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[papayahed]

Did anybody get any good books for Christmas??:D

I got:

The Pluto Files
Rubicon

[Zeniyama]

I didn't get any books directly for Christmas, but I did use my money to buy:

Three Novels by Samuel Beckett
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
and a parallel text edition of French short stories is on the way, after some consideration into whether or not I should try reading some books in the original.

[Il Penseroso]

Logicomix, a graphic novel about Bertrand Russell
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Also a gift card to Barnes and Noble, with which I got:
The Last Best Place, an anthology of Montana creative writing
Two volumes of Educating the Imagination, collected from the Teachers & Writers Collaborative
and
This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by T. Borowski

I got hooked up.

[Desolation]

Nothing under the tree, but with my various Christmas money and gift-certificates I got:
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Rosy Crucifixion Part 1: Sexus by Henry Miller
The Double & The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[dfloyd]

I increased my classics library with -
Typee
Sense and Sensibility
The Magic Mountain
The Education of Henry Adams

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I didn't pout, nor did I cry.
Santa took note and left me:

- "The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith" (now I don't have to add further wear to my grandfather's copy)

- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

- "Under Western Eyes" by Joseph Conrad

Gilliatt

[stlukesguild]

With the present size of my library I don't tend to add to many books (outside of art books) unless the book is something that has long been on my "wish list", is an amazing bargain (or I can convince myself of the same) or it is something likely to go out of print rapidly. I only picked up 5 books over the holidays: a volume of the poems of the Japanese poet Ryokan, a new translation from the Greek Anthology (some rather bawdy stuff there), an anthology of Chinese poetry in translation (Poems of the Masters), a volume of Racine's plays translated by John Cairncross (we'll see if your right about him, mortal), and most importantly a great volume on the "artists' books" of the 20th century with some great works by Picasso, Miro, and others. I got several gift cards to Borders, Barnes and Noble, and Half Price Books which I have yet to spend... but seriously, I have been building my musical library at a far more rapid rate recently... so much so I needed to build a second 6' shelf to store them all.

[prendrelemick]

None! I think the wife warned everybody off - no room.

However I did a swop with my daughter and got a Carlos Ruis Zaphon for a Anne Bronte.

[kiki1982]

I was going to turn away when I suddenly realised that I did get one great wopping book!

The Complete Costume History of Auguste Racinet. A reproductionof a beautiful 19th century book about costumes from Egyption to 'modern' (19th century) times with wonderful illustrations. Courtesy of my parents :D.

[Veho]

I got Brideshead Revisited. I also got a £50 Amazon voucher and with that, so far, I have bought Rebecca, Great Expectations and a book by Alexander McCall Smith.

[crystalmoonshin]

Got just one book... "Wildwood Road" from a dear friend.

[kasie]

Just before Christmas I received a copy of Gordon Ramsey's World Kitchen: it came in a plain brown envelope, no delivery note or greeting card and none of my friends will admit to sending it to me. They all say they would not dream of inflicting Gordon Ramsey on me - I don't dislike the man, I can do without the 'language' but he does not suffer fools gladly, for which I have a degree of sympathy because they seem to find some right dozy nitwits for him to work with, and he is no mean chef. The only thing I can think of is that I sent gift subscriptions for a magazine to a couple of friends and I think maybe that was the book that was being offered as a freebie for ordinary subscriptions/renewals at the time and I maybe typed in the reference code when I placed the order, so it's a thank you from the publishers.

Otherwise I had no actual books but I have vouchers to buy audio books that I can use to download items to take with me on my i-pod when I set off on my travels - I can't read on coaches but enjoy listening to a story as I travel, especially when it's too dark to see out of the window.

[JuniperWoolf]

I got Promethea vol. 3 & 4. Pretty trippy stuff.

[Barbarous]

Doktor Faustus by Mann
The Decameron by Boccaccio
Moll Flanders by Defoe
Essay on Man and other poems by Pope
Buddenbrooks by Mann
Between the Acts by Woolf
JR by Gaddis
Sodome et Gomorrhe par Proust
War & Peace by Tolstoy

[Lulim]

2666 by Roberto Bolano

[Dark Muse]

I recivied Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak.

With gift money I bought:

The Complete Works of Lewis Carrol

Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard

[Akeldama]

I received (from my parents):

Daniel Quinn's Beyond Civilization and Watchmen and Philosophy, from the Popular Culture and Philosophy series.

...along with Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey House as a CD audiobook from my girlfriend's parents. I'm still debating what exactly I should spend my Christmas money on, if I spend it at all. I'll probably just save my money, and stick to reading free classics off of the Internet.

[mayneverhave]

Good group of films and books:

- Ibsen's Selected Plays
- Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
- Wallace Steven's Collected Poems
- Proust: Within a Budding Grove
- Kafka: Collected Short Stories

- La regle du jeu
- M
- Network
- La Dolce Vita
- Apocalypse Now
- Shichinin no samurai
- Casablanca
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

[Three Sparrows]

War and Peace-Tolstoy
Oblomov-Goncharov

I have yet to go shopping with Christmas money.:banana:

[Helga]

I got

metamorphosis by Ovid

and an icelandic book called the diary of a rock star made from the blog of a man who died from cancer, he was my best friends brother so it's very interesting..

but after christmas I bought myself all the short stories by Thomas Mann...

[Fen]

Nicholas Nickleby.

[Scheherazade]

Not a book but I got a Sony Ereader with a case that provides reading light :D And the superb thing is that my local library started to offer ebook loans as of January 1st.

Also book vouchers worth over £100. No idea what to buy yet as I rarely buy books.

*Scher is a happy girl.*