"Bleak House" by Charles Dickens, unless I can get Anthony Trollope's "Barsetshire Chronicles" accepted as a single book.
Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
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#72James Clavell's Shogun: The contrast between the Japanese and European cultures in 1600 are delicious, the characters and plot both well developed. I've read it at least a dozen times over four decades. As I age, I find I experience it very differently.
It's a very good book. I read the book and watched the 1970's TV series. I think it's a great candidate for a redo in the streaming era. It has adventure, political intrigue, romance, and on and on...
It's definitely worth reading more than once.
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#73Don Quijote de la Mancha
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#75Computer Systems - A Programmer's Perspective https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspect... Or, any discrete math book because it will take me a lifetime to understand it. If I choose an OS book, my life will be short indeed.
This is a great book that we used in Comp Sys 1 and 2. I had every intention of reading it after class / graduating but I have yet to do it.
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Interesting. Had to look it up. Wikipedia: Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. Can you put in words what makes you choose it as a book to re-read yearly?
Being able to say you’ve read this book pays dividends that go far beyond just the experience of reading the contents. It will give you instant credibility among important and highly intellectual individuals, and could lead to great job offers or securing strong investments. The prestige and recognition you carry amongst peers is priceless. Even just owning the book without reading it already puts you a step ahead of…
That's nice to know. I read it when I was 18/19 while travelling on the New York City subway from Far Rockaway into Manhattan. Twice a day for 3 months and sometimes outside it. I still know the opening line "A screaming comes across the sky". Difficult book.
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#77"Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahamsa Yogananda as its a book thats on one level about a chockful of miracles in India and weird bugs about reality (like what you see if not what you get) but on a deeper level about reality in the way that steve jobs felt compelled to hand it as his parting gift at his funeral
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#78Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Came here to say the same. Every time I read it it has a different meaning.
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#79Neuromancer by William Gibson
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#80The Book of the New Sun . I've already read it 6-ish times, with a different interpretation every time, and I have every reason to believe that would continue indefinitely. I would say The Book of the Long Sun and The Book of the Short Sun , since I like them better, but there's no way to justify calling them one book when, even in fiction, they're 2 different books. > (Feel free to substitute “the next 10 years“ for…
Haha. I meant that it’s quite hard to claim that a book that’s had an impact on your life between 20 and 50 will still have it when you’re 95. For some books, that might seem possible (say, spiritual texts or great literature). But for some, it’s quite unlikely (say, books about business, dating, or productivity).
So, no worries. My crystal ball tells me you’ve got lots of runway left!