But, I've always had a soft spot for novels featuring characters that enjoy ****ing a nice ripe watermelon!

You gotta warm that watermelon a bit in the microwave first. Trust me.

Kalooki Nights is the only one I've read and I thought it was (among other things) a powerful evocation of what it's like to grow up Jewish after WWII and reach a point where you learn for the first time about the Holocaust. I think it may be regarded as his best. Reviews suggest he's uneven and can be tiresome in his efforts to be the British Roth.

I heard him read from Coming from Behind and he was very funny in person, in a nebbishy way.

Can anyone recommend me some good personal finance books? Finally got some money and don't know what the f**k to do with it.

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Just finished "Grain Brain": The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers.

Written by Neurologist DR David Perlmutter. Interesting read about the effects of gluten, grain and sugar on the brain and how the increase in alzheimer's and other disorders co relates to the massive increase in sugar and wheat consumption over the last hundred years or so. I have started this book again as it was pretty technical and my wheat/sugar soaked brain had trouble taking it all in........ Anyway I am sugar and grain free now and feel absolutely great.

You can be a stock market genius - Joel Greenblatt

Margin of Safety - Seth Klarman is my #1. You can find illegal copies online.

Books about indexing aren't even 'books.' It's a 3-line strategy on a yellow sticky note.

Finished the latest D Mitchell - 3* outta 4.
Also City of Dragons, a fun read.
gonna re-read The Names.

Currently reading Pushkin.

It is unreal great. One of his best, top 3 for sure.

Cosign.

Obsession/ Love is a good one. And that is a good choice. And Double Indemnity similarly.
I'd also put A Sport and a Pastime.

For Obsession you could put Maltese Falcon, but that's not about love.

The Atlantic has a long piece on Perlmutter, including this:
See also: https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2014nl/jan/smoke.htm

I'm extraordinarily health conscious and very very sensitive to poor ingredients, additives, etc and I've never had any concentration/energy problems with a balanced amount of whole grains in my diet. Sugar is different - sugar makes me feel manic and lethargic, usually. /notscience

Finished The Road. It was the most immediately moving piece of fiction I've read in a long time. Aesthetically, for McCarthy, nothing special at all, which is fine.

I think next up fiction-wise are Miss Lonelyhearts, Moby-Dick, and Mason and Dixon.

I did find it powerful, but problematically so. I've got a 4 year old boy, and as a parent I find stuff that plays on that parent child relationship is incredibly potent. But it's also incredibly easy to do so. I regard it as effectively a cheap and often slightly manipulative way to get a strong emotional reaction from the reader/viewer when a tv show or a film or a book places a parent-child relationship under pressure, or places them in tragic situations. The Road was that for me. I worry enough as it is about bringing a child into a world which is only a couple of generations from trucking huge numbers of people into death camps as it is, The Road didn't teach me anything, it only caused me pain.

I also thought it featured quite a lot of lazy apocalypse genre tropes.

That said, the quality of the prose did make me realise how much allowances for junky writing one often has to make when reading a lot of SF.

I agree with what you're saying Kokiri. And what you're saying illustrates the futility (and almost offensiveness to the writer of a true felt story) of quantitatively analyzing literature on the merit of emotional affect, in my opinion.

I got 100+ pages into "The Road" and quit. Couldn't stand anymore unrelenting brutality and hopelessness. Life's too ****ing short.

About 200 pages into "The Golem and the Jinni" and really enjoying it.

Halfway through Zafon's The Angel's Game, so far it's as good as his other novel, Shadow of the Wind.

Agree re MoS being a great book, though I think Ivy Portfolio is a useful read on indexing despite it being a relatively easy strategy to understand and implement.

Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk by Roger Gibson. It's sort of the GTO approach to investing.

Not something I know about but I did just see a link to an article on Warren Buffet's recommendations:
http://www.businessinsider.com/warre...ks-2014-8?op=1

These are two of my top 3 or 4 investing books. I am not sure if they qualify for personal finance, if that's what the poster wanted.

I think the Little Book that Beats the Market is probably best for someone that may not know much about investing and wants to learn. Also, talks about indexing.

I usually like Aleph blog's posts about personal finance: http://alephblog.com/category/personal-finance/

I liked Graham's The Intelligent Investor, but again, not really a personal finance book.

Finished miss lonely hearts by Nathanael west and point omega by don delillo. Thought both were very very good. Miss lonelyhearts seems to me to like exactly the kind of literature that should be taught in US high school

Or college for that matter. It's a neglected masterpiece.