What books have you read recently?

[effenheimer_IHB]

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[irvinesinglemom_IHB]

ocfliptrack: yup, I read everything (just about, anyway!) he ever wrote by the time I was 25. Didn't like the Foundations as much as his novellas, and especially his Robot stuff.

 

[irvinesinglemom_IHB]

...and yes, I'm a bona fide sf fan. Favorite stuff is less the techno-star-wars type stuff, than the time travel/permutations of history stuff. Like, right now I'm reading S.M. Stirling's "Island in the Sea of Time." It's a timewarp story about Nantucket.

 

[irvinesinglemom_IHB]

should be: "I read everything...he had ever written..." Sorry for the poor grammar. I'm working out right now and trying not to sweat all over my iBook.

 

[awgee_IHB]

Working out and blogging at the same time? Talk about multi-tasking.

 

[effenheimer_IHB]

[cue vision of laptop propped up on a treadmill]

That's funny!

Now I just need a Windows Mobile PDA so I can read IHB whilst pedaling around Back Bay.

 

[Trooper_IHB]

Atlas Shrugged.....for the 2nd time.

 

[effenheimer_IHB]

Tried that once... Ayn Rand needed a copy editor. The verbosity of that woman is unparalleled.

 

[Trooper_IHB]

So true......the woman can rant. 20 pages of diatribe..... Ya gotta love that they're all bucking against the machine though. Perhaps their Utopia is like the modern day Irvine ! Who is John Galt anyways.....

 

[momopi_IHB]

Just got my stack of Draka/TheDomination (by S.M. Stirling) books back from a friend who borrowed it for... 5 years. =P So I guess I'll go read them again.

I've been a fan of dystopian sci-fi themes since Logan's Run. Still waiting for the movie re-make.

 

[OakCreekRenter_IHB]

Summer reading list:

Kitchen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain)

Harvey Penick's Little Red Book (Harvey Penick)

Rules for Revolutionaries (Guy Kawasaki)

The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong (Barry Glassner)

-OCR

 

[EvaLSeraphim_IHB]

OCR - I think you'll like Bourdain. If you watch his show, then you know what to expect with his writing. He pulls no punches.

 

[effenheimer_IHB]

I cought one episode... The Korea one with his production assistant Nari Kye. (swoon)

 

[gepetoh_IHB]

Currently reading One Billion Customers by Jame McGregor, and picking through Encyclopedia of World Religion

 

[effenheimer_IHB]

I don't need to ask what book everyone is reading this week.

I also think I know why it's been quiet in here for the last two days.

 

[Darin_IHB]

The Annotated Flatland by Edwin Abbot and Ian Stewart

Just finished

America's Bubble Economy, Profit when it pops

Next up,

Barron's AP Statistics, lol, w00t. I'm a high school math teacher.

 

[irvinesinglemom_IHB]

Yeah, oc_fliptrack, I'm reading Harry Potter. It is the best of the 7, IMO.

 

[fumbling_IHB]

one of the posters said they read a book about people who made money in up markets who didn't have the financial acumen to keep their money in down markets, what book was that?

 

[biscuitninja_IHB]

Harry Potter Book 7

 

[IrvineRenter_IHB]

fumbling,

These are the books you are looking for:

Trading in the Zone : Mark Douglas

Disciplined Trader : Mark Douglas

They are focused on the psychology of trading. It is the author's observation that people who are psychologically unprepared for a windfall end up losing it all most often from reckless behaviors.