Ask HN: What are you reading?

Posted by dan-bailey 23 hours ago

I'm plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi/LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough. I'm also wrapping up Doctorow's _Enshittification_, and I'm looking for something a little meaty to keep the brain working...

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waldothedog 10 hours ago|

Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil. Bounced off a few Robert Macfarlane titles —just not for me — and also Anne of Green Gables w my kid

focusedone 16 hours ago||

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. My first time though this one and it's...well...a trip.

SquirrelOnFire 8 hours ago||

Currently reading

Katabasis by RF Kuang - magicians from Oxford go to hell on purpose

And, meatier

The language of the night, essays by Ursula Le Guin

hodgesrm 8 hours ago|

> The language of the night, essays by Ursula Le Guin

That sounds really cool! I love Ursula Le Guin but had never heard of this book.

sirpilade 5 hours ago||

Aeneid, it’s been a while since my school years

arch_deluxe 16 hours ago||

A bleak and appalling nuclear triptych:

- Hiroshima

- The Doomsday Machine

- Command and Control

Highly recommended if you’re feeling too happy and full of faith in humanity.

Arubis 16 hours ago|

I could almost see these being darkly encouraging. Yes, everything is awful, but everything was _already_ awful, and most of us are still mostly okay?

no-dr-onboard 20 hours ago||

The Intellectual Life by AG Sertillanges. Note that it does presuppose a Christian worldview, so ymmv depending on your belief.

rsyring 12 hours ago||

- Hacker News, mostly comments, and the occasional full article

- Google News and the occasional full article

- Email

- Slack

- ChatGPT/ Codex responses

- Road signs

- Various things in various mobile apps I use

- Websites

- Movie/Show subtitles

Off the top of my head, that accounts for most of the things I read on a weekly basis.

No time for books.

Oscalemor 15 hours ago||

I've got a history of picking up the 2 top books of the airports best sellers. Have been my strategy for a while, right now it's FLESH. Feels like I'm being part of the mainstream, reading something everyone else reading.

euthymiclabs 14 hours ago||

The Score, by C. Thi Nguyen.

It explores why we love metrics in games, but hate them at work.

SubGenius 22 hours ago|

The Rouse by China Miéville, great read so far.

frm88 6 hours ago|

Can you elaborate a little, please? I've read all Mieville and before I venture into this monster, I'd like to read your thoughts. How does it compare to his other works?

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