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

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Post by DanHulton »

jonnathanson wrote: post #261
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…

Thank you, thank you, thank you for that Harry Potter fanfic. I am neither a Harry Potter fan nor a fanfic fan, but the premise piqued my nerdy interests just the same. Perhaps it's coincidental that I'm writing a story (not a fanfic; original IP) that is sort of like Harry Potter but involves an alternate future in which the combination of nanomachines and quantum physics allows people to wield "magic"-like control…

I have actually toyed with this idea quite a few times, most recently after finishing The Alera Codex - a series of fantasy books by Jim Butcher that I highly recommend.

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

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Post by bryanwb »

makeramen wrote: post #268

Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard -- Chip and Dan Heath ( http://www.amazon.com/Switch-Change-Things-When-Hard/dp/0385... Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us -- Dan Pink ( http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates... ) Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? -- Seth Godin ( http://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin/... ) The Laws of Simplicity -- John Maeda ( http…

Big -1 on How to Win Friends by Dale Carnegie

I think Franklin Covey's 7 Habits is much better in this regard

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

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Post by faz »

Just started with "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" by Andy Hunt.

Also reading "1453: The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West" by Roger Crowley. More of an action book than a historical one.

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

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Post by Confusion »

modality wrote: post #74
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).

Thirding Murakami. Currently reading The Windup-Bird Chronicle

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Post by Confusion »

ctkrohn wrote: post #156
allanp8 wrote: post #105

Hi, this is my first contribution to HN. I'm currently reading Revelation Space . It's a science fiction space opera novel by Alastair Reynolds. Pretty immersive. A good read!

Read this one a few months ago. Thought it was OK, but I hear the sequels, in particular "Chasm City," are a little better. I'll probably check it out in the next month or two.

I think it depends on your taste. I thought Chasm City was a lesser novel in the series, though it's an interesting mix of a hardboiled detective story with space Opera and hard sf
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