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Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 12, 2012 @08:28AM from the compendium-of-cheese dept.

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?"

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Re:How to win friends and influence people by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-12 08:33 · Score: 4, Funny

I always preferred Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War
Ouch by MyLongNickName · 2012-10-12 08:37 · Score: 3, Funny

I dropped a phone book on my foot once.

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Heh. by jtownatpunk.net · 2012-10-12 08:39 · Score: 4, Funny

The Penthouse Letters. It was very informative.
1. Re:Heh. by Life2Short · 2012-10-12 09:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "Dear Sirs, I never believed the stories in you magazine until one day..."
Re:Atlas Shrugged by Grayhand · 2012-10-12 08:41 · Score: 4, 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 by roninmagus · 2012-10-12 08:52 · Score: 4, Funny

I remember reading it when I was a kid
Re:Atlas Shrugged by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-12 08:57 · 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.