Ask HN: What is HN reading?

11 points by redxblood 11y ago ↗ HN

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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ainiriand 11y ago ↗

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

a3n 11y ago ↗

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

gadders 11y ago ↗

Currently working my way through all the Dean Koontz books.

Also recently read the Sports Gene which was good.

JSeymourATL 11y ago ↗

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...

samridh90 11y ago ↗

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

_RPM 11y ago ↗

Memcached source code currently

NSalex 11y ago ↗

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

csmattryder 11y ago ↗

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.

GFischer 11y ago ↗

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).

thisisnotclear 11y ago ↗

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

bzalasky 11y ago ↗

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.