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- That's an excellent book. If you enjoy it, try (hard to find) "The Man Who Stole Portugal".
- Terrific book: The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Bloom. Tells the details and how he did it. Fun read!
- I love books about fraud and The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Bloom is one of my favourites.
This is also a story about how Artur Alves dos Reis sparked growth by injecting money into the Portuguese economy.
- I can't recommend The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Teigh Bloom enough. I loved this book.
The most curious aspect about all this is that he seems to have had a positive influence on the Portuguese economy. It was a sort of QE. The subsequent regime locked the Portuguese economy back into its ossified ways.
- I recently got hold of the book ("the man who stole portugal") and it's full of tremendous little details, like the notes being delivered by the printers in travelling trunks to the left luggage office of Victoria station. The whole thing relied on William Waterlow being spectacularly naive combined with Reis' skills in forging credentials and letters of introduction.
- I have 2 of the 7 books of the X Window Programming Reference in that role.
Apart from K&R, there are very few programming books which are worthwhile; up to about 10 years ago the ORA series were worthwhile, but nowadays especially with StackExchange it's just far better to get the one fragment of information you need in a handy searchable pasteable internet format.
(Non-programming book recs: recently The Man Who Stole Portugal (non-fiction, surprisingly relevant to crypto) and The Time Of Gifts (biography, extravagantly written, requires checking wikipedia every 5 dozen words unless you have a really excellent knowledge of European history)
