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Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month?

Posted by msmash on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:30AM from the let's-get-going dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Hey folks! Could you share what are some books (or book) you're reading this month? Maybe it's the book you've already started, or you intend to begin or resume later this month? Thanks!

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What are you reading? by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2017-09-13 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Right now, I'm reading Slashdot.

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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3 by computational+super · 2017-09-13 05:33 · Score: 4, Insightful

I'm in my third year of my multi-year effort to read and work every problem in TAOCP. It's not easy, but I will say that it is rewarding. How practical it is is definitely up for debate, though - I've become an expert at MIX, an assembler language that's never been used anywhere except those books, and is more similar to the IBM instruction sets from the 60s than the x86 instruction set.

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Anonymous Coward · 2017-09-13 06:22 · Score: 4, Interesting

I'm reading _The Count of Monte Cristo_ for the first time at age 50. I'm sure glad I started reading it; I think it's great. You can get it legally for free online since it's in public domain. I downloaded it to a kindle.
“And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!”