Ask HN: What book are you reading right now? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by arunabh » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:29 PM UTC

Fountainhead

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by ExceptionRaised » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:29 PM UTC

Moby Dick. It's great so far, with wonderfully diverse, dense writing. For some reason I have trouble reading anything but the so-called "literary classics". Perhaps it's the fact that there are so many I could quite literally never read them all in my lifetime, so why waste time with anything else? I understand that's a somewhat flawed argument ("classics" are somewhat subjective), but I cannot bring myself to read much else.

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by thelonelygod » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:29 PM UTC

Mobile Suit Gundam the origin and the new Bryan lee o'malley novel Seconds.

I'm mainly just reading for pleasure right now. But reading these 2 volumes makes me want more hardback comic books.

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by bra-ket » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:30 PM UTC

The Regulatory Genome: Gene Regulatory Networks In Development And Evolution, by Eric Davidson

awesome read.

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by acheron » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

gglitch wrote: post #20

I'm halfway through the last volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and I admit I'm proud of it. I don't know what can be said in a small space about a novel so large and canonical, but I've deeply enjoyed it. An unexpected quirk of the novel is that though I've been heavily absorbed in it the whole way, and found it moving, funny, and in general a complete literary experience, I can't really recommend it to othe…

Translation or in French?

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by gatesphere » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

A Gamut of Games - Sid Sackson

Good Math - Mark Chu-Carroll

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by gatesphere » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

DarkTree wrote: post #32

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold. A great book that explains how computers actually work through number systems and the logic that acts on those systems. You start with the theory behind binary numbers and work your way through electrical circuits, logic gates, RAM, transistors, and the operating system as you build your fundamental knowledge of the inner workings of comp…

Finished that recently -- great book! His "Annotated Turing" is pretty great too, for machine heads.

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by bane » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood - Martin Booth

http://www.amazon.com/Gweilo-Memories-Hong-Kong-Childhood/dp...

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by rebolek » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

Telluriya by Vladimir Sorokin.

Very interesting, especially with current development in Ukraine.

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by rglover » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:34 PM UTC

Slowly making my way through The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander. Also reading Essentialism by Greg McKeown, and Influence by Robert Cialdini.