For once a freebie ebook this one on point and figure trading http://book.pointandfigure.com Read it multiple times, I have it in my bookshelf
I always like to read the book first, since movies simply cannot do justice to most stories. I have not seen the movie. Over new years eve, I discussed this book/movie with my sister-in-law and others that picked up the conversation. Her reaction appears to be that of most women - "I don't understand why anyone would do something so dumb and reckless". It was beyond her comprehension. On the other hand, most of the guys thought the movie was pretty cool (I said I could not comment on the movie, but that the book was a page turner.) Imo many men find most of modern society too calculated, too apathetic, too controlled, too feminized. It is the same tyranny of spirit we feel when we are inside under the climate control of air conditioning. It is safe, it is comfortable, it is pleasing, but it is dead inside. We long for the adventure (that's not the right word, but I don't know what is - freedom?), even the deadly risk of pitting ourselves body and mind against something. The blood sweat and tears we shed is part of being set free from the barn that is society. To me there was another dimension to the book that most could not comment on because they had not read Deep Survival, and there is no movie.
I think it is time to dust off The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) ~ John Steinbeck http://www.amazon.com/Grapes-Wrath-...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263242089&sr=8-1 I have already read this book, but I got it out of the stored boxes because I think it is appropriate to read how people dealt with this environment in the past compared to where we are in 2010. Also, I am considerably older than the first time I read it, so I am sure that I will see so many more things this time around. It is the first novel I have (re) read in I don't even know how many years. I am afraid that the US is teetering on a Great Depression from the perspective of the unemployment rate, which I estimate is closer to 20% than the governments 10% number.
"The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It" Scott Patterson http://www.amazon.com/Quants-Whizze...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265765205&sr=8-1 Much is rehashed stuff you could read about on ET, but for newer traders that may have missed all those threads and want a nice outline, this is a decent book.