I like books and reading, so I could never resist going to any book fair. There is one going on at the Lower Ground, Suria Sabah. It's organised by Times Bookstore during the period 29 April to 8 May 2011.
As usual, the advertising was more exciting than reality; they said discounts up to 90% and books as cheap as RM3 each. I overheard one woman saying she couldn't find any book with the 90% discount sticker. I presumed there must be "one" at least, although I never saw it.
But it was possible to get some value-for-money discounted books; if you were willing to look through ALL THEM BOOKS!
I found a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (bought for RM104). It was a 2,483 page monster. The good thing about this one was that it was compiled and re-written in more modern english by
The Royal Shakespeare Company (the RSC performed the plays). So it was much easier to read.
The FUNNY COINCIDENCE was that, just last week, I bought this other book at the Harris Bookstore. It covered the historical period of Shakespeare and the various mysteries about the man. For example, no one knows what he actually looked like? The usual portrait was one called The Chandos portrait (the balding guy as above); but no definitive proof that this was Shakespeare. In 2009, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust unveiled the Cobbe portrait, saying that that was Shakespeare (a younger and more handsome man with a full head of hair)!
I like books and reading, so I could never resist going to any book fair. There is one going on at the Lower Ground, Suria Sabah. It's organised by Times Bookstore during the period 29 April to 8 May 2011.
As usual, the advertising was more exciting than reality; they said discounts up to 90% and books as cheap as RM3 each. I overheard one woman saying she couldn't find any book with the 90% discount sticker. I presumed there must be "one" at least, although I never saw it.
But it was possible to get some value-for-money discounted books; if you were willing to look through ALL THEM BOOKS!
I found a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (bought for RM104). It was a 2,483 page monster. The good thing about this one was that it was compiled and re-written in more modern english by The Royal Shakespeare Company (the RSC performed the plays). So it was much easier to read.
The FUNNY COINCIDENCE was that, just last week, I bought this other book at the Harris Bookstore. It covered the historical period of Shakespeare and the various mysteries about the man. For example, no one knows what he actually looked like? The usual portrait was one called The Chandos portrait (the balding guy as above); but no definitive proof that this was Shakespeare. In 2009, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust unveiled the Cobbe portrait, saying that that was Shakespeare (a younger and more handsome man with a full head of hair)!
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