Spongebutt4tywon@alien.topBtoBooks•Just finished 'The Silent Patient' and I have a few questionsEnglish
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10 months agoOne of the least satisfying books I’ve ever read. Truly senseless. As mysteries go, the reader has 0% of predicting the resolution based on the text (you could, of course, randomly guess the ending). I will never recommend that book and have only ever suggested against it.
In a similar style, Glass Onion provides 0 opportunity for the viewer to intervene in the story. You get to be a passive viewer/reader, the last thing you want in a mystery. It’s lazy storytelling marketed really well in both cases
Without knowing your interests and going off recent reads:
Autobiographical: Shoe Dog (phil knight) or The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (b franks)
Fantasy?: The Song of Achilles or The Children of Hurin (part of the tolkien middle earth legendarium)
Personal Improvement: Atomic Habits
Historical Drama? The Things They Carried or your choice of a David McCollough book
Adventure: Endurance, Shackletons Incredible Voyage
Societal: Guns, Germs, & Steel or Sapiens (sapiens a more digestible option tbh)
To pick only 3, of which I enjoyed all: shoe dog, the things they carried, song of achilles
If you end up on any of em lmk, I’d be happy to hear your thoughts