recommend me a book with a character who is both book smart and street smart
recommend me a book with a character who is both book smart and street smart
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recommend me a book with a character who is both book smart and street smart
Shantaram by gregory david roberts.
tell me a bit about it
Just blindly trust me. It is about an australian fugitive who forges a new zealand passport and arrives in 70s Mumbai, India. ( this is a semi autobiography, the writer was in an indian prison and got his manuscript tore twice by the local policemen before it being published.) So here in mumbai he lives in a slum, gets involved with local underworld and also goes to afghanistan to fight a kind of civil war. the book is filled with street philosophy, spirituality very beautifully woven with the pace and mystery of thriller books. It is profound and at the same time entertaining.
I liked this book very much
Loved shantaram. Must read.
Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe series. Dashiell Hammet and The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key (particularly the latter).
The Tracker by Chad Zunker
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33004614-the-tracker?ac=1&from_search=true
The Spenser series by Robert b Parker
Anything by Lee
“The Lincoln Lawyer” by Michael Connelly.
The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini. Excellent book!
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch 😀
Also, Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. You’ve got a pretty smart gang, but their leader is the toughest son of a gun ever 😀
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie — Anthony is amazing