Structured Finance and Collateralized Debt Obligations: New Developments in Cash and Synthetic Securitization by Janet Tavakoli

And now I know why ETFs have so much slippage, and why counterparties go kaboom.

Read Stephen King's "On Writing". Required reading for anyone who ever writes anything OR reads. Or just loves reading Stephen King when he writes in his first person normal voice (his review of Ryan Adams' "Easy Tiger" is one of my favorite bits of writing).

QFT. Read that a couple weeks ago (ebook on my iphone).

As mentioned in other thread, I have all seven Dark Tower books on my iPhone's eReader. Currently in middle of second book.

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen, the most personable science writer I've had the pleasure to read.

Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson

Just finished, actually, but I enjoyed it.

Great book--ending typical for Stephenson.

Decided to read The Golem (Der Golem) by Gustav Meyrink again. What a great book.

Started re-reading/listening to the Dark Tower series for the second time.

Dark Tower was an awesome game.

"American sphinx the character of thomas jefferson" by Joseph J. Ellis

OMG. Not reading it, but will when it comes out.

Amazon.com: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith: Books

And a brief write-up here:

'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' author talks about his literary monster mash-up | PopWatch Blog | EW.com

I'm currently reading Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

Years Best SF 11

Some really great short science fiction.

Great series.

Paper on Probabilistic Diffusion Tractography.

Alfred Gell - Art And Agency: An Anthropological Theory.

Again.

A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones

Sweet. I'm waiting for Dance to come out this Fall, then I'll read Dance and Feast back to back. I might need to reread Storm to refresh my memory, or maybe find a summary of the series online I can read through.

I just finished Neal Stephenson's Confusion, and can't see any reason not to go right on to System of the World. I think Stephenson might be the king of modern speculative fiction, a title I previously attributed to Jeff Vandermeer.

I'm taking a class that is focusing on the ancient Greek theme of death and rebirth and has a ton of reading. I'm trying to get a large part of it done during the 3 week break in classes. I'm reading Euripides' bachhea and medea, virgil's Aeneid, Homer's Iliad, and Hesiod's Theogony.

Finishing up Stephenson's absolutely awesome Baroque Cycle, with System of the World. I really just want to buy Anathem and read it right after this. I just can't seem to get tired of this guy, or Enoch, or the Waterhouses, or Shaftoes.

I'm taking a class that is focusing on the ancient Greek theme of death and rebirth ... I'm reading Euripides' bachhea and medea, virgil's Aeneid, Homer's Iliad, and Hesiod's Theogony.

Which of these does not belong? heh.

ha, yeah the Aeneid is roman and it's the last book on the list. I'm sure that we're transitioning into roman thought at the end of the quarter.

Bluetooth spec

Stephen King - Duma Key

My company's 2007 Transfer Pricing Report - sweet Jesus, kill me.

For fun, 'The Sand Pebbles' - picked it up (along with another 10 books) at an estate sale - just ten more first editions to go with the other 800 or so.

Started reading The 5,000 Year Leap yesterday.

I'm absolutely adoring the Amazon Kindle. I could stare at it all day with zero eye strain. The long battery life is just comical, really. I do feel a bit more comfortable buying from the computer though, the toggle switch navigation can be a bit squirrley. Thankfully its a non-issue during reading.

I just glanced through this thread and have gotten some great new ebooks for it. Many for $1 or less

I'm currently working on A Stranger in A Strange Land. The longer "original" version. I haven't been making much headway but I am enjoying it.