The family gathered for Thanksgiving in Dallas area at my brothers place in Highland Village. Our family was there, their family was there- all in all, it was a fun, festive feast of turkey, cornbread dressing, pecan pie, football and flatulence.

Thankfully my brother and I escaped to explore a part of greater Dallas area that I like a lot: Denton. It's a lot like Mayberry but modern and multi-cultural without a Barney Fife in sight.

If you ever make it to Denton, check out Recycled Books! It's an old theater painted purple with used books EVERYWHERE. I got an expensive mathematic handbook that cost $120 retail for 16.50. There's also a lot of rare and hard to find stuff. Yes- I got a fixx for my latest comic addiction.

I love the place. It has an eclectic sense of humor about the place with categories of books like "time, time-keeping and time-travel". "Physics, Fusion and Fishing". I was so overwhelmed by the books, I missed the massive CD and DVD holdings.

Do you have a favorite book store? No. Borders, Barnes & Nobles and Books-a-million are NOT book stores. They are soulless sterile warehouses that sell knowledge at retail. A REAL bookstore is a dump. The real treasure is in the pages. The REAL bookstores in our country are under great pressure from the big soulless corperate run chains. We must seek out and support these cultural treasures before they are crushed by the Wal-marts of literature.

If you've got one of these gems in your community, tell us about it!