The Indian clerk
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Read on Hacker News* If you've already read Cryptonomicon (see more here: http://jseliger.com/2006/11/29/cryptonomicon ), you're going in the right direction, but you should skip the Baroque cycle and Anathem. * David Leavitt's The Indian Clerk deals extensively with math ( http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-indian-clerk ). * Joel Spolsky's The Best Software Writing isn't fiction but is worth reading. * I'll reiterate Tom Wolf's The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full. * Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is nominally aimed at adolescents, but people of any age can enjoy it. * Michael Tolkin's The Player is partially about the business of film, as is its sequel, The Return of the Player. If you're curious about more, send me an e-mail; I write a book blog at http://jseliger.com , and a lot of the reviews/commentaries would probably …
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