BOOKS - What are ASF members reading?

[GumbyLearner]

ATM

Dak To by Edward F. Murphy &
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

 

[white_crane]

Currently reading Perilous Power by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar.

Will be reading Midnight's Children next.


I have about 6 other books that I've partially read. No wonder I need so many bookmarks.

 

[AS414]

"The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - arrogant but probably right...

 

[wildkactus]

The 4 Hour Work Week By Tim Ferriss

an interesting read about how to outsource your work and life chores, plus get a steady stream of income and become part of the New Rich.

 

[drillinto]

"The elephant and the dragon - The rise of India and China and what it means for all of us"
by Robyn Meredith
Publisher: Norton (2008)

[It is a thought-provoking book]

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

 

[Boggo]

Gomorrah - Italy's Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano

An amazing insight to organised crime in Europe.

 

[GumbyLearner]

Thatcher's Gold by Paul Halloran and Mark Hollingsworth

Notably about Mark Thatcher, son of the former British Prime Minister

 

[brettc4]

Business Stripped Bare - Richard Branson

I have really only just started, but I like the style of writing and there are some interesting tidbits, and some of the stories he tells are pretty funny.

 

[kincella]

still reading Alan Greenspans 'The Age of Turbulence', he covers most of the different financial crisis from the 1960's....and his thoughts and actions towards those crisis....and his reasoning on the how and why .....

a lot of people do not understand the workings of the Fed Reserve and blame Greenspan personally for the decisions that were made....when in fact there was an 8 member board which made the decision...he was the chairman....not the desicion maker.....other boards were also involved,,again with the majority of the board making the decision.....

reading it now provides a concise financial history .....when I was younger, none of these things mattered to me, I took no notice or very little notice of them...........
bought the book Dec 07 for some light xmas reading....but find I keep reading
and refer to the book on a regular basis....during our current crisis,,,,to try to gain an insight into the thought process of the worlds most powerful men.

 

[pacestick]

Faith of Barrack Obama . Its quite interesting allows one to see a side not normally seen

 

[nunthewiser]

The Stand .......... Stephen King

 

[CanOz]

Two now...The Black Swan and KFC in China.

CanOz

 

[Trembling Hand]

Outliers, Malcom Gladwell.

 

[BentRod]

I just had a copy of Atlas Shrugged delivered.

I made the mistake of getting the paperback version.

This thing is about an inch and half thick and the writing inside is almost microscopic.

I wanted to read that first but will now use that as a doorstop!

Next on the list is Traders,Guns and Money

Hopes are not high from the Title but I will give it a chance.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Next on the list is Traders,Guns and Money

Hopes are not high from the Title but I will give it a chance.

Derivatives are similar to a pair of Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choo pair of women`s shoes

Hope you don`t end up like Imelda. :

The world's best-known shoe collector, former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, has opened a museum in which most of the exhibits are her own footwear.
The Marikina City Footwear Museum in Manila contains hundreds of pairs of shoes, many of them found in the presidential palace when Imelda and her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, fled the Philippines in 1986.

 

[BentRod]

This thing is about an inch and half thick and the writing inside is almost microscopic.

Check this out....:bonk:

 

[drillinto]

"The Box. How the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger"
Author: Marc Levinson
Publisher: Princeton University Press(USA), 2006

[Marc Levinson's story is great fun to read, but it is spectacular economic history as well]

 

[Stan 101]

I was recently given a novel named "Shantaram."
Based on an Australian who's life crumbled to drug addicition after a marriage breakdown, a subsequent prison sentence and then escape and a lucky flee to India.

He finds his way into the slums of Bombay and through no intension becomes their local doctor due to his meagre first aid skills.

The first five chapters give an outstanding insite of Bombay and Colaba in particular. For those fortunate enough to have wander past the Chowpatty beach region it will be a real reminder. This guy knows the place well. He relates the Taj region so well I feel I am walking it as I read. He holds leopold's in close regard. Unfortunately that is now blown up in the recent terroist attack.


An excellent read and has me wanting to pack my bags again for the lost continent..

Can't recommend it enough...

cheers,

 

[MRC & Co]

More recent read books:

Caesars Legion (great book on the life of Caesars most famous legion, very factual which is a nice contrast from a lot of the other books on his life) by By Stephen Dando-Collins.

On the Road (very famous book, but a bit too odd for me, probably should have read it while on drugs) by Jack Kerouac.

The Alchemy of Finance (a book that is a MUST for any follower of the global financial environment I believe) by George Soros.

Ronaldinho: Football's Flamboyant Maestro (brilliant insight into the man and life in the sport, a must for any football lover) by Jethro Soutar.

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (fantastic story of the brutality of Pol Pot and one girls struggle throughout the entire time of his rise to his fall) by Ung Loung.

White Fang (absolutely loved this one, guess it has more impact on animal lovers) by Jack London.