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Ask HN: Read any good books lately?
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#52The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Does anyone have other hacking related books with story telling like in this book?
I read Cuckoo’s Egg and also liked “The Soul of a New Machine”, “SkunkWorks”, and “The Making of the Atomic Bomb”.
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#53I can really recommend The Kingkiller Chronicle. It is an outstanding piece of fantasy. The way of magic is developed / presented in a way you really can feel how it could be possible. A great piece of art by Patrick Rothfuss. The last book (of three) is currently in the making. I am really looking forward to read the first two books again once the last part is published. I want to know more about The Doors of Stone…
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I ask what is so fascinating about it, It's been recommended to me a couple of times and I've tried everything to enjoy it and failed. I got the book, tried the audio-book and even tried watching the movie, I couldn't get myself past the first half of the book or the movie. It just seems (to me) so childish and incoherent, am I missing somthing?
It's one of my favorite books too, but I couldn't drag myself through Catch 22. And a lot of people are fanatical about it. Different type of people like different things :) no need to feel bad about it. p.s I would use word playful instead of childish.
I tried reading catch-22 twice before successfully getting through it. I felt the same as you did. I think my problem the first 2 times was that I was looking for the 'hook' or whatever it was that people were so fanatical about. As a consequence, I think I was glossing over the dialogue and not really ingesting what was going on. The third time I decided to just take it at face value, try and enjoy the dialogue and if no bigger picture emerges, so be it. This approach turned out to be the key. It's an incredibly funny and poignant book and what happens is that while you get through all these seemingly (initally) trivial scenes, a point does in fact start to emerge. The triviality is actually central to the main point. People keep dying off for arbitrary reasons and the being part of the war is so detached from the apparent reasons for the war is actually taking place. It's one of my favorite books. I truly recommended trying to read it again.
Re: Ask HN: Read any good books lately?
#55I can really recommend The Kingkiller Chronicle. It is an outstanding piece of fantasy. The way of magic is developed / presented in a way you really can feel how it could be possible. A great piece of art by Patrick Rothfuss. The last book (of three) is currently in the making. I am really looking forward to read the first two books again once the last part is published. I want to know more about The Doors of Stone…
The last book has been in progress for almost a decade now. I'll believe it's on its way when I see it.
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#56Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, a book about the infamous blood testing startup Theranos. I couldn't put it down. Read the whole thing in a day and a half. It's basically a gripping thriller set in Silicon Valley. The story focuses on what went on within the company since its inception. It's completely mind boggling how and why it all happened.
I Recommend this too.
Read this back in January. 10/10
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#57Just finished the "four steps to epiphany". A must read for any startup founder. 10/10
Currently reading "never split the difference".
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#58House to House by David Bellavia. It's an account of his part in the 2nd Battle for Fallujah and how he won his Medal of Honour. Really well written.
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#59"Average is Over" by Tyler Cowen. It maybe isn't revolutionary, but it tied up a LOT of loose ends in my head about where we are and where things are most likely headed.
His thesis statement is that scientific and social progress is now largely in the hands of AI and that those best able to utilize those technologies to augment their decisions, and everyone else will suffer.
I think he overestimates AI in the short term, but in the long term, I don't see how he's wrong. I've started to study AI again (having worked in an AI lab 20 years ago).
From Wikipeida:
Cowen forecasts that modern economies are delaminating into two groups: a small minority of highly educated people who are capable of working collaboratively with automated systems will become a wealthy aristocracy; the vast majority will earn little or nothing, surviving on low-priced goods created by the first group, living in shantytowns working with highly automated production systems.
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#60'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' can't stop recommending it. I am currently reading the 3rd book 'Life, the Universe and Everything'
Can I ask what is so fascinating about it, It's been recommended to me a couple of times and I've tried everything to enjoy it and failed. I got the book, tried the audio-book and even tried watching the movie, I couldn't get myself past the first half of the book or the movie. It just seems (to me) so childish and incoherent, am I missing somthing?
Its a book for tween boys. You’re not missing anything.
It’s cool to read children’s literature as an adult. Less cool if you think it’s literature’s final form.