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Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?

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Of the books I've read this year, the fiction ones that stand out to me would be: 1. The entire Sprawl Trilogy by Gibson, and the entire Bridge Trilogy, also by Gibson. The former I'd read before (multiple times) while the latter I had not read all the way through until now. Neuromancer I've read probably 7 or 8 times total in my life by now. I'm not as crazy about Gibson's later stuff, but the Sprawl and Bridge book…

> I'm excluding that one book that was written by another author after Douglas Adams' passing.

If this is _A Salmon of Doubt_, I can strongly recommend that book. It's a collection of the things they found on his computer (with permission to publish it). It's a great and varied set of DNA's writing. I really enjoyed reading it.

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i have noticed a lot of bs attached to anunnaki when i wanted to research more on this. a bunch of ufo, lizard-people... crap. i am interested in facts, not fiction.

I agree, it's a legitimately interesting subject in the history of religions (and history overall), but there's little to go by that's not, eh, scholarship-free. But to be fair, mythical accounts of deities, and the impetus for such accounts, is a very difficult subject to approach. E.g., in the end of the first rhapsody of Odyssey, the goddess Athena is described having "the splendour of the sun" and departing from…

Yep, sumerian cuneiform is ahead of me. Still have some books i want to read before that but i am certainly interested in reading the old text myself.
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