Scaramouche
Idealism can be transferred from one person to another on a vehicle called revenge. [from Wikipedia: Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying "Scaramouche" (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. The book also depicts his transformation from cynic to idealist.]
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- I realized I can't really recommend books to audiences much anymore, because I don't read those types of audience-books as much as I used to.
But still, here are some I probably bought for $0.99 and enjoyed:
Lost Restaurants of Seattle
This Outcast Generation by Taijun Takeda
The Royal Navy Lynx: An Operational History
A Doctor's War by Aidan MacCarthy
Sniping in France by Hesketh-Prichard
The Art of Whittling by Faurot
Moscow Calling by Angus Roxburgh
Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow
Icelandic Folk Tales by Stefansson
If you like any of those topics then you have my random recommendation, and possibly the indulgent vanity of once more having avoided consumer risk, or maybe consumer regret.
These were fun in 2022, in addition to 1) web browsing, which I find is definitely reading, despite all its numbered-pagelessness, and 2) dipping back into lots of classics and favorites, from Blacksad to Darwin to Scaramouche and Tom Sawyer.
(Possibly throwing in a volume on the adventures of Groo, a Weird Tales, a Comics Cavalcade, some TTRPGs, and a Scooby-Doo Team-Up...)
- - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- Watchmen by various
- Star Trek: Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
- Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
- The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils by James Lovegrove
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Top 11? :-)
- Shibumi by Trevanian. Ice Station Zebra by MacLean. Clive Cussler novels. Tom Clancy. Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour. Scaramouche and Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini.
(Note: Many of these contain some really ridiculous, outdated language and treatment of various groups of people.)
