Books and Punishment

Due to our consistent weak Ringgit - buying books at - time can be pretty heart-breaking episodes. A graphic novel trade-paperback easily costs around 60 bucks - now how the hell you want Malaysians to read....Indonesia and India is pretty awesome when they print it locally.

Thanks to few brilliant entrepreneurs goes by the name of Big Bad Wolf and Book Axxess located in Amcorp Mall, they able to bring in (overun) editions - and the price is 40- 60% cheaper than retail. The problem is you just.....need a bottle of luck if you want to find the title you want.

Anyway talking about books, i manage to find time to arrange all my collections based on categories and its pretty awesome knowing that i have this. Retailed at USD 60 back in the year 2000, i gritted my teeth after considering it for 7 bloody time before buying this.

my heartache was taken away after flipping pages and pages of Geoff Darrow's and conceptual artwork, storyboards, shooting script and what not.
 
At times,lets not convert those USD to Ringgit shall we, this book only costs 60 bucks. A trade paperback or a graphic novel for for 19 bucks, a pop culture t-shirt goes for 5 bucks. Its affordable. No wonder people go bonkers during Black Friday when dealers slashed their prices off.

A normal run of the mill Star Wars figure now retailed at 60 bucks. Most of the time it can be punishing for being a geek here. Might as well - spend it on a nice meal.





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