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What books do you want from Santa?

>> No.4240857

Apparently, Tim Burton got the idea of "Nightmare Before Christmas" when, a day or two after Halloween, all the storefront windows were changing out the Halloween stuff for Christmas decor.

>> No.4240866
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>>4240846
The book I've always wanted to write

>> No.4240878

No idea, but I am already starting to think about what books to gift everyone else. Ozeki and Murakami for the gf, Exley and Denis Johnson for dad, Charles Mingus's memoir for my brother.

>> No.4240881

>>4240878
>Murakami for the gf

Haha. Sign the card, "Stay pleb."

>> No.4240893

I want an account on issuu.com
Yes. All I want for Christmas issuu.

>> No.4240894

>>4240881
if she is /literati, this is perfect.
10/10 relationship
would envy

>> No.4240891

Proof of his existence

>> No.4240898

Mrs. Santa's Dirty Secrets

>> No.4240902

I wan the big beast Infinite Jest

>> No.4240905

I want Mrs. Claus, maybe some lady elves as stocking stuffers.

>> No.4240939
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Asking Santa for Mason and Dixon, The Public Burning, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Conrad's Under Western Eyes. My negro always delivers.

>> No.4240953

>>4240939
>Berlin Alexanderplatz

In German, I hope, as the only English translation that I am aware of is fucking awful.

>> No.4240962

>>4240846
Nothing I have too many unread books as is.

>> No.4240967

>>4240962
Scratch that Cane by Toomer would be nice

>> No.4240970

>>4240953
Oh shit, that's too bad. I wanted to read the book after seeing the miniseries, but if the translation's no good I guess I'll put it off. No German here.

>> No.4240972

The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird

>> No.4240978

>>4240972
8th grade coming up?

>> No.4240981

>>4240846
A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present by George Saintsbury
The Collected Poems of Anthony Hecht
The Selected Poems of O'Hara, Lowell

>> No.4241162

A book barn giftcard would be nice

>> No.4241180

The complete works of Marlowe

>> No.4241185

>>4240846
Allen Bloom's translation of The Republic
Strauss' The City and Man
Stanford's The Ulysses Theme
Galinsky's The Herakles Theme
Beetham's Beginning Greek with Homer
I've already begun reading some of them at a library, but I moved out of state.

>tfw hellenist aspirations

>> No.4241193

Plato's Republic

>> No.4241250
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Chinese facsimile versions of
>Zhuangzi
>Dao De Jing
>Analects
>Mencius
>Mozi
Gonna have to ask my friend to get them from China. So, y'know, Santa.
This shit is stupid cheap over there, though.

>> No.4241260

>>4240891
*tips scrooge hat*

>> No.4241294

>Les Misérables (French, annotated)
>Oyasumi Punpun (French version)
>Eugene Onegin (Nabokov translation)
>Pale Fire (the one with the notecards and shit)

I'll probably never get through Les Mis, but it's worth a shot.

>> No.4241303

time to read the books i already have