k i went into BORDERS today to buy the first 3 repairman jack books. I checked the computer first and allllll his books were listed as "in store" then i go the section and the only book they had was haunted air (the only one ive read)!! and there was a BIG gap by it!!!!! like somone was 5 minutes ahead of me and snatched them all!!!! grrrrrrr just my luck! ive been waiting for so long and now i have to wait a week more cuz i had to order them through the store. so whoever you are, i know you are out there and i hope youre happy!!! :p
Just a tip: Since fpw covers so many different genres, make sure you check all over the store. Ususally I find his books in HORROR, but I have also seen them in FICTION/LITERATURE and MYSTERY. It all depends on who the dunce is who is stocking the shelves.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:Just a tip: Since fpw covers so many different genres, make sure you check all over the store. Ususally I find his books in HORROR, but I have also seen them in FICTION/LITERATURE and MYSTERY. It all depends on who the dunce is who is stocking the shelves.
You're lucky to have a Horror section at your bookstore. All the stores around here have ditched Horror, and a few have even ditched Mystery. Basically, you've got "Sifi/Fantasy" "Drama/Fiction" and "Literature" for adults in most of the big stores around here.
It's pathetic, and aggravating.
Throughout our history there are those ghosts
Compelled to illustrate our dreams and hopes
Victors hang in pictures, losers from ropes.
Regardless they all swing in the same boat.
nijimeijer Wrote:You're lucky to have a Horror section at your bookstore. All the stores around here have ditched Horror, and a few have even ditched Mystery. Basically, you've got "Sifi/Fantasy" "Drama/Fiction" and "Literature" for adults in most of the big stores around here.
It's pathetic, and aggravating.
Yes, I was disappointed when Barnes & Noble decided to axe the horror section. Borders still has one, but Jimbows right about having to check the entire store (plus those inventory #'s are not reliable).
I only go to B&N when I am too lazy to drive across town to our good bookstore (Joseph-Beth). As has been pointed out numerous times here, B&N has lots of things lumped into Fiction and it's just too much effort to weed through them all. At J-B, they also have a Horror and a Thriller section. Plus, they carry a much larger variety of FPW books (I think 6 or 7 different titles in HB alone last time I was there) and they always have several Arkham House books. B&N had 1 FPW book, Midnight Mass, the other day when I was there. B&N does have a redeeming quality though. They have Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. 
yea i was first checkign fiction then mystery then finally after chekcing in the computer i found them placed in the horror section. yea borders has only a very small horror section, like one section....bleah. they checked inventory and they werent back there so they just ordered from me
I pretty much order any FPW I want. The only FPW I've seen around here is new stuff. When Barrens went to trade paperback, it was on the shelf, alone, saying "Nijimeijer--tell people about me. I need a home." The new Jack books get shelf space for a bit, then find their way to the bargain table. And when a Jack book comes out in paperback, it gets shelf space for a bit as well.
Illinois is not the FPW friendly state that Jersey was, but then, considering where FPW lives, that's hardly surprising. Sometimes I miss that little state, but I love my peeps here.
Illinois is not the FPW friendly state that Jersey was, but then, considering where FPW lives, that's hardly surprising. Sometimes I miss that little state, but I love my peeps here.
Throughout our history there are those ghosts
Compelled to illustrate our dreams and hopes
Victors hang in pictures, losers from ropes.
Regardless they all swing in the same boat.
I've gotten to the point where, if the book isn't new (published within the previous six months or so), I don't even go to Border's or Barnes & Noble: I head straight to Amazon (or Half.com or eBay if I don't care about the condition of the book). It's still fun to wander through Barnes & Noble when I'm just browsing and don't know what I want. Plus there's a Starbuck's there so I can get a good chai (the ones in Border's aren't as good).
Eric S. Bauman
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scrabby23 Wrote:k i went into BORDERS today to buy the first 3 repairman jack books. I checked the computer first and allllll his books were listed as "in store" then i go the section and the only book they had was haunted air (the only one ive read)!! and there was a BIG gap by it!!!!! like somone was 5 minutes ahead of me and snatched them all!!!! grrrrrrr just my luck! ive been waiting for so long and now i have to wait a week more cuz i had to order them through the store. so whoever you are, i know you are out there and i hope youre happy!!! :p
They might never have been there, Scrabby. They're called "phantoms." Plenty possiblities: they were received wrong, they were special orders, someone looked at them and left them in the Cooking section, they were ripped-off...the beat goes on.