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Personal Narrative: My Visit To Barnes And Noble At Union Square

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My visit to the bookstore My visit to Barnes and Noble at union square was a pleasant surprise. It took me about an hour and a half to get there by train. Opening its green rusty entrance doors lead me to a warm welcoming scene filled with smiles and air conditioning for all four floors. I was surprised by how low the prices were for the books and it the variety of categories in each category. There were floors dedicated to fiction and nonfiction. Floors even had Sections for textbooks, love novels, cookbooks, and even jokes. I was even more surprised they sold Old collectables for Star Wars, Marvel, and DC. I spent 30 min reading joke books with my friend but decided to eventually hop on the escalator that lead me to the next floor, which was filled with fictional books. I was walking around the floor and eventually stumbled upon a shelf fill with Stephen king novels. I didn't know he wrote that many books where there was enough to fill 3 shelves. I was told by a employee passing by that this author wrote around 92 books where most of them were somewhat connected like a series. It blew my mind because he wrote books about a clown eating little kids all the way to a girl with psychic power that one day snapped and decided to kill everyone, I couldn't put 2 and 2 together. …show more content…

I also decide to purchase "It" the book about a clown eating kids and I was really baffled on the overwhelming size of the 1,138 pages book. I later found out "Pet Sematary" came out with a movie in 1989.It had okay reviews but I decided to watch it any way. The movie had an eerie atmosphere and gave me chills but was also somewhat cheesy. Visiting the bookstore introduced me to whole new adventure / horror genre of books I didn't know

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