Singapore Book Booty
In Singapore last week. Plaza Singapura, one of the never-ending gleaming malls, had a book sale. Not a cardboard- box- full- of- still- overpriced- crap sale like you normally get in bookshops, but a honest to god 30 foot long trestle table literally heaped with thousands of the buggers. Most of them were going for $3 Singapore Dollars each - that’s about a quid a book. Magic.
From the top:
- He Kills Coppers - Jake Arnott
- The Genius Factory - David Plotz
- Don Delillo - Cosmopolis
- Martin Amis - Yellow Dog
- Bruce Chatwin - Nicholas Shakespeare
- Norman Lewis - A Voyage By Dhow
- The Nudist On The Late Shift - Po Bronson
- Italo Calvino - Hermit In Paris
- Oracle Night - Paul Auster
- Songs From Nowhere Near The Heart - Jon Baird
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Top Shelf’s Giant Fall Sale
- The Naked Library
- Lewis and Eugenides on Joyce, Modernism and formal innovation in general
- Stop me and buy one
- At the Mind’s Limits
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3 Responses to “Singapore Book Booty”
Tim Footman
August 19th, 2006
I was in Elite for the first time this evening. Pleasingly chaotic. Aporia, over by Khao San Road, has stacks of brand new Derrida, Blanchot, Foucault et al titles - who the fuck is buying and reading that here?
Chris
August 20th, 2006
Thanks for the advice. I’ll try and get to KSR this evening (dodging the gappers),
Tim Footman
August 22nd, 2006
Second-hand Eng. Lang. bookshops in foreign parts offer an insight into expat tastes. Do you know that place on Sukhumvit (Bangkok)? Elite, I think it’s called. They’ve had a copy of The Young Latina’s Bible there for years. It’s a guide for Hispanic teenage girls growing up in the United States. wtf?