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Jan 3rd, 2005At the end of another year (and the start of a new one) I like to put together a list of the best books I read, the worst and all the other in between. |
Best Book |
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A rare chess book where every move is explained, not just the "surprising" ones. |
Books I Didn't Finish |
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I still own both of these so I'll come back to them soon enough. |
Most Disappointing |
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Not a patch on Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer which actually had some maths in it. |
Best Re-read |
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No matter how many times I read it, this is a stroke of genius - it's almost embarrassing to get this much pleasure from a book. |
Most Surprising |
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It's big, it's fat, it's dense, but it's funny. Everything you've heard about this is almost certainly wrong - both more and less prurient than I expected. |
Best Page Turner |
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I'm not sure whether you pick page-turners for your vacation, or because you're on vacation you go through books much faster than usual, but either way I knocked this on the head in record time (for me). |
Most Thought Provoking |
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Quinn had to tell this story as a parable, because if he just came out and said his thesis plainly, he would be hung, drawn and quartered. Was he mad? An Anti-semite? Worth reading? Read this book to find out. Incidentally the answers to the above questions are (in order): "yes", "no" and "hell yeah". |
Life Changers |
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Yeah, yeah we've heard it before: success is a journey - but finally someone who explains why. Time management is so last century, this is energy management baby! |
Best Graphic Novel |
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Mix equal parts Milton and Dante, blend Greek, Roman, Norse, Japanese and biblical myths, add a cast of truly infernal characters and hell never looked so good. |
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