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taotrooper) wrote2008-12-03 11:25 pm
taotrooper) wrote2008-12-03 11:25 pm
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Oho!
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......Not only I passed the English exam of suck. I was the highest mark in the class. WTFF. OH WELL, THAT'S PRETTY GOOD!
Anyway, before I leave tobegin with finish German. We got out of class twenty minutes earlier, so I went to El Corte Inglés just to waste some time. Actually, I just wanted to see if there was a purple iPod Nano (what?), but I got distracted by the book section's shiny before I could, you know, get there.
They usually have the big features in a series of tables near the hallway. In one of the tables we had the youth section. Half of if was Twilight, of course, and that's not exactly new in El Corte. However, there was this sign that cracked me up:
Me: Yeah, including the really bad ones.
Just kidding. I don't hate nor care about Twilight. Anyway. There were also other vampire books next to them, perhaps to take the chance. But well, not everything was LOL FAD, of course. There were the usual hardcover His Dark Materials books, and the last installment of Inkheart (which made me think of Fujur), and there was Wicked (which made me think of Sha), and the great novelty: The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I was really tempted to get it, and perhaps I will one day. No, well, I was tempted to read almost anything from that table that wasn't Twilight, as a matter of fact.
I did buy something I saw on the shelves on my way out, though. ORZ.
A hardcover, deluxe edition of The Last Unicorn, bitches. It was pricey, and they charged me one euro more than they should've now that I notice, but I couldn't help it because it happened to include the sequel short story, Two Hearts. Squee OTP!
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, MR. BEAGLE'S INTERNET LAWYER? I TOLD YOU I'D BUY THE BOOKS! THERE!
Okay, back to German.
......Not only I passed the English exam of suck. I was the highest mark in the class. WTFF. OH WELL, THAT'S PRETTY GOOD!
Anyway, before I leave to
They usually have the big features in a series of tables near the hallway. In one of the tables we had the youth section. Half of if was Twilight, of course, and that's not exactly new in El Corte. However, there was this sign that cracked me up:
STEPHENIE MEYER
Para todos los gustos estas Navidades.
(These holidays, we have for all tastes.)
Me: Yeah, including the really bad ones.
Just kidding. I don't hate nor care about Twilight. Anyway. There were also other vampire books next to them, perhaps to take the chance. But well, not everything was LOL FAD, of course. There were the usual hardcover His Dark Materials books, and the last installment of Inkheart (which made me think of Fujur), and there was Wicked (which made me think of Sha), and the great novelty: The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I was really tempted to get it, and perhaps I will one day. No, well, I was tempted to read almost anything from that table that wasn't Twilight, as a matter of fact.
I did buy something I saw on the shelves on my way out, though. ORZ.
A hardcover, deluxe edition of The Last Unicorn, bitches. It was pricey, and they charged me one euro more than they should've now that I notice, but I couldn't help it because it happened to include the sequel short story, Two Hearts. Squee OTP!
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, MR. BEAGLE'S INTERNET LAWYER? I TOLD YOU I'D BUY THE BOOKS! THERE!
Okay, back to German.
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I wanna. ;_; I own a 25th anniversary special edition, but it's paperback. ;_; I h8 u.
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And that's a really pretty edition of The Last Unicorn. My copy is paperback and all worn and torn.
Going into bookstores, their dangerous for the wallet :)
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It totally looks better in hand. It's even... it has engraved parts, like with texture over the cardboard. I don't know the name in English. It's also pretty thick, like the bricks the HP books are.
It wasn't even a real bookstore but a department store T_T Still, the shiny! If it's not the book sections, it's DVD or videogame.
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... so many books I want, sob.
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Yo sigo repitiendo a mi familia que gastar dinero en libros/manga es mucho mejor que con comida/bebida
/tabaco/drogas: ésos te los consumes y listo, pero los libritos son pa' siempre *_*no subject
TE DIJEEEEEE. TE DIJE TE DIJEEEE. Teienes que empezar a creer un poquito en ti misma, tú puedes, Kiri. Kickea ese examen de alemán. \o/
Guten Glück! ♥
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Viele dank!
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And lol, Twilight. I frankly get embarrassed whenever I see a group of EMO pseudo-goths salivating around them. I really want to go see the movie to LMAO for 2 hours, but it's expensive and I heard it's not that lulz-worthy. I'm disappointed :-/
And personally, I've been obsessed with the latest Artemis Fowl book - which happens to me every time a new one gets released. I flail about it for as long as it takes me to read it, then my crazy stays dormant till the next book, lol. I'm so shameless about Artemis Fowl, dammit.
I also bought House of Many Ways the other day :D
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*is still embarrassed she liked a couple of Anne Rice books back in the day*Gah, I still haven't bought the new Artemis book, nor the new Howl novel. Funny enough, I was rereading the first AF book last month, and was amazed at how much things have changed n that series. (also, someone on fandom!secrets was all OMG ARTEMIS/HOLLY IS CANNON NAO and was so disappointed when commenters were all LOL NO IT ISN'T. cockteasers! I almost believed it for some minutes)
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Damn. I guess it's too much to hope for that they'd actually put together a table that caters to all YA adults, not just load it with the bestsellers of the best-selling genres. Variety is dead.
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Well, it is a department store. I doubt the clerks there know anything about literature at all, so the best bet is to go with best-sellers and whatever the publishers tell them to feature. *shrugs*