Flowers for Algernon
Great book. I read it first in 2022, then re-read it last year and it still held up!
Wrote about it on my blog (don't open until you're done with it!"
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#12I use Claude Opus to rip thru books. It points out the fluff paragraphs so I skip them. Finished stuff I prob never would've touched: Slaughterhouse Five, The Three-Body Problem. I make quick Anki cards from the Opus reading sessions so I don't forget plot bits. I try to get Opus to quiz me on the sections it told me to focus on reading.
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#13I started reading the second edition of Designing data-intensive applications. I believe only the digital edition is out right now.
Liked the first edition, but there’s a lot of fluff. These days I have Claude remove the useless passages from stuff I want to read fast. Helps to make flash cards to drill for system design rounds.
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#14Reading Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic by Ilan Pappe. Learning quite a bit on a subject I didn’t know much about.
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#15I’ve been reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy lately. It’s a brilliant read—pure fuel for my sci-fi-loving brain.
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#16I use Claude Opus to rip thru books. It points out the fluff paragraphs so I skip them. Finished stuff I prob never would've touched: Slaughterhouse Five, The Three-Body Problem. I make quick Anki cards from the Opus reading sessions so I don't forget plot bits. I try to get Opus to quiz me on the sections it told me to focus on reading.
I can't tell if you are joking...
Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?
#17I use Claude Opus to rip thru books. It points out the fluff paragraphs so I skip them. Finished stuff I prob never would've touched: Slaughterhouse Five, The Three-Body Problem. I make quick Anki cards from the Opus reading sessions so I don't forget plot bits. I try to get Opus to quiz me on the sections it told me to focus on reading.
I can't tell if you are joking...
They aren't. Lol
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#19Just finished The Road, would definitely recommend.
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#20Invisible Women
If you liked Freakonomics, you will like this. It's not a rant, just one example after another of how we fail to account for half of the population.
I just finished The God of Small Things. The writing is phenomenal, but it was not quite my kind of book, so it took me a bit of effort to finish.