I'm going to the library tomorrow and would love to have some suggestions on what to rent for the break.
What are your favorite fiction books?
I'm not a fan of science fiction or fantastic, but anything that is not programming related is fine.
p.s. Last book I read was The Fountain Head (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead), which was great (except for some long descriptions).
I would recommend semi-autobiographic books by sick minds.
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, by Robert Pirsig who was actually treated by electrotherapy in a psychiatric ward. He ended up writing a not so sick book with a philosophy I find a lot more convincing than Ayn Rand's.
Valis, the novel in which Philipp K. Dick describes how he more or less fails to make sense of his religious (or whatever) experience. It's sold as science fiction, but that's just a weak way of saying that book is completely crazy. Since it is semi-autobiographic, the characters are much more alive than in anything else I read from Philipp K. Dick.
And if you want to know why Howard Roark has a low life expectancy:
Loneliness, human nature and the need for social connection, by John T Cacioppo and William Patrick. This is non-fiction.