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Ken Tremendous's Top Book Recommendations

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The Last Samurai

Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise?


Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two)...
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Recommended by Ken Tremendous, Bill Earner, and 2 others.

Ken TremendousLook I don’t have any idea what the best books of the decade were but I’m ending the ‘teens reading The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt and it’s incredible. How did none of you tell me about this book until now, you jerks, you heathens?! (Source)

Bill EarnerMy favorites [novels] are 100 Years of Solitude, All the King's Men, The Last Samurai, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. (Source)

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