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12-20-2005, 04:10 PM
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Re: What books do I want to read while I vacation?
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Also The Processor, the Banker and the Suicide King is the next book I want to grab , its about the "big game". [/ QUOTE ] I just finished it. Don't bother, or at least wait for the paperback. The story is mildly entertaining, but the writing is just boring as hell. I wish Alvarez or Holden or even McManus would have written it instead. 
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12-20-2005, 02:06 PM
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Re: What books do I want to read while I vacation?
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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12-20-2005, 02:10 PM
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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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12-20-2005, 02:27 PM
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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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12-20-2005, 04:19 PM
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Re: What books do I want to read while I vacation?
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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. [/ QUOTE ] I agree with you completely. The book was a little weak for people with a good understanding of analytical thinking, statistics, etc...
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#8
12-20-2005, 05:14 PM
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Re: What books do I want to read while I vacation?
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[ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] I agree with you completely. The book was a little weak for people with a good understanding of analytical thinking, statistics, etc... [/ QUOTE ] also, am i the only one who didn't read it, knowing this would be the case and that it would just piss me off?
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#9
12-20-2005, 05:25 PM
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Re: What books do I want to read while I vacation?
If you like palahniuk, try lullaby and invisible monsters if you haven't read them (in that order). I really like East of Eden by John Steinbeck and am in the middle of Winter of Our Discontent and it is real good so far. The Ender's Game series and the Alvin Maker series by Orson Scott Card are also real nice quick reads when you just want to be entertained. I think everyone knows about Ender's Game, Alvin Maker is about the U.S. when it was still colonial. All of the folklore is actually true and there is different history of events. It is actualy really good.
If you can deal with the length, I definatly recommend War and Peace. If you like Philosophy try Zeno and the Tortoise. It is a collection of summaries, opinoin, and other stuff on some of the best philosophers in history.
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