If there was one book you’d recommend for everyone to read over the Christmas break. What book would that be?
Ask HN: What was a book that changed your life?
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#2The first Dune book.
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#3Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
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#4Rudolf Carnap - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Maybe it didn’t “change my life” but as a physics/math student this was probably the single book that most affected my internal ideology, by simply raising so many questions I hadn’t ever considered (or if I had, it was clumsy and inadequate).
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#56 pillars of self esteem
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#6The Moral Animal
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#7Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I have not received a ticket for a driving infraction since.
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#8Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
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#9I've read "the lord of the rings" when I was 12, over the course of 3 days. Eat, sleep, go to bathroom, and read.
Probably the biggest impact a book ever had on me.
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#10Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I have not received a ticket for a driving infraction since.
I've read the book many years ago but can't make the connection - could you explain?