I just finished "Linux Cookbook", and I recommend it highly to anyone setting up a Linux-based system, especially if you've got familiarity with Unix-like systems as a user, but want to know a lot of the useful administration and setup things.

I've read "Last Chance" before, back when it first came out, so this is a re-read. Douglas Adams was the most influential writer of my youth -- I read the first three Hitchhikers book when I was in third and fourth grade, and spent the next couple of years writing short stories in a very similar style. I got to meet him briefly at a book signing for "Mostly Harmless"; it's too bad he died so young.