Hacker News Books

40,000 HackerNews book recommendations identified using NLP and deep learning

Scroll down for comments...

All TimePast 6 Months
Prev Page 4/11 Next
Sorted by relevance

MengerSpongeonMay 20, 2020

Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of excellent short stories that includes "Harrison Bergeron". "The Euphio Question" haunts me to this day

criddellonFeb 9, 2017

It might not be the best place, but an easy entry is Welcome to the Monkey House. It's a collection of 25 short stories that were published in magazines in the '50s and '60s.

arussonJuly 13, 2014

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a collection of his short stories, often funny, sometimes touching, and always insightful.

anthonyrubinonDec 7, 2008

Several months ago I heard about this story and found that it was published in Welcome to the Monkey House. It is a great collection of some of his short stories.

njharmanonAug 24, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching
The translations vary greatly. (from making it sound like new age mumbo jumbo, to mystic mumbo jumbo, to a profound philosophy), need to find one that's right for you.

"The C Programming Language" by K&R (I read this very young 12-13, it's life changing aspects probably had a lot to do with my age)

"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

mjamilonMay 8, 2014

Any conversation about individuals having the right to control their lives (including the means to end them) seems to me to be a good thing. Similarly, on a larger scale, I also find talking about the (often shady) efforts by various governments to control population to be a welcome thing. Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House" touches on both topics; it's worth a read.

succleafonMay 17, 2019

Welcome to the Monkey House

HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...

Built withby tracyhenry

.

Follow me on