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Nine essential geek books you must read right now

Sunday, October 23, 2011 8:39:26 AM

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Photo by Jim Merithew/Wired.com Marty Cortinas posted an article on the nine geek books in Wired.com on Friday, 21 October 2011. Being a list afficionado bigsmile I just had to re-post it. Here we go
  1. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide (1979) by Gary GYGAX
  2. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas ADAMS
  3. Watchmen (1986 - 1987) by Alan MOORE
  4. Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) by Douglas HOFSTADTER
  5. Ender's Game (1985) by Orson Scott CARD
  6. Snow Crash (1992) by Neal STEPHENSON
  7. The Lord of the Rings (1954 - 1955) by J. R. R. TOLKIEN
  8. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1992) by Edward TUFTE
  9. Neuromancer (1984) by William GIBSON
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Comments

Gaddag Sunday, October 23, 2011 9:03:16 AM

I have (and have read) 6 of these 9, missing numbers 1, 3 (ouch!) and 8.

~ latemate ~Lazeeitus Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:26:01 PM

.. alas i've not read any of these yet . tho have read the hobbit and listened to hitchhikers... on radio . guess i've much catching up to do .. very interesting list ..

Gaddag Tuesday, October 25, 2011 5:17:50 PM

Alas I didn't hear the radio version of Hitchhiker's GTTG. I saw the film, once, and fell asleep. Neuromancer is really a fine novel, a mixture of SF and hard-boiled mystery style. You can skip the Hofstadter tome, to fully understand all of it, you'd need to have a very good background in mathematics, logic, mathematical logic and linguistics. Ender's Game and Snow Crash can be considered as classics of SF.

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