The Gun Seller
by Hugh Laurie · first published 1996
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When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished. Within hours Lang is butting heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales, whilst trying to save a beautiful lady... and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.
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Some recents: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynmann is a good read. As is Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle As is Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller And I'm just getting into Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying which is quite good too.
on “Ask HN: Summer Reading Recommendations?” ↗Music: Shearwater, and probably Okkervil River too. I don't know if they are underrated, I've seen both live and there was hardly anyone there + I enjoy them a lot. Book: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gun_Seller not that it's a brilliant book, it's just underrated because it's funny and pretty well written for a first novel.
on “Ask HN: Underrated Music, Books, Movies?” ↗…and she seems much hotter. So maybe "it" equals out. . The novel[6], that eventually sprung out from the site, seems to be pretty okay, a bit of absurdist-realist comedy, maybe like Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller light edition. . . [1] "Margret jack-knifes from argument to argument, jigs direction randomly and erratically like a shoal of Argument Fish being followed by a Truth Shark." [2] "Those trousers make…
on “Things my girlfriend and I have argued about” ↗