Ask HN: What 3 Books Would You Recommend to Anyone? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What 3 Books Would You Recommend to Anyone?

#11

Post by PaulHoule » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 2:47 AM UTC

howard941 wrote: post #6

Hyperion Dahlgren What to do when there is no Doctor

Dahlgren is at least a based choice of a sci-fi novel. Beats Moon as a Harsh Mistress, I've never convinced anyone that Haldeman's Worlds deserves such status.

Re: Ask HN: What 3 Books Would You Recommend to Anyone?

#12

Post by PaulHoule » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 2:51 AM UTC

more_corn wrote: post #8

“Sapiens” read it twice, wish I could go back in time and give it to 18yr old me. “The Dosadi Experiment”, probably 5 life-changing concepts just tossed in for flavor. “A Pattern Language” on how spaces inform life and life informs spaces.

I love Dosadi and all the Busab books, anything by Herbert that isn't Dune, the trashier the better.

"A Pattern Language" had very little impact on architecture but a huge impact on software design.

Re: Ask HN: What 3 Books Would You Recommend to Anyone?

#13

Post by hulitu » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 4:30 PM UTC

1984, Animal farm by George Orwell

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert.

They fit very good to present time.

Re: Ask HN: What 3 Books Would You Recommend to Anyone?

#14

Post by HenryBemis » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 9:06 PM UTC

  1984 (Orwell)
  Siddhartha (Hesse) 
  The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)