Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton The movie cut out a lot. The book is awesome. Read it 5 times already and I might repeat it again soon.
It’s much lesser known, but I also really enjoyed Airframe, by the same author.
Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
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#102The Prophet by Kahil Gibran
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#103The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. In the Bible, Christ said he would visit his (maybe inexact, from memory) "...other sheep, which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." (In John, I think?) The Book of Mormon tells of Christ's visit to the ancient Americas, after his resurrection, where he taught them things like he taught in the Near East. I…
I thank you for your comment and sharing an interesting perspective that is far removed from my own (as someone who is not religious but knows about other parts of the Christian faith)
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#105The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell.
Just good reflections on happiness and life. Reminds me I need to read it again.
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#106I am not sure which book I will re-read for the rest of my life, but these past few years I have read multiple times chapters from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen and Reflections on Silver River by Ken McLeod.
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#107The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - One of the most vividly written books I read. The style of writing made me feel like I was in its world as the story was playing out.
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#108it's a quadrilogy, not a book, but I'd pick Ada Palmer's _Terra Ignota_ series without hesitation. I'm comfortable arguing for it fitting within the constraint of the question, largely because it is making one sustained argument that's carried out throughout the entire series -- it's very much one book that happens to be like 4000 pages long rather than four separate books. Anyway, Ada Palmer is a sci-fi writer whose…
Oh man, I started reading Too Like the Lightning a while ago on the recommendation of a fantasy author friend. It was really good, but I got derailed and then had to take it back to the library and never finished it. I need to pick this series back up.
But it's worth saying, N.K. Jemisin deserved those wins. I've read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy and Broken Earth blew my mind when I read it the first time. I had to stop reading sci-fi/fantasy for a while afterwards because nothing could hold a candle to it.
It was a master class in craft, with an incredibly well done drip of very thorough world building and some really fantastic reveals. I don't want to say too much - I normally don't mind spoilers but I really loved the reveals in these novels. I don't think I'd have wanted to be spoiled on them going in.
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#109The Princeton Companion to Mathematics maybe.
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#110Is it acceptable to have the trilogy (despite different authors) of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid?
Not having read the Aeneid until much later than my 20s , I was surprised that this great work has been put to the side as I see it.