Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
by flopsamjetsam on Friday December 26, 2025 @05:37PM
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> Chaos by James Gleick
I read this quite a while ago, and can't remember it at all. What did you think of it?
> The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Loved this when I was a kid.
Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
by rochansinha on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:21AM
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It’s a great introduction to chaos theory and emergent phenomena. Makes you look at the world in a different way!
Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
by quantpunk on Saturday December 27, 2025 @05:47AM
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The Gleick book is a good quick introduction to complexity.
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems is an incredible second book on the subject but it wouldn't be fair to compare it to the Gleick book.
I enjoyed How The World Really Works also.
Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
by peterspath on Saturday December 27, 2025 @04:08AM
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Anything from Frederick Forsyth is good.
Bhagvad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
How The World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Chaos by James Gleick
Wind and Truth (Stormlight Archive #5) by Brandon Sanderson
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth