What books are you getting for Xmas?
 

I'm just curious what books people here are getting (or hoping to get) for Christmas? I usually get a hardback novel or two for Xmas. This year I asked for Prey by Michael Crichton, From a Buick 8 by Stephen King, and Coyote by Allen Steele. I normally just buy paperbacks, but it's nice to get a few hardback novels.

Also, what books are you giving as gifts?

I doubt I'm getting any books, but I'm giving my girlfriend a copy of "Twenty-One Stores," a Graham Greene short story collection. I also got her an inscribed copy of Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" last month, but I couldn't wait until Xmas and so I gave it to her early. :)

DJ

Hopefully, The Rules of Attraction by Eaton Ellis and Light in August by Faulkner. I already got a $15 gift card to Barnes and Noble from my friend, so I will probably be buying Pale Fire by Nabokov.

I am getting Vonnegut books. No idea which ones, but i am getting 3 or 4. Yay!

I picked out three that I've been wanting with gift certificates: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, The Trilobites of New York, and Fossil Ammonites.

Foley is Good

:)

Got the first one two years ago for Christmas.

http://charliegoose.homestead.com/files/goose.jpg Honk!

Got a few Grisham hardcovers - The Testament, The Runaway Jury, The Summons - and Laguna Heat by T. Jefferson Parker.

For christmas I ended up getting quite a number of books that I wanted...27 books to be exact.


It was a good christmas.

I just got "KURT COBAIN:Journals" for Christmas

Catch Me If You Can - by Frank Abagnale, Jr.
Flight: 100 Years of Aviation (?) - by the Smithsonian Institution
Band of Brothers - by Stephen Ambrose

collection of Emiliy Dickenson
collection of William Blake
Sailing Around the Room - Billy Collins
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
New Jedi Order - Destiny's Way - Walter John Williams
Dispatches - Michael Herr
The Quiet American - Graham Greene

Let me know how you like Sailing Around the Room

As for me:

Ryu Marukami - Coin Locker Babies

Haruki Marukami - The Elephant Vanishes

Jens Christian Grondahl - Silence In October

T Cooper - Some of the Parts

Dune: Butlerian Jihad
Chronicles of Narnia Box set
GRE Study manual

Tuan Jim

Only books I got were Hitchhiker's Guide (the Omnibus one) and the Inhuman Condition by Clive Barker. I'm pretty behind on my reading as is, though, so I didn't ask for many.

I gave a few books, including Schismatrix Plus to one brother, a Scanner Darkly to another, Cuba for Beginners to a third brother, a couple of Warcraft books to my brother-in-law, and probably some others I'm forgetting.

I got the LOTR soft cover box set &

The Summons by John Grisham

Rebel Without A Crew - Robert Rodriguez

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Urban Legends - Richard Roeper
Hollywood Urban Legends - Richard Roeper
A Wes Craven book although I forgot the title.

I really enjoy this collection. It is amusing and deceivingly simplistic. It is easy to read on a topical level, but deeper themes and images also emerge with a bit of effort and familiarity.

I received:

Michael Moore's Stupid White Men

and

Edward Gorey's The Haunted Tea Cosy

The Summons by Grisham and already finished it

Prey by Crichton

I got Stephen King's From a Buick 8. I had seen this book on the shelf and I really like King but I thought that this was a collection of 8 stories. Boy was I suprised and pleasently so. This is another fine example of King at his best. It is a very enjoyable read and I highly recommend it to all.

I'll have to read the synopsis more closely and stop judging books by their covers (or in this case by their titles).