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So I've already spent about a hundred dollars on books, and none of them are textbooks.
Yesterday was spent in New York (AAAHHHHHH! WICKED!) and I ended up in a Kinokuniya. I was all "Ooh! I'm gonna look for Detective Conan!" and so I went up to the third floor and they had a display table full of Conan right at the top of the escalator. And not just the regular manga, they also had some movie manga, novels, those science book thingies, some Magic Kaito, pretty much at least one of everything. They even had two CDs, but they were 45 bucks each. I came away with Vol. 70, Gosho Aoyama's Short Stories, and the Detective Conan TV and Movie 15th Memorial book. Basically? It's a selection of the best cases ever. We have The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages, The Desperate Revival, The Haunted Ghost Ship, the New York case, and finally the Moonlight Sonata.
Today I found a Barnes and Noble and got the novelized version of Shada, Douglas Adams' unfilmed Doctor Who script, and the third book in The Looking Glass Wars. And then and then and then jackpot! Mom asked the cashier there if they knew of a second-hand bookstore around and they directed us to Whodunit which is not just mysteries, but ahaaahahahhhhhhhh! I got the original English editions (I think) of The Exploits of Arsene Lupin and The Hollow Needle, and the original editions of Ellery Queen's Double, Double, Ten Days' Wonder, Calamity Town, and The Origin of Evil. The only one I don't already have in cheap paperback is Ten Days' Wonder, but by cheap paperback I mean those awful Double Mysteries with typos up the wazoo, and Double, Double with the awful misleading red herring summary. They also had the original edition of The Tragedy of X but it was fifty bucks, so. Proves that the guy knows his stuff however because the Drury Lane novels were written under Barnaby Ross not Ellery Queen, but it was with the other Queens.
Tomorrow I move into the dorm, and then things really get rolling.
Yesterday was spent in New York (AAAHHHHHH! WICKED!) and I ended up in a Kinokuniya. I was all "Ooh! I'm gonna look for Detective Conan!" and so I went up to the third floor and they had a display table full of Conan right at the top of the escalator. And not just the regular manga, they also had some movie manga, novels, those science book thingies, some Magic Kaito, pretty much at least one of everything. They even had two CDs, but they were 45 bucks each. I came away with Vol. 70, Gosho Aoyama's Short Stories, and the Detective Conan TV and Movie 15th Memorial book. Basically? It's a selection of the best cases ever. We have The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages, The Desperate Revival, The Haunted Ghost Ship, the New York case, and finally the Moonlight Sonata.
Today I found a Barnes and Noble and got the novelized version of Shada, Douglas Adams' unfilmed Doctor Who script, and the third book in The Looking Glass Wars. And then and then and then jackpot! Mom asked the cashier there if they knew of a second-hand bookstore around and they directed us to Whodunit which is not just mysteries, but ahaaahahahhhhhhhh! I got the original English editions (I think) of The Exploits of Arsene Lupin and The Hollow Needle, and the original editions of Ellery Queen's Double, Double, Ten Days' Wonder, Calamity Town, and The Origin of Evil. The only one I don't already have in cheap paperback is Ten Days' Wonder, but by cheap paperback I mean those awful Double Mysteries with typos up the wazoo, and Double, Double with the awful misleading red herring summary. They also had the original edition of The Tragedy of X but it was fifty bucks, so. Proves that the guy knows his stuff however because the Drury Lane novels were written under Barnaby Ross not Ellery Queen, but it was with the other Queens.
Tomorrow I move into the dorm, and then things really get rolling.