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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by shankysingh » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:45 AM UTC

India: A History. Revised and Updated by John Keay

Url : http://www.amazon.com/India-A-History-Revised-Updated/dp/080...

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by INTPenis » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:45 AM UTC

I really liked the Wool series, Wool, Shift, Dust.

The Expanse series is fast paced, hollywood-style action, sci-fi but gets sort of repetitive in the 4th book.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by shire » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:46 AM UTC

judofyr wrote: post #23

Every year or so I repost this. Hopefully you'll find something interesting in here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078221 --- Hacker News stories which contains plenty of book recommendations (sorted by points, labeled by topic): Science Fiction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978027 Computer Science: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3595599 General: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752139 Design…

Awesome, thanks a lot.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by cursork » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:46 AM UTC

fractalb wrote: post #8

I'm currently reading "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter

That's a great book. I've just started reading I Am A Strange Loop by Hofstadter and it's promising.

Also by Hofstadter: Le Ton beau de Marot was a good read.

GEB is the big one, but if you like his style - probably worth checking out some of the others. Best to get print books for this particular author though.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by khc » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:47 AM UTC

Poor Economics - Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Signal and The Noise - Nate Silver

Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

This Time is Different - Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff

Subliminal - Leonard Mlodinow

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb

For something more lighthearted, I also enjoyed:

An Economist Gets Lunch - Tyler Cowen

Inside Jokes - Matthew Hurley & others (mostly skipped the dense parts)

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by syntaxgoonoo » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:48 AM UTC

Soil and Soul by Alastair Mcintosh - http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/soilandsoul.htm

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by paublyrne » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:49 AM UTC

Brasyl by Ian McDonald. Quantum physics, lots of colour, and a Cloud Atlas-like mixing of time threads.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by shire » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:49 AM UTC

kgogolek wrote: post #39

Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf. Actually everything by Hesse.

hmm Herman Hesse sounds interesting have you read most of his stuff?

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by pjc50 » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:50 AM UTC

bubblicious wrote: post #2

I just finished Masters Of Doom ( http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu... ). I read it almost non-stop. I highly recommand it to anyone who has gone through the early days of ID Software games Wolf3D / Doom.

See also "Racing the beam" about the Atari 2600; part sociology, part very accessible deep technical explanation.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored

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Post by shire » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:50 AM UTC

cellover wrote: post #30

I like understanding where I am located in space and time, that is why I love reading about science & science fiction ; it is indirectly related to religion in the sense that it makes you think about your world, about yourself. Buddhism / Religion / ... : - Siddartha - Hermann Hesse - The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Science: - A brief history of time - Stephen Hawking (space, time) - The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawki…

have you read Siddhartha? did you like it.