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Barnes & Noble
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Categories: Bookstores, Newspapers & Magazines [Edit]
13400 Maxella AveMarina Del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 306-3213
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
18 reviews for Barnes & Noble
"No. I do not have a membership rewards card."
"No, I don't care that I would've saved $3.37 more if I did. I just want this copy of 'Superfreakonomics' so I can read about the financial wizardry of Rick James. Bitch."
"Listen lady, I'm ashamed enough as it is that I shop at Barnes & Noble and not some awesomely remote, unheard of and yet well-stocked independent bookstore owned and operated by an informed bibliophile - I'm not going to carry a card that pronounces that very fact to everyone who peruses my wallet. (Hey, it happens.)"
Honestly, the best thing about this Barnes & Noble is perving out, walking across the street, and offering ladies coming out of Victoria's Secret alone a walk to their cars.
3 Stars for the relative ease with which I can make women uneasy.
This Barnes and Noble is tiny and cramped- there is no cafe here although they offer free wi-fi. The thing is, where do you take yourself and your laptop? The aisles are a bit small to be sitting in, unless you want to get stepped on by other readers ( although they are not violent by nature) Upstairs there are some narrow benches surround the stairway- I'm not very big but they were kind of tiny for my liking.
I did find an awesome CSS book here, and while waiting for my bud to finish up a meeting was able to walk around across the street and hang out some. So, three stars for a good location and the other missing two are for the small space and lack of a coffee shop. ( expectations, expectations..)
I'm not usually too picky about Book Stores but this one's just A-Ok. The location is great, right near Coffee bean, Movie theaters and Victoria's Secret....
I've had a few problems finding books here before...as if they just don't exist. I made sure to check online before I went to the store to see if they had a book I was looking for and it said it was in stock...come to find out they've never carried that book at the store at all.
Oh well, it's a good browsing store- as Adrian L pointed out- but if you really need a book, call and have them set it aside for you.
This Barnes & Noble is one of the smaller stores in the Los Angeles area--nowhere near the size of the big stores in Santa Monica, Westside Pavilion, or The Grove.
Still, the selection is okay here at this two-story complex. I typically don't come to this location often, but when I do, I have been pretty lucky finding what I want.
As a general rule, I like Barnes & Noble -- just not this one.
It's claustrophobically small, has a poor selection, and unreliable parking. What's more, several of the staff members ooze a very unappealing smugness and a general lack of interest in even minimalistic attempts at traditional, customer-service-like behaviors.
One star for the halfway decent local section at the front of the store near the staircase...
Personally I like buying second hand books, but I have yet to find a good second hand book store in SoCal. Amazon is great...but for some reason I cannot commit to buying a book that I have not touched with my own two hands. Sometimes if I can wait, I'll pick out what I want at a bookstore, then buy it on Amazon. But hot damn sometimes I can't wait!
I like to ride bike to this location, since its just down the road from me. Even though there are no chairs, its kinda cluttered and little disorganized sometimes, I still like to spend some time checking out books.
The staff are great and friendly, and when I sit on the floor in an isle, I never get asked to move. All in all, great! If you like yucky coffee bean there's one just across the lot, convenient.
Eww eww eww eww eww.
So small, so useless. I guess it would be ok if you were just browsing for a new novel or something, but if you're looking for anything in particular, 9 times out of 10 they won't have it.
Nice workers, though.
A not-bad bookstore in a whole area of bad to not bad. The layout isn't the best -- it's somewhat tucked into a weird building in a standalone building in an awkward shopping center. And it's front entrance doesn't at all indicate that there's ever be any foot traffic from the street.
But it does what it does. The graphic novel section and manga section -- where we spent our time -- is OK. And while the bookstore isn't amazing, it's... did I say? Not bad.
There are worse places to buy books. If you can take the time, drop your dime at Small World in Venice Beach. You'll be glad you did.
I normally don't Yelp chain stores, but as I was looking this one up (it happens to be our neighborhood bookstore as there aren't any neighborhood bookstores any more) to see if they had a book I'm looking for, I remembered something good about it:
A few years ago, Fox News Asshead Analyst Michelle Malkin wrote a horrible book that basically said the Japanese Internment was completely justified and all the liberal crybabies who likened the racial profiling of Arabs to the unconstitutional rounding up of American citizens for the simple fact of their race should just grow up and get real: Japanese Americans WERE potentially dangerous, and Arab Americans ARE potentially dangerous, end of story. She based her thesis on long-discredited documents that were revealed to be nothing more than trumped up propaganda back in the 1950s. She went on to say that these people, many of whom lost everything, some of whom died due to a variety of causes, including poor medical care, cold, bullets, and God knows what else after being forced to live in horse stalls - were simply "inconvenienced" and should stop their whining.
Naturally, when I walked into this Marina del Rey B&N and saw this hideous piece of hate-mongering lies proudly displayed on their front table, the first thing one saw upon entering the store, I went ape-shit. The night manager lectured me on freedom of speech, blah, blah, blah, to which I said (or screamed) that neo-Nazis have the constitutional right to write books saying that the Holocaust never happened but fucking Barnes and Noble doesn't fucking stock those fucking lies, so why stock a similar piece of hate-mongering justifying American concentration camps that is almost entirely based on discredited propaganda? She gave me her manager's business card, and I faxed him a slightly less strident argument about what Malkin's book contained. I never heard back from him, but when I went back to the store a couple of days later, the book was gone, gone, gone.
So...props to this little Barnes and Noble outlet that quietly, and with no fanfare whatsoever, did the right thing. Plus...as chain bookstores go...it's actually kind of cute.
Awful.
So small and badly organized and I get claustrophobic just THINKING ABOUT THIS LOCATION!!!!!
This is my neighborhood B & N and I absolutely love it! I love how I can always get a parking spot. I love how Coffee Bean is a hop, skip and jump at the strip mall next to it. And most of all, I love how it's smaller, more intimate and quiet than the rest of the B & N's I've been to so when I want to check out certain books and read a few pages or chapters by myself on the floor, nobody bothers me, not even the employees, which is why it's awesome!
Purchase a good book and you're just a few feet away from Coffee bean, Jamba Juice, DSW, Express, and other shops. This is a great location. There's always parking and the staff is friendly and helpful.
The only problem is the people who feel they need to shout into their cellphones what book they are searching/purchasing. I know its not a library but I really don't need to know why you are buying "He's Just Not That Into You" as a gift to your friend who needs to "get a clue". Seriously I'm trying to read for free here! Jeez, the nerve of these people!
Like this neighborhood B&N. They leave you alone. Their registers are on the main floor, so if you want to not be bothered, just scoop up all of your reading material and head upstairs.
Lots of locals hang out here and I usually see the same people every week. The staff is mostly nice and tend to leave you alone. The cashier area is a wee bit cramped, but for a freestanding non-mall location it serves its purpose. Good selection of sale books.
I LOVE this Barnes and Nobles, BUT my last adventure here wasn't the most pleasant. So I was here with 3 of my best girlfriends for life, and after all the kama sutra book giggles, I had to pee really badly. I was waiting, waiting and waiting for the bathroom until this older gentleman (and he was a gentleman bc he tried to warn me) came out, wiped the sweat from his forehead and tell me, "I killed it in there!" I walked in, took a whiff THEN realized what he killed! OMG! So I yell back, "YES YOU DID!!!" Do you know how hard it is to pee while simultaneously holding your breath????? VERY!!
No public restroom anymore and no places to sit.
I love this bookstore because it has a great location! Located in the Marina Marketplace, it is easy to access it as it's close to restaurants and the movie theaters so you can stop by and check out new books while you go out for the evening. The store is open later on Fridays and Saturdays to accommodate the crowds from the movie theaters. The staff is all nice and they have a good selection of books. The first floor is where you can find novels, magazines, best sellers and some computer books. The second floor is where the children's books, self-help, cooking, language books, and study aids are located. You can take your time and even bring in coffee from the nearby coffee places! The mood is very mellow, very MDR. An excellent store in a great location. I couldn't ask for more!
I like being within walking distance to this place, its a nice way to spend part of an afternoon while digesting my lunch. The people working here are pretty helpful and are more then willing to suggest books for you, which is nice if you are not sure what to buy.
Their art section here is pretty small and not that current. This is pretty important when looking for design books, 1998 was a good year and all but work from that era looks damn dated. It took me nearly an hour the other day to find 1 book that was worth purchasing. Next time I will just go to Hennessey + Ingalls when I am searching for inspiration.
Nice location!
I've been coming to this Barnes and Noble for awhile. It's alot smaller than the one on the promenade or at the westside pavillion mall. No starbucks, or movies/dvd's. Call it, "barnes and noble lite".
The other barnes and nobles you can get lost in, and stay there for hours. This one is more compact, I usually go there if I know what I'm looking for, or if I just want to browse magazines or stay over after a movie or something.
But still a great location. The marina marketplace has got a good variety of things...theaters, fast food (fat burger, baja fresh), famous aunt kizzys back porch. The bookstore and the marketplace is worth checking out if you're in west la.
