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Shiney McShine posted:Currently enjoying another great psychological murder case, featuring Inspector Maigret The Little Man from Archangel. Well written by Georges Simenon. simenon is great, but i think his romains durs (non-maigret books basically) are even better. he is brutally efficient with character and plot in a way where you're like, yeah, that's the exact minimum to get a good story and he nailed it
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Wish there was more media that just took place in monasteries. you seen either or both versions of "the nun"? not the american horror movie. the 1966 jacques rivette one or the 2013 guillaume nicloux. they both kind of shred. it's convents and not monasteries but who's splitting hairs
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A Strange Aeon posted:Also Sister Act cmon son
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I just finished Dana Czapnik "The Falconer". I loved it. It's about a teenager in NYC in the early 90s, navigating teenage stuff, playing basketball, etc. Nothing earthshattering content-wise, just perfect for me. I wish it had been around when I was a teenager. I got sad looking at Goodreads and 95% of the reviews were from women and the one guy was like "uhh I couldn't relate to the girl character, too feminist". It was good as hell and I am a dude. Check it out if you are one of the four people on here that don't solely read scifi/fantasy.
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Greek bank robber, rich-guy-kidnapper, and Robin Hood figure Vassilis Palaiokostas wrote a book called A Normal Life, which details his many prison breaks (including two by helicopter in the 2000s!), robberies, police chases and so on, along with some interesting stuff about growing up in the mountains of central Greece and his own anarchist beliefs. He wrote it while on the run from justice and still is. While you can tell he's not a professional writer, it's great to hear the unfiltered dope from a figure like that. It's like a more political You Can't Win mixed with Trick Baby mixed with Papillon but the guy doesn't have the fabulist's imagination to make his (already incredible) exploits seem fictionalized and fake. Minus a few moments where he juices his badass image in anecdotes about interactions with prison wardens etc.
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