![]() A murder that Lou is determined to avenge-and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker who fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers-the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between-as the nicest guy around.īehind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. ![]() The Killer Inside (2010) ft Casey Affleck, and The Grifters (1990) ft John CusackĮveryone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. Thompson apparently got his best accolades way after his death. This is IMHO straight Tarantino/American Psycho level. This is a 1952 novel that makes Raymond Chandler seem child-proof. I wanted more amoral antiheroes, so I went searching for them, and I found an amazing hardboiled story called: Just stumbled on a fantastic audiobook after having binged on the Ripliad by Highsmith. Its exploration of the inhumanity of war and of bureaucracy, and of the psychological effects resulting from the time dilation of space travel (a soldier returns home after centuries away), won the Nebula Award in 1975, and the Hugo and the Locus awards in 1976 The Forever War (1974) is a science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story of soldiers fighting an interstellar war between humanity and the enigmatic Tauran species. It's a very trippy and awesome Science Fiction, inspired by the author's surreal experiences of participating in the Vietnam War. Narration is hard to hear with the background turned up that loud.Seeing as we have Starship Troopers here, I am gonna (again) recommend Forever War by Haldeman, since it is of a similar topic. ![]() As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. Troubled by visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Īcross the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. ![]() Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. In a war that makes no sense, where 10 armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.īrightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. There, Kaladin has been reduced to slavery. One such war rages on the Shattered Plains. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. It has been centuries since the fall of the 10 consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive. ![]()
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