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Soman Chainanibook recommendations

Soman Chainani is an American author and filmmaker. His first novel, "The School for Good and Evil", debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, has been translated into 28 languages across 6 continents, and will soon be a film from Universal Pictures.

Quotes & Sources

Soman Chainani on Tao Te Ching
"I remember reading it and being like okay, this makes no sense. But you just keep reading it again and again and slowly, I started to get the point of it."

Soman Chainani on The War of Art
"Half drill sergeant, half Zen voodoo master, [the author] shot me out of my stupor and taught me the meaning of creative discipline."

Soman Chainani on A Little Life
"The greatest work of fiction I’ve ever read, with the simplest theme: All of us come with baggage and wounds and pain; all of us."

Soman Chainani on The Graveyard Book
Soman Chainani referenced this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

Soman Chainani on The Neverending Story
"An amazing book."

Soman Chainani on Peter Pan
"Featured a title character who was at once charming and also a complete narcissistic, pathological demon. It was that ambiguous space between good and evil that I sparked to as a kid."

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