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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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sirpilade 15 hours ago|
Aeneid, it’s been a while since my school years
1-more 1 day ago||
The Overstory is rad fiction. Just started listening to Ordinary Men which is about a Polish police battalion responsible for a great many murders during the Holocaust. The members of that battalion were, I guess, welcomed back into society afterwards? Idk, I just started. I'll tell you one thing, though: it's weird to absorb facts about the Shoah as digestible statistics fun facts (for lack of a better term) but those little snippets are very necessary to get my arms around the scale of things such as it. It's the same as happened when I listened to Late Victorian Holocausts. So now I have stats like

- Most Jewish victims of the Holocaust died by gunshot in the occupied USSR

- In March 1942, 80% of Holocaust victims were still alive and by February 1943 80% were dead.

- Per capita incomes were equal in the first and last years of the British Raj

- Indian grain exports increased in the 1880s and 90s and there were 3(?) different famines at that time

rattling around in my head in the same part that holds on to "Pakistan has never had a PM finish a 5 year term," "The Lions, Falcons, and Bills (non-exhaustive) have never won a Super Bowl," "There are no surviving contemperaneous attestations of Hamilcar and Hannibal Barca" and "the first drummer of the Beatles was called Pete Best and made an album called Best of the Beatles"

antisthenes 1 day ago|
> - Most Jewish victims of the Holocaust died by gunshot in the occupied USSR

> - In March 1942, 80% of Holocaust victims were still alive and by February 1943 80% were dead.

Makes sense. A couple of things happened: 1942 Wannsee Conference in January 1942 - which I assume took some time during 1942 to get into motion.

Germany started losing, they realized they did not have the logistics to feed additional millions of people in the occupied territories.

sim04ful 1 day ago||
Samuel Butler's adaptation of Homer.
pykello 1 day ago||
- "Foundations of Analysis" by Belding & Mitchell

- "On Writing Well" by Zinsser

imperialdrive 1 day ago||
Half way through Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8, really got hooked on the whole universe haha.
gertburger 16 hours ago||
wrt DCC, the audiobooks by Soundbooth Theater are really good! A very different experience from traditional audiobooks.
PaulHoule 1 day ago||
In my bag right now I have: The Fox and the Jewel by Karen A. Smeyers and The Spiral Dance by Starhawk.
sokols 14 hours ago||
A Fabulous Debt by Robin Wigglesworth
dmbche 22 hours ago||
Maupassant, Appartion et autres comptes d'angoisse (very good)

Becky Chambers, the long way to a small angry planet (very good)

Asimov, Second foundation (just finished, not as good as Foundation but good still)

Maybe Knut Hansun, The last joy (Nazi sympathizer, might just put the book down - and book not blowing my mind)

Edit0: writing this and seeing Hansun was a Nazi collaborator - putting the book down

ssttoo 1 day ago|
Binging on Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickeled and Dimed, Dancing in the Streets, Natural Causes
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