What are you reading?

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - started 30th October 2013
- updated 29th November 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko
4) The Hard Way - Lee Child
5) Starbucked - Taylor Clark
6) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
7) 61 Hours - Lee Child
8 ) The Master Of Disguise - Antonio J Mendez
9) The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ DeMarco
10) Controversy Creates Cash - Eric Bishoff

Comments on new titles

Controversy Creates Cash - Not as eye opening as The Hardcore Truth was, as I was familiar with nearly all of the source material, but Bischoff's version of events was still entertaining for a lot of the 'big' events. Everything should be taken with a large pinch of salt though, he's still coming across as a pompous little shite for nearly all of the book. Easy read if you're a fan, got through the 400 odd pages in a little under 5hrs today.

[butter_man]

tractatus. just started.

[Shum]

Monks' biography of Wittgenstein is actually the best biography I have ever read. Heck it's up there in the best books I've ever read.

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - started 30th October 2013
- updated 5th December 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko
4) The Hard Way - Lee Child
5) Starbucked - Taylor Clark
6) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
7) 61 Hours - Lee Child
8 ) The Master Of Disguise - Antonio J Mendez
9) The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ DeMarco
10) Controversy Creates Cash - Eric Bishoff
11) Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street - John Rolfe, Peter Troob

Comments on new titles

Monkey Business - Autobiographical look at the real life of a junior analyst/associate working on Wall Street and how they get paid shitloads but rarely have any time to spend it, as they are basically worked into the ground by all & sundry. Funny as fuck in places, doesn't make me want the lifestyle for a second.

[cosmic_surgeon]

Read damn near the entirety of Hegel's philosophy of right this semester. Jees.

[wub]

52 Books in 52 Weeks - started 30th October 2013
- updated 9th December 2013

1) The 4hr Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
2) Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
3) The Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J Stanley & William D Danko
4) The Hard Way - Lee Child
5) Starbucked - Taylor Clark
6) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
7) 61 Hours - Lee Child
8 ) The Master Of Disguise - Antonio J Mendez
9) The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ DeMarco
10) Controversy Creates Cash - Eric Bishoff
11) Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street - John Rolfe, Peter Troob
12) The 50th Law - 50 Cent & Robert Greene

Comments on new titles

The 50th Law - Having read 49 laws of power, The Prince, etc found this a little thin on the ground in terms of stuff ideas that hadn't already been discussed before. Tying things to Fiddy's past for an updated 'twist' was entertaining at first, but ultimately tiresome.

[Muncey]

Got a kindle for Christmas, currently switching between The Bottom Billion, John Dies at the End, Das Kapital & Platos Apology/Crito/Phaedo of Socrates.

I watched John Dies at the End a while ago, it was funny but a little confusing.. read loads of reviews that suggested reading the book then re-watching to fully appreciate it. The squeal is highly rated on the kindle as well so will probably give that a read after.

[kay]

Just finished reading Joe Haldeman's Marsbound series. Top notch writer, his stuff is just so easy to read and always has excellent pacing. The series is essentially a critique of humankind's idiocies (especially with regards war, responses to threat and abuses of power) couched in a sci-fi first contact scenario with aliens who actually are pretty omnipotent compared to Earthlings. The first book's fairly lighthearted but it gets somewhat more serious as the series goes along.

As an aside, his book The Forever War is probably considered best anti-war sci-fi book written to date. Highly recommend that. It was also the first book in the SF Masterworks series.

[ezza]

ur moms diary

[Blenky]

Lost and Sound: Berlin, Techno and the Easyjet Set by Tobias Rapp. One of my christmas presents. Really interesting.

[Dub_freak]

Tao te Ching by Laozi. Very interesting although the translation I read might not have been very good, got me interested in eastern philosophy.

[Nihilism]

ur moms diary

I really enjoyed that chapter where she went deeper on her menstruation cycle.

[m8son666]

reading the myth of sisyphus by camus at the moment

[ezza]

lol u dont read u fucking idiot

[m8son666]

i read ur mums letters to me

[ezza]

LOL

good 1 tbf ent even got a comeback

[Riddles]

Just finished reading Making Money by Terry Pratchett and will probably start on the new discworld book, I really enjoy them, light-hearted and easy reading.

[cosmic_surgeon]

Todes died too young. I get a feeling from reading this that his best was yet to come (this is a reworked version of his dissertation thesis).

[wub]

Just finished reading Making Money by Terry Pratchett and will probably start on the new discworld book, I really enjoy them, light-hearted and easy reading.

Recommend;

Going Postal (precursor to Making Money)
Any of the city watch series starting with Guards Guards (Men At Arms is amazing but you need to read Guards Guards first ideally)

[Harkat]

Your moms poker face

It's not very good (she clearly wants it)

Big up if you agree