The Painted Bird
by Jerzy N. Kosinski · first published 1965
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Fictional memoir of World War II experiences of a small boy abandoned in a remote village in Central Europe.
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…my patio atop a hill overlooking the sea and read for about a week. The only electronic devices I have are my e-book reader and a charger. Here's some of the best summer reading I've gone through: The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski - http://www.amazon.com/Painted-Bird-Jerzy-Kosinski/dp/0802134... A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini... Brave…
on “Ask HN: Book recommendations?” ↗Unfamiliar with Yngwie. If you are going to look for excellent storytellers, I suggest Jerzy Kosiński, whose Painted Bird is a autobiography, that is pretty much known to be false, (but true in some sense) and probably not written by him. His books are far more interesting than anything Gladwell wrote. Gladwell once said…
on “Michael Lewis' next book is about Sam Bankman-Fried” ↗What are you missing out on? Moby-Dick. Don Quixote, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, The Call of the Wild, Lord of the Flies, The Painted Bird, The Handmaid's Tale, 2001: A Space Odyssey, On the Beach, Naked Lunch, I Am Legend, The Grapes of Wrath, Last and First Men, Frankenstein, Try to avoid "Great Books" lists, though. Ask your closest…
on “Ask HN: I don't read fiction, how much am I missing out on?” ↗Heh. I will take this one. << like we weren't all kids who had parents at some point. When I was a young impressionable boy, I read through just about every book in our household. I remember "Painted Bird" by Kosinski making an impression and looking back it may have been inappropriate for my age. By today's standards, stuff there is nothing like the crap available to young minds. I am fairly permissive,…