Thread 24732203

Help me find the right book.

My dad is knocking on death's door. He has a month or two.

The only thing that gives him peace is reading. He has spent a lifetime reading and has read pretty much everything well known.

He doesn't seem to like scifi or fantasy anymore. Just historical fiction and fiction.

His favorite books are shogun and king rat by clavell. His dad loved them too and he spend time in a japanese camp as a prisoner, so they're connected that way. I also think generally he likes stories that are kind of fairytale like, as shogun is.

Currently he seems to really like books like book thief, he is constantly talking about ww2 jewish stories. I think it's dumb, but he's been a decent dad and I want to help alleviate his pain a bit. So I'll endure and ask:

>recommend me jewish propaganda fiction.

Does he like boats? Maybe he’d like Master & Commander. Sorry i dont know any jew books

>>24732203 (OP)
If he enjoys historical fiction JVLIAN by Gore Vidal is really good, very entretaining all way through and vased on the irl correspondance of his teachers. I dont know about japs or jews tho.

>>24732203 (OP)
>Tuesdays with Morrie

>>24732452
I should have thought of this myself, thanks.

>>24732349
Yeah he might, good suggestion.

>>24732393
Thanks man.

Waiting for new medication at the apothecary. Heartwarming that I'll have some new books for him on his ereader tomorrow. Thank you.

More suggestions are welcome. He tends to finish a book every 3-4 days. Still hoping to find some more slice of life books about ww2 that have the melancholic fairy tale quality.

>>24732203 (OP)
>ww2 jewish stories
picrel is dadcore and from what you've said it's right up his alley

>>24732647
>melancholic fairy tale
>slice of life ww2
I'm >>24732661 and now I'm dead fucking certain that this is the book for your father. Tailor-made for him. There's a Netflix adaptation, could be a fun bonding experience to watch it together. Haven't seen it though.

There's the rest of Clavell's books (Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, etc.), but you probably know them.

The Long Ships by Bengtsson is a completely different time and setting, but has that almost fairytale quality of adventure, encountering new culture, hero gets the girl. Highly recommend.

>>24732677
yeah ofc, he read them all.

>>24732661
perfect suggestion, but it's the book he recently read and liked, which is informinf my question

>>24732743
>but it's the book he recently read and liked, which is informinf my question
FUCK lmao. Has he read We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter? Historical fiction abt Jews escaping the Holocaust, he might enjoy that too

>>24732746
I don't think so. I'll get it for him, thanks bro.

>>24732677
Long ships is a good suggestion, also goes on my own list, thanks bro.

>>24732203 (OP)
Not Jewish, but The English Patient is WWII. Pray his last moments aren't in pain.

>>24733972
>The English Patient
This sounds kinda good.

>>24732677
He's started reading the long ships today. He's loving it. Thank you. Despite my best of efforts, this is only the third book recommendation I've made over a lifetime that he didn't know AND enjoyed. (The others being Christopher Priest's the Prestige and Emma Donoghue's Room)

>>24732203 (OP)
>ctrl+F "Michener"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Michener#Books%E2%80%94fiction
Pick a few. Some are really long. His style is historical fiction, plenty of dramatization, combining any number of personal accounts from folks he interviewed and historical figures he researched

>>24734808
>>24734969, again
If he's pretty well-read, he's probably already gone through at least a couple of Michener books. Plenty of appreciation and stories about WWII figures in parts, at least

Boethius' Consolation

>>24732203 (OP)
Tell him and press him to read Shōgun and King Rat again, but not réád, but to read them standing up, at the kitchen table top for example. Even if it's just a few paragraphs or 1 page, though he can maybe study more in 2 months. Then when The Reaper comes, he can harvest those few paragraphs, studied in a body pose as the corn grows, tall and upright in the field. Something to talk about with the Dark Boss, who knows, postpone the whole ordeal, like Sheherazade in 1001 Arabian Nights. Why go into new material when you already have some favorites? Do your favorites, but in a new way (study standing up, not read sitting down, though that has its uses): show Death that the Shógun student can kick ass, Shōgun style. This way it's like talking again to an old friend, not a process to be feared.
>source: I read Shōgun a long time ago

>>24736721
Also and or, 30 Days of Discipline by Victor Pride (ebook, should be in circulation somewhere, was buyable, I don't know if it's still buyable, because that blog closed, so find it online, print it out, sleeve it). It's 25 pages long, so the Achievement Factor is high in this one, as he'll be able to read and study it often in 2 months. Maybe your dad will then stop actively knocking on that very specific door (whát a door to pick by the way, out of so many doors on Earth that you cóúld pick!). It unironically covers some habitual principles also covered in the Bible, with regards to 'lifestyle'.

>>24736735
Or, as Death was called where I'm from, 'Thin Heijn', just pick the thinnest book in his bookcase, and tell him to read and study it as if his life depends on it, because it just might, according to the OP context.

>>24736749
magere heijn. mager is a word that means thinner than thin. Like when you're beginning to starve, the edge of death. So a more apt translation would be gaunt heijn, which has that tinge of death in it.

My father will be happy to hear the advice to stand while reading. Any advice on how to get him to stand up in the first place?

>>24732203 (OP)
old man and the sea