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Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by dantheman » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 9:57 AM UTC

dlgtho wrote: post #147

Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Also by Umberto Eco check out Foucault's Pendulum

Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by Tichy » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 9:57 AM UTC

Scott_MacGregor wrote: post #64

I only read technical and business material, I love this type of stuff. 1. The Windows 3.1 manual. A hardcopy in a small grey ring binder that shipped with the operating system when I bought it new. I read it cover to cover to cover 3 times because I wanted to know everything about it. I kept thinking this is a lot like UNIX but nicer to use except for the fact that it had less features than UNIX. Every time I re-rea…

Seriously hardcore

Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by chris123 » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:07 AM UTC

"Hero With a Thousand Faces" (by Joseph Campbell). On Amazon.com: http://tr.im/hwatf

Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:11 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by sidmitra » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:11 AM UTC

Just to name two out of the many i love:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy and The adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by anatoly » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:16 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #63

Just one for now: Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

Haven't read that one yet, but his _All the Pretty Horses_ was one of the highlights of the year.

Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by anatoly » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:18 AM UTC

dallas wrote: post #125

jfarmer wrote: post #100

The Great Gatsby and The Book of the New Sun

I've yet to meet another person who's actually read New Sun :-) It's one of my absolute favorites too.

I read it last year and absolutely loved it. It was tough going for a while though, and I might have sated myself with its style, because I couldn't get through _The Urth of the New Sun_, the sequel, immediately afterwards. Maybe I'll give it another try soon.

Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by anatoly » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:21 AM UTC

rmanocha wrote: post #113

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie Ulysses - James Joyce (keep going back to it - to understand it better)

I'm slogging through Ulysses now - it sure ain't easy, but I love it.

I loved Midnight's Children the first half of the book or so, then it became more and more forced and strained to my taste.

Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by maxklein » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:23 AM UTC

Picture of Dorian Gray and the short story collection of William Hope Hodgson.

Re: Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

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Post by danspodcast » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:23 AM UTC

Maverick - Ricardo Semler (For inspiration) The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway(For enjoying the process)