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Meditations - Marcus Aurelius -- A fine classic I enjoyed. Might count, might not, since it finished in March but was going on before. I loved Harry Potter and
by Jach 11y ago
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius -- A fine classic I enjoyed.
Might count, might not, since it finished in March but was going on before. I loved Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky - http://hpmor.com/ http://hpmor.com/
Loved Masters of Doom - David Kushner
I liked Worm - Wildbow - https://parahumans.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/ https://parahumans.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/ -- but it falls short of overall greatness and I don't think it's worth its 22-average-books length if I were to go back in time and decide on rereading...
Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (Volume I) - Janice Kim -- I've been learning Go and thought this book was particularly excellent for beginners.
There are at least 4 other books I'm close to finishing and I might get one done before the end of the month... Volume 2 of the above Go series, Mythical Man-Month, A handbook of traditional living, or The Waking Dream.
- jndsn402 11y agoHPMOR was fantastic - very well done re-imagining of Harry Potter with Harry as a rationalist, challenging long-held beliefs about magic. Plot, pacing, etc. were great. Really influenced how I think about my own beliefs as well.
- sundarurfriend 11y ago> Meditations - Marcus Aurelius -- A fine classic I enjoyed. Which version did read, and where did you get it? The translation I found on Gutenberg was too archaic and hard to understand.
- kornish 11y agoThe Gregory Hays translation is by far the best out there.
- Jach 11y agoSorry, missed this. For Meditations I actually listened to it on audio book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXcmkSqAqTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXcmkSqAqTI I'm not sure which translation it is, looks like George Long's from http://www.amazon.com/Meditations/dp/B004INMVDY http://www.amazon.com/Meditations/dp/B004INMVDY but I also remember browsing http://www.bartleby.com/2/3/ http://www.bartleby.com/2/3/ a few times afterwards and thought it was readable (much better than the Gutenberg one).