Category: Books

Wolf of Wall Street

I just finished reading the “The Wolf of Wall Street” by Jordan Belfort. It’s a good read and a book which is hard to put down. It is the story of Jordan Belfort’s rise in the stock market world and...

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The World is Flat

For the past month or so I haven’t read a single book. Traveling through Vietnam and Laos the pickings have been pretty slim, especially in the way on non-fiction. I am in Bangkok now and I picked up a copy of “The...

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The four hour work week

I have read some good reviews of this book and not surprisingly it has been getting a great deal of attention in the internet marketing and blogging world. I am currently in Vietnam so I am not sure how I can get my hands on a...

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Life of Pi

I just started reading ‘Life of Pi’. I really like this quote from it: I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not...

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Asian Expats

Have you ever felt you were the only person who felt a particular way? I couldn’t help reading this and feeling it relates to me fairly well: Nearly all are long-timers and most have become disaffiliated from their home...

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The Google Story

After not being able to find anything that looked vaguely interesting, I picked up a copy of ‘The Google Story’ by David Vise and Mark Malseed. It is a fast pace read and is interesting to think what you were doing...

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The wisdom of people

I have been thinking quite a bit about this article that appeared in the Washington Post (after reading it first in the Japan Times): The Top Pickers vs. the Pack. While generations have looked to pundits for guidance, it has...

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I need an ebook

It seems like everyone is promoting their ebooks these days. I am not sure if anyone would be interested in purchasing a book I wrote, but I would love to give it a go.

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Shantaram

While I was in Australia my uncle told me about a book titled: Shantaram. The book is almost 1000 pages, and I couldn’t put it down. I am currently halfway through it, but it is more difficult that I am back in Japan...

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