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Right now I'm reading: Fiction- - Reamde (Bought it when it came out, but had to wait to start until I finished some other stuff on my list) - The Big Blowdow
by m0nastic 15y ago
Right now I'm reading:
Fiction-
- Reamde (Bought it when it came out, but had to wait to start until I finished some other stuff on my list)
- The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos
Nonfiction-
- Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia (Volume 1) -- primarily for research, but it's fascinating.
- Dark Markets by Misha Glenny
- How to Live on Mars by robert Zubrin
- The Lightness of Being by Frank Wilczek
- This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin
- Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
- and Strange Things Happen by Stewart Copeland
Technical-
- Tangled Web (I saw someone else mention it, and it's really really good so far)
- Skiena's Algorithms book (making slower progress than I'd like).
- tptacek 15y agoI read Misha Glenny's _McMafia_ and it kind of left a bad taste, even before they got to the cybercrime stuff where I knew some of his sources were just making things up. How's _Dark Markets_? Love that Skiena book.
- m0nastic 15y agoSo far, Dark Market is a little too "Dateline expose" for my taste, but I'm only about a third of the way in (maybe it gets better). I actually picked up Skiena purely from your recommendation of it on here. I wanted to go back to algo fundamentals, and I was irrationally opposed to buying CLRS for the second time (having bought and then sold it back in college), so I figured I'd give it a try. I like the presentation of material a lot better, but I've just been a lazy git about plowing through it.