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HUGE LISTS INCOMING Books I received from various people for Xmas and my birthday (also in December) : - The Art of Film Magic: 20 Years of Weta - double-hardcover boxset with tons of artwork from every film Weta Digital/Workshop has ever worked on - the latest book in The Hobbit Chronicles series - coffee table book also by Weta, with concept art etc from the Hobbit trilogy - The Complete Making of Indiana Jones - huge coffee table book about the making of the whole franchise (you can tell I love reading about the making of films) - The Lord of the Rings 60th anniversary slipcased hardcover, fully illustrated by Alan Lee - such an amazing edition! - Saga hardcover vol 1 (issues 1-18 of the awesome comic) - Saga paperback vol 4 (issues 19-24) - The Midas Flesh vol 1 (issues 1-4 of SF/comedy comic by Ryan North, who's known for Dinosaur Comics) - Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris - I love NPH, so weird format aside (it's exactly what the title sounds like), I'm excited to read this - Revival by Stephen King - I usually get the new SK books, although the last 2 or 3 are still untouched by me... kind of a backlog I need to get into ------- I didn't get books for everyone in my family because not everyone reads a lot. However some key people got books from me... Gave to my Dad: Dad's been reading lots of SF, and has recently loved Hyperion, Leviathan Wakes and Blindsight, so I got him a bunch of my favourites for his Kindle: - Revelation Space and House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds - Embassytown by China Miéville - A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge - Axiomatic (collection) by Greg Egan - Stories of Your Life and Others (collection) by Ted Chiang Gave to my Mum: - Sherlock Holmes related books - she's read all the AC Doyle books, so I got her an anthology of pastiche stories (a subgenre she's getting into lately) and a big hardcover guide to the Holmes phenomenon as a whole - Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense - she loves the Jeeves stories, and has read pretty much everything, but not this, which is the script for the recent West End play Gave to my boyfriend: - Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste - a critical analysis of Celine Dion, he's a huge fan of hers - The Book of Mormon: The Testament of a Broadway Musical - big hardcover tie-in book for the musical which we saw in NYC this year - 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die - he's getting into graphic novels a lot so I thought this would help him find the ones he wants to read the most Gave to my boyfriend's Mum: - Edinburgh Lonely Planet - she's going there on holiday this year - You Are Here - photo collection by Chris Hadfield, the astronaut; she read his autobiography and loved it Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Jan 11, 2015 |
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