Bookstores have a "Conspiracy" section ?

[CharliePrime]

Yesterday I visited a large bookstore in Austin, Texas; BookPeople.

This one, on Lamar near the river...


Much to my surprise, they had a whole section of "Conspiracy" and "Alternative History" with books by David Icke and others.

I had not been in a large book store in several years. I was shocked. The world has changed a lot.

In years past, if you went to a bookstore and asked about an "alternative" book by authors like David Irving, the staff made you feel like a sick pervert seeking German sado-porn.

I also visited Brave New Books. http://www.bravenewbookstore.com

This shop is nothing but conspiracy and alternative research books. The clerk there told me about going out to lunch with Stefan Molyneux and Alex Jones when they spoke there.

The place was full of Libertarian nerds and Fringe research types with long beards and black clothes. :-)

I was amazed and enthused that such things exist. The Truth is seeping into mainstream consciousness a little bit at a time.

[Anarchist]

I went to a Hastings around where I am one time, and asked if they had any conspiracy related books, although not quite in those words. They did not, but I did find on clearance for $1 a book called "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind" by C.B.D. Bryan. It is about a skeptic of UFOs and the like taking notes at an MIT conference on aliens and the abduction phenomena. Interesting book, but sadly, about the only good one they had.

Literature, literature everywhere, yet not a book to read.

[NoelieWorld]

That's amazing but when you consider that Jones is right there it seems to make sense. Sales... But it is like a dream... Ever dream of going into a bookstore and seeing a book(s) by yourself? I'd think, "My god, I finally wrote it alllll down!"

Feeling inert. Takes a lot to find a path toward sharing online in the midst of having a relationship and worrying about survival. And worrying about why you're not DOING something about the "chews" or anything else. Conspiracy or comics -- one diversion to another. Today I'm catching up on Moon Knight, but just popped open an old bookmark where Eustace M. is gonna break down the FDR story for me.

[capnchronic]

I've never seen an actual conspiracy section, but a local bookstore I was skimming carried some Icke books, and of course the Jesse Ventura stuff but that doesn't really count. It's great to see these topics showing up more and more, but at the same time I feel like things like Jesse Ventura are mainstreaming them in the wrong way, and making this extremely serious views into one of those crappy shows where they look for ghosts or big foot.

[yeti]

Most of the conspiracy books of the past were in the same section as the UFO books. Most of the good "conspiracy" books I read are in the economics, biography or history sections.

I'm lucky enough to live near a branch of the Ottawa Public Library which has a lot of great books for free (they're really easy to steal)!

Just kidding.

[Negentropic]

(07-10-2012 07:49 PM)CharliePrime Wrote:  Yesterday I visited a large bookstore in Austin, Texas; BookPeople.

This one, on Lamar near the river...


Much to my surprise, they had a whole section of "Conspiracy" and "Alternative History" with books by David Icke and others.

I had not been in a large book store in several years. I was shocked. The world has changed a lot.

In years past, if you went to a bookstore and asked about an "alternative" book by authors like David Irving, the staff made you feel like a sick pervert seeking German sado-porn.

I also visited Brave New Books. http://www.bravenewbookstore.com

This shop is nothing but conspiracy and alternative research books. The clerk there told me about going out to lunch with Stefan Molyneux and Alex Jones when they spoke there.

The place was full of Libertarian nerds and Fringe research types with long beards and black clothes. :-)

I was amazed and enthused that such things exist. The Truth is seeping into mainstream consciousness a little bit at a time.

Wait a second, never mind the reptilian books, you can find those silly tomes plenty of places, I've seen Icke books in the libraries of some of my dad's friends and they're the biggest brainwashed retards around, did you say they had David Irving's books in stock, including "Hitler's War" ?

If yes, then that would finally make them a legitimate bookstore since they would be facing full-on Anti-Defecation-League sponsored boycotts and hassle.

How about Eustace Mullins books? I know they have "Creature from Jekyll Island" by Grffin but how about "Secrets of the Federal Reserve,"

http://iamthewitness.com/books/Eustace%2...eserve.pdf

the book Griffin plagiarized and expanded upon without credit or "The World Order":

http://iamthewitness.com/books/Eustace.M...0Order.pdf

[CharliePrime]

I'm in Phoenix this week. The Borders bookstore here does not have a conspiracy section.

I'm going to hang out for a couple of days in Irvine, CA. I'll check there.