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Ask HN: What are you reading right now?
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#32Coders at Work by Peter Seibel.
Very interesting interviews with hackers and/or computer language inventors.
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#33- *Built to Last* - Collins and Porras - *The Ruby Programming Language* - Flanagan and Matz - *_Whys Poignant Guide to Ruby* - _Why the Lucky Stiff
Ruby first "clicked" after I read _Why's Poignant guide to ruby. As zany as it is, some how it clears all the things you need to kick start in ruby
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#34Just finished Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson). About 100 pages into the Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (Haruki Murakami). Next is The Invention of Morel (Adolfo Bioy Casares).
I find that reading recharges my creative thinking. I used to think it was purely relaxation, but now consider it as essential as sleeping / eating well.
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#35The disappearing spoon - Sam Kean
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#36Four Hour Work Week: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com
and re-reading
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2274
Loving them both - excellent books.
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#37Heart of Darkness... an amazing read (and short!)
A book that should be on everyone's list!
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#38Kafka 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.)
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#39St Leon by William Godwin
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#40Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation