After seeing alot of Christmas wishlists all around the blogspehere.  Even a christmas wishlist contest in Manila Freelancer's blog, I decided to follow Ria's example and write my own 12 books for Christmas.  Ok so maybe that's not a good name for my list.  12 books of Christmas sounds like something cheerful and lovely and wholesome and all that jazz.  Mine isn't... completely all that.  So fine, here's a list of books I would love to read.  I have to admit, I only knew about the first 7, the rest I got interested in after going through the recommended books in Shelfari.

After reading World War Z from the same author, I need to have this book, too.  How else could I know what to do in case of a zombie attack!  I think it's a must read.  Important for your survival really.

If you get attacked by zombies, and you're at lost what to do, and think "I should've bought the damn book."

This just got available in FullyBooked, unfortunately, it's out of stock na. sad.

For the uninformed, yes this is where the series Dexter was based on.  First time I've seen the book jacket, I knew I wanted to buy the book.  Unfortunately I still haven't done it.  usually because it's out of stock.

I think this is basically season one of the series.  Sorry, I'm not really updated with my series.  I didn't like it very much.

Book two of the Dexter series (obviously).  You get more of the same, but with a different, er.. is antagonist an appropriate term considering who the lead guy is?

Read an excerp from the book, and it's just funny!

Carrie Fisher, more famously known as Princess Leia, talks about living with a gorgeous and popular mom and a chronic womanizing dad, battling the bad effects of drugs, traumatizing work in Star wars, and her staying in a psych ward.

With lines such as this:"He first dried [Taylor's] eyes with his handkerchief, consoled her with flowers, and ultimately consoled her with his penis."

How could it not be good??

Story about your normal, average "beta" guy who suddenly got called in to play Death.  Plus, heard Moore's funny.

Haven't actually read any of his works yet, but this book looks like a good place to start reading his stuff.

The fifth (and last) book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  I have the first four cos I bought the Hitchhiker's guide, a trilogy of four parts, which is prolly one of the funniest boks I've ever read. But I missed out on the last book.  Therefore, must get my hands on this.  Just to see how things really ended.  Although all five books has their own plots that can pretty much stand up ont heir own, when you start with the first book, the next ones just seems to blur, so it's like reading just one book really.

Did that make sense at all?

I've heard about this book for a long while now.  Also heard there was a movie.  It's just one of those books which is forever in my to-read list but still ahven't managed to buy yet.

What is it about?

A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess. It tells the dystopian story of a teenage boy Alex, his violent and unlawful lifestyle, the effort of the state to reform him and henceforth the consequences.

 

I've read one Margaret Atwood book, The Handmaid's Tale, and I pretty much liked it.  In the Handmaid's Tale, women were stripped off  of pretty much all their rights.  Women were not allowed to read, wear anything that doesn't cover them fully, and walk without chaperon.  Sex is purely for reproduction, nothing more.

This book, according to wiki:

This society, which not only tolerates but promotes such extreme commercialization and commodification of life, has also produced an exacerbated gap between rich and poor, as well as the commodification of human life and sexuality in prostitution and online child pornography.

 

 

Another zombie book that actually looks pretty interesting.

A review wrote this:

It's told from the first-person perspective of Danny McCoyne, a husband and father of three, working a job he hates because he needs the money. Danny notices a few localized acts of violence which he (and the rest of the world) eventually realizes is increasing in frequency exponentially. These so called "Haters" attack violently without warning and without provocation. The attacks are also seemingly random, with victims including loved ones, friends, and strangers.

 One of those books I only found out about while scanning through shelfari. 

Living your childhood in bizarro lang with his mom's psychiatrist, having an openly gay relationship with the psychiatrist's son, and escaping it all.  Sounds like a tragic fun read right?

Another product of shelfari search. I think I've been seeing this around, I still haven't thought of reading the book jacket.  Reading it now though, I think it looks pretty fun.

The book is a comedy and a quasi-parody of the 1976 film The Omen (as well as other books and films of the genre), concerning the birth of the son of Satan, the coming of the End Times and the attempts of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to avert them, having become accustomed to their comfortable situations in the human world.

I read the short story abck in college, and I loved it.  Basic story was guy with mental retardation er, mentally handicapped individual became part of this experiment, which made the mouse (Algernon), smarter.  So guy did become smarter.  Unfortunately, Algernon died soonafter.

Not sure how they made this short story into  novel, but it should sill be interesting.

What's you christmas wishlist?