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    39 KB Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)01:42 No.2051679  
    Has anyone here gotten anything from the closing sales?

    I decided to check (late as I was) today and managed to find some Haruki Murakami, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Yoko Ogawa. Not what I had in mind, but alright. Most of the store's gone.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)01:54 No.2051699
    I purchased the following

    A Kaplan MCAT book

    The Book of Five Rings- Musashi
    The Stranger- Camus
    Journey to the End of Islam - Knight
    The Myth of Sissyphus -Camus
    Amerika - Kafka
    Kafka on the Shore - Murakami
    The Gift - poems by Hafiz

    pretty good snags, decent prices as well. I picked up some bargain cookbooks as well
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)01:56 No.2051701
    Fuck you, I got no Japanese literature.

    I just got the Ultimate's Hitchhiker's Guide and a David Sedaris book.
    >> Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 09/02/11(Fri)01:59 No.2051705
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    I came in every time they cut prices down. Usually took note of what things they had and compared them to online. They would ship new stuff in from their warehouses, but mostly it was a game and gamble to leave things in hopes they'd cut prices and your book would still be there.

    I got seventeen books total. Including four from this latest 80% off on politics. I spent $11 and saved $44. But I probably wont get around to them for a year or more. I think I'm done now.

    Moyers On Democracy
    Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
    The End of War - Capt Paul K. Chappell
    Permanently Blue - Dylan Loewe

    Lost some when I took The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens when it was still only 70% off
    And Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky at 60%
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)02:07 No.2051722
    I've got a bunch of stuff over the course of the sale. Best deal was a Silver Spoon cookbook that I got for $8 books (retails around 45) but I've also picked up a bunch of other stuff, mostly science fiction & politics.

    Probably bad for me, in the sense that I spent money I otherwise wouldn't have spent, but eh. I got books!
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)02:18 No.2051741
    Just a shitload of DFW.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)09:31 No.2052202
    >>2051701
    >implying ishiguro is japanese literature
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)09:56 No.2052217
    Going to stock up on 70% off graphic novels next week, if all the volumes of 20th Century Boys and some other ones are still at the store I've been going to. I've already bought around thirteen books from it and it looks like not many people have been buying there so more for me.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)10:03 No.2052222
    >>2052217
    20th Century Boys brotherfist.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)11:40 No.2052342
    Borders sale in Singapore

    My loot of the day:
    Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
    The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
    Go Down Moses - William Faulkner
    Thunderball + On Her Majesty's Secret Service + You Only Live Twice - Ian Fleming
    The Pale King - DFW
    My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durell
    Design as Art - Bruno Munari

    But I had to throw out Pohl and some other stuff make room for my grand prize

    http://www.amazon.com/Corbusier-Grand-Editors-Phaidon/dp/0714846686

    It's the size of a coffee table, and I got all my deadlifting for the week done lugging this monster around.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)11:41 No.2052344
    >>2052222
    It turned into shit at the end. Listen to my song? Seriously?
    >> Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs 09/02/11(Fri)11:55 No.2052355
    >>2052342

    Good job on buying The Pale King, more people should read that.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)12:03 No.2052363
    When will this place actually close? It seems like they've been having closing sales for the past six months.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)12:10 No.2052369
    >>2052355
    After all the hype about Infinite Jest, I got a little curious
    >> Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs 09/02/11(Fri)12:15 No.2052374
    >>2052369

    I actually preferred it to Infinite Jest, although I would think I'm in a small minority.
    >> Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !VFku6Ixxx. 09/02/11(Fri)12:15 No.2052375
    >>2052222

    I really should get back to reading that, currently up to Volume 5. Does it become better now that Kanna is the protag? Besides that and Monster is Pluto worth looking into?
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)12:17 No.2052378
    >>2052375
    Monster and Pluto are far better.
    >> Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !VFku6Ixxx. 09/02/11(Fri)12:19 No.2052383
    >>2052369
    >>2052374


    I want to read IJ, but I really don't want to tack another 1000 page book onto my backlog. I already am slouching my way through ADWD and I have The Brothers Karamazov to tackle later in the year.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)12:21 No.2052385
    >>2052383
    Dostoevsky is not hard, and everyone on /lit/ has raved about his pacing. It's like reading a thriller, that's good.
    >> Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !VFku6Ixxx. 09/02/11(Fri)12:23 No.2052389
    >>2052385

    I read Crime and Punishment before Summer started and enjoyed it. I plan to read Notes next once i'm done with ADWD.
    >> !BLEUHIPFS. 09/02/11(Fri)12:27 No.2052395
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    A week ago I found a cheap edition of Dubliners at a closing Borders (usually Joyce is the first to go) for $2.50.

    I read half way through it before losing it in a lecture hall.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)12:39 No.2052410
    >>2052395
    What a coincidence, I found a copy of Dubliners, too.
    >> !BLEUHIPFS. 09/02/11(Fri)12:40 No.2052412
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    >>2052410
    In Borders or in a lecture hall?
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)12:42 No.2052414
    anti-oedipus, it's breaking my brain
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)12:43 No.2052416
    >>2052412
    hehe
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)19:27 No.2053045
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    Here's my purchases in a image.

    >captcha: lyediti purchase
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)19:35 No.2053051
    BORDERS IS FUCKING CLOSING? WHAT?

    SALES?

    WHEN DO THESE SALES END
    >> !BLEUHIPFS. 09/02/11(Fri)19:38 No.2053058
    >>2053051
    When they liquidate all of their inventory.

    Hurry up, there still might be some shelves left.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)19:39 No.2053063
    >>2053058

    I didn't ask what a sale was, BUT THANKS

    I'M ON MY WAY

    HERE I COME, STEPHEN KING
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)19:41 No.2053065
    I went in but only left with a cheap little journal... honestly even half off most of their stuff is at least $6-10 more than I found the same books in the same condition online, with shipping.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)19:44 No.2053067
    >>2053063
    The sales don't have a definite date of end, they're just over when all the shit's gone. He answered your question.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)19:45 No.2053068
    >>2053067

    Excuse my last post

    dammit where are my keys
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)19:59 No.2053085
    >>2053068
    lol

    Good Luck.
    >> Anonymous 09/02/11(Fri)21:24 No.2053232
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    yeah, right he.... oh



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