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Ask HN: What are you reading these days?
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#22The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard [1].
Ballard is science fiction in the sense he explores inner space instead of outer space.
Some are kind of eh, and ones that have really stuck out for me,
"Concentration City" - a giant infinitely expanding city ala Dark City or Blame!.
"Studio Five, The Stars" - poetry is written by machines and only eccentrics write their own. Think AI generation of art but in 1961.
"The Subliminal Man" - government uses subliminal messages to promote mindless consumerism - They Live but 1963.
"Billennium" - Earth is vastly overpopulated and any semblance of personal space or privacy is non-existent.
"The Garden of Time" - allegory of never ceasing approach of time no matter what you do to defend yourself from it.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Short_Stories_o...
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#23I read “The Bitcoin Standard” which I really enjoyed. However i’m not finding “The fiat standard” as interesting.
Is that the modern money mechanics book?
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#24Jim Butcher's latest Cinder Spires book.
Recently finished the last Brandon Sanderson secret project.
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#25I’ve been reading “Deschooling Society” by Ivan Illich while slowly working my way through Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”.
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#26Last three things I read (slightly all over the place):
- Aleister Crowley by Steven Ashe: A biography of the British occultist.
- Going Infinite by Michael Lewis: A (very well meaning) story of Sam Bankman-Fried
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt: A book about "safety culture" on campus and it's implications at large.
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#27Re-reading "A song of ice and fire" saga with the hope that "Winds of winter" arrives just when I finish
My sweet summer child.
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#28Perfume 'The Alchemy of Scent' by Jean-Claude Ellena - the art and business of creating perfume.
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#29The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology - Nick Cook.
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#30Last three things I read (slightly all over the place): - Aleister Crowley by Steven Ashe: A biography of the British occultist. - Going Infinite by Michael Lewis: A (very well meaning) story of Sam Bankman-Fried - The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt: A book about "safety culture" on campus and it's implications at large.
I thought The Coddling of the American Mind was excellent.