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Christmas book haul?

What I've received so far, and what hasn't arrived:

The Mars Trilogy
Kushiel's Dart
The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide
Saikano 5-6
The Hobbit
1632
The Lord of the Rings 50th edition

>> No.2278510

Pic related

>> No.2278511

I only got one book, and it didn't arrive in time.

Ah well.

It was Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris.

>> No.2278514

I GOT NO PRESENTS THIS YEAR

>> No.2278516

The Call of Cthulhu, a C handbook, and The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. I pirate all my books anyway.

>> No.2278517

Looks like you are reading Lolita for all the wrong reasons..

>> No.2278520

An Invitation to a Beheading
Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla
Gilgamesh

>> No.2278522

>>2278517
What are those?

>> No.2278523

I got a Kindle.

Every book I want forever, for free.

Fuck yeah.

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>>2278523
>kindlefags
>not retards

pick one

>> No.2278533

>>2278516
Are you me?

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I got gift cards, but with those I bought all these:

>Tutelary Tales by Villy Sorensen
>Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval
>Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood: Modern Albanian Short Stories
>The Passive Vampire by Gherasim Luca
>The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
>Hebdomeros and Other Writings by Giorgio de Chiciro
>100 Poems from the Japanese
>The Transformations of Mr. Hadliz by Ladislav Novak
>Contemplation by Franz Kafka
>The Horse has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry
>Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
>House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk

Which is a pretty awesome haul, I think.

>> No.2278536

King Rat by James Clavell
The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell (already own it, will trade it for something else)
first 4 books of A Song of Ice and Fire by GRRM

feels good man

>> No.2278541

Naked Lunch
Small Gods
Moving Pictures
and 1984 is still underway

>> No.2278544

My strictly platonic lady friend got me a copy of The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki. I bought her a copy of Snow Country as an introduction to Japanese lit.

My grandma got me a copy of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle.

>> No.2278547

GIMME DAT HIDAMARI SKETCH

Ordered The Feverhead last night with a B&N gift card from a cousin. Waiting for Pale Fire to arrive.

>> No.2278553

>>2278517
I fucking hate it when anyone says this, joking or not. It's like /lit/ doesn't think there are people capable of appreciating beautiful prose AND the personage of a like-minded individual (i.e. H.H.).

>> No.2278571

My mother got me A Song of Ice and Fire I.

They just edited the book here because of the TV show, I had searched it for years, fuck my country, but anyway...

That's a nice cover for Lolita.

>> No.2278585

>>2278496
As I Lay Dying (fancy Norton edition)~Faulkner
Suttree~McCarthy
Gravity's Rainbow Companion
The Sot-Weed Factor~Barth
Waitin Fer Godot~Beckett
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake~Campbell
Major Works~Wittgenstein

I looked at a Nook at a B&N and didn't feel uncomfortable, the neckbeard that stared me down as I tried it out did, though.

>> No.2278593

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon
First four volumes of ASoIaF.

The two pretty much go hand in hand, eh?

>> No.2278612

>>2278593
I don't know, is "ASoIaF" a long winded prejudiced work form three hundred years ago?

>> No.2278868

got some leather bound copies of War and Peace and The Arabian Nights from Costco. And a $100 gift card to amazon.

>> No.2278872

>>2278868
I'm also counting a really old ass copy of the Iliad I got from my dead grandma's house.

>> No.2278886

11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

All of this so far, I still have a couple more stops to go.

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These two badboys = me set for the foreseeable future.

>> No.2278955

>Getting classic literature for Christmas
>Not owning them already.

That's what surprises me about you guys, if there's ever a to-read thread, it's always full of stuff I'd expect people to have read already ...

>> No.2278958

>>2278955

You expect us all to own every piece of classic literature ever made and have read it all?
You do realise the average age around here is 19/20

>> No.2278964

>>2278955
Yeah, that always bothers me too. It's like everyone is still stuck going through some top 100 books list.

>> No.2278965

MacBeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo & Juliet

I'm starting my English studies next year.

>> No.2278971

>>2278520
>Gilgamesh
What an abortion of a story

>> No.2278973

>>2278958
Nope.jpg

The average age is around 17.

>> No.2279007

>>2278541
moving pictures is one of my favourites. best stand-alone discworld I've read.

yeah, that's right, I FUCKING LOVE PRATCHETT. so come at me.

all I got was Camus' outsider. I ain't mad tho.

>> No.2279014

>Lolita
Excellent fucking choice!

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>> No.2279022

>>2279016
What's wrong with that face?

>> No.2279031

>>2279022
She's a redditor... fucking cunts.

>> No.2279032

Copied from another thread:

St. Augustine - Confessions
Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast
Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Anton Chekhov - Stories
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Virgil - Aeneid
Homer - Iliad
Herodotus - The Histories
Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories
Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Works

>> No.2279035

>>2279031

>Redditor

Fucking figures.

Bet she posted it to /r/atheism

HEY GUYS LOOK AT ME, THAT'S RIGHT I'M A GIRL AND AN ATHEIST. DON'T HIT ON ME YOU SILLY NECKBEARDS.

>> No.2279037

>>2279016
2brave

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That's not me btw
<-Here's me.

>> No.2279084

>>2278955
basically this. do you guys not have families? because surely someone you know has homer or james joyce?

>> No.2279088

>>2279016
pot

>> No.2279089

3 PKDs (A Scanner Darkly, 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch & Flow My Tears...) and "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker

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>>2278496

>Jules Verne - From The Earth to the Moon/Around the Moon

Exchanging it for a George Eliot novel I don't have because getting decent translations of Verne's stuff hard.

>Some Hobbit map/book thing

It's really shitty and I'm exchanging it as

>One of those cheap Chinese 7-inch TFT e-readers from my sister.

I thought it was shit at first but once I sorted out a decent colour scheme (black on grey surprisingly. Any white tends to kill your eyes with too much light.), it's now not too shabby. I can read manga OK on it to boot and Calibre's news feed downloads look awesome on it.

I think I'm going to be using it mainly for random Gutenberg stuff I can't get easily rather than pirating newer material (which I can get easily through the library) or a general replacement for "real" books. I've already polished off a cool overview of early Australian writers and have Caesar's Gallic War stuff on the go on it. I've also thrown on a few handy maps, random artbooks and video-wise I'll probably put some plays I haven't watched yet/docos.

If it doesn't work out I'll probably give it to my Mum.

>>2279076

Lies.

>> No.2279136

>>2279084

I don't know. I'm the only person I know that's even heard of James Joyce.. I live in England as well.

>> No.2279148

No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945 And Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw

I don't really need more books on ww2, but I admit the revisionist slant has got my attention

Also OP, quit being a goddamn weeboo

>> No.2279150

I got a 30 dollar gift card to amazon.com

I bought a copy of 2666 and 1Q84. I await the arrival of my awkwardly titled manuscripts with anticipation.

>> No.2279191

>>2279148
nah

>> No.2279289

>>2279084
You can't expect everyone to have read as much or as long as you have. I never cared about reading until about one year ago, so there are a lot of classics I've yet to read.

>> No.2279291

So far,

A Man in Full
Elecric Koolaid Acid Test
Game of Thrones 4 pack
A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Compleat Meadmaker

I guess people know I like Wolfe.

>> No.2279300

>>2278593

The best part of Decline and Fall is the footnotes. Make sure to take the time to read them as you go through it - the main text itself is relatively dull, but Gibbon's voice really comes through in the notes.

>> No.2279322

I got 92,000 books this Christmas.

Do you want me to list them all?

>> No.2279324 [DELETED] 

Recieved a Kindle Fire and have $720, so I'm pretty set for a while as long as I stick close to my budget for everything.

Now the only problem is that I've still got the notion that ebooks are "illegitimate" stuck in my mind. If anyone can disprove it that'd be nice.

>> No.2279337

>>2278496
Brofist for PKD.