The Black Book
by James Patterson, David Ellis · first published 2017
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Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his former partner and a district attorney, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. The investigation leads to an unexpected address -- an exclusive brothel that caters to Chicago's most powerful citizens. There's plenty of incriminating evidence on the scene, but what matters most is what's mi
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…best Pynchon to start from; V is more difficult and much longer, but rewards the patience. I still can't get over the fact that Pynchon wrote and published this novel when he was 26. Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book. Annie Proulx, Fine Just The Way It Is. A new collection of stories from the best writer about rural America out there. Three are extraordinary, two so-so, the rest very good. Non-fiction: W. Sidney…
on “Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?” ↗…hundreds of years before you!" still entice people from the "East" and cause resentment. Not able to do that on this board, let me give you the following lengthy quotation instead, from Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book, (for me) his best work so far [I mostly used Maureen Freely's bad translation, made a few changes]. This is one of the best novels I know trying to analyze the "East is East, and West is West, and never…
on “Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg’s Bible” ↗…sorry. I did not realize that you are defending communists. I guess killing more people than Nazis is OK, as long as they were the wrong kind of people... And seriously, if the best criticism of The Black Book is that it compares Nazis and communists, I do not see what the problem is... other than that communists are quite a bit worse. Criticism of "Death camps did not exist in the Soviet Union" is laughable…
on “The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (2011)” ↗>You didn't mention "Kazakh famine of 1919", you mentioned "Russians, Ukrainians and Kazakhs" in reply to my posts about Nazis being classed as victims by the The Black Book Of Communism. And you replied with "they deserved it". Obviously, noone can expect a commie sympathiser to actually know, or care, who was slaughtered by commies and when. But people who do not want…
on “The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (2011)” ↗Abrash's Black Book was more in the style of Numerical Recipes than graphics gems, from what I recall. I also remember Nvidia putting out something annually around the late 2000s that was pretty good, can't remember the…
on “How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)” ↗