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What books did you guys get for Christmas?

>> No.8883058

>>8883039
seeing as its 1:00 AM on Christmas Day, I haven't got any gifts yet, u idiot

>> No.8883060

>>8883039
it's still christmas eve you mong

>> No.8883067
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>americunts gift eachother on christmas morning
>not giftin on the 24th of December

Got these plus twelve bucks I can spend at the local chain store.
Quite happy with these since I have been thinking about picking up a Murakami book.

>> No.8883071

>>8883039
>opening gifts at 1:10 am
no. My aunt and uncle insisted that I unwrap theirs like 6 hours ago:
>The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by PKD
>Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I hope they're good

>> No.8883072

>>8883039
None. It's depressing.

>> No.8883073

>>8883058

I hate you for some weird reason. I hope you get held up in a hallway by a pamphlet and some long drawn-out biblical oration then you need a jump-start in a blizzard.

just fuck u, man

>> No.8883081

>>8883073
goodness anon-kun, why did my post spurn in you such feelings? just a little christmas morn shitposting :3c

>> No.8883106

I got

Franny and Zooney
The wasteland
History of the viking
Nausea
Journey to the end of night
Fear and Loathing in las vegas

>> No.8883113

The Collected Stories of Arno Schmidt and The Secret History of Twin Peaks

>> No.8883879
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>>8883039
Gave my mom a book on Christopher Columbus, since she likes historical stuff.
Got a 2000 page textbook on pharmacology, a bit outdated since it's from 1996, though most of the info is still good.

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Mommy has exceptional taste tbqh

>> No.8884288

I don't have friends or family

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:3

>> No.8884295

>>8883106
F&Z is too comfy.

>>8884288
Why haven't you Kys yet?

>> No.8884300

>>8884292
What are the translations for Homer & Ovid there, my dude?

>> No.8884302

I got the NABRE, Feynman's Lectures (New Millennium Ed.), The Orchard Keeper, Only Revolutions and a scalp massager

>> No.8884306

>>8884300
Ovid is Raeburn
Iliad is Rieu with revisions my Jones and Rieu
Odyssey is Rieu

Are those /lit/ approved?

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>> No.8884555

>>8884306
Needing translations for Homeric Greek and Latin is certainly not /lit/ approved

>> No.8884570

>>8884555
This is the response of someone who has read none of them

>> No.8884590

my diary, desu

>> No.8884594

>>8884570
:^)

>> No.8884595

>>8884590
Someone gave you your diary?

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Soumission by Michel Houellebecq, I read it in the original French.

>> No.8885212

I got the cool penguin M&M version

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Depression

>> No.8886337

Two Years Before the Mast, The Sun Also Rises, The Art of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing, and Ropework, and Hamlet for kicks.

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What did they expect?

>> No.8886704

>>8883039
I got:
dostoevsky: Brothers K
Richard Adams: Watership down
Herman Hesse: Demian
Nathaniel Fick: One bullet away

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A Hunger artist and other short stories
The Master and Margarita
Heart of a Dog
Notes from Underground and The Gambler
Invitation to a beheading
Dead Souls

Ive already read notes just wanted a physical copy, any recommendations where to start with these? Was thinking start with Kafka short stories after i finish The Trial.

>> No.8886989

>>8886634
>he actually fell for it

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>>8886634
Ulisses' cover SHOULD BE BLUE

>> No.8887141

-Landscape painted with tea

-London for Immigrant suckers

both in paperback

>> No.8887434

A five-part story about the Swedish worker's movement back when it was good (Rebellerna by Fredrik Ström). I'm looking forward to reading it. My fiction reading list right now:

1. Maken (The Husband) by Gun-Britt Sandström
2. Eyvind Jonson's autobiographical series.
3. The Emigrants series by Vilhelm Moberg.
4. Rebellerna (The Rebels).
5. Probably Fogelström's five-part suite about working-class people in Stockholm during the late 19th and early 20th century.

>> No.8887443

>>8883067
Oriana Fallaci is my new litfu. Thank you anon.

>> No.8887601

>>8887443
Glad I could be of assistance.

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>> No.8887718

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Germinal
The Conference of the Birds
The Diary of a Drug Fiend
The Teachings of Don Juan
The Tibetan Book of the Dead

>> No.8887745

>>8886634
>reading a translation of Ulysses

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250 pages of Don Quixote left to go and I really just want to start reading this instead.

>> No.8888051

>>8883039
waterstones gift card

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>> No.8888409

>>8883039
Schachnovelle by Zweig

>> No.8888508

I got Doctor Zhivago for Secret Santa

>> No.8889291

>>8887809
Did you purposely buy a different edition of each Dostoevsky book?

>> No.8889368

Beowulf
The Western Cannon
The Idiot
The Sound and the Fury
Suttree

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I'm starting Uni in January with a major in American Studies with a focus on literature, so I got:

-Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
-American Pastoral, Philip Roth
-A Fable, William Faulkner
-Agape Agape, William Gaddis
-Leaves of Grass (deathbed edition)

My birthday's the 27th (tomorrow), so I'm expecting another book or two-- Either the Recognitions or The Daemon Knows, or both.