OT: best book in years

[Roy Smith]

In article <bja4i5$gv6$1 at news.wrc.xerox.com>,
Mark Jackson <mjackson at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Patrick Useldinger <p.useldinger at myrealbox.com> writes:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> 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.
>
>/The Mythical Man-Month/.

When you're done with that, try Ed Yourdon's "Death March".