I like the bookstore and would give it a good review except for one thing, and that thing has prompted me to write this review.
The guy behind the counter has always been weirdly rude and passive-aggressive when I have bought, sold, or traded books there. He's the worst thing about the store. He reminds me of a pawnbroker who reluctantly and contemptuously accepts, or refuses, what you brought in. He's rather like the evil pawnbroker in some 19th-century social novel.
I've spent a lot of time in used bookstores in Berkeley, Portland, OR, Madison, WI, and Cambridge, Mass--university towns where the bookstores have a much larger stock and more room to wander--and never did I encounter a clerk with such a disdainful persona.
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