Non-Poker Book Recommendations

Daisydog · #1 03-30-2007, 09:46 PM

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.

raistlinx · #2 03-30-2007, 09:47 PM

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

Adman · #3 03-30-2007, 09:48 PM

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.

npc · #4 03-31-2007, 01:40 AM

Try:

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

phydaux · #5 03-31-2007, 02:03 AM

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

fraac · #6 03-31-2007, 02:26 AM

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.

agoldenbear · #7 03-31-2007, 02:31 AM

"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

fraac · #8 03-31-2007, 02:43 AM

"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)

Daisydog · #9 03-31-2007, 10:20 AM

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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.

Fred Allen · #10 03-31-2007, 01:46 PM

Try:

When Genius Failed (Lowenstein)