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Aug. 7th, 2009 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhackerReason Six Billion I miss Bloomington: I want to go back to >Caveat Emptor, which is a second-hand book seller. Name or not, he has an excellent stock and the store is the perfect size. Big enough that he has a ton of books, but small enough that you can look at every section and not spend half a day in there.
Plus, since he does a swift trade in New Age/Occult books, I can unload a few books there and get a decent price for them. I have the problem where I have a book, a quick skim says it's good, but after I get home and examine it further, it's not exactly what I had it mind.
An example is "The Circle of Isis" which I thought was a book on Ancient Egyptian religion and how the author had updated* it. Turned out to be a group of Wiccians who honor the Egyptian pantheon. Ooops.
*When I say "updating" an ancient religion, I tend to stress the angles of substituting some other kind of sacrifice for human ones and trying to fill in gaps of the historical accounts with educated guesses. Or, for instance, if a religion blessed wagons and boats, they'd also preform the blessing on cars.
Plus, since he does a swift trade in New Age/Occult books, I can unload a few books there and get a decent price for them. I have the problem where I have a book, a quick skim says it's good, but after I get home and examine it further, it's not exactly what I had it mind.
An example is "The Circle of Isis" which I thought was a book on Ancient Egyptian religion and how the author had updated* it. Turned out to be a group of Wiccians who honor the Egyptian pantheon. Ooops.
*When I say "updating" an ancient religion, I tend to stress the angles of substituting some other kind of sacrifice for human ones and trying to fill in gaps of the historical accounts with educated guesses. Or, for instance, if a religion blessed wagons and boats, they'd also preform the blessing on cars.
