OT: best book in years

[David M. Cook]

In article <opruzmelopdd8opo at news.vo.lu>, Patrick Useldinger wrote:

> I am going to stay in hospital for a week or so (nothing serious), and am 
> trying to find a book or two to read there. As I have not come across 
> anything spectacular recently (except Python in a Nutshell), I would like 
> to know what *you* consider to be the best book you have read in the last 
> few years, about Python or IT in general.

Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

Dave Cook