more lists

Wow, i didnt imagine my lists would be so popular, but within hours of posting them i started getting emails from random people agreeing and disagreeing with them. Hmmm. In any case, I have promised several people to make some more, and as I am now doing extra hours for the holiday season (and to get extra cash, obviously) I certainly have the time for more listing. Since these lists are composed primarily while I am at work, I thought this would be fitting:

Best Bookshops In The World.
1 gibert jeune, paris: this place is amazing. I can spend hours wandering about the buildings. And the prices are excellent as well. My favourite room is the top one in the section that is on your left as you are looking at the seine (with your back to the fountain). It has used and new fiction paperbacks, I can spend hours in there.
2.akateeminen kirjakauppa, Helsinki: also amazing. Just going inside is an experience in itself. The building was designed by the architect alvar aalto and is famous for its roof. Even if, like me, you don’t read finnish, it doesn’t matter, there are huge academic and fiction sections in Swedish, French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian.
3biblio globus, Moscow: going here is normally an uncomfortable experience, the place is always over crowded with smelly people, and the organisation and lay out is atrocious. Still, the selection is great and so are the prices.
4.plato, Belgrade: great atmosphere. A cool bookshop combined with a restaurant. Good selection, cheap prices.
5. Mamut, Belgrade: just down the street from plato, better selection, but not quite so cool.
6. waterstones, gower street, London: good selection of used stuff, in addition to the normal stuff that commercial book chains in England carry.
7.FNAC, les halles, paris : if you cant find it at gibert jeune cheaper, it will be here, in addition to all the cds, dvds, and digital stuff.
8. sajam knige, Belgrade: I think every book published in a south slav language can surely be found here in October. the problem is exactly finding it….the place is completely unorganised, and you need a map to navigate among all the corridors and stands.
9. dom knigi na arbate: as uncomfortable as biblio globus, but also with a good selection.

special mentions:
11. book market, Havana: really weird stuff turns up here. If you ever want a copy of la historia me absolvera, or Tania la guerrillera inolvidable, this is certainly the place.
12. Shakespeare and company, paris: I almost never buy anything here (why buy an expensive English book when you can get a much cheaper French one at gibert jeune next door?) but I always go in for a look. The building is great. This is exactly what I want my house to look like when I am old.