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Ask HN: What books are you reading right now?
I'm reading two small books in parallel.
1. The old man and the Sea , by Hemmingway
2. The Last lecture by Randy
- noashx 14y agoI'm trying to expand my horizons a bit, so I'm reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma". Amazing!
- rjim86 14y agoCoding Horror: The Book
- kral 14y ago1. A Lovecraft anthology 2. Programming Clojure (Stuart Halloway) Both books make me dream.
- vasudhapande 14y ago1. 'Classical Mechanics' by Herbert Goldstein 2. 'Operational Amplifiers with Linear Integrated Circuits' by William Stanley 3. 'Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer' by Cyrus Mistry
- notum 14y agoI'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas (Lewis Black)
- arunabh 14y ago1. Ulysses 2. The Dilbert Principle
- valdiorn 14y agoNeuromancer by William Gibson.
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- dwj 14y agoVery good book about the tech industry: "rework" by the 37 signals guys. Other very good non-tech book I've read recently: Walk the Amazon.
- orangethirty 14y agoThe Lean Startup for the third time in a row. :)
- thatusertwo 14y agoNot very lean of you :P JK
- orangethirty 14y ago:D Good one!
- johnrgrace 14y agoI'm actually reading academic papers from ssrn.com about platforms, shorter than most books and usually just as much information/learning and often times more. For fiction I'm reading stuff my friends write; currently The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There and David Drake's Hammers Slammers omnibus volumes.
- saurabh 14y agoZen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
- rfergie 14y ago1. Causation (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-Pearl/dp/052189560X http://www.amazon.co.uk/Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-...) 2. The Boardman Tasker Omnibus (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boardman-Tasker-Omnibus-Peter/dp/1898573859 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boardman-Tasker-Omnibus-Peter/dp/189...)
- yamsal 14y ago"Another Day of Life" by Riszard Kapuscinski and "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer.
- eduardordm 14y ago+1 It's a shame that Moonwalking with Einstein didn't get to the top. Great book.
- rwl 14y agoFor work: Quine's Word and Object; Dummett's Frege: Philosophy of Language; Plato's Republic; and paper after paper. (I am a philosophy graduate student.) For pleasure: just started Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
- fourmii 14y agoThe Viral Storm: http://www.amazon.com/The-Viral-Storm-Pandemic-ebook/dp/B004V9O58E http://www.amazon.com/The-Viral-Storm-Pandemic-ebook/dp/B004...
- waterlesscloud 14y ago1. Red Mars. Read a chapter and digest it. Packed top to bottom with all kinds of ideas. 2. Cyberspace: First Steps. From the early 90s, a collection of academic essays on the concept of cyberspace. Reading it as a kind of retrospective on where we were and where we thought we were going. 3. Rule 34. For fun.
- serencial 14y agoJust started "The Connected Company" by Dave Gray.
- joelhooks 14y agoMolly Fyde series from Hugh Howey. Loved his WOOL books, so giving this series a go. Like it a lot. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas - just started this, and enjoying it so far.
- redrory 14y ago1.) Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?: Seth Godin 2.)Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm - Verne Harnish
- eduardordm 14y agoI finished Linchpin just for the sake of doing it. That book would be great if it wasn't the zillionth book telling the same story.
- RollAHardSix 14y agoEarth Unaware by Orson Scott Card.
- bgrohman 14y ago1. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281 http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/074... 2. Clojure Programming, by Chas Emerick http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Chas-Emerick/dp/1449394701/ http://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Programming-Chas-Emerick/dp/14... 3. Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis http://www.amazon.com/Zorba-Greek-Nikos-Kazantzakis/dp/0684825546 http://www.amazon.com/Zorba-Greek-Nikos-Kazantzakis/dp/06848...
- runjake 14y agoCan anyone recommend some good cypherpunk books, aside from Stephenson? Preferably fiction that communicates ideas revolving around anonymity, crypto, privacy? I've been trying to read Cryptonomicon, but get turned off by the "hipstery" (for lack of a better word) informal writing style and can't get into it.
- rubberbandage 14y agoI would say “self-congratulatory” rather than “hipstery” — I’m reading this right now too, and although I find it fascinating (like I find reading about any cryptography fascinating), it often feels impenetrable without a cause to be, other than “aren’t these characters all such geniuses, I bet you can barely keep up.” Also, I get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Shaftos_Gone_to_Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Shaftos_Gone_to_Sea stuck in my head for hours afterwords each time.
- runjake 14y agoNothing's been above my head, it's more like it takes him too many words to make a point or get the jist across. He gets too creative/clever. I would like it to be more straightforward. Then again, I mainly read non-fiction from journalists or government types.
- headstorm 14y agoEmpire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
- ascuttlefish 14y agoEssays and aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer John A. MacDonald: The young politician by Donald Creighton Comedy of errors by Wm. Shakespeare Paradise Lost by John Milton
- rodrigo 14y agoThe Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
- rodrigo 14y agoIm finding it very enligthening, have anyone read it? care to share your opinions?
- urish 14y ago"The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name". A really interesting history book. I'm now in a great part, about how knowledge of geography (and map projections) was disseminated in Europe through a network of scholars and humanists during the 15th century. There was this huge collaborative effort to reconstruct ancient texts and to bring them in line with (then) current knowledge.
- thejteam 14y ago"The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict" for myself and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"(Chronicles of Narnia Series) for my children.
- khakimov 14y agoWhere wizards stay up late. The origins of the INTERNET.
- maguay 14y agoFrank Chimero's The Shape of Design in PDF. Great, thought-provoking book on design in everything in life.
- turbojerry 14y agoA Beautiful Anarchy: How to Create Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age by Jeffrey Tucker
- krisneuharth 14y agoJames Bond books by Ian Fleming
- orrenkt 14y agoI just read 'The Innovator's Dilemma' by Clayton Christensen and it's awesome. There's all this talk of "disrupting" everything in the tech world right now and a lot of it is really bullshit. This guy is the one who coined the term disruptive technology, and when you dig into it it's a really interesting concept that he actually backs up with great research on the disk drive industry. The core of the idea is that 'disruptive' technologies are underdog technologies that actually have worse performance than the leading technologies of their time, but also some other attributes (smaller, lighter, etc) that make them valuable to customers in niche, less profitable markets the big guys aren't interested in. Since technology progresses much faster than our demand for it, those cheaper, crappier technologies improve over time and end up killing the big, expensive players who originally dominated the market. Really great read
- dccoolgai 14y agoMeditations - Marcus Aurelius. Recommend it.