Between books, need something to read.
What's the best, most unexpectedly-excellent book you've read lately?
Any genre goes. No text too niche or too odd.
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#2This one can make the trick, I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra
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#3This one can make the trick, I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra
A classic
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#4I'd check the "Best book in 2022" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267 submission. There's actually 5-10 such submissions https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
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#5Mastering the Art of Japanese Home Cooking, Masaharu Morimoto
Homemade dashi, ftw.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31823606-mastering-the-a...
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#6The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets[1]
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Speaks-Numbers-Reveals-Natur...
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#7When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut.
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#8When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut.
Great book.
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#9The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Recently got around to finally reading it. I know Snow Crash is considered his best sci-fi novel (and it’s amazing, too), but I think I liked this one even better.
Snow Crash is funny and weird and action packed, but its light-hearted tone diffuses the tension. The Diamond Age, by contrast, had a lot of hair-raising moments and characters I was really invested in.
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#104000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman.