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Oct 2, 1999
These are all books I've read recently, some I grew very fond of, others I simply read because I sought the need to.
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The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Magaret George
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The world-renowned author of The Autobiography of Henry VII and Mary Queen of Scotland And the Isles turns from Renaissance Britain to ancient Egypt and the story of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile. Told in the first person -- from the young queen's earliest memories of her father's tenuous rule to her own reign over one of the most glittering kingdoms in the world--this is a mesmerizing saga of ambition and power.
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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This is now by far one of my favorite books. There isn't anything I could say about this book that would do it justice.
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How The Stock Market Works by John Dalton
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This book should be the starting point for all investors and/or people interested in investing. It is broken down into numerous chapters, each explaining in detail, almost every facet of the history of and investing in general. This book is where you should begin.
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through The Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
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Another Wall Street tale with an insiders view of it all. It was a very exciting and FUNNY book.
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Einstien's Dreams by Alan Lightman
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This is a marvelous book. I reccomend it very highly.
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It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.
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The Informers By Bret Easton Ellis
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I bought this book because I enjoyed American Pyscho so much. I wish I could say I enjoyed it as much as I did American Psycho but that wasn't the case. From Booklist: "The author of the much-reviled American Psycho (1991) revisits the country of his Less than Zero (1985) with another portrait of rich, coke-snorting, dead-end kids and their philandering, Porsche-driving, Librium-, Valium-, and Thorazine-addicted parents. Ellis doesn't offer much of a story; instead, he strings together a series of first-person chronicles of characters whose lives are unhappy and meaningless. There's the Beverly Hills wife of a Hollywood producer, for instance, who no longer recognizes her kids, lusts after every adolescent boy she sees, and hangs up on her dying mother because the conversation bores her."
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SlaughterHouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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A classic that speaks for itself.
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Economics/Macroeconomics/Microeconomics by Samuelson and Nordhaus
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Simply wanted a better understanding of Economics. Basically college textbooks, nothing particularly interesting just informative.
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Learning Italian by Living Language
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Andrea and I decided to learn Italian.
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