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Amy Hudspith
Amy Hudspith

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Book recommendations?

Looking for book recommendations of any kind! Leave your faves below πŸ“š

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Mike Bybee β€’ β€’ Edited

I'll go big

  • in literal size
  • in florid, poetic verbosity of prose
  • in intricate backstory
  • in incredible, "larger than life" characters
  • in emotions it evokes (ever had a book make you cry and smile at the same time?)
  • in declaring it the greatest novel ever written:

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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kethmars β€’

Thinking fast and slow - a true masterpiece every developer can learn from. It help you to think critically.

You can check out my Dev.to article on the book:
dev.to/kethmars/how-i-learned-to-t...

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Aldo Cid Siqueira β€’

99 Bottles of OOP. It teachs a lot of design techniques with cool examples.

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JΓ©rΓ©mie Astor β€’

My absolute favorite:

Robert's Grave The white goddess from which I learn about Taliesin which in turn made me name my programming language Gwion.

I'd also advice reading Mircea Eliade Aspects du mythe (sorry I can't find it's name in english).

Anything by Selma Lagerlof.

Also look at the eerie similarities beetwen Eliade's Thirteen roses and Orhan Pamuk's Snow.

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Margo McCabe β€’

I just reread The Glass Castle, which is a unique & inspiring memoir. Next on my list is Pachinko which has been recommended a few times.

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Sandor Dargo β€’

I've just collected all my book reviews at DevReads, you might find there something interesting.

Right now, I'm reading Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday.

Regarding IT, I've read Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software that is an excellent overview of our profession's history.

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JoelBonetR πŸ₯‡ β€’

There's a book that made me cry: Java Algorithms and Data Structures :D

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Meli H β€’

why is that?

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JoelBonetR πŸ₯‡ β€’

Well that was a joke but you can learn about data structures on a more appropriate or efficient way πŸ˜‚

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Bobby Iliev β€’

'The Phoenix Project' is awesome!

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Ben Sinclair β€’

I hear The House At Pooh Corner is awfully nice.

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