Recommend me some cool books (non-fiction please!!!)

[TheWorstPlayer]

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And less history!

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You should get more into history! Biographies are awesome! Try it! You'll like it!

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The Game by Neil Strauss.

Trust me.





No, really...

Trust me

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This is an awesome book. Just awesome. Good pick.

[HtotheNootch]

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. I cannot recommend this book enough. It's the story of a group of divers who discover a U-Boat off the NJ coast. Two divers in particular become obsessed with identifying the boat, since nobody knows what it is, and there supposedly aren't any sunken U-Boats in the area.

I've probably read it 5 times or better. It's that good.

[BUD]

AMERICAN ROULETTE light and sucks youright into the excitement of cheating casinos

[coltrane]

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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond is one of my favorite non-fiction books.
The science is geared towards the layperson and once you get past him being impressed with himself it's a great read.

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most important book I've ever read...

[PokerFink]

Journey to the Ants by Wilson.

Recommended to me on OOT last year. It was fantastic.

[fyodor]

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Right now I'm reading Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. So far so good.

GoT

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I think you need to start with The Elegant Universe. Fabric Of the Cosmos is the second book. (But perhaps you can read them out of order.) In any event, I agree, great stuff. Best explanation of relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory I've ever read, all without the overwhelming mathematics.

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Yeah, I've read The Elegant Universe. And for anybody who hasn't seen it, I highly highly highly recommend watching Nova's series based on it.

GoT

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A few years back when I was reading elegant universe I met a friend for drinks. He runs one of the largest speaker agencys in Canada and has offices in the USA as well. I wanted to reccomend Greene to him.

Before I could begin he launches into "the idiots that work for me" tirade. A brilliant scientist and author had been attempting to get my friend to represent him. My friend presented it to his sales force at a meeting and they unanimosly rejected the idea saying the guy was unsaleable to thier clients. My friend disagreed but decided to bow to the united resistance. If they blieved they couldn't sell they probably wouldn't sell.

The client was of course Brian Greene, the same guy I was about to recommend. I begged him to overule but he had already talked to Greene and declined.

I was just hoping to get a free pass to a lecture.

[Jonny]

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Why would you assume this?

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You live in England right? I was under the impression that they didn't eat as much fast food over there.

[lapoker17]

I generally only read non fiction too...

killing pablo - already mentioned

conspiracy of fools - best enron book

when genius failed - my favorite book ever - about a hedge fund that almost singlehandedly crashed the global economy

the new new thing - about jim clark

liars poker - wall street stuff

den of thieves - second favorite book - about michael milken - just phenomenal

wizard of odds - about jack molinas who fixed basketball games and was involved in lots of other crazy [censored]

a million little pieces - about an addict who goes to rehab

[Yeti]

lapoker - those sound great. Excellent, ty.