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		flopsamjetsam 40 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? Dune: re-read the first time since I was a teenager. Mostly to compare my memory of it against the films. Foundation and Second Foundation: for much the same reason. Both very enjoyable reads, but quite different from the modern interpretations. "How Life Works: a users guide to the new biology" by Phillip Ball. Really extended my understanding of where biology is now.

trentnix 39 days ago [–]

I read five of the Foundation books (stopping before Prelude) in 2024. I had read them as a kid and loved them, but three (plus) decades later and they just didn’t hold up as well as I hoped.

The Mule is still great, though.

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