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Books Every Geek Should Read (amazon.com)
9 points by whenimgone on June 5, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Decent start; I've read twelve of them, and none of the biographies. I'm a geek, I guess.

The absence of the Jargon File / Hacker Dictionary must be noted, and ideally, corrected.

Gödel, Escher, Bach would seem to belong as well.


Agreed with GED.


As much as I love Ender's Game I've turned my head away at it since I found out that Orson Scott Card was an extreme right-wing mormon. While I don't like to attribute a book's content to it's author I feel like this sort of ruins a bit of the book's magic.

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution was an excellent read and then of course you can't go wrong with Douglas Adams. Excellent stuff.


"While I don't like to attribute a book's content to it's author"

Where else should it be attributed?




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