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Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2022?

11 points by nycdatasci 4y ago

yamrzou 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267
- nycdatasci 4y ago
  Thank you! I missed this.
jack-bodine 4y ago
Fiction: American Gods by Neil Gaiman Non-Fiction: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
linsomniac 4y ago
Vonnegut's _Player_Piano_. In particular, I keep thinking back to this 1950s view of a computer driven society, based on 1950s computers. "He was convicted by the court computer, and we even replaced all the vacuum tubes to make sure it was an accurate verdict". Mind boggling to think about how many transistors would be involved in modern day society and what replacement of them would involve (time, cost, landfill). I also really enjoyed _Project_Hail_Mary_.
- greggarious 4y ago
  Thanks for boosting this book parent. I didn't read it in 2022, but it's my favorite Vonnegut book. (Slaughterhouse Five is overrated, most folks just saw the movie and the same folks who listed it on their profiles back during the G20 used to yell at me for listing "Post Office" because apparently Bukowski is problematic -- like, Jesus lady I know, that's why I didn't list Women or Factotum... then they'd cry me a (usually figurative) river when I'd shoot back why do you claim to stan Emma Goldman if you won't date someone who owns a firearm since it's not propaganda of the deed if you get your ass tackled like Squeaky Fromm, and why don't you list literally any Nabokov novel than "Lolita" as your favorite piece of Russian literature?)
greggarious 4y ago
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
pinewurst 4y ago
Either “The Sorcerer of Pyongyang” by Marcel Theroux or “We Don’t Know Ourselves” by Fintan O’Toole.
- greggarious 4y ago
  > “The Sorcerer of Pyongyang” by Marcel Theroux check out nothing to envy
lionnn 4y ago
I read Atomic habits by James Clear which set me off on a rather interesting personal journey. Didn’t think i would enjoy the book but i found it rather interesting.
vermasque 4y ago
The 2% Way by Myron Rolle
ano-ny-mouse 4y ago
Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin

11 points by nycdatasci 4y ago

yamrzou 4y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267

nycdatasci 4y ago
Thank you! I missed this.

jack-bodine 4y ago

Fiction: American Gods by Neil Gaiman Non-Fiction: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

linsomniac 4y ago

Vonnegut's _Player_Piano_. In particular, I keep thinking back to this 1950s view of a computer driven society, based on 1950s computers. "He was convicted by the court computer, and we even replaced all the vacuum tubes to make sure it was an accurate verdict". Mind boggling to think about how many transistors would be involved in modern day society and what replacement of them would involve (time, cost, landfill). I also really enjoyed _Project_Hail_Mary_.

greggarious 4y ago
Thanks for boosting this book parent. I didn't read it in 2022, but it's my favorite Vonnegut book. (Slaughterhouse Five is overrated, most folks just saw the movie and the same folks who listed it on their profiles back during the G20 used to yell at me for listing "Post Office" because apparently Bukowski is problematic -- like, Jesus lady I know, that's why I didn't list Women or Factotum... then they'd cry me a (usually figurative) river when I'd shoot back why do you claim to stan Emma Goldman if you won't date someone who owns a firearm since it's not propaganda of the deed if you get your ass tackled like Squeaky Fromm, and why don't you list literally any Nabokov novel than "Lolita" as your favorite piece of Russian literature?)

greggarious 4y ago

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

pinewurst 4y ago

Either “The Sorcerer of Pyongyang” by Marcel Theroux or “We Don’t Know Ourselves” by Fintan O’Toole.

greggarious 4y ago
> “The Sorcerer of Pyongyang” by Marcel Theroux check out nothing to envy

lionnn 4y ago

I read Atomic habits by James Clear which set me off on a rather interesting personal journey. Didn’t think i would enjoy the book but i found it rather interesting.

vermasque 4y ago

The 2% Way by Myron Rolle

ano-ny-mouse 4y ago

Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin