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Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?
I'm curious what books everyone is currently reading. What books are you currently reading?
- mindcrime 9y agohttps://www.goodreads.com/review/list/33942804-phillip-rhodes?shelf=currently-reading https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/33942804-phillip-rhode...
- EldonMcGuinness 9y agoBronze Gods by A.A. Aguirre https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808271-bronze-gods https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808271-bronze-gods
- DoNotYellAtMe 9y agohttps://www.amazon.com/Computer-Science-Distilled-Computational-Problems/dp/0997316004 https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Science-Distilled-Computatio...
- matchmike1313 9y agoSell or Be Sold by Grant Cardone
- mindcrime 9y agoHave you read Grant's other books? So far I've read Sell or Be Sold, The 10x Rule, If You're Not First, You're Last and Be Obsessed or be Average. I've found all of them to be pretty good. Not necessarily life changing, but solid, with a good mix of motivational message and some actionable ideas. Enough so that I'll probably go back through and read a couple of those again and actually take notes this time through.
- matchmike1313 9y agoI have not, I would really like to thou. Thanks for the feedback on the other books. I am going to move to the 10x rule next.
- saluki 9y agoI just finished Ready Player One, it was a great read, super interesting story, If you like the 80s and Arcade Games it's a must read.
- kotrunga 9y agoI second this!
- conorgil145 9y agoReady Player One is a super fun read and they are making it into a movie too! http://readyplayeronemovie.com/ http://readyplayeronemovie.com/
- lobe 9y agoRead this last week. There were lots of individual things I disliked about the book, yet still thoroughly enjoyed it as a whole. Quite a fun story
- neilsimp1 9y agoI just finished this myself. If you're geeky, and in the 18-40 age range, I highly recommend this book.
- pmulv 9y agoI'm reading this now!
- jonvillage 9y agoEvery january since 3 years ago I reread Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. I always find new ideas in it.
- tmaly 9y agoI am reading Shoe Dog, the memoir of Phil Knight It is a pretty amazing store of how he started Nike
- punchclockhero 9y agoNothing right now, but have two unfinished books in my backlog. First is Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima and the other is Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.
- SirLJ 9y agoI am suffering trough, Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars (currently reading)
- kenjinp 9y agoI found this series more rewarding than almost any other book series. I find it to be so.... literarily... satisfying. I have no idea how to explain that. The author's vision of the future is so complex and compelling, and the humanity of it all. I could go on for hours!
- SirLJ 9y agoWe agree to disagree on this one :-) For me one series I feel like you do, is the Asian Saga by James Clavell, maybe because I read the books for the first time as a child and have always been interested in business, etc, but like you I cannot explain it :-)
- kenjinp 9y agoI will certainly check it out! Isn't it strange what kinda reaches out and gives you a big impression? I'm interested in your opinion once you've finished. I am always glad to hear of books that leave this kind of impact on people, and I've heard about the Asia Saga before, but I forgot about it. Very eager to start. Thanks for the recommendation
- SirLJ 9y agoI would recommend the following books I have read last year and really liked the ideas behind: "The Road Not Taken" is a short story by Harry Turtledove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_stor... Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Past And this one is autobiographical by one of the smartest men of our time: A Man For All Markets by Edward O. Thorp http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/ http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/
- ktaube 9y agoThe Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25761655-the-secret-of-our-success https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25761655-the-secret-of-o...
- yesenadam 9y agoRobert Louis Stevenson essays (again) GK Chesterton Orthodoxy (again)
- RepressedEmu 9y agoPimp: Story Of My Life written by Iceberg Slim. Learned about it from the latest Chappelle standup special. Very dark and fascinating tale of a pimp in the 1940's. A lot of cold, calculating capitalist ideas abound in it. Also just started Astrobiology: A Short Introduction which was recommended by a fellow HNer.
- Calist0 9y agoAs expected there's lot of nonfiction readers here. Does anyone else find that they get more out of fiction than nonfiction? There's a lot to learn from putting yourself in a character's shoes, seeing life through their eyes and witnessing their life unfold. I'm currently reading 'Steppenwolf' by Hermann Hesse, and 'Of Human Bondage' by Somerset Maugham. Both novels are fictional representations of the author's life.
- Adam-Kadmon 9y agoI agree with you ! I'm currently reading "Siddhartha" by Hesse and I finished reading "The Name of the Rose" by Eco about a week ago !
- punchclockhero 9y agoNot sure if getting more, but nonfiction reading is quite strenuous for me, as I try to retain as much information as I can. On the other hand, I read fiction for the experience, so even if I forgot everything I read after turning the page, it would be no problem.
- FiatLuxDave 9y agoQuantum Computing since Democritus, by Scott Aaronson and The City and The City, by China Mieville
- dhagz 9y agoRight now I'm reading Zen Guitar to rethink how I play guitar, and The Color of Magic for fun.
- m3lani 9y agoReclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
- HiroshiSan 9y agoArt & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
- omosubi 9y ago- Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin - The doors of perception by Aldous Huxley - The Patriarch (Joseph Kennedy biography) by David Nasaw
- trentmb 9y agoTHE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/daniel-defoe/the-life-and-adventures-of-robinson-crusoe https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/daniel-defoe/the-life-and-...
- akulbe 9y agoPragmatic Thinking & Learning - Andy Hunt
- conorgil145 9y agoI just finished reading Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. It is the third book in the Stormlight Archive series. It was a fantastic read and the entire series is totally epic. Sanderson has many different trilogies, novels, and short stories in a universe he calls The Cosmere. If you like fantasy and haven't read any Sanderson, you should definitely check his stuff out! https://brandonsanderson.com/books/the-stormlight-archive/oathbringer/ https://brandonsanderson.com/books/the-stormlight-archive/oa...
- stevekemp 9y agoLooking forward to this myself, but don't want to rush in because of the expected gap until the next volume is published. So I'm re-reading the first two books again before I start it. (I have a shelf full of Brandon's work - even the young-adult books!)
- pruthvishetty 9y ago- Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman by RPF. - The book of secrets by Osho. - Big Data Baseball by T. Sawchik. - The Intelligent Investor by B. Graham.
- ssmmww 9y agoSeeing Like a State by James C. Scott, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and the Haskell Book.
- malyk 9y agoLast 4 Snow Falling on Cedars Color of Law Artemis Evicted (starting tomorrow)
- chriswitts 9y agoJust finished in the last week: - What a wonderful world by Marcus Chown - 47 Ronin by Joan D. Vinge - Practical Monitoring by Mike Julian Currently reading: - The Four by Scott Galloway - The Art of Capacity Planning 2nd Edition by Arun Kejariwal, John Allspaw
- PeOe 9y agoI'm currently reading "The four hour chef" by Tim Ferris. It's amazingly interesting, as it doesn't only cover cooking but also language learning and other skills. Great book!
- leonagano 9y agoThe Godfather
- zapperdapper 9y ago* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig - for some reason I never read this before although I've known about it for years. Enjoying it so far. * How I Became Free in an Unfree World by Harry Browne - I read this years ago, but decided to re-read on a whim and it's surprising how relevant it still is.
- eb0la 9y agoJPOD from Douglas Coupland. I like it much more than Microserfs :-)