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:book: After reading Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead one right after the other, I was kind of Ayn-ed out for a while. I'll read that one yet, I'm sure.

I can tell from the stuff people here read why the conversations on this forum are so interesting. This is a well-read crowd. Well rounded, too. Even the younger guys seem to read a lot of more substantive books. We are a pretty erudite :book: bunch of people, aren't we?! No boneheads here :1blank: anymore.

andrew tobias...'the only investment guide you'll ever need'

and 'winning the loser's game' by charlie ellis

"The Brethren" by John Grisham....

yeah, the brethren was good.

of course i read the fountainhead. it was inspiring but pretty idealistic.

i tried another rand book atlas i think but couldnt get through it.... a little turgid.

i finished the sniper book last night. i enjoyed that a lot. (dear mom) by ward.

i will go back to the jack london reader.

tom w

I haven't read a book of his since meeting him several times. He must have a ghost writer. Although I have a case of signed first editions of A Time to Kill that he gave away to a friend before it took off that may be worth something one day.

ps: if you want to read a good litigation book, try A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. The ultimately made a movie out of it too, but I actually read the book in law school at the behest of my civil procedure professor.

Einstein
 

I just started reading Einstein by Walter Isaacson. :book:I read his bio of Ben Franklin and it was great. This one is looking like it'll be just as good.

Just started reading "Newton's Apple: Isaac Newton and the English Scientific Renaissance' and "Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army and the Epic Battle for the Americas and the Catasrophe that ended the Outlaw's Bloody Reign". According to my cousin's genealogical research, I am descended from Henry Morgan thru the child he had with his slave mistress.

Also just finished Paul Berman's essay in the New Republic on Tariq Ramadan.

A Civil Action was one of the few books I couldn't put down until I finished it- great book. Right now I am reading abook about Women Pilots in History.

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson.

Some of the science is a little heavy, but it's a fantastic biography.

I highly recommend it.

i am reading limbergh, a biography now.

charles limbergh was an incredibly skilled and thoughtful pilot at a time when a lot of them died in their planes. his flying of the atlantic earned him such huge popularity that his life was forever changed.

he was even bigger then elvis....worldwide too. across all social classes. kings and prime miinsters wanted their pictures taken with him.

i am at the part where right before ww2 he was wined and dined by the germans and convinced that they held total air supremecy and therefore could not be beaten. he is now going around scaring the pants off the english and french leaders. it appears he may have single handedly assisted the germans hugely in their drive to achieve appeasement.....at the time their air force was actually pretty infantile and not that well developed.

more to come.

tom w

Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums
by Jean Andrews

Since its original publication in 1984, Peppers has become the complete and classic source for the history and dispersion, biology and taxonomy, cultivation, and medicinal, economic, and gastronomic uses of the domesticated capsicum. In this new edition, Jean Andrews updates each section with new material gathered over the last ten years. Particularly interesting are her descriptions of recent medicinal uses of peppers (including a recipe for pain-relieving capsaicin cream) and the inclusion of two additional cultivars, Datil and Scotch Bonnet. Like the first edition, this volume is illustrated with botanically accurate, yet aesthetically pleasing paintings that show the blossoms, buds, young peppers, and mature specimens of 34 cultivars in full color. Dr. Andrews also provides a recipe for the most typical dish in which each pepper is used, recipes that she herself has tested and served to grateful friends. With its up-to-the-minute, encyclopedic text and beautiful illustrations, Peppers remains a botanical natural history par excellence.

now would that be seargent pepper?.....

or claude?;)

tom w

I've got a couple I've got on the go now. The first is "Entrepreneurial Spirt" which is the biography of Jung Ju Yeong, the founder and first Chairman of the Hyundai conglomorate. It's in Korean, which makes the reading a little slow, but my reading has improved dramatically this year as this is the third book I'm reading in Korean this year. The other is "The way of the Turtle," which is a book on trading, and in particular on trading method that was made famous by bet made in the early 80s between a couple of legendary traders.

Just finished A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, which has prompted me to go back through a bunch of Mark Twain's short stories. And of course a lot of training books for work.

Just finished Sweet n' Low -- Crazy family business story.