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By: Choosing Your Facts — Jason Seiden

Choosing Your Facts — Jason Seiden — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:21:27 +0000

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By: Benjamin McCall

Benjamin McCall — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:22:17 +0000

Your points on the authors and books all good.
‘True Story’ is a good one for manipulation, suspense, seeing all sides, strategy and a lil trust (issues and perceived)
Kahlil G is great!

By: Thomas Huynh

Thomas Huynh — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:22:00 +0000

+1 for How to Self Destruct!

By: Jason Seiden

Jason Seiden — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:46:17 +0000

@John—Dumas, yes. And I just got a call from my brother-in-law who says The 3 Muskateers gives The Count… a run for its money…

@Kelly—First of all, nice selection Secondly, I think you’ll find both Art of War and Shogun are more about avoiding conflict than embracing it. The Eastern philosophy of “war” these books bring to light is far more nuanced than our concept of a fistfight multiplied by X # of soldiers, and has far more to do with politics and interpersonal astuteness.

@Glenn—It strikes me that I left out a very important title: The Authoritative Collection of Calvin & Hobbes. Given that, are we still jibing?

@Benjamin—I could have just as easily used Coelho’s Alchemist as opposed to Millman’s book in my list. He’s good. Animal Farm, yes—or Lord of the Rings—I didn’t include those b/c I think Shogun gets at the same points, but with more subtlety, which makes it more practical for people who have to translate the book into action immediately (but that’s just me); Prof & the Madman is a great call… no one’s pure good/pure evil, and “gray” is an averaging of black and white as opposed to someone who is middle of the road. True Story is a new one for me. GGGR should be added to my movie list, agreed.

And you know what other author I missed? Kahlil Gibran. Big time oversight on my part.

By: Benjamin McCall

Benjamin McCall — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:18:19 +0000

Added Recommendations –
Any book by Paulo Coelho
Animal Farm by George Orwell
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa – Michael Finckel
The Professor and the Madman: Making of the Oxford Dictionary – Simon Winchester
Movie – Glen Gary Glen Ross

By: glenn

glenn — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:19:52 +0000

Your favorite book is my favorite book. I read the long version during many flights around the country. The only issue I had was that I would rather read the book on the plane than prepare for my matter.

By: Kelly Lux

Kelly Lux — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:21:33 +0000

Jason,
Thanks for this great list of books. I am a voracious reader but I will admit that the only one of your suggested books I have read is ‘How to Self-Destruct.’ My father was a huge fan of Shogun and recommended it to me years ago but I have shied away from it because I’m not really into ‘war’ books. However, I see that a lot of your books could be considered of this genre. I think I need to expand my selections and include some of the types of books that I normally would avoid. I’m really happy to see that most of your books are those that have stood the test of time and not today’s bestsellers. There are reasons that these books continue to be read years after being published, and that is because they have something to say about the human condition ~ something that speaks to us all. Again, thanks for the list and I look forward to learning what I’ve been missing out on all these years.

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By: John

John — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:02:05 +0000

What a great list! I believe that the best part about your list is the benefit of rounding out of your thought process and helping expose yourself to different ideas/points of view.

There were a few that I haven’t read. I’m off to go get them on my list (and I agree about Dumas. What an awesome book).

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