Dropped by Borders and Kinokuniya to pick up some reading material for the upcoming holidays. Borders actually housed some official Dungeon and Dragons material, including the main rule books and scatters of the various campaign-specific ones.
Surprisingly, they’ve a pretty good collection of DnD novels at Borders, but most series were lacking one or two for the complete set, which made it really fustrating. What worst was that for most of them, the first in series was unavailable, rendering the rest of the series unreadable. Hit Kinokuniya up next.
I’ve always loved the terminals at Kinokuniya which allows you to search for and locate specific books. Imo, all bookshops should implement a similar system. It’s a lot more convenient than to browse through shelves of dusty tomes looking for something you already have in mind. The system was a bit unresponsive and there was a 2sec or so delay between hitting “print” (for a map to the book location) and the actual printing process, so I tapped it a few more times, and wrecked the system, which then started vomiting out volumes of the same map, while the other controls remained frozen.
I had a hard time deciding between reading on Elaine Cunningham’s Swords & Songs series, R.A. Salvator’s Elminster or his Drizzt Do’Urden series. After some deliberating and tossing of a few dices, I settled on the following:
- The Introvert Advantage (great understanding of myself and would be something I would keep referencing against)
- Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky (always wanted this book and could never locate it previously. Oddly, one copy was available)
- The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore (which was basically the first 3 books in the Drizzt Do’Urden series)
Really wanted to purchase The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins too, but was already choking up $108~ for the above purchase. Would have to wait until next time.