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Ask HN: if you could only read one book, which would it be?
7 points by keiferski on Oct 2, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
Pre-modern age, reading was a very narrow, deep activity. Books were rare, and a lucky person owned one, maybe two. These days, information is cheap, and most people only read a book once. I personally have a Kindle with hundreds of books on it, most of which I won't read again.

So, if you had to pick one book to read hundreds of times, to know word-for-word from front-to-back, what would it be?



The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas Stanley http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising/d...


Thanks for the suggestion, but you should post the full link (not a url shortener). It's just a HN-etiquette thing.


Sure - No problem. Link updated; Thanks for the heads up.


If I was lucky enough to own two, those would be:

1.Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Centennial-Edition-eboo...

2.The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying http://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Book-Living-Dying-ebook/dp/B00...


Why, that would have to be the very book I'm reading right now, in the moment, as we speak:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Aufzeichnungen_des_Malte_L...


Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past

by: Erich von Däniken

http://www.amazon.com/Chariots-Gods-Unsolved-Mysteries-Past/...




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