Christmas book haul

So /book/, what did you all pull for books on Christmas? I got American Psycho, Kafka on the Shore and Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and this massive hardcover Time: History of the World. As well as a $50 gift card for Chapters Indigo

The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck T_T

War and Peace
complete Kafka
complete Proust

basically school books...

mccarthy's "road", awesome ?

None! I got no books! WTF?

David Markson's four most recent books: Reader's Block, This Is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, The Last Novel

I got a couple of the later volumes from Terry Fucking Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series. I haven't even read any of the previous ones. 

But I did get The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, which seems interesting enough.

A couple of history books. My favorite so far is Red Star Over China. Old, and clearly biased, but he was basically the first look any Westerners got at the Chinese Communists. Really amazing stuff, even if you -correctly- read it more as a war novel than as a history.

The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson.
Includes most of his 60s work and some from the early 70s. Classic writing.

World War Z, Metamorphosis and other Stories, The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories, Lolita, and a couple other things.

My new years resolution was actually to start reading again.

When I really stopped reading (eighth grade or so) it was because I was so bored of shitty young adult fiction.

I bought myself world war Z with my christmas money cause I've been meaning to read it. I got 'The brief and Wonderous life of Oscar Wao" which is good so far. I also got the latest blade of the immortal TPB, and a book called "Hideous Absinthe" .

Kafka-Complete Stories, and Anthem by Ayn Rand.

2666, which I've anticipated for quite some time.

Also The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, Fear by L. Ron Hubbard, four Philip K. Dick novels(Ubik, Do Androids Dream..., The Three Stigmata, Man in the High Castle), Netherland, Walden 150th Anniversary Illustrated Version, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Elegy For The Departure by Zbigniew Herbert(without a doubt favorite fucking poet).

I'm totally stoked to get some serious reading done. All I got was a shitload of money and blew most of it on an Amazon binge. While I'm still in high school I just want to dedicate nothing but my time on novels and writing. My future depends on dedication to literature, at least that's what my fear of it has led me to believe.

>>4

Ehh, if it gets dull I'd recommend sticking with it anyway. It manages a lovely pay-off.

Murphy,
Watt,
Mercier and Camier,
Molloy,
Malone Dies,
The Unnamable, and
How It Is,
all by Samuel Beckett.
Springer's Progress,
Wittgenstein's Mistress,
Reader's Block,
This Is Not a Novel,
Vanishing Point, and
The Last Novel,
all by David Markson.
Child of God and
Suttree,
by Cormac McCarthy.
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon.

I'm also looking to get David Markson's Going Down.