Re: [PLUG] I need a book recommendation

[Jay Dobies <jason.dobies@redhat.com>]

On 06/08/2012 12:22 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> If we're going to go the Stephenson route, there's nary a book of his
> that I wouldn't recommend (at least those penned under his own name.)
>
> Snow Crash is a definite favorite of mine, as is Diamond Age. I'm in the
> minority, but I loved Anathem. I'm only a third of the way through
> REAMDE, but liking it. And I never did finish the third Baroque Cycle
> book...

I'm one of the few geeks who just doesn't get Stephenson. I want to try 
Snow Crash again but I hated Cryptonomicon. It felt like 100 pages of 
story stretched out into 800 pages of fluff.


> --
> Doug Stewart
>
> On Jun 8, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Paul Walker <starsinmypockets@gmail.com
> <mailto:starsinmypockets@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Just finished Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson... cyberpunk classic that
> > talks a lot about internet proliferation, 'virtual reality'/advanced
> > UI topics, information architecture, software design, languages as
> > virus etc - good fun. Once you open the scifi door, there's really
> > just so much good relevant stuff.... I liked Cuckoo's Egg because it's
> > very "on topic" from a Unix sysadmin perspective..
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com
> > <mailto:zamoose@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I might also recommend "Daemon" by Suarez for pulpy spec-fic.
> >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Doug Stewart
> >
> >     On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Julien Mills <julienfmills@yahoo.com
> >     <mailto:julienfmills@yahoo.com>> wrote:
> >
> > >         I read this book when I was a teenager and it made me want to
> > >         learn Unix. I studied philosophy in college but taught myself
> > >         Unix on the campus aix system at Carolina when I was a
> > >         student there. The funny thing is I didn't do anything with
> > >         my philosophy degree but now I do Linux webserver security as
> > >         a career. Go figure.
> > >
> > >     Any other books, required reading for geeks, anyone can recommend?
> > >
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