Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? 700
gspec writes "A little background about me: 36-year-old computer engineer working in the Bay Area. While I bring in a comfortable salary, I consider myself an underachiever, and my career is stagnant (I have only been promoted four times in my 12-year career). I have led a couple projects, but I am not in any sort of leadership/management position. I realize I need to do something to enhance my career, and unfortunately, going back to school is not an option. One thing I can do is to read more quality books. My question: which books, of any type or genre, have had a significant impact on your life?"
Re:How to win friends and influence people (Score:4, Funny)
I always preferred Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War
Ouch (Score:3, Funny)
I dropped a phone book on my foot once.
Heh. (Score:5, Funny)
The Penthouse Letters. It was very informative.
Re:Atlas Shrugged (Score:5, Funny)
Atlas Shrugged fantastic book Atlas Shrugged part 2 is in theaters today as luck would have it
Paul Ryan is on Slashdot?
The C++ Programming Language (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Atlas Shrugged (Score:5, Funny)
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Re:Heh. (Score:5, Funny)
"Dear Sirs, I never believed the stories in you magazine until one day..."
Re:Not the Bible. (Score:1, Funny)
which book of the bible
The Song of Songs!
Um, I'll be in my bunk reading the Bible.