help!

[pemberleya]

okay, boys and girls. i think i'm going to buy an ashtanga yoga book off amazon, and because i refuse to pay shipping, i have to get another book too. damn.

i'm thinking either the tipping point, by michael gladwell, or freakonomics, by someone else. you guys think either one of those looks good? bad? something else i ought to get (that's

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[xljisretardedx]

My friend Dan, who was an econ major at UMBC, liked “The Tipping Point.” But he's a little weird. I've seen people reading Freakonomics in public; that's usually a pretty good indicator that a book isn't mind-numbingly boring. However, I've just spend the last 18 months in Boston where I've seen people read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and Foucault in public, so maybe my test population is probably skewed.

The short answer is: I've never read either of these books, but I've heard good things about both.

[afoundobject]

i've heard many awesome things about FreakONomics... it's on my to-read list...

along with the million other books i keep saying i'm going to read, only to be derailed by trashy cyberpunkness

[afoundobject]

and YAY ASHTANGA book! which one are you getting?

[u_make_me_mute]

You may be able to get a free trial Amazon prime account. Remind me about it cuz I will likely forget! I know you can get Freak from school, and you probably can get even the Yoga book from ILL - one of my books came from some catholic school in MN, so their ILL network is apparently thorough! A different story if you wanted a hard copy, tho - remind me bout Amazon! Hope "GNO" was good time.

[pippryn]

I read The Tipping Point. It's.... interesting. It's a lot like Linked and all those other books about economics/epidemics. Tipping Point actually uses the Baltimore syphillis epidemic as an example. It's a good read, v. interesting examples, pretty well written, but not mind-blowing. Freakonomics is news to me - never heard of it. ::hides from hip friends::