Books recommended on hn are almost always books that are "useful" in the spirit of productivity and all that. Not that it's wrong, but it feels heavily tilting towards monotony i.e just one kind of books, sort of.

Ultimately those books are the best. Fiction books don't have much of value, as does the rest of entertainment. If you can lean - you could study instead or work instead. And there's always going to be someone who does who will kick you from your job.

Are you for real? I mean, it's fine if your dream life is that of an ant worker where art has no place, but don't think for a single second you're the sane one.

Not the person you are replying to but I highly suspect it was sarcasm. A caricature of a stereotypical HN-way of thinking.

If that's the case, my bad then, my sarcasm detector might need some more fine-tuning.

If you look for it, there is quite a bit of science fiction, history (okay, often of science and tech), economics, etc on HN.