Ask HN: What book are you reading right now? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by selleck » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:18 PM UTC

Morning train ride: The Personal MBA.

Evening train ride: Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python.

Best read in a while: The Obstacle is the Way. Great intro to Stoicism, and only $4.00 on the kindle.

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by jcmurrayii » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

Mastering Web Application Development in AngularJs Little Book on CoffeeScript

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by jrlocke » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett. It's great, now I'm equipped to annoy my friends with arguments like 'dogs are not sentient but computers could be.'

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by lotsofcows » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

"Big Pharma", Ben Goldacre and a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories including the eponymous "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz".

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by bsiddiqui » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:20 PM UTC

redxblood wrote: post #2

You mean technical read or leisure read? Except you consider them to be tech read to be leisure. ;)

Looking for a mix of both - most of leisurely reading lately has been tech related but hoping to start reading some more fiction again

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by nooron » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

William Vollmann's Rising Up & Rising Down is worth your time. If you're inclined towards philosophy of science or epistemology, I'd also recommend R Nozick's Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World.

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by 11001 » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

Just finished Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A time of gifts" and I can't recommend it enough! One of the best English books that I have read. You will particularly like it if you're interested in European history (political, as well as art history), if you like traveling, if you're into foreign languages and if you don't mind using a dictionary once in a while. I'm really excited to start its sequel "Between the woods and the water".

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by SnacksOnAPlane » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by bsiddiqui » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

xiaoma wrote: post #13

I just finished Zero to One. It's the most thought provoking book I've ever read on entrepreneurship and some of Peter Theil's stories are jaw-dropping. It's the first book that has had me thinking I'm actually a pretty conventional thinker and not nearly ambitious enough.

yeah it'll definitely be on my list when it comes out - it would be awesome if you know where to get a copy now

Re: Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?

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Post by jh3 » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 4:24 PM UTC

Jach wrote: post #18

Recently finished Robert Cialdini's Influence: Science and Practice , a great horrifying psychology book. Now I've started Iain Banks' Excession , giving his Culture universe another go. ( Player of Games was good, but not great.)

> Influence: Science and Practice, a great horrifying psychology book.

What do you mean by horrifying?