by Dorothy B Hughes
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in postWorld War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching ?that feeling of power and ...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
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Andy Greenwald
“Chandler, "The Long Goodbye;" Thornberg, "Dreamland;" Hughes, "In a Lonely Place;" Ellroy, "LA Confidential." And”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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