You guys should check out a short story by E.M Forster called "The Machine Stops" written in the early 1900s...it rocks.

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I might also add

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Black Swan

to the list if I have time to read it.

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Originally posted by The Highroller What books will you be reading this holiday season? C Moore - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Let me know how this one is.... I've always wanted to pick that book up and read it.

I've been a huge Dean Koontz fan for years, reading Your Heart Belongs to Me...

Not sure what I'll pick up after that one is done....

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Originally posted by The Highroller Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment

Just finished reading this one, and wow. This was a very multi-layered book, with each story having an equally satisfying or surprising ending. A really interesting look into the mind of a criminal, a story of an old friend trying to help another through a hard time, a love story, and a story about extreme poverty. Definitely one of the best books I've ever read.

Next, on to Marin Amis - Money (the 3rd time I've started reading it, lol) and Neil Gaiman - Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch

I am going to try to get through Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill & Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein... they were both released a few years ago but just got them recently.

The rest of the reading I will be doing apart from the Economist will likely have to do with the courses I am taking in January.

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Hand, hand, finger, thumb
Bambi gets lost
How the Grinch stole Christmas
Little Lamb Finds his Friends
and whatever else my daughter pulls down from the shelf and hands to me.

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Originally posted by RickyM you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down

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Originally posted by Moral Hazard Hand, hand, finger, thumb

My parents got me this book when I was 3, because I pronounced finger as 'thinger' and thumb as 'fumb'.

AUTHOR - TITLE

AUSTEN - EMMA
MILL (ED BY RYAN) - ON LIBERTY
SOLOMON - INTRODUCING THE GERMAN IDEALISTS
DE BALZAC - OLD GORIOT
SHELLEY - FRANKENSTEIN (1818 TXT) 2ND ED
HUYSMANS - AGAINST NATURE
GOETHE - SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
THOREAU - WALDEN & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
MARX & ENGELS - COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

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Originally posted by Geoffb3 AUTHOR - TITLE AUSTEN - EMMA

eeewww
Austen's worst novel ever, why are you gonna be reading this?!

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Yeah it's all about Pride & Prejudice. Oh that Mr. Darcy! *swoon*

Let them eat Flax - Joe Schwarcz

after that, I plan to read his other book "The Fly in the Ointment"

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Originally posted by Geoffb3 AUTHOR - TITLE SHELLEY - FRANKENSTEIN (1818 TXT) 2ND ED

What's the difference between the 2nd ed and the first?
I read it in highschool (don't remember which addition)

Such a great novel. They say it's one of the first "sci fi" novels ever written.

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