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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #400 on: March 12, 2013, 09:38:59 AM »
You guys I'm about 80 pages into my 2nd attempt at A Tale of Two Cities. SO good. The first time I tried to read it I was 14 or 15. Too young I guess, because it's great.  :D

Oh man, if you like the first 80pgs, you will really love the last 100 or so.   :excited:

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #402 on: March 20, 2013, 08:24:36 AM »
maybe jc nichols will be in there.

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« Reply #403 on: March 20, 2013, 08:28:34 AM »
You guys I'm about 80 pages into my 2nd attempt at A Tale of Two Cities. SO good. The first time I tried to read it I was 14 or 15. Too young I guess, because it's great.  :D

Oh man, if you like the first 80pgs, you will really love the last 100 or so.   :excited:


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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #405 on: March 20, 2013, 08:42:47 AM »
Almost done with The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate.

Really good book if you are into history and geopolitics.

Also started Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It.

Was written by a hedge fund manager who ran a China-US growth fund.

I bet you've either already read The Prize (Yergin) or would really enjoy it.

Have not read it, just ordered it off amazon.

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Started reading it 2 nights ago and am about 100 pages in. REALLY ENJOY IT SO FAR!

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #406 on: March 20, 2013, 08:44:23 AM »
Almost done with The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate.

Really good book if you are into history and geopolitics.

Also started Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It.

Was written by a hedge fund manager who ran a China-US growth fund.

I bet you've either already read The Prize (Yergin) or would really enjoy it.

Have not read it, just ordered it off amazon.

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Started reading it 2 nights ago and am about 100 pages in. REALLY ENJOY IT SO FAR!

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I'm pretty bad with names so I had to keep a notebook handy when I read it to write down new characters and what they did.  He'll go a 100 pages not talking about some dude and them bam there is he again and you're like wait WTF is this guy again? 

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #407 on: March 20, 2013, 09:10:57 AM »
Almost done with The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate.

Really good book if you are into history and geopolitics.

Also started Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It.

Was written by a hedge fund manager who ran a China-US growth fund.

I bet you've either already read The Prize (Yergin) or would really enjoy it.

Have not read it, just ordered it off amazon.

 :thumbs:

Started reading it 2 nights ago and am about 100 pages in. REALLY ENJOY IT SO FAR!

 :thumbs: :thumbs:

I'm pretty bad with names so I had to keep a notebook handy when I read it to write down new characters and what they did.  He'll go a 100 pages not talking about some dude and them bam there is he again and you're like wait WTF is this guy again?

I keep my phone handy and google the random places they were finding oil, they use old timey names like borneo and baku instead of Indonesia and Azerbaijan. I know the general location of those places but it really helps to pinpoint them on the map.

Just got to the part where they start talking about the beginning of the Russian Revolution and how Stalin got his start organizing the oil workers into unions. :excited:

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« Reply #408 on: March 20, 2013, 08:28:48 PM »
I'm about to start The Looming Tower.  Has anyone read?  My bro said it's a must read.  also, english can go eff itself for read/read
http://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/1400030846

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« Reply #409 on: March 20, 2013, 09:17:33 PM »
I'm about to start The Looming Tower.  Has anyone read?  My bro said it's a must read.  also, english can go eff itself for read/read
http://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/1400030846

Read monstering and hubris and Woodward's books.  That one I heard was good too.  I think I may have gone a little nuts post 9/11 and Iraq war era current events reading.

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #410 on: March 26, 2013, 07:05:21 PM »
Just got done reading "The Harbinger", it was interesting.
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« Reply #411 on: March 26, 2013, 07:28:03 PM »
I'm about to start The Looming Tower.  Has anyone read?  My bro said it's a must read.  also, english can go eff itself for read/read
http://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/1400030846

Read monstering and hubris and Woodward's books.  That one I heard was good too.  I think I may have gone a little nuts post 9/11 and Iraq war era current events reading.

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would you recommend any of those?  Looming Tower is very good so far.  It is pretty much just a collection of facts pulled from the 50 years preceding 9/11 and organized into a narrative describing the confluence of events on both sides which culminated in the attack.  The book is colored by the author's perspective here and there, but it is usually pretty clear when he is reading between the lines.

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« Reply #412 on: March 27, 2013, 06:27:18 AM »
I'm about to start The Looming Tower.  Has anyone read?  My bro said it's a must read.  also, english can go eff itself for read/read
http://www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/1400030846

Read monstering and hubris and Woodward's books.  That one I heard was good too.  I think I may have gone a little nuts post 9/11 and Iraq war era current events reading.

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I actually had a better experience reading things Said and Lewis wrote before 9/11. And if you can get a copy, Habib's "Warriors of Islam" is rough ridin' fantastic (but it's out of print and the CIA bought up most of the copies).
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"How will I recruit to Manhattan? Well, distance. And the proud state of basketball. It start there, and then daily flights to Dallas, because I'm really good at going out. Like top five good. Ask my wife. She wants me to be happy."

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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #414 on: March 27, 2013, 08:06:37 AM »
I just typed in Warriors of Islam into Amazon and it gave me a  :dunno:

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« Reply #415 on: March 27, 2013, 08:43:38 AM »
Here's the full title:

Ibn Sa'ud's Warriors of Islam: The Ikhwan of Najd and Their Role in the Creation of the Sa'udi Kingdom, 1910-1930

I could never find one and eventually had a mutual professional acquaintance ask him for a copy.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #416 on: March 27, 2013, 08:46:43 AM »
What about it made the CIA get all CIA'ey?

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« Reply #417 on: March 27, 2013, 08:49:30 AM »
I just ordered:  http://www.amazon.com/Family-Properties-Exploitation-America-ebook/dp/B003EI2EKE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363782853&sr=8-2&keywords=family+properties

Also :love:

Pretty great so far.  If I could have any person review it, I would probably choose David Duke.  Jews scheming/cheating black people in an Irish-controlled city.

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« Reply #418 on: March 27, 2013, 11:23:03 AM »
What about it made the CIA get all CIA'ey?

They bought up copies for their own internal training courses.
"How will I recruit to Manhattan? Well, distance. And the proud state of basketball. It start there, and then daily flights to Dallas, because I'm really good at going out. Like top five good. Ask my wife. She wants me to be happy."

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« Reply #419 on: March 27, 2013, 02:49:27 PM »
I just ordered:  http://www.amazon.com/Family-Properties-Exploitation-America-ebook/dp/B003EI2EKE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363782853&sr=8-2&keywords=family+properties

Also :love:

Pretty great so far.  If I could have any person review it, I would probably choose David Duke.  Jews scheming/cheating black people in an Irish-controlled city.

I WILL READ THIS TOO.

The problem with books is there are so many and so little time. That's why I'm glad we have this thread, friends.

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« Reply #420 on: March 27, 2013, 02:58:29 PM »
Here's the problem with books/reading:  no one has ever said "no, not tonight honey, I'd like to read instead."

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« Reply #421 on: March 28, 2013, 10:09:10 AM »
I just ordered:  http://www.amazon.com/Family-Properties-Exploitation-America-ebook/dp/B003EI2EKE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363782853&sr=8-2&keywords=family+properties

Also :love:

Pretty great so far.  If I could have any person review it, I would probably choose David Duke.  Jews scheming/cheating black people in an Irish-controlled city.

I WILL READ THIS TOO.

The problem with books is there are so many and so little time. That's why I'm glad we have this thread, friends.

YES! I would have never seen this book but now I'm absolutely gonna read it. Thanks, KK.
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Re: book recommendations
« Reply #422 on: March 28, 2013, 10:41:22 AM »
http://www.amazon.com/Off-Books-Underground-Economy-Urban/dp/0674023552/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207624317&sr=8-2

This book by Venkatesh got me interested in the subject after Freakanomics referenced the salaries of drug dealers.  "Off the books" is one of my favorite books ever.

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« Reply #423 on: March 31, 2013, 04:08:38 PM »
http://www.amazon.com/Off-Books-Underground-Economy-Urban/dp/0674023552/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207624317&sr=8-2

This book by Venkatesh got me interested in the subject after Freakanomics referenced the salaries of drug dealers.  "Off the books" is one of my favorite books ever.

Racist Goldbrick thread just pushed me over the edge to buy this.  Might be a couple month's til I have time to read it, but oh well.

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« Reply #424 on: April 18, 2013, 06:41:13 PM »
Almost done with The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate.

Really good book if you are into history and geopolitics.

Also started Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It.

Was written by a hedge fund manager who ran a China-US growth fund.

I bet you've either already read The Prize (Yergin) or would really enjoy it.

Have not read it, just ordered it off amazon.

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Finally getting to the end of this 800 page monstrosity and they are talking about T Boone Pickens. I had never heard of the guy before he started throwing cash at OSU but he was/is a freaking baller.

He was a pretty small player up until the 80's when there was a surplus of Oil and Oil companies stocks were depressed and undervalued. XYZ Oil companies would have a market cap of say 300 million but proven reserves worth 900 million so he would buy the company. After a couple of times the big major oil companies caught on so he switched tactics.

The big whammy was when Gulf Oil was undervalued....He secretly bought around 25% of the shares of Gulf Oil when the price was around $40 and made a takeover bid at $62 a share. He knew that this was stupid low but it started a bidding war for Gulf Oil among the bigger oil companies and they were eventually bought out by Chevron at $80 a share....T Boone made a cool $760 million(pretax) on the deal. :sdeek: