!bookworms as you know Never Let Me Go is finished, we'll have a final thread to discuss the book as a whole this Sunday. So it's time to nominate books for the next bookclub. I'll select all nominations and post a thread to vote which one you like most. First voting will eliminate all but the Top 5.
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The structure and interpretation of computer programs by Gerald Jay Sussman, Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman.
!codecels
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Suggest some kino programming books. If you suggest "clean code" I'm gonna block you
For me, it's all of Beej's "books"
also:
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the art of prolog
on lisp/let over lambda
the little schemer/the reasoned schemer
the elements of computing systems
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
learn you a Haskell
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is learn you a Haskell still good
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the presentation is cringe and I didn't feel like I had deep understanding after reading the chapters
Haskell Programming from First Principles by Chris Allen, Julie Moronuki (z-lib.org).pdfis betterThis is a good text for after you understand the basics to understand what all the fuzz is about
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface
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It's pretty good - it was my into to Haskell/FP in general. It's not great at covering advanced Haskell topics like monad stacks, but that's not the point
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do you know how "the art of prolog" compares to "the power of prolog"?
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The power of prolog is more about prolog programming in general. The art of prolog is more about beautiful things you can do, like metainterpreters
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thanks for the rec, after taking a peek it seems like a better book for me in the beginning
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Both are great books. Markus Trista (who wrote PoP) also has a YouTube channel under the same name which is really good
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The Algorithm Design Manual by Skeina et al
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Based turkish academics providing pirated books
https://mimoza.marmara.edu.tr/~msakalli/cse706_12/SkienaTheAlgorithmDesignManual.pdf
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How do you learn to enjoy this after becoming a wagecel? I used to care, but I can't deal with it anymore since I feel like I'm just working for free and getting taken advantage of
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dunno I'm a NEETcoder
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sorry. please never get a job
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Serious suggestion: "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold
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The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk
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People who preach Clean Code need
Boring and r-slurred book
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I knew a woman (male) who had the entirely of AOCP at the time.
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no she very much had a peepee.
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Nerd!!!
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I didn't get any of the math they'd use to explain programming though
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Is that the Javascript version?
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Why would you ever read the JavaScript version
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Because it's the most recent addition and newer is better including society's opinions on gay s*x
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Don Quixote
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Quichotte
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Quijote*
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e: which mentions in the intro that cervantes would have likely said "key-SHO-tay"
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Oh I didn't know that one
Yes Spanish pronunciation changed, it is still Quixote or “quishote” in Portuguese
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This books is great but at least the version I read had so many old outdated terms I had to keep my phone as a dictionary next to me and I unironically probably had to search over a hundred words over the course of the book
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My version of the book scarcely has any paragraphs so there'll be pages of content with no spacing or formatting whatsoever. Is that part of the story or is my book just lazy?
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I remember it having a huge amount of text per page, so I think it's about right
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Im Don Quixote at night
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!neolibs, don't you guys have any recommendations besides Why Nations Fail and The End of History?
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Antiracist Baby
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The open society and it's enemies.
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Globalization and Its Discontents
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The full Sonichu run
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The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto
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Our Posthuman Future by Fukuyama. The core thesis is that humans will be genetically engineered at some point in the future. Unless there is an enforced global ban, it's going to happen. The argument is should it be used on the poors to help give them a leg up, or allow the hyper wealthy to use the cowtools to make their heirs beautiful, stronger, and smarter. It's more fascinating than a call for eugenics.
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Capitalism and Freedom, and A Conflict of Visions.
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Perhaps most American's will have already read it, but I've always wanted to see what The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is all about. And from what I understand, they say the BIPOC word a lot, so it may help to engage the average rdrama user.
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And in the censored version they replaced BIPOC with “slave” lmao.
I hate that kind of correction, I noticed Brazilian editors are doing that too replacing the word escravo “slave” with escravizado “enslaved”, even on translated works, because apparently “slave” is offensive while “enslaved” is humanizing or something.
!macacos
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Their reasoning is probably the same as in English; "enslaved" does not remove their personhood as much as "slave" does
It will fall to the euphemism threadmill anyway, political correctness never ends
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Criolo
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Cara, criolo, rsrsrs
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Too like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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100 years of solitude is amazing. It's definitely in the top 5 things I've ever read.
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It's a good book!
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I was only able to find one copy in the back corner of an ancient bookstore
Cashier lady was covered in they/them/rainbow buttons so I decided to order it online
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anything Virginia Woolf or Dostoyevsky
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Any specific one? Mrs Dalloway? Brothers Karamazov?
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I can vouch for BK, but it's the only of his I've read.
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Honestly I think BK would hit hard with a lot of dramatards. Too easy to see ourselves reflected in that family.
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Agreed. It will be a very good experience, but it will be long.
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Yeah, it'd probably be a good idea to recommend getting the audiobook.
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Idk I was gonna leave it open for suggestions but maybe To the Lighthouse and The Idiot?
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I try to be a fool for Christ, and I at least nail the foolish part.
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The Idiot is 10/10. Might be the best book I've ever read
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Brothers Karamazov is absolutely massive Probably gonna take like 4 months or so to get through.
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The Idiot because it's next on my list
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Men Without Women
Norwegian Wood
Kafka on the Shore
Three-Body Problem
On the Jews and their Lies
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I second Kafka on the Shore and Three-Body Problem
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It was an OK book, nothing particulaly exceptional, narrative and prosewise
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Good for book club tho, could discuss collections of stories easily.
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Please do Shakespeare's plays
@neoconshill
It would be so fun to get a recap on them after HS
Macbeth
Lear
Othello
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Antony & Cleopatra
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Interracial marriage, cuckoldry and scheming
villain, perfect for arrdramadotnet
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Do Lear then. It has one guy cuckolding two chicks
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I nominate Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
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Eregon by Christopher Paolini
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Unironically finally read the last book of the series after (a long time). Made me feel kinda sad. But a good sad. I read eragon and eldest many times when I was younger.
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He just released a brand new one this year called Murtagh that takes place one year after the original series.
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Honestly, i think i read the first book only
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Papyrus the history
of books 
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Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
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Both probably too long for the poors with no time to enjoy literature -
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7510747
Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind
https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens-2
Or shorter and way more dramatic
The Invention of Heterosexuality
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo5387736.html
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The mosquito book looks unironically interesting! I was reading Ulysses S Grants memoir which was pretty much just a book about troop movements in battlefields, but an interesting bit was about how the american troops in the US Mexico war had to time their advances due to mosquito plagues giving everyone vomito at certain points in the year.
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!historychads thoughts on Yuval Noah Harari? I read Sapiens 6 years ago and I remember the first part he was all like “the agricultural revolution and it's consequences…”
He's definitely a reddity/tech bro type author.
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Any macrohistory book is useless because anyone can write that shit. It's just an expanded Wikipedia entry.
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No, I actually enjoyed reading the book.
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhael Bulgakov (the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation)
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That was the first bookclub reading
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
I haven't read it but want to
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Most of the books I've read recently have a lot of r*pe in them so I can recommend based on lots of r*pe or just enough
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I love reading
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Creative Act by Rubin.
Anything by Brene Brown (but dare to lead and atlast of the heart in particular)
7 habits of highly effective people
Never split the difference
When violence is the answer
The courage to be disliked
The gift of fear
The body keeps the score
San fransicko
Catch-22
The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership
Fight club
Bad gays: a homosexual history
Extreme ownership
Thinking fast and slow
Most of those I haven't had time to read. Would love some peer pressure.
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What's wrong with her books?
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Embassytown by China Mieville
From what I remember, the concept is that we encounter an alien civilization that is incapable of fully abstract language. For them to have a word for something they have to witness it, and so humans can become words in their language. The story is from the perspective of a person who is a word.
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lmao I love it when you read a comment and can just tell what their user history is going to be. And sure enough you've got: Conservative, trueunpopularopinion, conspiracy, obsessively posting about crime in SF and about the SF mod in question... Yikes on bikes, that chud needs a hobby.
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Sometimes a Great Notion is worth a read.
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I've only read The Name of the Rose by him (
). Why don't you think SaGN was good? It's up there with East of Eden as one of my all time favorite American novels but admittedly I read it a decade ago so might have a different reaction now.
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I'm
and misread your statement but agree. I'm not sure which, if any, 20th century satire will have a lasting legacy beyond Pynchon and Catch 22.
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That sounds pretty interesting, did you find it plausible?
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