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[lakemountian]

Heh, Last night's entry was pretty short. I felt the need express my feelings on completing my random act of insanity, but with no internet connection I had to run over to the university to do so. As a result I got kick out for being in a building that was suppose to be locked. Oops. I expected it to be, but I thought I'd try it since the

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[sadrazam]

Man, I wish I had that book now. Actually, I wish I had any book. I finished both the books I brought with me, then I bought another book and finished that too. My book hunger is insatiable, apparently.

Also insatiable is my Farscape hunger. Any chance you could procure me some Season 4? I don't even care if it's not as good as seasons 2 or 3, I need my fix.

BTW, I'm curious: which of the bestselling economics books would you consider 'junky'? I'm not terribly familiar with the genre, but those that I have read all seemed pretty reasonable.

Also, anything I should bring back from these united states for you? I can't make any promises, especially since I'm likely to be stuck in suburban Andover for the remainder of my trip, but I will try.

[lakemountian]

I need/want anything from Boston.

As far as Farscape goes, I don't know where to get it from and I don't feel comfortable downloading it at my place since I'm sharing Internet. I could sneak into your place and try getting a download going.

The reason you haven't see junky economic books is Tom and I censor them out. I was looking at the economics section of Chapters and I was appalled at some of the books I found. A lot of books were mis-catorgorized as Economics and a lot of the books, I'm almost certain, used patently bad economics.

Your book hunger may be satisfied when you return. I loads of books. If you can find it I would like Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, or one of Milton Friedman's books.

[diamondbark]

I've always admired the strength of your vocation for finance. If I read half as many programming books as you read economics books then I would be a far better programmer than I am.

I just don't read nonfiction. I want to, and I know that the non-fiction books in my to-read pile are quite readable and interesting, but I still devour novels and plod through nonfiction books at a snail's pace. All the books you mention sound so interesting that I wish I could read them too, but so far I haven't made it past the introduction to Conscience of a Liberal so I don't think it's time for me to start borrowing more economics books.

[lakemountian]

I read non-fiction by setting mini-goals. For Conscience of a Liberal, I'd try to read on section of a chapter at a time. Meeting each mini-goal gives you a sense of achievement that pushes you, or at least me, on the read the next and the next. I think it's a strategy that I initially developed to read my textbooks, which I find fascinating but hard to read. I can now read a reasonably-sized book in one or two days. It might help that I've been obsessed with economics since childhood. \I don't know when it started, but I was already far gone by grade ten/