The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Once you've finished that, you may enjoy The Profit, by Kehlog Albran (http://www.angelfire.com/on2/mikemcclellan/theprofit.html)
Ask HN: What are you reading right now?
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#152Re-reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. Best fantasy series of all time. Read it even if you're not a fantasy buff.
Love that series so much. Cant wait for the show to come out on HBO.
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#153Currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. So far, it's a really charming history of science (and well, everything else), starting from the Big Bang. Bryson has never let me down before. I just finished Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. That was an intense book! If you like deep sea adventure or anything U-boat, it's a worthy read.
Just want to second ASHNE by Bryson. This is one of those books that you see in a lot of people's backpacks when you travel to hostels - meaning that when you cannot carry tons of stuff, people choose this book...Thought-provoking and interesting.
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#154Right now, Charlie Stross Wireless , a short story collection. However, what I'm going to read very shortly will be Moby-Dick for the third time; my daughter just read it in her high school English class and it became clear to me that it's time to read it again. Good Lord, that man could turn a phrase.
Awesome. I'm a huge fan of Stross. "Missile Gap" was my favorite story in that collection.
"Accelerando" is his best novel by far, IMO. Check it out if you haven't already.
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#155Lolita
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#156Hi, this is my first contribution to HN. I'm currently reading Revelation Space . It's a science fiction space opera novel by Alastair Reynolds. Pretty immersive. A good read!
Read this one a few months ago. Thought it was OK, but I hear the sequels, in particular "Chasm City," are a little better. I'll probably check it out in the next month or two.
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#157Just finished with:
- (AIMA) Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
- Javascript : The Good Parts
Starting on:
- Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa
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#158Just started Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It's been years since I last touched scheme.
Just finished Refactoring in Ruby by Wake & Rutherford (a quick read, but had some good tips), and Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (fantastic).
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#159The books I'm in the middle of reading to one extent or another, that I can think of right this moment:
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Swarm Intelligence - James Kennedy & Russel C. Eberhart
How The Mind Works - Steven Pinker
A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
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#160Now: "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years" by Diarmaid MacCulloch. A comprehensive history of Christianity, going back to its origins in Judaism and Greek philosophy.
A few days ago: "Iron Sunrise" by Charles Stross. Solid space opera, buy not my favorite Stross.