Book Recommendations
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - By Yukio Mishima
This is a very enrapturing novel that you will simultaneously detest and adore at the same time for the ideologies represented in the novel and the almost poetic writing. Sailor is an exploration of multiple themes that are all situated around the duality between old and modern Japanese Culture after WW2. The ending, in particular, is one of my favourite endings to a book ever because it's very subdued in how it occurs and the foreshadowing and imagery presented by Mishima during the end is appropriate for the big twist.
Dark. Twisted. Most detractors of the novel state that it's a disgusting piece of shit that purports a reprehensible ideology that seems oddly alien to mainstream culture but if you know the context behind the novel and read it with patience, Sailor will question you and do what a work of good literature is meant to do.
61 Hours - By Lee Child
Jack Reacher is ultimately a thriller novel but I solidly recommend 61 hours for anyone starting new in Jack Reacher. I think it's honestly one of his best entries in the series and there are several reasons for this. First of all, the environment portrayed in the novel is just unique compared to most of the enviroments that have been explored in the other Reacher novels. The snowy blizzards create this odd desolate cold atmosphere that is just chilling throughout the novel.
Second of all, no sex scenes. Jack Reacher is like James Bond in the fact that nearly every woman that Reacher encounters requires to be shagged but there is no shagging in this novel.
Third of all, great action for a thriller. There's a way that Lee Child just grabs you by the throat. The prose is written in such a clean and methodical manner, almost clinical, which is a idiosyncracy of Lee Child. Every word is used to its fullest potential and the description of the action scenes reflect Reacher's mindset.
Anyway, that's enough from me.
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - By Yukio Mishima
This is a very enrapturing novel that you will simultaneously detest and adore at the same time for the ideologies represented in the novel and the almost poetic writing. Sailor is an exploration of multiple themes that are all situated around the duality between old and modern Japanese Culture after WW2. The ending, in particular, is one of my favourite endings to a book ever because it's very subdued in how it occurs and the foreshadowing and imagery presented by Mishima during the end is appropriate for the big twist.
Dark. Twisted. Most detractors of the novel state that it's a disgusting piece of shit that purports a reprehensible ideology that seems oddly alien to mainstream culture but if you know the context behind the novel and read it with patience, Sailor will question you and do what a work of good literature is meant to do.
61 Hours - By Lee Child
Jack Reacher is ultimately a thriller novel but I solidly recommend 61 hours for anyone starting new in Jack Reacher. I think it's honestly one of his best entries in the series and there are several reasons for this. First of all, the environment portrayed in the novel is just unique compared to most of the enviroments that have been explored in the other Reacher novels. The snowy blizzards create this odd desolate cold atmosphere that is just chilling throughout the novel.
Second of all, no sex scenes. Jack Reacher is like James Bond in the fact that nearly every woman that Reacher encounters requires to be shagged but there is no shagging in this novel.
Third of all, great action for a thriller. There's a way that Lee Child just grabs you by the throat. The prose is written in such a clean and methodical manner, almost clinical, which is a idiosyncracy of Lee Child. Every word is used to its fullest potential and the description of the action scenes reflect Reacher's mindset.
Anyway, that's enough from me.
