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Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024

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Re: Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024

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Post by unsupp0rted »

zi_ wrote: post #11

"From the soil: Foundations of Chinese Society" by Fei Xiaotong. It is a book (accessible to non-chinese) that helps one understand a population of >1.4 billion in less than 180 pages. Wouldn’t one call this a bargain? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134293.From_the_Soil

Any key takeaways that apply to 2024?

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024

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Post by say_it_as_it_is »

zi_ wrote: post #11

"From the soil: Foundations of Chinese Society" by Fei Xiaotong. It is a book (accessible to non-chinese) that helps one understand a population of >1.4 billion in less than 180 pages. Wouldn’t one call this a bargain? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134293.From_the_Soil

Depends on whether it's a brutally honest, historically accurate assessment or simply imaginative propaganda.

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024

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Post by temeya »

'The Systems Bible, 3rd Edition, by John Gall as a light introduction to Systems Theory as well as 'How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know, 3rd Edition' to brush up on my Linux. "Computer Organization and Design, 5th Edition" after those two.

On the fiction front, I just finished "Queen City Jazz", by Kathleen Ann Goonan, and I've got "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez queued up as well.

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