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Post by tmesis on Jun 1, 2017 12:16:46 GMT
I was in Poundland in Newbury on BH Monday (I know how to live) and I bought a hardback edition of Iris Murdoch's wartime letters and diaries. But over the years I must have bought over ten books from various branches. OK, most of the time it's full of absolute dross like Kerry Katona's memoirs or Katie Price's literary (!) efforts but every two or three months I find something I really want to buy and it's surprisingly upmarket like...
Ethel Merman a life - Brian Kellow
Stage Blood - Michael Blakemore
Waiting for Sunrise - William Boyd
Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd
Man's World - Rupert Smith
Maggie and Me - Damian Barr
Music as Alchemy - Tom Service
Walking Home - Simon Armitage
Anyone Who Had a Heart - Burt Bacharach
They are just some of the books I've bought (nearly all hardbacks) and there have been loads more I would have bought over the years, if I had not read it already.
Most of the time there's nothing worth buying but it's always worth a look...
ps. Some shops are way better than others with the worst ones stocking almost no books at all but some, like the Bracknell shop, quite extensive.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 12:20:23 GMT
I love a good snoop in Poundland! and likewise have scored some good books and the odd DVD.
Also good in poundland- branded cosmetics, of 'last season' usually for about 1/10 the usual price (this may apply to more of you than others, and others of you only on the weekend)
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Post by tmesis on Jun 1, 2017 12:32:35 GMT
I like the Original Source shower gels (which, If not on offer, are always over two pounds plus elsewhere) and Lotus Biscoff biscuits.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 13:04:11 GMT
I've got Jerry Springer The Opera and Love Never Dies on DVD courtesy of various pound shops. Always worth a rummage!
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 1, 2017 13:27:22 GMT
I've got Jerry Springer The Opera and Love Never Dies on DVD courtesy of various pound shops. Always worth a rummage! Ditto for Jerry Springer!! Think I got Once as well. CeX (though that's DVD's/Blu Ray/Electronics only) can also have some great bargains for musical films both filmed on stage & films themselves. I've had Dreamgirls and Hairspray among others from there. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 13:29:35 GMT
There was a DVD shop closing down in Cardiff this week and I got Miss Saigon live recording for £2 I also got Spiderman (with Andrew Garfield, I was finally convinced to seek out something he was in) for £1
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 17:41:19 GMT
Got "Hair - The Book of the Musical" in Poundland, and I think I buy as many books and CDs from them as Amazon. Their superglue is also excellent value, and selection of chocolate bar packs way cheaper than the supermarkets. Sounds like the DVD knell has reached Cardiff, I guess. All the shops here closed ages ago, apart from one brave HMV. I kinda miss them. It was actually a record shop primarily, whose name I forget that is still going nationwide but closing in Cardiff. I miss and love a good DVD shop, I worked in MVC (remember them?) all through Uni and loved it. Particuarly the Sunday shift as we did the re-stock of new releases after we closed and it was like Christmas! (except when we got deliveries of Snoop Dogg porn. It's a thing. Don't google it. I did warn you) |
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Post by hulmeman on Jun 1, 2017 18:01:12 GMT
What is a Poundland???
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 18:31:56 GMT
Assuming you're not of these shores and genuinly asking and not having an aversion to the poor people in the world (reminds me of Will and Grace on Les Mis "will there be poor people singing again? I'm not going if there's poor people singing") It is a mysterious land where everything costs £1. (or thereabouts). It's a Dollar Store for British people. |
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Post by hulmeman on Jun 1, 2017 19:46:21 GMT
Assuming you're not of these shores and genuinly asking and not having an aversion to the poor people in the world (reminds me of Will and Grace on Les Mis "will there be poor people singing again? I'm not going if there's poor people singing") It is a mysterious land where everything costs £1. (or thereabouts). It's a Dollar Store for British people. Oh em, it was my febble attempt at humour as in the Dowager Duchess in "Downton Abbey" "What is a weekend". |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 19:54:02 GMT
Assuming you're not of these shores and genuinly asking and not having an aversion to the poor people in the world (reminds me of Will and Grace on Les Mis "will there be poor people singing again? I'm not going if there's poor people singing") It is a mysterious land where everything costs £1. (or thereabouts). It's a Dollar Store for British people. Oh em, it was my febble attempt at humour as in the Dowager Duchess in "Downton Abbey" "What is a weekend". haha I did wonder if you were 'doing a Parsley'  "what are these peasants, and what is a BUS?" |
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Post by Marwood on Jun 1, 2017 21:09:08 GMT
There have been some good blu-rays in the Poundlands in Croydon and Balham over the last couple of months, alas the book selections have been somewhat lacking, not sure my bookcase really needs biographies of Danniii Minogue or Conchita Wurst (I think there was a Jodie Marsh book last time I looked at the books on offer)
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Post by tmesis on Aug 8, 2017 9:55:00 GMT
Bracknell Poundland have done it again.
Just bought the hardback version of the opera singer Jessye Norman's memoirs (rrp £25) - OK a bit niche but I've been wanting that book for years and always balked at the Amazon price.
Intrigued to know what their buying strategy for books is (if they have one.) There was very little dross in there today and consistently their selection is way up market of say Tesco or even W H Smiths.
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Post by lou105 on Aug 8, 2017 10:34:11 GMT
Allow me to add Arm and Hammer Baking Soda toothpaste to our collective shopping list. Oh, and Tilda Long Grain rice. Only decent book bargain I can recall was The Colour Purple.
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Post by lou105 on Aug 8, 2017 11:08:20 GMT
A couple of weeks back I got Roy Hudd's autobiography for a quid in there. Excellent. Don't know why I read that as Rod Hull... |
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Post by viserys on Aug 8, 2017 11:11:28 GMT
On the subject of cheap books - is there a charity shop somewhere in central London (and by central I mean very central) that takes books? Do the shops in Charing Cross Road take books?
I was mistakingly sent a very sappy ludicrous collection of luuuurve stories by an Amazon Marketplace Seller which I wouldn't even touch if you paid for me it. As a book lover though I hate to throw books in the bin, so I hoped I could just offload it somewhere in London next time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 11:16:41 GMT
Is BookCrossing still a thing? You stick a label in a book then "set it free" in the wild and hope that whoever finds it logs its journey on the website. That could be a fun way to justify just leaving a book on the tube or in a theatre foyer and walking off.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 11:17:43 GMT
Seems to be! www.bookcrossing.com/ There are a few charity shops in Notting Hill and places but it's a bit of a trek. |
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Post by viserys on Aug 8, 2017 11:51:52 GMT
Is BookCrossing still a thing? You stick a label in a book then "set it free" in the wild and hope that whoever finds it logs its journey on the website. That could be a fun way to justify just leaving a book on the tube or in a theatre foyer and walking off. I might just do that, leave it on the tube with a heart-shaped post-it saying "here's some romance for your life"... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 13:27:42 GMT
Last year I had to get rid of an entire Encyclopædia Britannica. It was too old to be useful as a reference and not old enough to be worth anything, so eventually it went in the recycling. Somehow I don't think leaving it on a bus for someone else would have worked.
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 8, 2017 13:34:04 GMT
Dare I admit that I bought a book about Elaine Paige? It was only a pound! I wonder if she knows she's been remaindered?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 15:38:15 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 8, 2017 15:55:43 GMT
Is BookCrossing still a thing? You stick a label in a book then "set it free" in the wild and hope that whoever finds it logs its journey on the website. That could be a fun way to justify just leaving a book on the tube or in a theatre foyer and walking off. I leave mine on a wide window ledge in my apartment building and if no-one has taken them in 24 hours they go for recycling. Pretty much EVERYthing gets taken though and there's been some pretty out-there titles been put out. However there's one weighty tome that I've tried to foist onto someone 3 or 4 times now, and it's always left after the 24 hours but I can't quite bring myself to put it in the recycle bin. The title? A Journey, by Tony Blair. |
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Post by schuttep on Aug 8, 2017 16:32:51 GMT
Assuming you're not of these shores and genuinly asking and not having an aversion to the poor people in the world (reminds me of Will and Grace on Les Mis "will there be poor people singing again? I'm not going if there's poor people singing") It is a mysterious land where everything costs £1. (or thereabouts). It's a Dollar Store for British people. Oh em, it was my febble attempt at humour as in the Dowager Duchess in "Downton Abbey" "What is a weekend". Or indeed the rather rich MaryAnne in Cybill when they were discussing discount coupons: "Can I ask a question? What's a coupon?" |
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 8, 2017 16:41:52 GMT
However there's one weighty tome that I've tried to foist onto someone 3 or 4 times now, and it's always left after the 24 hours but I can't quite bring myself to put it in the recycle bin. The title? A Journey, by Tony Blair. No, you really don't want to recycle Tony Bleugh BB. Put him on a train then he can, indeed, go on A Journey. They do this a lot on the tube, but I've never found one. |
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