# Well, I'm back...and comments on some books...

<datetime class="hidden">2004-02-29T00:00</datetime>
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Had a nice, relaxing holiday, read a few books, I can recommend [Charles Petzold's Code](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735611319/) and kind of recommend [Homer, Sussman and Howard's Introducing ASP.NET 2.0](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321228960) - I say 'kind of' because I found it really patchy in the writing style...but then I've never liked one of the authors' styles (not [Rob's](http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/) :-)).

[Code](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735611319/) is a pretty unique book, goes right from morse code, through binary arithmetic, electronics and right on to microprocessors and finally code - ties it all together in a way that my CS classes never did, not very easy going but very interesting and informative!

[Introducing ASP.NET 2.0](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321228960) gives coverage to most of the new ASP.NET 2.0 specific features - it's NOT a coding book though, more just a general overview of what the new bits are - anyone know a more codey .NET 2.0 book?