I just stopped reading The Disciplined Trader by Douglas. This is my second attempt at it. I bought it years ago, and I didn't like it. Then I saw all of the raves about it here, so I decided to give it a second chance. It's a book I just can't pick up. Horrible. With such profound statements like, "traders don't conciously try to fail or lose money", I don't see how anyone can really make a go of this book, not even the greenest of noobs. I won't throw it away like I did Way of the Warrior Trader and Trading for a Living, but it's going to the back of the bookshelf.
Will they please stop publishing great books!
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I actually bought two books yesterday, but I haven't read them so I can't comment on the books.
Here they are:
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern (Hardcover)
http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Ga...bs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232289048&sr=8-2
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Hardcover)
by Niall Ferguson (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Money-Financial-History-World/dp/1594201927/ref=pd_sim_b_4
The The Ascent of Money I didn't even know about. I am sitting there at Borders reading [a magazine], and this guy comes up to me - I have never seen this person in my life - and he, insisting, shoves it at me as if I have no choice, and says, "this is the book to read". I thank him and start reading it. I am really interested and this book is fascinating and well written.
I can't say yet, but I think this may be the financial book of the year.
BTW,
Esquire published a list of books that every man should read:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/75-books
I have read many of them for school, maybe 20% of them. If you have time for fiction, hard to beat that list.[Although if you weren't a "chauvinist pig" before, you will be now LOL]
Esquire published a list of books that every man should read:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/75-books
I have read many of them for school, maybe 20% of them. If you have time for fiction, hard to beat that list.[Although if you weren't a "chauvinist pig" before, you will be now LOL]
get the AUDIO versions if available. can multitask, getting the salients points of the author
(but may miss out on the 'flavor' and style of a good writer)
some of these books you may find a waste of time, but by then your time is already wasted
"audio" is a tradeoff but we have only so much time on this planet before they beam us up
(but may miss out on the 'flavor' and style of a good writer)
some of these books you may find a waste of time, but by then your time is already wasted
"audio" is a tradeoff but we have only so much time on this planet before they beam us up
http://www.amazon.com/Alex-Me-Scien...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232989187&sr=8-1
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
I read it in one sitting at Borders, and immediately bought it for my daughter. If you have a kid, especially a girl but don't prejudge, this is imo the perfect book to get them.
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
I read it in one sitting at Borders, and immediately bought it for my daughter. If you have a kid, especially a girl but don't prejudge, this is imo the perfect book to get them.
I just found a pretty good vbulletin book site: http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/ I signed up earlier tonight and I haven't been reading nonstop. good stuff.
I have avoided talking about the Kindle long enough. It is hard for a person like me that is so used to holding a book in his hand while reading it, to make the change to a technology that essentially replaces printed books. However, the advantages are so enormous that I don't think that anyone that reads to learn and not just for entertainment can afford to ignore an electronic book. I don't own one yet, but I will be getting one soon.
Look through the features of this thing:
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazon...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=471681371&pf_rd_i=507846
The one thing that sort of sucks is, you cannot share books with friends. I understand the problem. I just don't like the solution Amazon takes.
Look through the features of this thing:
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazon...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=471681371&pf_rd_i=507846
The one thing that sort of sucks is, you cannot share books with friends. I understand the problem. I just don't like the solution Amazon takes.
No used book market. Maybe in the future after a book is through kindle for so much time, it will be allowed to be sold by the buyer?