150 pages into The Fountainhead at the moment. So far, I can highly recommend it.
Ayn Rand... Please don't
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#22how do iget to karma 2
Let's karma 4 karma (501 so we can dislike)
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#23Lenins Tomb: Soviet history primarily focused on the later years.
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#24'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' can't stop recommending it. I am currently reading the 3rd book 'Life, the Universe and Everything'
Can I ask what is so fascinating about it, It's been recommended to me a couple of times and I've tried everything to enjoy it and failed.
I got the book, tried the audio-book and even tried watching the movie, I couldn't get myself past the first half of the book or the movie.
It just seems (to me) so childish and incoherent, am I missing somthing?
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#25The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Does anyone have other hacking related books with story telling like in this book?
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#26I am reading An Anonymous Girl by Greer and Sarah and it's a hell of a ride. I try to answer the questions asked by the doctor and makes me wonder about myself.
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#27The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Does anyone have other hacking related books with story telling like in this book?
I must have read this 100 times when I was a little kid interested in programming in the late 80s / early 90s.
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#28Moby Dick Finally got around to reading it, I was amazed at how modern it felt for a book written in 1850.
This is an amazing book, though I jokingly like to describe it as the best beginning and ending prose ever written with 100 chapters of whalefacts.tumblr.com sandwiched in between.
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#29The Count of Monti Cristo is a really fun book. It was published as a serial and was kind of like the Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones of 1850s Paris that everyone was talking about at the time. It's fun to read for both the revenge story itself and for the implicit look into the history of the French Revolution and what the life of a (dramatized) high roller was like back then.
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#30I recently finished The Three-Body Problem, and I think it is the best book I have read in years.
It held my attention all the way through and I am now starting the sequel.