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Ask HN: What is HN reading?

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What have you read / are currently reading this month? Leave suggestions for others to read as well!

-Read-

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany

Bloodchild - Octavia E. Butler

-Reading-

The Dragons Of Eden - Carl Sagan

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Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry Petroski:

http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Design-Engineers-Thought-Thi...

Previously, I've read his book Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering:

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Paradigms-Histories-Judgment-En...

I can't speak on the former yet, but the latter is excellent, and provides a framework for analyzing failures in engineering judgment (regardless of whether you're talking about bridges or software). I've also been working through The Little Schemer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo - currently Books of Joe Hill - latest, I've actually enjoyed them very much.

Twisted Network Programming Essentials http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025016.do

Job Reconnaissance http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780124166011.do

FFcP for Mandolin http://jazzmando.com/ffcp_studies.shtml

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkins/dp/06... My Brief History - Stephen Hawking, http://www.amazon.com/My-Brief-History-Stephen-Hawking/dp/03... Both real eye openers

Currently Frank Herbert's "Dune", which is quite good from what I've read so far.

My problem is, I can never actually muster up the motivation to sit down and read it.

I'm coming to Dune from "Fahrenheit 451". I'd give it 8/10, I've found it's a little slow to kick off, but the plot soon picks up.

Currently, re-reading this one. Seldom have I dog-eared so many pages or underlined passages. The Way of the Seal> http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-SEAL-Warrior-Succeed/dp/162145...

I think someone had set up a Goodreads account or group for HN readers.

I'm trying to find it but no luck so far (I'm at work, no Goodreads available here).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pelevin He is the best russian writer.

Currently working my way through all the Dean Koontz books.

Also recently read the Sports Gene which was good.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

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