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The Secret History (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Donna Tartt
Description: The Secret History (Vintage Contemporaries) follows Richard Papen as he joins an exclusive group of classical scholars at Hampeden College, whose intense and secretive lifestyle leads to dramatic consequences. The narrative examines friendship, ambition, and morality
ISBN: 1400031702
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27182818284 · 2013-12-16 · Original thread
The Information A History, A Theory, A Flood. is the book that I wanted to write and then I found out it existed and the author did a better job than I probably could have.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d...

Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja I enjoyed. Nothing that was like "ZOMG!" but it did help me think better about my JS code. http://www.manning.com/resig/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Tartt Has a new book out I haven't read, yet, but her other books have been great. especially http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-History-Donna-Tartt/dp/1400...

Then neither a tutorial nor book, but pretty helpful: Bookmarking the comments of people like Paul Graham. Since he usually makes insightful comments on interesting articles, it works as a sorta hackish "Best Of" link https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg