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Ask HN: What Are You Reading?

9•ImPleadThe5th•1d ago
I've gotten many great literary recommendations in random HN comments.

Wondering what the community at large is currently interested in!

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SMAAART•22h ago
Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, by Jeremy Utley
jus3sixty•21h ago
“How Can I Help” by Linda Hand
shawn_w•21h ago
Currently: Moby-Dick and Termination Shock. (That the former gets brought up a lot in the latter is a coincidence.)
ValtteriL•18h ago
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre (1923)
kratom_sandwich•15h ago
How do you like it?
ValtteriL•15h ago
I'm 3/4 through it.

It's been quite entertaining to read how he went from picking off bucket shops to going bust on Wall Street and how he proceeded from there. Old-fashioned writing that goes straight to the point.

His art-like approach to speculation is refreshing after spending time on /r/quant. I cannot say if any of his high-level speculation wisdom hold water anymore, though.

Would recommend!

chistev•18h ago
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder
card_zero•17h ago
I read The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken and was struck by similarities to Pratchett, for instance the part where the main character heroically defeats monsters in a wood by using knowledge gleaned from an old encyclopedia that he carries everywhere, and how he ſpeakſ like thiſ when reading aloud from it, and the part about underground camels in Wales. It references The Far-Distant Oxus at one point, which I want to read (a pony adventure story written in 1937 by teenagers).

(I know the long s wasn't really used at the ends of words, that was just a hurried example.)

chairmansteve•17h ago
Post Soviet Britain by Abby Innes. Excellent so far (70 pages in).

Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte. Also excellent. Nearly finished it.

andyjohnson0•16h ago
Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. As with some of his other work, the punctuation can be a challenge and the prose can sometimes border on the ponderous, but I'm enjoying it. Currently about half way through.
wara23arish•6h ago
reading Blood Meridian now, honestly it just flows for me.

I grew up reading arabic and sentences are just feel longer so maybe thats why Im not struggling with it.

gaws•2h ago
Listen to the audiobooks. They help distinguish which characters are speaking.
BOOSTERHIDROGEN•14h ago
How to get along
alberto_ol•14h ago
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
badpun•13h ago
Me too! I'm about 40% through.
aosaigh•14h ago
"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History", about our first civilisations.
defrost•13h ago
Rereading Bliss by Peter Carey after opening a 45 year old box o' books from a back shelf in the shed.

It's a red pill fable for marketing directors (and other threads are pulled).

Later adapted for film, it saw 400 viewers walk out on it when screened at Cannes... most likely when the fish hit the floor. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifR7tsVT_-Y

jorisboris•12h ago
Just finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
lberk•11h ago
How did you like the book (compared to the movie)?
jorisboris•6h ago
I like the old world charm

The book was written in the 50s, its way slower than the movie (though still a short read). Some things from the movie plot are the same

I love details like how difficult it was to get something communicated across a border only 75 years ago

gaws•2h ago
Have you read any of John le Carré's books?
cafard•9h ago
A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Quentin Lauer

Augustine's Confessions

Last fiction: Nice Job by David Lodge

whatamidoingyo•9h ago
I'm reading The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot for the second time. It's full of gems.
precompute•9h ago
The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.
constantinum•7h ago
War and peace - third attempt
mattmanser•1h ago
It's really good. A story that still pops into my mind occasionally today. As a Brit I'd never really thought about Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The retreat in the book is evocative and really left an impression.

But I read it when I had far more free time than now.

kapilkaisare•6h ago
Simmons, Dan. The Terror

I'm about 50 pages in, and am entranced with the prose.

chistev•5h ago
I'm favoriting this for later.
omosubi•5h ago
Civilisations by kenneth clark - an art critic tries to understand western civilization through the "book" of its art.
bodantogat•4h ago
I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, and I’ve just started Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It follows a scientist sentenced to a prison camp on a planet teeming with bizarre lifeforms. So far, it hasn’t drawn me in the way Children of Time did, though I’m only about a quarter of the way through.
bodantogat•2h ago
Oh and also listening to an audiobook - Mythos by Stephen Fry. Liking it so far.
mattmanser•1h ago
I loved some of his fiction, but haven't got past the first chapter of that book.