Reading list from "How to read a book" by Mortimer Adler

Reading list (1972 edition)

1. Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus: Tragedies
4. Sophocles: Tragedies
5. Herodotus: Histories
6. Euripides: Tragedies
7. Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates: Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes: Comedies
10. Plato: Dialogues
11. Aristotle: Works
12. Epicurus: Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid: Elements
14. Archimedes: Works
15. Apollonius of Perga: Conic Sections
16. Cicero: Works
17. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil: Works
19. Horace: Works
20. Livy: History of Rome
21. Ovid: Works
22. Plutarch: Parallel Lives; Moralia
23. Tacitus: Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic
25. Epictetus: Discourses; Encheiridion
26. Ptolemy: Almagest
27. Lucian: Works
28. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
29. Galen: On the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus: The Enneads
32. St. Augustine: On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33. The Song of Roland
34. The Nibelungenlied
35. The Saga of Burnt Njál
36. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
37. Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39. Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks
40. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43. Thomas More: Utopia
44. Martin Luther: Table Talk; Three Treatises
45. Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne: Essays
48. William Gilbert: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51. Francis Bacon: Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, The New Atlantis
52. William Shakespeare: Poetry and Plays
53. Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
57. René Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton: Works
59. Molière: Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal: The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics
63. John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine: Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology
67. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
68. Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve: The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73. Voltaire: Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
76. David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract
78. Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
79. Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
80. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
81. Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
82. James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
84. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: Federalist Papers
85. Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; Poetry and Truth
87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat
88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
89. William Wordsworth: Poems
90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems; Biographia Literaria
91. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma
92. Carl von Clausewitz: On War
93. Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
94. Lord Byron: Don Juan
95. Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism
96. Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
97. Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology
98. Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy
99. Honore de Balzac: Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet
100. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men; Essays; Journal
101. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
102. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
103. John Stuart Mill: A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
104. Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
105. Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times
106. Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
107. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience; Walden
108. Karl Marx: Capital; Communist Manifesto
109. George Eliot: Adam Bede; Middlemarch
110. Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
111. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
112. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories
113. Henrik Ibsen: Plays
114. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales
115. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger
116. William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism
117. Henry James: The American; 'The Ambassadors
118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power
119. Jules Henri Poincare: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method
120. Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
121. George Bernard Shaw: Plays and Prefaces
122. Max Planck: Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography
123. Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
124. John Dewey: How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry
125. Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
126. George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places
127. Lenin: The State and Revolution
128. Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
129. Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
130. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
131. Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics
132. James Joyce: 'The Dead' in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
133. Jacques Maritain: Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
134. Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle
135. Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
136. Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
137. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle; The Cancer Ward

Books/dvds to read/watch Pt. 2(taken from Market Folly`s website)

DVDs / Bluray

• Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition) DVD. "Greed is good." THE movie for anyone involved in the markets. Period. Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and more.
• Wall Street Warriors Season 1 (TV Show) DVD. Reality show detailing the lives of various people on Wall Street, including Timothy Sykes.
• Wall Street Warriors Season 2 (TV Show) DVD. Second season of the reality show... this time following new people around the markets.
• Charlie Rose - Crisis on Wall Street DVD (September 2008).

Magazines

• Hedge Fund and Investment Technology. 12 month subscription with 12 issues. News and analysis of everything shaping the industry.
• Hedge Fund Manager Magazine: 40 issues over 12 months discussing all the essentials to running a hedge fund.
  
• Hedge Fund Journal. 10 issues over 12 months
  
• The Economist. A 12 month subscription (51 issues) to a great magazine, that's all there is to it.
• Forbes. 26 issues over 12 months. A mainstay financial read.

Now, onto the next segment of Market Folly's Recommended Reading List:

1. The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros. This one is self-explanatory, really. Soros talks about bubbles and the current market environment in his latest book. (Also worth reading is one of Soros' first books, The Alchemy of Finance).
   
2. Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs. Hedge fund manager Biggs takes you inside Wall Street, hedge funds, and shows you how he learned to profit.
   
3. The Essays of Warren Buffett. Letters written by Warren Buffett over the past decade which contain invaluable advice.
4. Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. An insider account of what really happens on Wall Street. One of our favorite reads.
5. Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman. Here Baupost Group hedge fund manager Klarman lays out a "how-to" on risk-averse value investing. The book is no longer in print and is very hard to find, save for a some copies found at the link above.
   

And, here are the first five books we released in our initial Recommended Reading List a few weeks ago:

1. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. If you had to own one book about fundamental investing, this would most likely be it. Benjamin Graham was a legendary investor who helped pioneer the ways of value investing and taught Warren Buffett a lot of what he knows today.
2. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre. This book should be on the top of any trader's list. This story depicts the trials and tribulations of Jesse Livermore and takes you inside the mind of a trader to provide you with tons of insight, wisdom, and anecdotes. This book spawned legendary advice such as "the trend is your friend" and "let your winners run and cut your losses quickly."
3. Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham. This is the second of Graham's must-read books. The book features the value investing philosophies of Graham and Dodd and a foreword by Warren Buffett. If you're lacking in understanding how to perform fundamental analysis, then this is the book for you. After you've finished reading, you'll be able to tackle balance sheets like none other.
4. When Markets Collide by Mohamed El-Erian. This book is on the list because it covers the current financial landscape. It discusses the current fundamental changes going on in the global economy and financial markets/systems. This book recently won the Business Book of the Year for 2008.
5. Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager. This book details interviews with top traders. It covers topics such as discipline, risk management, consistency, and capital preservation among others. And, its especially a good read for the people he's interviewed. Commentary by the likes of Bruce Kovner (founder of hedge fund Caxton Associates who we track here on Market Folly) makes this book highly recommended

Labia ratrera(Rated R)

*No apto para menore, si ute tiene meno de 10 años, no siga leyendo, lol...
*Anonimo e un pana mio k se tiro a muelto y le dio velguenza, lol...buen demacrao, vivimo en democracia, da la caraa(ata rimo, el diablooo) :p


rod: mi amol, ojala yo sel tu carretera pa yo subite el millajeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

rod: mi amol, pero ensename eso melonezzzzzzzzzz, pa depue activano y baja los telonezzzzzzzzzzzzz

rod: mi amol, encaramate como en duarte, pero el pico, pa yo doblate y hacete un pincho

anonimo: olvidate de amarme, hasta que la muerte nos separe... y veras como te agarro, cuando eto se me pare

rod: diablo mami, pero k dulzura, yo contigo envenenao y tu con esa cura

anonimo: Si neruda escribio los versos mas tristes de esta noche... fue porque no te vio andar desnuda en mi coche.

rod: mi amol, saca lo remo, yo pongo el bote y tu lo seno

rod: mi amol, dejame prendete como un foforo, pa yo date vuelta como en helicoptero

rod: mi amol pero k buena se ve tu fruta, ta pa yo tumbala de la mata y acaba con la duda

anonimo: colon vino de europa, ET de la luna... tu veras pk se quedaron si me prestas esa cintura.

rod: mi amol, prendeme como ipod, y descalguemo eta bateria como si fueramo laptopz

rod: hey sweetie,i got ur thrill, let me up and down ur body just like a scroll wheel

anonimo: De ti solo quiero un hijo... y 7000 intentos

Artista invitado especial, Yomosarah: yo soy tu agua y tu mi cable, enchufame y dame alto voltaje

Yomosarah: tu avion y yo tu ala, ven y aterrizame de una nalgada

Yomosarah: tu ere waffle y yo pankei unamono pk no soy gay

Yomosarah: si chatial contigo fuera un gimnasiao,yo tuviera lo deo ya entrenao

rod:(serie "El Ratrero")

EL RATRERO:
mi amol, yo soy un ratrero, te kiero hace pedazo y luego recogete como mesero
mi amol, yo soy un ratrero, yo a vece me paso, pero te soy sincero...
mi amol, yo soy un ratrero, yo tengo to la gana y tu la tapa pa mi lapicero
mi amol, yo soy un ratrero, chupame entero como oso holmiguero
mi amol, yo soy un ratrero, yo comeria ata pasta en tu callejero

rod: mi amol, vua habla contigo pero en privao, pa date ma k consejo, to amontonaooo

anonimo: mi amor es infinito... para una mujer con un culo tan bonito

anonimo: tu no pierde ni gana... pero de aqui te va bien singada

rod: mi amol, dame de esa lengua, pa k hagamo nudo juntoz dede aki a venezuela

rod: mi amol, yo kiero un amol mamey canica, pero solo si tu te pone chivirica

anonimo: amor de lejos... amor de pajeros

rod: mi amol, pero tu ere ma flexible k la masillaaaa, dejame puyalte entonce como jeringuillaaaa

rod: mi amol, dejame leel tu manual, pa yo sabel tu modo de operal

rod: mi amol, eperame en la sala de estal, pa k como bluetooth, no podamo conectal

rod: mi amol, dime si yo tengo alzheimer, pk se me olvida como tu me pone de atra pa` lante

rod: mi amol, hagamozte un tatuaje, k diga k pol no amalme tu ere una cobalde

rod: mi amol, dame de tus notaz musicalez, pa yo tocalte ma rapido k lo k un preso coge calle

rod: mi amol, prendeme la hornilla, pa k encendamo eta olla y cocinemo eta semilla

rod: mi amol, ojala yo en el gobielno, pk tu con esa culva ata te pusiera un sueldo

rod: mi amol, tu ere tan sabia, por eso e k tu me tiene en babia

rod: mi amol, tu ere tan freca, k ni en el desielto tu te me reseca

rod:(serie "Tanta clase")

"Tanta clase"

mi amol, tu tiene tanta clase, k la gente ni telminan el examen
mi amol tu tiene tanta clase, k tu ata en harvard debiera da clase
mi amol, tu tiene tanta clase, k ni en la uasd saben de esa frase
mi amol, tu tiene tanta clase, k ata la profesore tan celoso
mi amol, tu tiene tanta clase, k ni en unibe tu da chance
mi amol, tu tiene tanta clase, k maetria y Ph.D ya no van pa palte

rod: mi amol, tu minimo tiene taljeta de llamada, pk tu me llama la atencion dede k me dite esa mirada

rod: mi amol, tu me tiene peldio en un trance, pero no le pare, tu ata al eslabon peldido le encontrate enlace

rod: mi amol, tu ere mi almirante, montate en mi balco y demole pa` lante


rod: mi amol, tu con esa culva de envase, traeme ma barro pa conveltite en obra de alte

rod: mi amol, tu me tiene peldio en un trance, pero no le pare, tu ata al eslabon peldido le encontrate enlace

rod: diablo mamiz, tu en bikini, la folma en k tu te mueve e pa k me de una crisis

rod: mi amol, tu ere como bruce willis, tu no tiene pitola pero tu a to el mundo decontrola

rod: diablo mami, pero k dulzzzzzzzura, doblate como chalupa y vamono de aventura



(to be continued...)

Playlist of the day

I would strongly recommend u all to get the best songs(to not say all!) from these bands, put them on a shuffled playlist, n just enjoy! You won`t regret it.

Playlist:

Coldplay
Radiohead
Oasis
The Postal Service
Death Cab for Cutie
Travis

Dominicanenglish(pronunciado "dominicaninglish")

diganme ma a vel :p

te pasate = u passed urself
a nivel = at the level
que lo que = what is what
papaupa de la matica = upa`s father of the lil` tree
llevate de eso! = let yourself go of that!
harina de negrito = the flour of the little nigger
en k tu ta? = what r u on?

Sountrack to my life

It`s funny. It`s funny to see how people are talking to you, but all you see is their lips moving, while nodding to them. They see ur headphones on ur ears, but they somehow think ur fully paying them attention. If they only knew ur using them for some strange egotistical matters. It`s funny to notice...seems like a mute, black n white movie. You turn on ur ipod, lower the volume to a point where you can half-listen to what people say and just go on with ur everyday activities. All that happens next is accompanied to the rhythm of any song u have on. You feel like a monologue, like the hero from an action movie, like the last sperm to make it through, like if every decibel gave new meaning to every minute that passes. You feel like on a movie script. You see how every beat adds color to what ur eyes r seeing. Went once to the beach n i remember how the waves seemed deeper, how the sand seemed clearer, n the wind seemed breezier just by listening to Radiohead`s "Exit music(for a film)" at that moment. All i know is that the sun shone new beams of light while i was listening to that song. Its like watching the world through a new mirror. Everybody thinks the same: "my life should be a movie". I know i do. I know mine is.

Risk...and gain everything

Plainly simple...You would never know what u would`ve achieved if u don`t risk. The only sure way to not gain anything is not risking anything. You can`t expect to have something without giving something in return, meaning u can`t win a marathon race without first training n exercising. You can`t become a Doctor without studying for years. You can`t get a six -pack without doing crunches, cutting foods with fat, n doing cardio. You can`t get high without first smoking. Wishing n not doing, is like smoking n not inhaling. Like aiming and not firing. Like scared shitless n not running. Like making a call n not talking. Like getting a blog n not posting. Like buying a tazer n not shocking. Point made.