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Discussion on: 4 non-technical books every developer should read

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Ivan Petrov

A bit offtopic - I just wonder how could you read translated books when you can speak English more than well enough?

As far as suggestions go:

  • Arthur Koestler - Ghost In The Machine
  • Herbert Simon - Sciences of the Artificial
  • Carver and Scheier - On The Self-Regulation of Behavior
  • Hank Reardon - Time Management 2.0
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Larry Foobar

I can read English books as well, it's just much faster for me to read in Russian. Exception is fiction, of course. Just because translators may spoil everything.

Thanks for your books suggestion

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Ivan Petrov

Funny how we approach things in opposite ways - I would never dream of reading good fiction in English because of the larger vocabulary I would need to appreciate the experience. That's also the reason why I find reading non-fiction in English almost mandatory (hence made the comment in the first place).

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Larry Foobar

Makes sense too, but it happens that non-fiction such as business or motivational books can have a huge vocabulary too