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Ask HN: What books have you read recently?
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#2Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
by John Kaag
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#3Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
These are both absolutely brilliant and moving; you can't go wrong with either of them.
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#4Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.
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#5- The Master and His Emissary
- Personality (Nettle)
- Lonesome Dove
- A First-Rate Madness
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Dune
- At the Existentialist Cafe
Currently working on "The Hot Zone."
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#6All Quiet on the Western Front
It's a quick read, and can be finished in a single sitting if one has the mind to. It had been on my list for a long time, and lived up to its expectations.
The narrator's description of death as, "the skeleton working its way out of the body" is accurate, for anyone who has seen one pass from life to death up close. An emotionally shattering book.
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#7"Cordelia's Honor", a starting point in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. So good: I'm a fan of space operas, and enjoyed the Expanse novels and Scalzi's Interdependency series. These novels are as enjoyable as those were, though Bujold focuses more on two people rather than chasing multiple different threads. I get a solid "I enjoy this like I remember enjoying Heinlein" vibe from the books, and Bujold's politics is more inclusive and less Curmudgeonly Old Libertarian than Heinlein so that's a win for me too. I'm now guzzling the rest of the books in the series. Each novel stands alone, but there's a timeline and continued characters.
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#8The Queens Gambit - Walter Tevis
Titanic On Trial - Nic Compton
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#9Distributed Systems with Node.js
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#10The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
Recommend it for anyone interested in the learning process and how to approach new material