Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by davedx » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

These threads always make me happy. Old books and new.

Currently I'm reading book three of the "Kefahuchi Tract" trilogy by M. John Harrison. It's like a cross between Donnie Darko and Neuromancer. Just surreal enough to be fun, without losing me completely, and some really amazing writing. [1]

[1] http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/future-without-nostalgia

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by robbyking » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:36 PM UTC

I just finished reading John Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" for the the third time, and for the third time I was completely enthralled from beginning to end.

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by davedx » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:36 PM UTC

edge17 wrote: post #279

iN7h33nD wrote: post #201

Audiobooks I have Read Recently: (Sanderson is Awesome) * The Reckoners #1/#2 * Stormlight Archive #1/#2 * Mistborn #1/#2/#3 * Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker Digital Books: * How to Win Friends and Influence People * Malazon Book #1 * The Forever War * The Martian Things on my List: * Think and Grow Rich * Watership Down * Rainbows End * Snow Crash * What is Zen * Wool: Silo * Fou…

Can someone enlighten me about how to read the Foundation series? Do you read them in the order of publication or the chronology of the story?

I think order of publication. The last books were a sort of prequel and written accordingly.

Amazing series!

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by davedx » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:37 PM UTC

ayberk wrote: post #254

I'm reading 2nd book of The Kingkiller Chronicles (Wise Man's Fear) and loving it! Anyone slightly interested in fantasy should definitely read the series. The story has been great so far and storytelling is exceptional.

They are great, but he seems to be really struggling with writing the third book. :(

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by sanderjd » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:46 PM UTC

edge17 wrote: post #279

iN7h33nD wrote: post #201

Audiobooks I have Read Recently: (Sanderson is Awesome) * The Reckoners #1/#2 * Stormlight Archive #1/#2 * Mistborn #1/#2/#3 * Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker Digital Books: * How to Win Friends and Influence People * Malazon Book #1 * The Forever War * The Martian Things on my List: * Think and Grow Rich * Watership Down * Rainbows End * Snow Crash * What is Zen * Wool: Silo * Fou…

Can someone enlighten me about how to read the Foundation series? Do you read them in the order of publication or the chronology of the story?

I read in order of publication! Seemed to work well.

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by jvreeland » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:49 PM UTC

Where Sea Breaks Its Back. It's about a journey that naturalist Gregor William Stellar (Different transliterations different spelling) and a trip he took with Bering to Alaska. He was the first naturalist to describe a number of species, a number of which were never seen again or hunted to extinction before being studied and he was the only one to describe. To top it all off most of the products of his research, notes books diagrams specimens etc. were lost of damaged.

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by zmower » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:49 PM UTC

Functional Programming Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson. Old but interesting. Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Good sci-fi detective thriller series. Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C Feathers. Hell of a book. Up there with Mythical Man Month.

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by mayreck » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:51 PM UTC

Dmt and the Soul of Prophecy by Dr. Rick Strassman

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by srathi » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:53 PM UTC

* A short history of the world by HG Wells.

* Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru.

A bit of history dose this month.

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by colund » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 7:54 PM UTC

I'm casual reading these books

* Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications.

* How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know.

* Black Hat Python.

Paused reading

* Functional Programming in Scala.

* Version Control with Git.

Bought due to HN praises, skimmed through, but probably won't read

* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.