Summer Reading

[thatpfunk]

Anything by Easton Ellis.

[eastbay]

Financial Calculus, Baxter and Rennie.

eastbay

[Jeff W]

HAVE YOU SEEN MY BASEBALL?

[wall_st]

The art of intrusion - Kevin mitnick, all about hacker exploits
Skinny dip - Carl hiaasen
Chronicles volume one - Bob dylan
some 2+2 books probably

I have a 50 gift certificate to border's, I need to explore some of these recommendations.

[Il_Mostro]

"Guns, Germs & Steel" by Jared Diamond is very very good. Won a Nonfiction Pulitzer a few years back.
A history of bombing, Sven Lindquist, is also very good and interesting

[Anders_G]

I feel an urge to promote some Swedish litterature. They're all good. Brackets are litteral english title.

Marianne Fredrikson - Simon och ekarna (Simon and the Oaks)
Pär Lagerkvist - Dvärgen (The Dwarf)
Pär Lagerkvist - Gäst hos verkligheten (Gues of Reality)
Hjalmar Söderberg - Doktor Glas (Doctor Glass)

[sfer]

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Financial Calculus, Baxter and Rennie.

eastbay

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I think An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives by Neftci is better.

[Zeno]

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon.

Also, The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.

-Zeno

[Il_Mostro]

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon.

Also, The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.

-Zeno

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Along the same lines, I hear that "Collapse", Jared Diamonds new book is very good. Although can't vouch for it, have not read it yet.
Also, "The collapse of complex societies", Joseph Tainter is also supposed to be good, a bit on the dry and achademic side, but good.

[jakethebake]

I'm also considering re-reading Musashi by Yoshikawa.