There's a good selection of Rimbaud, including a few that I haven't seen before. The architecture section is pretty good, and it seems to have about 50% more books than Dymocks' equivalent, though it's difficult to tell with their spaced-out shelves and multiple copies. I noticed that there were several books I haven't seen elsewhere in Wellington ("S, M, L, XL"! I haven't seen that around in ages, and I'm considering coughing up the $165), so they've broadened the range of books available in the city. That, to my mind, is a Good Thing.
Bad things:
- Overall, the shelves are very sparsely stocked. I hope that's just a temporary thing, as some have suggested, but it gives the impression at the moment that they're just padding things out to look impressive.
- Gloria f*ck!ng Jeans!
- The magazine selection isn't going to have Magnetix worried.
- Books on Te Reo were stocked under the "Foreign Language" section.
- A big chunk of the upstairs stock could pretty much be shelved under "self help".
- There's a reasonable selection of scientific books, even going beyond pop science very slightly, but it's no Blackwells. And the section is headed "Science & Math", which grates so much I want to sneak in with a pen and add the missing "s".
There's a good selection of Rimbaud, including a few that I haven't seen before. The architecture section is pretty good, and it seems to have about 50% more books than Dymocks' equivalent, though it's difficult to tell with their spaced-out shelves and multiple copies. I noticed that there were several books I haven't seen elsewhere in Wellington ("S, M, L, XL"! I haven't seen that around in ages, and I'm considering coughing up the $165), so they've broadened the range of books available in the city. That, to my mind, is a Good Thing.
Bad things:
- Overall, the shelves are very sparsely stocked. I hope that's just a temporary thing, as some have suggested, but it gives the impression at the moment that they're just padding things out to look impressive.
- Gloria f*ck!ng Jeans!
- The magazine selection isn't going to have Magnetix worried.
- Books on Te Reo were stocked under the "Foreign Language" section.
- A big chunk of the upstairs stock could pretty much be shelved under "self help".
- There's a reasonable selection of scientific books, even going beyond pop science very slightly, but it's no Blackwells. And the section is headed "Science & Math", which grates so much I want to sneak in with a pen and add the missing "s".