What books did YOU get for Christmas?

theCzar

Santy brought me some Classics: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, the Illiad by Homer.

And some modern thrillers, the Latest Nelson DeMille (Night Fall) and Michael Crichton (State of Fear).

I bought myself a history book on the fall of Berlin.

I think i've covered my literary bases with enough variety to keep me buried until mid febuary....

what did you get?

Karl Hungus

Terry Pratchett - Mort
JRR Tolkien - The Silmarillion

nesf

Got for me by others? None.

Book tokens recieved? €50

People stopped trying to buy me books a long time ago. It's too much hassle to try and figure out what I don't have.

OfflerCrocGod

A spring in my step - joan mcdonnell

Jim

Mort is quality, my fav Pratchett.

Got Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Uncle's Dream And Other Stories

John

- Tolkien - History of Middle Earth Vol 5-8
- Bob Dylan - Chronicles
- A book on blunders made by scientists (such as Einstein claiming that it would be impossible to get energy from an atom)
- a book on alchemy
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

dregin

- The Complete Chronicles of Narnia, hardback illustrated edition.
- John Grisham's Last Juror

DapperGent

Cities by John Reader and Mr. Funny by Roger Hargreaves .

Drakon

I got the rest of the Robot series by Isaac Asimov

The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
Robots of Dawn

LouisWu

Stephen Coonts - Wages of sin (just started...)
Glenn Meade - Web of Deciet (Finished - enjoyed it)
Raymond Feist - Exiles return (next......)

LouisWu

Jim

Also got Ernest Hemmingway - A Farewell To Arms

P22.

cregser

Books I've been meaning to get for years:

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
and Animal Farm - George Orwell

I'm not mouch of a book lover.

elvenscout742

Mostly non-fiction for me:

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology
Haiku fo Lovers (it was the only authentic haiku book in Hodges Figgis)
The Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology
Great Norse, Celtic and Teutonic Legends

I also got R.A. Salvatore's The Lone Drow, which I plan on getting rid of in some way, or keeping it 'til I can read it in about a year's time .

PurpleFistMixer

Got Stephen King - On Writing, then went out with christmas money today and bought
Player of Games - Iain M. Banks and
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk.

Want to get some others but sadly they're not available in ireland...

*Angel*

The Da Vinci Code, yeah i'm a bit late reading it, just finished it today. I'm not sure i'm happy with the ending but i did enjoy reading it.

Buck Owens

I gots The Catcher in the rye by JD Salinger(reading at the moment)
Blinking with Fists by Billy Corgan
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the world by Francis Ween
The Curious Incident of the WMD in Iraq

simu

Literature in Ireland by Thomas Mac Donagh (he of 1916 fame).

Jamie's Dinners by Jamie Oliver.

In the Shadow of no Towers by Art Spiegelmann.

Goodshape

One Flew Over The Coocoos Nest - Ken Kasey; which I got half way through in the past and then put down for some inexplicable reason. Very good read.

Joyce; I asked my sister to get me a James Joyce book as I felt it was about time I read some of his work. She got me 'Joyce'.. which is a book about James Joyce. Seems good enough though, and we had a laugh about the mix-up

Bought myself:

Dubliners - James Joyce; If you want something done right...

1984 - Gorge Orwell; The fact I haven't yet read this book has been an embarrassment long enough!

The Republic - Plato; Seen as the rest of these books are all well-old, I thought I'd go for something a bit more contemporary. Oh, wait...

impr0v

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Harry Potter et le Prisonnier D'Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
The Ragged Trousered Philantropists - Robert Tressell

Lafortezza

Bought myself the 4 Dan Brown books.

Made the parents buy me
Tournament poker for Advanced Players - Sklansky
Psychology of Poker - Schoonmaker
Positively 5th Street - some bloke
And I have Super System 2 on order for February.

Also got The Last Juror by Grisham.

Miles

The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O' Brian.

Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam.

The Stories of English by Dave Crystal.

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt.

And three or four others; but I like these the most.

Manach

Peace Kills by PJ O'Rouke
Ornamentalism : <British Empire's Honour System>
Swordfish: Raid at Toranto
Praxis:The Sundering by Walter Williams

Re: previous poster's entire Aubrey/Maturin works, they are in for an excellent year of reading.

Miles

Yea, I am half way throught the second book "Post Command" and really enjoying it so far.

:cool:

Vamp IRL

Incubus Dreams - Laurell K. Hamilton
have been looking for this : The Complete Chronicles of Narnia for a while anyone any ideas on where to find it

tHE vAGGABOND

Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill bryson (got it mid-december (thanks to amazon wishlist), so have finished it! Amazing stuff, could not put it down during christmas, which was fine as I was home early so had time to kill while people were working during the day!)

The Great Gatspy - F Scott Fitzgerald - Finished it (only 150 odd pages); not all that to be honest. I dont get the fuss about it being one of the best books ever at all. Of this 'style' of book, I will take The Trial by Kafka over this any day.

Bob Dylan Autobiography - half way through, quite good.

War and Peace (I have a thing for reading the classics, all those books you hear about but have never read, so this should keep me going for a few months!)

Jefferson Darcy

Enjoyed 'Short History of Nearly Everything', was heavy going in parts, sometimes boring but very informative overall.

Currently reading Bryson's 'Made in America' which has a similar style and covers the development of the english language in America as well as developments in trading, industry, eating habits, etc. Great anecdotal stories.

Got the 'Long Way Round' Ewan McGregor book for Xmas but haven't started it yet. Looking forward to this.