Books like SICP are touted -- if not by the authors, then by those who got a lot out of them -- as the one true key to knowledge. I think we all gravitate towar

Books like SICP are touted -- if not by the authors, then by those who got a lot out of them -- as the one true key to knowledge. I think we all gravitate toward that ideal, and we want one book to teach us everything, but reality is often more complicated, and one person's steak is another person's ... not steak.