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Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?
Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?
The last book I "seriously" read was The world is Flat.
- ErrantX 17y agoMind Magic (by Marc Lemezma) - Im trying to improve my mentalism skills (and though that book is really basic it is a good refresher on ideas). Last serious book was a 620 page tome entitled "Writing Security Tools and Exploits". A book with potentially the largest "great title" to "boring content" ratio ever :( (stuck at it though in principle :P)
- yan 17y ago"A People's History of the United Sates" by Howard Zinn. A decent history book, not exactly uplifting. Reading currently: "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert Caro. Absolutely loving it. That, and my usual climbing books.
- scott_s 17y agoCurrent: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Last: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. The best recent: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamon.
- michaelfairley 17y agoLast: I am a Strange Loop Current: Neuromancer
- deutronium 17y agoThe Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
- TallGuyShort 17y agoLast: Hacker's Handbook 3.0 by Dr. K (waste of time) Current: Last Light by Andy McNab (awesome)
- mgrouchy 17y agoI am currently reading "beautiful code" by Greg Wilson, Andy Oram(and all the contributors)
- BrentRitterbeck 17y agoThe last book I finished was Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. I am currently perusing numerous books for summer research.
- ddemchuk 17y agoJust finished "Anthem" by Ayn Rand (it's like 100 pages so it only took a few hours) Started "The American Political Tradition" by Richard Hofstadter, pretty engaging history of our major politicians and founding fathers...
- fogus 17y agolast book: The Dark Tower II currently: The T Programming Language
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- warfangle 17y agoPrevious: Anathem Current: Programming in Scala
- jacquesm 17y agoThe big switch before that Accelerando
- rokhayakebe 17y agoI started to read it but I lost interest quickly.
- spk 17y agoI've almost finished Accelerando. I can't remember which was the previous one..
- HalcyonMuse 17y agoCat's Cradle, by Vonnegut.
- TrevorJ 17y ago"The Screwtape Letters", by C.S. Lewis In the middle of "Roughing It" by Mark Twain now.
- johng 17y agoJust got done reading 'the fountainhead' by ayn rand.
- keefe 17y agoLast serious book : http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cryptography-Practice-Hewlett-Packard-Professional/dp/0130669431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248124290&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cryptography-Practice-Hewlett-P... Last fun book : http://www.amazon.com/Woken-Furies-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novels/dp/0345498356/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248124318&sr=1-2 http://www.amazon.com/Woken-Furies-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novels/dp/... I can't resist the body swapping stuff ever since reading Lord of Light as a kid
- domodomo 17y agoLast book: 1984 Current book: Master & Commander
- kes 17y ago"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by David Eggers. Ironic title, thoughtful and enjoyable book. Suggested.
- blazamos 17y agoIn Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (excellent; recently saw Food, Inc. as well) The Next 100 Years by George Friedman (amusing; was given to me as a gag gift) Currently reading: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- stepherm 17y agoLast: What is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages by Potter. Current: Flow: The psychology of optimal experience by Csikszentmihalyi
- Evgeny 17y agoLast fiction - The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross Before that - The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (recommended to all fantasy fans) Last technical - AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
- sharpn 17y ago'Create Your Own Economy' by Tyler Cowen - a good read.
- ironsam 17y agolast: East of Eden (Steinbeck) current: Design Patterns of Enterprise Architecture (Fowler)
- sgoraya 17y agoCurrent: Ghandi and Churchill by Arthur Herman Last: The Odyssey by Homer A bull in China by Jim Rogers
- jake_morrison 17y agoHalting State, by Charles Stross, great for computer geeks
- oz 17y agoThe Road To Gandolfo by Robert Ludlum
- burke 17y agoCurrent: Zen and the Brain Previous: Gödel, Escher, Bach (still working on that one, actually)
- silvio 17y agoI read Multireal, which is the follow up to Infoquake. They deal with a startup producing software that runs inside people, executed by tiny nanobots. The books explore startup culture.
- lacker 17y agoLast: The C Programming Language - Kernighan & Ritchie Current: The Effective Executive - Peter Drucker
- christofd 17y agoLast: Create your own Economy, by Tyler Cowen Current: Real World Haskell
- miditim 17y agoMusicophilia (too much psychiatry, not enuf music) b4 that Anathem (will read again after a few years) b4 that Halting State (cool)
- il 17y agoRobert Greene- 48 Laws of Power
- nopassrecover 17y agoLast: Crossing the Chasm Current: Managing Humans
- nopassrecover 17y agoThis is a great source of stuff for: function get_smarter(): 1. Am I smart enough yet? (default answer: of course not!) 2. If yes, go make a grillion dollars, or go fishing, or something. (Note: this statement is unreachable). 3. Otherwise: 1. Do various important things, until I have some free time. 2. Pick a book from my book list and read it. 3. If I've read it already, check all the references at the end, and add the ones that look good to my book list. 4. get_smarter() "If your book list is empty, add Gödel, Escher, Bach to it before calling the function for the first time. And with that, I'm off to go finish the book!" http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/godel-escher-blog http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/godel-escher-blog
- firefoxman1 17y agoGetting Real by 37 signals.
- safetytrick 17y agoIn the middle of GEB,
- dpnewman 17y ago'The Double' by José Saramago
- fiaz 17y agoKing Warrior Magician Lover by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette http://www.amazon.com/King-Warrior-Magician-Lover-Rediscovering/dp/0062506064 http://www.amazon.com/King-Warrior-Magician-Lover-Rediscover...
- phugoid 17y agoLittle Brother by Cory Doctorow, in one sitting.
- fburnaby 17y agoFreedom Evolves - Dan Dennett
- secret 17y agoJust finished: Childhood's End and Rendezvous with Rama
- balding_n_tired 17y agoFinished: _Germany 1866-1945_ by Gordon Craig. Various others in parallel.