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Sure to be a popular post-Christmas meme: What books did you give and receive for Christmas?
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Truman Capote–In Cold Blood
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W.G. Sebald–The Emigrants
Haruki Murakami–Norweigan Wood
Alice Munro–Runaway
Haruki Murakami–After the Quake
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
Give:
Starship Troopers
Pendragon
(to my 14-year-old son)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The Canning Season
(to my 12-year-old daughter)
Receive:
Consider the Lobster
The Kite Runner
So you did get the Wallace, eh? I hope you like it, Dave. If so, I highly recommend checking out his other essay collection. I like both, but I think A Supposedly Fun Thing is stronger.
Gave:
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
(to my 9 year old daughter)
Little Women
(to my 9 year old daughter)
Received:
Richard Misrach: Golden Gate
Bought Myself:
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
Pnin, Nabokov
Atomik Aztex,
Sesshu Foster
Writing and Madness,
Shoshana Felman
I cheated a bit with the DFW. Greta and I were at the bookstore shopping for stocking stuffers, and I grabbed it and asked her to put it in my stocking!