[TriLUG] Books that inspired us

[David Both via TriLUG]

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I have copies of all three books in hardcover and I also have them on my 
Kindle. Three in one of my favorite books of all time.

On 10/21/2015 05:04 PM, Neil Little via TriLUG wrote:
>  The City and the Stars - A.C. Clark
> The very first sci-fi book I ever read suggested to me by a neighbor 
> friend and the tender age of 10 years old.
> This started me on the path to geekdom, science and technology.
> Also known under the title of "Against the Fall of Night", it was 
> finally given a sequel and ending in 1990
> in collaboration with Gregory Benford with "Beyond the Fall of Night".
>
> 73,
> Neil, WA4AZL
>
> On 10/21/2015 1:33 PM, Mike Perry via TriLUG wrote:
>> I feel like I have a lot. I read so much growing up.
>>
>> (Just a list, not a ranking)
>>
>> 1. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
>> Definitely one of my favorite cyber punk books of all time. If I 
>> could be
>> Hiro Protagonist, I think I would.
>>
>> 2. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
>> I read this in 8th grade, and it changed me as a reader. Prior to that I
>> was reading kid fiction and it opened my eyes to a wider world of books.
>>
>> 3. Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
>> Does anything even need to be said?
>>
>> 4. The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock
>> I have a love and fascination of anti-heroes. The Elric Saga is 
>> great. If
>> you haven't read it, I highly, highly suggest it.
>>
>> 5. Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>> The greatest detective in history. Who doesn't love Sherlock? Such
>> interesting stories and there were so many.
>>
>> Now I need to re-read these as it has been too long.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Matt Whitlow via TriLUG 
>> <trilug at trilug.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Last Defender of Camelot - a collection of short stories by Roger
>>> Zelazny. The original book not the one from 2002
>>> The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley - a fantasy classic that I
>>> worked my way through 5 times in Junior High and several
>>>      times since
>>> The Nightside - a series by Simon R. Green - A series I still read 
>>> over and
>>> over, currently working my way through the audiobooks for a
>>>      change.
>>> Armor by John Steakley - This one I didn't pick up until College 
>>> suggested
>>> by a friend who worked at a bookstore.
>>> The Art of War by Sun Tzu - A high school favorite.
>>> The Last Rune - a series by Mark Anthony only 5 books but a series that
>>> helped me understand how complicated a person can
>>>      feel towards another.
>>>
>>>
>>> Most of my tastes were and still are Fantasy and Science 
>>> Fiction(Hard and
>>> Soft) and these were the books that were most influential in my 
>>> development
>>> as a person, there are many more books I can list but these are ones 
>>> that I
>>> re-read at least once per year.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
>>> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:54:22AM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group
>>>> discussion list wrote:
>>>>> "The 26 Letters," by Oscar Ogg!
>>>>>
>>>>> "The Art of Computer Programming," by Donald Knuth!
>>>> And I almost forgot one that has been a BIG influence in my life:
>>>>
>>>> "Computer Lib/Dream Machines," the two sides of a fascinating book by
>>>> Theodor Holm Nelson, who, in the early 1960's, was working at Brown
>>>> University on "Hypertext" and the Xanadu project, whose concepts have
>>>> been very much simplified and, perhaps, bowdlerized, for today's web.
>>>>
>>>> Ted's concepts involved bi-directional linking, annotations as part of
>>>> the document but separate, with separate authors, and some other such
>>>> radical ideas.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Everything is deeply intertwingled."  Ted Nelson, *Computer Lib/Dream
>>>> Machines*, 1974.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> B
>>>>
>>>>
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