Project 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.
I read "The Martian", found it an okay read and didn't bother to read this one. I'll reconsider.
Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#22Hard to choose for myself who made the post.
But some of my favorites are -
1. God: The Failed Hypothesis Book by Victor J. Stenger
2. The God Delusion Book by Richard Dawkins
3. Berlin: The Downfall 1945 Book by Antony Beevor
4. A Song of Ice and Fire Novel series by George R.R. Martin
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything Book by Bill Bryson
6. Billions and Billions Book by Carl Sagan
7. Flowers for Algernon Short story by Daniel Keyes
8. I'm Glad My Mom Died Book by Jennette McCurdy
9. Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad Book by Peter Bergen
10. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Book by Carl Sagan
11. The Metamorphosis Novella by Franz Kafka
12. The Selfish Gene Book by Richard Dawkins
Gun to my head, pick one? The God Delusion.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#23William Gass - The Tunnel. For the past year or so I have been trying to come up with a good way to help people understand it without explaining it all away. Think I have mostly figured out how to do it, just need to spend a month or two heavily annotating the book and taking notes, and then make a website. So many books these days have terrible online resources that do more damage than good, indices and annotations which seem to index and annotate by whim with no sense of scope or purpose. Quite a few seem like they were personal projects in the creators process of understanding the novel and while I think it is great they shared it all with the world, I wish they had used what it taught them to edit their indices and annotations before they uploaded them.
Been dragging my feet on this since I don't really feel like learning all the web stuff, have not made a webpage in 20 years. Eventually I will get to it, or maybe I will find an accomplice.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#24William Gass - The Tunnel. For the past year or so I have been trying to come up with a good way to help people understand it without explaining it all away. Think I have mostly figured out how to do it, just need to spend a month or two heavily annotating the book and taking notes, and then make a website. So many books these days have terrible online resources that do more damage than good, indices and annotations…
I'd love to be your accomplice for this.
I have my own idea too regarding a book website, but different from yours. I've been thinking about it.
I had a personal Facebook account where I posted interesting quotes from books l read. My Facebook wall was just an agglomeration of interesting quotes I found either from books I read, or movies I watched, or things I found online.
It was like my own personal archive, but yet publicly shared for people to see because those quotes were too good not to be seen by others. Facebook memories made it even more exciting as I could see quotes from years ago that sometimes captured how I was feeling that same day I saw the memory.
But then few months ago my Facebook got suspended for "account integrity" issues and my appeals have failed. I've accepted I'd never get my Facebook back.
So now I've just been storing quotes on my personal notes app, but it's not satisfying that I can't share them with the world.
My idea was to build a website where I can share those quotes and people can comment on them and share their own quotes too. Just a quote website lol. Quotes from books, movies, etc. Profound stuff.
But then the more I think about it, it's like a social network again and I'm not sure I want the stress of that. Moderation and stuff.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#25William Gass - The Tunnel. For the past year or so I have been trying to come up with a good way to help people understand it without explaining it all away. Think I have mostly figured out how to do it, just need to spend a month or two heavily annotating the book and taking notes, and then make a website. So many books these days have terrible online resources that do more damage than good, indices and annotations…
I'd love to be your accomplice for this. I have my own idea too regarding a book website, but different from yours. I've been thinking about it. I had a personal Facebook account where I posted interesting quotes from books l read. My Facebook wall was just an agglomeration of interesting quotes I found either from books I read, or movies I watched, or things I found online. It was like my own personal arch…
It would require you to read The Tunnel, assuming you have not already read it.
Why not make a plain old boring website without comments for your quote collection and share it where you can? It would not be much work to do and it might work out better. Or you could put it in the fortune format and stick it on your github.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to be your accomplice for this. I have my own idea too regarding a book website, but different from yours. I've been thinking about it. I had a personal Facebook account where I posted interesting quotes from books l read. My Facebook wall was just an agglomeration of interesting quotes I found either from books I read, or movies I watched, or things I found online. It was like my own personal arch…
It would require you to read The Tunnel, assuming you have not already read it. Why not make a plain old boring website without comments for your quote collection and share it where you can? It would not be much work to do and it might work out better. Or you could put it in the fortune format and stick it on your github.
Makes sense
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#27The 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?
It was a summer gig during Uni, so that was going to happen anyway. It made me treat every dollar with respect from that place and begin riding my bike to work instead of driving, though
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book you've read?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to be your accomplice for this. I have my own idea too regarding a book website, but different from yours. I've been thinking about it. I had a personal Facebook account where I posted interesting quotes from books l read. My Facebook wall was just an agglomeration of interesting quotes I found either from books I read, or movies I watched, or things I found online. It was like my own personal arch…
It would require you to read The Tunnel, assuming you have not already read it. Why not make a plain old boring website without comments for your quote collection and share it where you can? It would not be much work to do and it might work out better. Or you could put it in the fortune format and stick it on your github.