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Actively reading: - The Fountainhead - Project Hail Mary - Learning TypeScript Passively reading: - The Design of Everyday Things - Dive into Design Patte

Actively reading: - The Fountainhead - Project Hail Mary - Learning TypeScript Passively reading: - The Design of Everyday Things - Dive into Design Patterns Considering to read - This is mostly for anyone who has read them and would like to give their opinion about it. - Algorithms to Live By - Name of the Wind - Malazan Book of the Fallen - Good Girl's guide to murder - The Paradox of Choice - Moonwalking with Einstein - The Boron Letters - Storyworthy -

redhale 3y ago
The Paradox of Choice is good, but imo it is a blog post turned into a book. Unless you're really, really into the subject, just read a summary.
- vidyesh 3y ago
  Thank you. Will look for a summary, I think that book reference came out of a blog post which was discussing the psychology of choice and discussed some interesting research conclusions.
TheAceOfHearts 3y ago
Re: Name of the Wind. I read the first book in the series and enjoyed it but didn't continue after finding out that the author has stalled indefinitely with the third volume. I understand that mental health issues are serious, but there's so many good finished series out in the world that I don't get why people keep recommending this guy's books. There was also some drama surrounding the author due to some charity donations. He had agreed to release the first chapter of book 3 if some donation threshold was passed, but it has now been over a year and he still hasn't released it afaik.
- vidyesh 3y ago
  Thank you about all the other information related to that. People rave about NotW when it comes to fantasy novels. But rarely everything else around it is discussed in recommendation sections/forums. > but there's so many good finished series out in the world that I don't get why people keep recommending this guy's books. I see your point and I tend to agree lately, there are many DNF books in my list I used to regret but not anymore as I think there is a lot good out there to read and not much time, its better to enjoy what we can than to worry or feel not satisfied by certain read.
- subtra3t 3y ago
  I'm a guy who recommends the first book to almost all newcomers to fantasy, even though I know that Rothfuss is never going to finish it. The reason I recommend NotW so much is because it probably has the best prose in all of fantasy. And it's not like the plot is bad too. Rothfuss is still talked about in the fantasy books community, sometimes more so than other authors who are still writing like Mark Lawrence. Hell, he has more Goodreads followers than Brandon Sanderson!
samskot 3y ago
I'm reading Algorithms to Live By at the moment. It's very interesting and definitely worth reading.
- vidyesh 3y ago
  Thank you. I plan to add it to my reading list soon. Is it too technical? I don't want to end reading another algorithm book with a small footnote of its practical use.
subtra3t 3y ago
Malazan is amazing, possibly the best fantasy series I've ever read after Stormlight Archives (KKC would be on the list if not for the author's attitude towards the 3rd book). That said, it's really common for newcomers to the series to abandon the book even after a couple hundred pages. Think of it as being akin to being dropped in a completely foreign country, with no kind of guidance or language experience. The 1st book is the hardest to really "get" but if you do manage to get into it you'll have a really great time.
- vidyesh 3y ago
  Dude! Thank you. But slow down for me will you? Do you mean to say The Stormlight Archive are better in your opinion than the Malazan book of the Fallen series? And KKC is the best of those three series? Sidenote: Reading about KKC from other comments, seems like I might drop the idea of reading it for reason you too highlighted. I also checked out the Malazan Book for Fallen series properly, I was aware it was a series of 10 books but just now discovered Steven Erikson is a beast, that series including the prequels is a set of possibly 26 books! That is so exciting! Okay so I ask again, worth getting into? And some advice to survive the 1st book as you mentioned its the most difficult read? OR is The Stormlight series easier or first to read?
  - beezlebroxxxxxx 3y ago
    Stormlight is significantly easier to read than Malazan and, at least in my opinion, significantly simpler in almost every way. Malazan is really a narrative tour-de-force with an extremely satisfying way of bringing a number of storylines together and to conclusion in each book. It's also an interesting meditation on history, regret, and the arc of empires over time. The complexity and in media res nature of the beginning throws a lot of people off but you just have to keep reading. It's written in a way that has no handholding; the world is already built and ancient and you're dropped into it, while Sanderson, honestly, seems to be kind of making it up as you go along. (This is, in part, because Erikson had the entire Malazan world as a tabletop RPG before writing the books.) Sanderson's books, in comparison, are more like Marvel movies. They're entertaining, but I don't find that they reinvent the wheel or do anything too interesting. Stormlight is also much less grim and mature in many ways than Malazan, which is either a pro or a con for some people.

redhale 3y ago

The Paradox of Choice is good, but imo it is a blog post turned into a book. Unless you're really, really into the subject, just read a summary.

vidyesh 3y ago
Thank you. Will look for a summary, I think that book reference came out of a blog post which was discussing the psychology of choice and discussed some interesting research conclusions.

TheAceOfHearts 3y ago

Re: Name of the Wind. I read the first book in the series and enjoyed it but didn't continue after finding out that the author has stalled indefinitely with the third volume. I understand that mental health issues are serious, but there's so many good finished series out in the world that I don't get why people keep recommending this guy's books. There was also some drama surrounding the author due to some charity donations. He had agreed to release the first chapter of book 3 if some donation threshold was passed, but it has now been over a year and he still hasn't released it afaik.

vidyesh 3y ago
Thank you about all the other information related to that. People rave about NotW when it comes to fantasy novels. But rarely everything else around it is discussed in recommendation sections/forums. > but there's so many good finished series out in the world that I don't get why people keep recommending this guy's books. I see your point and I tend to agree lately, there are many DNF books in my list I used to regret but not anymore as I think there is a lot good out there to read and not much time, its better to enjoy what we can than to worry or feel not satisfied by certain read.
subtra3t 3y ago
I'm a guy who recommends the first book to almost all newcomers to fantasy, even though I know that Rothfuss is never going to finish it. The reason I recommend NotW so much is because it probably has the best prose in all of fantasy. And it's not like the plot is bad too. Rothfuss is still talked about in the fantasy books community, sometimes more so than other authors who are still writing like Mark Lawrence. Hell, he has more Goodreads followers than Brandon Sanderson!

samskot 3y ago

I'm reading Algorithms to Live By at the moment. It's very interesting and definitely worth reading.

vidyesh 3y ago
Thank you. I plan to add it to my reading list soon. Is it too technical? I don't want to end reading another algorithm book with a small footnote of its practical use.

subtra3t 3y ago

Malazan is amazing, possibly the best fantasy series I've ever read after Stormlight Archives (KKC would be on the list if not for the author's attitude towards the 3rd book). That said, it's really common for newcomers to the series to abandon the book even after a couple hundred pages. Think of it as being akin to being dropped in a completely foreign country, with no kind of guidance or language experience. The 1st book is the hardest to really "get" but if you do manage to get into it you'll have a really great time.

vidyesh 3y ago
Dude! Thank you. But slow down for me will you? Do you mean to say The Stormlight Archive are better in your opinion than the Malazan book of the Fallen series? And KKC is the best of those three series? Sidenote: Reading about KKC from other comments, seems like I might drop the idea of reading it for reason you too highlighted. I also checked out the Malazan Book for Fallen series properly, I was aware it was a series of 10 books but just now discovered Steven Erikson is a beast, that series including the prequels is a set of possibly 26 books! That is so exciting! Okay so I ask again, worth getting into? And some advice to survive the 1st book as you mentioned its the most difficult read? OR is The Stormlight series easier or first to read?
- beezlebroxxxxxx 3y ago
  Stormlight is significantly easier to read than Malazan and, at least in my opinion, significantly simpler in almost every way. Malazan is really a narrative tour-de-force with an extremely satisfying way of bringing a number of storylines together and to conclusion in each book. It's also an interesting meditation on history, regret, and the arc of empires over time. The complexity and in media res nature of the beginning throws a lot of people off but you just have to keep reading. It's written in a way that has no handholding; the world is already built and ancient and you're dropped into it, while Sanderson, honestly, seems to be kind of making it up as you go along. (This is, in part, because Erikson had the entire Malazan world as a tabletop RPG before writing the books.) Sanderson's books, in comparison, are more like Marvel movies. They're entertaining, but I don't find that they reinvent the wheel or do anything too interesting. Stormlight is also much less grim and mature in many ways than Malazan, which is either a pro or a con for some people.