I bought a second hand copy of this book from amazon, started at page 1, and worked my way through the whole thing in about 6 years. It was my first taste of how magnificent the molecular machinery of life really is. I downloaded the newest version in PDF form from TPB and still spend hours browsing around and going off on some mind-blowing tangent. The 2nd one is Albert's Molecular Biology of the Cell. And also, Alan Watts' The way of Zen. And, The Bible. I approached this both as skeptic, believer, and finally a little of both.
The satanic bible...read it in high school and it taught me the power of my own mind and to not follow herd mentality Indoor growers bible..first time I read a lot about growing (not much Internet back then) Big Book of buds...showed me what kind of good smoke was out there and what to aspire to grow