Ask HN: What Books Are You Reading?

GEB is a good book to finish, congrats. Unless you're exceptionally brilliant and got it all on the first read, plan to read it at least once more though.

Dune is great, but don't stop there. Read the rest of the series

I can't recommend "Dune" enough, this thing is a masterpiece.

It's a fascinating bit of SF that explores some really fascinating ideas about how consciousness works.

give them The Martian and say, "read this and you'll know"

Fun and engrossing if you like super-hard science fiction. (I sure seemed to, although I glossed over a few of the details in the middle.)

It's a really entertaining book that I highly recommend!

The most useful book I've recently read is Steve Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany[3]. It's a more structured version of a lot of the stuff I learned in YC.

which was an awesome birds-eye view of modern science. ★★★★☆ to both.

Ready Player One (loved, loved, loved this book)

I caved and started reading A Song Of Ice And Fire after Game of Thrones S4 finished broadcasting.

Laws of Power: Not for everyone but the book is damn useful if you're ambitious and can translate examples and vague concepts into your own situations in life.

he is in the same league with Lovecraft. The postmodern apparatus is more nice than silly.

Confederacy of Dunces was a very good read. I recommend this to all of my friends

Very funny book so far. The main character, Ignatius, is such a piece of work. I was slightly annoyed at first, but he's so odd and unique that it kept me captivated. Now everything is just really funny.

Read the rest of the series