A book a week

[fxtrader]

I've decided to start this thread because I think it would be a great way to share books with each other, impressions, etc

This week I've read:
Leadership - Rudolph Giuliani


and am about to finish The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie



Weeks: 1
Books Read:1

[cacheborn]

Nice post, fxtrader.
At present I am reading, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

[this is fun]

Originally Posted by cacheborn

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

A great book!
I've just started reading this one:Amazon.com: Reality Transurfing 1: The Space of Variations (9781846941221): Vadim Zeland: Books

So far it's interesting!

[runscored]

I am currently reading Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz for the second time.

[VIPFaktor]

At the moment, I'm reading:

1. Jim Longuski - How to think like a rocket scientist


2. XNA 3.0 Game Programming - Novice to Pro


3. Brian Tracy & Colin Rose - Accelerated learning techniques


4. Alfred Korzybski - Science and Sanity - An introduction to non-aristotelian systems and general semantics

(couldn't find a better cover)

And yes, I read all of them at the same time.

[LifeFirst]

Does comic books count?

[kwicherbichen]

"Pledged" by Alexandra Robbins
- The stories of girls in sororities. True stories. Re-written and explained through the eyes of an anti-sorority woman.

"Your Memory" by Kenneth Higbee
- explanation of memory (ugh, like psych class all over again... SKIP!!) and how to improve it (that's more like it)

[fxtrader]

Originally Posted by runscored

I am currently reading Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz for the second time.

i've heard great things about this book, haven't gotten around to reading it, but will in the near future

[fxtrader]

Originally Posted by onestepcloser

I'm currently reading A Time to Kill by John Grisham.

i'm a sucker for anything by John Grisham, read almost all of his books

btw, does anyone now of any other legal drama authors ? or books that deal with a trial, courthouse, jury, etc ?

[cacheborn]

Originally Posted by fxtrader

i'm a sucker for anything by John Grisham, read almost all of his books

btw, does anyone now of any other legal drama authors ? or books that deal with a trial, courthouse, jury, etc ?

Me too.
And I have not been disappointed except Playing for Pizza.
My favorites are The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Firm And The Broker.
I like legal dramas too and I am always looking for new ones. Sometimes, I read Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason.

[freewheelnat]

Currently reading Obama's "dreams from my father" and "better eyesight without glasses" by Willam H Bates.

Last week, I read Paul Auster "travel in the scriptorium" and "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.

[fxtrader]

finished Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library

Weeks: 1
Books Read: 2

[openeyes]

Just finished Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas, currently reading Trading for a Living by Alexander Elder and Influence by Robert Cialdini, and Murphey's Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets is waiting on the shelf to be dived into next (this one might take a little longer)

[fxtrader]

Originally Posted by openeyes

Just finished Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas, currently reading Trading for a Living by Alexander Elder and Influence by Robert Cialdini, and Murphey's Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets is waiting on the shelf to be dived into next (this one might take a little longer)

great books, i recommend all books by Mark Douglas. That reminds me to reread them.

btw openeyes, what markets do you trade ?

[WordKeeper]

Who's Got Your BAck?



The Family



OK - I am trying to copy covers of the book. For the 2nd I have a jpg link which I tried to embed using the "Insert Image" button but it didn't work and the 1st I simply tried to copy from a promotional web page. Any suggestions?

[livewell]

How do you manage to read a book a week? I would love to learn how to read that fast.

[VIPFaktor]

Originally Posted by livewell

How do you manage to read a book a week? I would love to learn how to read that fast.

That's fast??
I sometimes read 3-4 books a week, but usually it's 2 a week (if we exclude the software engineering 600+ page books).

[fxtrader]

Originally Posted by livewell

How do you manage to read a book a week? I would love to learn how to read that fast.

i guess i manage my time pretty ok, because i also have an 8 hour job,plus i sometimes work from home on a part-time job, go to the gym, go out with friends, etc

it's very doable

[freewheelnat]

Originally Posted by livewell

How do you manage to read a book a week? I would love to learn how to read that fast.

One of the tricks is to always carry a book with you so you can read when you are on public transport, or queue at the doctor's surgery, or wait for a friend who is late etc

Another helpful thing is to have a book near the TV remote. Each time you reach for it, you see the book and therefore, you are more tempted to grab it instead of filling up a 10 minutes gap with TV.

Also, if you struggle to read 1 book a week, try reading a few short books to increase your ratio of books read per month. This way, your confidence in your ability to find time to read will build up.

Lastly, it's important to have a quiet place in your home where you can go and read and the people you live with know not to disturb you. Make it clear to them that you are going to read for half an hour and therefore they should refrain from interrupting you.

[runscored]

Originally Posted by fxtrader

i've heard great things about this book, haven't gotten around to reading it, but will in the near future

It is an excellent read. Read it cover to cover the first time and now I am reading it slower and trying to apply the book in my everyday life. I Highly recommend this book to everyone.

[Chap]

Originally Posted by livewell

How do you manage to read a book a week? I would love to learn how to read that fast.

As the old maxim says, it is quality not quantity. Invictus by William Earnest Henely is one of the most significantly life-changing words I have read, yet it is merely 4 stanzas long (7. Invictus. William Ernest Henley. Modern British Poetry).

By the definition of accumulation I should not consider it successful unless I read his entire works, and those of others in a week; as opposed to the hundreds of hours I have dedicated in contemplation to that single poem. Your constitution is also a masterpiece, yet could be 'done' in a day.

Similarly, many classics (including Vanity Fair, Mein Kamp, The origin of Species, and many other highly esteemed works) have been treated with the same cursory contemplation that an obese person may give to a tub of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream, devoured whilst watching some television program.

This is not a criticism on your part, just something I believe is needed on this post since it is running dangerously close to the superficial sense of tallying achievement rather than appreciation.

[openeyes]

Originally Posted by freewheelnat

One of the tricks is to always carry a book with you so you can read when you are on public transport, or queue at the doctor's surgery, or wait for a friend who is late etc

Another helpful thing is to have a book near the TV remote. Each time you reach for it, you see the book and therefore, you are more tempted to grab it instead of filling up a 10 minutes gap with TV.

Good tips. Since my girlfriend and I have our own apartment, with no kids, and are both big readers, it's fairly easy to go through at least a couple books per week. We skipped having a tv and average well under an hour of video per day on the computer, mostly watching TED.com and netflix.

We always have a book with us, and my job often affords me at least an hour per day to just sit and read (the joys of working 3rd shift). My girlfriend works at a plant nursery and listens to audio books and podcasts for a few hours per day.

I used to read through books more quickly and make my way through multiple books per day, but found it often more fun to take my time, hence a steady clip of usually just 2-3 books per week. In reading so many books, I highly recommend taking notes of some sort to be able to go back and jog your memory quickly, and rereading some books is also worthwhile. I keep a notebook where each book I'm reading gets its own page or two to look back on.

[openeyes]

Originally Posted by fxtrader

btw openeyes, what markets do you trade ?

I'm very new to the idea of trading, didn't seriously consider it until reading this thread New to trading and though I'm mostly looking at forex I've just started getting familiar with an Oanda demo account, and it will be a while before I start playing with real money.

[Talkofthatown919]

holy cow that is a ton of books to have read. But what am i sayin that for like my collection isn't big.

[envy]

I'm currently reading:

The Passionate Programmer



This is a fairly light read that provides some genuine insight into the world of IT software/solution production through the eyes of a very accomplished developer and enterpreneur. I'm currently employed in that field and although I don't aspire to remain in it for too long I can't help but appreciate some of the lessons it teaches you.

During my commute to work and back, and whenever I have nothing better to do I listen to:

Foundations of Western Civilization II - A History of the Modern Western World



Now this is a bit of a cheat since I can't feasibly go through this audio book in a week (It's 24 hours of solid listening) and a more realistic estimate would be somewhere in the order of a month. This audio book provides a very good overview of western civilization between the renaissance and the 20th century. I don't quite enjoy the author's knack for listing stuff, citing himself and peddling his other audio books but I still find it a great resource that picks up where the first part left off (that one by the way was made by a different lecturer who was in my opinion a much better and more enticing storyteller). Don't get me wrong prof. Bucholz is still a very good historian and lecturer but just doesn't quite measure up to prof. Noble which did the first series of lectures.

[fxtrader]

finished reading The Four Biggest Mistakes of Futures Trading by Jay Kaeppl



Weeks: 2
Books: 3

[WordKeeper]

How do you import book covers?

[fxtrader]

mountain icon, next to the A and Hyperlink. Insert Image-> http adress of the image