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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edoceo 16 hours ago|

Taxation The Peoples Business by Mellon, Andrew W.

https://archive.org/details/taxationthepeopl033026mbp

It's from 1924 and US centric, old new ideas in there.

vigneshravichan 10 hours ago||

Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Klepman. It’s my second time and I felt I understand better this time.

JoeAltmaier 17 hours ago||

Terry Pratchet's entire corpus

laweijfmvo 14 hours ago||

An Immense World. It’s not as jaw-dropping as I’d expected (yes, I know rattlesnakes can “see” heat), but it’s also not an easy/fun read either. So I’ll probably land at around 3/5 rating.

jtgi 14 hours ago||

Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp (Graphic Novel) - what if time was buggy?

Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey by David McCumber (1996) - hustling in the golden era of pool in the usa

bix6 19 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 18 hours ago||

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

no-dr-onboard 23 hours ago||

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

focusedone 19 hours ago||

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

arch_deluxe 19 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 19 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?

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