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Ask HN: What are you reading?

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The Intelligent Investor[1] is my current focus after reading How I Lost a Million Dollars[2] both on Kindle.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Collins-Business-... [2] http://www.amazon.com/What-Learned-Losing-Million-Dollars-eb...

Sprinting through Cibola Burn http://www.amazon.com/Cibola-Burn-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/031... before Nemesis Games gets here http://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Games-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0...

Also working my way through SICP to see if it makes be a better front end dev. Results pending.

I'm taking a trip to UK in the fall, so I'm doing related reading until then. Currently: "A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603" by Simon Schama [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155314.A_History_of_Brit...]

For Fun: The Girl on the Train - Just finished it, kept me interested not bad. http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Train-Paula-Hawkins/dp/1594633665...

For learning: Automate the Boring Stuff http://www.amazon.com/Automate-Boring-Stuff-Python-Programmi...

The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250061350/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_HI9Avb0...

And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307338622/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_BK9Avb1...

Accelerando by Charles Stross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando). I'm mostly enjoying his look into humanity's near and not so near future and his views on business, economics and technology. It's interesting and I like his writing style but sometimes it doesn't feel like much is going on story-wise.

Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great along with about half a dozen of the books it mentions (it's a collection of blog posts on books she's rereading) which I hadn't previously read. All of the previously unread ones I've now finally read are good, a couple great, ditto the ones previously read. One was enough of a downer that I didn't finish it (Random Acts of Senseless Violence).

Definitely recommended if you enjoy science fiction and/or fantasy.

The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant... http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78162.The_Greatest_Minds_...

Durant has a remarkably well thought out list of book recommendations on what makes an educated person-- I thought I was well read; afraid I've barely scratched the list.

The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. Book 3 of the First Law trilogy.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Argument-Kings-First-Three-ebook/...

Technical: Build your own AngularJS http://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular

Non-technical: Traction http://tractionbook.com/

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson - http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson...

http://www.amazon.com/How-Children-Succeed-Curiosity-Charact...

Fiction: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (loved the movie as a kid, but never got round to reading the book), will follow up with the Lost World.

Non-Fiction: Chaos by James Gleick.

Semester break reading, Real World Ocaml and Modern Compilers in ML (assuming they arrive in time)

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Primer-Meadows-Donell...

http://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Madness-Bibliophiles-Bibliomane...

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

From Mathematics to Generic Programming (2015)

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Generic-Programming-Alexan...

Leviathan Wakes http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes

http://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Chimpanzee-Evolution-Future/...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

[1] Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (almost through with this one - highly recommend it) [2] Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum, et.al

I started with the first one but got busy and forgot about it. This will be a good reminder to finish it.

Currently reading: Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Usually don't read fiction, but this is good.

To Mock a Mocking Bird by Raymond M. Smullyan. I'm having fun while my brain gets stretched.

For pleasure: Backbone.js Blueprints by Andrew Burgess

For work: Stealing The Network, The complete series collectors edition

I wanted to read something about logical thinking and cognition. So just started with Godel Escher Bach.

Buckle up, my friend. You are in for a trip and like LSD, there is no guarantee of good or bad. I personally love it.

The Violent Land - Would certainly recommend it for a non-technical read.

I feel like we should do this once a month at most instead of every two to three weeks.

I have been doing it every time i finish a book or two, but once a month works too.

The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking.

Should finish it by tonight.

After that, it is time for 1984 - George Orwell.

I'd love to completely wipe 1984 from my head, just for the pleasure of reading it again! You will not look at the world in the same way once finished.

How do you feel about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World? A juxtaposition between BNW and 1984 is very interesting in terms of what actually happened vs. what the authors portrayed.

Added to my reading list, will report back :)

You have to read the island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_%28Huxley_novel%29

The utopian version.

I think Island is my favorite Huxley book.

BNW has always seemed much more alien to me than 1984. When I first read it as a teenager it seemed incomprehensible and somewhat insane.

Now as I get older and get to better understand (still very modestly!) people in general and the structures of power, it seems like a much better informed take on our society

Nominally, I'm "reading" 23 books that are in my Goodreads "currently reading" shelf. But of the ones that I'm really working on and will finish fairly soon:

1. Secret Societies - John Lawrence Reynolds

2. Black Wings of Cthulhu 3 - S.T. John (ed)

3. Unleash The Warrior Within - Richard Machowicz

4. Data Crush - Christopher Surdak

5. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

6. The Glass Cage: Automation and Us - Nicholas Carr

7. Future Shock - Alvin Toffler

8. The Balanced Scorecard - Robert S. Kaplan

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