The Official HH Book Club List

[GrundleStiltzkin]

@UW_Doog_Bot any suggestions for books that explain complicated business/finance[/b] shit in accessible form (e.g., Michael Lewis)?

Everything by Thomas Sowell pretty much. Did you know he was once a marxist?

At least "I" find his books accessible anyways. YMMV

I guess, I would ask you what or where you are trying to get to since it's a yugely broad category. Personal finance, market finance, market economics, etc.

Do you want to make money personally? Do you want to understand Wall Street? Do you want to understand economics? etc.

Old interviews with great economists are also amazing as a resource in the digital age since often those interviews are aimed at laymen and not stuffy academic works.

=112s

Wall Street stuff, I guess, not from a picking stalks standpoont, but systems & such[/b].

Autisticpotd.

but irregardless, A Random Walk Down Wall Street will make you both hate finance but also make you marvel at the efficiency of a decentralized system.

About halfway through it now. Almost turned it off at first, but enjoying quite a bit now. Thanks.

Ps, hasn’t done much yet to change my mind that much of stock trading is little different than baseball cards[/b].

Individually it's not. In aggregate it is.

That's why I don't pick stocks.

In my simple way of thinking, owning a stock that doesn’t pay a dividend is an abstract.

 

[alumni94]

When I see this pop up on the board, my first reaction is always the same. The people on here can't read...

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

When I see this pop up on the board, my first reaction is always the same. The people on here can't read...

I can't, but I can listen.

 

[1to392831weretaken]

When I see this pop up on the board, my first reaction is always the same. The people on here can't read...

I also love how it's always really smart sounding historical fiction or biographies. Psheah.

 

[Baseman]

Better to burn out, than fade away

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well:

Thanks @swaye, this was good chit.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

Started this one.


Another breezy explainer/debunker book. I like to read these. It's something I like to do. The author reads it for the audiobook, and he sounds like a less-annoying John Oliver.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

Started this one.
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Another breezy explainer/debunker book. I like to read these. It's something I like to do. The author reads it for the audiobook, and he sounds like a less-annoying John Oliver.

If one likes this genre, strong recommend. I enjoyed it quite a bit and learned some things.

 

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

When I see this pop up on the board, my first reaction is always the same. The people on here can't read...

My first reaction is “fuck, I have to update the list.”

 

[YellowSnow]

If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well:

Thanks @swaye, this was good chit.

@swaye @GrundleStiltzkin if you liked the canal book, the Brooklyn Bridge book is just as essential. Bodies being stacked like cordwood from the bends in the caissons.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well:

Thanks @swaye, this was good chit.

@swaye @GrundleStiltzkin if you liked the canal book, the Brooklyn Bridge book is just as essential. Bodies being stacked like cordwood from the bends in the caissons.

Pretty sure I did read this one. In an actual book no less.

 

[YellowSnow]

If you are a John Stevens fan like me, and a fan of the genre of Americans doing great things, check this one out as well:

Thanks @swaye, this was good chit.

@swaye @GrundleStiltzkin if you liked the canal book, the Brooklyn Bridge book is just as essential. Bodies being stacked like cordwood from the bends in the caissons.

Pretty sure I did read this one. In an actual book no less.

Props, Pod. I'm proud of you.

 

[Pitchfork51]

I wondered why we were able to avoid the Spanish flu during the Bush administration

How are you still around old man

 

[PurpleThrobber]

Reading/listening to Truman by David McCullough currently.

He's a wordy son of a bitch but he spins a good yarn.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

Shoutout to @YellowSnow for reco on this. Love TR and book delivers. However, listening to it during this election week was kinda sad.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

Book better than movie, and I liked the movie despite the cheese. The book’s tone is inspirational and aspirational. My interest tailed off a little after the midpoint. Much less focus on space race than you’d expect.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

Went on a little STEM jag a couple months ago. Should have read all in book than listen but I can’t read. Doomsday was probably best of these.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

I can’t remember whether I’ve brought this one up before. Before I lost the ability, read this one in the Gutenberg fashion. Basically an overview of nuke weapons fuck ups over the years, centered around the Titan missile accident in Arkansas in early 80s.https://share.libbyapp.com/title/1265394

 

[DawgOfTheAges]

Would love some recommendations that don’t have to do with war or sci-if, fantasy type shit.

Here are some of my favorites; books that are very well written with very interesting story lines

The first is a recommendation from the venerable drunk of the month book club and it
Is a classic book about the slums and underworld of India titled Shantarum
Also the following are some of the best novels out there

Brideshead revisted
grapes of wrath; the long valley and also Cannery row by Steinbeck
Snow falling on cedars
Songbird
cold mountain
Iron coffins
The thousand autumns of jacob de zoet
The border trilogy books by McCarthy there are 3 novels
Love in the time of cholera
A fine balance
fortress of solitude
Anything by David McCullough; just look him up and pick your subject

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

Libby tells me I bombed through this in 4 days in early August. History of cyberwar. Lowkey terrifying.https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2508029