Yesterday night I passed by The Kuwait Bookshop in Muthana Complex. What I like about the Kuwait Bookshop is the amount of old books they have. Since its the largest bookshop in Kuwait and has been open since before the Gulf War they have a lot of books that have been in the shop since it first opened. For example I found a 1985 edition of the Guinness Book of Records on one of the shelves. I even ended up buying a book from 1985 myself. Ozy was with us at the bookshop and he found a book called “The New Observer’s Book of Automobiles”. The funny thing is the car on the cover was a 1985 BMW M635CSi… very new! Its actually a pretty cool book for anyone who is interested in information on the cars from the 80’s like the Lancia Delta HF Turbo or the VW Golf MKII. I also picked up a copy of Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince and Aesop’s Fables. I already read The Prince in university but I feel like reading it again and I have also read Aesop’s Fables but the version I got seemed to contain more stories then the version I read so gonna reread this again.
I usually don’t have time to read books but recently I have been reading all my magazines in the beginning of the month and then I spend the rest of the month just flipping through them trying to find articles I haven’t read. Now I will try to read books instead when I am done with the magazines. I also prefer short stories since my memory is terrible for novels but I don’t mind thin books like The Prince. One of my favorite books of the moment is Supercade which Nibaq got for my birthday. It contains a lot of pictures and magazine style of writing. Basically every game or every video game console thats mentioned is treated like an article by itself. I don’t have to read the whole book from the beginning I can just flip through and read what I want when I want. Nibaq also got me another book called “The Ultimate History of Videogames” but that book is literally like a history book. I am going to try reading different bits of it randomly but I think I have to actually read this one from the beginning till the end.
10 replies on “A Visit to the Bookshop”
1985 BMW is better than any BMW made today
I had some business with the owner of the bookshop and his daughter, and they pissed me off so much with the usual “We will call you back tomorrow” BS (of course they never called again) that I will never set foot in that place again.
From now on, whenever anyone (in Kuwait) says “We will call you back tomorrow” my reply will be, “Ok, say Wallah.”
I got pissed off now just thinking about the incident…
Another dreadful character at the Kuwait bookshop is Mrs Mallu who works in customer service. She is by far the most ignorant,unprofessional and incompetent employee at that place and doesn’t even know what an ISBN code is!! Not only did she never call back whenever she promised, but would go to the extent of disconnecting calls and speaking in a rather impertinent manner whenever I made inquiries!!
sir,
i just want to knw tht you have medical pathology books related for D. M. L. T. IF YOU HAVE SO PLS CONTACT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
pls send me as soon as possible
best of luck
you found the prince here? i thought it was banned, that’s why I got it from switzerland last time.
I only dscovered this place yesturday =/ I’ve been dying to find where do they keep all the old books, now that that i knew where , I wish I could stay there forever I bought all shakespeare’s books and wuthering heights . I can’t even believe that I actually bought =D im looking forward to go there every day ,since it has all the kind of book i want ..xD
In addition , people who work there are really sweeeet !!
i just want to know if you have book the tittle is
MERCHANT FAMILES OF KUWAIT THE AUTHORS IS J.L.R. CARTER
PUBLISH ON 1984 PLS. REPLY ME BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
THANK YOU