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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,822,526 ratings — published 1996
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.18 — 665,488 ratings — published 1996
The Runaway Jury (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.03 — 318,761 ratings — published 1996
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.49 — 380,230 ratings — published 1996
Desperation (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.86 — 157,659 ratings — published 1996
The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,875,572 ratings — published 1996
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.16 — 569,624 ratings — published 1996
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,227,769 ratings — published 1996
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.16 — 670,247 ratings — published 1996
The Two Dead Girls (The Green Mile, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.50 — 39,113 ratings — published 1996
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,396 ratings — published 1994
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,040,503 ratings — published 1996
The Regulators (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.71 — 93,490 ratings — published 1996
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,237 ratings — published 1996
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.86 — 571,956 ratings — published 1996
Alias Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.04 — 162,297 ratings — published 1996
The Mouse on the Mile (The Green Mile, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,862 ratings — published 1996
Coffey on the Mile (The Green Mile, #6)
by (shelved 17 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.59 — 18,659 ratings — published 1996
Night Journey (The Green Mile, #5)
by (shelved 16 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.53 — 17,452 ratings — published 1996
Coffey's Hands (The Green Mile, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,196 ratings — published 1996
The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix (The Green Mile, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.54 — 19,100 ratings — published 1996
The Rainmaker (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.02 — 212,275 ratings — published 1995
Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,363 ratings — published 1996
The Horse Whisperer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.87 — 62,945 ratings — published 1995
Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.30 — 269,943 ratings — published 1996
Primary Colors (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.63 — 6,265 ratings — published 1996
A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.07 — 193,093 ratings — published 1996
Moonlight Becomes You (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.87 — 20,584 ratings — published 1996
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,643,571 ratings — published 1937
Falling Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.36 — 158,104 ratings — published 1996
Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.33 — 96,330 ratings — published 1996
We Were the Mulvaneys (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.75 — 106,778 ratings — published 1996
The Stone Diaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.89 — 42,867 ratings — published 1993
Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.10 — 182,736 ratings — published 1996
The Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.00 — 105,503 ratings — published 1996
Airframe (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.75 — 91,170 ratings — published 1996
Beach Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.19 — 56,944 ratings — published 1995
L is for Lawless (Kinsey Millhone, #12)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,775 ratings — published 1995
From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,488 ratings — published 1995
Intensity (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.03 — 96,702 ratings — published 1995
Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)
by (shelved 10 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.26 — 107,218 ratings — published 1996
Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.26 — 153,796 ratings — published 1996
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,259 ratings — published 1995
Jack & Jill (Alex Cross, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.02 — 93,881 ratings — published 1996
The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.23 — 113,120 ratings — published 1996
The Deep End of the Ocean (Cappadora Family, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.87 — 122,372 ratings — published 1996
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,344,204 ratings — published 1811
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,022,654 ratings — published 1813
Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 3.78 — 115,877 ratings — published 1996
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1996)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,673 ratings — published 1994
“The rise of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) in the USA population can be traced back to President Bill Clinton. While memorable for sexual foreplay with Monica Lewinsky, EHS people associate him with the 1996 Telecommunications Act that prohibits the protection of human health and safety from the known biologically toxic effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation.”
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“We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer's spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.
A computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes programs precisely and accurately. Thus, like the sorcerer's apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. Even small errors (usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and unanticipated consequences.”
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer's spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.
A computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes programs precisely and accurately. Thus, like the sorcerer's apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. Even small errors (usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and unanticipated consequences.”
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs