Holiday Book gifts....lets hear what ya got.
Kinda lame but i havent posted anywhere in a while so I kinda wanted to see how our Space monkeys did with the book gifts this year.
Other than a few gift certificates to Barnes & Nobles and waldenbooks I made out with a couple of good things to shelve.
The Annotated Loita- Vladimir Nabokov(thanks Jeff for the idea)
Representative Men-R.W. Emerson(a crispy yellowed old ass copy)
I'm not too sure of how I'm gonna spend my gift cards, you guys are welcome to throw me some ideas maybe something Ive overlooked out there...Okay booknerds I know I'm not the only one...Ante up!
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i actually only got one book, about a boy, hornby, from the lovely jane s. i did, however, get a gift card to my favorite used bookstore, where i plan to do some serious damage.
My girlfriend got me Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland.
I got myself The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger.
I also got 50 dollars in gift cards that I'm going to do some 'serious damage' with at Barnes and Nobel.
I got a book called Vernon God Little by some guy named DBC... something...
And Ring by Koji Suzuki
some book about Hockey
A Franklin book!
and about 50 in Gift Certificates, where I am going to get Hey Nostradamus! and Microserfs by Douglas Coupland.
Palahniuk and Miike.
GODS!
For once Fatty delivered:
The Soft Machine - William S. Burroughs
Nova Express - William S. Burroughs
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Wall - Sartre
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
It's not easy having a good time.
Even smiling makes my face ache.
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William S. Burroughs - My education: a book of dreams
Franz Kafka - New translation of Metamorphosis and other stories
and with some money I got I went to Chapters and bought a few other books:
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Will Self - Great Apes
What?
Me and Jeremy got a total of $150 in gift cards for barnes and noble. =D yay!
I only got a few books (money spent somewhere else 
)
Kiss me Judas - Will Christopher Baer (only giftcard purchase so far)
A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat - Arthur Rimbaud
The Silent Twins - Marjorie Wallace
Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death
Death on the Installment Plan - Celine
I'll include what Jeremy got too, just because I'm going to probably read them all too.
A Christmas Story - Jean Shepherd
Junky - William S. Burroughs
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town - Charles Bukowski
Electric Jesus Corpse - Carlton Mellick III
The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll
Here's Hope: New Testament (from the religious guy at his work...we don't know why)
Cheese Chronicles - Tommy Womack
And a Lord of the Rings movie book about Gollum
And instead of clearing out space and selling books...no way. We're being forced to buy a new bookshelf for all of this 
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[B]i actually only got one book, about a boy, hornby, from the lovely jane s. [/B][/QUOTE]
Awwww. 
I know neither of you, but that still made me "Awwww. ".
It's not easy having a good time.
Even smiling makes my face ache.
Hurrm, if this topic is any indication the Burroughs estate cleaned up this holiday season.
Hopefully it all goes to his surviving cats.
It's not easy having a good time.
Even smiling makes my face ache.
not sure where his money goes to.
tried to find Camus, only had the outsider, bad translation anyways, and I think it should be titled THE STRANGER.
Still loking for the Plague and a few others that were mentioned, along with Crash.
What?
I got a signed copy of 'Strawberry Girl' by Lois Lenski. It was one of my favorite books as a kid. I'm still in awe that someone found this for me.
Also, Kafka Diaries, The DaVinci Code, an ARC of 'All the Pretty Horses' by McCarthy, Choke (hee hee), 'A Gentle Madness' by Nicholas A. Brisbanes, and a couple off cookbooks.
Kafka diaries, does that include the letter to his father?
What?
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mugwump [/i]
[B]Kafka diaries, does that include the letter to his father? [/B][/QUOTE]
I'm not sure. I've read that as its own book. These are the diaries in two volumes spanning 1910-1923.
yeah, the letter was long enough to be its own book.
What?
The books I found under my tree:
All by Andrew Vachss
- Choice of Evil
- Sheila
- Down in the Zero
- Blue Belle
- Everybody Pays
I got three antique copies of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz from 1900-1950 (really interesting!)
With my B&N gift card I purchased:
- The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon/ Spanbauer
- Sarah/ JT Leroy
- Reasons to Live/ Hempell
Sarah got:
- The New Sins/ Byrne
- Best Non Required Reading/ Various (Eggers)
- McSweeny's subscription renewal (we just got Issue 12)
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"This ain't goodbye, just [I]au revoir[/I]....motherfucker."
'Razor Wire Pubic Hair' by Carlton Mellick III. My cult secret santa has sent this to me, and although it hasn't arrived yet, I'll get on it right away when it does.
I didn't get any books but I went to half-price books a picked up a couple with my x-mas cash:
The Neuromancer/Count Zero- William Gibson (the cyberpunk novels that the matrix supposedly 'borrowed' from)
Jennifer Government- Max Berry (paperback advanced "readers" copy! I feel special)
The Man who Fell to Earth- Walter Tevis (Can't wait to reat this one)
and I went to borders and got:
The Room- Hubert Selby Jr.
and...
FUEL-INJECTED DREAMS by Robert James Baker--- I have been looking for this novel for about a year, so glad to see it is finally back in print...
"Excuse me sir, Did you wash your hands after you took that big heaping dump. You know that sign, that sign says ALL employees MUST wash their hands after using the restroom, What part of that do you not understand?"- Malcom X
"Would you care to lick my sweaty baulz after they have been dipped in the finest venerial juices and sauteed in my own ass-sweat, madam?"- Winston Churchill
even cowgirls get the blues, skinny legs and all, still life with woodpecker by tom robbins
the sound and the fury by william faulkner
notes from underground by fydor doesoyvesky [sp]
I got Jemima J frome moe, and I finished it in two days, I loved it so much. And I also got a book about Mary Magdalene from my brother's gf, which looks like interesting but formidable to start, so I have yet to read it
There is hope, but not for us.
I only got two books this year, a rather small amount considering.
The collected poems of Syliva Plath
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
I went here - [url]http://www.bookcloseouts.com/bc/home.asp?TAB=W[/url] and got 20 books for about 50 bucks. Some really great books.
Cold Snap, Pugilist at Rest, and Sonny Liston - by Thom Jones
Two books by J.T. Leroy
books by - John Fulton, Will Christopher Baer, Pete Fromm, and a few others.
I also got Grimus, by Salman Rushdie, Short stories by J.G. Ballard, White Noise by Don DeLillo, In Cold Blood by Truman Copote, The White Album by Joan Didion, and 9 Stories by Salinger.
I've got a lot of great reading to do!
"If life makes you scared and bitter,
at least its not for very long."
- Slumber, by Bad Religion
"How to Get Happily Published" by some fuckin guy
and
"Writers' Market 2004-online edition."
Gotta love those guilt gifts.
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Lullaby - Chuck (sorry not bought from here)
Choke - Chuck (sorry not bought from here)
The Contortionist's Handbook - Craig Clevenger
Hell's Angels - Hunter S Thompson
Kingdom of fear - Hunter S Thompson
The Clinton Wars - Sidney Bleumenthal
The Culture of Fear - Barry Glasner
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms." Albert Einstein
Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan
Memiors Of A Geisha
Franny and Zooey
A better copy of Catcher in the rye...mine was a little old
Catching up on some classic this holiday season, I got:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (hardcover)
The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Strong Opinions by Vladimir Nabokov
Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov (OK, there was a bit of a theme)
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual: An Illustrated Guide to Personal Practice by David Swenson
And $100 in Amazon GCs for more...
Jeff
Mostly YA novels..I'm so cute:
Heart of Valour-LJ Smith
Six Feet Under- Better living through death
Legacy of Lies- Elizabeth Chandler
Don't Tell-Elizabeth Chandler
So...am I banned from book club forums forever?
This kinda counts, since I bought it with my giftcard. And then it doesn't count because I wasted five damn dollars of my giftcard.
February issue of Playboy. Seeing that month in my cluttered memory as the one Chuck's Guts was to be published in. And it's not. I couldn't even redeem my actions by giving it to my boyfriend because that nasty, trashy Jamie Pressley's on the cover, so it's worthless to him too.
Anyway.
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Wastelands
All King, all Dark Tower books, I'm hooked on them, I also got a zombie survival guide, its damn funny
I also got Syrup, by max barry with a gift card, haven't read it yet, but can't wait
Michael Crichton- Prey
Some book about submarines by some guy
And with my gift certificate I bought:
Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wertzel (I bought this book simply because everybody on the Cult hates it so much. I figure that it's prolly something I"ll like by default.)
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