Escape Fiction

The people that run this place are very rude. And the books are expensive. $2.50 mininimum on all books, even the older paperbacks.

Dude, this bookstore rocks. Go read the Vlad books there, they have them all.

You can't miss this place... Well actually it's pretty easy, as it's tucked away off of commercial. I'd be a liar if I said I don't enjoy having a nearly companionless shop like this one to roam freely, but these folks deserve your business more than I need my space. I thought my boyfriend had to be grossly exaggerating when he began going on about his first visit to Escape Fiction, claiming that it was literally covered in books. He said there were books not only on every shelf they have somehow managed to cram in there, but pinned to the walls and tucked away in almost every nook and cranny. As it turns out, he's not a liar either. This lovely shop is not just filled with books, it's positively rich with literary gems. The only time I have I walked out without a giant stack of fine books is when I came in with no wallet. With foreign books, the best sci-fi around, all the classics you like to pretend that you've read, references, romance, crime, the unclassified ones and more, Escape Fiction, no doubt, has the best selection I've ever seen in a book shop, it's infinitely more charming than any Powell's and much more reasonable in price (or in the shopkeepers' opinions perhaps ridiculous). I must have purchased 8 or 9 very special classic German books for a whopping *drumroll please* twenty-seven dollars today. You owe it to yourself and to the delightfully good-natured, good-humored and quickwitted owners to stop by and treat yourself to an experience that feels like something straight out of The Pagemaster. I assure you, you'll end up walking out at least a little smarter (or a bit more awesome) than you were before.