Read any good books lately? (page 2)

Calico Ethel

Bonnie_clyde - "To Kill a Mockingbird" was an awesome book. If you liked that, you would definately LOVE the movie. It was wonderful. I have seen it probably over 20 times myself....

juni

I remember "Catcher in The Rye" was required reading in highschool at least through 1965. A lot of complaints from parents as I recall and they removed the book.

Juni

I just finished Robin Cook's - Marker. It was good but rather predictable. Robin Cook ended the book with some interesting information about human genomes. Also, just read Dean Koontz - The Husband. It was an easy read.

One of my favorite books is Benjamin Blake.

There are always the classics, which I noticed you are reading a couple. Oliver Twist is wonderful. Silas Marner by George Eliot is really a nice story. Jane Eyre and Pride & Prejudice are among my favorites.

Then there is the series of books by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. They really keep you on the edge of your seat.

Digital Fortress is good.

Have fun whatever you read.

Loruhamah

Navigator

The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle. Also, The New Earth-Awaking to Your Life's Purpose by the same author.

Illusions(Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah) by Richard Bach. That is a life changing book.

BizzyBee

The Catcher in the Rye was a great book. I have it in front of me. J.D. Salinger. Great author. Barney

Hey, Barn! Well, at least we agree on that!

BlackPearl

I love "The New Buffettology", about 3/4 of the way through it. I really like the calculations used to determine future value.

Review: The New Buffettology

by Mary Buffett and David Clark

This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about Warren Buffett and how he does what he does.

The authors look at the companies Buffett has invested in over the years and what he has said about investment principles, and use this to draw up a series of tests and principles that they claim he puts in place when selecting investments.

We cannot say with any certainty that these tests and principles totally and accurately reflect the way that Warren Buffett does business. We can however say that they make good and logical sense to us.

For example, the authors assert that Buffett only looks at companies with consistently high rates of return on equity, preferably rising, and give mathematical tests and equations for assessing this. This seems to accord with everything that Warren Buffett has ever publicly said and makes sense.

In the early part of the book, Mary Buffett and David Clark analyze some of Warren’s historical investments and come up with a series of guiding principles on what to buy and when to buy it. They include important factors such as brand name companies, information sources, and company management.

Later in the book, the authors set out a series of financial and other equations for assessing likely investments, and the price that an investor can pay and still have Graham’s famous ‘margin of error’.

Generally, these equations and calculations can easily be done by the average reader, with the assistance of a financial calculator, such as the Texas Instruments Solar Financial Calculator. One equation, that using book value to predict earnings growth, did give us some difficulty at first but proved do-able after a couple more readings.

The authors also produce a Buffetology Workbook that contains all the steps the reader needs to make the calculations suggested in the principal book.

This is a must-have book for any reader wanting to tap into the Buffet investment secrets.

Mulan

I just finished "The Messenger" by Daniel Silva. I love that author and his Gabriel Allon books.

Now I am reading "All Our Yesterdays" by Robert Parker. It's an older book (1994) but really good, three generations of fathers, mothers and sons. It's about an Irish rebel, who escapes from an Irish prison in the early 20th century and he comes to America and becomes a cop in Boston, then his son and grandson. Very rich book.

gaiagirl

Most recently, I finished "Dragon Hunter" by Charles Gallenkamp. This is a biography of the explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, and deals heavily with his central Asiatic expeditions of the 1920's. A little bit slow at times, still an interesting read, dealing not only with the dry details of preparing for the expeditions, but also with shootouts with Mongolian desert bandits and dealings with corrupt Chinese government officials. Reading his adventures, it becomes apparant that the character Indiana Jones is based at least in part on Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews believed that central Asia was the birthplace of the human race, not Africa, and the goal of his expedition was to find ancient human fossils, a goal which was not realized. His significant discovery was the first dinosaur eggs, as well as a number of previously unknown species of reptiles and mammals. Before that, I read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, and found it quite interesting, sort of a novelization of "The Chalice and the Blade".

diamondblue1974

Still in the middle of reading Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks...its a great book so far.

DB74

bubble

I have just finished reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha' - excellent.

Also 'The Da Vinci Code' - fantastic.

And am currently reading 'My Family and Other Animals' by Gerald Durrell - extremely good.

I have read 'Catcher in the Rye', I found it quite hard to read but I'm glad I did, not sure why.

Read any good books lately?