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Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

#11

Post by ddemchuk » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:56 PM UTC

Just finished "Anthem" by Ayn Rand (it's like 100 pages so it only took a few hours)

Started "The American Political Tradition" by Richard Hofstadter, pretty engaging history of our major politicians and founding fathers...

Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

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Post by fogus » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:58 PM UTC

last book: The Dark Tower II

currently: The T Programming Language

Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:59 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

#14

Post by warfangle » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:02 PM UTC

Previous: Anathem

Current: Programming in Scala

Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

#15

Post by jacquesm » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:05 PM UTC

The big switch

before that

Accelerando

Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

#16

Post by HalcyonMuse » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:07 PM UTC

Cat's Cradle, by Vonnegut.

Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

#17

Post by TrevorJ » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:07 PM UTC

"The Screwtape Letters", by C.S. Lewis

In the middle of "Roughing It" by Mark Twain now.

Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

#18

Post by johng » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:07 PM UTC

Just got done reading 'the fountainhead' by ayn rand.

Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

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Post by keefe » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:12 PM UTC

Last serious book : http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cryptography-Practice-Hewlett-P...

Last fun book : http://www.amazon.com/Woken-Furies-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novels/dp/...

I can't resist the body swapping stuff ever since reading Lord of Light as a kid

Re: Ask HN: What was the latest book you read?

#20

Post by rokhayakebe » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:15 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #15

The big switch before that Accelerando

I started to read it but I lost interest quickly.