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  • Dark Tangent
    The Dark Tangent
    • Sep 2001
    • 2732
    #1

    Poll - 1st Book Club Book - Vote Closes Thursday Midnight

    Please Vote for the 1st Book Club Selection!
    Voting closes midnight on Thursday April 2nd 2020
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    Welcome to the first book club vote! Woo! Let's see what people want to read and talk about.

    How this works:
    • Read this thread: https://forum.defcon.org/node/231168
    • Vote for as many books as you are interested in
    • The book with the most vote wins
    • If there is a tie then to save time having to vote a tie-breaker Nikita will pick from the pool of equal vote books.
    Remember to give preference to stories, we don't want to book club a technical manual.

    If you don't see a book listed that you suggested it could because you didn't follow the rules.
    54
    The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
    12.96%
    7
    Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
    35.19%
    19
    The Glitch - Elisabeth Cohen
    16.67%
    9
    The Last Watchman of Old Cairo - Michael David Lukas
    3.70%
    2
    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
    11.11%
    6
    Mind's Eye - Douglas E. Richards
    3.70%
    2
    Wool - Hugh Howey
    9.26%
    5
    Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0) - Scott Meyer
    9.26%
    5
    Daemon - Daniel Suarez
    40.74%
    22
    Arc City Stories - (8 short stories)
    7.41%
    4
    The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
    5.56%
    3
    (Not Fiction) Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
    7.41%
    4
    (Not Ficton) Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener
    7.41%
    4
    (Not Fiction) Skunk Works - Ben R. Rich
    11.11%
    6
    (Not Fiction) T-Minus AI - Michael Kanaan
    5.56%
    3
    (Not Fiction) The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
    18.52%
    10
    (Not Fiction) Countdown to Zero Day - Kim Zetter
    16.67%
    9
    (Not Fiction) After On - Rob Reid
    1.85%
    1
    (Not Fiction) Sandworm - Andy Greenberg
    5.56%
    3
    (Not Fiction) Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble - Dan Lyons
    0%
    0
    (Not Fiction) Surely You`re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
    11.11%
    6

    The poll is expired.

    Last edited by Dark Tangent; March 29, 2020, 19:07.
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    • savagejen
      Member
      • Aug 2011
      • 7
      #2
      Please note Daemon should come with a rape warning.

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        • Nikita
          Member
          • Apr 2006
          • 763
          #3
          Speaking candidly, some of these suggestions we can find in the top ten in google results for hackers/hacking/cyber. Why not branch out and discover something new? I feel like we're subconsciously entered into an intellectual competition to pick THE categorically unarguable hacker book to start this club. That wasn't my intention. I feel like most have known about some of these suggestions for some time now, they're widely recommended books. If someone "new" were to ask us for "hacker book recommendations" they'd be the obvious answers. I was hoping for us to discover content that hasn't already had a spot light on it. Obviously the people will vote democratically and we'll decide fairly, but I wanted to get that out there in hopes it got you thinking about the perspective I had when creating this club. I mean no offense to anyone, and it's not that I disagree about a books' "worth", it's a bit deeper than that for me.
          "Haters, gonna hate"

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            • Nikita
              Member
              • Apr 2006
              • 763
              #4
              Okay, it looks like "Daemon - Daniel Suarez" is the winner.
              Will be posting more about the book club process in a new thread in a few minutes. :-)
              "Haters, gonna hate"

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                • Nikita
                  Member
                  • Apr 2006
                  • 763
                  #5
                  I've updated the forums.
                  Here are this book's thread links for discussions.

                  Announcing April - May book selection, Daemon by Daniel Suarez. https://forum.defcon.org/node/231625

                  Daemon - Chapters 1 - 7 https://forum.defcon.org/node/231627
                  Daemon - Chapters 7 - 14 https://forum.defcon.org/node/231628
                  Daemon - Chapters 14 - 21 https://forum.defcon.org/node/231629
                  Daemon - Chapters 21 - 28 https://forum.defcon.org/node/231630
                  Daemon - Chapters 28 - 35 https://forum.defcon.org/node/231631
                  Daemon - Chapters 35 - 42 https://forum.defcon.org/node/231632
                  Daemon - Chapters 42 - 45 - THE ENDING https://forum.defcon.org/node/231633
                  Daemon - Spoilers & Free Discussion https://forum.defcon.org/node/231626

                  "Haters, gonna hate"

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