One book I brought on vacation reads like a DBZ novelization (way too cool for me), and I found out the other book I brought was written by a terf (I pirated it, don't worry).
One book I brought on vacation reads like a DBZ novelization (way too cool for me), and I found out the other book I brought was written by a terf (I pirated it, don't worry).
Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series is good if you're interested in Napoleonic-era British naval warfare.
James Elroy's L.A. Quartet is a great series of crime novels, set in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s. His Underworld USA trilogy takes place in the late 50s through to the early 70s, and covers the significant events of that time.
I listened to the audiobook of the first book of the LA Quartet, The Black Dahlia. For me it was the perfect book, exactly to my tastes. Just absolutely fucked. A violent psychosexual odyssey through the sleaze of post-war LA. There's not a single decent person anywhere to be seen.
Also the audiobook is very good. It's the sort of one where the reader is more voice actor than just narrator, really making a performance of it.
Haven't picked up the other books because my library only has books 1 & 3. I'll just buy them at some point.