Fields Book Store, Thou Hast Conquered!!

[princeofcairo]

I have been in some excellent occult bookshops in my day. I've been in the Orion Bookstore in Toronto, which had that wonderful Canadian bookstore habit of having British books at close to reasonable prices, plus shelves un-harvested by American conspiracy theorists. I've been in the Atlantis Bookshop, famous for letting Aleister Crowley hang out

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[eynowd]

Sounds to me like you need to disappear for an afternoon from Dundracon and stop by Panteacon and check out the good stuff.

[stevenkaye]

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[stevenkaye]

(note to self - put parenthetical comments in parentheses if you want them to show up)

(gnashes teeth at presence of cool specialist bookstores in cities not New York)

"British Prices"

[muskrat_john]

"I've been in the Atlantis Bookshop, famous for letting Aleister Crowley hang out there and unnerve the help, just up the street from the Museum in London. It had wonderful British books, but sadly at British prices"

...which are worse now that the dollar is worth roughly one Patagonian Seashell...

$1.90 to the pound today. Gaaaah! (It was around $1.50 when we were there, I believe...)

(Can you guess I just got back from Londres?)

[serpentstar]

Think yourself lucky mate, at least you don't get paid in dollars and have to buy your groceries in pounds...

I might have to see if there are any RPG publishers who pay in something more like hard currency -- maybe lire, or roubles or something? ;)

Either that or I start importing comics and games -- Forbidden Planet and Esdevium must be doing very well out of the current exchange rate.

[multiplexer]

I am busy conspiring with my Templar minion patsies to steal your stuff by combining the true lost rites of Chaos Magick and the last remnants of the teachings of the Temple of the Sonic Youth. They will be unleashed at the dawn of the day AFTER the equinox, just to throw off your stride.

I have yet to find AN occult bookshop in DC. I've lived here for two and a half years! And yet, still, no occult bookshops. You would think, in the long shadow of the Capitol, it would be brimming and spilling over with occult goodness, but no. It's very sad.

[jholloway]

Well, comfort yourself with the thought that what you consider to be "the good stuff" and what the Pantheacon crowd consider to be "the good stuff" may not necessarily overlap.