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Posted by dan-bailey 1 day ago

Ask HN: What are you reading?

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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hackernud3s 21 hours ago|
Iain Banks - Excession - 5 stars and the most optimistic series on AI

Dungeon Crawler Card - Not for me but I might give it another chance

Bukowski - Post Office - Worth reading, Gen-Z might get triggered

michaelmior 21 hours ago||
I recently discovered Charles Soule who started in comic books and ventured into novels. I read The Oracle Year recently and now I'm reading The Endless Vessel.
cheschire 21 hours ago||
I'm on book 3 of the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.
godzillafarts 22 hours ago||
I just wrapped up the Murderbot Diaries series and am starting in on Dungeon Crawler Carl.

I normally read a lot of nonfiction and history and am trying to make a point to read more fiction this year.

askvictor 22 hours ago|
Haha I've been trying to do the reverse :)
ItsMattyG 22 hours ago||
if you're into litrpg, have you tried the wandering inn? it's not so meaty but it's above almost all other litrpgs in that department and the storytelling is great
fk_fk 22 hours ago||
"A man in the Maze" by Robert Silverberg. Don't know why but I felt the urge to re-read it, last time I read it 30 years ago and remembered the plot very well.
joshrw 9 hours ago||
200 Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
irenaeus 7 hours ago||
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor.
kurttheviking 21 hours ago||
I read a lot so I'll toss out some fiction titles you might like if you're a DCC fan:

* Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer -- post-apoc dystopian, somewhat cozy, told from a robot's perspective (who is joined by a companion cyborg dog)

* Blacktongue Thief by Chris Buehlman -- witty and snarky fantasy, solid character development and world building; and, if you like it, book 2 in the series (book 3 if you count a prequel) comes out soon

* Mortedant's Peril -- Fantasy mystery in a world where magic allows the "detectives" to touch the dead and sense their final thoughts/words; in that world, someone learns a dark secret from a victim...

* Trade of Blood -- Another fantasy mystery that is exceptionally well told; it's Book 3 in a series so I'd start with Tainted Cup if you haven't read that already

* The Infinite State -- new SciFi by Richard Swan (usually a fantasy author); a universe where ultra wealthy can establish colony planets, someone attempts to start a democracy.

sphars 17 hours ago|
> The Blacktongue Thief

I just started this last week after wrapping up DCC series and seeing it recommended in a reddit thread. I'm surprised that I'm enjoying it, it's not my usual genre

RGS1811 21 hours ago|
I just finished Wilfred Sellars “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”

I’m slowly rereading Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.

I am perpetually rereading the works of Richard Rorty.

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