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Old 12-20-2005, 01:58 PM
AdamBragar AdamBragar is offline
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Default What books do I want to read while I vacation?

I'm going away on a beach vacation and will need books to read. I am barely literate and basically don't read too much anymore. Here are some of my favorite books:

Choke and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (I've read most books by him)
Godfather by Mario Puzzo
Freaknomics by Levitt (I'm interested in any econ related book)
All The Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren

Ok, OOT, guide me...
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:01 PM
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I'm currently reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and it is awesome.
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:01 PM
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Different Seasons - Stephen King (for Shawshank Redemption and 'The Body')
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:05 PM
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The Al Franken book was pretty funny thats the last book i actually read that wasnt poker related. Also The Processor, the Banker and the Suicide King is the next book I want to grab , its about the "big game".
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:06 PM
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A crappier book that is kind of like Freakanomics is "The Tipping Point," but has similar types of thinking.

Crappier is a harsh word perhaps, just worse.
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:06 PM
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My favorite book that I read on a beach during a vacation was High Fidelity.
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:08 PM
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Default Re: What books do I want to read while I vacation?

Master of the Senate by Caro if you are at all into politics, a good beach book is The Partner by Grisham
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:10 PM
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Default Re: What books do I want to read while I vacation?

Also, am I the only one who thought that freakonomics was way overrated? The book discussed some interesting topics but did not provide much quantitative analysis and I thought dumbed the material down in order to appeal to a wider audience.
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:10 PM
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cryptonomicon -neal stephenson
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Old 12-20-2005, 02:27 PM
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Default Re: What books do I want to read while I vacation?

Ok, fine, I was a little hasty in saying that Freakanomics was one of my favorite books, it was just an econ book I could think of. I think a main point of the book was to simplify a lot of more compicated economics principles, and it accomplished this goal pretty well. It doesn't really go into a lot of detail about how he finds his results which leaves some questions to the accredibility of his findings.

I definitely like books by Dani Rodrick (The New Global Economy and Developing Countries) or Thomas Friedman (Lexus, Nexus and the Olive Tree) more than Freakanomics.
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