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i also received "you shall know our velocity!" by eggers from a girl i had been dating, but then she ran off to india for a year and taught english to kids there. a week after she returned, i moved 3000 miles away. haven't seen her since.
The best book gift I ever received was The Tao of Pooh, with a lovely inscription from a friend.
and about half of the books in my collection are gifts.
and i'm sure many of my books are now on other shelfs in other homes.
classic
The best book I ever received was Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Author, Patrick Süskind
CD
Seefeel - Polyfusia 1994 ASIN: B000003RW3
He was leaving for a trek around Asia, so he passed it on to me.
eerily possible
The best CD gift was Deep Purple's Made in Japan, when I was only nine-years-old. I became a fan of rock music ever since, thanks to my pothead uncle. =)
Rob.
book - a prayer for owen meany by john irving
Alicia Webster
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that book was at once, heartbreaking, hysterical and beautiful.
best book gift to date.
Thank you for the chance
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CD - (actually, a tape, in 1986) - Ice Cream Castle by The Time, because it was just so legendarily off the mark.
Thanks
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For a book to have such an impact is a great thing
if i win -- pls e-mail me at fnm71ll@yahoo.com
i would love to get 50 books and CDs
thanks
lance
by Richard Bratigan
a friend gave it to me for my b-day. I was knocked out.
Where The Wild Things Are.
That book was the first big wedge into my opening mind that really helped me see the world outside of my own small perspective. It made me want to understand humanity and culture from a more universal viewpoint.
Ironically, it was a gift from my Mother who is still very religious and wishes I was, too.
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CD? "23" by Tristan Prettyman was one of the most influential albums I was ever given, but when I received the boxes of my own CDs after they had been pressed...that was crazy amazing :)
For our wedding one of our friends didn't have much money to contribute to our buy-a-house registry, and instead bought us a beautiful travel journal in which they inserted various foreign currency that we could spend on our honeymoon. Probably the most thoughtful gift I've ever received, even though there was nothing in it to read.
(CD gifts are rare in my world - I don't think I've waited past release week to pick something up since 1994 :)
Best CD Gift: "Second Heat" by Racer X
Best Two Books I Ever Recieved: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling and The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Rob
EightE1
I don't think anything has ever meant so much to me, and looking back I realize how much I needed those words at the time.
Album - Sky Blue Sky by Wilco
It was the first of a series and I immediatly went out and bought every book in that series that I could get my hands on.
Mr. Schwartz was kind enough to write a series of books called "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark".
(angels with pearls...)
best gift book: Hidden Kitchens from the Kitchen Sisters - a multimedia funfair with recipes. Great storytelling and wonderful food.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Erasure- Percival Everett
The Thought Gang - Tibor Fischer
Both were brilliant, both were funny and I can't keep copies of either one because I keep giving them away, too. So I bet if they turn up in someone else's comment, they got it from me.
the best cd was pokemon from my daddy when i was in 4th grade.
I love to read and I love music !
thanks for an interesting contest, would be a nice suprise to go through
The most memorable book I've even read had to be 'The Chrysalids' in grade 9 as it opened up a whole new world of science fiction/fantasy to an already hopelessly addicted reader.
maybe coolest book; autographed copy of 'The Double Helix' by watson, toolish as he can be.
After thrity years she finally bought me a comic, a hardcover copy of Watchmen. OK, so it makes me sound like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, but oh well. It's an increible book and it's opened my eyes to other graphic novels. It was an incredible gift.
Cd: Danielson - Ships
My favorite book gift was a collection by Jorge Luis Borges that a friend gave to me in college and wrote a nice inscription on the title page. Whenever I read a Borges story I think of that gift.
-best coffee table book ever!
A few years ago, my grandmother was moving, and she had some old novels on her shelves--some of them first editions. I was an English major in college, so books are particularly exciting for me. I was intrigued by some of the books she had, but she seemed really hesitant and reluctant to give me one. A few weeks passed, and my father brought me a book that my grandmother had sent me. She had found it on the shelf. It is a copy of The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katharine Anne Porter-- I studied her writings in grad school. The inside cover is signed by KAP, 1976, but the most astonishing thing is that on the publisher's page, she (KAP) has crossed out all the publishers names, and writes out beside it, "This preposterous piece of impudence was committed without my permission or knowledge at the request of a publisher who knew better--Damn their eyes, one and all. K.A.P." Wow. Don't know if it's worth anything, but it's pretty cool either way. That was a great gift.
book: haldor laxness - independent people
connection?
Best Book: Mark Twain's Collected Stories
because he just got the cd version and was into that. I was surprised; I had no idea considered me that good of a friend.
The best book: The illustrated edition of Bill Bryson's science book, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Of course, the funny part is that they didn't really have any hits, so the selection is so very arbitrary - it even has "Stephanie Says" on it!
That being said, it fueled a huge VU obsession and lead me a year or so later to the "Peel Slowly & See" box set, which I still love to this day. My wife has a good story about on our first date, I gave her something like a 1-hour lecture on the "weird but compelling dynamic between Lou Reed and Doug Yule".
Thanks for the great resource you provide!
cd - Color Me Bad. CMB
Given to me by a friend who had no idea how great of an impact it would have on me.
Can't pick a favorite with albums either...the last awesome one I was given is the Dark is the Night compilation from my wife for Fathers Day.
I got it for my birthday of course.
Best CD gift : Songs of Freedom boxset, Bob Marley
Nirvana - Nevermind
Best CD ever given to me was the 25th anniversary edition of "London Calling" by a very good friend who shall not be identified here.
I told Dave, "I think the ones I miss the most are my Otis Reddings". The conversation went on from there.
3 months later, off that one little offhand comment, Dave bought me the Otis Redding boxed set for my birthday!
We've been married now for 9 years...
best CD: pink floyd's 'shine on' box set
Thanks for such a great site, LHB. You make my days better.
best album i ever received: 'my aim is true' by elvis costello for x-mas 1977 from my mom and dad. i just saw the MAN for the 85th time in support of 'secret, profane and sugarcane' so it had a major impact.
best book i ever received: 'love in the time of cholera' by gabriel garcia marquez. while i LOVED this book, it led me to '100 years of solitude' which just BLEW ME AWAY.
and i'm not kissing up here, LHB, but i've been reading your blog for a couple of years now and enjoy it tremendously as i, too, treasure music and literature.
It was the genesis of a bad-gift inside joke that lasted for a long time.
Chers
Inside the CD were concert tickets to see them in Baltimore, my first concert ever and definitely the best CD gift I've ever received :-)
Book: A very used copy of The Joy of Cooking (awesome changes & additions scribbled in the margins)
book, a copy of alice in wonderland in latin (can't read latin, but collect alice books)
Toward the end of my father's life, there was a great debate of whether to continue the chemotherapy he was receiving. The doctor honestly stated that they could do another round, but the chances of it having any effect were slim. My father chose to live his last days at home.
I pleaded with him to allow the doctors to do anything possible that could keep him alive. On one afternoon, in the midst of debating with my father, he pulled out the album "Let It Be" and played the title track. We didn't speak whikle it played, but it all made sense to me at that point. He was content with the life he had lived, and it took the words of the Beatles to make that clear to me. After the song, he told me the record, along with the rest of his collection, was mine to keep when he passed. I still have "Let It Be" sitting on top of my stereo. I haven't played it since that day.
It was pretty soon after my father passed away. In the mourning, it just didn't feel right having things passed down to my sisters and I through his will, but some of the things he left for us were mementos of times past. My dad was a clever, thoughtful man.
Growing up, my favorite book was "Goodnight Moon" I'm not sure what my sisters liked, but the only book that got me to sleep was that one. My parents had kept the same copy that had been read to me as a boy throughout the years, saying someday I would be reading it to my own child. This book, amoungst other things, was passed down to me in his will.
I had no reason to read or even open the book until my son was born 3 years after my father's death. When my son was about 2 years old, I thought it was time to break out the old "Goodnight Moon" to share the same experience my father and I had many, many years ago.
I read, he listened, and most everyone knows how the story goes. I almost had it memorised from the amount of times I had it read to me. But, on the last page, my father let his legacy live on for generations, as I plan to pass the book down to my first son. On the last page, the book reads, "Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere." Underneath the final words of the book, my father had written "Goodnight Son." And, to this day, that is how the book will always ends in my home.
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probably the best book i've ever recieved was a stunning hardcover edition of "The Hobbit" when I was 9 or 10, and the best vinyl record gift was "Rainy Day", a covers record by the Radio Tokyo studio house band of sorts which has been "borrowed" and not returned on at least three occasions. I can't afford to replace it anymore, but I guess a lot more people have heard it now. Damn, that should be back in print!
"tight knit" by vetiver gifted by my good friend
My dad had made a cassette recording of it for me when I was small, since I suffered insomnia even back then. By the time I finished college the tape had a loud, high-pitched whine running through it and it really wasn't useful as a sleep-inspiring tool any more.
The album was reissued in 1990 as a cassette but hasn't ever made its way onto cd.
runningmatey at hotmail dot com
These gifts started a life long music collection and listening adventure that includes travelling to see favorite acts. I have seen many shows; many of the artists are deceased but I have the memories and story that I was there...
All due to those two gifts... The Beatles
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I still read it in bits whenever I come accross it on my bookshelf...
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autielady[at]live.com
Music-related: A Bob Dylan mixtape (lovingly crafted), freshman year of high school, when I thought punk was the only way. Mind blown.
Don't listen to the other posters they just want to sell your prize on Ebay. I am the only one who will use the prize.
Jeff Macklin
The best book was "10 reasons why I love my Sister" as authored from my youngest brother in elementary school.
Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney (from my friend Curtis. It changed my life!)
needless to say, my musical taste has gotten a lot better.
+ The Library of Babel, by Borges, with an inscription from the great illustrator Erik Desmazieres
+ A first edition of Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John L. Stevens
+ A copy of War Talk given to me by Arundhati Roy
:)
I had to import a copy because it is out of print
The best cd though, was a mix a friend of mine had given me. So perfect. :)