The Wind from Nowhere
9 best books like The Wind from Nowhere (J.G. Ballard): The Adventures of Augie March, Greybeard, Red Harvest, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, Downward to the Earth, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, How to Love, Wild at Heart, A Congregation of Jackals
Author | Saul Bellow |
ISBN | 0143039571 |
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.” It’s the “Call me Ishmael” of mid-20th-century American...
Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
ISBN | 0755100638 |
A quote from The Twinkling of an Eye, Brian Aldiss' autobiography:
P D James, ordinarily a bestselling middle-class thriller writer, set The Children of Men in the future. The novel was published in 1992. I began to worry about her novel when readers wrote to me, pointing out many similarities...
Author | Dashiell Hammett |
ISBN | 0752852612 |
I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Author | Ari Shavit |
ISBN | 0385521707 |
A groundbreaking, ambitious, and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today
My Promised Land tells the story of Israel as it has never been told before. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel...
Author | Robert Silverberg |
ISBN | 0451044975 |
Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? -Ecclesiastes 3:21
Okay, they did resemble elephants, it can't be denied. That led many people to underestimate the Nildoror and their obviously more fearsome commensals, the Sulidoror.
But...
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Author | Jim Mattis |
ISBN | 0812996836 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.
Call...
Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
ISBN | 1937006883 |
The third title in Parallax’s Mindfulness Essentials Series of how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Love introduces beginners and reminds seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. This time Nhat Hanh brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humor...
”Lula pulled Sailor over to her and kissed him soft on the mouth. ‘You move me, Sailor, you really do,’ she said. ‘You mark me the deepest.’”
Sailor Ripley has just stepped out of prison from serving time for a bullshit manslaughter charge. One of those convictions that...
A Congregation of Jackals
Author | S. Craig Zahler |
ISBN | 0843964154 |
One of Oswell's old bank-robbing gang is getting married out in Montana Territory, and the rest of the boys are all invited. But someone else will be there too. Quinlan. He was part of the gang once, but betrayal turned an ally into a bitter enemy, one who will stop at nothing to get his revenge. He and his...