My dad (57) is getting his heart worked on next week, and when we were chatting about his anxiety about his 3 months off from work following the procedure. He said he’d like to maybe read a book during this time..(His first long period without working since he was a teenager.)
Any recommendations? Easy, but attention keeping, reads? He’s a thoughtful guy. Smart. He just hasn’t touched a book in decades. ( lol )
My first recommendation for him probably is Project Hail Mary, since I loved it, and he’s got a dark comic flair to him, and an appreciation of sci-fi. I think he’ll appreciate it. Maybe Tuesdays With Morrie….
Any other recs?
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Neil Gaiman is pretty light hearted and thoroughly enjoyable. Neverwhere is a personal favorite.
Red Rising is a favorite of my father’s and a total boy book. Action, adventure, heartbreak, warfare, fun stuff.
The first game of thrones book is completely enthralling.
Silence of the Lambs is a masterpiece.
Wishing your dad luck in his surgery!
do you know if they’re going to have to crack your dad’s chest open? i ask because he will not want to read any funny books since laughing will hurt like a bitch for a while.
“Out There The Batshit Antics of the World’s Great Explorers,” by Peter Rowe it’s nonfiction, tells the origin stories of the world’s explorers who were indeed batshit prior to sailing away for lands unknown. The few who were seemingly of sound mind prior to venturing out to lands already populated by Indigenous peoples would, more often than not, be set upon by them tortured, boiled alive (really) their stories were learned by later explorers via oral history of the tribesmen and women who observed these actions first hand, were infected by bugs, bitten by animals etc. the book is hysterically funny and 100% true!
“Lost City of the Monkey God,” by Douglas Preston. Preston is half of the novel writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is a nonfiction account of his 2012 search for the lost city. What he and his team enduredon their search for the lost city I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Legend has it that whoever finds it will become unalive. The legend is true…was true, thanks to this team.
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Not too deep, lots of fun. It’s about old people who get to join the galactic military. Very good.
What kind of television shows or movies does he enjoy?