Any Awesome Book Recommendations?



How to Get Rich - By Felix Dennis the guy that started Maxim Magazine
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp/B001R23FN4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250823056&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets: Felix Dennis: Books[/ame]

Band of Brothers - if you're into WW2
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Band-Brothers-Regiment-Airborne-Normandy/dp/074322454X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250823110&sr=1-1]Amazon.com: Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (9780743224543): Stephen E. Ambrose: Books[/ame]
 
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin is outstanding. HBO is making a series about it and they are picking the cast for the onsite shooting in Belfast right now.

Also love:

- Enders Game
- Lucifers Hammer
- Catch 22
- Atlas Shrugged
- 1984
- The Stand
 
I am reading "Imagining India" by Nandan Nilekani

This book is amazing, it pretty much gives the entire graphic history of India. I got it cause I was interested in outsourcing and do outsource there now. If you're interested in India at all this is the perfect book. Nandan is India's Bill Gates, he owns Infosys.

Very readable too, not dry and lame.
 
guerilla said:
Another Taleb fan, sweet!
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Taleb is interesting and I liked The Black Swan but his theory is pretty much anethema to AM (not that that really has anything to do with this thread), split testing, susceptibility to a confirmation bias, etc, all that goes against the Black Swan theory. But a good read.
 
The Game - Neil Strauss was amazing

im reading Emergency by him now, real good

if you havent read Angels and Demons yet, its real real good

but my all time fave: Read American Gods by Neil Gaiman

also check out Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke, REAL good, it takes Harry Potter, and removes all the silly shit, and ads pipe smoking old men (sounds lame, but you wont regret it, and its HUGE! which is awesome.)


If you looking for an AM book...Atlas Shrugged.
 
evo190 said:
I loved the first half of this book... it states Coca Cola is (secretively) the largest importer of the coca leaf, removing the drug, using the leaf extract as the "special" ingredient... other cool info.

Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography
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wonder where all that quality blow goes
 
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[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Pimp-Iceberg-Slim/dp/087067935X"]Find it on Amazon[/ame] (not affiliate link)

Amazon reviewer:

"This is the autobiography of a pimp. There's nothing apologetic in it. The author regrets the line of work he chose, but you never get the impression that he's overplaying or underplaying any story in this book. It doesn't judge. It doesn't glamorize. It is nothing but honest. You get the impression that he's is telling this to you, or wrote it as it came to him and never went back to edit. Even the typos and misspellings added to the authenticity.

As a look into an unknown world, this book is fascinating. As a piece of writing, it certainly expanded my vocabulary. There's a glossary in the back for all the slang, but I found that I didn't even know a lot of the words that weren't included in the glossary, presumably because their meaning is well-known. And for all the sex and brutality in the book, the writing is well-crafted-you know enough, but it's never graphic for the sake of it."

Seriously, this is a great book. I'm not even kidding.
 
Midas Touch said:
"The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene

Excerpt from the back cover:

"The best selling book for those who want POWER, watch POWER, or want to arm themselves against POWER. Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers.

Some laws require prudence (Law 1. "Never outshine the Master"), some stealth (Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions), and some total absence of mercy (Law 15: Crush your enemy Totally), but like it or not, all have applications in real life situations. Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P.T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded or been victimized by power, these laws will fascinate the reader interested in gaining, observing,or defending against ultimate control."
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Midas! There you go being naughty again reading all the books I love!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_USBCFQzXM"]YouTube - Author Robert Greene discusses "The 48 Laws of Power"[/ame]

BTW, did I tell you I'm like amazing when it comes to ironing, martini making and hors d'oeuvres serving during America's Cup weekend :P
 
- Confessions of an economic hitman
- the shock doctrine
- emergency by neil strauss
- fear by dan gardner
- outliers
- blink
- buyology (i really enjoyed)
- the long tail
- a game as old as empire
- no logo
 
Just finished Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain - [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Munson-Life-Death-Yankee-Captain/dp/0385522312/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250876891&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain (9780385522311): Marty Appel: Books[/ame]
 
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