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Post by ushercakes »

ArcMex wrote: post #48

Fiction I discovered and read Blake Crouch this year - Dark Matter - Recursion - Upgrade - Pines I also discovered and read - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - Gravity by Tess Gerritsen - A Man by, At the End of the Matinee Keiichiro Hirano It's between Recursion and Project Hail Mary for me. I am leaning more towards Recursion. Non-fiction I discovered and read the following this year - Deep Work by Cal Newport - The…

Project Hail Mary was such a fun read. I burned through it in 2 days, and was sad when I finished it. 10/10 would recommend

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Post by jszymborski »

lianna-vba wrote: post #70
jszymborski wrote: post #47

Easily 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…

Besides The City & The City I really enjoyed Kraken and Un Lun Dun by China Miéville. Kraken is the hunt for a giant squid after it vanished from a London museum. Un Lun Dun is a young adult story of two friends who end up in a whimsical version of London.

I'll have to check them out!

I was first drawn to TC&TC because I was told Disco Elysium draws from it, and boy howdy was that right. Something is so wonderful about a crime procedural in an entirely fantastic universe.

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Post by AntoniusBlock »

Alekhine wrote: post #64
AntoniusBlock wrote: post #54

Starting 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.

I recently had an idea for a spellcrafter game that uses forth. check back in several years?

Will do! Also, nice name. Alekhine's games have given me great pleasure over the years.

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Post by lordgrenville »

raptor556 wrote: post #7

"The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. If anyone can recommended some other "beginner" books for learning genetics I would really appreciate it.

She Has her Mother's Eyes is a good one. But of course if you want to learn properly you need something more comprehensive than books like these.

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Post by trynewideas »

I was late by a year to it, but Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun was both fascinating and, typical for Ishiguro, almost lethally concentrated melancholy. A literary take on AGI and religion from the cleverly written perspective of an AI assistant device, mixed with a coming-of-age story and a meditation on the disposability of modern technology.

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Post by BigHatLogan »

tayo42 wrote: post #65

I read "Crucial Conversations" this year. It feel like it has the potential to be life changing. Need more time to tell what impact it really has. It introduced me to a new topic, which is analyzing social situations and apply problem solving skills to them. Something that never occurred to me for some reason. I now realize there are smart people working and having interesting thoughts and conclusions in this topic.…

Buying this off the strength of your recommendation. That sounds exactly like what the doctor ordered. I'm getting worse at expressing myself the older I'm getting, and I'm finding it impairing my personal life, work life, social situations, etc. Will give this one a read--thank you!

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Post by Barrin92 »

Fiction: The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier. Very fun novel somewhere between sci-fi and literary fiction, best read without having spoiled anything about it.

Non-Fiction: The Bright Ages - Matthew Gabriele. Very nuanced well written popular history of the medieval period

Journalism: Not from this year but I read it this year the first time: Largely photographic piece about the drug war in the Phillipines: (warning, very disturbing/gory) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/07/world/asia/ro...

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