The Devil You Know & Vicious Circle

Posted on Mar 19, 2009 in Books I’ve been a fan of Mike Carey’s writing for a few years now ever since I read his take on The Lightbringer in Vertigo’s Lucifer series and John Constantine in The Hellblazer series. So when I saw The Devil You Know sitting in a shelf at a local book store for under five quid I thought why not and picked it up. Devil You Know is the first book in Carey’s series about Felix...
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When Markets Collide

Posted on Mar 17, 2009 in Books, Finance I recently read Mohamed A. El-Erian’s When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change. The book has been sitting in my shelf for a few months but since it got the Financial Times Book of the Year Award last year and was hyped a lot over the holidays I finally caved and read it. I may have started reading the book with a bit of a bias because of all the hype...
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Odd Thomas

Posted on Mar 6, 2009 in Books My dad bought Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas, which is the first book in the Odd series, a few years ago. Although I’ve been a fan of Koontz for years I never got into the Odd series because it had been hyped as being so good and I tend to take all hype with a pinch of salt. But lacking a new book to read on the tube recently I decided to go for it. Odd Thomas starts off slowly giving you...
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Nation

Posted on Feb 4, 2009 in Books Sometime before Christmas I read Nation by Terry Pratchett. This is Pratchett’s first non-Discworld book in a while and it was interesting to read him take on a different kind of characters in another environment. The book takes in a fictional world but has strong roots to our reality most likely during the early 1800s and follows the story of Mau a young man who looses his home and family...
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The Black Swan

Posted on Feb 3, 2009 in Books, Finance I’ve recently finished reading The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Taleb is a philosopher, economic thinker, researcher and scholar of randomness and knowledge. He has some really strong opinions against the current tools used in the financial markets and he voices them repetitively through out the book. That relates to the books subject, our...
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Making Money

Posted on Jan 24, 2009 in Books Like always when new Discworld novel comes out I just had to read it. Making Money by Terry Pratchett is a direct sequel to Going Postal and continues the tale of Moist von Lipwig who has built a successful post office that works. Now the patrician of Ankh-Morpork wants him to revitalize the banking industry so he puts Lipwig in charge of a bank. Before taking over the post office Lipwig was a...
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