Ask YC: Good books to take on a week away?
Recommendations from 38 sampled comments out of 38 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
avinashv · May 26, 2008GEB? Might take you more than a week, but it's great reading.
xirium · May 26, 2008for this reason, I recommend the earliest edition you can obtain so that it is closer to Carnegie's intentions.
tomjen · May 26, 2008Second. This is a great book.
brlewis · May 26, 2008Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Shadow84 · May 26, 2008Especially Snow Crash.
Shadow84 · May 26, 2008Jointly, with Cryptonomicon, one of the best books I've ever read!
knv · May 26, 2008+1 or Cryptonomicon. Although I don't call it SciFi. Nerd Fiction?!
LPTS · May 25, 2008Cryptonomicon is great if you haven't read it.
jsomers · May 25, 2008Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. Quick read, very elegantly written.
Nearly everyone that I know who has read it puts it at the top of their list.
soundsop · May 25, 2008Siddartha by Herman Hesse. It's a short read but very interesting.
lbrandy · May 25, 2008I strongly suggest:
1. The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
ca98am79 · May 26, 2008brought along Founders at Work - it is great.
scorpioxy · May 26, 2008- Founders At Work
lbrandy · May 25, 20083. Founders at Work
bigtoga · May 25, 2008Founders at Work:
rsa · May 25, 2008Fountain head by Ayn Rand.
ovi256 · May 26, 2008I can also recommend Magister Ludi, or The Glass Bead Game.
justindz · May 26, 2008Sputnik Sweetheart, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore. After the Quake, if you like short stories. Great stuff.
scorpioxy · May 26, 2008- Long Walk to Freedom