L'Etranger. Albert Camus

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1. mountbranchMay 2018
   - Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter

   - Principles, Ray Dalio

   - L'Etranger, Albert Camus

   - Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire

   - The Dao of Capital, Mark Spitznagel

   - Howl, Allen Ginsberg

   - On the Road, Jack Kerouac

   I could go on and on...

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2. thorinJul 2016
   Code complete was a great early read for someone who already knew the basics of programming

   L'etranger Albert Camus, for the same reasons as jjgreen

   A Herbert Shilt book on C programming but could have been K&R instead, was part of the process from moving from simple basic coding to software development

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3. MrMiracleApr 2015
   L'etranger - Albert Camus Le mythe de sisyphe - Albert Camus
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4. agentultraDec 2014
   A good article on the importance of fiction from a scientifically validated point of view: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/04/28/why-fiction-good...

   Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury L'Etranger - Albert Camus Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Metamorphosis - Ovid Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood The Picadilly Papers - Charles Dickens Permutation City - Greg Egan

   Fiction allows us to experience the most intimate thoughts of people we've never met in a way we cannot emulate in reality. We can visit places we've never been to and experience situations we'd try our best to avoid. We sit for hours hallucinating vividly reading these stories as we download these characters, concepts, and ideas into our meat. And if the story resonated with us we walk away a different person: new connections in our synapses, reinforced signals in existing ones. Stories are one of the most powerful tools we have at our disposal; perhaps even more so than mathematics or computation.

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5. tfhMar 2010
   Here is what comes to my mind a my all favorite books:

     * no exit - jean-paul sartre
     * brave new world - adolous huxley
     * 1984 - george orwell
     * foucault's pendolum - umberto eco
     * l'etranger - albert camus
     * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - jules vernes

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