What books are you getting/did you get for Xmas?
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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?
Also, what books are you giving as gifts?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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Sailing Around the Room - Billy Collins
Sailing Around the Room - Billy Collins
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
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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 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.
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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).
I'll have to read the synopsis more closely and stop judging books by their covers (or in this case by their titles).