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

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

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Post by jat850 » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:37 PM UTC

The Stand - again. For probably the 10th or 11th time, I've lost track.

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

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Post by peregrine » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:37 PM UTC

DanHulton wrote: post #57

* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo * A Guide to the Good Life: The Anicent Art of Stoic Joy * Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality About the last, I typically abhor fanfic, and I admit, I started reading this one in a fit of ironic pique. However, it's actually quite damned good. Reimagine the world of Harry Potter if Harry grew up in a happy, rationalist houehold and was an exceptionally bright young scientist…

I too am reading the Stoic Guide. Its a great book to start and I'm already putting stoic principals into my daily life to great success.

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

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Post by mprovo1 » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:39 PM UTC

Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

I'm not even a fan of bios and seriously this is one of the best books I've read this year (so far, I'm halfway through).

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

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Post by modality » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #38

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Histoire d'O by Pauline Réage My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski (This one seems to be taking me forever, even though it's entertaining. Biographies are not really my thing.)

I am also reading Kafka on the Shore by Murakami.

Before that I read Norweigan Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End Of The World by Murakami, as well as Godel, Escher, Bach which took forever (I read on the subway).

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

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Post by mk » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:42 PM UTC

Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug

Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

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

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Post by Kevin_M_Miller » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:42 PM UTC

Drive By Dan Pink

http://www.danpink.com/drive

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

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Post by Robin_Message » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:43 PM UTC

Mankhool wrote: post #25

"The Evolutionary Void" - Peter F. Hamilton. Epic SF on a grand scale.

Oh, does he solve the Void trilogy with a deus ex machina too, like his other books? I've sworn off Peter F Hamilton for being too damm long for the quality of story you get.

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

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Post by alizaki » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:43 PM UTC

Bounce by Matthew Syed. Highly recommended read in the same vein as Outliers without the need to find continuously interesting anecdotes every 5 pages and with some science.

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

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Post by hfinney » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:43 PM UTC

devmonk wrote: post #2

This post.

I'm always surprised by the relative dearth of smart-ass comments on this site.

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

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Post by tdupree » Wed, Nov 03, 2010, 5:44 PM UTC

I thoroughly enjoyed the Foundation Series about a year ago and since then have been reading many of the books found in Asimov's Foundation Universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series#List_of_books...). Right now I am reading "The Robots of Dawn", the third book in Asimov's Robot Series. I have gone in a kind of a strange order, first reading The Complete Robot, then the Foundation Series, the Empire Series, and now the Robot Series. I have enjoyed them all, I like Asimov's style. I also enjoyed Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and will be reading the next book in the series "Speaker for the Dead" soon.