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- Feb 8, 2021
Used book stores. I picked up a hardcover of 'Gulag Archipelago' and 'Storm of Steel' for less money than a brand new Lisa Scottolini or WEB Griffin slopbook. I bought about 100 bucks of books there which is a big rubbermaid tote full. Also check for community or traveling book sales that happen in your area. If you can stand a little bit of wear and tear and that old-book-smell, you're golden.So my personal library has run dry, and I decided too make the decision too visit my local library.
I've been going too the libraries since my youth, being able too find the "weird" books for my middle school age fairly easy, those being "The road", the author Darren Shan, and similar "safe-edgy for the time" reads.
Jesus H Christ was it ever depressing visiting in the modern day. ALL the books in the "Canadian history" section is just about native abuse, and how the hwhite man is bad (with a nice LGBTQIAP+BBQ row underneath)
So I decided, "huh might as well see how my past youth is" and the young adult section is a similar pain, no cool "demon" books mostly just books on "how I pozzed my neghole" or "my parents don't believe me"
Finally, I drug myself too the front desk, thankfully the front desk true and honest lady was very helpful in aiding me. So turns out most of the books I look for are now cached somewhere else, not too be put on display (authors such as Cormac McCarthy, PKD, and just general Canadian history.)
So I guess I have too start building a library for my future kids. Which isn't too bad, since I would enjoy reading "the happy man and his dump truck" as it was a certified hood classic
I'm assuming your local library is like my local library, and the one in my hometown, and every other one I've been to: there's little quality shit to read yet the shelves are all half-empty for some reason. Of course they have a full section for the gay books that not a single young hand touches, and several rows of computers, even though by now even the homeless have cellphones with wifi. Indigo seems to be half knick-knacks and cookware by now and the other half is unreservedly chicklit. If you want anything decent to read you have to hit up the second hand market and online stores.