Broadly speaking, there are 2 (at least) kinds of book; those that are read once and those that are read again and again. Without regard to fiction or fact, I prefer books of the second kind. Certainly the Camel is one, so is “Effective Perl Programming”---obviously there are others, the fun is in finding them. If as Silverburg teaches, “90% of everything is crap” console yourself with the fact that the value of the ten vastly exceeds the overhead of the ninety...

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