Ask HN: What book are you currently reading?
7 pointsby sujayk_339 hours ago8 comments
  • wrxd8 hours ago
    Sarah Wynn-Williams - Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

    I'm not a Facebook fan but the more I read the book the more I dislike them. The author seems well-intentioned but I the overall feeling is that she was part of the system. I know it's difficult but she followed along enabling what the Facebook leadership wanted to do.

    • JohnFen6 hours ago
      I found that book very interesting. The author doesn't come out of it looking well. That made the book feel more credible to me, although considering that it's by and about a group of people that isn't at all trustworthy, I still take the details with a large grain of salt.
  • montgomery_r8 hours ago
    Just finished ‘On the law of speaking freely’ Adam Tomkins - an excellent survey covering the US, UK and EU. In the middle of: Adventurers, David Howarth, an account of the beginnings of the East India Company, and Witch Wood, a delightful historical novel by John Buchan set in c16th Scotland. Just started: The House of War, the struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate, Simon Mayall. All good so far!
  • nephihaha8 hours ago
    The Hobbit in Gaelic and a whole series of Jon Ronson books I was given for Christmas.
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  • cheshire1378 hours ago
    Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells, and I’m listening to the audio book The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson.
  • christophilus8 hours ago
    The complete works of Washington Irving.
  • soycello8 hours ago
    the deutscher stalin bio and misc fiction
  • rvz8 hours ago
    Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson