The Bookstore Dilemma

[User_2629207]

Ahaha! xD That is just awesome.
I bet she'll make her daughter read it when she's older.
I want a mom like that *__*  

[Sanami2315]

In my case, I know everyone at the bookstore. Here's a really interesting story:

One employee comes up to me while I'm reading something ACTUALLY INNOCENT (W Juliet) and says, "Hey, we just got something new in. Everyone thought it'd be PERFECT for you."

So I ask what it is, and he takes me into the back room. Three other employees are there, and when they see me they wave me over. One of them roots around in a box and tells me to close my eyes. I do so. All of a sudden, there's something in my hands. I open my eyes and look.

It was a step-by-step guide to a**l sex and books one and two of Il Gatto Sul G.

XD XD XD How AWESOME is that?!

(They GAVE me the guide! HAH!)  

[C h i p p y]

Oh ho ho... Do I have have a experiance.

My famiyl was heading down to barnes and noble, beacuse I wanted books. I had heard that Loveless was an awsome seris, so I decided to try to purchase it. My sister take a look at it, and said "Oh... is that one of those books with men kissing men in it?!" ..... RIGHT as a little old man was walking by.

Loveless manga, 30$
Barnes and Noble Membership, 29$
The expression on that man's face as my sister yelled that out.... Priceless.

He sped away after, refusing to look back at us. >w<  

[Lady Gyrfalcon]

I have... Nothing! sweatdrop Nothing ever happens to me.

At the store I get manga in, it's fairly deserted, but too near the RP guide things for me to be able to pick up a volume of BL manga or anything and start reading it.

But, anyway, I had no money and they had Earthian volumes 1-4, Our Kingdom volumes 1-2 and (crazily) Black Knight volume three, but it wasn't plastic wrapped. I was basically like "What if some poor misfortunate person just comes along and picks it up?!" xd  

[13thzero]

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I was basically like "What if some poor misfortunate person just comes along and picks it up?!"

hehe I know what you mean. One time I was in the Manga Section and this little girl (couldn't be more than 7 or cool was looking through the mangas when she picked up a yaoi that wasn't covered (bad memory... can't remember which one. All I know is it was graphic) Someone must have unwrapped it to read it or something because it was definitely one that should've been wrapped.
Me: Hey sweetie why don't you look at this one? *grabs Kingdom Hearts off the shelf and snatches away other manga*
The little girl ran off real quick like I had a gun and came back later with her mom. I held on to the book, thank god. If her mom had seen it... burning_eyes
She already wasn't happy with the manga and had to flip through Tokyo Mew Mew before her daughter bought it. =^.^=  

[[SilentChaos]]

I'm reading a lot of testimonies where you guys are nervous about it.. I guess being that I'm queer helps that I don't care what people think about me and what I read.. but.. still. I look for the yaoi in bookstores all the time. I work near the B&N and Borders in my town, and I spend a lot of time going there to browse (because I don't make enough to support my manga habit, so I just read it and put it back).

I've never much cared for who's "watching" me browse manga.. I am, however, wary of my father and where he puts his eyes when he looks at my bookshelf. He still bothers me about my smut novels (that aren't obviously so at first glance, I have younger siblings), and I'm 18. Anyway.. My brother and sister like shounen ai.. I let them read the lighter stuff. My 11 year old sister thinks Boy Princess is hilarious, and my 12 year old brother is reading Yami No Matsuei and Beyond My Touch right now, and he adores it.

*shrug*

Edit: And about the ratings on the back? Regardless of what it says on the back (16+, 13+, etc), the clerks I've dealt with haven't done anything to 'card' me. Even the shrink-wrapped stuff. For all they know, it's "Collector's Edition." cool

xd
 

[xx____innocent-BYstander]

[c**].a.me.[die].jeff.

MarvelousMinerva

Gah. Can't wait 'til I'm 18. Those of you that have those older friends are SOOO lucky. Don't ever take them for granted!!!

I don't ^__^
I use it to my advantage!

>_>; hey! 16 is close enough! XD but thanks for... wait... taking adavtage of me? AAAHHH! *hangs head*

Yeah, I dont have to worry about my mom seeing me buy yaoi, she knows I like it. She's liberal. However, she doesnt like me loaning it to people, because "I dont want to be known as the mother who lets her daughter deal out porn" XD  

[Vexworth]

I've never had a problem with that sort of thing.

The only problem I consistently have is the fact that THE STORE'S ALWAYS, WITHOUT FAIL, OUT OF THE NEXT VOLUME OF A SERIES I'M READING.

I'll want to read Vol 2, they'll have the entire series BUT.
When I finally find it, they'll be missing volume 3.

And so on and so forth.

The manga gods laugh at Soda.
OH, HOW THEY LAUGH!!!!!  

[User_2629207]

Soda Ex Machina

I've never had a problem with that sort of thing.

The only problem I consistently have is the fact that THE STORE'S ALWAYS, WITHOUT FAIL, OUT OF THE NEXT VOLUME OF A SERIES I'M READING.

I'll want to read Vol 2, they'll have the entire series BUT.
When I finally find it, they'll be missing volume 3.

And so on and so forth.

The manga gods laugh at Soda.
OH, HOW THEY LAUGH!!!!!

UGH, tell me about it... like me, I discovered my Borders had YnM, and it made me ubber-joyjoy happy, but do they have book one? NOOO, they don't.
Curse them.

@ Silentchaos: surprised WHOAH, you let your brother read that? I luffs your brother...
Sushii could never give it to her brothers. They are awful, and a bit... incesterous.
I dont wanna give them ideas neutral  

[Sho_koi]

i just buy it and glare at the store clerk if an eyebrow is raised  

[Kitsune-chi]

[SilentChaos]

I'm reading a lot of testimonies where you guys are nervous about it.. I guess being that I'm queer helps that I don't care what people think about me and what I read.. but.. still. I look for the yaoi in bookstores all the time. I work near the B&N and Borders in my town, and I spend a lot of time going there to browse (because I don't make enough to support my manga habit, so I just read it and put it back).

I've never much cared for who's "watching" me browse manga.. I am, however, wary of my father and where he puts his eyes when he looks at my bookshelf. He still bothers me about my smut novels (that aren't obviously so at first glance, I have younger siblings), and I'm 18. Anyway.. My brother and sister like shounen ai.. I let them read the lighter stuff. My 11 year old sister thinks Boy Princess is hilarious, and my 12 year old brother is reading Yami No Matsuei and Beyond My Touch right now, and he adores it.

*shrug*

Edit: And about the ratings on the back? Regardless of what it says on the back (16+, 13+, etc), the clerks I've dealt with haven't done anything to 'card' me. Even the shrink-wrapped stuff. For all they know, it's "Collector's Edition." cool

xd

Ooh, I I liked Beyond My Touch a lot. Tell your brother good choice. Though for some reason I can't find Yami no Matsuei anywhere. Hm.

*laugh* Y'know, I never thought of that excuse for the shrink wrap.  

[celerystickk]

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Yeah, I dont have to worry about my mom seeing me buy yaoi, she knows I like it. She's liberal. However, she doesnt like me loaning it to people, because "I dont want to be known as the mother who lets her daughter deal out porn" XD

That is hilarious. I was reading this manga, and this guy from school walks up. And he likes to tease me about reading gay porn. [He really has NO IDEA. xDD] So he was like; 'Oh, hey. Haha. OHHH! Reading GAY PORN AGAIN?' In this really loud voice. So I was all like; 'Yeah, wanna read?'
And he was like; eek I don't believe you.
So I shrug and dared him to read it. And he had this priceless look on his face. [I'm known as the shy-nerdy-asian-geek-newgirl... D<]
And he was like. Urm, I think NOT. And he walked away rather quickly, ears burning. 8D *proud closet pervert*

 

[Miami 1989]

I get a little nervous cause there's always a bunch of people watching me... ninja  

[celerystickk]

Demoniqe

I get a little nervous cause there's always a bunch of people watching me... ninja

Haha. The only manga I buy is Loveless. <33 And no one really looks at me funnily cause' they prolly don't know and don't care. Unless it's like, people who actually know what it is. And they give you this knowing look. D< And it ******** creeps me out. I have never ever seen anyone buy a yaoi/shounen ai manga before. >_<  

[Serjo Sammie]

I order the majority of my stuff online so I'm rarely put into a situation like a lot of the posters have talked about. One time my postman tried to set me up with "the guy at number 32 who reviews those anime film things", 'cause obviously with me liking manga and him liking anime we'd make an awesome couple by default, and I was far too embarrassed to be more specific on which genre of manga he delivers to me. There was this one time in a bookstore, though, that I'll never forget...

This one time I was flicking through the second volume of Bizenghast and contemplating whether to buy it, when I heard a child yell "Muuuuummy. Can I have this book?!" I looked down and there standing beside me, 'lo and behold, is a little boy holding a copy of Wild Rock. She hmmed a positive and didn't even look at it! I raised an eyebrow at the mother, and she stared back. I grinned and said "I really don't think that book is suitable for him." She frowned and asked why. Conveniently, I had my own copy in my bag and I, uh, showed her why it was unsuitable. She snatched the book out of his hands, chucked it back on the shelf, and marched out of the store!
Geez. He couldn't have been eight.


@Soda Ex Machina: Augh, I have that problem too! I've been checking our nearby bookstores for the first volume of the Hellsing manga for months and none of them have ever stocked it, but they never fail to stock the second book. How irritating is that?! I've ordered it this time, just to save myself the nervous breakdown.