The Books That Shaped My Life
I was passing by a local bookstore on my way to the office a few days ago and bought this book:
Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
The title of the book prompted me to think about books that shaped my life and thought. Here is the list of 9 books:
Before school:
1. The Hobbit
At school before university:
2. The Feynman Lectures on Physics
3. A short book with the title if translated to English: ”Electron through the Eyes of a Chemist: Essays on Modern Quantum Chemistry” by I. Dmitriev. Seems not available in English.
4. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
At university:
5. C Programming Language
After university but before moving to Ireland:
6. Advanced CORBA Programming with C++
7. UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
Last 3-4 years:
8. Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
9. Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
March 18th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Very curious as to what prompted you to purchase the Hitler book.
March 18th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I like reading books about WWII. Here are some I read in English:
http://www.literatescientist.com/2008/04/30/21/
http://www.literatescientist.com/2008/04/30/rise-and-fall-of-the-third-reich/
http://www.literatescientist.com/2008/11/28/the-third-reich-a-new-history/
and I’m currently reading massive R. J. Evans trilogy. I also have other books in the reading queue: N. Devis’ Europe at War 1939–1945 and I. Kershaw’s Hitler’s biography