Elliott

This is the most interesting bookstore i have ever been to, full stop! I have been to many booksellers, but they are mostly very specified. Good in one thing, but lacking in many other things. I have the impression that this book-temple has it all what I ever desired: First of all it looks really old with its wooden floor, wooden starways and wooden ceilings. It gives the whole a lot of atmosphere and an organic touch, and since books are made off trees this very much is fitting the picture. The store is huge and has several layers. On the ground floor it is spreading over a long territory having seperate areas dealing with different genres. There are little sheats with handwritten notes by the employés with a short overview. There is also a wooden shelf with the recommendations by the employees, who are actually quite young. I could very good imagine people falling in love with eachother there, because the ones who read books are rather interested in life in gerneral and have an intellectual background, more or less. There is a café in the basement and you most certainly can take your books there. Basicly you could spend your whole day in Elliotts bookstore and I am sure that many do so. In the back, very far from everything there is, like in a fairytale, a big antiques section with really old books. But there are also citchy cheap novels with funny covers, which I liked very much. Closeby there is also a big section for graphic books and even Comics and Mangas, which ought to be special. The variety of mangas is otherwise quite poor in the states. Besides all the books they offer funny gadgets as well. I bought a fitness-set: “have a great body in ten steps”, which had the look of the sixties with an iconic bodybuilder on the yellow cover. I also bought a notebook, which was recycled from floppy discs and a clock, which counted backwards the time of George Doublej

Photographer:

wil6ka

Uploaded:

2007-11-27

Albums:

Cross / Lomo/ International

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