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I would recommend " What is Zen" by Alan Watts, Siddhartha. "Ready Player One". I would also suggest, "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, and would echo "Cypton
by yial 12y ago
I would recommend " What is Zen" by Alan Watts,
Siddhartha.
"Ready Player One".
I would also suggest, "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, and would echo "Cyptonomicon".
Approaching Zero: The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals by Paul Mungo and Bryan Clough is excellent.
The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition
Daniel Carter Beard
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Rich, Ben R.
and finally, which is hard to stomach sometimes.
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code
by Bruce Schneier
- freehunter 12y agoI've never read Ready Player One, and there's a reason for that: people compare it to Snow Crash and I found Snow Crash to be entirely insufferable. I cannot stand that book. The worst part is that the main character is named Hiro Protagonist. The book just tries to be too cool. Maybe the problem is that it was written in 1992 and so much has been inspired by it that now the book seems tired and cliche. But if you're recommending it to a 14 year old, they're already going to be familiar with some of the works that have been inspired by Snow Crash, and they will likely find it as insufferable as well. And isn't Ready Player One heavy into the 80's pop culture? A 14 year old was born in 2001... they don't know what the 80's means.