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13466743 No.13466743 [Reply] [Original]

Can anyone recommend me some books (noir fictions or else) with these themes:
> Organized crimes/ Gangs
> The rising of a talented criminal
> Powers or any kind of unrealistic abilities/items/etc


Post anything that'll make you think of one of these (not necessarly all of them lile if you have a good realistic book on organized crime, I'll take it but it would be even better with the other two themes).

I'm not big on reading so please post even the most famous ones. It can be comics and manga too if you don't have anything in mind.

>> No.13466781
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga)

>> No.13466790

>>13466781
Forget what I said about Mangas, I know enough.

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The arguably most famous manga seems to fit your requirements

>Set in a post-apocalyptic and futuristic Neo-Tokyo, more than two decades after a mysterious explosion which destroyed the city, the manga focuses on the efforts of teenaged biker gang leader Kaneda, militant revolutionary Kei, a trio of Espers, and Neo-Tokyo's military leader Colonel Shikishima to prevent Tetsuo, Kaneda's mentally-imbalanced childhood friend, from using his unstable and powerful telekinetic abilities to ravage the city and awaken a mysterious individual with similar psychic abilities named "Akira", who was responsible for the destruction of Tokyo several years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga)

>> No.13466803

Off topic, but are there any books that deal with characters like Michael Corleone? The closest I can think of is Macbeth but he was a lot more emotional and erratic than Michael. I'm looking for a debonair, masculine, silent-sufferer type. I doubt anyone can do it as good as the Godfather did though.

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>>13466790
okay, then Pimp by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Slim
https://youtu.be/YaynP-saNxY

>> No.13466826

>>13466819
autobiography btw., not a novel

>> No.13466835

Worm by John McCrae might be close to what you want.

>> No.13467136

>>13466819
>>13466826
Not interested in real events
>>13466835
I'll check it but it doesn't seem to be translated. Not ready to read a complete work in English yet

>> No.13467271

>>13466743

Are you the same guy who made that thread asking for ideas on what to write about?

>> No.13467323

>>13467271
No. It's funny tough because I am looking for inspo to write with this thread. You got me confused for a second but nope, not me

>> No.13467396

>>13467323

Look for the books of Don Winslow and Roberto Saviano. Look for the screenplay of Scarface. Look for the movie “White Heat” and adapt it to modern times.

It’s interesting to know that the author of The Godfather didn’t knew anything about the mafia and needed to to a lot of research and invention.

El Chapo is a semi-literate man, but if you change him into an interesting character you can use his story as basis for something.

>> No.13467910

>>13467396
Thk m8 bump for more