Re:What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
by yann63 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @05:31AM
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Is there a way to completely blacklist web sites such as this one? Such as a Firefox extension than would, in my browser, remove results from search engines, entries from hackernews, and so on? There are tons of them where articles are meaningless, and a waste of time.
Re:What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
by CPLX on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:16AM
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> Overall, I see no value in this list beyond any other "hey I like these books I happened to read"
But... that’s valuable.
Re:What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
by weego on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:36AM
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Only if the opinion of the people you ask is considered valuable.
Re:What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
by CPLX on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:30AM
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Not really. Unless made by Nazis or people under the age of 7 I’m pretty much always interested in skimming a thoughtful list of nonfiction book recommendations.
Re:What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
by jcwayne on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:49AM
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...and then hitting back 40 times to return to HN.
Re:What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
by CPLX on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:00AM
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That part I was less pleased by. Though as any savvy HN reader knows just holding down the back button on an iPhone, or the equivalent elsewhere, solves that problem neatly.
Re:What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
by beatgammit on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:19AM
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Or just open in a new tab. When done, close the tab.
Re:What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
by woodandsteel on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:40PM
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I thought article would be about the sorts of books read by the sort of people who read the Chronicle, and sure enough it was. And that was fine with me. If I wanted the sort of list a different sort of group would produce, I would go somewhere else.
As to evidence these are the most influential books in their fields, I assume they spend a lot of time reading what other people in their field say they were influence by, and so I trust they know what they are talking about.
Or is it perhaps your belief that social science and humanities professors should not be allowed to talk about such things?
- You should also try and include some academics and/or authors outside of America if you want to be taken seriously.
- Perhaps also consider, if you insist on doing this through a survey, asking people for some kind of evidence that supports the influential reach of their chosen book.
- Finally if you have a list of 20 books arranged vertically so people can can scroll down them, don't have the back button attempt and fail to scroll to each visited location on the page if you expect return visitors.
Overall, I see no value in this list beyond any other "hey I like these books I happened to read" type blog and I'll think twice before clicking on a chronicle link in future.