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| - What I like best about Eliot's Bookshop is its Science-Fiction section. I could peruse this section alone for hours on end looking for much of the "Classic" and now often hard to find volumes of yesteryear.
As any Sci-Fi fan knows, many authors write a "series" of books to tell their tale, and often certain volumes can be hard to find - especially those that were written long, long ago, during my formidable teenage years - ha ha!
As a kid - back in the day - I bought many novels using money from my part-time job flipping burgers. However, the minimum wage I made as a teenager usually meant that I could only afford the first volume or two, forcing me to get many of my novels from my local school or public library to finish reading a series - such as Fred Saberhagen's "Beserker Series" of novels.
This, of course, could be frustrating if you wanted to own a completed series that you really enjoyed, or if the author added to the series later on in their career.
Of course - as an adult - I can now afford to buy many of those missing books. Finding them, though, can often be a challenge. At Eliot's, I am often able to find many books that were formerly missing from my collection to FINALLY complete a tale.
The only reason I don't give Eliot's a five star rating is due to the fact that they don't seem to offer much in the way of used "Hardcover" novels (which I would pay a premium for) in their Sci-Fi area. Instead, it is predominantly "Paperback" in this particular section. Otherwise, Eliot's Bookshop is a great store and certainly a trustworthy long-time staple to the Yonge Street circuit.
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