Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by aquir on Monday October 07, 2024 @02:19PM (#41769176)

The Neuromancer has the greatest opening sentence of all times imho: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by analogwzrd on Monday October 07, 2024 @03:18PM (#41769871)

This is a great line, though it might not have aged well. Younger generations might just think "Oh, the sky was black"

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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by criddell on Monday October 07, 2024 @03:36PM (#41770053)

My kids would think the sky is blue because our TV shows a solid blue screen when there's no signal. For people with TVs like mine, I suppose the line still works.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by zem on Monday October 07, 2024 @05:20PM (#41771186)

as a genxer I was not sure if he meant blue or grey and snowing.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? by solarmist on Monday October 07, 2024 @03:17PM (#41769862)

Sadly (for me) this now needs an annotated version for younger reader to fully understand.

I'm starting to feel old on a more and more frequent cadence.

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