Since i have been reading like a priest on Sunday here, more and more literature has been essential. Currently i have enough books to see me through the next few months, but when my supply gets low, i get my fix from books and things.
Books and things is a dusty little shack stacked with yellow-paged, dog-eared novels of every description. Once you get past all the Danielle steele, Dean Koontz and Stephen King novels, you can find a wee gem or two, it involves alot of digging and perservierence though.
One time i went down with my torch and a trail of breadcrumbs so as not to get lost. After finding old penny black stamps and amber emulets incasing mosquitos fed fat with dinosaur blood, i found 'cather in the rye'(which i've read twice but you don't find gold in a mine a throw it away cause it's not big enough) and 'cosmos' and 'contact' by Carl Sagan. Splendid.
Another time i was trowelling through a land-fill of books and the air was getting thick with dust and distant cries, i picked up this stephen king book at the back of this packed shelf and there was a bloody gecko lizard having a kip underneath it!! It had probably been there for years. The book was 'It'.
It's a cool place and it's cheap too. It is located right across from Buea university.
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