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Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Lordarminius wrote: post #8
balnaphone wrote: post #2

"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn "Confidence Game" by Christine Richard "Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep "Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick "The Great Deformation" by Dav…

Unless you get paid to read for a living how could you possibly have completed all those? :) !

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Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by kevindeasis »

cryoshon wrote: post #7

I'm not going to list all 42, but here are the highlights: How to Read a Book (Adler) World Order (Kissinger) Der Grundrisse (Marx) The Grand Chessboard (Brzezinski) Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky) Gulag Archipelago (Solhenitzyn) On War (Clausewitz) The Hidden Persuaders (Packard) Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Dennett) The Strategy of Desire (Dichter) Skills acquired: intentional syntopical reading, p…

Do you often read blog posts? I think the only way I would manage to read 42 books in 6 months is if I stopped reading blog posts and programming resources. I'd like to know how you've manage to read 42 books

Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by boznz »

Lordarminius wrote: post #8
balnaphone wrote: post #2

"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn "Confidence Game" by Christine Richard "Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep "Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick "The Great Deformation" by Dav…

Unless you get paid to read for a living how could you possibly have completed all those? :) !

I have read 19 books so far this year on my Kindle, mostly trashy Sci-Fi novels, not that hard really if you turn the TV off :-)

His list does look a bit more complicated than mine tho!

Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by british_india »

Lordarminius wrote: post #8
balnaphone wrote: post #2

"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn "Confidence Game" by Christine Richard "Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep "Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick "The Great Deformation" by Dav…

Unless you get paid to read for a living how could you possibly have completed all those? :) !

It's easy to read that many books--if you don't spend your time in front of a TV, that is. I myself had my best year fro reading in 2014 when I read 213 books. Fiction, non-fiction all. Once you read every day--before work and after--you would be amazed how quickly you can read--how deeply you can concentrate and how many books you can knock off.

Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by mjklin »

Where I'm Reading From, by Tim Parks

The Inevitable, by Kevin Kelly

Ideas that Changed the World, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

A Reader's Manifesto, by B.R. Myers

Framed!, by Hari Singh

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

Why Education is Useless, by Daniel Cottom

The New Diary, by Tristine Rainer

Raising a Happy, Unspoiled Child, by Burton White

Do way, way more in WorkFlowy, by Frank Degenaar

Unlearning the Basics, by R. Sativihari

The Devil's Pleasure Palace, by Michael Walsh

The Truth about Everything, by Matthew Stewart

The Big Questions, by Steven Landsburg

The Seven Mysteries of Life, by Guy Murchie

The Optimistic Child, by Martin Seligman

Systemantics, by John Gall

The Scientists A Family Romance, by Marco Roth

The Logic Of Failure, by Dietrich Dorner

Organizing Creativity, by Daniel Wessel

A Curious Mind, by Brian Grazer

Appointment In Samarra, by John O'Hara

Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by dharmon »

Lordarminius wrote: post #8
balnaphone wrote: post #2

"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn "Confidence Game" by Christine Richard "Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep "Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick "The Great Deformation" by Dav…

Unless you get paid to read for a living how could you possibly have completed all those? :) !

I can't answer for parent, but I've read 50 books so far this year.

I'd say I spend at least 2-3 hours a day reading, mostly at night before bed and also in the morning. On the weekends this is higher as I spend almost the whole morning reading.

When my first child arrives soon I imagine this will change significantly. :)

Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by sohkamyung »

I've been mainly reading SF Magazines for the first half of 2016.

Books read:

- Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle by Douglas J. Emlen

- Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Magazines read:

- Interzone: Issues 262 - 264

- Asimov's SF: July 2015 - March 2016

- New York Review of Science Fiction: Issue 330 (Special issue with tributes to the late David Hartwell).

Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by sohkamyung »

escapologybb wrote: post #4

I have just finished the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, I can't believe it took me so long to get round to reading such classic sci-fi. Definitely recommended.

By "Foundation Trilogy" you mean the original 'Foundation' stories as gathered in the first three books ("Foundation", "Foundation and Empire" and "Second Foundation")?

Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by new_random_user »

Lordarminius wrote: post #8
balnaphone wrote: post #2

"The Art of Profitability" by Adrian Slywotzky "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Bryan Caplan "Fanatical Prospecting" by Jeb Blount "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" by David Einhorn "Confidence Game" by Christine Richard "Mouth Matters; How Your Mouth Ages Your Body and What YOU Can Do About It" by Carol Vander Stoep "Adventures in Stochastic Processes" by Sidney & Resnick "The Great Deformation" by Dav…

Unless you get paid to read for a living how could you possibly have completed all those? :) !

I have resorted to reading audiobooks on my commute to/from the office.

With a 25 minute commute (one way), I can finish on average 2 to 3 books per month by audio. This is in addition to the other reading I can get done in during the days and on weekends.

Re: Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?

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Post by acabrahams »

1. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

2. One L by Scott Turow

3. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

4. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

5. Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod

6. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

7. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy

8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (re-read)

9. I, Claudius by Robert Graves

10. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

11. The Fear Index by Robert Harris

12. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (re-read)

13. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (re-read)

14. Hannibal by Thomas Harris (re-read)

15. Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (re-read)

16. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (re-read)

17. Claudius the God by Robert Graves

Re-reads take hardly any time at all, so I'm not sure whether to count them. If you're not, then 11 books read so far.

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