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

you're a cool cat

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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.

[Scorpion Man]

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

you're a cool cat

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Thanks (I think). Yup. It was a slow day, I guess.

[XXXNoahXXX]

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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.

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Try having Amazon Prime where you get free 2-day shipping. I buy half the bestseller list each time. Or even worse is buying books on half.com. I go to get one textbook for class and then there are all these great books for like 75 cents plus shipping. It's like a library sticker booksale that has every title ever written. You can fill a bookcase for $100.

[unbluffable]

wanna buy a house in the dominican? hahaha

['Chair]

upcoming...
"Boomsday" -- recommended on Paul Kedrosky's blog (I typically don't read fiction)

[Howard Treesong]

Just finished "Conspiracy Of Fools," which was about Fastow, Skilling, Lay and the Enron breakup. Pretty solid: he didn't have much of a political agenda and seemed to try to get the history right. After having spent time in the corporate world as an exec, some of this stuff is just unbelievable. Sad testament to American corporate culture; based on this book, I'd put Fastow, Glisan, Skilling and Kopper away for a long time, but Skilling is a much much tougher question. It's not at all clear that Skilling actually committed any crime.

Now reading William Boyd's Restless. British book I picked up just before lunch in a small shop in Kensington. It appears to be a mystery, so far so good.

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I generally dislike conspiracy stories but the Enron thing is pretty interesting. thanks Howard.