Books of Interest
Books of Interest
Over the years, we have all pursued a number of titles that are of interest for varying reasons. This is a poor attempt to try and list a few of our favorites out to share with others. We can also use this as a reference for books with which we should stock the Noisebridge shelf.
In the interest of chronologic significance, we should not include books of a limited technical nature (for example, PHP5 for Dummies), but instead those which grant a broader outlook on life.
The current format is book title, author, brief description, and your name. If multiple people like a book, you can add your names into the "name" field. We should probably also have some way to denote whether it is on the shelf at Noisebridge. This will be in a nice table shortly. Also, there is no real categorization yet, I am including technical as well as nontechnical.
Title Author Description Name
Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R Hofstader, , aestetix The Art of Computer Programming, Don Knuth, , aestetix 1984, George Orwell, , aestetix Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy, , aestetix Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card, , aestetix The Code Book, Simon Singh, , aestetix Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, , aestetix Code, Charles Petzold, , aestetix The Annotated Turing, Charles Petzold, , aestetix A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, , aestetix Ulysses, James Joyce, , aestetix The Magus, John Fowles, , aestetix The Collector, John Fowles, , aestetix The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles, , aestetix Technopoly, Neil Postman, , aestetix The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, , aestetix Shrodinger's Cat, Robert Anton Wilson, , aestetix The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, , aestetix Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, , aestetix The Hacker Crackdown, Bruce Sterling, , aestetix I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, , aestetix Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, , aestetix The Gold Bug Variations, Richard Powers, , aestetix The Codebreakers, David Kahn, , aestetix Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, , aestetix Little Brother, Cory Doctorow, , aestetix