Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg was exceptionally well researched and told.
Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
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#12"The Baron in the Trees" by Italo Calvino.
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#13It's a self-help book called Secrets of Divine Love.
It helped me with clearing out so much in my life that I used to worry about. It is a slow read; otherwise, one gets bored other than that, I enjoyed each and every bit of it.
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#141632 by Eric Flint - It's an alternative history in which the real town of Mannington, Virginia is fictionalized as "Grantville" and thrown back in time to 1631 Germany, causing it's citizens to band together, and kick off the American Revolution more than a Century Early.
It's a fascinating study of society and the infrastructure that makes civilization work. Their struggles to avoid starvation and being over-run by the armies of the 30 years war are gripping reading.
It was so popular it spawned a community of writers and a series that lived until the authors demise a few years ago.
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#15Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
No better way to be reminded there is a big difference between someone that surfs for fun and someone who is a surfer.
Surfing parts aside, this book taught me to appreciate the different parts of your life around your 'obsession' as you get older.
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#16Project Hail Mary, I laughed out loud and mocked the premise of the book but it was a great read, one of my best reads ever. Very well done.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#17Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan No better way to be reminded there is a big difference between someone that surfs for fun and someone who is a surfer . Surfing parts aside, this book taught me to appreciate the different parts of your life around your 'obsession' as you get older.
I loved this book, slow start, but pure magic after that.
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#18Killer of Men by Christian Cameron
Helped me reboot in my early 30s, fantastic series.
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#19The most impactful for me was Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. Made me have a more direct association of time and money and made me focus on the fact free time is more valuable than money (to me) beyond a pretty minimal point.
Read it at 18 while working at a hardware store. Probably the best thing that could've happened to me.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#20The most impactful for me was Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. Made me have a more direct association of time and money and made me focus on the fact free time is more valuable than money (to me) beyond a pretty minimal point. Read it at 18 while working at a hardware store. Probably the best thing that could've happened to me.
Did it make you leave the hardware store or what?