Official Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related (merged)

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n_huffhines said:
One of the best books you will ever read. Check out Devil in the White City if you haven't read it already. Amazing.
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I did read it. That's how I knew about Holmes and his penchant for "finding" cadavers to sell to scientists. It was really good. Eric Larson is great at recreating history.
 
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joelkthx said:
Just finished Freakonomics. Anyone else enjoy it as much as I did?
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Welcome to the exciting world of behavioral economics. Try Superfreakonomics, Think Like a Freak, Thinking Fast & Slow, etc. You gotta forget what you think you know. It's kind of liberating, and makes you feel dumber and smarter simultaneously.

All fun reads.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Welcome to the exciting world of behavioral economics. Try Superfreakonomics, Think Like a Freak, Thinking Fast & Slow, etc. You gotta forget what you think you know. It's kind of liberating, and makes you feel dumber and smarter simultaneously.

All fun reads.
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As well as a pretty good Freakonomics podcast.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Welcome to the exciting world of behavioral economics. Try Superfreakonomics, Think Like a Freak, Thinking Fast & Slow, etc. You gotta forget what you think you know. It's kind of liberating, and makes you feel dumber and smarter simultaneously.

All fun reads.
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Accurate.

Thanks for the suggestions. I actually looked into a few of those when I finished Freakonomics... I will try to grab one of those when I finish this school term. Spending all my spare time reading text books right now.
 
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joelkthx said:
Accurate.

Thanks for the suggestions. I actually looked into a few of those when I finished Freakonomics... I will try to grab one of those when I finish this school term. Spending all my spare time reading text books right now.
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If you liked the book, you may want to consider majoring in economics. If you don't enjoy economics, it can be hell, but if you do, it's the best degree. I loved most of my classes, and it's analytical, so even though a lot of what you learn doesn't directly apply to the business world, you demonstrate to employers you can be taught just about anything they need you to learn. An econ degree with people skills makes you a valuable commodity.
 
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n_huffhines said:
If you liked the book, you may want to consider majoring in economics. If you don't enjoy economics, it can be hell, but if you do, it's the best degree. I loved most of my classes, and it's analytical, so even though a lot of what you learn doesn't directly apply to the business world, you demonstrate to employers you can be taught just about anything they need you to learn. An econ degree with people skills makes you a valuable commodity.
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Unfortunately, what I'm doing now is an MBA... but after reading the book I immediately thought to myself "should have done economics for my bachelors." What are you doing with yours, if you don't mind me asking?
 
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joelkthx said:
Unfortunately, what I'm doing now is an MBA... but after reading the book I immediately thought to myself "should have done economics for my bachelors." What are you doing with yours, if you don't mind me asking?
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SEO, so nothing to do with my degree, really.

Can't go wrong with an MBA. At my school they had a grad-level class in the business school called Sports Economics. I took it as an undergrad cause the professor is like the top dog in the field. Awesome class.

If you like the idea of sports economics, try Stumbling on Wins which is his book, or try Soccernomics if you like soccer (not him). Those are my favorite sports econ books I've read.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
I did read it. That's how I knew about Holmes and his penchant for "finding" cadavers to sell to scientists. It was really good. Eric Larson is great at recreating history.
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There was also holmes movie staring Leonardo Dicaprio as H H Holmes. There is also a h h holmes as a ghost episode in supernatural. Season 2 episode No Exit.
It's not true crime but has murder in it which makes it exiting.
The plot of a young adult book is a teenage girl is framed for murder resulting in a womanhunt, the killer has her hostage telling her to drive even though she has no liscence.
It has a picture of the girl protaganist on the cover in the car it's drawn alex ross style with ink.
I saw this at my local library. I'll be renting that one.

I lost or misplaced my Monsters in America book. Lucky for me a local barnes and noble has one so I'll be getting that today.
Published in 2014 so recent has to do with the Jersey Devil, Bigfoot,thunder birds, chupacabra, etc.
I do believe the jersey devil, and bigfoot are real.
 
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firestorm said:
There was also holmes movie staring Leonardo Dicaprio as H H Holmes. There is also a h h holmes as a ghost episode in supernatural. Season 2 episode No Exit.
It's not true crime but has murder in it which makes it exiting.
The plot of a young adult book is a teenage girl is framed for murder resulting in a womanhunt, the killer has her hostage telling her to drive even though she has no liscence.
It has a picture of the girl protaganist on the cover in the car it's drawn alex ross style with ink.
I saw this at my local library. I'll be renting that one.

I lost or misplaced my Monsters in America book. Lucky for me a local barnes and noble has one so I'll be getting that today.
Published in 2014 so recent has to do with the Jersey Devil, Bigfoot,thunder birds, chupacabra, etc.
I do believe the jersey devil, and bigfoot are real.
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No offense, but your command of the English language is at least consistent with every other person I've met that believes in these things.
 
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VOLatile said:
No offense, but your command of the English language is at least consistent with every other person I've met that believes in these things.
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No offense is a back handed way of a insult or a veiled insult.

So don't give this bullcrap of no offense.
Its not any different than I'm not racist but then followed by something that will obviously be racist.
 
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First day of class, back to reading textbooks until I settle in. Had to buy "Aftershock" for my Macroeconomics class, anyone read it?

Also, $480 for 5 used books is ridiculous.
 
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VOLatile said:
First day of class, back to reading textbooks until I settle in. Had to buy "Aftershock" for my Macroeconomics class, anyone read it?

Also, $480 for 5 used books is ridiculous.
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Sounds like you got off cheap compared to some of the semesters I had.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Yikes! That's a lot of coin. I don't think my engineering books ever got that expensive.
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Those were engineering tech books back in 2007-2008. I can only imagine what the sustainable tech books are now, since it's a relatively new field and program at the school. I'm no longer in the EngT program.
 
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VOLatile said:
First day of class, back to reading textbooks until I settle in. Had to buy "Aftershock" for my Macroeconomics class, anyone read it?

Also, $480 for 5 used books is ridiculous.
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I feel your pain. If the dates match up, you might consider renting rather than buying. Of course, you'd have to think if its worth it or not because of the buy back when you buy. but for me, its better to rent.

Chegg.com is good and Amazon sometimes too. I usually check those two and just go with the lower price
 
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VOLatile said:
First day of class, back to reading textbooks until I settle in. Had to buy "Aftershock" for my Macroeconomics class, anyone read it?

Also, $480 for 5 used books is ridiculous.
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Oh man I feel bad for you. Assigning that book probably means your professor sucks.

Reich is a pro-union economist. As I understand it, that book is a wealth inequality explanation of the recession. You never go full-retard.
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
You should heed your own advice.
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