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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sci-Fi
An earthling escapes the demolition of Earth and tours the galaxy with a depressed robot, a two-headed president, and a towel. Funny enough to make the heat death of the universe feel manageable.
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Listed among Branson's top books to read in a lifetime in his Virgin.com article.
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“Classic. I love that book.”
The page cites a Naval tweet calling it a classic.
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One of George Church's six book recommendations on the Learning with Lowell podcast.
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“There was one of the other guys on the Amoeba project who first introduced me to that. And then we were just like — he had one copy of the book and he would read passages from it and then once he was finished we were all fighting over who got to read it next.”
From his Computer History Museum oral history (interviewed by Hansen Hsu, February 1, 2018). Van Rossum recounts being introduced to the book by a colleague on the Amoeba operating-system project and the team sharing the single copy.
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4 SOURCEs- Richard Branson's Top 65 Books reading list
- twitter.com tweet
- web.archive.org · Dr George Churchs Top 6 Recommended Books reading list
- archive.computerhistory.org · 102738719 05 01 Acc.pdf link
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