Pop Arena Book Hunt - The Search For Used Books
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- At least once a month, I got to local thrift stores and used book stores to find weird & interesting books to add to my library. Some for review, some just for myself. Today, you get to join me on one of my book hunts as I hit five stores in the Lewiston/Clarkston area.
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It's cool to see snippets of other people's towns/life. Hunt on!
The serendipity of used book shopping is what makes it so j uch fun. Where else can you find a book on asteroid mining or how to hide from aliens or how to grow exotic orchids?
Loved this video, wouldn't mind seeing more! Love hunting vids :)
wow what a flashback! I also remember having and reading 'Children Just Like Me' when I was younger.
Book thrifting make me giddy with excitement. Like preparing for christmas eve haha
For some reason, I keep coming back to this video. I also like going book hunting, and it's always super neat when you come across a book you've never heard before and end up finding a new favorite author. I can generally only pick up one book per visit though, and I have to cap off my book queue at seven so I don't end up with too many unread books and not enough shelf space.
I WANT THE $3 BAG OF AGATHA CHRISTIE. Used Agatha Christie goes so quickly up where I live. I'm fine with buying some of her stuff new, but there's nothing like finding a charming old edition in a store.
she was the opposite of Dr Hunter Thompson who ran an exotic club in San Francisco once upon a time
Really missing being able to go out and hunt for books with everything going on in the world right now. This was such a wonderful bit of escapism - it felt like a friend was talking to me. Thank you so much!!!
This was really cool. I do hope we see more of this in the future. I get its not gonna be a daily thing but it was really fun to watch you browse in this fashion.
I would like another video like this.
Oh man, my library had a bunch of those Clue mystery books, I loved them when I was a kid.
"Where do you even take Clue when Mr. Boddy's dead?"
SPOILER for basically ALL the Clue Books:
Each book would have a series of chapters. In each chapter, Mr. Body would invite Col Mustard, Mrs. White, ect. over to his mansion. Someone would steal something, and you'd have to solve the mystery Ecyclopedia Brown style. For the LAST chapter of each book, one of the guests would actually murder Mr. Body, and it would be treated like he was really dead. BUT, the next book would start out with Mr. Body turning out to be alive because the knife was rubber or the bullet missed him or some BS like that. Despite his friends trying to rob and/or kill him repeatedly, Mr. Body kept inviting them over.
Maybe Mr. Body is a bunch of clones? Or shape-shifting aliens studying human behavior but only having one "model"? Seriously, though, I kinda want to find a copy now... It sounds hilarious.
Holy crap this episode haha. First you make me double take with the LGR Thrifts reference, a show I've watched every episode of since it started, and then you gush about Hunter S Thompson! Seriously starting to think we're parallel universe doppelgangers.
I have two favorite second hand book stores. Pegasus Books and Hard to Find Books. There's just something about seeing the books in baskets or on the wooden shelves, walking across the wooden floors to the sections indicated with hand written signs. Hard to Find Books has two floors of floor to ceiling bookshelves, and a whole room for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Easily the best bargain I have gotten from a second hand book store is the Doctor Who New Adventure Happy Endings for NZ$3.00.
Another great thing about old books is the smell. It's got history and that can never be replicated in a new printing. You also never know what you're going to find, which is half the fun. You could walk away with a lot or with nothing, it never gets old.
This was fantastic! Would love to see this become a regular feature on the channel.
I don't know about regular, but you can at least expect a sequel, there's other stores for me to show off. :)
That would be great Gregg. Loved this episode.
So relaxing and cozy video
Loved the video, Greg! You should do one of these if you ever are on the hunt for rare VHS tapes - I'd love to see what you'd find :)
Oh, Clue books! Those were great fun. The intros in particular.
Sweet! I love your detailed reviews and going on a digital book haul with you is great!
At Goodwill books, from 5:29 to 5:33, there's Scorpia, the 5th in the Alex Rider series of British Young Adult books that are strongly inspired by James Bond. They are fun to look at because of the ludicrously violent and disturbing content, but, of course, no sex. They aren't badly written either, if that, so might be worth picking up.
Cameron Marnoch Yeah, I remember these when I was a kid. Think James Bond but for teenagers. Not bad from what I remember.
That was cool to watch :)
OH! The *Bruce Coville's Book of X* series! Those were a HUGE part of my creative development! They were all *really* good. Some of the best "horror anthology" type books I've ever read.
I loveeee this video style! I wish it were a popular trend!
That was a cool little video. Kind of a pseudo vlog. I like it. We don't have anywhere near that many places to find books around here but the one dedicated used book shop we have is wonderful. Unfortunately it's closing down in the mid-near future essentially because the owner went bankrupt. Now I don't know where I'll go for my books :/
Yea same here. I buy books go home and find out that I was misled by the title or by the promise of a great read on the back of the book. Or I find out that I actually need a different book with the same title.
You've bought the same Agatha Christie book twice there, under two different titles - "An Overdose of Death" and "The Patriotic Murders" are two different American publishings of the Agatha Christie book "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe." I always wonder why the American versions felt the need to change the titles so often (except in obvious cases like "And Then There Were None"). Is the nursery rhyme "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" unknown in America?
Nice video! I miss one of our secondhand bookshops in town, which went back for miles and ended with the science fiction and children's sections in a kind of shed with a plastic roof and concrete floor far removed from the rest of the shop.
Ooh, I hope you like the Clue books, those were great for me as a kid who loved logic problems. And they did get pretty creative about coming up with a puzzle to solve each chapter.
This was a really fun little tour video! You have my utmost envy for that intact copy of #3. I went over to check my copy out of curiosity, and even it's torn.
I never leave comments but I loved watching you book hunt! Also I love your Vissar 3 joke. It gets me every time and I got such a kick out of seeing you write it on the etch a sketch
I feel strangely proud of calling this on twitter XD. A great video, very chill! Thanks for posting!
How wonderful, the realm of stories.
I love this video! Man, some of my fondest childhood memories are reading books from stores like these! SLC also has some amazing, weird and niche bookstores, so a few very distinct memories I have are of the weirdest shit. Anna to the Infinite Power is a 60's YA novel about cloning and Nazis? With an incest subplot?? It's writing wasn't anything worthwhile but it was weird enough as a kid that it stuck with me for decades! Same with I Was a Teenage Fairy, another YA book way more intese than I anticipated as a child lol
I'm awed by the very low prices on books, here in Perú, there are very very few used books stores. And the ones who sell new ones, the prices go from 10 dollars and up. I remember buying 11/22/63 by Stephen King for 10 dollars, and IT was 30 dollars (just because the 2017 film just released). And the only Doctor Who books I keep finding are 'The Shadows of Avalon' from the 8DA's, Harvest of Time and the Russell T Davies one about his showrunner era. It's extremely difficult to find little gems here.
I have that Bloom County book, good read.
I liked this. I like hearing people's experiences with stuff in thrift stores since you can find all kinds of things there. Was surprised to hear about that comics thing though. Maybe it's because I only have experience with Value Village, but the only time I recall seeing comics at a thrift store, they were just sitting out in the open next to the regular book shelves.
I love your videos like this one! Please post more
You should look for the Eerie Indiana books.
There are 'Clue' books?! Also, I personally found I don't like Agatha all that much. Read 3, only liked 1 that the preface hinted was not her regular style...
I used to do what you did about once a week, there was ONE good used books store in my city, but since it closed... well... I mean, I have since found others, but they shelf their books twice sometimes three times over and it is just a pain. Also, so many waiting to be read, so little time.
I am also interested in people's views of e-books. I personally vote as Giles did - there is just something about a physical copy that can't be duplicated.
I live in between a Value Village and two used book stores, so there's tons of stuff I can find on a regular basis. I'm more into finding movies and video games, but if the odd book strikes me, I'll grab it. Last night I found Invader Zim volume 1 and Scott Pilgrim on DVD. Almost got Simpsons Movie and Cool World, but there were no discs in the cases.
You should try to find goosebumps book! Just saying...
woot cg and the haul!
Really charming video. About a year ago I was seduced by a kindle and haven't bought a book since. For shame for shame
I saw that Runaways/Young Avengers Cival War crossover and I have to recommend you read the Runaways comics! I read them when I was a kid and fell in love with them. The Hulu show just ended resently and while I can't say the show is entirely spectacular the comics have always fascinated me because it didn't run for very long and I wondered why make a show out of an obscure Marvel property. I think you'll love it and I hope you give it a shot in the future.
That was interesting
dude i love this video so much
Which goodwill is that my goodwill book store is so tiny and not ya and kid books I like they only have cookbooks and a ton of dr.phil books
You skipped Agatha Christie but you bought the Clue book. You need to read Ten Little Indians someday. I assure you.
I AM LOOKING FOR "THE ART OF WITCHES AND WARLOCKS BY ANDREW MCCARTHY. THANK YOU.
Please inform someone who knows nothing about Animorphs why that certain book cover is always torn??
My best rare find in a used bookstore: Fast Times At Ridgemont High. A very popular movie by a well-acclaimed writer/director yet the book not being in print baffles me. Maybe Cameron Crowe wants it that way? (Its claim to be a true story is questionable.)
Be honest, you could have ordered it for a quarter + 3.99 shipping. Still cheaper but not as much as it seems at first glance.
That LGR Thift caught me of guard.
That's really cool no Doctor who at all
I kind of like when people write about other people's cultures since it can give insight into the culture of the writer if not the culture of what the writer writes about... There's a TON of books you can find from like the mid-late 1900s and older (and often this is with history books, but sometimes fiction too) where they describe Native Americans really poorly and maybe even to the point of it being in a racist way... And assuming you are aware of when the writer is doing it (and you know to take everything they're saying that you don't know about with a grain of salt) it's actually quite interesting... Like they'll call the rain dances a satanic ritual or say something about how the Native Americans had no government and you'll just be like "Ah, 1920s White Christian historians... How foolish you were..."
Ha ha I'm over the moon for you finding the untorn Animorphs book. Mine has the tear too...
Oh my gosh I have seen tens of copies of #3 and never have I ever seen the cover intact. That might be legitimately rare now.
Please make a Calvin and Hobbes documentery :) I would love to see it.
I don't read books, they've never really been able to hold my attention. So last year, thanks to amazon prime giving me three months free audible I gave audiobooks a try. Turns out, while the written word has trouble holding my attention the spoken word, does not. I've loving audiobooks, and have gotten really into the Space Team series of books by Barry J. Hutchison. Would love to hear you're thoughts on the books if you've read them, and if not, I do recommend.
Haven't read any Hutchison, I'll put him down as someone to look out for. :)
the best audio I ever heard was "All The Pretty Horses" read by Brad Pitt -- not for kids
Bro when you were ravaging on animorphs, your voice totally changed, reminded me of the turkey named Reggie from Free Birds movie 😂😂
Salt: A World History is very interesting. I have that one.
So, apparently, the dude who wrote “Dr. Bones” also wrote the “Tales from Jabba’s Palace” Star Wars book. Interesting. Did you ever end up finishing that one? I’m wondering if it’s any good (this is to anyone because the chances of the poster of this video answering a comment on this 1 and a half year old video is low).
That was cool. I love book shopping to, but what limits me is more storage based that financial. Where do you put all these books when you're done reading them? It feels wrong to just shove them in a box and leave them in the garage forever.
Never mind
Do you have any half price books stores there there all around here in Texas?
There are no Half Price Books in my area, alas.
I like to go to used book stores for the same reasons you do. It's too bad that the drawback of Amazon is it's driving most of these kinds of bookstores out of business.
Will we ever see the Alex Mack reviews?
The Alex Mack episode reviews are pretty much dead, I'm afraid. There will be a dedicated Alex Mack episode of Nick Knacks eventually.
Loved Alex Mack
Be honest - how many do you actually read? I do the same kind of trawl on the odd occasion I get in to town and end up buying a load of obscure sci fi/fantasy books but rarely actually read them to my shame. Recently got a load of Michael Moorcock novels which I need to knuckle down and read. Kicked the trend with the Worm Orouborous by Eric Eddison - good read but arduous! My long term addiction to target novelisations of Dr Who also started in similar shops - still hunting down Virgin New Adventures thanks to your ongoing series (please keep it up - it's ace!). Love the fact that game books register on your radar - ever get any Fighting Fantasy your side of the pond?
I do admit I have more books then I can reasonably read in a short amount of time, but I do try to finish a book a week, and I've already started on Dr. Bones (it's rubbish). As for Fighting Fantasy, I haven't seen any out in the wild. I don't think they were sold in the States, but neither were Virgin New Adventures, and I've seen a few of those. It's just a matter of what gets imported and then rotated into the used stores.
I was kinda hoping the Dr. Bones book was actually good, even in a campy way. I picked up a book called Space Vulture a while back due to its awesomely retro cover. It was a modern pulpy sci-fi that was written surprisingly well while still having all the trappings of old school sci-fi cheese. Come to find out it was co-written by Gary K. Wolfe, the guy who wrote Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
I really love Agatha Christie books.
This was really cool and fun, thank you!
I'm a bit curious about the process. Did you talk to the staff, ask permission to film? Did you tell them you were planning to CZcams review their stores? How did all of that go down?
I didn't ask permission, I'm afraid, kept things very indie filmmaker. :P
So, you're basically That Jerk With The Camera of used bookstores!
I saw the book “The Titans Curse” which is a comic book that I recommend
I”ll take Argo...If I were U..
Great!
You could’ve ordered that big blue book on amazon for a quarter but you still would’ve had to pay for shipping.
Babysitters club!
I can imagine Visser THree writing his own name on an etch-a-sketch
This is so weird. We're I'm from (in Oregon) St.Vinnies is the Number one book seller in my county.
Flaubert's Parrot?
Maybe you and LGR should team up
Der Buchhandel.. Buchhandlungen Platz. Berlin Germany
Damn swerve those pot holes brother!
wait do you still do this in 2020?
where do you live? calgary?
What are you stabilizing your footage/camera with?
There might be some stabilization done in the camera itself, but I didn't do anything extra, just kept a steady hand.
What glasses did you use to record?
No glasses, a Yi action cam, small enough carry around without notice. Hence why you only see the one arm. :)
No books no life
I really hate you. I live in indonesia where such places are very very rare. Even if u find ones, u still have to make sure that the books are not pirated editions (many missing pages usually). Believe me, most of us hate this piracy but as long as the government doesnt take action, nothing happens.