What have you read / are currently reading this month? Leave suggestions for others to read as well!<p>-Read-<p>Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick<p>Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany<p>Bloodchild - Octavia E. Butler<p>-Reading-<p>The Dragons Of Eden - Carl Sagan
<i>Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing</i> by Henry Petroski:<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Design-Engineers-Thought-Thing/dp/0674463684/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Design-Engineers-Thought-Thi...</a><p>Previously, I've read his book <i>Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering</i>:<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Design-Paradigms-Histories-Judgment-Engineering/dp/0521466490/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Design-Paradigms-Histories-Judgment-En...</a><p>I can't speak on the former yet, but the latter is excellent, and provides a framework for analyzing failures in engineering judgment (regardless of whether you're talking about bridges or software). I've also been working through <i>The Little Schemer</i>.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo</a> - currently
Books of Joe Hill - latest, I've actually enjoyed them very much.
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkins/dp/0618918248" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkins/dp/06...</a>
My Brief History - Stephen Hawking, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Brief-History-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0345535286" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/My-Brief-History-Stephen-Hawking/dp/03...</a>
Both real eye openers
Currently Frank Herbert's "Dune", which is quite good from what I've read so far.<p>My problem is, I can never actually muster up the motivation to sit down and read it.<p>I'm coming to Dune from "Fahrenheit 451". I'd give it 8/10, I've found it's a little slow to kick off, but the plot soon picks up.
Currently, re-reading this one. Seldom have I dog-eared so many pages or underlined passages. The Way of the Seal> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-SEAL-Warrior-Succeed/dp/1621451097" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-SEAL-Warrior-Succeed/dp/162145...</a>
I think someone had set up a Goodreads account or group for HN readers.<p>I'm trying to find it but no luck so far (I'm at work, no Goodreads available here).
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pelevin" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pelevin</a> He is the best russian writer.