Ask HN: Which Books or Articles Do You Keep Rereading and Why?

9o1d · 2024-11-27T09:33:23 1732700003

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov was lying in bed one morning in his flat in Gorokhovaya Street in one of those large houses which have as many inhabitants as a country town.

"Oblomov". https://www.litres.ru/book/ivan-goncharov/oblomov-oblomov-kn... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1zIasC2Og8

manx · 2024-11-27T08:12:38 1732695158

Excellent question. I asked the same question for Movies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41315330

For me it's:

- https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/09/Simple-correct-fast.html

In combination with "Simple Made Easy":

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

he11ow · 2024-11-27T21:55:32 1732744532

Can You Say...Hero? Fred Rogers has been doing the same small good thing for a very long time... https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-...

A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again (originally titled 'Shipping out') David Foster Wallace goes on a luxury cruise. There's a PDF version online, but the reading experience doesn't compare to reading it in a book. My copy is tatty by now, still keep going back.

vintageclothldn · 2024-11-27T11:53:35 1732708415

I try to re-read Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger every year. Always find something very valuable in it.

Desafinado · 2024-11-27T13:17:43 1732713463

Leonard Cohen's 'Book of Longing', because life is about more than work and money.

octo-andrero · 2024-11-27T12:52:44 1732711964

"You and your research by Richard Hamming". https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

skydhash · 2024-11-27T13:53:54 1732715634

"The Pragmatic Programmer" and "The Mythical Man-Month". Not because they have earth-shattering insights, but because it's a dose of sanity in this era of needless complexity.

mikewarot · 2024-11-27T10:17:44 1732702664

The 1632 series, alternative history by Eric Flint. I used to read them in rotation on my lunch breaks at the gear factory. No Internet there, and before I got a smartphone.