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Books Every Geek Should Read

9 points| whenimgone | 14 years ago |amazon.com | reply

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[+] samatman|14 years ago|reply
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.

[+] basicxman|14 years ago|reply
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.

[+] noobiscus|14 years ago|reply
"While I don't like to attribute a book's content to it's author"

Where else should it be attributed?