![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Seeing as we have Starship Troopers here, I am gonna (again) recommend Forever War by Haldeman, since it is of a similar topic. ![]()
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