http://slumz.boxden.com/f218/underrated-gem-1523972/

Have you read "How to win friends and influence others"?

That's a two-faced pocket guide.

http://upshizzle.com/pfiles/6783/xpwyq.jpg

oh, it's a classic. you might love it. i didn't like it because i am a capricious reader.

Damn, i thought gatsby would be good from first reading the first page.

Yeah, start with the first one in the series.

I recommend this book. http://www.amazon.com/Age-Manipulation-Confidence-Sin-Sincere/dp/0819186538/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296611538&sr=8-1

i have only read gatsby and benjamin button. i really disliked reading gatsby, although i enjoy it as a symbol and what it represents. i havent heard of the burglar series. i'll have to check it out.

Lawrence Block's "Burglar" series (mixed with comedy)

Ed McBain's 87th precinct series

Have some F. Scott Fitzgerald books being delivered; Elmore Leonard, too for fun

visual intelligence is really dense, but trade offs is a nice and easy read. tell me what you think of freakonomics.

which crime books have you been reading?

No, I've been reading crime books. I did order freakonomics. We'll see about trade-offs and visual intelligence.

chillin bro. mad busy with school and all. how you doing? checked out any of the reading material?

How you've been, sucker *cough* i mean my brother?

http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0307269647

How did you get "You Are Not A Gadget"?

Yeah, hope you had a good one.

and yes! i did! thanks. it's today.

Yeah... I really didn't know what the person was expecting. I don't understand the jew thing too much, as in, why/how it matters. he's not a scientist or an expert. most of the statements he makes are rooted in his own experiences and his own investigative journalism. sensationalist? sure, but what else can be expected from a fiction writer writing non fiction.

i still loved the book.

"Well, I did some research, and after discovering that he had BOTH his boys circumcised, that was it for me. I can't take a man seriously who is more concerned about de-beaking chickens than he is about the welfare of his own child and his right to genital integrity. Poor kids... While daddy was off on the farm worrying about a pig supposedly for their sake, they had part of their penis chopped off. I wish he'd worried a little more about his children and written a book on circumcision instead.

I had high hopes for this book, perhaps due to its great marketing, and was deeply disappointed. Everything was accompanied by incredible bias, was presented with fluffy facts, and was extremely sensationalist. "

"Jonathan Safran Foer has revealed some disturbing and interesting facts, but as I read, the Jewish/American slant of the book made me wonder: If having a child caused Foer to have a "new beginning" and need to get to the bottom of why and how we eat animals for the sake of his newborn boy, did he consider the welfare and rights of his child before allowing a doctor to strap him to a table, place a dab of "anesthesia" on his penis, and brutally excise his foreskin with a clamp or sharp pair of scissors shortly after birth? Circumcision is a highly barbaric, and extremely dated (not to mention painful) tradition, and of all the things a Jewish father (or any father, really) has to worry about, you'd think this would be high up on the list, especially given the fact that he was "beginning again.""

Alright. Hopefully these can be found at the library.

Did you have birthday just recently? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2rl9OV3Auts/TOpwmT9ZaQI/AAAAAAAAKEI/11oBtWePFdg/s1600/Homer-says-happy-birthday.jpg

It's actually still a highly good read, because it's written in the narrative form, detailing
anecdotes of JSF and how he came to his conclusions.

Thanks, bro. I am already highly aware and educated on nutrition, so replace that book with another.

I'll take that to mean something that challenges you to question convention:
here are five books you should read:

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Visual Intelligence by Donald Hoffman
Rachel and her Children by Jonathan Kozol
Trade-Offs by Harold Winter
You Are Not A Gadget by Jarod Lanier

Anything similar to Malcolm Gladwell.

Then for fun comedies.

genre?

List some IYO must reads.