Are both mint books. Taming the Tiger gets a little bit shit towards the end when he goes all God squad but otherwise is an immensely entertaining read. The Damage Done I read while I was in Thailand so probably added to the realism of the scenary and smells etc but still an amazing read.
What are everyones top 5 books/series that they've read in the last 10 years or so? Don't think about it too much, just the ones that stick out in your memory as being ass shakingly good?
mine would be:
American Gods -Neil Gaimon Musashi - Eiji Yoshikaw The Book Of The New Sun - Gene Wolfe Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut The Millennium Series - Stieg Larsson
Thats really difficuly - my mind goes blank when I try to think about all the books I've read. But off the top of my head...
The Millennium Series - Stieg Larsson The Road Home by Rose Tremain Cry Freedom - John Briley Fingersmith - Sarah Waters The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
Down & out in Paris & London - George Orwell The Devil in the white city - Eric Larson American Desperado - Evan wright / Jon Roberts Millennium series - Stieg Larsson Animal Farm - Orwell
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck In Cold Blood - Truman Capote The Magus - John Fowles
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck In Cold Blood - Truman Capote The Magus - John Fowles
Which is Cormac McCarthy's best you think? I've only read No Country For Old Men but i'd seen the film so it wasn't that exciting.
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck In Cold Blood - Truman Capote The Magus - John Fowles
Which is Cormac McCarthy's best you think? I've only read No Country For Old Men but i'd seen the film so it wasn't that exciting.
Blood Meridian imo. The whole of the border trilogy is amazing though. I don't think I've read a bad book by him tbh
Yeah same, don't really know anyone else who writes like him. His writing in All the pretty horses is fucking amazing.
'By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to reckon slowly with the remorselessness of this rendering of their fluid and collective selves into that condition of separate and helpless paralysis which seemed to be among them like a creeping plague.'
Some really interesting discussions around culpability and free will. I recommend it highly
Read Daniel Dennett, his multiple draft theory of mind is fascinating... also read Susan Blackmore "Ten Zen Questions" if you are interested in this kind of thing
Hanif Kureshi - The Buddha of Suburbia Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man Hubert Selby - Songs of the Silent Snow Game of Thrones series The Princess Bride
are some of the best books i've read in recent years
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