The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?
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#12It's quite trendy at the moment, but Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari was quite the life changing book. As well as An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Commander Chris Hadfield was a rather inspirational tale.
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#13100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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#14The Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett and the Fencer Trilogy by K.J. Parker.
I read a lot of everything I can find but always get back to these.
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#15“What makes it go, what makes it work, what makes it fly, what makes it float” taught me that gadgets and appliances have internal mechanics.
“The Lucifer principle” introduced me to evolution and evo-psych thinking.
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#16in no particular order: Lord of the Rings Cryptonomicon Anathem Moby Dick The Master and Margarita Walden Arabian Sands Gawain and the Green Knight Beowulf
I love The Master and Margarita. A lithuanian friend introduced me to it and she told me that it was censored back when Lithuania was still part of the Soviet Union and they used to share those parts in secret (copied on a typewriter).
Re: Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?
#17in no particular order: Lord of the Rings Cryptonomicon Anathem Moby Dick The Master and Margarita Walden Arabian Sands Gawain and the Green Knight Beowulf
I love The Master and Margarita. A lithuanian friend introduced me to it and she told me that it was censored back when Lithuania was still part of the Soviet Union and they used to share those parts in secret (copied on a typewriter).
true samizdat!
I have the english translation by Burgin and O'Connor, which is excellent. https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-Mikhail-Bulgakov/dp/...
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#18The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli.
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#19The Epistles of the Bible: Romans, 1-2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude
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#20Antifragile - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Pavarotti: My World - Luciano Pavarotti, William Wright
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford