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So what are you guys reading? Im reading 2 books right now

The Nemesis - Ian Kershaw

I picked this up for my history class, and this book is great. It provides an in depth analysis of the psychology of one of the most ruthless mass murderers in history. Highly recommended.

here's an excerpt:
External pressures of the course he had embarked upon met Hitler’s personal psychology at this point. At the age of fifty, men frequently ruminate on the ambitions they had, and how the time to fulfill them is running out. For Hitler, a man with an extraordinary ego and ambitions to go down in history as the greatest German of all time, and a hypochondriac already possessed with his own approaching death, the sense of ageing, of youthful vigor disappearing, of no time to lose was hugely magnified.

This strong driving-force in Hitler’s mentality was compounded by other strands of his extraordinary psychological make-up. The years of spectacular successes – all attribute by Hitler to the ‘triumph of the will’ – and the undiluted adulation and sycophancy that surrounded him at ever turn, the Fuhrer cult on which the ‘system’ was built, had by now completely erased in him what little sense of his own limitations had been present. This led him to a calamitous over-estimation of his own abilities, coupled with an extreme denigration of those – particularly in the military – who argued more rationally for greater caution. It went hand in hand with an equally disastrous refusal to contemplate compromise, let alone retreat, as other than a sign of weakness.

2. Albert Einstein: his life and Universe

this is a really fascinating read. Einstein was not just a genious, but a great human being, and apparently popular with the ladies

"The discovery was, I believe, by far the strongest emotional experience in Einstein's scientific life, perhaps in all his life," Abraham Pais later said. He was so thrilled he had heart palpitations, as if "something had snapped" inside. "I was beside myself with joyous excitement", he told Ehrenfest. .........

Einstein, at age 36, had produced one of history's most imaginative and dramatic revisions of our concepts about the universe. The general theory of relativity was not merely the interpretation of some experimental date or the discovery of a more accurate set of laws. it was a whole new way of regarding reality

mind you, i am in no way a person of science, quite the opposite

your turn

rkd

[ahnuld]

Just read Busting Vegas, quick read about the MIT blackjack team.

Next up is the Intelligent Investor, or One Up on Wall Street, not sure yet.

[unbluffable]

abnuld have you read the art of the deal by trump?

i was thinking about picking that up next

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wow emotional intelligence sounds amazing

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also, blue, have you read Napoleon Hills classic book called Think and Get Rich (or something like that)

that book change MY life.

[Scorpion Man]

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Just read Busting Vegas, quick read about the MIT blackjack team.

Next up is the Intelligent Investor, or One Up on Wall Street, not sure yet.

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Dont read one upon wall street.

[unbluffable]

scorpion are you the guy who posted in BBV that you're worth more than all the high stakers?

you're a cool cat

[edtost]

decided to do some catching up on classics i 'should' know after classes ended, so currently in the middle of:

100 years of solitude - marquez
the divine comedy - dante

and for some interspersed light reading:

the black swan - taleb

next up (not necessarily in order):

the canterbury tales - chaucer
gargantua and pantagruel - rabelais
the prince - machiavelli
the sun also rises - hemingway

and one of the kaplan gmat books

does anyone else share my inability to go to a bookstore and leave with only the number of books i intended to buy? i went the other day to pick up 100 years of solitude and the rabelais, and wound up buying everything listed above. assuming i don't get distracted again the next time i go book shopping, it'll probably be to pick up the new harry potter book and maybe something for the first cfa exam. i also want to give finnegans wake another go at some point.

i'm going to miss giant open-stack libraries when i leave school.

[unbluffable]

wow dante's divine comedy is such a great book

i should reread it.