Shutter Island
A Novel
by Dennis Lehane · first published 2003
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U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
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Man's Search for Meaning - ViktorFrankl Endgame (Biography of Bobby Fischer) - Frank Brady Walt Disney - Bob Thomas The Given Day - Dennis Lehane (Fiction) Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane (Way better than movie) Michael Lewis - The Big Short Churchill - Paul Johnson (faster read than the others)
on “Ask HN: What are some Good Books you have read in past one year or so..” ↗I'll be honest and say I never saw Shutter Island in part because I read the book (at one point I was a Lehane fan) and saw the twist coming miles and miles away. I haven't seen KOTFM b/c it's past my Scorsese Endpoint. ;)
on “OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals” ↗This reminds me of the scene in Shutter Island where Teddy interrogates a female patient and the glass of water is absent in subsequent frame. Many of us wonder if it was deliberate or not. I was leaning towards deliberate but now reading this I…
on “David Fincher’s Impossible Eye” ↗