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Geek Books as Holiday Gifts

Posted by michael on from the see-spot-run dept.

Sybelius writes "Wired News is running a story that recommends a half dozen good books as holiday gifts. It's a much more inspired list than the one recently offered by Amazon. According to the reviewer, the books chosen are ones that 'any techno-loving, systems-tinkering, hardware-hacking person would love, but that even those who can't program the clock on their VCR will find quite readable.' Do Slashdot readers have any other recommendations for titles that fit this requirement?"

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  1. Referrer flood by emcron · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let the flood of amazon.com referrer links begin! :-) -- Gotta love it when people try to make $0.83 off slashdot

  2. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by JNighthawk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All of my friends have always told me that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an awesome book, but I've always had other things on my reading list already. I'm finally done reading the Wheel of Time series and everything by Raymond E. Feist, so I asked for The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide for Christmas. I wonder now, if after hearing "The meaning of life is 42." a million times I'll think it's still funny when reading the books.

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    Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.