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Re: Wasting Time with Books [message #53160 is a reply to message #53159]

Sun, 25 March 2007 17:52

Andrew Cool
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Registered: January 1996

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On Mar 25, 11:59 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> David Fanning writes:
>> What I would like to have is a page where famous
>> people in the IDL community (I.e, anyone who has
>> ever posted an article on this newsgroup) lists their
>> top five favorite books (on ANY subject), along with
>> a short note, if they like, about the books.
>
> OK, this is too damn hard. I can't even do it. :-(
>
> Give me no more than 5 books in categories of
> your own choosing. Some examples of categories
> that have been coming in so far: Five Best Technical
> Books, Five Best Novels, Five Books I Would Take
> to a Desert Island, Five Best Science Books, etc.
> One or two sentences of description to tell us why
> you liked that book.
>
> If I get a few more entries, I can publish the page
> so you can see what people are doing. That might
> stimulate your thinking. I spent a pleasant 45 minutes
> wandering around the house last night, looking at books
> in my own library, scribbling possibilities. And I'm already
> compiling a list of books to pick up on my next trip to
> the library!
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

David,

In 1976 I was 19 years old.

The only books I was really interested in started with "Play" and
ended with "Boy."

Although I do remember meeting the first great passion of my Life on
Feb 26th 1976,
at about 7:45 p.m., at approximately lat -34.917943. lon 138.601350

Now that, I could write a book about... ;-)

Andrew

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		Re: Wasting Time with Books By: stin.wang on Tue, 27 March 2007 02:22
		Re: Wasting Time with Books By: Andrew Cool on Mon, 26 March 2007 02:38
		Re: Wasting Time with Books By: David Fanning on Sun, 25 March 2007 19:33
		Re: Wasting Time with Books By: David Fanning on Sun, 25 March 2007 19:01
		Re: Wasting Time with Books By: Andrew Cool on Sun, 25 March 2007 17:52
		Re: Wasting Time with Books By: David Fanning on Sun, 25 March 2007 07:59
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