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Vikia
03-09-2005, 05:55 AM
Do you use reference books for Design...for Web Development...for Pleasure Reading?
Of course this question is prefaced by my recent visit to Borders, trying to pick out a good reference book for CSS and DHTML for the code reading impaired.
As far as pleasure reading, I have a penchant for vampire series books, Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton and Sherrilyn Kenyon.
How 'bout you guys?
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morea
03-09-2005, 07:02 AM
lets see... I have sooooo many books... for 'reference' books, I have several 'Sam's Teach yourself' books, Visual Quickstart series, dictionary and thesaurus, my cat health care books, and a Quenya dictionary (not that I use it much in my work, but I have!)
For pleasure reading I am really hooked on fantasy and sci fi... I love the Dragonlance series and the Death Gate Cycle. I like Orson Scott Card's Ender series, and R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy. And of course, Lord of the Rings. /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/biggrin.gif
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Patrick Shannon
03-09-2005, 07:12 AM
Graphics books that I got back in college which had absolutely no value to me at the time (but very well do now). Fencing books and historical texts. A job hunting book (missing from it's spot). Cartooning, drawing and animation books. Not much else.
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I really don't buy alot of books, but I try to hit the library a couple times a month and blindly pick one from the recent releases section. One of the last books I read is Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
The hero, or anti-hero if you will, of Darkly Dreaming Dexter is Dexter Morgan, a polite and attractive man who does blood splatter analysis for the Miami Police. Despite being the type of man you want to bring home to your mother, Dexter carries a dark secret: he's a serial killer who murders criminals before they can commit more heinous crimes. Dexter's work with the police allows him to keep tabs on the latest crimes and choose his next victims. Unfortunately, there's a new serial killer in town and he's copying Dexter's methods. When Dexter is asked to help in the investigation, he begins to suspect that the other killer is either taunting him or inviting him to come out and play. Jeff Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter has recieved positive reviews with USA Today saying, 'Lindsay's tale is daring and unexpectedly comedic. The writing is lively and the plot steps away from the common ground in which many thrillers are rooted.'
Vikia if you like vampire novels I just picked one up from the libery last week that might interest you
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743262530/104-9408494-5045560 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743262530/104-9408494-5045560)
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uncle carbunkle
03-09-2005, 02:56 PM
so much on the selves...
lots of books on jazz, lots of old copies of creative review, i've got a few animation books (okay, one old one and the rerelease) from kit laybourne, an actionscript bible, 100% cotton, graphic radicals, poets, poets, poets, jazz biography, jazz biography, jazz bio, margaret atwood, good ole' what's his name and his dad...i forget...damn...
oooo! anyone who doesn't mind fantasy and loves wit should read terry pratchett. i got a thing for the discworld, i tell ya.
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morea
03-09-2005, 03:22 PM
whoops! How could I forget Terry Pratchett? I love his work. Good call, unc!
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plantationfarmer
03-09-2005, 06:49 PM
ive got lots of national geographics stacked around.
i find terry pratchet's books confusing... i prefer simple happy stories.
mtv's boring. maybe im just old. but im only twentyone!
defjoe
03-09-2005, 07:46 PM
star Wars books. i'm reading the Yoda one right now.
'I will become the most powerful Jedi ever!'
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Vikia
03-09-2005, 08:59 PM
I ended up purchasing a Visual Quickstart Guide for DHTML and CSS. Pretty easy to follow and understand for me who is code challenged.
As far as other reference books: I have two year's worth of How Magazine, 'The Little Book of Layouts', 'Beginning javascript', 'The Acrobat PDF Bible', 'Real World Freehand', 'Pocket Pal', 'Winning Direct Response Advertising', 'The Copywriters Handbook', 'Write On Target', numerous type specimen books, 'Lettering Design', many years worth of 'U&LC' magazines (I just cannot throw away as it seems sacrilegious somehow), about 20 Communications Arts design publications, three bookshelves solid of National Geographics, my Webster's, Roget's and trade pubs from the printing and paper industries.
Talk about a packrat!
I will definitely check out Terry Pratchet's books and MD's tip on 'Vamped'. Lately I have been buying the PDA eBook versions as they are easier to tote around with me and don't take up additional space in my bookshelf.
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BOSCOW
03-09-2005, 09:52 PM
Big book of logos, Big book of color in design, Flash book, Photoshop book, ID book, Color Index, a Collection of Communication Arts Magazine, and Graphic Design USA magazine, HOW magazine, Step Magazine
Other book, Salvador Dali, Van Gough, Sigmund Freud, Lots of Jack Kerouac, Americas Democracy, Science Books, Stephen Hawking, Noam Chomsky (i like saying that name), HUnter Thompson, Rock Poster art, Notebooks of Leonardo Divinci (these books are pure genuis) those are the ones I mostly frequent in my collection
Lates book I am reading now is America, from John Stewart and the Daily Show it is great
The Joy of Sex
Blah Blah. Pitter Patter.
Eraser Nubbin
03-10-2005, 02:07 AM
Those Visual Quickstart ones are great for reference. They are the 'bla bla bla in a nutshell' ones arent they?
Morea I loved the original three Dragonlance books, I think they were called the chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, man was that Tasslehoff ever a kidder. Raymond E. Feist writes some easy reading fantasy books, you can almost picture them as movies.
Neil Gaiman's books gotta be my favorite right now.
Match in the gas tank, boom boom.
Ya I have a whole collection of those visual quickstart books from school - they can come in handy. the only books I usually buy (half price books) are novels by Carl Hiaasen www.carlhiaasen.com/ (http://www.carlhiaasen.com/) Quirky characters and crazy plot twists on every page.
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uncle carbunkle
03-10-2005, 03:03 AM
1984 said...
The Joy of Sex
you need a book for that?
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It's probably illustrated just in case he needs to fly solo
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GTMUK
03-10-2005, 02:21 PM
I find training CDs a lot better for me then training books - I prefer seeing on the screen what is happening, don't know why I just find it easier to pick things up that way...
On my bookshelf I have anything and everything - like autobiographies a lot and the last three books I read were American Psycho (never read it shocking I know) a book on Bill Hicks and the latest one is on the genocide in Rwanda in the early 90s...
Needed to mix some Bill in there to lighten it up a bit!!
D-Zine
03-10-2005, 05:44 PM
There is not alot on my bookshelf. Ooops.
There is alotta design mags and books to get me jumpstarted but other than that - not much. Books from college too which have actually been more helpful now...lol
It's a small, small bookshelf that doesn't house much but then again..I'm not much of a reader for some reason.
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