Ask HN: What are you reading?

Posted by dan-bailey 1 day 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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bix6 18 hours ago|

Carl was hilarious, can’t wait for the final books

Nettle and Bone I really enjoyed

Some desperate glory also enjoyed

East of Eden very meaty if you want an epic

mcv 17 hours ago||

I've taken a hiatus in my journey through Iain M. Banks' Culture novels to reread 1984.

no-dr-onboard 22 hours ago||

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

focusedone 18 hours ago||

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

arch_deluxe 18 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 18 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?

0xB0D 15 hours ago||

Gnomon

Just finished "there is no antimemetics division" an absolutely astounding read

goostavos 11 hours ago||

Meaty: Quarantine by Greg Egan. Easily my favorite book so far this year. It starts as a detective story, but then spirals into something much bigger. Forced beliefs, quantum super positions, and the existential dread of repeatedly facing your own non-existence. It's second only to Permutation City in my Egan tier list.

That book led me to Quantum Computing for Everyone. It's good so far, but more work than expected to follow along being that I'm dumb.

Since the question is what are you reading (not what have you read): Ant-Kind by Charlie Kaufman. It's too soon to say if it's good or not, but it has made me laugh out loud several times. I'm about 80 pages in, and it's only just now started to open up into Kaufman's recursive, meta story telling that makes his film stuff so cool.

TrustPatches 11 hours ago||

Fiction: Between Two Fires

Non-fiction: 21st Century Monetary Policy

eltercero 5 hours ago|

"Between Two Fires" is so good, I think about it a lot. From the same author (although, in a very different vein) I really enjoyed The Blacktongue Thief.

waldothedog 12 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

rsyring 14 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.

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