The Guardian have an article discussing ten of possibly the best bookshops in the world. The pictures in the links are gorgeous. Here is the Livraria Lello in Porto, for example. Has anyone here been to any of them?
The World's 10 Best Bookshops
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No, but now I want to go! I've always thought we have some really attractive bookstores here in Boston, but nothing quite like these....
Amazing! I've been to the Borders' in Glasgow, still have a lot of books I bought there.
And thank God they didn't name Foyle's, the infamous atrocity on Charing Cross Street, in London, the Bookstore from Hell if ever there was one.
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And thank God they didn't name Foyle's, the infamous atrocity on Charing Cross Street, in London, the Bookstore from Hell if ever there was one.
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The first thing I thought when i saw this was, "This list is a joke if they don't have El Ateneo." But of course they do. One of the most awesome things I saw in Buenos Aires -- it's like a cathedral of the book.
How recently have you been there? It's been considerably revamped since Christina Foyle passed away - she was the one who blocked any attempts at modernisation and she lived into her 90s.
I'd agree with you before then, though.
Speaking of my own interests, it has one of the biggest selections of YA I've seen, including some imported US books - much more so than the enormous Waterstone's on Piccadilly.
Of the ones on the list, I've been to Borders Glasgow, though since Borders UK went bust since I was last in that city I don't know what the shop's fate has been.
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I lose myself in small book stores. I'd be feared to go into one of the "cathedrals" mentioned by the Guardian.
That was my first thought. Any list that would ignore Powell's is incomplete, for sure.
Apparently the book image on top of the forum links to this bookstore, I wonder if is a coincidence...
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