Non-Poker Book Recommendations
 

I'm a little burnt out on poker books so I'm looking for recommendations along the lines of the following, which I found to be excellent:

Fooled by Randomness, by Taleb
Against the Gods, by Bernstein
Chaos, by Gleick
Fortune's Formula, by Poundstone

Thanks.

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Playboy is quite good... I mean for the articles [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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One of the best, most interesting books I have ever read is Mind hunter by FBI agent John Douglas. If you enjoy true crime you will love it. I actually read it twice it was so good.

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Try:

"Prisoner's Dilemma" by Poundstone
"The Wisdom of Crowds" by Surowiecki

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Am I the only one who pre-ordered Harry Potter 7?

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I stopped reading Harry Potters part way through 4. The characters have one way of doing anything - a single adverb used 100 times in each book. 'Drily'. I don't know what that says about Rowling. It's even the ugly way of spelling it.

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"labyrinths of reason" also by poundstone
"the compleat strategyst" by j.d. williams is a primer on game theory that reads very well.

a few good, lesser known novels are:
"cat's cradle", by kurt vonnegut,
"a confederacy of dunces", by john kennedy toole
"in the skin of a lion", by michael ondaatje
"white noise", don delillo

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"Goedel, Escher, Bach" - Douglas Hofstadter
Charles Mingus - "Beneath The Underdog"
"The Ultimate Guide To Anal Sex For Women" - Tristan Taormino (recommended to me by Amazon... serious next level user profiling in effect)

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"labyrinths of reason" also by poundstone
"the compleat strategyst" by j.d. williams is a primer on game theory that reads very well.

a few good, lesser known novels are:
"cat's cradle", by kurt vonnegut,
"a confederacy of dunces", by john kennedy toole
"in the skin of a lion", by michael ondaatje
"white noise", don delillo

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I agree that Cat's Cradle is very good. The Sirens of Titan is another lesser known book by Vonnegut that is very good.

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Try:

When Genius Failed (Lowenstein)

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Sun Tzu- Art of War

Read it for poker

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Zen and the Art of Archery

Marley and Me

Hop on Pop

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Am I the only one who pre-ordered Harry Potter 7?

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No way man, 2 months 21 days and counting

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zen and the art of motorcycle maintence is classic, and refreshing between poker books, also, the banker, the professor and the suicide king, its not instructional, and its about poker, great read.

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Choke - Chuck Pahlaniuk
The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Steven Chbosky

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There is only 1 book you need:

http://alphabetofmanliness.com/image...cover_main.jpg
by Maddox

more information:
http://alphabetofmanliness.com/?u=about

After that book, I stopped reading pokerbooks, they are all useless.

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george rr martins books

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No way man, 2 months 21 days and counting

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Beat: At the time of your post, it was 3 months, 21 days, and counting.

I haven't pre-ordered it because I intend to buy it at midnight at a Barnes & Noble like I did with GoF and HBP.

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on the road
the zombie survival guide

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Choke - Chuck Pahlaniuk
The Pleasure of My Company - Steve Martin
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Steven Chbosky

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Choke is my favorite novel

also like Perv by Jerry Stahl and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.