
25% of the books are fairly new/ very good good condition
90% AWESOME & Wonderous Used DVD collection (If you're looking for a US flick, then this is DEFINITELY for you)
Seriously, there's like 5 GOOD BOOK SHELVES CASES FULL OF DVDS
WHO DOES THAT?!
I'll tell you who does!
HALF-PRICE BOOKSTORE DOES THAT! (They sell CD's and records there as well.)
+10 for selling (AND BUYING *Oh Hell YES* ) used Manga
+10 for doing the same for anime
+5 for having a lot of anime (for a second hand store) They have around 3 box sets *whistles*
BUT!
-2 for mixing up the chinese stuff in the japanese stuff (Common Mistake, but come ON it doesn't take 5 minutes to learn how to distinguish nihongo from mandarin if you really put your mind to it!)
I also saw a freshman that goes on my bus there. "HI!"
After that I combed over to the kids section - which was amazing
I feel like a total old person after I gawked at their tape collection. GORDY? SAILOR MOON SUPER S? SNOW WH-WHITE?! Oh heaven, I have found thee.
Dude, as you look longer it get's like 10x better. A best-of for Ren & Stimpy. SING ALONG SONGS. HOLY SHIT! I used to watch that show back in the day after school like a drug addict!
Ah, I was going to buy the Ren & Stimpy (Includes Log and Happy Happy Joy Joy song), but I planned on buying a good book or two and going to Best Buy afterwards, so I couldn't get it. *weeps*
I limited myself to the Language/English Study Aid and Used Textbooks section, being a self-proclaimed Self-Improvement Junkie. Did I find any good books on Japanese? All I need is a Kanji Dictionary and I found just that (it was the one I borrowed from the Library too, no less) and I would have bought it too, if it weren't for the spotty pages and that mangey cover. And when I say spotty pages, I mean seriously, that last owner needs to buy himself a paper towel the next time they feel like eating chips and studying kanji at the same time. In the end I bought myself a Kaplan AP test prep book for my current hate obsession, World History after shuffling around the Great Esteemed Wall of Education, chock-full of material for Learning.
*big surprise* Whoa, they have a hell of a lot of Sociology and Psychiatry textbooks more than any other subject... AKA: JACKPOT!!! Mental Note: Buy them for LATER... (All done in a great outfit which made me look like a smart person, *Hay, don't you dress yourself so you look smarter than you really are EVERYDAY?* SHHH! Yes. Yes, I do.) *sigh* The preceding sentance was brought to you by the people that made "Run-on: it's not just for the Flock of Seagulls anymore!" If you get that last bit, you deserve an award for figuring out one of my really screwed up references! Wooo!
I admit, though, I tried to wander into the Humor section, but guffawing 60 year-old men whispering amongst themselves right next to the limerick shelf kept me at bay. (I wanted to buy this book:
...that's pretty much it.
I should get paid for this free advertising, seriously.
(If you're still reading, you should be happy there's even something new to read today, I didn't feel like writing anything for the blog, I don't even know why I typed something anyway LOL, -NOT.)
I'm going to waste more of my precious teenage time by putting this post under super random tags. I put a finger up to doing my winter break homework FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (No I don't)
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