Reading List

[pphaneuf]

Meme'ing today, from wlach's entry...

1) Total number of books owned?

Not that many. Between 50 and a 100? Mostly technical books.

2) The Last Book I bought:

Hofstaeder's "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", as a gift.

3) The Last Book I read:

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", by Philip K. Dick.

4) Books that mean a lot to me:

Aherm, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"... :-)

Also, "The New Hacker's Dictionary", for a number of sentimental reasons.

A number of books have influenced me, and some others I treasure because of their origins, but these are those that score on both counts.

5) Tag five people and have them fill out this poll:

ayria, azrhey, emjayne, kinetik710 and skjalm.

Comments

[xipetotec.livejournal.com]

Such a BladeRunner fan!

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

Too tired to do this one right now (numbers 4 and 5 require me to think ;-) but I'll do it sometime tomorrow. For now I'll just note that the last book I read was actually Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" short story collection...

Bookses :)

[eurydice13.livejournal.com]

1) Total number of books owned?

Not a clue. But they've been planning a massive takeover of my room for years now. :) Several hundred probably.

2) The Last Book(s) I bought:

Phyllis Currott - Love spell
Jules Verne - Paris au XXe siecle
Alexandre Dumas - Le collier de la reine

3) The Last Book I read:
Just finished re-reading : Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin, L'Aiguille Creuse.
Am reading "Science and the Craft"
and Jules Verne - Paris au XXe siecle

4) Books that mean a lot to me:

Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Dart / Kushiel's Chosen / Kushiel's Avatar (it's a trilogy)
Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons dangereuses
Everything by Maurice Leblanc (Arsene Lupin), Dumas and Balzac.
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (From Interview with the Vampire to Blood Canticle, so far)
J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
Many of my wicca books...
The Kernigan & Ritchie (s?) C programming book
Lots of books mean a lot to me, can't think of all of them now :S

Re: Bookses :)

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Kernighan and Ritchie, eh? If I had anything to do with this, I'd make "The Practice of Programming", by Pike and Kernighan mandatory reading for every single programming-related degree.