Nugget's Picks
Here's a scratch-pad of books that nugget@distributed.net has ordered for himself. distributed.net gets more money if the book is hard-linked, so he adds books here in order to buy them.
P.S. dbaker's books are not as cool as mine.
- 13th Gen
Neil Howe, Bill Strauss, R.J. Matson, Ian Williams - Transact-SQL Programming (Nutshell Series)
Kevin Kline, Lee Gould, Andrew Zanevsky / O'Reilly - Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition
Linda Lamb and Arnold Robbins / O'Reilly - Building Internet Firewalls
D. Brent Chapman and Elizabeth Zwicky / O'Reilly - The Millionaire Next Door : The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Thomas Stanley and William Danko - 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask
Ilyce R. Glink - Garfield Fat Cat Three Pack #7
Jim Davis - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine
Kurt Vonnegut - The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein - Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers
Scott M. Ballew, Michael Loukides / O'Reilly - Cisco TCP/IP Routing Professional Reference
Chris Lewis - Doom Music CD
Bobby Prince Music - Robert's Rules of Order: Newly Revised
Henry M. Robert - Robert's Rules in Plain English
Henry M. Robert - The New Robert's Rules of Order
Mary Ann DeVries - Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide
Neil Rhodes, Julie McKeehan, Mark Stone - PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide
David Pogue - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Roald Dahl
dbaker's Picks
These are books that dbaker has bought. All of these books are cooler than nugget's picks. _]:8)
- Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition
Linda Lamb and Arnold Robbins / O'Reilly - The Street Lawyer
John Grisham, Michael Beck (Narrator) - Sendmail (Nutshell Handbook)
Bryan Costales, Eric Allman (Contributor), Gigi Estabrook (Editor) - Perl 5 Interactive Course : Certified Edition
Jon Orwant - TCP/IP Illustrated (Vol 1)
W. Richard Stevens - TCP/IP Illustrated (Vol 2)
W. Richard Stevens, Gary Wright - TCP/IP Illustrated (Vol 3)
W. Richard Stevens, Gary Wright - Playing the Future : What We Can Learn from Digital Kids
Douglas Rushkoff - All The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings
George Bush - Business Start-Up Guide : How to Create, Grow, and Manage Your Own Successful Enterprise
Tom Severance - The Midnight Club
James Patterson - The Testament
John Grisham - TCP/IP Unleashed
Tim Parker, Anne Carasik, Daniel A. Baker, Neal S. Jamison, Kurt Hudson, Mark Kadrich, Bernard McCargo, Joe Devlin, Emily Berk, Rima S. Regas, Mark A. Sportack
Vetere's Picks
This rather short list covers the gamut, and only contains the best of the very best.
- We The Living (Ayn Rand)
Brilliant indictment of Soviet Russia, penned when socialism was in vogue in the United States. - Notes on the Federal Convention of 1787 (James Madison, editor)
Before going forward, it's good to know what's behind us. - Faith of my Fathers: A family memoir (John McCain)
Refreshingly apolitical look at a military family. - Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
Widescreen space-opera at its finest. Ringworlds, intelligent starships, and anarcho-syndicalism in what's been referred to as the ultimate utopia. - Infinite in All Directions (Freeman Dyson)
Physics explained. - Diaspora (Greg Egan)
Worried about machine intelligences? Don't be. Here's why. - Glory Season (David Brin)
Sociological experiment in matriarchy by the ever-excellent Brin.
McLean's Picks
Give your computer more idle cycles... read a few of these, they changed my life.
- Codebreakers
This massive book by the original cryptography master traces the history of coding and cracking from the dawn of civilisation to the near-present, complete with true technical explanations and gripping real-life dramas that put James Bond to shame. - Seuss-isms
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." The only quotes book worth owning. - Tau
There's zillions of English Tao translations, but this is the first that captures the ethereal wisdom as it was meant to be. Worth reading many times. - The Medium Is The Massage
A Pictoral Explosion of McLuhanism, and the perfect introduction book. Will blow your mind. - War & Peace In The Global Village
McLuhan goes deeper under the false-surface of thought. And get this: He's right. - Earth
One of my favourite novels of all time, and the most realistic vision of the near-future I have ever read. Brin is a genius. - Suck
Think back before the lameness, long ago when Suck.com was the centre of cultural hypocracy on the net... or something... quite witty. - The Prophet
Oh come on, you know this one. He put the 'spirit' in spirituality, baby! - Polaroids From The Dead
Douglas Coupland taps into every nuance of modern life from my perspective, and displays it garishly and compellingly through each page... - The Dilbert Future
Most of these predictions make sense, terrifyingly enough. - Winnie The Pooh
Pooh Bear kicks ass. These tales are profoundly neat. - Life-House
Spider's best science fiction epic yet, based in my hometown of Vancouver. Truly riveting, hilarious, super-duper stuff. - Ishmael
Yes, it is still remotely possible that we can save the world. - The Devil's Dictionary
Searingly funny text by the ever-ironic Ambrose Beirce. Flies in the face of... everything, and makes sense too. If you own one dictionary, make it this one.