The Gun Seller
When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished. Within hours Lang is butting heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales, whilst trying to save a beautiful lady... and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.
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- Music: Shearwater, and probably Okkervil River too. I don't know if they are underrated, I've seen both live and there was hardly anyone there + I enjoy them a lot.
Book: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gun_Seller not that it's a brilliant book, it's just underrated because it's funny and pretty well written for a first novel.
- Some recents:
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynmann is a good read.
As is Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
As is Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller
And I'm just getting into Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying which is quite good too.
- the one about presents seems very unhealthy. (and in general the whole situation.)
the depicted Margaret character seems to be very demanding, arbitrary, vindictive, petty, has double standards, has self-control issues (kicking the driver's seat from behind, narrating movies[5], offering unsolicited remarks[4]), she does not seem to recognize boundaries (asking him during movies), she seems to be sexually promiscuous[3], extreme insecurity issues[2], issues with attention and focus[1], ... and so on.
I tend to believe that Mil embellishes the stories, also he seems to have the kind of sense of humor that can withstand, thrive on, and mayhaps even require this level of interpersonal intensity. Also he seems much older, and she seems much hotter. So maybe "it" equals out.
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The novel[6], that eventually sprung out from the site, seems to be pretty okay, a bit of absurdist-realist comedy, maybe like Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller light edition.
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[1] "Margret jack-knifes from argument to argument, jigs direction randomly and erratically like a shoal of Argument Fish being followed by a Truth Shark."
[2] "Those trousers make your backside look fat"
[3] photo album in Berlin at a friend, "shots of Margret naked"
[4] see the entry with "The television is showing Baywatch."
[5] "when she furnishes me, deaf to my pleading, with her commentary"
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_My_Girlfriend_and_I_Hav...
