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Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?
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#182The Noonday Demon. A beautiful book on depression. Heartbreaking and life-affirming in turns.
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#183Dune books 1-4 I tried reading book 5 (heretics of dune) but lost interest after around 100 pages due to the sheer number of different characters that I couldn’t keep track of!
I already felt this way halfway into Dune 1.
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#184The ones that stand out: Fiction: Project Hail Mary. Non-fiction: The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
What did you think of the Deutsch book? I heard him highly praised but people also said it took many re-readings to understand and digest.
It's really a nice book and it left me feeling very optimistic about the future. The audio book has superb quality as well if you prefer that. Regarding rereading, maybe the chapter about the multiverse is dense and require rereading, the rest was OK.
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#185The ones that stand out: Fiction: Project Hail Mary. Non-fiction: The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
I read the beginning of infinity a few years ago. Super interesting. What did you think of it?
I really liked it, it was fun and left me feeling very optimistic about the future.
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#186Salvation Sequence by Peter G Hamilton
A realistic alien invasion hard scifi trilogy set during different periods of time in our future. "Read" in audiobook format, narrated by John Lee who is also great.
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#187- Elon Musk biography was interesting (just finished before acquisition) - it’s amazing how close to failure his companies were.
- So good they can’t ignore you — some interesting takeaways
- Atomic habits - only takeaway I remember is habit stacking
- I’m almost finished with Well of Ascension - I think the use of metal is a creative source of super powers
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly enough, Liu Cixin's books got me thinking in more pessimistic ways, and maybe even more realistic - how we are still just a bunch of brutal animals, MAD being the only thing that's keeping us from destroying each other. His "Wandering Earth" is also a very good read.
I read the trilogy, which is actually named “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”, with “The Three-Body Problem” being the first, and IMO the weakest of the books. Great read, but I can’t see how anyone would be optimistic about humankind after reading them: a group of humans who think we should be eradicated and invited aliens to do it, or at the least enslave us; collaborators when that eventually happens; and then as you…
I read the first book during the pandemic and Barely finished it. It seemed confusing until I realized the plot, but even that plot seemed incoherent. I couldn’t find any reason to pick up the second book. Your comments about the negative/pessimistic finale make it sound unworthy of continuing. Is there any reason to continue reading? Would you advise against it?
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#189Sex God Method.
this one is probably the only good book on this subject
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#190Bronze Age Mindset If one book from the 21st century will be remembered in 500 years, I am convinced this will be it.
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