A Bookworm's Diet
Here's a chronological listing of the books I have read since The Last Burden.
- Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (Atrocious. Period.)
- The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber (Brilliant)
- Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller (as the book's tagline says, A Brief History of the Internet)
- Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds & David Diamond
(Autobiographical) - Free Software, Free Society by Richard M Stallman (Profound)
- Rebel Code by Glyn Moody (Linux and the Open Source revolution)
- The Hacker Ethic by Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds (prologue) and Manuel Castells (epilogue)
- The Invisible Man by H G Wells (Chilling and depressing)
On the shelf, waiting to be consumed, are the following:-
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Peter Pan by J M Barrie
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Lord Of The Rings by J R R Tolkien
- Hindu Mythology by W J Wilkins
posted by Rajat | 10:25 PM
6 Comments:
Thats much better. Put more links in your blog, and people derive more out of it.
BTW,
Simson Garfinkel admires Stallman and the work he has done. In case you dont recognise the name, he's one of the editors of the Unix Hater's Handbook. Just mentioned to show that the peeople who wrote it werent any isolated crackpots (not that you need to be told, but just felt like putting it in).
is the thurber one your own? lend it to me sometime if possible...
Venu,
One major disadvantage of putting links is that they might get broken in the future - e.g. some book might go out of print & maybe removed from Amazon listings. But in the short term, they definitely do provide more information for the interested reader. In the worst case, you can always Google. :-)
Yeah, I remember Simson Garfinkel & UHH was an excellent read.
PM,
No, the Thurber was a library book. But you can read some parts of the book here.
I recommed linking up to answers.com. That site rocks. Even google uses them instead of dictionary.com now. Googlewhacking has become really difficult after that.
And if you're interested, check out this cluster search engine called Clusty (clusty.com).
Yeah, answers.com is pretty good - more organised & relevant. I used it once in a previous post.
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