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A Commonplace Blog
Personal blog · dgmyers.blogspot.comwritingculture
A Commonplace Blog is a personal blog at dgmyers.blogspot.com about writing and culture. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for D.G. Myers's posts on his favourite novels, such as Stoner, which one commenter cited as a source for book suggestions in a thread on mind-bending books.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Fantastic. That's two books I will look into. I did a little searching this morning and did find D.G. Myers old blog where he posts a few of his favorite novels, including Stoner. Link here: https://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-favorite-martians.ht...
Comment linking /2012/12/my-favorite-martians.html
on “Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?”Submitted Academe quits me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI submitted this article a while ago when it was first published in The Atlantic, but it received no up-votes, so I deleted it. I wanted there to be a discussion on HN even though I doubted whether this was the appropriate place to have such a discussion. The reason I posted it was because I wanted to see where people's logic would allow them to go regarding happiness and human action. I wanted to contrast what The…
Comment linking /p/jean-amery-biographical-introduction.html
on “There's More to Life Than Being Happy”Submitted Magical thinking about death as a story · 1 points
HN discussion