Mother London
9 best books like Mother London (Michael Moorcock): Brighton Rock, Gravity's Rainbow, All the King's Men, The Sandman: Endless Nights, The Vorrh, In a Lonely Place, The Labyrinth Index, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe, Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0099478471 |
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear,...
| Author | Thomas Pynchon |
| ISBN | 0143039946 |
Advice for a first time reader of Gravity's Rainbow:
Gravity's Rainbow is a book you either love or hate, and if you hate it it's probably because you couldn't finish the damn thing. Though by no means impenetrable, the novel is daunting enough to merit a list of tips for those wishing to tackle...
| Author | Robert Penn Warren |
| ISBN | 0156004801 |
More than just a classic political novel, Warren’s tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibility—it’s not much of one—of goodness in a sinful...
The Sandman: Endless Nights
Endless entertainment!
This volumen is a special presenting short stories featuring each member of The Endless.
The general rating is an average sum of the ratings given to each story contained in this comic book.
All stories are written by Neil Gaiman.
A...
| Author | Brian Catling |
| ISBN | 0957142714 |
Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent masterpiece” and “the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.”
Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast—perhaps...
| Author | Dorothy B. Hughes |
| ISBN | 1558614559 |
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially...
The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the...
| Author | Arthur Koestler |
| ISBN | 0140192468 |
An extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split...
Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1590309634 |
Is it possible to live well when the very ground we stand on is shaky? Yes, says everyone's favorite Buddhist nun, it's even possible to live beautifully, compassionately, and happily on shaky ground—and the secret is: the ground is always shaky. Pema shows how using a traditional Buddhist practice...
