Books Recommended To Me

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Note: I also have a different page that has the list of books I would recommend to others. Entries in this table in [brackets] are implied.

Date Title Author Recommender
Gone With The Wind   Kim
3:16 Donald Knuth [Donald Knuth, "Things...Rarely..."]
The Tao Of Pooh Benjamin Hoff Book of Merlyn review
[Skinwalker] Dad
[Book on California Indian wars] Dad
The Foxes of Firstdark Richard Adams Gloria on Untitled! forum
A Fistful of Sky Nina Kiriki Hoffman Amazon generated recommendation
Someplace To Be Flying Charles de Lint UrsulaV
Witch and Wombat Carolyn Cushman "fireborn"
Fangs of Kaa'th Paul Kidd (?) "level_head"
the Dragonlance Series (show books) Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman Scott Hidy
2004-07-28 The Supernaturalist Eoin Colfer Amazon Wanderings
2004-07-29 The Iron Tower trillogy: The Dark Tide, Shadows of Doom, and The Darkest Day Dennis L. McKiernan Kyle
2005-04-30 The Singer Of All Songs
The Waterless Sea
Kate Constable Amazon Wanderings
2005-04-30 The City Of Ember
The People Of Sparks
Jeanne Duprau Amazon Wanderings
2005-05-01 The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-The-Pooh A. A. Milne Amazon Wanderings
2005-06-11 The Pillow Book Sei Shonagon Michael's blog
2006-02-12 Captain Alatriste The Club Dumas Arturo Pérez-Reverte Tim B.
2006-03-18 Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle George D.
2006-03-18 The Legacy of Heorot Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournelle George D.
2006-06-09 Lensman Series
Galactic Patrol
Gray Lensman
Second-Stage Lensmen
Children Of The Lens
Triplanetary
First Lensman
E. E. Smith references in Heinlein and elsewhere
2006-08-24 Endymion Spring Matthew Skelton Borders newsletter
2006-11-09 The Book Of Lost Things John Connolly Borders newsletter
2006-11-27 Deed of Paksenarrion (omnibus) Elizabeth Moon People in Ursula's LJ (here)
2007-06-05 House Of Winslow (series) Gilbert Morris Scott S.
2007-06-05 The Mightiest Machine John W. Campbell Unikyrn's blog
2008-04-08 (good graphic novels?) Amnazon wanderings
2008-04-10 Dawn Octavia E. Butler Kim / Goodreads
2008-05-01 Sundays at Tiffany's James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet Borders newsletter
Technical
Large Scale C++ Software Design John Lakos
  • Pratical Programmer
  • Job Description
  • Practical Guilde to XP David Astels, Granville Miller, Miroslav Novak Tom Poppendieck
    Secure Programming David Wheeler Subversion coding guidelines
    Software Craftsmanship Pete McBreen Rob Martin
    Object Design Rebecca Wirfs-Brock self, speaker
    Software Configuration Management Patterns Stephen P. Berczuk, Brad Appleton Kyle Larson (AEG/OTUG)
    Applying UML and Patterns Craig Larman Kyle Larson (AEG/OTUG) (for GRASP patterns)
    Exceptional C++: 47 Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions Herb Sutter Amazon wanderings
    Message Passing Server Internals Bill Blunden Amazon wanderings
    Memory Management Bill Blunden Amazon wanderings
    Virtual Machine Design and Implementation Bill Blunden Amazon wanderings
    Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community Richard P. Gabriel blog of Alan Francis
    Better, Faster, Lighter Java Bruce A. Tate, Justin Gehtland blog of Tim Burns link
    2005-01-19 Object Thinking David West C4DSD wiki

    OK, so maybe it's not right to claim that people have actually recommended books. Sometimes my curiosity is piqued just becasue someone mentions a book.
    Title Author Mentioner
    [Amazonia] James Rollins Dad
    Chisellers Brendan O'Carroll Mom
    Mammy Brendon O'connley Kim
    Tis Mom
    Merlin, the Lost Years Kim


    New category: Websites that need to be read!
    Date Title Author Recommender
    A Hymn Before Battle John Ringo (found)
    2005-04-21 Blue Horizon Ted R. Blasingame Loxely
    2006-06-18 Three Men in a Boat : To Say Nothing of the Dog Jerome K. Jerome quoted by Kim
    C o m m e n t s :     updated: 2006-09-24 (600 days ago)
    2006-02-12
    Hey Louis, Read anything by this guy: http://www.perez-reverte.com/. He is a lot of fun. One of my favorites is Captain Alatriste. Great swashbuckler novel set in 17th century Spain. He wrote the book that the movie the "The 9th Gate" was based on. It's called The Club Dumas. I couldn't put it down. Thought the geek photo was pretty cute.
    Take care,
    Tim
    2006-02-14 : Hi Tim! No, I haven't read anything by him. I'll put him on my list!
    -- Louis
    2006-09-20 : Hello Louis, good to see you last night. Neal Stephenson (British SF author) has a book I read a while back (don't remember the title though) that has a time-travel theme. A major part of the story involves three men from the present who travel back to England in the 1800s and end up in a boat on the river. Of course, these are the three men in the boat from your story. It might be an interesting counterpoint to the original story. -- Robert
    2006-09-24 : By "my story" I assume you mean "Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Jerome K. Jerome? I think the book you attribute to Neal Stephenson is "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis. But yes, I'm interested in reading both. :)
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