Sham bam bamina! posted:

Has there seriously been no thread for this yet? Crazy. At least everyone's had a week or so to actually sit down and read them.

For my part, there isn't much to say about the stuff that I gave (this was on my half-sister's Amazon wish list, and my mom asked for The Screwtape Letters in hardcover), but I got a kickass hardback version of The Brothers Karamazov to replace my old paperback (and it's in a better translation), along with Underground, Haruki Murakami's book about the Aum Shinrikyo subway gassings in 1995. I've been busy with family stuff lately, so I'm still only about halfway through it, but it's extremely good. It's all condensed transcripts from interviews that Murakami had with the survivors, with very little of his own writing, but it clearly took a lot of time and care to conduct these interviews properly and to edit and organize them so well; it's definitely his book in that sense. I'd say more, but I really can't do it justice - just read it!