If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
I'm just one of those people still on the path of getting themselves out there in the world. If you're confused by my mug below you haven't read my profile. I point you to it.
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
I got war of the foxes by Richard siken and goodbye eri by tatsuki fujimoto
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow. I had already read The Crying of Lot 49 and loved it (just about read the whole thing in one sitting (hold your applause, it's very short)) so putting GR on my list was an easy choice
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest. Supposedly very very funny
Bret Easton Ellis - The Shards. This one's meant to be very personal, which is what Ellis also said about American Psycho and American Psycho was really good so that's my logic.
Well it's a one for the money, two for the show, three to get a ready now go cat go!
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
8TB of space for my computer!
Oh books, sorry I did not read that part.
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
Dodohedoro mangas
I got the trilogy of Hunger Games! I already bought the next book after the trilogy (Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) some months ago but never read the 3 books before, only watching the movies about it.
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
God gave me the gift of waking up another day.
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
the only books i got are sketch books haha but im cool with that
I'm the best for a reason.
At 12/25/23 03:41 PM, Kunishiro wrote:At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
God gave me the gift of waking up another day.
I don't think I've ever heard of that book before.
I'm just one of those people still on the path of getting themselves out there in the world. If you're confused by my mug below you haven't read my profile. I point you to it.
At 12/25/23 10:26 AM, Winterina wrote:Nothing
Ah, a classic by Janne Teller. I heard Nothing had a very nice ending.
I'm just one of those people still on the path of getting themselves out there in the world. If you're confused by my mug below you haven't read my profile. I point you to it.
At 12/25/23 05:13 PM, art-dude wrote:At 12/25/23 03:41 PM, Kunishiro wrote:At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
God gave me the gift of waking up another day.
I don't think I've ever heard of that book before.
Its the newest edition to the story of my life.
None so far, although I'm considering this one book that's an animation style guide. What I'm actually looking for is a styleguide for Disney or Nickelodeon.
KOOL SHTUFF!!! like: Loads-a-loads-a-MANGAS!!!!
I got Dungeons in Delicious, Soyonari Eri, Chainsaw Man vol 12 (but it has a GIRL on it 😤), 20th Century Boomer Boys vol 7...
Louis de Beneries' Light of Liskard that I found in my local bookstore. Really interesting after reading the first page, set in the far future in Turd Island (my home) where the protagonist escapes to the countryside after getting a prophecy that the world is going to end, and discovers the beauty of small things.
And a collection of Anton Cherkov's stage plays. Thought I might get into them to prepare myself getting into acting at university. So far I managed to read the introduction, it has good advice on interpreting his plays 'cause this guy is really really complex. He's one of the first writers to introduce characters with a moral-grey ideologies, typically since most of the plots are very bleak. But it's intersting how he labels his plays as "a comedy" and "a drama" as they are quite tragic- well when I say tragic, its more so on the dry-humour side of things.
At the same time, he wanted audiences to not judge a book by its cover: Cherkov doesn't believe in labels that are made by society which also adds levity to his work.
It gave me great insight as to how audiences, specifically in Russia, at the time recieved his work: they found it hard to follow. The theater scene in late 19th-century Russia was a bit empty, with a lot of melodramas (hero vs villain shenanigan), rom-coms and other Shakespearean/Greek/German/Italien/Schiller/whatnot plays. So it was hard to come-by for a lot of Russian scriptwriters to do something original, even if it was they hadn't made a huge impact and just fit into another melodrama. But Chekov loaded his gun and fired at the theatre scene with compelling works like The Three Sisters and The Seagull.
This is what I got so far from the introduction by the way, I still haven't read any of the plays yet. Well... maybe a bit of Ivanov but that was a long time ago.
so yea. kool shtuff.
ich mag katzen
I got the hardcover version of Uzumaki. I’m also hoping to read Goodbye Eri over the Christmas break.
At 12/25/23 08:10 AM, MetalSlayer69 wrote:Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow. I had already read The Crying of Lot 49 and loved it (just about read the whole thing in one sitting (hold your applause, it's very short)) so putting GR on my list was an easy choice
This has been on my list for ages, I really need to get to it when nothing's got me super engaged.
This is what I got:
I'll probably start with Childhood's End since at heart sci fi is my fave
in a beautiful place out in the country...
At 12/26/23 06:38 PM, Hyenaedon wrote:At 12/25/23 08:10 AM, MetalSlayer69 wrote:Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow. I had already read The Crying of Lot 49 and loved it (just about read the whole thing in one sitting (hold your applause, it's very short)) so putting GR on my list was an easy choice
This has been on my list for ages, I really need to get to it when nothing's got me super engaged.
This is what I got:
I'll probably start with Childhood's End since at heart sci fi is my fave
I’ve never read Childhood’s End but that cover is insane. Maybe I should check it out sometime, I really enjoyed 2001: A Space Odyssey
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
i got "A Grammar of the Chinese Colloquial Language Commonly Called the Mandarin Dialect" and "What If"
i apologize if i am doing something wrong, i am extremely new to the newgrounds forums (i actually haven't posted on it yet as of writing this)
i got crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, recommended by a friend !
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
The Queen
A book about the ex bri'ish queen
At 12/25/23 03:44 PM, TheSilentSaint wrote:I got two cookbooks.
same!
At 12/27/23 01:37 AM, Lolziee wrote:At 12/25/23 03:44 PM, TheSilentSaint wrote:I got two cookbooks.
same!
cool
Last year I got a copy of a J.D Salinger classic.
follow me plz
What is book? Can you eat it?
hello
At 12/24/23 02:11 AM, art-dude wrote:If by any chance Christmas (and by extension the happy bearded man) hasn't come to your time zone yet, wait until you've been able to unwrap your gifts before answering.
well I got Volume 3 of the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander Solhenitzyn, Eden by Stanislaw Lem, The Lost World by Michael Crichton, a book about Mark Twain and more books but I have forgotten their names but it is alright Thank you
The Killing Joke Book.
It was so nice, I got it twice.
I like Pizza!
I got the Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol omnibus 
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i got the fifth edition of oxford's zoology dictionary for christmas! there is multiple editions because they need to keep on changing terms and definitions so it can be more up with date. im tryna to study some words even tho i know like maybe 1 or 2% of the book T_T
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ɴɢ ɪꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇꜱᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴀʀᴋ ᴘɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴏ ɪꜱ ᴄᴏᴏʟ
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Not an actual notebook, but a sketchbook to doodle on.
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