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    <updated_at>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:00:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I think Chapman's was the first translation into English, explaining Keats's enthusiasm. Chapman opened Homer to the English speaking world.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:48:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is the ghost-written autobiography of one of the great stock speculators of the 19th and early 20th centuries - Jesse Livermore (under a pen name). Composed in the vigorous, if dated, prose of 1924, Livermore's recollections of his career highs and lows are both entertaining and highly instruct...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5460023">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:22:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[There are only a few outstanding books about investment. Since it's very much an applied science, there's always a bubbling stew of ideas and analysis found in articles, newsletters, newspapers, web sites, seminars, etc. To discover the best bits requires constant thought and attention. I'll add more books as I find time, but the key is an alert sifting through piles of daily reports.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161791.Trade_Your_Way_to_Financial_Freedom">Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/93820.Van_K_Tharp">Van K. Tharp</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:34:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Tharp focuses on the psychology of securities trading, and on how to build your own successful trading system, making this very different from the usual investment book about economics or price analysis. There's a deep and invaluable discussion of the intellectual and emotional errors that get in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4992467">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1759163.What_Has_Worked_In_Investing">What Has Worked In Investing (On-line publication)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/806438.Browne_Tweedy">Browne Tweedy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:57:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is probably the clearest, most comprehensive, and best documented exposition of the methods of value investing. The focus is on how to find value among common stocks - how to find stocks selling for less than their worth that are safe to hold and likely to produce large returns over time. The a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4965643">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/966769.Market_Wizards_Interviews_with_Top_Traders">Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/95329.Jack_D_Schwager">Jack D. Schwager</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:06:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Schwager interviews several of the most successful investors of all time, asking probing questions about what they do and how they do it. A classic for the insights it brings that go far beyond what could be learned from any standard text. My only reservation is that Schwager, an outstanding trader ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4851439">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:24:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is an indispensable book for anyone wanting to earn money in the securities markets. I give it only three stars because it's one of the worst written books I've ever seen, bordering on incoherence at many points. Despite the atrocious prose, it explains four basic, powerful, and enormously lucr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4551794">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:08:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[O'Rourke visits countries representative of the leading economic systems and explores how people live there. He leavens a brilliant exposition of key economic ideas with a witty travelogue. I know of no other book that makes so direct and so incisive a comparison of economies, focusing not on ideolo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4550633">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1664433.The_Research_Driven_Investor_How_to_Use_Information_Data_and_Analysis_for_Investment_Success">The Research Driven Investor: How to Use Information, Data and Analysis for Investment Success (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/768551.Timothy_Hayes">Timothy Hayes</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:36:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A brilliant discussion of just what the title says - how to use information, data, and analysis for investment success. The emphasis is on quantitative methods of developing investment strategies and deciding which investments to make. This is invaluable in a subject so often frought with emotion an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4244550">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106835.The_Intelligent_Investor">The Intelligent Investor (Revised Edition, Collins Business Essentials)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/755.Benjamin_Graham">Benjamin Graham</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:46:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is the essential book about value investing. Graham (the teacher and first employer of Warren Buffet) was a polymath genius who ran one of the most successful funds in history, and then joined the faculty of the Columbia Business School. Of his three books, this is the one intended for the non-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4188831">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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