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> Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, "Amtrak Joe" re-teams with the only man he's ever fully trusted--the 44th president of the United States. Together they'll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware, traveling from cheap motels to biker bars and beyond, as they uncover the sinister forces advancing America's opioid epidemic.
Preorder it now: https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Never-Dies-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/1683690397
Obligatory The Churn recommendation. It's a novella focused on this character's backstory. It's all set well before the TV series and the full-length novels, so you can go into it having read nothing else.
If you like The Orville, you might like The Expanse (Formerly a ScyFy Show, now being produced by Amazon, also a series of books).
The character Amos is originally from Baltimore, there's a novella that dives into his past in a dystopian Baltimore. The Churn.
That's true. I was glib.
What I'd actually want to see is an experienced prosecutor like Harris appointed to AG with her number 1 responsibility being the investigation into corruption if the Trump administration
Not Biden personally running down leads or anything
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)
FRench amazon but should be findable in english
author : daniel suarez
the BP story is a discombobulated mess... Can't decide if it's better or worse off as things like TRANSCENDENCE got cancelled (people scanned into computer become immortal robots.. WTF does this have to do with GHOST RECON).
They lost me with the the whole DEEP STATE kidnapping operators so they could use them for mind controlled drones... Just GTFO! Who wrote this garbage?!?!?
MOTHERLAND stands alone, as having a cohesive plot/objective.
If they had really wanted to do Spec OPS "ghost team" versus drone/tech then they should have just bought this guy's book: https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Decision-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451417704
You mean the memes about the Obama-Biden bromance?
You get that those were not making fun of Biden but celebrating the bromance right?
Also, if you really want to be entertained by the Biden Obama friendship someone also wrote crime novels about them.
You're welcome.
Are you already aware that they are going to make a Heat 2? The book was released this year: amazon.com/Heat-2-Novel-Michael-Mann/dp/0062653318.
Michael Mann has spoken about filming it in a couple of interviews already!!
Which is funny, because there's already a book with a similar concept.
Maybe the Ikea experience is just kinda ... horrifying.
“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”
An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.
As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.
Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart.
Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts. A wonderful tale of an Australian criminal who ends up in Mumbai, India. Well written and an unpredictable adventure with some amazing characters.
Whatever you do, don't read The Name of the Wind, and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. These are the first two books of a series called the Kingkiller Chronicles. They are great books. The first one was published in 2007, and the second one in 2011...and the third one, The Doors of Stone, has been promised, then delayed, then delayed again and again. It's a decade-long cliffhanger with no resolution in sight.
Shantaram by y Gregory David Roberts. This not a Peace Corps book but it is a book about a western person living at the same level of a poor Indian community, while serving to help. David Gregory Roberts calls “Shantaram” a novel, but it is strongly autobiographical, concentrating on his life in Bombay from 1981 to 1987. One of the best books I've every read.
https://www.amazon.com/Horrorstor-Novel-Grady-Hendrix/dp/1594745269
This is a horror/comedy written in the form of an Ikea catalog.
Jenny Nicholson did a long form review/critique of Trigger Warning by William Johnstone, which is along the same lines.
This one. It’s sort of a right-wing male fantasy fulfillment novel. It’s not funny because of the political implications though, it’s just written very poorly. Typos aside, it reads like a 12-year-old’s hero fantasy. Silly stuff.
You've made multiple baseless claims and have been spouting off unsubstantiated bullshit since Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and this is what gives you a laugh, man? You're just so clever, aren't you? Can you not try to be less... clever?
Regardless, whatever you write about (and, no, I don't care) is probably similar in nature to conservative, machismo jack-off porn like Trigger Warning.
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I have a book recommendation for them.
I'm going to throw a couple of non-King books out there that are good Halloween reads....... Clive Barker Books of Blood........Amazing short stories......
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
And someone I know probably no one here has heard about...... Scott Sigler....... He's an amazing horror author.... Start with infected..... It's not for the squeamish lol https://www.amazon.com/Infected-Novel-Scott-Sigler/dp/030740630X
One of the guys writing about him on amazon said this about it...... "Part Stephen King, part Chuck Palahniuk, Infected blends science fiction and horror into a pulpy masterpiece of action, terror, and suspense. Three recommendations: don't read it at night, or just after you've eaten a full meal, or if you're weak of heart. You've been warned!"
I think a lot of TS listeners might enjoy Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. If you dig Chris’s anecdotes about traveling in India, this book will get under your skin.
The link below goes through Chris’s Amazon portal:
This sounds a lot like <em>Daemon</em>, by Daniel Suarez, a read that I fully recommend. The book was published before even Bitcoin was a thing (late 2006), so the AI had to be a bit more creative about the incentives.
This is a novel set in a store that's basically a parody of IKEA. Have you read it? If so, what did you think? https://www.amazon.com/Horrorstor-Novel-Grady-Hendrix/dp/1594745269/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
So has anyone heard of this book, "Daemon", by Daniel Suarez? Here is a link to it if you haven't LINK.
Well, in this book, a system of "ratings" is put into place for every individual's job, in which they are rated by everyone who has had an interaction with them. And there is a centralized HUD (head's up display), in which everyone can see the person's average rating. Basically, people cannot be dishonest at performing their job without consequences (downvotes).
It is not a long shot to require either this Subreddit, or a Reddit-like entity being the democratic foundation for truly representative politicians.
Basically, read the book! the way the rating system gets put into place is sociopathic, but ignoring that initial stage, it really is a future to look forward to.
Did you read The Churn? It's about Amos' past growing up in Baltimore and talks about a food-stamp/credit chit like program for basic IIRC.
I suppose what I mean is that they're too niche for anything mainstream. They'll always be relegated to the realm of fanworks. They're a subgenre of video games, and video games have a fairly slim amount of mindshare in fiction to begin with. Far more interesting to write about MMOs, since those involve significant amounts of the human population interacting with each other. On that note, there's this great pair of books. Not that it's related, I just really like them...