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Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
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#52Easily The City & The City by China Miéville. The premise is great, the characters are fun, the plot will keep you engaged. A noir detective story about a murder that happens in the space between two cities which are in superposition. That is, they share the same geographic space, but citizens are forced to live in only one of the cities by a seemingly omnipotent power called Breach that maintains the borders of the…
I have heard good things about this book. I have it on my Kindle and plan to read it next year.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#53By far the best thing I’ve read in years is the blog about obesity and its mysteries, slimemoldtimemold.com. Can’t recommend it enough.
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#54Starting FORTH by Leo Brodie - Written in a casual, funny, beginner friendly way, and even though I'm not a beginner I still enjoyed it immensely. Now if only Forth were more popular!
Edit: realised OP said `thing' not `things' so I deleted some books.
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#55Three Body Problem trilogy. Most unique sci-fi I have ever read.
Nice! I have this on my 2023 TBR. Cannot wait. I read Netflix is picking it up for an adaptation?
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#56let's talk about owls with diabetes by David Sedaris. Never has a book made me laugh out loud more than this one. It's completely ridiculous and crazy, but I loved every minute of it.
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#57The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. It definitely lives up to its reputation.
I have an audio-book of this! And a flight next week!
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#58Mme. Bovary. First it just was an exercise to show to my wife how _descriptions_ are _action_. I was trying to improved her everyday writing, you know, memos from work, informal/formal letters. I'm reading French just a little as English. So we are doing this... _exercises_ based upon an Spanish translate. And there it was. Just like I used to be remember it: fabrics that suddenly becomes a living creature embracing…
I read Madame Bovary a long time ago because in the old days when we visited East Berlin from the west they forced you to exchange some money into the worthless Ostmark. The only thing worth buying were books and even those were printed on terrible paper. I ended up with Madame Bovary and absolutely loved it, depressing as it is.
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#59The Rustonomicon (WIP) made Rust things click in a way that really benefitted me: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/
Definitely in the running!
I'd also recommend "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work": https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-en.pdf
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#60Re-read „It’s Not Luck” by Elijahu Goldratt; maybe it’s not „epiphany”, but very good instruction on tackling seemingly „impossible” projects.