I recommend a book only recently I could read, the classic: 1984 by George Orwell
Every citizen should read it, on my opinion.
Ask HN: What book do you recommend everyone should read?
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#42Another book I recommend: On the shortness of life, by Seneca
I's life changing, it teaches you the importance to do not waste our most precious finite resource.
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#43Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki
I've heard that book isn't very good. It is full of stories that didn't happen and are just Robert's ideas about what makes a rich person rich. Basically, Robert got rich from telling others how rich people are. I've read plenty of books about finances that are just mind-numbingly obvious that it is a skip for anyone with common sense. Would you agree RDPD is that kind of book? https://www.johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-…
> It is full of stories that didn't happen and are just Robert's ideas about what makes a rich person rich.
If you read it like a parable similar to The Richest Man in Babylon or The Alchemist you can still gather some useful info and refreshers from this book.
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#44"Economics in one lesson"
I found it on a libertarian website, free to download, its about free market, against government intervention. It gives many examples of how "anything that the government touches, it dies"
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#45Sun Tzu - The Art of War.
You can breeze through it in an afternoon and it ends up being strangely applicable to life.
TBH if you read it in an afternoon you're probably missing on a lot of things.
I find that the original text on its own is very hard to fully understand. Usually better to read a commented/detailed edition. At least that's my experience.
But yeah, it is amazing how it can apply to so many things.
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#46Re: Ask HN: What book do you recommend everyone should read?
#47Fiction: War and Peace; the more everything changes the same humans stay. 200 years old and yet you can empathise with every character Non-fiction: Letters from Seneca; the only philosophy book I enjoyed and whose tenets I aim to practise every day.
Did you mean "Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca?
Yes, you're right. Thanks for pointing that out!
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#48Deep work is one of the best book I had read in this year
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1455586692/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...