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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 25, 9:43*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote:
UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm* * * Southwestern I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern". It is culturally Southern and only a little over 100 miles from Louisiana. Among U.S. cities over one million, Dallas has what must be the poorest selection of books. The Bookstop locations that you mention around Dallas and Fort Worth were absorbed by Barnes & Noble years ago, just like their big downtown store in New Orleans, which as it happened was the first of the chain I'd ever seen in 1991 when I made a trip from California to the Florida Keys. (Of course I knew about B&N stores in the Northeast and their humongous store on Fifth Ave. in Manhattan.) Although Dallas is well served by the two large chains, namely B&N and Borders, which each has its 30,000-50,000 titles, there is only one used bookstore of importance. That is Half Price which like Powell's in Portland sells a combo of used and new. It is a chain in central and western states. Its headquarters store is in Dallas and is quite a draw. After that, there's nothing. It could be Irkutsk. Texans are not readers. |
Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT), Stratum101
wrote: On Sep 25, 9:43*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote: UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm* * * Southwestern I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern". It is culturally Southern and only a little over 100 miles from Louisiana. Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. Not all of Texas is ANYTHING. It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border. And what's 100 miles from Louisiana? Texas adjoins Louisiana -- but San Antonio, for example, is hundreds of miles from that border. Did you mean Dallas? To me, Dallas doesn't seem culturally Southern. -- My webpage is at http://www.watt-evans.com I'm selling my comic collection -- see http://www.watt-evans.com/comics.html I'm serializing a novel at http://www.watt-evans.com/realmsoflight0.html |
Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:11:55 -0400, Lawrence Watt-Evans
wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT), Stratum101 wrote: On Sep 25, 9:43Â*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote: UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htmÂ* Â* Â* Southwestern I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern". It is culturally Southern and only a little over 100 miles from Louisiana. Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. Not all of Texas is ANYTHING. It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border. And what's 100 miles from Louisiana? Texas adjoins Louisiana -- but San Antonio, for example, is hundreds of miles from that border. Did you mean Dallas? To me, Dallas doesn't seem culturally Southern. As a long-time resident, I'd say putting "Dallas" and "culture" in the same sentence is highly questionable, unless maybe you're discussing microbiology. -- Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank] |
Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
re. Vancouver, W. Canada
University Bookstore (on the University of British Columbia campus-- take bus #10 or #4 from downtown). "Lauds itself as the West's largest bookstore. A great selection." The renovation is finally completed. I can laud myself as extremely intelligent, but that does not necessarily make it so. Seriously, UBC bookstore has a poor selection of scifi/fantasy, about 30 linear feet worth, sparsely stocked, with mostly big big name items - if you get lucky you might just score an Anita Blake novel. That was about 2 yrs ago and there were no renos underway at the time. I don't recall the rest of the (non-college) book selection overwhelming me either. IIRC there seemed to be a lot of knick knacks and university collectibles rather than books. |
Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 25, 2:11*pm, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
[...] Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. *Not all of Texas is ANYTHING. *It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border. Hell, it's a whole 'nother country. -=Dave (It's a bumper sticker, or at least it was last time I visited) |
Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 25, 12:48*pm, Stratum101 wrote:
On Sep 25, 9:43*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote: UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm** * Southwestern I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern". It is culturally Southern and only a little over 100 miles from Louisiana. An interesting sentence. I was actually referring to Dallas, a city positioned a little over 100 miles from the Texas - Louisiana border. (A check with the Google map shows 165 miles road distance from downtown Dallas to the Louisiana state line. Okay. "A little over 150 miles from Louisiana...") The follow-on discussion about whether Texas is Southern is just silly. All of it is, even border towns like Brownsville and El Paso. Most of Texas's population live in the eastern third of the state on the western edge of the Deep South. The cultural capital of that Texas is Dallas. Or maybe it is Waxahachie. They're neighboring county seats. There is something of a cultural divide in the state. South Texas, beginning south of Austin and centered on San Antonio, is more Latino and politically bluer than North Texas. One could stretch "Latino Texas" clear out to El Paso. The big ethnic divide in Texas the Southern state is between white and black. The ethnic divide in South Texas is between Anglo and Latino. But everywhere in Texas, the Anglos have the same plumb-dumb Texas drawl that accompanies wide-eyed amazement at questions that are totally irrelevant to life like, "Do you know where there's a half-decent bookstore around here?" |
Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
"DouhetSukd" wrote in message ... I can laud myself as extremely intelligent, but that does not necessarily make it so. No, it certainly doesn't. |
Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 25, 5:34*pm, DouhetSukd wrote:
re. Vancouver, W. Canada University Bookstore (on the University of British Columbia campus-- take bus * * * * #10 or #4 from downtown). *"Lauds itself as the West's largest * * * * bookstore. *A great selection." *The renovation is finally * * * * completed. I can laud myself as extremely intelligent, but that does not necessarily make it so. Seriously, UBC bookstore has a poor selection of scifi/fantasy [snip] Well, of course. If it's like most college bookstores, the only used books it carries are textbooks for classes. Obviously the wrong place to look for science fiction and fantasy; for that you want a used book store. |
Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 25, 12:48*pm, Stratum101 wrote:
[. . .] Although Dallas is well served by the two large chains, namely B&N and Borders, which each has its 30,000-50,000 titles, there is only one used bookstore of importance. *That is Half Price which like Powell's in Portland sells a combo of used and new. *It is a chain in central and western states. *Its headquarters store is in Dallas and is quite a draw. * How is it such a draw, if Texans are non-readers? Does it have a really big section of CDs and DVDs? After that, there's nothing. *It could be Irkutsk. Are you talking about Irkutsk, Siberia, or is there an Irkutsk in Texas? If you are saying that the city of Irkutsk, in Siberia, has a shortage of bookshops, is even a byword for booklessness, that is news to me, and rather surprising. Are you from Irkutsk? Texans are not readers. Non sequitur. They are mostly connected to the internet, so their ability to shop for new and used books is not limited by the number of bookshops. |
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