Pretty good bookstore overall, but I miss when the...

Pretty good bookstore overall, but I miss when the University had its own bookstore, rich with academic books, particularly with respect to the sciences and mathematics.

The sciences are OK here, certainly better than a chain store like B&N (Einstein, Einstein, Hawkin, Dawson, Hawkin, Neil Degrasse, Einstein, all for the "common" man). (B&N's takeover nationwide of university bookstores throughout the country has wrecked them all and stripped them of their individuality, and turned them into trinket shops.) In the Princeton University bookstore of old, you could go broke picking up titles about things that were entirely new to you, math, physics, and lots and lots and lots of great chemistry.. The treatment of chemistry at Labyrinth in particular is awful, pitiful actually. The science that is most important to our survival is represented by a few esoteric, and often outdated, books. Labyrinth did not pick up the slack overall from the loss of the University bookstore, and the math section, while good, is not even close to what the University bookstore had.

Labyrinth is an excellent bookstore though for historical topics and one of the best bookstores I've seen for books in foreign languages, and is particularly rich in German, Spanish and French titles, with a smattering of other languages as well.

I tried to do my Christmas shopping at Labyrinth, but I couldn't find parking in time to meet their 8 o'clock closing hour.