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I didn't update this for a while... books I can think of include:
The Vinyl Cafe series by Stuart
Mc Lean
- gentle, humorous books of short stories based on a Canadian Radio Series
To my shame... just about everything that Dan Brown has written. I know they're not good, but they are "page turners"
All the Rebus books by Ian Rankin
About half of the
Sherlock Holmes
books By
Conan Doyle
Various Bill Bryson books
2002
Off the top of my head (quite a lot missing):
Fiction
Jeeves in the Spring -
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Dog -
John Hegley
Belphagor -
Niccolo Machiavelli
Tales Of Super Natural Terror
-
Guy De Maupassant
(selected by
Arnold Kellett
)
The Sleeper Awakes
-
Herbert George Wells
Very Good Jeeves
,
Heavy Weather
-
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Non Fiction
Everyday Life In Ancient Mesopotamia
The Red Queen
-
Matt Ridley
The Code Book
Letters from a Stoic -
Seneca
The Consolations of Philosophy --
Alain De Botton
Lots of copies of
New Scientist
Winter 2001/2
Non Fiction
Books I've read recently include the
Pragmatic Programmer
,
The Code Book
,
Fermats Last Theorem
and
Crypto Secrecy And Privacy In The New Code War
.
Fiction
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
-
The Inimitable Jeeves
(Fantastic),
The Man Upstairs
(Short Stories)
Herbert George Wells
- Selected Short Stories,
The Time Machine
,
The First Men In The Moon
Douglas Adams
-
The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
,
Life The Universe And Everything
,
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
,
Mostly Harmless
,
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
Meetings With Remarkable Trees
-
Thomas Pakenham
This Perfect Day
-
Ira Levin
The Language Of The Genes
-
Steve Jones
Articles
Fred Nickols has written some interesting articles - I initially found the one on Prototyping, but the others sound interesting too -
http://home.att.net/~nickols/articles.htm
Other Favourites
Other favourites include
Godel Escher Bach
by
Douglas Hoffstadter
,
Extreme Programming Explained
and
Refactoring
.
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