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Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by dvko »

dgellow wrote: post #31

I want to finish to read Snowden’s autobiography: “Permanent Record”. I started during a long train trip recently and found that I really enjoyed the tone of the first few chapters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Record_(autobiogra...

I am currently reading it as well. Only a few chapters in but already gained some interesting insights from it.

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by Rerarom »

I'd like to read the Realm of the Elderlings series and the Skolian Saga, which I've neglected so far. Also, I think I'll start a thorough reading of all Spider-Man comics.

Regarding non-fiction, I think I will read some books about algebraic geometry and Lie groups. Haven't yet made a plan.

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by dgellow »

nandreev wrote: post #28

The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas (A. Grigas) We (Y. Zamyatin) The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper (C. Petzold) Endurance (A. Lansing) Economics: The User's Guide (H. Chang) Oblomov (I. Goncharov)

I love “We”, one of my favorite work of science fiction! Crazy to think that has been written in 1921.

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by robin_reala »

0kl wrote: post #21
puszczyk wrote: post #3

I look forward to read “Meditations”[1] by Marcus Aurelius and re-read “Black Swan”[2]. On the _craftsperson_ front I’ve heard good things about “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”[3] by Martin Kleppman. Also hope to get some good recommendations here :) [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations?ac=1&f... [2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan?ac... [3]: https://www.goodre…

Re Aurelius: preview a couple different translations if you can - I have found there to be significant differences. If you have the time/inclination and haven’t already I’d also suggest reading Epictetus and Seneca first. NB: My favorite of all the available Aurelius translations so far is Martin Hammond (Penguin Classics)

Standard Ebooks has a nice PD edition of the George Long translation.[1] Also Elizabeth Carter’s translation of Epictetus’s The Enchiridion[2] and Aubrey Stewart’s translation of Seneca’s Dialogues.[3]

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...

[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/the-enchiridion/...

[3] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/dialogues/aubrey-st...

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by beaconstudios »

puszczyk wrote: post #3

I look forward to read “Meditations”[1] by Marcus Aurelius and re-read “Black Swan”[2]. On the _craftsperson_ front I’ve heard good things about “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”[3] by Martin Kleppman. Also hope to get some good recommendations here :) [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations?ac=1&f... [2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan?ac... [3]: https://www.goodre…

Meditations can be a slog - he repeats himself constantly, as is the tendency in published ancient Greek diaries/correspondence. It's a great grounding for stoicism though. I'd recommend also reading the Enchiridion and Discourses of Epictetus - I found them easier to absorb.
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