Anything but finance… Just picked up Keith Richards’ autobiography
All the books I picked up are finance related, ha. Currently reading Fault Lines.
Eisenhower’s Lieutenants by Russell F. Weigley starting this bad boy tonight.
Finishing up The Ascent of Money by Ferguson. More Money than God by Mallaby is on deck.
Oh yeah, can’t forget…finishing up Tucker Max’s new book.
bpdulog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All the books I picked up are finance related, > ha. > > Currently reading Fault Lines. Good one, I hear. On my list for when I am ready to read finance for fun
Bareknuckle People Management. My friend co-wrote it. Interesting stuff.
Howard Marks - The Most Important Thing already read Stiglitz - Whither Socialism? since Saturday I’ve missed reading for fun these last few months 
bpdulog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All the books I picked up are finance related, > ha. > > Currently reading Fault Lines. I’m thinking I may pick this one up. This Time Is Different has been on top of my “After Exam Book List” for months now, but Fault Lines sounds interesting, too… so I’m headed to the bookstore after work and we’ll see what I pick up.
Game of Thrones. Been watching the show and the book is great so far and is a good supplement to the show, helps explain things better and such.
Liars Poker
brazilatz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Liars Poker Read that 2 summers ago, awesome book.
team_alex Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I’m thinking I may pick this one up. This Time Is > Different has been on top of my “After Exam Book > List” for months now, but Fault Lines sounds > interesting, too… so I’m headed to the bookstore > after work and we’ll see what I pick up. Alex, I am a voracious reader and I got only halfway through “This time is different”. I suggest you give it a miss - it’s overwhelmingly drier than I expected, and I generally start (but don’t finish) a book only about once a year. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I’d say that the whole thing felt a bit too much like an Econ textbook. There’s very little attempt to bring out the human side of the crises that have occurred, and that kinda makes it boring (but I don’t think it had to be). My finance/business books recently read: While America Aged (Lowenstein, very good) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Landes) When Genius Failed (also Lowenstein) Asian Godfathers (Studwell) Black Swan (Taleb) Non-Finance books recently read: The hunger games (Collins), which is basically a young adult version of Battle Royale (Takami). I thought Battle Royale was the better of the two, but Hunger games isn’t bad.
US magazine and In Touch. God how I have missed being mindless, and Jen and Brad had an emotional reunion! 
supersadface Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > team_alex Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I’m thinking I may pick this one up. This Time > Is > > Different has been on top of my “After Exam > Book > > List” for months now, but Fault Lines sounds > > interesting, too… so I’m headed to the > bookstore > > after work and we’ll see what I pick up. > > Alex, I am a voracious reader and I got only > halfway through “This time is different”. I > suggest you give it a miss - it’s overwhelmingly > drier than I expected, and I generally start (but > don’t finish) a book only about once a year. I > can’t quite put my finger on it, but I’d say that > the whole thing felt a bit too much like an Econ > textbook. There’s very little attempt to bring > out the human side of the crises that have > occurred, and that kinda makes it boring (but I > don’t think it had to be). > > My finance/business books recently read: > While America Aged (Lowenstein, very good) > The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Landes) > When Genius Failed (also Lowenstein) > Asian Godfathers (Studwell) > Black Swan (Taleb) > > Non-Finance books recently read: > The hunger games (Collins), which is basically a > young adult version of > Battle Royale (Takami). I thought Battle Royale > was the better of the two, but Hunger games isn’t > bad. How was Black Swan? That’s one of the four books I purchased today.
bpdulog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How was Black Swan? That’s one of the four books I > purchased today. Honestly, the content and message are excellent. The writing style is grating. Taleb’s ego is enormous, and he isn’t shy about letting you know how brilliant he thinks he is. All in all, worth a read - maybe even worth rereading every few years - but I’d hate to talk to the guy at a cocktail party. EDIT: What are the other three books you picked up? I always try to keep a reserve of material as I finish stuff. Also, to other people reading this thread , I strongly suggest using half.com for books - I’ve begun assembling a library of hardback books from there that are all in new condition, and they on average cost about half of what it’d cost me to buy on my Kindle. Sad but true.
brazilatz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Liars Poker +1, Planning on reading this and The Big Short
The Black Swan and The Big Short were both good reads. Some other recent ones worth a read: Trillion Dollar Meltdown Fool’s Gold The Greatest Trade Ever The Quants
Liars Poker is great.I am about to read a bit now,I am about halfway trought . But prior to that I just read monkey business and lover every second of it because I could really relate… I’m curious for the Big Short and Black Swan-)