Best Book Ever Read ?

[DS23]

i read flanagans run years ago. 1983 - the year it was published. it is about a marathon of marathons or something. i certainly enjoyed it though i can't remember much other than the cheating germans and a train that gets in the way.

[xchaotic]

Non-Fiction: Data Analysis using SQL and Excel by Gordon S Linoff.

Can you actually learn yourself into a data analyst role this way, just curious?

[DS23]

I'd put 100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez high up the list as when I read that aged 16 it was the first book given to me as part of a school course that had been written within my lifetime (just).

I read it in both English and Spanish and loved every moment of it.

I re-read it a couple of years back and while it brought back memories, the impact of the first reading is no longer there.

for me it was the other way around. i struggled a bit with it the first time. i didn't enjoy it. when i read it again, some ten years later - i absolutely loved it. stunning novel. i must read it again.

[DaveB]

Fiction : Dune - Frank Herbert
Non- Fiction : Diary - Samuel Pepys.

[sasguru]

On another note why does most sci fi have poor writing and characterisation (e.g. Dune.) and what does that say about the people who like it?

[MrMark]

Can you actually learn yourself into a data analyst role this way, just curious?

I'm afraid I don't know any IT role you can just learn yourself into - you seem to need recent experience in all of them. Sorry, old bean. If I knew of one I'd have bought the book and no longer be on the bench!

[sasguru]

I'm afraid I don't know any IT role you can just learn yourself into - you seem to need recent experience in all of them. Sorry, old bean. If I knew of one I'd have bought the book and no longer be on the bench!

However you can twist the truth and learn something close to your past experience.