I was more thinking along the lines of, "Oh yeah, I've read them all. Wait, MIX? What's that?" I've seen several equally dense, informative CS books (such as D

I was more thinking along the lines of, "Oh yeah, I've read them all. Wait, MIX? What's that?" I've seen several equally dense, informative CS books (such as Dick Grune's _Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide_), but Knuth has a specific sort of cachet among xkcd-quoting geek hipsters, so people namedropping him, make a pretense of having read them all the way through, etc.