To Mock a Mockingbird

Elizabeth Hand's Winterlong, probably 3-4 times. Most of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammet I've read multiple times. I've read Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon a bunch of times too. All of William Gibson. Miyazaki's Nausicaä of The Valley of Wind, in various languages. Stephen Cosgrove's Muffin Muncher, I couldn't say how many times I must have read that (It appears they've now changed the title to Muffin Dragon). I've read The Soul of a New Machine a couple of times too. The Hitchhiker's and Dirk Gently's trilogies a few times. Stefano Benni's Baol probably half a dozen times. And Acts of The Apostles by John FX Sundman a bunch too. Oh, and a few of Martin Gardner's books. And Smullyan's To Mock a Mockingbird. And most probably also many others. Most of my books are now in boxes or have been gifted away, though.

> And yet, when you're at the end, it turns out you know what 'Y combinator' actually means. Sweet. I just learned about this book earlier today. It's on my list now!

There was one about Mockingbirds I read a few decades ago. I think this is the one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird Nothing explicit computery or even technical in there. Only all kinds of invented birds with specific weird behavior. You need to know nothing above what a 10 year old knows (and be interested in logic). And yet, when you're at the end, it turns out you know what 'Y combinator' actually means.

To Mock a Mocking Bird by Raymond M. Smullyan. I'm having fun while my brain gets stretched.