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Top Ten Tuesday #2: Top Ten Books I Wouldn't Mind Santa Bringing Me

Velox

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So on a few writing blogs I follow, there's a "Top Ten Tuesday" meme that people do, where each week they give a new theme, and you give your top ten books for that theme. I decided I'd start doing it here. The list is roughly in the order of most- to least-wanted.

I Wouldn't Mind Santa Bringing Me...

  1. Les Miserables, hardback, unabridged, preferably leather-bound. I only have an abridged version, and I would love to read the full, unabridged version some day.
  2. Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell. An amazing story from what I've heard, and Marcus Luttrell is an awesome man. I'd love to read this and own it.
  3. Vince Flynn Collectible Editions #1, #2, #3, and #4. One of, if not my, favorite authors, and I'd really love to have these awesome Collectible Editions.
  4. The Circle Trilogy, by Ted Dekker. An awesome author, and I've heard this series is great.
  5. No Rest for the Dead, by Various Authors. It features a lot of authors I like, collaborating together. Why not?
  6. Special hardback The Hobbit. As you can probably tell, I like Collectible Editions (or if you can't tell yet, wait until #8).
  7. 75th Anniversary Edition of The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Enough said.
  8. Pretty much any of the Barnes and Noble Leather Collectible Edition books (seriously, these things are amazing. Most are less than $25. The ones I want most, in no particular order, are: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas; Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; The Complete Sherlock Holmes; The Chronicles of Narnia; The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Works; Ernest Hemingway: Four Novels; Charles Dickens: Five Novels; Jules Verne: Seven Novels; To Kill a Mockingbird; Jurassic Park/The Lost World; H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction; Stephen King: Three Novels; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Other Novels; H.G. Wells: Seven Novels. Some day I hope to get all of them, but those are the most important. Some of these books I already have, but in a different format, so I guess I'd like the ones that I don't have at all first. Of these Collectible Edition books, I have the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and the Constitution of the United States (and selected writings of the Founding Fathers).

I don't think I need a 9 or 10. =P There's a lot of books I want, to be sure, but most of them are just books that I'd want to get on my own. These books are all (mostly) more expensive or hard to find (and thus more expensive as I'll have to buy them at full price instead of from a used bookstore), so I'd rather get them as gifts then buy them myself. Of course, once I get a job, I'll probably be buying one Collectible Edition book a month at least. =P

 

~ Velox

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Eeko

I want that Jules Verne book super much.

 

I gotta say though, I tried reading the Circle series, and I jus couldn't get into it. I don't particularly enjoy Dekker's writing style, and the symbolism was way to heavy handed. Like, more-so than Narnia.

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Protodite Karzahni

Those Barnes & Nobles leatherbound books are absolutely gorgeous. I have The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Collected Works of William Shakespeare and they look wonderful. The contents aren't that bad either. :P For Christmas I've dropped a few hints for The Divine Comedy. It's a pretty hefty tome but surely worthwhile.

 

Actually, looking at the link, there are way more copies in America that I'd want like the Douglas Adams one and H.G. Wells...Amazon better hurry themselves up...

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Velox

@ Eeko ~ Well, having not read it, I can't really say, but based on his book Skin, I like his writing style. I guess I'll see how this turns out, but I do have high hopes for it.

 

@ TWA ~ Yes, yes they are. I seriously want every single one, haha. Oh, B&N doesn't sell all of their books internationally? =/ But yeah, The Divine Comedy is great. I haven't read all of it, but I've enjoyed what I have. I have this awesome old-style hardback edition, that's kinda similar to these B&N books, hence it wasn't on my list up there.

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Jean Valjean

:kaukau: I'm having trouble finding a hardcover version of Les Miserables. Right now I have the paperback version that I have to try very hard to take care of. If I had a leaderbound version, it would be one of the best Christmas gifts ever. As a matter of fact, I think I'l look online right now just to see if there are any available, because even after finishing the paperback version I think I'm going to reread it, and I'd like the second time around to be a sturdier book. Seriously, that thing is too think to be put in a frail paper binding.

 

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Velox

Yeah, I can't recall ever seeing one, actually. Then again, I've never really looked that much, as I've been waiting until I'm ready to read it (or whenever I happen to have an extra $30 laying around, haha). But I agree, a hardback version is definitely preferable. I'm sure that, if B&N doesn't have one in-store, it wouldn't be too hard to find online.

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