Random and inane, and by its very nature, involves a bunch of name-checking of works that the person obviously hasn't read: "Oooh, the Dragon Book, everyone says that's awesome, so I better put it on there". If you were enough of a middleweight to have read the Dragon Book the rest of the list wouldn't be so bizarre and randomly chosen.

It's not even good quality name-checking where people at least pretend to have read Knuth or SICP or HAKMEM or whatever.