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Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year?
As we inch closer to the end of the year, we will be running a couple of year-ender posts in the next few days. We're starting with books. What were some books you read this year that you would recommend to others? (It could be from any genre.) Second, what were some books from this year that you read that you would recommend to others? And third, what are you reading now, or planning to read soon?
This year I read APK's hosts file.
... like:
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- Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse (recommend)
- Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
Lee Berger, John Hawks (recommend)
- The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Anil Ananthaswamy (recommend)
- Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
Paul Halpern (recommend)
- The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
Paul Halpern (highly recommend, 2017 publication)
- The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Leonard Susskind (recommend)
- Tales of the Quantum: Understanding Physics' Most Fundamental Theory
Art Hobson (recommend)
- Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Michael G. Raymer (recommend)
- Just Visiting This Planet: Merlin Answers More Questions About Everything Under the Sun, Moon, and Stars
Neil De Grasse Tyson, Stephen J. Tyson (recommend)
- The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
Neil Degrasse Tyson (recommend)
- Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Skywatcher's Guide to Everything from Mars and Quasars to Comets, Planets, Blue Moons, and Werewolves
Neil De Grasse Tyson (recommend)
- Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith (recommend)
- Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott (recommend)
- Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson (recommend)
- The Muleskinner and the Stars: The Life and Times of Milton La Salle Humason, Astronomer (Springer Biographies)
Ronald L. Voller ( highly recommended. Humason was an "also mentioned," in a book about Hubble. What a guy! )
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil de Grasse Tyson (recommend)
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli (recommend)
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- 1984
George Orwell (recommend with reluctance. It's the most depressing goddam book I've ever read.)
- The Caves of Steel (The Robot Series Book 1)
Isaac Asimov (recommend)
- Dune
Frank Herbert (recommend)
- The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand (recommend)
- Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
Dave Barry (don't recommend, boring description of Florida tourist locations)
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
That counts as a book, right? I mean it is called some book... right?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
A book written by one of the architecture creators. The AS/400 is totally alien compared to the computer architectures we've been using for decades. Definitely worth a read if you're into hardware.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
what you recommend then?
Not the gp, but I will take a stab at it.
People should absolutely read Karl Marx, but also read opposing views like Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell. If one just reads Marx, one will remain ignorant of why he was so wrong on economics.
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.