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Topic: detonate.net book club
started by: mqa

Posted by mqa on May 21 2000,02:51

i just had an idea: start a detonate.net book club. recomended reading for the true l33t hax0r. please limit you selections to published books otherwise we'll just get 65536 links to some geoshities page w/ a copy of the hackers manifesto on it....

so the inagural detnet book club selection is:
snow crash
by neal stephenson

read it and love it

Posted by Vigilante on May 21 2000,18:57

Cryptonomicon, also by Stephenson.

(first post, w00t)

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Posted by Anztac on May 22 2000,01:32

YES!!! I've found Neal stephenson readers! I LOVE HIM! HE KICKS! I've read Snow Crash many a time, and am reading cryptonimicon for the god knowth time. Hehe hiro protaganist was a funny name. Those books Rox0red!

If you want to be in the det.net l33t hax0rs book club you have to read Neil Stephenson, and the rainbow books.

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Posted by cr0bar on May 22 2000,03:07

Haven't read his latest, but I've read every other book he's written (that I know of)
The Big U, Zodiac, Snow Crash, Diamond Age. HIGHLY recommended =P

Who knows where I'd be today if mqa hadn't lent me his copy of Snow Crash years ago?

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Posted by mqa on May 22 2000,03:34

those were the days... i got that book for free when i bought specter VR... opened the box, said "what the hell is this?! snow crash? sounds like a rip-off of 'alive'" threw it on my floor. six months later i was bored so i read it. and it changed my life forever...
ahh nostalgia.

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Posted by psYan on May 22 2000,14:02

ok, I just have to say it:

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Necessary reading for the serious hacker... sort of.

Posted by Anztac on May 22 2000,14:53

no not for serious hackers, for funny det.net type hackers

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Posted by marc c on May 22 2000,15:06

The last book I read that I really enjoyed was the House of Spirits, which I'm sure only a few of you would enjoy. It's based on south american politics, and I really enjoyed the writing style.

I really should read more; it's a shame that work and hobbies take up so much of my time.

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Posted by Whirlwind on May 22 2000,16:56

naah, reading? saw the movie

anything with Winny the Puh bear

Posted by eng_man on May 22 2000,22:25

Books? What are those?

Seriously though, I haven't had time to read a book in ages .. stupid work *grumble*

The last good book I can remember reading is Robert Heinlein's Have Spacecuit Will Travel. That was a good one if I remember correctly.

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Posted by Anztac on May 22 2000,22:28

Heinlein's good. I've read his Stranger in a Strange Land (Damn I wanna be like mike) and Starship Troopers. I'm going to read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

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"I am easily driven into a flying rage by blithering idiots"
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