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Steve
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Paperback) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in March, 2008
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Steve
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Lottery (Hardcover) by Patricia Wood (Goodreads author!) |
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| March 30 | ||
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Steve
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover) by Orlando Figes |
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Steve
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James's
review of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead:
"The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead is a difficult-to-define, genre-crossing brooding and searching book that combines biography and biology in an obsessive musing on Death. David Shields’ father is 97. David Shields is obsessed w...more " | |
| March 24 | ||
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Jude the Obscure (Thrift Edition) by Thomas Hardy |
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read in June, 1995
Steve said:
"Some say that this is the most boring, plodding story that Hardy wrote. Maybe, but Hardy had a wonderful way of telling a story. The title sums it up; the story of a stone mason from Oxford.
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Steve
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The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes (Hardcover) by Mark Douglas |
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recommended for: forex traders
read in June, 1999
Steve said:
"If you are considering trading financial markets, consider reading this. Trading takes discipline and self knowledge. Nothing you can 'learn', because you have it; you have to adjust you r belief system to realize it. 99% of all those who tray to tra...more
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Steve
is currently reading:
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Paperback) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in March, 2008
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| March 23 | ||
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Steve
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Blowin' Free: Thirty Years Of Wishbone Ash (Paperback) by Gary Carter, Mark Chatterton |
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Steve
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Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac (Paperback) by Mick Fleetwood |
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| March 03 | ||
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Steve
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The Chrysalids (Paperback) by John Wyndham |
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Steve's favorite quotes
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss
— Dr. Seuss
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. "
— Winston S. Churchill
— Winston S. Churchill
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin
— Benjamin Franklin
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato
— Plato
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