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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
“one of the big influences on me I especially like Anna Karenina”
“Tolstoy was one of the big influences on me I especially like Anna Karenina not because of a particular area of the plot”— Donald Knuth
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth
“which I love as a book”
“I've heard mentioned a Philip Roth's American pastoral which I love as a book”— Lex Fridman
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Marjorie Morningstar
Herman Wouk
“I like Herman Wouk as a novelist I think I like his book Marjorie Morningstar”
“I like Herman Wouk as a novelist I think I like his book Marjorie Morningstar has a similar character”— Donald Knuth
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The Art of Computer Programming
Donald Knuth
“he's the author of the multi-volume work the magnum opus the art of computer programming”— Lex Fridman
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Aesthetic Measure
George Birkhoff
“the great Harvard mathematician Georg deeper cut wrote a book in the 30s called the aesthetic measure where he would have pictures of vases”— Donald Knuth
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