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Ask HN: What are you reading?
The Forth Edition of the Hacker News Book club. Tell us what you are reading, plan to read, or recommend we read.
Third: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394397
Second: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342886
First: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918181
- csoare 11y agoMindset, Carol Dweck: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindset-How-Fulfil-Your-Potential/dp/1780332009 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindset-How-Fulfil-Your-Potential/dp... Zero to One, Peter Thiel: http://zerotoonebook.com/ http://zerotoonebook.com/ Also plan on starting "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!"
- brownbat 11y agoRecently read and most recommended: * Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin * Slaughterhouse Five..., Vonnegut --- I'm in the middle of Ready Player One. Of the last dozen books I've read[1], Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin left my head swimming for the most days, so I'd highly recommend it. It was really eye-opening to read sci fi from a different cultural baseline. Most of my dozen latest reads were during an internet fast. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443888 They included Asimov, Bradbury, Christie, Philip K Dick, Pratchett, Simmons, Stross, and a few by Vonnegut. I'm not arguing Liu is a better writer than this club. His book just stayed in my head longer for some reason. Maybe just because the opening chapters were so strikingly different from everything else I read. I mean, if you haven't read Slaughterhouse Five go read that immediately, of course, but I assume everyone's heard of Vonnegut already. So if you've crossed that off your list, read Three Body.
- gadders 11y agoThe Saga of the Pliocene Exile series by Julian May: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_Pliocene_Exile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_Pliocene_Exile And I'm enjoying it greatly.
- ldd 11y agoThe handmaid's Tale http://www.amazon.com/Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood/dp/038549081X/ref=sr_1_1 http://www.amazon.com/Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood/dp/0385...