Bought and Unread Books
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Bought and Unread Books
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#2I have Programming Pearls and it's one of the books that made me realise I know nothing.
I pick it up every now and then to see if I can get further than before.
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#3> If I don’t find Black Swan interesting I should probably just donate it instead of suffering through it, for example.
I'm not only willing, I'm eager to give up on a book I don't either enjoy or find interesting. But I know a surprising number of people who force themselves to finish any book that they start.
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#4My pile of unread books is kinda terrifying.
On the upside, I do manage to get through all of the books related to my field, so the stack mostly contains the remaining works of Kierkegaard that I've missed, the complete works of William Blake, Russian literature (translated), mathematics texts, and small stack of untranslated Japanese novels.
Some of this I'm saving for my "cargo freighter around the world" trip.
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#5I have Programming Pearls and it's one of the books that made me realise I know nothing. I pick it up every now and then to see if I can get further than before.
It's a great book to pick up "every now and then". Most of the chapters can be read as independent essays, and even the ones that continue ideas from before stand on their own pretty well. It's also a good book to bring along on a flight.
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#6My pile of unread books is kinda terrifying. On the upside, I do manage to get through all of the books related to my field, so the stack mostly contains the remaining works of Kierkegaard that I've missed, the complete works of William Blake, Russian literature (translated), mathematics texts, and small stack of untranslated Japanese novels. Some of this I'm saving for my "cargo freighter around the world" trip.
> Some of this I'm saving for my "cargo freighter around the world" trip.
Do they still have tramp steamers?
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#7Ah, yes... my pile of bought and unread books. Still much less scary than my reading list, which threatens to collapse into a black hole if I continue adding to it.
That being said, and more related to the source post, it looks doable. SICP really isn't all that scary. I finally read it last year, and both enjoyed it massively and got through it relatively quickly. Expecting yourself to do _all_ of the exercises would change this perspective, of course. Then it would be fairly scary, I guess.
I got a chuckle seeing volumes from The Art of Computer Programming in a pile before I realized they were in his pile to "skim through so I know what is in them so I can use them more effectively." Reading through those in detail in a year would be surprising, not to mention the other books in the post.
Good luck! Hope I see your follow up post at years end with how many you actually read. Let me add a vote for "Ruby Under a Microscope," I read it shortly after it came out and enjoyed it very much.
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#8My pile of unread books is kinda terrifying. On the upside, I do manage to get through all of the books related to my field, so the stack mostly contains the remaining works of Kierkegaard that I've missed, the complete works of William Blake, Russian literature (translated), mathematics texts, and small stack of untranslated Japanese novels. Some of this I'm saving for my "cargo freighter around the world" trip.
> Some of this I'm saving for my "cargo freighter around the world" trip. Do they still have tramp steamers?
Not that I've seen anyone offering service on.
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#9The size of my unread book pile is only dwarfed by the recognition of the missed opportunity for knowledge.
I won't call it a resolution, but I will read through as many as I can this year (there are a lot)
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#10> If I don’t find Black Swan interesting I should probably just donate it instead of suffering through it, for example. I'm not only willing, I'm eager to give up on a book I don't either enjoy or find interesting. But I know a surprising number of people who force themselves to finish any book that they start.
Skipping few pages always helps. Sometimes some concepts are hard to chew through. Black Swan in my opinion is a great book!