A couple of weeks ago, I happened to walk into Landmark the book store. Boy was I in for the shock of my life! The whole store buzzed and oozed a single word 'SALE', '199', '299' and 'Buy 2 get 1 free'! WTF??? Ok, well so what's the big deal? We've seen similar book sales year after year in Crosswords, Oxfords etc, what makes this sale better? Well folks you are partly right. The books that were put on sale were the same old ones that were out last year and the year before. But if you just happened to glance through all the books carefully you'd know that this time it was no ordinary sale! Why? Graphic novels were on sale for the first time at a shocking Rs. 199 or Rs. 299!!! Yup, you're reading this correct! Graphic Novels have rarely made it to the sale section in any book sale but this time Landmark pulled out all the plugs and tons of them were lying strewn around all on sale! An avid comic collector or reader would go mad with this sight. No longer would we have to count our pennies when we need to buy an Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' or Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' series. Why chose between Marvel's 'X-Men' or DC's 'JLA' when you can have both for the price of peanuts? Oh yes sir, this sale was indeed epic. I happened to find Alan Moore's entire run on 'Swamp Thing' for little less that a thousand bucks and spent the entire week devouring stories that were written in the 80s but still hold fresh! My next blog will def. review those stories but I want to thank Landmark from the bottom of my heart for making this Diwali a special one!
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