[ajug-members] Best Technical Books?

[Les Hazlewood]

Hi all,

As a founder of the JSecurity project (http://www.jsecurity.org), and now
that we've been accepted into the Apache Incubator, I'm getting to a point
where I'm thinking about writing a book on it, maybe a "JSecurity in Action"
title, or something similar for O'Reilly.

Before I even think about going through this process, I was hoping I could
get your opinions on great technical books.  What (maybe Java-oriented)
techie books have you read and thought that they were genuinely well-put
together and in general just a good read?

There are a few stand-outs I have in my head where I think "Man, that is
such a great tech book - it was easy to read and understand, even
entertaining at times, and I find myself constantly re-visiting it for
material", but I'd like to get your opinions without biasing you with mine.
I'd like to take the best of breed of these and use them as models for how I
would go about writing my own book.

They don't have to be Java-oriented titles, but since I've read many of the
Java books out there, they might be easy for me to mentally associate with
what you find desirable.  Actually any book feedback will do!

Thanks!

Les
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