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Thanks delirium. I loved Anathem and I'm planning on reading it again soon. (Although, I think I may read the Baroque Cycle. I read the first chapter of Quicksilver and liked it.) One good measure of a book is if it gets you interested in reading other books. Anathem definitely did that for me.

Godel, Escher, Bach is like an inspiration reference. I was wary of reading it since math isn't my biggest strength but my friend put me at ease and Anathem gave me the extra push.

I know we discuss a lot of Perl books here. Obviously that's appropriate for this site but we learn Perl to solve problems and explore ideas. I really think to do that effectively you have to consume all different kinds of information. (Sounds a little obvious but I've been guilty of putting blinders on.) It's a lot of work but well worth it and should be fun — right?

P.S. I checked out a few chapters from Data Munging with Perl. It looks like something I would like to pick up but, and I'm going to contradict myself after what I said regarding Programming Perl, should I be concerned that it's almost ten years old?

"...the adversities born of well-placed thoughts should be considered mercies rather than misfortunes." — Don Quixote

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