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6 reviews for Seekers Books
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Seekers Books
6/9/2010
I hope Seekers Books will be around forever. But not really for the book selection or prices, which I don't find that amazing.
1) The Smell. (Yes!) It's a combination of incense and musty old books. I love it.
2) The conversations overheard. It reminds me of late-night call-in radio shows. I've heard discussions about Noam Chomsky, Why toothpaste is unnecessary, How the world will end in 2012, How cancer is caused by negative thoughts...
3) Nostalgia. It reminds me of a lost bohemian annex which I find comforting. Now if we could only bring back the Blue Cellar Room
4) It's open until midnight, Sometimes you just want to look at books late at night.
Seekers Books
4/10/2010
You can't criticize the hours or the selection. Seems like it's always open and they have a lot of books on just about any topic you could want to read about.
It's a little 'new-agey' in there sometimes. I'm always worried I'm going to get tractor beamed up into a UFO, like some cow in a field, and then...well you know...
Nah, just kiddin'. It's a great store.
Seekers Books
4/3/2009
This might sounds weird, but I really like going to Seekers because of the way it smells. I don't know what type of incense they burn, but I can always smell it from the street, and it's like it hypnotizes me, and lures me downstairs to their basement store. After successfully finding a used, well priced book, or just browsing for a few minutes, I continue my walk on Bloor, with a faint smell of their store on my clothes for the rest of the day.
I once found a really nice hardcover, gold bound copy of "Girlfriend In A Coma" at Seekers for only $9. You need to dig a little, since it's overflowing with books, but sometimes you'll get lucky and find a sweet read, for mega cheap.
The staff also seem to know every single title that comes through, so do not hesitate to ask for something. The floor to ceiling piles of books may look intimidating, however if what you want is there, they will pull it out for you!
Seekers Books
11/20/2008
Open from noon-midnight every day, Seekers is a basement level used bookstore that is hemorrhaging books from every possible seam. You walk inside and not only is every shelf bursting with paperbacks and hardcovers, floors also have stacks of books in all directions.
Seeker's specializes in occult books, not in the sense that they exclusively sell them, but more in that they have the largest collection of occult books I've ever seen for sale. If you're interested in, or curious about, that kind of thing, this store is definitely one to check out.
As far as the rest of the store goes, I would have to say it is on par with your average used book store. Because there are only so many books that can be put into any one store at any one time (and this is despite the fact that this store is packed packed packed books) there's a good chance that if you're looking for something very specific, you won't find it. That said, never count a used book store, including this one, out of a book hunt.
Seekers Books
11/28/2008
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i dont know which part of the first exposure made this feel most sneaky to me. was it that i was walking down into some shady looking store? was it the purple neon glow that emanated from the ghostly light silhouetting the fenced door? or perhaps the stark operating hours of 12 to 12 that intrigued me the most.
yet inside this book lovers den is a clean, cozy, shop filled with fresh new and mildly used books that seem to disappear in a gridlock of aisleways, shelves and back rooms filled to the brim and beaming with colour.
after combing the shelves of another used book shop, on a whim i slithered down here and straight away was lead to a tome of five in one dashiell hammett books. more over, i spotted the watchmen in full display for half price.
and after a few giggles with the guy at the front (perhaps the owner) i was given a book for free!! (lucky day.)
id come back here again in a second for the owners knowledge, for the seeming secrecy of it, for its variety of old and new and because its not bustling.
Seekers Books
8/15/2008
A place full of sorted books in which it is possible to find traces of the esoteric amidst the exoteric. More than often, if you listen in, the shoppers discuss mysterious topics in this hidden gem underground. A gem that is, if the book finds you !
