Soman Chainani's Book Recommendations

"You look at The Little Mermaid movie. Arielle should die brutally in that movie because she’s an idiot, a complete idiot. To read the original book, where she dies at the end, suddenly made sense."

"Half drill sergeant, half Zen voodoo master, the author shot me out of my stupor and taught me the meaning of creative discipline."

"One of my favorite books."

"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."

"An amazing book."

"Ostensibly about if you grow up a gay man, how to deal with it in the world. But I think it’s more about modern masculinity and about what it means to be a man in America."

"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."

"Exposed me to the original Grimm’s stories, which are horrific and dark and insane. And half the time, the evil character wins and half the time the good character wins."

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

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

"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."

"[The first book is] a little bit easier but then two and three are intense."