Waterstones Bargains

dudara

It appears that every week, Waterstones have a book on half-price offer. This week it is The Life and Death of Charlie St. Cloud.

They also have half-price books for Fathers Day. I saw Touching The Void, A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, The Increment by Chris Ryan, Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen, Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur and a few others.

nesf

Waterstones eats my bank balance. Along with tesco and benson and hedges

Their "special offers" are cynical. I still can't stop myself leaving there without 5 or 6 books though.

simu

Fairly clichéd selection there for fathers. But anyway.

Waterstone's as a shop annoys me. They're not very well-stocked or organised, in Cork at least. I was looking for philosophy books there once and they were on the shelves marked Psychology. ? They both start with P so they're the same thing? :eek:

OK - mini-rant over.

dudara

Agreed, it's hard to walk past their 3 for 2 offers

dudara

I was in there today looking for a specific book for someone. Couldn't find it, so I asked. It was located somewhere else entirely. Heaven help.

the_syco

simu wrote:

in Cork at least

In Dublin (Dawson St), they are fairly organised. They'd want to be, as H&F are directly opposite them, and Easons down the road.

simu

the_syco wrote:

In Dublin (Dawson St), they are fairly organised. They'd want to be, as H&F are directly opposite them, and Easons down the road.

Yeah, see they've no real competition in Cork.

nesf

simu wrote:

Yeah, see they've no real competition in Cork.

That's the problem for a lot of things in Cork.

I get most of my books from amazon anyways. I only go into Waterstones when I was to relive perusing bookshelves (some of my best childhood memories are of being left in "The Killarney Bookshop" for an hour or two ).

Although I find Vibes and Scribes more dangerous for impulse shopping. I find it hard to walk out of there without buying something.

Manach

In (Cork) Read's you might get one of the best sellers alot cheaper, but their selection is woeful.
Easons also do a 3/2 at the moment. Only a small choice overlap between them and Waterstones and picked up quite an interesting trio of books there.

simu

nesf wrote:

Although I find Vibes and Scribes more dangerous for impulse shopping. I find it hard to walk out of there without buying something.

Yes - true! But it's a very pleasant place to hang around in.

eclectichoney

aye the waterstones 3 for 2s are fairly funky. usually a good mix and lots of new titles which is rare in other places. altho props to easons for a good popular fiction 3 for 2 as a lot of the books are special-prices as well as the 3 for 2, unlike waterstones.

Earthhorse

simu wrote:

I was looking for philosophy books there once and they were on the shelves marked Psychology. ? They both start with P so they're the same thing? :eek:

Ha, that's nothing. A friend of mine was chatting to a girl in night club once and the conversation went like this.

GIRL: So what do you do?
FRIEND: I'm studying philosophy.
GIRL: What a coincidence. I'm psychic.

But to keep things on topic, Waterstones is not as good as Hodges Figgis but the Dawson street branch has become far more pleasant, and better stocked, in the last few years.

RuggieBear

the_syco wrote:

In Dublin (Dawson St), they are fairly organised. They'd want to be, as H&F are directly opposite them, and Easons down the road.

emm...H&F and Waterstones are owned by the same company. It also owns HMV....

Tristram

never knew that.Has it always bn that way?

RuggieBear

Tristram wrote:

never knew that.Has it always bn that way?

TBH i don't know

Frankie Smith

i agree with earthhorse, i much prefer h&f. they reduce individual books, while waterstones do their 3 for 2 things on pulp fiction.

dudara

Hardly counting as literature, but all Dan Brown books are half-price in Waterstones for this week