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If your wanna get weird with it, Old and Cold, by Jim Nisbet. First person POV of a schizophrenic who kills people for just enough money to buy just enough martinis.
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HIJK posted:Any recommendations on crime oriented novels from the perspective of the criminal? I'm thinking of something that treats the matter with some gravity and the criminal reflects on what they're doing and why they're doing it. Inspired by real life stuff welcome too. Richard Stark (Donald Westlake)'s Parker novels
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Another Donald Westlake recommendation that answers your question: The Ax.
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HIJK posted:Any recommendations on crime oriented novels from the perspective of the criminal? I'm thinking of something that treats the matter with some gravity and the criminal reflects on what they're doing and why they're doing it. Inspired by real life stuff welcome too. crime and punishment, temple of the golden pavilion
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I suppose The Stranger also fits but (like Crime and Punishment) it's more concerned with morality and philosophy than a more straightforward crime story like the Parker books.
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Then there's that one Agatha Christie novel, the name of which I never remember.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Then there's that one Agatha Christie novel, the name of which I never remember. One of my favorite reads ever and simultaneously incredibly difficult to recommend to people.
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A human heart posted:General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote a war memoir book that is supposed to be pretty good, I don't think it's in print but there's a copy on archive.org/openlibrary: https://archive.org/details/unforgettableday0000unse_n1f0/mode/2up Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:It's fiction, but one of the best looks at the war from the Vietnamese side is Novel Without a Name. Thanks, you two! I'll take a look - they both sound very interesting, from my brief check online
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Aardvark! posted:One of my favorite reads ever and simultaneously incredibly difficult to recommend to people. I can take it! Love these suggestions, thank you guys!
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HIJK posted:I can take it! I've been staring at this comment, and its parent, for awhile trying to think of how to continue that discussion but I can't. My suggestion is to drop the Agatha Christie book from your list and maybe one day just start reading her most famous books.
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regulargonzalez posted:I've been staring at this comment, and its parent, for awhile trying to think of how to continue that discussion but I can't. drat, all of you talking about this as-yet-unnamed book is killing me! What's the title, if you don't mind me asking? Now I'm curious about it  (which is probably not what you were intending, hahah)
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I'm pretty sure they mean Endless Night.
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E: ^^^ I haven't read that and it's not the one I have in mind. OP -- An analogy: if someone asked you to recommend a movie with the plot device of an unreliable narrator, Memento would be a good recommendation, because you know within the first few minutes that it has an unreliable narrator. Shutter Island would be a bad recommendation because learning that the main character is an unreliable narrator is the twist and knowing that ahead of time undermines it, even if the recommendation would technically qualify. The book in question technically fits your request but knowing that undermines it. It's a bad recommendation. If you still want to know, and intentionally undermine the book, PM me. But I'd suggest putting it out of you mind except for a vague notion to read the best of Agatha Christie at some point. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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I guess I didn't remember the book too well  e: Joke recommendation, OR IS IT!!!?!??!: El Inocente by Mario Lacruz.
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I was assuming they meant, um, _And Then There Were None_, given the repeated retitling
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HIJK posted:Any recommendations on crime oriented novels from the perspective of the criminal? I'm thinking of something that treats the matter with some gravity and the criminal reflects on what they're doing and why they're doing it. Inspired by real life stuff welcome too. The psychology of murderers was a big theme for Patricia Highsmith. Try Strangers on a Train or The Talented Mr Ripley.
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I forgot Graham Greene. He was big into GUILT in all caps.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I was assuming they meant, um, _And Then There Were None_, given the repeated retitling That was my guess too.
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Interesting how there are several potential options. I was thinking of The Murder of Roger Akroyd
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I haven't noticed it before, but I was just looking at a BCA book from 2003 (P.D. James's The Murder Room), and it doesn't have an ISBN. Was this something book clubs in general did, or just a BCA thing? Why would you even do that - it's not like ISBNs cost anything - or do they in England/wherever BCA was based? e: Ah, apparently it does cost money to get an ISBN in the UK and the US. Figures. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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regulargonzalez posted:E: ^^^ I haven't read that and it's not the one I have in mind. I've read some Agatha, I am aware of the controversy around And Then There Were None if it helps  Watching a recording of the play is actually what spurred my request  I've picked up some of the recommendations here and I really appreciate them! I've got a new puzzle now but it's more for my nephew than for me. I'm trying to find a children's book I read when I was a kid (so its pretty old now.) The book had painted illustrations and it was about a boy whose father planted a pair of trees for him. The book subsquently has the boy dreaming about time travel and such following the trees while they grow. It ends with the boy dreaming about talking to his grandson or something and the pair of trees have grown huge. The grandson makes a comment about "my grandfather planted these trees before I was even born" and the book ends with the protagonist appreciating the passage of time. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
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is there a dune thread
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Alan Smithee posted:is there a dune thread gently caress it was in GBS which is why I couldn't find it. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3843104 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/VertebratePub/status/1451891305391575045 https://twitter.com/DowntownComics/status/1451641705032192000
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Is ‘This Is How You Lose The Time War’ any good? 99p on kindle daily deals
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Very good. Very weird.
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How come The Book Bran wasn't renamed to The Book Brain in keeping with the halloween theme for the rest of the forums?
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Flaggy posted:How come The Book Bran wasn't renamed to The Book Brain in keeping with the halloween theme for the rest of the forums? Good digestive health is scary enough for the average goon?
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Flaggy posted:How come The Book Bran wasn't renamed to The Book Brain in keeping with the halloween theme for the rest of the forums? im not cool also im a bad mod
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Flaggy posted:How come The Book Bran wasn't renamed to The Book Brain in keeping with the halloween theme for the rest of the forums? the good forums don’t have spooky names, op
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Gertrude Perkins posted:Good digestive health is scary enough for the average goon? Fair enough. Hieronymous Alloy posted:im not cool also im a bad mod Wicked not true. buffalo all day posted:the good forums don’t have spooky names, op I will let my congressman know.
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Flaggy posted:How come The Book Bran wasn't renamed to The Book Brain in keeping with the halloween theme for the rest of the forums? I'd prefer it if the Book Barn was renamed to that instead of the ongoing typo
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'd prefer it if the Book Barn was renamed to that instead of the ongoing typo I've been trying to think of something funny enough to justify a long term change for the past few years and haven't come up with anything I *really* like yet it has to be long term because it takes an admin to change the forum titles and they tend to have poo poo to do
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I've been trying to think of something funny enough to justify a long term change for the past few years and haven't come up with anything I *really* like yet Sometimes something tried and true works and I'd prefer to have Book Barn instead of Bran, so. Book Brain Book Banjo Book Boat Book Bonkers Book Breaders
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The Buddenbrooks Barn
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Twelve Bored Bigots
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Reading and Rompus Room
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Lex Neville posted:Twelve Bored Bigots Babyfuckers
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