Books I Recommend

• Terry Pratchett - Discworld books: I recommend the whole set. More details may be coming later, but it's one of the few series I've read that gets better with each book instead of worse. The first couple aren't quite as good as the rest but they're still worth a read.
• David Brin - The Postman: There was a movie with a similar title a few years ago, the title is about where the similarity ended.
• Donald Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming: I never said that this list would be completely fiction. This is a set of what will eventually be seven volumes if it's ever completed. So far the first three have come out with several revisions (Volume I is on it's 3rd edition) but the rest are still beyond the horizon. Reading these books is a very hardcore (and probably incomplete) way of learning to program, but they fill in many of the gaps that might otherwise be there.
• J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings: Is any comment necessary?
• Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers: Try to forget the movie that shared a title Starship Troopers. The movie was based on the back cover of the book if even that. Both of these books discuss some interesting political philosophies in addition to being fun to read. Read them both and you will have a new perspective on throwing rocks.
• Iain M. Banks - Culture novels: A very interesting universe in which to set a series of books.
• Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Not about either Zen or how to maintain a motorcycle.
• Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano: What happens when technology and automation go to an extreme.

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